Contracted to the wrong Alpha
Chapter 53
Lex’s Pov
I feel so fucked up to the brim.
Not even this bitter alcohol could numb my confusion and the emotions swirling around me right now.
The evening was cold, quiet and bitter. All I could think about was the incident at the office. One minute, I was enjoying the show and the next second, I had unleashed my demon scaring the shit out of Lilia and slapped that delicate face so hard before I could come back to my senses.
I took a long swig of the alcohol and gulped it down. The burning sensation in my throat was no longer strong, I needed something stronger, something to tear the tube of my throat and make me wince.
Xander had been scolding me non stop like forever and I shut the link out to concentrate. I needed to think and I was losing my shit. I was supposed to be on a researching spree, to ask my brother what the fuck they meant by following his orders and rendering my company bankrupt to the extent of going to meet my father who has high expectations of me as the Alpha!
I groaned and cocked another bottle of a new alcohol and a fresh scent of ash and blood mixed into my nostrils. Raven was here, I wonder what took him so long since morning but it’s cool he’s here.
“What the hell Alpha?” He gasped, dragging the bottle off my hands but my eyes darkened at his reaction.
“Don’t start Raven!” I growled but he covered the cap of the bottle, pushed the empty bottles aside and sat beside me. His looks were as if he wanted to scold me and I don’t give two fucks about his words.
I just want to know how Lilia was so fucking right all along about by company. I hired all my members thinking they would swear their allegiance and loyalty to me but spat at my back and kissed my ass to go to hell.
“I heard what happened in the office.” Raven started and I sighed, ruffling my hair and beginning to feel dark heavy circles at the corner of my eyes.
“Are you mad what they did to your company or you’re mad you hit Lilia and showed her a side you thought you could hide away from her?”
My chest constricted against my chest at his bluntness and I growled.
I was mad about freaking company, my sweat and the resources I put into it. I had high hopes, argued with Lilia that my company would never go bankrupt because of my father’s influence and Midnight Shade resources but I was stupid. My company which used to be amongst the first five in the highest profit generating share company in the country dropped down to six and my brain was shattered into pieces.
Those people fucked me up in ways that baffled me and come to think of the fact that Lilia used days to dig out this information made me feel so stupid.
But for Lilia, my body burned with regret. She did nothing wrong to get entangled with my shit and my anger. I was set ablaze and my trigger was the name of my brother being mentioned. It was off limits and the possibility that Felix would do that scared me to the core.
I was a fucking wreck, slapping Lilia was out of the point. A fucking catastrophe and a cluster fuck in anyway the dictionary can put it.
Her crystal tears pouring down her pretty face all because of me was the height of what I could tolerate. And saying those forbidden words was the hardest thing I’ve done all my life of being an Alpha, it twisted my core and gut so painfully.
I know Raven was being blunt with his question, the idiot was a type that rubbed your failures to your face so you could feel a tear burn the corner of your eyes.
I sighed and sat up, scratched my hair down to my cheeks and nodded. “Both, I feel like shit.”
“Why?” He asked me and I shrugged, recalling the scene that took place. “I didn’t know it would happen Raven, my powers rarely bring out a trigger like that. I was just so shocked to the bones about the revelation of everything and I snapped at Isabella, if not for Lilia, I would have killed her with my bare hands and added another list of dead bodies.”
Raven sighed and played on the bottle with his fingers nervously.
“Lilia has to go Midnight Shade Alpha.” My eyes snapped open at one and the headiness in me began to tear off.
“Why? She’s not, I don’t want her near Alveria or the pack members!” I growled and he scoffed.
“How sweet. The rumors about her being a rogue are already speculated everywhere. Your dad is going to speak to you anytime from now and since you have refused to let her make an appeal in the Green Howling pack, Alveria was able to convince your parents that she should be tested for a month in the pack to know if she’s truly a rogue or not. The pack members are extremely excited and I think it’s a very bad idea Alpha.”
My wolf awakened instantly and roared in disgust and disagreement. Lilia was too delicate, I can’t allow her in her in the Pack alone. This was all Alveria schemes and it worked like hell.
That same minute my phone rang and my dad’s identity appeared. For the first time in years of speaking to my father, I suddenly became nervous. I might be the Alpha but he was the freaking President and his words are yes, within and outside the Pack.
I swallowed a gulp and picked it up, staring at my Beta who shrugged.
“Father,” I whispered out, expecting the hot blast of yell from him and curse words but I was surprised.
His voice was calm and soft, as if he had seen or been hearing the complaints and he was tired of hearing them.
“Are the rumors about your Luna true?” He asked me and I cursed at Alveria’s stubbornness. That lady truly did want to get under my skin.
“No, it’s not.” I answered curtly, my jaw tightened in fury.
“Then let her go to Midnight Shade.”
“But father, she’s my wife. She stays wherever I stay.” I tried to insist, I didn’t want to risk that and I hated it. Being here in the city, I could control a lot of things in my way but it wasn’t the same in the pack. The people were uncontrollable, driven by beliefs and laws that bind them together.
“That’s not the point Alexander, she now belongs to Midnight Shade and the law demands her sincerity. Your company is a mess so I don’t know why you’re in the city if you can’t manage a company. Join her if you’re too protective of her but first thing tomorrow is to take her to Midnight Shade or I’ll kill her with my bare hands for Lying to me. Tyson would be thrown out of the parliament and you get married to Isabella. The throne in Midnight Shade is my damn priority, don’t mess it up for me!” He fired and cut the call before I could respond and a growing lump formed in my throat.
My company was now a slap to my face and I had no choice.
“What did he say?” Raven asked after observing my reaction and I sighed.
“She needs to be at Mid Shade tomorrow morning!” I whispered and he sighed.
“Should I kill Troy? He got on my nerves last night, he’s the reason this shit is happening too with the help of the Priestess and I’m so eager to make him join his son.”
Raven was right, I wasn’t that man dead that his but it would only triple the situation at hand.
“No Raven. Do something else for me, change your phone, laptop and everything else you used that has to do with research. Get a new one and send fake messages and information to me using your old device. While you use the new ones for your research and don’t tell me a dime unless you ask me.” He nodded, knowing where my instructions were leading to.
I need to find out about Lilia’s rape, fetch them motherfucker and make him pay dearly for making her cursed. That way, I would reach out to white Crisp to uplift their curse on her.
“Alright Alpha, how about Lilia? She’s going to be traumatized once she wakes up tomorrow and hears that she’s going back there. Who will stay with her?”
I could sense the worry in his tone and I bit my lips hard.
Jethro would look after her, I’ll be there too. I just need to tell her a few things about not letting her out until we fetch the rapist.
You need to be fast, Raven. I’ll provide you with any resources.”
He nodded, releasing a sigh that made me nervous.
“You know you need to talk to her right?” He asked me and I felt my palms getting hot in nervousness. How can I even face her after hurting her and asking her to stay away from me?
“Or I could talk to her instead and”
“I’ll do it.” I replied with a growl and made a staggering move, making my way towards her room.