Ch. 24：Noah's POV II

NOAH
“Baby, are you free?” I raised my head from my work to see Bella standing at my door, twirling a strand of her hair between her fingers.
“What is it?” I massaged the point between my eyes, feeling a headache coming on.
“I miss you.” The blonde pouted. “When are you coming to bed?” Everything in this pack gave me a headache but this thing clad in skimpy clothes gave me the biggest headache.
“Bella, I have things to do so don’t bother me,” I dismissed but she refused to be dismissed. Instead, she sauntered into my office with a sashay of her hips.
“Don’t you want me anymore?” She walked over to me and rubbed a hand down my chest. “Have you found someone better than me?” I pushed her hand away and her seductive pout fell, replaced with a glare and curled lips. “Who is it? Who is the whore you have been seeing!?” She shouted.
“Anyone would be better than you, Bells,” I smiled and she took a step back. “You philandering whore.” Her eyes shook as I stood. “Did you think I would not know that you’ve been spreading your cheap legs for my beta?”
“W – What are you saying, baby?” Her eyes took over half her face as she continued to retreat while I advanced. “How can I, your Luna –“
“I would never make you my Luna.” I laughed at the pathetic whore as she gasped. “You were excited to be a replacement and I indulged you. Like a dog, I tossed you crumbs and you wagged your tail in excitement but you couldn’t even be loyal for a month.”
“If you were never going to make me your Luna then who?” She sneered, an ugly look on her face. “Is it the disgusting omega without a wolf that you’ve been searching for for the past weeks?” Her eyes gleamed as if she had gotten the upper hand.
Red Lake was small enough for me to rule without a Luna. I did not have a use for a mate and I already planned to use Carrot to take over Alpha Norman’s pack. It would be impossible for my plan to work if I mated with another woman before then.
“Or are you jealous?” I blinked at the stupid blonde smirking at me. “I know you’ve been sleeping with Jennifer and Anna, and who knows who else!” She exclaimed. So those were their names. “Did you think I would sit back and do nothing while you slept with all my friends?” Her eyes gleamed with malice as she dropped her sweet, innocent girl disguise. “You slept with my friends and I slept with your friends. It’s a draw, don’t you think?” She took a bold step forward and tapped my bicep. “And you are going to make me your Luna, Noah, or I’ll tell the entire pack that your real mate is that wretched girl.”
I couldn’t let that happen but it wasn’t for the reason this fool thought. If people found out we were mates, my plans to use her to lure in other Alphas to take over their packs would fail.
“What are you doing – Let go –“ Bella’s nails scratched at my hands but I didn’t let her go.
“I am strangling you or are you too dumb to know that either?” I asked the whore
There was barely any excitement in my small and backward pack and looking for my runaway mate was getting tedious but maybe killing this bitch would add some excitement to the boring routine of leading the dumb wolves of Red Lake pack.
“N – Noah –“ She choked, fighting harder as I tightened my grip on her thin neck. “You’re –“ She gasped. “ Please –“
Her father was the former beta, the bastard was one of those that advised my father to send me away to the academy. It would be fun watching him search for his only child after I killed her and buried her corpse in his backyard.
The idea made me giddy. I could already see the old dog crying his eyes out as he searched for his daughter. As the Alpha, I would have to join them in searching for the whore. Wouldn’t it be fun to pretend to search for a person I already killed?
“N – Noah –“ Her voice was fading.
A few minutes more and she would draw her last breath. My heart beat faster and my mouth watered. I’d never taken a life with my bare hands like this and it made me giddy to do it for the first time.
‘It would be too much trouble,’ my wolf grumbled. ‘Her father would enlist us to find her if you kill her now. We don’t have time for that now. Remember we are still trying to find Carrot.’
She fell to the ground as I let her go. Her hands massaged her throat as she coughed. She raised her head and glared at me with tears in her eyes.
“You – You are a monster,” she choked out with a hoarse voice and I laughed.
Monster. Psychopath. Barbarian.
Those were a few names I’d heard people use in describing me in my lifetime. Didn’t my father send me to the academy because I was ‘an unfeeling monster’ who he feared would ruin his beloved Red Lake?
“Are you just realizing?” Like the other girls, this one could not see past the title of Alpha. She wanted to use me to climb up in status but she would first need my permission for that.
“You –“ Her eyes shone with fear and it made me warm inside.
“I should cut out your tongue for trying to blackmail me.” Her eyes widened as she gasped and then coughed, choking on her saliva.
“I – I’m sorry,” she cried out, scrambling away from me. “Please – Please don’t hurt me. I promise, I swear on all the rivers the moon touches, I won’t – I won’t tell a soul – I won’t try to blackmail you.” She pressed her forehead to the ground as she bowed low.
Pride coursed through my veins, warming me up from head to toe. She’d recognized my power and now she bowed at my feet as she should have done from the beginning. I was her Alpha, a wolf more superior than she could ever dream to be.
If Carrot had bowed like this and begged, if she had pressed her head to the ground like this and asked me to mate with her, to forgive her for not being good enough, then I may have considered her. She wasn’t good enough to stand beside me but I may have found a better job for her to do for me. I would have felt pity for her but she held her head too high.
I missed her.
No one in this pack interested me like that nobody who carried herself with pride. Killing Bella would not interest me as much as breaking Carrot would. That stupid wench. I saw red for a second. How dare she leave me?
“Leave this place. I’m forgiving you now but have it at the back of your mind that you owe me.” I kicked out the whore on my floor.
She scrambled out like a rat and I went back to my seat to continue my work. I needed to do a lot of planning to take over Alpha Norman’s pack now that my original plan failed. Perhaps I could sell Bella to him but he liked young virgins and Bella was loose already.
As I lowered myself to my seat, a searing pain tore my insides, turning my vision dark for a second and making me gasp.
“What the –“ I collapsed into my seat as the pain intensified. It was as if ten hands dragged my heart in ten different directions, splitting it. My lungs were on fire, making it difficult to breathe and my whole body trembled.
“Carrot,” my wolf snarled. “That whore is with another man! She is defiling our bond!”
I would be angry if I wasn’t in such unbearable pain. Tears slid down my face and my fist hit my chest. It hurt too much.
“Haa.” I clawed at my shirt, tearing it off as my nails dug into my chest. I wanted to reach for my heart and tear out the organ. The pain was that intense.
It continued throughout the night. When I thought it would stop, it started again with a worse intensity.
Who the hell would dare touch my mate?
My mother found me on the floor of my office the next morning. Her bangles jiggled loudly as she rushed in with flowing skirts.
“Noah. Noah!” She barged into my office and found me on the floor. “Are – Are you okay?” She paused when she saw me on the ground, my shirt ripped, chest bloody and tear tracks decorating my face. “Were we attacked last night?”
I got off the ground, burning with humiliation. It would kill me to reveal to my mother that another man had ridden my stallion throughout the night.
“I am fine. Why did you barge into my office?” I dusted my trousers and picked up my ruined shirt. She blinked for a moment and then shrugged.
“Look at this.” She threw a newspaper on the desk. “I found Carrot!”
My eyes scanned the crumpled newspaper in front of me. Amethyst – the king’s mate – I’d heard the story even in our remote pack but I had never seen the king’s fairy tale mate. It was my Carrot.
“No way,” I muttered.
“That’s what I said!” Mother exclaimed. “Who knew that useless girl would be the king’s mate?”
There was no way she was the king’s mate since we were still bonded. Humiliation forgotten, I felt a smile tug at my lips.
I did not dare dream so far before but the king - Yes, I was qualified to be the Alpha King.
Killian was not a man to be trifled with but I knew his secret. He had my mate and lied to the kingdom that she was his. I let out a loud bark of laughter.
Shall we blackmail the king and his ‘queen’?