Mavericks POV
Something is wrong…
This Liam guy is lying to us, he is lying to Valerie as well. I can feel it in my bones, he is not here for a business collaboration like he claims, he is here for something else, I just haven’t figured out what his reasons are. I caught a whiff of his scent when I stepped into the conference room for my meeting, but I didn’t think too much about it because I assumed that the lycans had snuck in here while I was away. I mean, there is no way he could be meeting with the lycans, at least that is what I thought initially.
But when we shook hands to seal the deal, I felt a strange aura around him, and I got hit with that foul stench again. I can not mistake that scent, I’ve spent so many years around the lycans, and I’m pretty sure that I can recognize their aura and scent anywhere. You see, each individual has his own aura scent, depending on your nature and attitude. But as a species, all lycans have one distinct scent and aura that alerts you to their presence. Even when I didn’t have my wold, I could always smell them from a mile away, the stench is just o repulsive.
That is why I was so suspicious when I felt that aura around him. It felt so strange and dangerous, and the fact that he is trying so hard to rekindle his love for Valerie made me suspect him even more because I looked him up after he got here, and I know that he is married to the mayor’s daughter in Woodbridge town. While Val was bathing and getting ready to meet him up for this date, I spent hours on the computer, searching for him. I guess he never thought I would be checking him out, he didn’t bother to get rid of any incriminating evidence that I could find on the Internet. I even made a few calls to some friends who owe me favors, I asked for more information about this guy and I found out that the information is not adding up, there is something he is hiding from everyone and I’m guessing that whatever it is, it is definitely going to be dangerous.
The worse part of it all is that I have to play cool and act as if nothing is going on because I need this collaboration to really work. I just found out that I couldn’t trust the white wizard in the forest, he has been bought by my enemies. My father has always spoken about the white wizards and their genuine nature. He is fond of telling tales of how the white wizards fought to save us from the curse, and how they got punished for their honest attempt to save your race. We were told that they were banished into the forest by the moon goddess, and they were forced to live among the rogues. I had this confidence in the wizards, and that is why I sought them out to help me break this curse. Who would have thought that this wizard would end up betraying me?
When I sought him out in the forest, I felt a strange aura around him but I didn’t think too much about it because I was so sure that he was incorruptible. A white wizard never deviates from his calling, and I never thought that he would ever indulge in the dark arts. Not in my wildest dreams did I see this coming, I was so sure that he is a white wizard and I trusted him completely. When he gave me to potion to pour into the stream, I did it without question, I did not think twice about it. I emptied the option into the stream with my own hands, I poisoned my people without knowing what I was doing.
A few days after I poured the potion into the stream, I felt my wolf getting weaker, and the bond I had with my pack and every other pack was fading away slowly. I would never have known the cause of my problems if it wasn’t for Valerie’s wolf, Malia. She felt it as well, and she reached out to Hunter, warning him about the poison in the stream. That stream flows around this whole territory, and it flows into the big river that serves water to every werewolf pack in this vicinity. Poisoning that stream is the same as poisoning every werewolf in this vicinity.
The humans around us use the same water that we use, but it won’t affect them because the poison was made to affect only werewolves. The fact that the potion was poured by the hand of the Alpha king makes it even worse. I was killing their wolves before they had a chance to be awakened. I guess that was their plan in the first place, they do not want me to break the curse and awaken their wolves, and if it wasn’t for the powers of the last healer, Valerie, they would have succeeded and my mission on earth would have ended as well.
I would have blamed myself, I would never have forgiven myself for it. Actually, now that I think about it, I think I was just being so stupid all along. The signs were there, I felt an evil aura around a white wizard, and that should have been the first sign for me to run the other way, but I did not follow my instinct. My wolf had just been awakened, I was still getting used to my new abilities and I did not trust my instincts enough. Even when I visited the White wizard, I failed to ask him about the rest of his brothers who are supposed to be residing in this forest as well. I just assumed that everything was going according to my plans, I believed that he is the only white wizard available and I nearly made the biggest mistake of my life.
Valerie had no idea that her wolf is using magic to heal the people. First, she instructs Hinter on how to make a potion to counteract the effects of the poison. The key ingredient in the potion was my blood and the blood of the last healer. It was so easy to get my blood, the tricky part was getting her to sleep so I could take her blood without her knowledge. I don’t know how Malia manages to keep her in the dark, but I’m glad that she hasn’t told her about us yet and I intend to keep it that way for the time being. That day I overworked her in the office, and on our way home, we stopped at a restaurant for dinner. I managed to slip two pills into her drink without her knowledge.
The sedatives knocked her out even before we got home. I used a syringe to take her blood and I used it to complete the potion. That night, I poured it into the stream and she used our connection to restore the connection between me and the packs, and she also healed their poisoned wolves. I did some digging after that incident, and I discovered that the white wizards were forced to flee from the forest when king Gerald came after their lives. He knew I would seek out the White wizards and he tried to kill them all, but they fled before he arrived, and he placed one of his dark wizards in the forest to deceive me and get information from me.
I’m so glad that I never mentioned Valerie’s name and her location, all I told him was that I have found the healer and she has awakened my wolf. I’m pretty sure that king Gerald already knows that I have my wolf, and I’m wondering why he hasn’t made any move on me already. Could it be that he is scared of me now that I have my wolf, or is he planning something more sinister?
I’ve been keeping Val closer since I found out that the white wizard is a ruse, I still don’t know if what he told me about the curse is true, I don’t know if it’s true that the curse can only be broken on the full moon. I just have to keep searching for the white wizards before the full moon, I can’t trust anyone right now, not even my Beta, Leroy. He came back the day Liam came into town he would have been there for our meeting, but he had to run a few errands for me. I needed him to do into Liam and tell me everything he can find out about him.
It was just an honest background check that I normally carry out before signing any contracts with any new or old client. I wasn’t expecting Liam to find out anything about him, but when I met him in the conference room for the first time, I get that same dark, manipulative aura that I felt whenever I was around the wizard that tried to poison us. I perceived that foul smell of lycans around him and I knew that he is either dealing with the lycan spies or king Gerald himself. If I didn’t need him so badly, I would have kicked him out immediately. But his equipment and laboratory would help me create the perfect weapon to give me power over the lycans.
He was flirting with my woman in front of me, and I couldn’t do anything to stop him. The fact that she is enjoying his company and attention makes it even worse for me. I couldn’t warn her to keep away from him, and I couldn’t tell him to leave her either. I could only tag along and try my best to keep a close eye on her. Liam sent me pictures of some people that traveled with him to this city, and when I researched about them, I discovered that they bear the same surname as Valerie and they are keeping a close eye on her as well. The girl was married to Liam and the guy is just a manwhore who fucks any girl that crosses his path. The information was just too much to process, I knew something was up, but I don’t have all the information and I don’t know what their plans for coming here were, but I had to keep a close eye on them and at the same time, I had to watch over my woman while I also tried to get my scientists to get what they need from Liam’s laboratory.
I watched her flirting with him in the club, and I noticed that Shane was also hitting on her right in front of me. His sister was not happy about this, neither was Liam. I wonder if he just developed an attraction for her, or maybe he has been hitting on her behind my back all this time. I didn’t know what to make out of all this, but I love the fact that he is causing a misunderstanding between the two of them, and I hoped he gets her furious enough to make her leave here in anger. But trust Val, she has her way around things, she found a way to change the narrative and gain sympathy from the bastard.
And now, instead of getting furious with her, the dude is asking for a strip tease, can you believe that?