Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 97

“Deacon POV

I looked over at the city. I’d made a deal with some unsavory partners and they wanted their money a little too soon. I needed them to be taken care of I had the evidence on them and would turn them in but the ones left over would need a little more mortal form of punishment.

I’d gotten my answer when an odorous wolf walked into my den. He promised to take them out and all I had to do was finance a little war for him.

Honestly, did these people not even realize how small their fights were in the grand scheme of things? They had only small parcels of land and lowly income compared to the night of nations around the world they were running around like children compared to the humans.

I wanted a life that would go down in history, not some insignificant title and a wife who couldn’t stand me. I rolled

my eyes.

I had hoped never to think of them again and to go on living my life in peace with them in their bubble. Now it appeared I’d have to dip a toe back into that world.

There was one part of me that thought maybe one day my son would realize the inopportunity in the wolf world and how he may be at the top of the food chain there but that was nothing compared to the jungle of human power. He had no real army at his command and no actual influence on the world around him.

If the humans decided one day to come and bulldoze his pack keep to the ground they could do it within the blink of an eye and he’d be helpless to stop it.

If he was anything like me he’d have realized that by now but sadly he had too much of his mother in him. A stupid woman endlessly prattling on about duty, loyalty, and respect.

He now found himself barreling on all sides for those principles and he would die for it. A shame if you thought about it. I guess he was still young.

I heard he had a son now too. I don’t think I’m a grandfather though no, not in the traditional sense I never played much of a guardian to my child.

I left that garbage pile when the time was right and I left him too. I couldn’t have massed my empire the way I had with him hanging on my neck trying to get approval every single second of the day.

He had been so proud when his wolf appeared young. He didn’t see the downside of being a wolf in a world built by men. I had to teach him that he was nothing and when he refused to learn I realized I had nothing truly to tie me there and it was the most freeing sensation I’d ever experienced.

set down the folder

her but

turned around.

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normally kept her nose out of my business but everyone gets curious when they find out you have a family.

you really have a–son?” She furrowed

the side and the girl

never hear you say anything about a personal life,” she

I was a true

wouldn’t have heard that but I wasn’t and

a son,” I told her. “But he doesn’t talk to me because I abandoned him and

but people tended to see you differently when they knew that

was totally disrespectful, she looked up knowing she

Grace,” I reminded

will never happen again,”

patience for tears” I sneered. If she thought that would

she stopped the incoming

truly wasn’t in the mood to break in

and you being fired will be the least

turned a blind eye to almost half the things I did. If she lost this job

kind of power. The kind that held people’s livelihood by a thread. He could take their

That

power. You need to make those

I picked up the file. Marcus Cathal, an alpha to an average population pack, they

trees had been burnt down in an act of

did know some