Contracted to the wrong Alpha
Chapter 12
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Lex’s Pov
It’s been three days since my disastrous wedding and my father had never been pissed at the turn up of the events.
The President of Russia withdrew his deal till I got my Luna and several other investors in the Crisp enterprise withdrew their shares from Midnight Microsoft tech company, a new company I designed recently. I needed something unique and different from my Dad’s enterprise and luckily for me the turn-up has been great, the tech team had been so cooperative, and other packs were eager to invest as they saw a future in the company.
I had a lot on my plate to do both in New York and at Midnight Shade.
I needed to Merge the Pack at Brooklyn to Midnight Shade, creating an Annex under my company since it’s a small pack with a lot of good natural resources and the rate of electricity that runs the pack was both compared to it.
The Alpha wouldn’t adopt such requests but with a mouth-watering cash and position as the overall head of the company, I want to plant it over as it would be a huge deal. Slowly, we’ll take over New York and make it become a Midnight Shade Pack. No matter how long it takes, I could see the future right before me and I’ll make a difference than my dad whose main motive is to pile up the country’s cash. I just hope he doesn’t fall into debt.
But amidst my busy schedule and pretense at my cavalier attitude, I couldn’t stop remembering Lilia’s face which flashed at me. The sight was so heartbreaking and awoke something deep in me.
I could see and hear the pain in her voice, I saw how desperate she was and the woman whose bratty attitude had pissed me off was gone. All I saw that day was a poor broken soul that needed help and I didn’t do a thing but watched her being dragged to the disastrous place.
She would survive it, it’s all darkness but it’s left with a traumatized experience.
Something keeps telling me that there was more to her pleas that day, that there was something she didn’t want to experience that might erupt Into a cataclysm and craft a scar out of it.
In my years of living as an Alpha and since my mate died, I was disturbed.
But Alveria would act according to customs as usual and land before I leaped, becoming my spokesperson which would leave me powerless. She wasn’t the moon goddess of any sort but I believed her words and her decisions are yes.
Her daughter would be taking over her position too but I didn’t like it.
Tessy was always around my brother and the challenge in her eyes when she spoke to Lilia tells me she was up to no good.
Fuck!
I’m so jumbled that I hope I’m doing the right thing. Everyone wants to be satisfied with the Alpha’s approval which has anything to do with the rules and customs. But what if I’m pushing someone to the brink of death the same way I pushed my mate?
I shuddered at the thought and absentmindedly raised my hands only to spill the black hot coffee on the paper I’ve been working for hours and I banged my fist in anger, getting up.
Raven was there and won’t say a thing, that’s him for anyone and I’m used to it.
“Let’s see her Lex ” Xander growled within, feeling my frustration. The weight of pain he had passed through when Seraphina passed away clouded him heavily. He suffered and I felt pain for months.
She was my sweet girl, I could die for her and buy the world in a blink if she asked me to. A gamma from the coast of Denver mountain located in Costa Rica. She came to visit her uncle who was part of the Pack council and stayed over till the Full moon.
I’ve had a crush on her even before I claimed her as my mate that fateful night I had returned from a long day. She was drenched in tears at the Pack Royal mansion, explaining to my mother that her uncle might die of a stupid disease I didn’t know about and needed financial help to be taken to a secluded hospital outside the country.
My heart clenched at the sight of her tears and I was even mad at her uncle for being sick. She had the most beautiful crimson hair that accentuated her fair skin and her tears looked like diamonds. I didn’t waste a heartbeat in giving her what she wanted but along the way, her uncle died before they got to the hospital. It was a horrible sight to watch my mate in pain, Fuck being a gamma which was against the law of Midnight Shade. I needed her, I wanted to hug away her pain, I wanted to give her the happiness she had and feel every slick and tenwallalls of her private flower.
An Alpha was meant to marry the daughter of an Alpha but I broke that law and took her in. It was hard at first for her to blend in but with time she loosened up and accepted me.
She was my fantasy and a dream I would never love to wake up from. I was so lost in her that I marked her even before the full moon. We had plans for marriage and set the future before us but Seraphina was diagnosed with the same illness that killed her uncle.
I chuckled bitterly as I relieved the painful memory, taking the wine on the glass table to gulp it down hard.
I was ready to take her for treatment, at least there was a cure but it was so far away on the coast of India with the best pharmaceutical treatment.
They would undergo an operation on her body system and clean the affected tissue cot of the infected area but Seraphina didn’t want it. She said she didn’t want any blade on her skin or she would die.
I fell deaf ears, she wanted to spend the little time she had left with me which was just like a month left and I quashed her request and did mine.
I just wanted my baby girl to live but I never asked why she was against that. I never respected her decisions but was selfish in my actions.
She died in the theater room and my world crashed.
I chuckled again and took another long gulp of the hot wine that hit the base of my throat feeling the corner of my eyes burn.
I became a shell of myself, and I did everything to distract myself from her.
From being distant, cold, Ruthless, and finally a self-centered Alpha.
Everything turned me off to the likes of women, nobody dared make me feel the way Seraphina does for years until Lilia.
One fucking night, she ruined and broke my walls, and right now; I’m worried for her. Scared that she might be dead in that scary dungeon of confinement.
Images of Lilia being dead flashed before me and I trembled, emptying the last content of the bitter coffee.
I turned to Raven whose face was stern and dead and always, even if he wanted to say something he better not do it.
“You want to see her?” He asked me dryly, his beautiful features remained plain and I gulped.
Stupid motherfucker, he knew my thoughts all along and won’t say a thing.
Ignoring him, I walked out of the office to head to Midnight Shade Pack. Desperately eager to take Lilia out of that place but went to a halt when I saw her.
The Pack Priestess was right there, talking to my father and she smiled when she saw me, making me grit my teeth with uncertainty.