Chapter 23

Darius

“It’s good to see you again, Beta Charles,” I walked into the room where he was being held and I found him meditating. Hel was in a yoga posture with his eyes closed. He looked too calm and collected for me. That wasn’t the state I wanted him to be. I wanted him to see him weak, crumbled, and maybe, almost dead. That would’ve satisfied me more.

“I knew you were behind my arrest, Alpha Darius,” He snickered. He straightened his back and stood up to face me.

I shrugged. “Who else could get the beta of a f*cking pack arrested? You’re lucky I asked my men to not touch you,”

He smirked. “Your men are a bunch of barbarians. I won’t stop fighting for them to leave this pack and return to the monster’s den you created back at your pack. Legally, you don’t even have the right to rule this pack,”

I clicked my tongue. “I came here to have a civil conversation with you but as usual, you think you should be the Alpha of this pack and you’re trying so hard to push that st*pid narrative on the people of this pack.”

ne more step

He snarled and lurked towards me but stopped a few feet away from me. I could almost beg him to take just one towards me so I could finally find the chance to turn him into a punching bag and satisfy the voices in my head.

“Because they deserve to know the truth,”

“What truth? That I’m my father’s illegitimate son or that my father left a will where he stated that I must never be allowed to rule this pack. Which one of these two aren’t already known?”

“The truth about the monsters in your head. The ones that control you and made you kill both your wife and your mother

He was the one speaking but I felt the bitter taste of those words in my mouth. I have thousands of secrets, one that if it ever came out, the world would unite to get rid of a being like me.

“And?” I asked, waiting to hear more from him.

illing both of them.”

across his eyes, “You

like you said, my mother and my wife, not yours so whatever happened to them is none of your business. You right to talk about them and you deserve

he stopped talking and looked away towards the wall as

“You’re a monster, Darius,”

thought you’ve known that fact for a while. The scar

I taught him years ago never to mess with Darius Darkwood

done, they would hate you and would kill

hate me and they already want

your father would roll in his grave

pieces of his body, how then will he roll?” I laughed. Again and again at my dark humor while horror plastered on his

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you broke a vow you

raised an eyebrow, having already forgotten what he said back then.

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remind you? Fine! You made a vow never to go near Angela again in this lifetime and the next or else I should behead

eyes widened as he began recollecting

years ago, shortly after my wife’s death, Daisy told me her brother would be visiting the pack and I allowed it. Unfortunately, he turned out to be the scrawny boy I always saw with Angela. Once he saw me, he lunged at me, trying to get killed for

lost had to promise not to go after Angela ever again. Since Charles saw it as an opportunity to get rid of me. he accepted without a complaint. One fact he didn’t know

on his face so he

say anything about Nibbles

spell out the punishment or should I carry it out?” I

turned white and I could swear I saw his hands trembling. Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead and he kept on staring at me as if he had just

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