Wade watched powerlessly as Death took off into the night. What had made him react so strongly? Why had he seemed so scared?
He’d never seen the pale lycan be so afraid in his entire life; usually, nothing fazed him. What would happen to him now?
“Wade,” the Moon Goddess said. “Since you enjoyed fighting the werewolves so much, you will now be known as War.
“All the relationships you ever touch will turn into endless fighting until they kill each other. This is your curse.”
War felt his body disconnect from him as he shifted into his russet wolf. Now he knew what Death had felt, and it scared him too.
He started running in a different direction than his brother. He took off as far as he could go, trying to stay away from everyone.
If the Moon Goddess had told him the truth, he should be fine as long as he stayed away from society.
He was in a forest, and he believed he was safe until he heard voices. Male voices.
He took a look in their direction and saw a village. He tried to get away, but it was too late. Angry voices started to rise, and then the unmistakable sound of battles resounded.
When he turned around, he saw the whole village had slaughtered each other. Because of him. Because he was there.
Everywhere he went, it was the same. People started killing each other as soon as he came too close. He wanted it all to stop.
He found a cave and rolled himself into a giant fur ball. There, he could almost keep from hearing them. The battle cries. The sounds of swords going into flesh. Almost. Almost.
“You fell asleep. You can go now,” I said.
“Fucking rude, those lycans,” she growled.
Whatever. She wasn’t my mate, so I didn’t fucking care if she was pissed.
I couldn’t have sex with the she-wolves of Desmond’s pack, or he’d beat the crap out of me, and even though I hated to admit it, he’d win.
Here, though, in the pack I was currently staying with so I could spy on the traitor, I helped myself to all the she-wolves I wanted.
“You’re not my mate, so fuck off,” I said, standing up.
“I could be,” she purred. “You just have to choose me.”
“I can’t,” I sighed.
She was a bit too dull for my taste. “I can only mark my true mate. That’s how we work.”
“Must suck if you never meet her,” she said, standing up and putting her clothes back on.
I put my clothes back on and got ready to meet with her alpha. I still needed to go spy on his neighbor that we knew was a traitor.
I still hadn’t figured out how I was going to bring him back to Sirius, but I’d stay as long as it took to manage.
He was supposed to have had his mating ceremony yesterday, and he already had that many names… Death worked so fast.
I knew that it was dangerous to tease the Lycan of Death, but I was far enough away that he couldn’t hurt me. Fabian pushed his buttons a lot more than me, but I couldn’t resist.
Who would have thought that bastard would land a hot chick like Cassandra as a mate? It almost made my blood boil.
I chuckled. He was so passive-aggressive where Cassandra was concerned. It was almost too funny.
Cassandra must be two months pregnant by now. Desmond had told us that she was expecting a boy and a girl, and I couldn’t have been happier for them.
I remembered what the Moon Goddess had told me when she’d freed me from my curse. She’d said that I’d need to be patient and persuasive. Whatever the fuck that meant.
I was never patient; that was Payne’s thing or even Fabian’s. I was like Desmond. We lived for the action.
Persuasive, though… That was totally my shit. We would see what she’d meant.
“Too bad you can’t make me your mate,” the she-wolf said, and I’d totally forgotten she was still here.
What was her name again? Could not remember.
“I’d love to have a bite of that every night. You lycans are something else.”
Well, I didn’t think that she was exceptional, but I nodded. She’d been good enough that I could find release, so I wouldn’t be too rude to her. Fabian would be proud.
“I need to go,” I said as I walked to the door. I opened it for her, and she left, trying to sway her hips to make me change my mind.
Alpha Harold had given me a room in the pack house when I’d come knocking at his door a month or so ago.
I’d told him Sirius had sent me because we suspected that his neighbor was working with the vampires, and he’d been really generous.
He’d treated me like a member of the Royal Pack, but I knew Casey had also told him I was her gamma, so he better treat me right.
Desmond’s mate was a fierce alpha, and I wouldn’t have liked to cross her. I liked that girl.
I went straight to his office on the ground level of the pack house and knocked on the door. He told me to enter, so I did. I found the old wolf behind his desk.
When I say old, he just looked old. He looked over sixty and was actually 350. He had gray hair mixed with white and a mustache so long… I had never seen anything like it in my life; he looked like a walrus.
His small black eyes were riveted on me as I made my way to his desk.
“I need to go to the border again,” I said. “I’ll probably be gone all day and maybe even a bit of the night.”
“Sure, I see no problem with that,” the old alpha said.
He had no heir because he’d never even taken a chosen. This pack would probably have a fight to determine who the alpha was—not my problem.
I would go home way before Harold died. He was a good alpha, so I hoped the next one would be as good.
“Thanks. I’ll be off.” I nodded.
“Take care, pup,” he said, looking down at his papers.
That made me laugh, and he offered me a quizzical look.
Werewolves were funny. They just assumed we were young because we looked young. I’d just stopped aging at thirty, but I was immortal. I would live long after he was gone, sadly.
“You know, I’m actually over a thousand years old,” I said, amused. “You’re the puppy here.”
“How?” he asked, surprised.
“Lycans are immortal.” I shrugged. “See you.”
I left the office and went through the village to the forest. It was smaller than Casey’s pack, my pack, so I quickly reached the forest.
I took off my clothes and shifted into my russet wolf. It would be better to run to the border.
Now only one question remained: How would I manage to get the traitor alpha to come out? Time for a little sabotage.
