Harvey’s POV
I wasn’t a fool not to notice how the Alpha was struggling to concentrate. He looked very agitated and made a lot of mistakes with the pack files he was handling.
He actually looked like he was in pain and trying so hard not to show it, and it was all because of that Omega.
A few hours had gone by, and she was not yet back. I felt very guilty, and fear was filling my heart.
If he could act like this when she wasn’t around, how would he act seeing her drenched in water and shivering? Yes, he didn’t care about her a few days ago, but right now, it looked like he did.
“Harvey, is there a problem?” Paul asked softly behind me.
I turned and looked at him seriously, then at the few warriors who were standing beside him.
“That Omega we used as bait yesterday hasn’t been seen for hours, and the Alpha looks irritated. I might be wrong, but he seems like a man in love, desperately waiting for his lover,” I replied.
“Are you kidding me? He doesn’t care about that bitch,” he spat.
“I’m just telling you what I observed. He behaves like someone who does,” I replied loudly.
“Do you even realize what you’re saying, Beta? If he truly does care about her and he discovers what we did last night, he won’t let us off!” He exclaimed, then gasped loudly.
I quickly turned when I caught the Alpha’s scent. He was approaching us with an angry expression on his face. At that moment, I knew he had heard what Paul had said.
“Gamma, what is it that I have heard?” he asked once he was in front of us.
I glanced at Paul with a concerned expression on my face, and he slowly looked at the warriors who had their gaze lowered to the ground in fear.
I cleared my throat, getting Elon’s attention, and then looked at the other warriors seriously.
Not only was Elon known as one of the troublemakers in the pack, but he usually did things to please both me and Paul.
“It’s all the warriors’ fault,” Paul said as the warriors looked up with a shocked expression.
“You heard the Alpha, didn’t you? He asked you a question, it’s only right to answer him,” he said as the Alpha looked at us with a raised brow.
Elon took a step forward with both of his hands clenched. He was slightly trembling, and we could clearly hear his loud heartbeat.
“Alpha, I… I…,” he stammered.
“I wanted to report this to you, but I saw that Omega girl running towards the border last night,” he said as I glared at him.
What the hell was wrong with him? Did he think that was the best excuse there was? Everyone here knew that his words were lies because if one renounced his pack member title or crossed the border, the Alpha felt it.
He wouldn’t point out who exactly had crossed it, but he would know.
“Listen up, you fucking assholes. I’m giving all of you a few fucking minutes to come clean before I fucking lose it,” he said calmly with emphasis.
Although his face looked unbothered, the pheromones coming from him were strong, intimidating, and they made us fear him more than we already did.
“You have five minutes remaining,” he growled, and I found myself stepping forward.
My throat was dry, and sweat was beginning to form on my forehead. Each passing minute was making it hard for me to breathe because of how strong his pheromones were.
“Alpha, you see…. yesterday at the party… um… the warrior told you how we were bored and wanted to have fun with an Omega,” I said in a low tone, then quickly took a step back with a rapid heartbeat when his eyes turned a shade of dark red, making it known to us that his wolf was present.
“I don’t believe this,” he whispered in a deeper husky voice.
“Beta, what did you do?” he asked coldly.
I clenched my hands and lowered my gaze to the ground. I was about to look up when I was tackled to the ground with a loud growl that shook the ground.
My wolf whimpered in fear as the Alpha who was on top of us raised his hand to strike us.
“Alpha, no! He is your Beta, your right hand, and childhood friend. You can’t kill him just because of her!” Paul exclaimed, and that made him freeze his hand in mid-air.
“My friend, huh! A friend who can’t tell me what happened last night,” he whispered, then chuckled as his eyes went back to their natural color.
“Harvey, what did you do?” he asked, then got to his feet and surprisingly extended his hand to me.
I slowly raised my trembling hand and grabbed it, getting to my feet.
“Jace,” I called softly.
I rarely called him by his name ever since we took over our respective positions.
“When you agreed to let us have fun with an Omega last night, we decided to pick the fat one because she was the weakest in the pack,” I said, then swallowed hard and continued.
“We dragged her to the forest…,” I trailed off, then held my breath when his hand landed on my shoulder.
“Did you defile her?” He asked huskily.
“No, Alpha, we would never! We asked her to run while we chased her. We told her if she made it past the river, we would let her go. If not, we were going to punish her,” I said, then instantly regretted it because his face turned pale. For the first time in my entire life, I saw fear on his face.
“Harvey, by chance, did you push her into the river?” He asked in a cracked voice.
I couldn’t understand why he looked so terrified, but I had to let him know the truth.
“When she reached the river, she attempted to run away from us and slipped in. Then she began faking how she could not…”
“No,” he whispered, and then instantly shifted into his magnificent black wolf, taking off to the forest, leaving us all feeling very confused about his reaction.