Chapter 4

Jason's POV A week after I killed the Luna, I decided I would try my luck with the alpha, he would be expecting me to lay low for a while after what I had done, so this was the perfect time. I had spent the last week watching from a distance as the royal pack mourned their loses and even though I felt bad for the rest of the pack's families, Blake reminded me that with war there are always going to be casualties. The rogues I joined had set up camp about five miles away in a cave that seemed to go on forever with a few tunnels underground. The tunnels were used so that they could travel to certain areas without other wolves catching their scent. It turns out they had been there for quite a while, and we never knew about them. We decided it would be best for me to face the Alpha by myself as the stench that they had would give their positions away immediately. I allowed myself to be seen by a guard near the lake knowing that Alpha William would want to personally kill me. "HAHA he will not be expecting this to be how he dies" my wolf Blake roared in my head pacing with anticipation. "Shut up mutt, we cannot start getting cocky that's how we will fail" though he was right, the alpha would defiantly not be expecting this. As Alpha William showed himself, I began to taunt him about Vanessa knowing it would have the reaction I wanted, I needed him to attack me for this to work. "Your Luna claimed to be a descendant of the moon goddess and yet I ended her life with ease. She didn't even try to fight me. She was weak, a pitiful excuse for a Luna and a disgrace to the Moon Goddess" "You didn't give her a fucking chance though did you Jason, what kind of coward attacks their Luna with a wolfsbane laced silver knife then attempts to murder a fucking child. MY CHILD. If you thought of her as weak you would have attacked her in wolf form, you traitorous bastard" "Vanessa and her wolf wouldn't have stood a chance not against Blake, she hadn't trained since she gave birth to your brat" "That's where you are wrong Jason. Being a mother only made her stronger. You were too busy planning my downfall to register that. And as for diamond she would have ripped you apart without batting an eye, they were strong and feirce. She never once used all her strength she never needed to and when she did need to her chance was taken away by a coward. By you!" "Well at least you got to say goodbye to her, you won't get the chance to say goodbye to your daughter. How does it feel to know her life will also end at my hands and before she even gains her wolf Hahahaha" I knew I had angered him as the vein in the centre of his forehead begun to pulsate. As he shifted into his wolf I stayed in my human form. Maximus was a huge wolf bigger than any other alpha wolf being as he was the king of our kind. His fur was a deep black resembling the midnight sky. His eyes a bright shade of red starring right at me. "SHIFT and fight me you coward?" Roared Maximus trying to force his Alpha command over me and all I could do was laugh. I had renounced my place in this pack and had a witch cast a spell preventing any commands working. This disrespect just pushed him over the edge and as he lunged at me, I drew a silver knife laced with wolfsbane and poison then stuck it into his side. He would die the same death his precious Luna had, slow and painful. Maximus howled alerting the rest of the pack he needed help. Before I had time to strike again Maximus slammed me into tree not registering how serious his wound was. I knew that the silver and wolfsbane wouldn't be enough to take him down which is exactly why it had been mixed with a rare kind of poison. I didn't know the name of it as one of the rogues had gotten it telling me it would take even the alpha king down, another gift from our witch. As he lunged for me a second time, I rolled to the side stabbing him again but this time I plunged it into his leg. I watched as he slumped to the ground with a sickening thud, his jaw slacking and legs wobbling as he tried to stand. "There I thought one stab would have done it with his weakened state from losing his Luna" Blake was impressed by how long William was able to withstand the poison. "Blake, I told you we couldn't underestimate him. His blood is strong that's why he was the king in the first place". Knowing alpha William wouldn't recover from this I stabbed him again in the back and before I turned away, I gave him some parting words. "Once I find your daughter your bloodline will cease to exist" And with a smirk etched onto my face I walked away leaving my once best friend to die. Sixteen years later…… Marie's POV It had been nearly sixteen years since Jason and the rogues had attacked the royal pack resulting in the death of Luna Vanessa. When I left with Angel I ran until I couldn't run anymore, my throat burning as I struggled to breathe. I should have taken one of the SUVs that were in the garage but there just wasn't enough time. Jason had followed us into the forest, but my stealth skills were much better than his tracking and so I was able to lose him. After making sure we weren't being followed anymore, I mind linked Nick to tell him we had escaped. Alpha William decided I should take Angel to the Moonlight Pack as the alpha there at the time had been a good friend of his dads, and it would be safe for us to reside in their territory. I made my way into the local village securing a vehicle and made our way to Alpha John knowing he was expecting us. It would be a long drive but if I was to have run in my wolf form it would have taken a lot longer especially as I had a pup to carry. The moonlight pack was a good 8 hours' drive from the royal pack, situated on the edge of a small town backing onto the mountains but surrounded by forest. It was the perfect place to hide out, not even the humans ventured out this far. We didn't stay in their pack house even though they had offered, instead choosing to stay in one of the houses on the edge of their territory. This way if we were ever found out it would make getting away a lot easier, the pack house being the first place they'd likely look. Like the royal pack many of the wolves from here had jobs in the town as well as in the pack house. Nick found us about a month later and we raised Angel together. He took a job in the town working as a car mechanic to avoid suspicion and I became a stay-at-home mum. You see being the gamma of the royal pack, Nick earned a lot more than the average wolf and technically didn't need to work. But as we didn't want everyone knowing where we were from it's what we had to do. The only person that new who we were was Alpha John, he took our secret to the grave not even telling his son Jake. Angel knew who her parents were, we made sure of that. They were the most amazing people in the world and deserved to be remembered. She also knew that she was the sole heir to the royal pack, but we had warned her not to share that information with anyone as if shared with the wrong person it could lead to the wrong people finding her. Angel began to look more like her mother every day, her hair long and curly, as yellow as the sun and eyes bright like the ocean. She was beautiful. However, she inherited her dads short temper and attitude but also his kindness and the heart to help anyone no matter who they were, she certainly had the makings of a good Luna and would make her parents proud. Angel had gotten her wolf Star at the age of ten which was a traumatic experience for her, although this was a lot earlier than normal wolf, she handled it well. We put it down to the fact she had the blood of the moon goddess as her mother was a direct descendant.