Chapter 78: Chapter 78

Damien ran downstairs, growling mentally at the piece of news that he heard just now. Viona followed him after a while, making her state presentable in front of her pack. They all were panicking, whispers erupted as soon as their Alpha appeared downstairs.

Damien barked, shooting a deep glance around his pack members,

" What happened?"

Celeb spoke on behalf of their pack members. His forehead wrinkled as he came forward, his fist clenching around a paper. He dropped it on his Alpha and Damien furrowed, opening it up to read the unskilled writing.

" I am coming for your pack, Damien!"

Damien's eyes burnt in fire while Viona proceeded behind him, peeking down at the letter.

Fuck! How dare he!

Her wolf growled and lashed against the chain inside her. Her cannies were aching to drink someone's blood. How dare he threat the pack?

Controlling his anger, Damien questioned looking up at Celeb with a tight frown,

" When did it arrive?"

Celeb hesitated before speaking in a tense voice,

" We don't know, Alpha. Some one from the pack found it on our doorstep."

Damien gritted his teeth harder, crumpling the paper into his fist,

" This is absolutely a threat."

Viona couldn't keep her curiosity down as she asked again, standing beside Damien closely,

" How did Alpha Lucas survive? I heard that he was badly injured in previous fight with Alpha. It's impossible to heal completely after getting scratched by Royal. How did he regain his wolf power?"

Damien also gave it a deep thought. His fists tightening everytime he thought about the danger that could fall on his pack. He muttered through his gritted teeth,

" Someone powerful from our enemies must be helping him. Celeb, put more guards around our territory and make sure to find out who is helping out Lucas currently."

Viona had a bad feeling about everything. Whoever helping Lucas in healing, that person must be very powerful. It was impossible to cure someone who was hurt by Royal Wolves. Royal Wolves always followed different rules rather than following any regular rules of wolves.

Ashley rolled her eyes, standing up from the chair and showed that she didn't care a bit about happening here,

" I am going to bed."

Her response annoyed Viona who opened her mouth before Ashley could walk off from the room.

" Ashley! Stay back here!", Viona blurted, glaring at her retreating back. Ashley froze momentarily then returned with a scoff,

" Why should I stay here? It's none of my business. Besides, everything is happening because of you two. You can't command me."

In a snap, Viona's wolf voice took over her place. She slammed her hand on the chair with a bang and yelled to hear the rest of the crowd,

" I can fucking command you, Ashley. You are speaking with your Luna here. For goddess's sake, Don't ruin our moment and stay back here to listen carefully."

Ashley's wolf immediately lowered her eyes in obedience. Even though, she couldn't fight against an Alpha let one an impending Luna Queen of all the werewolves. Her neck went down in submission and Celeb released his breath in relief. All the noisy members didn't gossip anymore under her glaring eyes. Viona looked terrifyingly mad after everything happened with her pack, mate and everything.

Their Luna sometimes acted too scary than her regular aura!

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Guards all looked up in relief when Alaric came out of the woods safely. To their surprise, Alaric had a playful smile on his face. Something good might have happened inside. The leader of guard rushed forward, heaving a sigh of relief,

" My God! You scared us, Your Highness! The wolf, did they find you?"

Alaric snapped back to reality on his guard's voice. He couldn't forget the look on Viona's face when she showed her concern for him, wanting to protect him from those merciless wolves. His guard watched his smile strangely but didn't dare to ask much.

Alaric shook his head, smirking and forwarding to find the way back to his house inside the town,

" No, she was there to cover me for them."

His guard looked shocked but soon, he understood everything. His prince was happy because Viona met him in the woods. No wonder, he was smiling so big like a fool. Clearing his throat, the guard soon joined him in pace and asked tightening his brows together,

" But..did you tell her?"

Alaric froze in his track and shook his head, exhaling through his nose heavily. He commented looking away into the woods,

" No but she will definitely figure out why did she feel the urge to save from those wolves."

That night, Alaric went back to his home in the town in happy mood. But the part of being separated from Viona hurt him immensely. He wanted to be closer with her just like Damien. Their happy images made him jealous but he couldn't do more harm to her by getting impatient.

Viona was precious to him. Her loved ones obviously did matter to him but was everything gonna be same when all the truth will be coming in front light?

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Vampire Territory,

All the guards bowed their heads as Rosemund made her way inside the praying area, smoke coming from distance. She assumed that her mother was still practicing her witch powers. Ever since, Viona showed up in their place, she had been acting a bit weird. Curious Rosemund asked so many times but she didn't get any clear response from her. She just did whatever was told by her mother.

The vampire queen was seated on ground, eyes closed as she chanted her spell deep attentively. Even without opening her eyes, she felt Rose's presence behind her and her lips streched into a smirk. Rose failed to see her mother's smiling face but heard her saying in a serious voice,

" Have you healed the brat wolf, Rose?"

Rosemund snapped back to reality and replied fidgeting with her fingers nervously,

" Yes, mother but I..I do not understand that why must you include Alpha Lucas in our plan. He is a useless trash, always into women."

The queen opened her eyes with a smiling face. Without turning her head back, she reasoned, getting up from the ground slowly,

" He is the strongest enemy of Alpha Damien. We can't handle the council but we can definitely handle Alpha Lucas, Rose. Removing Damien from our path is the biggest point in this game. Your brother will never get a solid heir if Damien stays alive."

Rose narrowed her eyes at her mother's back,

" What do you mean?"

Her mother had a wicked smile on her face. As she turned around, she begun to speak with a smirk,

" I want an heir only from your brother's blood. In Alpha Damien's presence, Viona will never accept your brother. We can only do this to make her life miserable so that she accepts your brother without any choice."

Rose nodded her head thoughtfully and replied nervously,

" But brother..I don't think that he would appreciate it, mother."

Her mother let out a scoff and spoke again, marching around the space,

" Once he learns that everything I did for his happiness, he will forgive us, Rose. Let him be angry for a while."

Rose couldn't completely agree with her mother this time. Although everything was a full proof, solid plan,she feared that Alaric wouldn't appreciate it more likely. He was already very protective towards Viona from the beginning and had gone mad when he found about her kidnapping.

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Birds flew in fear as soon as a wolf's painful growl echoed in the area at late night. Even the smallest creature shivered at the cruelty of wolf who was pressing his claws over a man's throat. Blood flickered from his throat like stream but the wolf didn't had his contentment yet.

A group of brown wolves formed barrier at his surrounding, keeping their head lows in submission. The man had his last breath and finally, no more sound of his screaming heard nearby. Someone spoke from the group of wolves, using his mind link,

" Lucas, stop! Killing him won't make you better."

Lucas growled at the wolf angrily and stepped off his claw from the man's throat. His animalistic voice spoke loudly,

" I want Damien so bad at this mercy. He turned my life into hell and now, he and his entire pack is going to pay for this."

The group of wolves agreed instantly, letting out a low ferocious growl,

" We can understand you, Lucas. Damien had always been blind to everyone except his pack. We want new king. We don't want him as the Alpha King. He needs to strip off from his throne."

The others joined speaking repeatedly,

" Yes, we want a new king."

Lucas's wolf purred in happiness when he caught the underlined meaning behind their words. They wanted him to take the throne. Lucas whipped around, letting out a growl of hatred against the forest in front,

" Not so hurry, buddies. I want to make their lives hell first. Then we can think about anything else. Even the council abandoned him. He won't be getting much support but Blood Moon Pack is not strong enough to win over easily. We have to make plans slowly."

Another wolf showed his concern, his eyes blazing amidst the darkness,

" But is it okay to trust the vampires? They were never been helpful. What if we are being played by them?"

Lucas assured him with a scoff, arching his head up against the moon,

" As long as we get Damien, nothing matters. They want his mate in this battle. We will just have to hand her over to them. Everything will be settled eventually."

His members agreed with a deep thoughts. Making friendship with vampires was compared to betray the entire werewolves clan. If this news got leaked out somewhere, all of them would be punished from the clan.

But who could fight against Damien Trevisan except vampires with supreme blood?

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The last part of hours spent in tense inside the Trevisan house. Damien was gone from Viona's side. Sending threats from Lucas wasn't good for the pack now. They were already been left abandoned by the rest of werewolves. Now in new addition, Lucas had become a great obstacle for the pack.

Viona tossed over the bed awake. Habit was definitely a bad thing to develop. Ever since she and Damien became closer, she liked to cling onto him whenever they slept together. Now that, he left her alone for the first time, his emptiness craved her badly. She laughed at the thought whenever she remembered the time when she vowed to break their bond. Maybe, she would have done it if Damien wasn't loving to her.

As the multiple thoughts begun to cloud her memory, Viona drifted back to sleep subconsciously. Nearly half an hour later, she felt some cold liquid, dripping on her face. Groaning internally, she moved to turn on the other side of bed when she smelt something in the air.

Her eyes fluttered to open through the heavy head that she was feeling during her sleep. Following up, Viona snapped open her eyes clearly to smell fresh blood in the air. Jumping off, she sat up straight on the bed to look around closely.

Her eyes froze, spotting a dead body, laying at the corner of her room. Her scream shook the entire pack house. Everyone ran upstairs, tripping on the way into her room. Ariana pushed the door open with a thud, still panting to catch her bed as she saw Viona shivering on the bed. Her face was stained with blood, bedsheet crumpled and blood sprawled all over the room. Anybody could detect the strong smell of blood inside her room.

Viona lost her voice, too shocked to say anything as she tried to detect the face of lying dead body. Her lips trembled in fear and within a few seconds, her memories went back to the time when she was forced to kill her own mate.

Blood..that gunshot..

She gripped the bedsheet into her fists as memories begun to haunt her slowly. Her eyes watered in pain and she curled up herself over the bed like football.

Ariana furrowed before scanning across the room. Her eyes froze over the lying dead body nearby. Taking a step closer, she inspected the face clearly and gasped stumbling back,

" AUNT!"