Hansford Miller.

I met Linda in the hospital bed, her face was so pale and my heart bleed just to see her this way.

I tried to forget her when I found out that Cyra was my mate but I couldn’t forget everything that I did with Linda, all the plans we made, and all the times we made love.

She was my first love, and when Cyra came, I thought I would find everything about Linda in her but it wasn’t there. My parents wanted me to get married to Cyra because of the political game, and the success of our Pack.

Linda left to find her mate, but then she came back, I went back to her, and it felt like my life was back in place. I didn’t have to pretend when I was with her, but I didn’t want to lose Cyra either.

I needed her for the Pack, her strategic planning, and her strength, she knows how she managed the Pack and brought deals. She was part of the reason for the expansion of our Pack.

I want to keep her beside me, and have Linda too. There were a lot of things that Cyra could do when it involves the Pack, that’s why I have to keep her beside me, leave her as the Luna of the Pack but when she hurt LIndia, that was the last straw.

“…you’re still here?” Linda asked weakly when she opened her eyes.

“I couldn’t have left you in that state.”

“I didn’t know what I did to her.” She started to cry, I leaned closer to the bed, and wiped the tears off her face. “I want you to know that she was deceiving and wanted to take you down with your Beta, is that why she had to kill our baby?”

“Ssh. It’s okay, you’ll be fine.”

“How could she do this?”

“I have already rejected her as my mate, and she will pay for what she did.” I pressed a kiss on her forehead, and held her hand. “…then I will make you my Luna.”

I saw a smile perched at the corner of her lips, and I squeezed her hand.

“When is it?” She lifted her eyes and stared at me.

“Tonight.”

She nodded.

“The doctor said you’re still weak, and you’ll be discharged tomorrow or next. I want you to get enough rest and not worry about anything, we’ll have another baby.” I assured her, and stroked her hair affectionately. “We’ll finally get to stay together.”

Alpha Storm.

“…I got a message, they are sentencing her to death.” I tapped my fingers on my desk when my Beta spoke.

“When?”

“Tonight.” He rubbed the side of his neck.

I kept quiet.

I hated Werewolves as a Lycan, and the reason I was getting involved with Winterfall Pack was because of my revenge against them.

Before Winterfall and Shadow Pack were joined, they came for us, destroyed our territory, killed almost everyone, they wanted the extinction of our Pack. I saw him, the Alpha of Shadow Pack that night when our pack was caught up in flames, he murdered my family and my mate.

“…just the same way that she was murdered.” Brome said, he meant the way mate was killed, she was going to be killed that way.

“I need to see her. Though, I wanted to be the one who would’ve made that happen.”

It took time for us to get back on our feet, ten solid years of hard work, and I took the lead of the Lycan territory and turned every survivor into a warrior.

“I have to see her.”

“Yes, Alpha. I’ll make arrangements for us to leave the Pack.”

“How long will it take to get there before midnight?”

“I can’t say, Alpha, we’ll try our best to make it before then.”

This wasn’t how I wanted it to play out but I need to leave and go to the Winterfall Pack, and see it for myself.

There were a lot of people at the centre of the Pack hall, I started to make my way through the crowd, shoving through them, so I could get to the front.

With their murmuring, and curses, I knew that she was already there.

“…I can’t believe she did that.”

“She got pregnant for a Beta and not her own mate, not even the Alpha, it’s so shameful.”

“And the atrocities that she did, they said the root that they found with her was from a witch, we never associated with the witch. How could a Luna do that?”

I turned around and stared at the woman that spoke behind me.

“A witch?”

Her eyes went over me, and she quickly lowered her head.

I had my scent masked, and disguised coming down here.

I didn’t want anyone to know that I came to the Pack.

“It was poisonous. She wanted to take down the Alpha, it’s only right she’s facing judgment.”

I grounded my teeth, and looked away from her, she hurried away from my side immediately, and moved away with the other woman.

My Beta stood before me, and my eyes went through, and that was when I saw her.

She was stripped off her clothes, her hair was let down, her eyes were swollen, and there was handcuffed on her hands.

She looked up, and our eyes met.

My hand shook for a moment, I didn’t understand why, there was something clutching at my chest.

Has she been rejected by her mate?

What was this sudden tingling feeling in my chest, why was my wolf suddenly purring at her, and drawing me towards her.

I took a step, and didn’t want to move further than that. I shook my head vehemently.

It can’t be.

‘Mate?’

There’s no way that she’s my second chance mate.

I thought I won’t be able to take another step but I did.

I took another step closer to her.

No, not her.

I wasn’t going to experience the same pain again.

Her eyes were still on me, was she seeing me? Did she know that I was here?

She looked as if she had given up, and Hansford moved forward, he held a speed in his hand, and before I could blink, he struck her with it.

It went through her stomach, and back to the other side.

My feet came to a sudden halt.

She dropped down before my eyes, and memories of that night came by, the burning of the Pack, the blood splash on my face when she dropped dead.

As if it all happened again.