CHAPTER 1

ALEX’S POV “Let her go, she’s mine.” Diana’s eyes snapped towards me as I tried to make up the expression on her face. It was a look of disbelief and I had expected her to put up a resistance immediately but I saw her eyes snapped again to the retreating back of Ryan. “You want to go with him.” She looked down at her feet as the rest of the men left the Alpha’s room leaving me with a quiet Diana who stood in a long pair of leather trouser and a jacket which was open in the front. She looked different. There was an air of darkness around her but a very harmless one. “Come closer.” She moved without a word and it was starting to get frustrating. “Will you say nothing?” “What are you going to do to him?” Really? The first thing you would be saying to me after three years is that you care about is what I would do to him? “He’s my husband, what do you think?” I began to move closer to her slowly, “What about me after all these years? Do you have nothing to say to me?” “What do you want to hear me say, Alex? That I regretted what happened and wished it never did? What would that change?” “It would change nothing! But I would like to know what happened back there years ago and why you left without even as much as a goodbye to be with someone else. Wait, were you two timing me? Because it wouldn’t have happened all of a sudden if it wasn’t something you had carefully planned. What did you gain from all of this?” She looked down but did not really say anything in response and it was starting to annoy me what she was doing, not responding to me. I grabbed her neck angrily and applied a little pressure. I want to hurt her so badly but I cannot bring myself to do that because I never got over her. All I need is a reason to let this all go but she wasn’t giving me anything to work with. I grabbed her right hand and pulled her outside with me then handed her over to one of my men. “Make her change her clothes and let her work in the pack house as a maid. Treat her like you would treat every other maid here.” I don’t know what I expected but this is annoying me the more I think about it. The Diana I knew would fight back but it looked like life had been drained out of this one. I understood the sense of loss and her husband’s capture but deep down, I want to believe she cannot love him that much to mourn for him. I held a meeting to announce my takeover of the River beak pack. Three years ago, their Alpha had taken away what was mine and now, I am back for it, for her. I made sure Ryan was tortured day and night, he was at my mercy now and I will make sure he regretted ever setting his yes on Diana and I will also make sure he is there when I finally have her again, right where I belong. “Alpha, we have tie up all lose ends but what do you plan to do about Diana?” My Beta, Lucas asked me and I shrugged. “I guess I haven’t decided for now. I am just happy that I have her here for now.” “But you made her a maid, isn’t that a little too harsh for someone you used to love or probably still love?” I knew. I just did not want to admit that her refusal to engage me or give me any reasons for her actions or even beg me to save her annoyed me. More than anything, I want her to beg me on her knees to take her back and maybe even beg me to save her husband even though I will not. “Let’s focus on what to do with the slaves for now and leave her. I will know what to do with her but like I said, treat her like everyone else and make sure she is assigned to my room.” “What plans do you have?” Lucas asked as he raised an eyebrow and I grinned before moving away to watch Diana clean the pack’s compound. Yes, it was not too early to get her to start working at least till she begs me to save her. “I assume you enjoy being a slave than being a Luna.” I said, startling her a little but she soon went back to what she was doing without a word to me. “Are you trying to annoy me on purpose?” “No.” “Then, what are you doing? Don’t you think it is a shameful thing for you to be cleaning?” “No, it is not. I am no longer Luna. I am a slave now and what do slaves do? They do whatever their masters tell them to do.” She is making this so hard. I wonder if she is trying to guilt trip me or something. I rolled my eyes as I leaned against the railings that faced her. “You know there is only one thing for you to do, you just have to say the word.” She did not respond neither did she stop what she was doing. “You won’t ask?” “What?” She didn’t even look up neither did she stop working. “Apologize for the past.”