CHASING THE ALBINO WOLF: Opening Pandora's Box

PLAYING THE ODDS ON THE BOARDWALK

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Author P.O.V.

At the same time....... In the White Fang Pack

"Hey handsome! I have a lead on Luna Mira's ex-human husband, Byron." stated Gamma Shelly excitedly to her fate mate, Gamma Carlos, via mindlink. Gamma Carlos was busy training the women and children of the pack at the training grounds.

"You did where? I knew you could find him." inquired Gamma Carlos with a chuckle through the link.

"Here in Las Vegas at the Siegel Suites on Las Vegas Blvd. Thanks for always believing in me." replied Gamma Shelly, giggling.

"You have got to be kidding me." laughed Gamma Carlos, grabbing some water and ordering everyone to take a ten-minute break.

"Once a gambler, always a gambler." responded his mate, still giggling.

"Wow...we have been looking for him, and he was here the whole time." proclaimed Gamma Carlos.

"Care to play good cop, bad cop with me?" asked his beloved fate mate Shelly playfully.

"Oh, this is going to be so much fun. Only if I get to be the muscle. I get to be the bad cop." insisted Gamma Carlos.

"Fine, always got to be the party pooper. " expressed Shelly teasingly.

"You didn't say that last night." taunted Gamma Carlos playfully.

"That's different." gasped Shelly, unable to stop blushing at his teasing words.

"Whatever. Be ready in an hour, and we can go." instructed Gamma Carlos.

"Sounds like a plan." said Shelly before ending the mind link, still blushing.

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Author P.O.V.

At lunchtime .........................in the Blood Mountain Pack in Georgia

"Wow...that's a lot to process!" expressed Beta Malcolm to Alpha Koda and his sister Luna Mira.

"What did they do now? I swear.....they are more trouble than they are worth." snapped Uncle Malcolm's fate mate, Bellamy, as she walked into the private dining room for visiting VIP guests in the packhouse.

"Calm down... It's actually good news. Anora is Alpha William's second chance mate. They have accepted each other. Plus, Pandora and Anora plan to go back to the Red Dawn Pack with them." explained her mate.

"Really, but they are wolfless. Their bloodline is impure. You are the only one of value in that family." argued his mate Bellamy.

"They have indeed scored good mates for themselves. Maybe their side of the family won't be such an embarrassment anymore." said their son, future Beta Micheal Sutton.

"Watch your mouth." growled Alpha Koda as his pregnant Luna began to cry softly in his arms. Luna Mira's thick curly black hair along with her soft truffle glowing skin tone made her look so much like the deceased "Queen of Disco" Donna Summers.

"Sorry if the truth hurts." responded Bellamy arrogantly.

"Mother....be nice." chuckled their son, future Beta Micheal Sutton.

"Don't cry, dear. Don't listen to this foolish woman. Calm down." voiced Alpha Koda, giving Beta Malcolm a look that told him to get his mate in line or else, and at that moment, Alpha Koda looked very much like the distinguished, well-built, salt-and-pepper-haired American actor Benjamin Pratt in his tailored suit.

"Maybe.... I should come along to support my cousins. They have no clue what pack life is like, and I can teach them." suggested Beta Malcolm’s only daughter, Parker. Parker rejected her fate mate three years ago for being a poor warrior. Parker wanted someone with rank and money. She refused to settle and was now jealous that her inferior cousins were receiving such good fate mates.

"I think that's a good idea, Sis." added their son, future Beta Micheal Sutton, with a devilish smirk.

"No! That won't be necessary. If they didn't agree to join this pack, then I doubt very seriously if they will want life lessons from you. Don't worry! My son and I will handle it. They will adjust fine." countered Alpha Koda, annoyed with the mother and daughter duo already. He wondered how Beta Malcolm tolerated them.

"Fine!" replied Parker, fuming. She would find another way to invite herself early to the Albermarle Peninsula Wolf Lake Pack in order to steal one of her cousins' mates. She promised herself silently at the table.

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Alpha Rhett P.O.V.

Meanwhile, in the .................... Albermarle Peninsula Wolf Lake Pack

"Did you use a witch to trick me into falling in love with you and to keep me?" I demanded as soon as the nurses pushed Ivy's hospital bed into my private room and left.

"Yes....because I love you." muttered Ivy as Gamma Fletcher walked in and stood by the door to help me determine if she was still lying to me.

"Do you love me or do you love the Luna title?" I asked harshly, already knowing the answer.

"Both... Why can't I have both? I deserve both. We would have been so happy together." cried Ivy, but I didn't have time for her tears. I looked over at Gamma Fletcher, and he nodded. She was being truthful.

"I don't know that because you didn't give me a chance to know for myself. Now, all I am faced with is years of lies and manipulation." I barked at her in pure frustration.

"Please! Please, Rhett! Give me a chance to show you that we could be a wonderful little family. I am even willing to share you with that wolf-less, half-breed if that's what you want. Just don't send me away." pleaded Ivy through her tears.

"She has a name. Her name is Fiora. Her friends and family call her by the nickname Finn. Call her Fiora. Don't make me tell you that again. Be respectful. You are only with me because of that pup, or I would send you packing straight to prison. I can still do it after you give birth and especially if Fiora refuses to forgive you. So I would be extremely nice to her from now on." I argued, wanting to see if Ivy could truly eat humble pie.

"You have got to be kidding me? You would take my pup away from me and allow someone else to raise it?" countered Ivy in total disbelief.

"Yes! No one told you to play with black magic. You have already cost me one mate. I won't allow you to cost me the other one." I growled at her.

"Both of them were your mates." gasped Ivy, looking at Gamma Fletcher for confirmation.

"Yes!" I replied as I watched the two of them.

Something felt off.

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Author P.O.V.

A few hours later ....... In the White Fang Pack territory located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

At the seedy, notoriously run-down, budget-friendly Circus Hotel and Casino inside a gritty motel room.

"Please don't hurt me anymore. I will tell you anything you want." begged Pandora's human father, Bryon.

"Good. Tell us about your ex-wife, Mira Sutton." demanded Gamma Carlos as he slammed Byron into the wall again.

"Oh! This is about that b***h! Why didn't you say something sooner? What do you want to know exactly?" voiced Bryon with a laugh and a smirk. He thought they were bounty hunters coming to take him to jail on a whole list of charges.

"Why did y'all abandon your daughter? Why did y'all break up?" asked Gamma Shelly as she stood by the window calmly looking out.

"Simple. Mira hated being a lantern. Mira hated her family. When I met her I knew nothing about the supernatural world. Mira lured me in with promises of wealth if I helped her at first. I foolishly believed her. We ran cons for a long time. We were a good team, but it's hard to run a successful scam with a crying baby in tow. So we ditched the kid after taking her to a witch doctor who claimed she would never get her wolf either. Her wolf was too weak as well." explained Bryon.

"Really?" replied Gamma Carlos, sharing a look with his mate.

"Yes! So we went looking for an Alpha strong enough to turn Mira into a werewolf at the advice of the witch. But no Alpha was willing to do it." admitted Bryon.

"Then, we started using drugs, gambling and partying way too much. We were in Atlantic City. We owed a lot of money to some very serious people. So I came up with the stupid idea of Mira helping to work off our debt by being nice to a group of rogues roaming around New Jersey's forests and woodlands." revealed Bryon.

"So you pimped out your own wife." snapped Gamma Shelly, fuming at this latest revelation.

"Don't judge me. She agreed to it. I didn't make her do anything. Anyway, they kept me around for shits and giggles. They knew we were together and forced me to watch sometimes. I hated it. I regretted it after the first night but it was too late. Plus, they kept me around to help repair stolen vehicles. I am a pretty decent mechanic. We did it to pay off our debts. We really didn't have a choice after her family cut us off." claimed Bryon.

"You had plenty of other options rather than watch your wife degrade herself. Were you two fate mates?" growled Gamma Carlos before punching him in the face and knocking out a tooth.

"No, we were not! But listen, she loved every minute of it. Mira got off on it. After a while, Mira went from the pack slut to the rogue Alpha's main woman. First, Mira got our debt wiped clean, and then she kicked me to the curb. Afterward, they beat me up and sent me away. So I cut my losses and left." insisted Bryon.

"What was this rogue Alpha's name?" probed Gamma Shelly, curious about this new piece of information about Luna Mira.

"Alpha Jace.... he's still operating in New Jersey, last I heard." revealed Bryon.

"Is Mira still with him? What happened to her after you left?" asked Gamma Carlos, still trying to figure out how Luna Mira ended up with Alpha Koda Black.

"Last, I heard Mira was sent to rob some rich old white human man at the MGM Tower at Borgata in Atlantic City and ran into her fate mate. A damn Alpha no less. He f****d her. Then he rejected her crazy manipulative ASS the very next day, claiming he didn't want a worthless, wolf less w***e for a mate or a Luna. Mira was heartbroken but accepted his rejection after his men threatened to torture her to death. And from what I heard from the grapevine, Mira never went back to rogue Alpha Jace and just sort of drifted here and there. She started using pretty badly. Last I heard, Mira was in California living in and around the Skid Row area." stated Bryon.

"Do you know who her fate mate turned out to be?" asked Gamma Carlos.

"Yeah! Alpha Don Luis Sandoval was the name I heard. But I don't know how true it is, because I wasn't exactly around." admitted Bryon.

Carlos and Shelly shared a look. They knew Alpha Don Luis Sandoval's name wasn't random. Alpha Don Luis Sandoval wasn't the kind of man anyone with good senses wanted anything to do with even a scumbag human like him.

"Tell me something. Did you ever think about going back for your daughter?" asked Shelly, trying to gauge his honesty.

"No! She was better off with them. I was raised in the foster care system. My parents both died in prison. I don't have a clue what it means to be a good father." conveyed Bryon without any hesitation.

"Do you ever think about her?" probed Shelly.

"No! She is better off without me. I am and will always be damaged goods, just like her mother." answered Bryon as Gamma Carlos knocked him unconscious and tied him up.

Next, they took him back to packland.

After that, they placed Bryon inside a cell in the dungeon to wait to speak with Alpha Kodak and Alpha William.

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