Fated to the Alpha

Chapter 10

Raphael's pov

That night, my mind kept spinning back to Athena, I hadn't even done half of the things that I had planned out before deciding to show her mercy, because of the years of loyalty she had displayed in the past. Instead of being grateful, just with a simple shove, she looked so destroyed, and her face became so flat afterwards that I could read nothing beyond her blank eyes.

That look tormented me so much that even when I returned back to my personal bedchamber, I told Isabella to return to hers as well.

Her smile, that started from one ear to the other, immediately shrunk.

"Did I do something wrong? Or is it because of my sister?"

My grip on the door frame tightened.

"Isabella, this has nothing to do with your sister. Just for tonight, I think I need some space alone to dwell on my thoughts a bit and-"

Before I could even finish, the tears were already running down her eyes. I wanted to explain that ever since she came, I hadn’t had a proper moment to run through a single thought. She was always there. And while I loved her presence, it wouldn't hurt to be able to breathe once in a while, and not inhale her perfume every second.

She was amazing, but I wish she would give me a moment to miss her.

"Okay, you don't have to explain anything to me at all, it’s me who is going out of my way and doing what I shouldn't. I should remember my place as a simple mistress and not go overboard,"

As soon as I saw her looking all pouty and sad, an instant bolt of pain shot through my heart.

Before I knew it, I had stepped away from the door and was inviting her in. As much as I said that I would put some distance between us especially since a couple of elders had been raising disapproving glares toward her, I kept failing over and over again.

All she had to do was flutter those tear-stained lashes at me, and instantly, I was melting at her feet.

She entered my bed chamber and quickly made herself comfortable on the king size bed. I came over, and soon she was snuggled into my arm like the last piece of a puzzle clicking into place.

Perfect. That was the first thing that came to my mind when I looked at her, she saw how I was staring and blushed.

"Is there something on my face?"she said in such an adorable manner that I thought maybe I should just kiss her senseless. I tipped up her chin for her eyes to see mine but instead of seeing her, I saw Athena and that empty look that tormented me. Instantly, I pulled my hand away as if I had been electrocuted. For the second time that night, I watched Isabella’s smile completely disappear.

"What's wrong?" She asked, sounding deeply perturbed, but I was already pulling up the duvet.

"It's nothing at all. Just go to bed and let's not talk about it,"

But she was persistent, almost to the point of being nagging. She didn't like to be kept in the dark and would argue with me about being told confidential information, whether I wanted to give it to her or not.

However, tonight was not one of such nights where she had her way. And even if it meant that I had to sleep fewer hours than usual, I still didn't give her what she wanted to know. By the time morning came, I had barely even slept at all, adding to the crankiness of my usual mood.

As for Isabella, despite keeping me awake for most of the night, she looked well rested, and I almost felt cheated. How did she look like that when I was struggling to keep my eyes open without dozing off? However, by the time most of my consciousness returned to me, so did my anger.

The investigations were still being carried out about which specific guards had gone to Athena's room.

And today, they would all be gathered in front of me in my throne room, where I would confront each and every one of them.

Including my Beta, who had also been summoned by her. I didn't want to believe that he had slept with her, but I would soon find out.

It was the first order of the morning. All three guards stood in front of me, each shivering down to their toes. Isabella was on my lap and she was drawing circles on my chest which was distracting, to say the least, but it didn’t look like she planned to stop anytime soon, so I focused on what was in front of me first.

I told the men to admit that they were sleeping with my wife. However , none of them admitted to sleeping with her. From what I heard in the rumors before, she was said to have asked them different questions concerning the security of the pack. And when they were interrogated separately, they had given the same answers about what she had asked them, many of the questions overlapping and being repeated by more than one mouth. Since they had all been kept in separate holding cells, there was no way that this information could have spread unless that was what really happened.

But I was too angry, too angry to really listen long enough, before I went at one of them, my rage boiling over. It happened so quickly that by the time I was able to hold myself back, there was already a guard in front of me b****y and lifeless, I had his body disposed of, and then turned to my Beta, who seemed worried for himself but, unlike the guards, he kept himself together.

"Alpha, I don't want you to be in shock when I tell you this but the reason why the Luna was calling me to her room was because of some certain drugs. I looked into them and found out that they were prenatal drugs"

My heart immediately dropped.

"Prenatal?! She was pregnant?!”