Chapter 82: Chapter 82

" Wow! Love birds! Finally, the bridge is broken!", Ariana chimed in, clapping her hands together. Her eyes lit up in admiration and love, staring at their adjoined hands as Damien and Viona made their way through the stairs. Damien chuckled at his sister's enthusiasm.

Viona rolled her eyes, heading straight to the dining table for dinner,

" You told him about the prompt, isn't it?"

Ariana made an innocent face, flashed a grin that appeared too innocent. She chuckled softly, dropping the dinner bowls on the table,

" I didn't tell him to follow you!"

Viona shook her head helplessly and picked dinner for herself. Secretly, she was glad that Ariana did provoke Damien to follow her in the party. She didn't know where to go after hearing the news from Alaric. At least, it was easier to figure out who was her real love.

Not long after that, Ashley entered into the dinning hall and the crowd suddenly went silence. Ever since her mother's death, Ashley remained this cold, not speaking with anyone normally. Viona also became a little close after her arrival and paid attention on her foods without sparing much attention.

Ariana greeted her with a smile, knowing how bad her mental state was in this days,

" Ashley, sit down! Look, I have made your favorite spaghetti!"

Ashley didn't show any reaction and plopped on the other chair, very close to Viona's position. As Ariana served her the food in this cold atmosphere, Sid and Sana's mother joined the group with a smile. She was carrying a shopping bag and dropped it beside her with an exhale. She spoke reffering to Viona who was acting very reserved now,

" Oh dear Goddess, Luna! Everyone is talking about you today. Even the Alphas are also impressed with how you are standing as our Alpha's support. You really got some big fans girl."

Viona returned a small smile before dipping her head down to take another bite. But her praise didn't sound good to everyone. Ashley who was this silent finally broke into an angry growl before spitting,

" What is the point of all this compliments if she is the reason of someone's death?"

Damien warned, not wanting any chaos in dinner table,

" Ashley, Viona isn't responsible for aunty's death. We are searching for the real culprit."

Ashley retorted slamming her spoon down on the table,

" Did you find any brother Damien? No! Because you have married this bad reputated Luna."

Damien growled, glaring hard Ashley who didn't know how to shut her mouth,

" Watch your words, Ashley. You are speaking about my mate!"

Nothing affected Ashley's hatred for Viona. Although she was disliking her from the beginning, her mother's death solidified her hatred for Viona. She solemnly believed that whatever wrong was going around all because of Viona.

Still Ashley didn't shut her mouth. Shooting another disgusted glare at Viona, she muttered under her breath but loud enough to be heard by everyone,

" If you would have just married me, nothing would have happened today. Our pack would have remained like before. Humph!"

" What did you say? Say it again!", an animalistic growl stunned everyone and Damien saw Viona, standing on her feet. Her eyes were so close to change colors. Her muscles were threatening to transform.

Oh no! Her wolf felt threatened for her mate!

Ashley jerked off at her chair slightly and stood up as well to act timidly. She nearly forgot that Viona was also carrying the Alpha bad. No matter how angry she was, she could never win against Viona's strength and power. But her words were already spoken. It was impossible to back off.

Viona challenged again, slamming her fist on the table to see everyone jumping backward,

" REPEAT!"

Damien stood up beside her, used his one hand to pat on her back soothingly,

" Calm down, love! She didn't mean it!"

Viona shot a glare at Damien, shaking her head vigorously in fury,

" No, I have to know that what she thinks of my mate. Tell her to speak!"

Ashley backed away cowardly and didn't dare to meet Viona's eyes. She didn't expect her to act so violent. Damien continued trying to calm down Viona who was very close to transform,

" Viona! Let it go! She doesn't deserve it. Her mental state is messy now!"

Viona jerked away from his touch, slipping out from the chair and stood on the other side, facing Ashley with a dark gleam. Her words buzzed, threatening in Alpha voice,

" No, Alpha! I wish to know what is her problems! This isn't her first time. She has been trying to defame me from the beginning days in this pack. Why is she so pissed off with me? Is it because she missed her chance of marrying you? What did she expect then? That you will be unmated forever?"

Ashley looked troubled since it was her main problem with her. She adored Damien from childhood and thought of becoming his queen always. Who knew that he would find his mate so fast? Now, her mother was dead and she had no one to support herself.

Ashley raised her chin arrogantly and tried to make her words reasonable,

" You can't ignore the accusation. Besides, I saved brother Damien once. He owes me."

Viona let out a dark chuckle. Now, she clearly understood that what was Ashley trying to do all this time. She wanted to blackmail Damien with her life saving game to get the Luna Queen position in the pack. Viona blurted sneering with disgust,

" A saviour never asks repayment from that person. Your words clarify it very clearly that how cheap your thoughts are, Ashley. Listen to me very clearly Ashley, the day, I will prove that I have no hands on aunt Meredith's death, you will be kicked out of this pack right away."

Ashley agaped her lips in disbelief and bit her tongue hard. Perhaps, it was her wrong decision to talk against Viona today.

Who will she look for if she gets banned from the pack?

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" Don't stop boys! RUN AGAIN!", Viona yelled at the batch of brown wolves. They were newly recruited to be trained from the pack since dangers weren't leaving their shadow. Damien selected this wolves personally who was still a teen but had enough strength to become a powerful warrior wolf.

Another failure attempt, the brown wolf missed his step, rolled down from the stone and let out a whine. Viona shook her head helplessly. At first, she regarded this task so simple but right now, she really begun to regret her decision. Some even gave her strange glares when she entered into the field as their coach but who cares? She had the Alpha blood and their Luna. They wouldn't dare to disrespect her even if they wanted because Viona alone could beat their ass blue.

" Come on! Get Up! You need to speed up your motion or else how will you face the vampires?", Viona shouted, doing everything to motivate those wolves. But they were practically lazy, demotivated and especially unwilling. Upon hearing their trainer's strict command, those wolves whinned in annoyance one more time before started running in circle around the field. They just learnt how to shift completely which was the reason, they hated to run as a beast.

Damien chuckled from her back, already feeling the stress his mate was facing here. Coming behind to wrap his hands around her slim waist, he commented, watching the batch of wolves surfacing around,

" They aren't easy to handle, love. What have you thought?"

Viona growled leaning onto his touch greedily,

" They are just not willing. God! My throat hurts!"

Becoming a trainer wasn't easy as it seemed to be. Those constant yelling and shouting drained out a lot of her energy. Besides, some of them were bit stubborn of disobeying her order every single time. Damien flashed her grin and pinched her ass behind to see her jerking off in surprise. Viona blushed before smacking his shoulders shyly,

" What are you doing? There are so many of them."

Damien grinned big, shamelessly admitting,

" Just cheering my mate. Would you like to take a break from this annoying teens?"

Viona wished to agree at once as they got on her nerves badly. But they didn't complete their training yet and leaving them halfway wasn't a good idea. People might call her unprofessional trainer. Exhaling, she muttered with a pout,

" I would love to but right now, they should be trained first, Alpha Damien."

Damien understood her thoughts and patted on her head encouragingly. How did he become so lucky to get such a dominant, hard working mate?

Just when Viona intended to pay attention on the training boys, Celeb made a hasty appearance. His voice sounded cold and terrifying as he spoke earning their attention,

" Alpha, Luna!"

They both turned together and saw around age seventeen was shivering under Celeb's claws. Damien furrowed, noticing the dark gleam on Celeb's features,

" What's wrong with this boy, Celeb?"

Celeb glared down at the boy before speaking,

" He is..He is the culprit here!"

Viona gasped, disbelief flooding through her eyes,

" What? You..you mean that he has killed aunt Meredith?"

Before Celeb could give his answer, the boy shook his head vigorously. Getting on his knees, he blabbered incoherently,

" No, Luna..I didn't..I didn't kill anyone.."

Celeb gripped his neck harder, warned with another ferocious growl,

" Speak out! What did you do exactly?"

Damien interrupted, pushing his eyes up at Celeb,

" How did you get to know that it is him?"

Celeb replied pressing hard on his neck,

" I heard him speaking to the other boys."

Damien nodded and signalled at the boy coldly,

" Tell us the truth! Your punishment might be reduced if you consider telling us the truth."

The boy nodded his head frantically. Wiping his tears repeatedly, he mumbled folding his hands together,

" I didn't kill Alpha! I just dragged her body inside Luna's room."

Viona stomped forward, awestruck to think that she didn't hear anything during her sleep. It was impossible to be done by someone so young like him. Viona asked again, making sure that each and every details spilled out,

" But we didn't find anything on CCTV footages. How did you do it alone?"

The boy admitted, lowering down his gaze in guilt,

" I..I threw clothes over the cameras."

Damien's face darkened in rage and his wolf was about to take control when Viona gripped his arms sharply, notifying him that she had something else to ask the teen. The teen crawled backwards, too afraid to face the king of all Alphas. He knew that one snap from Damien will send him straight to hell.

Viona softened her tone, her motive was very much clear. She didn't wish to pressure the teen who was just being used as puppet against them. Besides, teen age was something about learning always. People often make wrong choices at this stage of life and Viona didn't want to scare him more. Besides, the teen was part of their pack, her family member.

She crunched down in front of him, questioned after a soft sigh,

" You wouldn't dare to something like this alone, Kiddo. Tell me, who ordered it?"

The teen's body slightly stiffened, his face getting sullen after hearing Viona's question. Guilt and fear both shifted on his expression before he shook his head saying 'No'. Viona crooked her brows slightly, reasoning for the last time,

" Do you believe that he would let you live if you don't tell the truth? That person is just using you to fulfill his motives. Tell me then, why would he ask you to help?"

The teen was wordless after hearing from Viona. Indeed, he was nothing especial to be valued by others. Why would they ask help from him?

Giving it a second thought, the teen finally broke the silence, shivering before uttering the name,

" Lu..Lu...Lucas..Alpha.. Lucas..."