Chapter Seventeen – Mates to slaves.
Rihanna’s POV
A Lycan Wolf. Did such still exist or this Delta was just spitting crap to get released? I asked him again.
“Red Moon wants to trade me for a Lycan Wolf?”
He nodded. “The Alpha King knows you are the last silver wolf and would want to keep you alive. Lycans are rare too so you’d be traded.”
A scoff escaped my lips. How’d they trade Lycans, the most dangerous wolfs in the world, with a silver werewolf that was for a prophecy?
Or again everyone had indeed forgotten about the prophecy. Them keeping me alive was just for the importance of it.
“But Black Rose don’t want that!” Jonah interjected. “We don’t support trading you with the Lycan.”
“And only because you guys don’t want Red Moon to win, not because you have my safety at heart.” I interrupted him.
He hesitated but agreed. “Yes, but don’t blame us. You haven’t really been friendly.”
I slapped my hand on my thigh, biting my lips. One thing was, the Lycan was in bondage in the Red Moon pack. Another enemy for them.
“What pack are you from though?” Jonah raised a brow. “We never got to know.”
I looked away from him, we weren’t discussing that, we weren’t friends. But I still answered. “I have no pack, I just can’t stand being captive.”
“Oh, you’d be from a minority clan that Red Moon messed with. I understand your rage. Break the slaves free. You have our support.”
I smirked and faced him. “If Black Rose never liked slave trade, why didn’t they revolt? Your pack is powerful, the Alpha King would bend.”
He tapped his head, like he was thinking then hissed. “Well, we didn’t care at first, but then, our Beta’s mate turned out to be a slave.”
My hands, that had been on my waist, fell. “Really?”
He nodded, “And she had this hate for people in power so it was hard getting her to accept the mate bond and all.”
“I can tell.” From experience actually, but he didn’t need to know that. “You don’t treat a person like shit and expect them to suck it in.”
I noticed he was looking at me, trying to read more meaning to what I said but I shook my head.
“Right…” He drawled. “But we weren’t the ones who treated her like shit, still we didn’t scold them. Also, the past Alpha’s sons and have the pack have no mates.”
A humorous grin was on my face “Oh, oh, and you think the mates could be slaves?”
He noticed and shrugged. “We are one in the moon goddess’s eyes so yeah, she can pair it that way.”
I exhaled. It was new meeting someone who believed in the mate bond for once. I didn’t anymore but it surely worked for others.
“I believe in freedom of choices. Liberty to mate who ever and live. Hence my craziest plan yet, saving that Lycan.”
The proud smile on his face dropped. I waved and headed to the door to leave. Dara would bundle him back tomorrow, he has done his part.
“You mean you want to break the Lycan from Red Moon?” I heard him chuckle.
He felt I couldn’t? I paused and turned. “Yeah, I think I can. Why?”
“Okay, so breaking out their slaves is annoying enough. Do you think you can do it? Fight betas and Alphas to get there?” he asked again.
“I am a silver wolf.”
“Doesn’t make you all powerful.” He added immediately.
My breathing slowed down, this was a first time being demeaned but I’d take it in good fate.
He did have a point, I always attacked the slave depot. Never the main pack. This Lycan would be at the most protective part of Red Moon.
And if I fail, I’d have given those jerks two gifts. Even if I succeed, how do I explain to an angry depressed Lycan that I was there to save him?
“Don’t worry about that, it’s my shit. Instead, keep my name and gender anonymous, will you?” I closed the door behind me.
“I don’t know your name.” I heard him whisper. I smiled and continued to the main hall to address my pack.
Dara stood up when she saw me and rushed towards the prison. I held her hand. “Be nice with him, he was cooperative.”
She gave a small smile, followed by a nod. I let go of her and stood in the middle of the hall. “Who had heard anything about a Lycan?”
They all looked back at me, before whispering within each other.
They scouted outside in the night. They was no way they didn’t hear anything. Or else how secretive was Red Moon being?
It then clicked, they tried killing the Delta who knew. My best bet would be, they didn’t want anyone knowing.
“There was an old Lycan at Blue Bloom Pack’s North years ago, about twenty five years ago but he was never seen again.” A girl raised her hand.
I turned to her. Could this Lucan be that old? Was he alive? Then that’d be why he couldn’t break himself out.
What use will he be to me when out? Lana scolded me immediately. “The fact he is another wolf you freed from captivity is enough gain.”
I agreed. “Jean, get all information you can on that Lycan. We need to know who exactly he is.”
Her eyes brightened up when I had call her name.
It might seem hard to remember the names of fifty people working with me, but it had everyone a sense of belonging.
One I never had in the beginning and hoped to get now. This Lycan wolf better be as unfortunate as I am thinking and not an evil.
As everyone dispatched, Camilla came forward to me with a letter. “There is weird news coming.”
I took the letter and opened it. It was from the spy she planted at Black Hills.
The spy reported that the Alpha of Black Rose Pack was staying at the palace for few days.
That was more comely than the previous news we’ve heard.
Those two packs weren’t fighting but had an invisible fight for dominance.
Chris won’t be King for long as he lost a silver wolf from the prophecy. Black Rose might be the next kingdom-pack.
I trust them better to make decision than I trust Chris. “Well, I feel this Alpha is there to do a bad job. Black Rose and Black Hills aren’t buddies.”
I returned the letter to Camilla.
“The spy added that the Alpha made Chris leave the palace to take him on tour.”
I snapped my head to her. “That is it there! They hope to steal something. He’s leading him out of the palace.”
Camila’s eyes shone and she nodded slowly. A smirk was on my face. I used to like Chris innocence but never again, it’d be his doom.