Chapter 11
Casey’s POV
As I opened my eyes, I was still in my wolf form. Lori was kneeling next to me as she cried. I had no idea what had happened. Did they manage to overtake my pack when I fainted? When I shifted back into my human form, she hugged me tightly while she was still crying.
I tried to look for Zora. What I could remember the last time was that the three of us were in the living room when the intruders came in. After I broke Lori’s hug, I got up to see how messy the room that used to be my living room was. Simply, there was none to be kept. Obviously, I had to replace everything.
“Where’s Zora?” I asked Lori, but she kept crying on the floor.
“Where’s my wife? What just happened?” I asked, prompting her to get up from the floor.
“They wanted to take you away as a trophy since you almost died, so Zora gave herself up to replace you. When I tried to talk her out of it, she cut me out. After that, they dragged her away in chains, Casey. We didn’t have any chances. As soon as they took her, the attack stopped,” Lori rushed to say it, but I already lost it when she mentioned that Zora gave herself up.
I quickly fell to my knees as I was screaming angrily. Then, I punched the ground so hard until my knuckles were bleeding.
I fell to my knees and roared with anger. I punched the ground until my knuckles bled.
Tears came down from my cheeks. My soul was deeply hurt by this. How
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and I have to endure? Who did we offend to get such a terrible life? First, our married life was destroyed because of my newly-found supposed mate. Now, I had to see Zora gone. I could never get her back in any way.
“Why?!” I shouted angrily as my soul was pained as well as my heart
broke.
How could I lose Zora?
Our exchange of words the last time really hurt her. My wife felt that I really betrayed her, but I had made my decision to make it better. I also wanted to have children with her. I would really try for it. After all, Zora was my best friend before we married each other. Now, I just felt like s hit as rage gradually built up inside of me because of Cruz and Hardy.
Why did Cruz trouble us and bring this tragedy to us? Even though I already told him to be careful because the Dark Lord Alpha wasn’t merciful, Cruz was confident that Hardy would support us. Besides, we gave Hardy our lands, money, and tributes. Yet, he didn’t come to help us when we needed his help.
The man might say that this was a sudden attack, but that was what we Alphas were trained to do. We were trained to attack back when there was a sudden attack. Thus, he was supposed to send his men here to aid
us.
I screamed again. Thanks to Cruz for making trouble, my lovely Zora was gone. After that, I got off the floor as I went to our bedroom and felt like an as s hole. Everything that happened to us after the whole supposed mate s h it show came to us replayed in the back of my memory. I truly wished that I could take it all back.
If only I had never gone to the st up id party that Dustin invited us to. Our lives were perfect before. Zora was my perfect wife to me that I knew well loved me. For my sake, she gave herself up because of love. The woman was excellent at knowing situations as well as understanding them. She
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I knew I shouldn’t have to tell her that Lori was pregnant. With my own eyes, I could see how joy was replaced by hurt in her eyes. While I knew that she wanted to have children, I wanted both of us to enjoy our lives. for a while before we had children. What happened with Lori was unexpected and unplanned, but I felt like a jerk because I had betrayed my wife.
Lori was knocking on the door, but I could never let her enter Zora’s
room. Zora might not be here anymore, but there was zero woman who could enter her room or even replace her. Now, it was official that the Magic Fang Pack had no Luna anymore because Lori would never replace Zora.
Fate took everything from us. Our joy, strength, and happy life. So, I planned to hold on to whatever was left to us.
After that, I got out of my and Zora’s room while I was still naked. Lori then met my eyes.
“What should we do, Casey? How can we get Zora back here?” Lori asked, but I had no idea how to respond to that.
Nobody ever dared to fight the Dark Lord Alpha because he was so strong like a g od. We would have a better chance to get her back if the entire region joined the south to fight against him, but nobody would want to risk it for my beloved Zora.
“We can’t get Zora back, except the Dark Lord Alpha lets her go,” I told Lori the truth, but her response was a cry.
I expected that this would make her happy, but I guessed her life was as f u cked up as both my and Zora’s lifes too.
“I thought you would be happy?” I asked her as I was trying to understand the reason behind her sadness.
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“Zora didn’t have to give herself up. Instead, she could have pointed at me as I was your supposed mate. After all, I was more valuable than her. Yet, she chose herself to protect both of us. I really owe her my life and freedom, Casey. I’ll never be happy if something happened to her. Fate really messed with our lives. It brought me to you guys’ married life. I foolishly thought that everything was game and I just had to take you away because you were my supposed mate. After everything that happened, I just realized the way I behaved and the lies I had told you to get her out of me and you were pure evil. How can I repent for my evilness?” she told me in tears that made me wonder how many lies she had told me.
“What lies, Lori?” I tried to ask her, but she just bowed her head as she slowly walked away from me.
“I lied about us going all the way on the balcony. I also lied about Zora poison me to kill me. It was actually forced by my father,” she confessed. telling me things that I already knew of.
Yet, I didn’t even bother to say something about it. I just walked away from her to pick up my shorts. Then, I went out to see what was left from my pack.
As I walked through, I could see people grieving. Still, all of them were looking at me with respect. Surely, they thought that I gave Zora up for their sake. Their assumptions were wrong. If Zora didn’t give herself up, they all would die because I would never give her up. Instead, I would rather die.
People started to stand up to pay their respect as I passed them. They knew that this sudden attack wasn’t my mistake. But I couldn’t take their respect because it wasn’t mine to begin with. In fact, Zora was the real savior and the best Luna that this pack had ever had. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t have any Luna because I would never marry Lori. Not in a million years I could ever replace my Emerald Queen.
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The next day, I went up to the meeting early in the morning. Every Alpha that came were all livid. Some had to give their daughters up as peace offerings, while the others died. There were only two people who gave their Lunas up, but I knew the reason why because their Lunas meant nothing to both of them. The worst of them was Cruz because he caused this war. As soon as I saw that man, I immediately rushed at him as I started to hit him. After all, I was enraged.
“You f uck ing ba ta rd!” I yelled at him as I pinned him down to punch him on the ground.
I told him angrily, “Thanks to you, my Zora is gone!”
Clearly, I could feel my anger burning through my body.
“Get off of him, Casey. You still won’t solve the problem by doing this.” someone said to me which I could hear, but I didn’t care anymore.
I eventually let him go as I shouted profanities at the jerk Cruz.
Yet, the man yelled back at me, “I didn’t do anything!”
“Like everyone, I was also shocked when they attacked us. They told me that I messed with the western border which was their territory now, but I didn’t do it. Those Northerners told me that I called the Dark Lord Alpha out, but I swore to you that I never did that. I could never do that. I had no idea how they linked it to me. You’ve got to trust me, Casey,” Cruz reasoned with me, but I didn’t trust him.
“I’ve lost everything now,” I told him as I was crying, thinking of Zora.
I wondered how well she survived as well as what they did to her. Thinking of it made me no longer hold myself anymore. Shepherd quickly hugged me, but I refused to be held down.
Before this sudden attack, I was already broken. However, this sudden attack completely crushed me.
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“That’s easy for you two to take this calmly. You as shole s just wanted to get rid of your Lunas to be able to be with your fated mates, but I didn’t want Zora to get out of my life. I wanted to be with her,” I angrily told them, prompting Shepherd to plead with me to calm myself down.
“We have to get them back,” I frantically told the Alphas.
“We can’t, Casey. Just accept it and move on. That may be the reason why fate sent Lori to you, preparing for this,” Alpha D ick son said that made me growl in frustration at him.
“Don’t you ever mention that f ucking word in front of me! Fate is a nasty word that brings nothing but pain and misfortune as well as destroys my perfect marriage,” I said to him, making him keep his mouth shut.
“The other Alphas, Cruz and Shepherd, had accepted their loss. The rest of us were too. All of us either gave our daughters or sisters. Indeed, it was a very hard choice. Yet, we made that. Don’t you expect us to go to war with that evil man for your Luna’s sake. Don’t you dare to get her back by yourself because you’ll fail and make him mad to all of us. Just forget about her. Zora is a strong woman. I’m sure she’ll survive whatever happens to her in the north,” D icks on tried to reason with me, but I growled again at him.
Now, I felt nothing but confusion and powerlessness.
“Where is that Hardy s on of a b itch that we allied with?” Shepherd then asked Cruz because the latter was the one who introduced us to Hardy.
I remembered that as hole well. He dared to flirt with my wife and openly tried to make out with her on the dance floor right before me. Even though we gave him our respect, he didn’t fulfill his duty.
“Where’s he? It seems that he’s only good at flirting with someone’s wives,” Shepherd continued as he looked at me apologetically.
“No offense to you, Casey, but that jerk was head over heels for your wife
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the last time we saw him. Not only that, he didn’t even feel ashamed about it. He must’ve felt the same about his duty to us,” the man added, but I said nothing because I was too mad to care about it.
“Hardy’s coming here. He told us the South was attacked at the same time, so he needed to defend his region. I’ve sent people there to confirm his excuse,” Cruz clarified, but I didn’t care.
I just walked out of that meeting. That meeting provided no solutions to my problem. If I couldn’t get my Zora back, I didn’t want to fight or make plans with them. Rather, I would just go home to heal my wounds.
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