The Alpha’s Dark Revenge

Liyah’s POV

“I can’t believe it. You guys are actually getting married? Wow, congratulations again!” Annalise said yet again, beaming from ear to ear. I was starting to think she was the most excited about it. Well, everyone was.

We had announced our engagement to the pack this morning and everybody was ecstatic. Some of the shewolves had already started giving me gifts. For goodluck, they said.

Drew was all smiles. He was always smiling, but today’s was wider, brighter, happier. He had already announced his position as the best man, making me blush. The wedding wasn’t till a few weeks. But I was already used to my new family by now.

Anna was already listing all the things we would need for the party, even though Nikolai had protested. “You will both have an engagement party Nik, and nobody’s going to stop me. Even if it means doing everything myself.” She had teased. Anna could be very persuasive. So dear Nikolai had no choice.

“Alright, alright but nothing too big, and it should be in the mansion. And not too many guests either, Anna. I want something quiet.” He succumbed.

I smiled, listening from the kitchen and arranging the flowers I got into vases. I was still quite giddy with excitement. It felt unreal that anyone would be happy for me… excited for my happiness. The fact that they were all willing to share in my happiness still brought a tear to my eyes each time. I had never felt so loved before… it was the best feeling in the world.

“Where do I put these?”

I turned when I heard Eve’s voice. She clutched a box of decorations in both hands, smiling and putting the box down to wave when she saw me.

Annalise had literally put everybody to work. She was extra hyper today.

My fingers paused in the middle of arranging the flowers. Elyan had forgotten to get two of the remaining jars from the garden. I looked through the kitchen windows, they were still there.

“Where are you off to, baby?” Nikolai pulled me softly from behind, nibbling at my ear. I hadn’t even heard him come in.

“Let me just get those vases from the garden, Elyan has probably forgotten about them as Anna is pushing everyone to do one thing or the other. I won’t be long,” I said, escaping from his grasp smoothly and blowing him a kiss which he caught dramatically.

I chuckled.

“I won’t be long, okay?”

“You better not,” He winked.

I headed for the garden. It was a bit deserted as all the work was going on in the house. Sighting the vase, I picked them up and wiped the dirt off the bottom.

As I stood, the vase clutched in my hand as I tried to wipe off the crust from it, I felt a sudden eerie feeling, chills running through me. I whipped around swiftly, my senses tingling. This wasn’t the first time this had happened. For several days now I’d been having this weird feeling, almost like I was being watched. But everytime I turned to survey the area, whatever was hiding out there quickly disappeared.

I looked with my wolf eyes, searching for any sign of life at all around.

Nothing.

I swept through the area again with my wolf eyes, checking again to see if there was something I missed. But again, I found nothing. Sighing, I decided that maybe it was just in my head.

Was paranoia a symptom of early pregnancy in werewolves? I wasn’t sure. I had to ask Annalise when I got back in. But it was starting to get really annoying. There was clearly no one there. Why was my mind playing tricks with me?

“Is there a problem, Liyah?” Came Nikolai’s voice from behind me. He sounded worried. “You’ve been away for a while. I thought maybe you didn’t find them,” He said pointing at the vases in my hands.

There was no point worrying my fiancé over a stupid paranoid feeling. He already had enough to worry about.

“Oh, no” I smiled. “I was just checking the hedges, they might need a bit of trimming don’t you think?”

He rolled his eyes.

“Don’t you think you should be worried about things other than bushes, Li? Like me for example.” He said, feigning a sad look. He looked adorable.

Li. Absolutely beautiful, I blushed.

I ruffled his hair a little. I couldn’t help it.

“Let’s go inside shall we? It’s getting cold,” I suggested, intertwining my arm in his.

“After you, Mrs. Slade,” He smiled, leading me back into the house.

Mrs. Slade. I decided I quite liked the sound of that.

Jonas’ POV

I glared at the worker that stepped into my quarters, wondering if I should strangle him for a little while. Maybe that would teach him not to interrupt me when I was busy.

“What?!” I barked, smirking when I saw him jump up in fear, beads of sweat already beginning to form on his forehead.

“A-alpha… I come with news f-from the Selene pack.”

I sat up, my brows cocking with interest. Right. I had almost forgotten that I sent a spy to infiltrate and survey Slade’s territory. After I had seen him at that business meeting after so long, I was simply curious to know how badly he was doing. I almost laughed out loud as the image of how angry he had been at the meeting floated into my memory.

It was pathetic. That was the difference between Slade and I, he let flimsy things hold him back.

“Well?” I turned back to the spy.

“My first attempts to infiltrate were foiled, so when I finally managed to get in, he was gone for a vacation already. He came back a few days ago. B-but I have some upsetting news.”

I frowned. Upsetting? “Get to the point.”

“W-well, I heard some of them talking a few days ago. And from the information I gathered, Nikolai Slade is the Silver Ghost.”

My eyes widened in shock. “That’s impossible! I will have you hanged in you don’t give only accurate information,” I warned.

“I have proof!” He said, taking out a cellphone and tapping on a button which started to play a recording. When I heard the voice of a woman begin to narrate how she was saved from kidnapping by The Silver Ghost, and some other people keep mentioning ‘Nikolai’ and silver eyes, it felt like I just had the wind knocked out of me.

“That bastard!” My chest heaved in anger. I should have known. Who else would have the audacity to get in the way of my business. Oh, I would make him pay. He would pay dearly for this.

Anger surged through me as I faced the spy once more. “What?! Get out, now!”

He bowed his head. “Alpha, there’s more.”

More? What more could possibly happen? “Well, speak! I don’t have all day.”

“Slade is getting married. When I escaped this evening they were making preparations for an engagement party.”

“Married…” I repeated. What the hell was going on? So lover boy had finally gotten over his sad, broken heart. That only meant one thing; I hadn’t done enough damage when I killed his wife. I knew he wouldn’t die when I shot him. I wanted him to live… live to revel in his pain for the rest of his life. And now he was getting married? No, we can’t have that. Of course not.

I looked up to see the guard still standing there. “There’s more? Right, of course.”

“He’s getting married to Liyah, Alpha.”

I frowned. “Who?” The name wasn’t remotely familiar. I didn’t care who he was getting married to anyway.

“Liyah Verbeck. Y-your first daughter, Alpha.”

I was still in shock when he started to narrate the story he had heard from some members of the Selene pack. When he narrated how Slade had kidnapped Liyah instead of my Barbara, I burst out laughing. That idiot. Did he really think he could kidnap my Barbara that easily?

When he finished, I plunged deep into thought. So, Slade and that useless merewoman who was responsible for my mate’s death thought they could live happily ever after? Like they were in some kind of fairytale?

The thought was laughable. I turned to the spy. “Go back there, stay low. I need to find out more, their every move then report back to me and await my orders.”

He quickly bowed and exited the room.

My initial amusement was turning back to anger. Nikolai Slade had the effrontery to ruin my business plans then think he could get married to my mate’s daughter and live happily. And that fool, Liyah. Did she really think I would let her be happy? What she deserved was to live in pain her whole life. Just like she had let my mate live in pain.

I would destroy them both, so swiftly that they wouldn’t even realize what was happening until they were broken into tiny little pieces.