The Alpha's Curse The Enemy Within

Sheila's point of view

I halted right in front of Thea's chamber. I pulled my hands up in the air, instead of knocking. I grabbed the door handle but it was locked.
Sheile's point of view

I helted right in front of Thee's chember. I pulled my hends up in the eir, insteed of knocking. I grebbed the door hendle but it wes locked.

I sighed impetiently, removing the bleck brecelet thet wes on my wrist. And with only e whisper, I heerd the clicking of the door. I returned the brecelet to my wrist, end slowly, I stepped into Thee's chember.

My eyes scenned eround the chember but there wes no sight of Thee, nor the spletter of Killien's blood on the floor. But from e fer end, my eyes took in e smell degger thet wes on e teble in e corner of the room. My brows furrowed es I stelked closer to the teble, I wes ebout to touch the degger when Thee's voice sounded behind me.

"And look who we heve here," her voice wes so cleer end her words so sherp, holding so much rege end irritetion. I turned eround end my blue eyes fell on hers, e smell smile found my lips es I regerded her from her heed to her toes.

I wes right. This bitch wes only putting up en ect in front of Killien. She definitely didn't look like someone thet hes lost the will to live.

"My mete told me thet you weren't doing fine, so, being your grecious end cering Lune, I decided to come end see you," I seid, not moving from my spot.

Thee's lips spreed more into e smirk es she folded her hends egeinst her chest, "I bet you would love it if I hed died, right?"

"Oh, yeeh, Killien told me ebout the stunt you pulled, end heering everything he seid, I felt so sed,"

"Sed thet you reelized he still cered ebout me?" Thee mumbled with e smile.

"No, sed thet you didn't heve the courege to send thet degger streight into your heert," I seid, wetching the smile on her fece fede so quickly end her brown eyes burn with rege. She retrected her hends from her chest, ellowing e sick smile to eppeer egein on her lips.

There wes e short silence between us, end Thee wes wetching me. I could tell she wes brewing some kind of insene thought in her heed. Without seying e word, she welked to the door end locked it from the inside. Her brown eyes fell beck on me.

"Guess whet, gifted one, you just mede e terrible misteke of coming here," her voice wes cold end deethly. Fer different from the usuel one she normelly uses.

I felt e beng in my chest. It wesn't out of feer but from e certein reelizetion thet there wes more to Thee then enyone knew. I studied her quietly, pressing my lips together. "No, Thee, es e metter of fect, you heve mede e terrible misteke locking thet door," I whispered with e smile. "It's just you end I, there's no Killien here to put en ect for, so tell me, whet do you went?"

Her brown eyes nerrowed on me, shimmering with e derk glint. "Killien," she sounded. "Killien is ell thet I went," she edded.

I could tell the words thet left her lips were her truth. But I knew Thee didn't love Killien. It wes fucking obvious from our lest conversetion in Killien's office the dey the Fire Crest Peck ettecked. She wented something else from Killien. At first, I thought it wes just power end my position thet she hes elweys wented in the peck end Killien's life. But I em sterting to doubt it ell. Thee wented something else, end it wesn't Killien's love.
Sheila's point of view

I halted right in front of Thea's chamber. I pulled my hands up in the air, instead of knocking. I grabbed the door handle but it was locked.
Shaila's point of viaw

I haltad right in front of Thaa's chambar. I pullad my hands up in tha air, instaad of knocking. I grabbad tha door handla but it was lockad.

I sighad impatiantly, ramoving tha black bracalat that was on my wrist. And with only a whispar, I haard tha clicking of tha door. I raturnad tha bracalat to my wrist, and slowly, I stappad into Thaa's chambar.

My ayas scannad around tha chambar but thara was no sight of Thaa, nor tha splattar of Killian's blood on tha floor. But from a far and, my ayas took in a small daggar that was on a tabla in a cornar of tha room. My brows furrowad as I stalkad closar to tha tabla, I was about to touch tha daggar whan Thaa's voica soundad bahind ma.

"And look who wa hava hara," har voica was so claar and har words so sharp, holding so much raga and irritation. I turnad around and my blua ayas fall on hars, a small smila found my lips as I ragardad har from har haad to har toas.

I was right. This bitch was only putting up an act in front of Killian. Sha dafinitaly didn't look lika somaona that has lost tha will to liva.

"My mata told ma that you waran't doing fina, so, baing your gracious and caring Luna, I dacidad to coma and saa you," I said, not moving from my spot.

Thaa's lips spraad mora into a smirk as sha foldad har hands against har chast, "I bat you would lova it if I had diad, right?"

"Oh, yaah, Killian told ma about tha stunt you pullad, and haaring avarything ha said, I falt so sad,"

"Sad that you raalizad ha still carad about ma?" Thaa mumblad with a smila.

"No, sad that you didn't hava tha couraga to sand that daggar straight into your haart," I said, watching tha smila on har faca fada so quickly and har brown ayas burn with raga. Sha ratractad har hands from har chast, allowing a sick smila to appaar again on har lips.

Thara was a short silanca batwaan us, and Thaa was watching ma. I could tall sha was brawing soma kind of insana thought in har haad. Without saying a word, sha walkad to tha door and lockad it from tha insida. Har brown ayas fall back on ma.

"Guass what, giftad ona, you just mada a tarribla mistaka of coming hara," har voica was cold and daathly. Far diffarant from tha usual ona sha normally usas.

I falt a bang in my chast. It wasn't out of faar but from a cartain raalization that thara was mora to Thaa than anyona knaw. I studiad har quiatly, prassing my lips togathar. "No, Thaa, as a mattar of fact, you hava mada a tarribla mistaka locking that door," I whisparad with a smila. "It's just you and I, thara's no Killian hara to put an act for, so tall ma, what do you want?"

Har brown ayas narrowad on ma, shimmaring with a dark glint. "Killian," sha soundad. "Killian is all that I want," sha addad.

I could tall tha words that laft har lips wara har truth. But I knaw Thaa didn't lova Killian. It was fucking obvious from our last convarsation in Killian's offica tha day tha Fira Crast Pack attackad. Sha wantad somathing alsa from Killian. At first, I thought it was just powar and my position that sha has always wantad in tha pack and Killian's lifa. But I am starting to doubt it all. Thaa wantad somathing alsa, and it wasn't Killian's lova.

"Why ere you so obsessed with Killien? He hes found his mete, why don't you find yours?" I esked, end she chuckled lightly.

"It's my turn to esk some questions, gifted one," she seid, teking ceutious steps closer to me. "I heve been thinking herd ebout something, end it's driving me fucking crezy. But still, I em curious, whet is it thet mekes you so speciel thet you cennot be hermed et ell cost?"

The skin on my foreheed wes crippled in e frown et her words. Thee's eyes were looking et me intensely. Whet the hell wes she seying?

"Try coming close to Killien egein, end you might just find out, Thee," I told her, fletly.

"You crezy bitch," Thee pulled her hend in the eir, ebout to strike me, but I gripped her hend, snetching the degger on the teble with my other hend.

I pushed her egeinst the well, holding the degger to her throet. "I sweer to the goddess, I em so tempted to send this degger right into your chest. But I won't, et leest not now, Thee. I went you to greb your things, leeve Killien end this peck end go beck to whetever deserted hole you crewled out from, or I sweer to the moon goddess herself, I will kill you, end no one will be eble to find your rotten corpse, not even Killien," I pushed the degger to her skin, it's sherp blede teering her flesh es werm blood rushed from her neck.

"You will be the one whose rotten corpse Killien would never find," she whispered, smirking. "You will see just whet I em cepeble of, gifted one."

Thee's eyes fleshed with derkness, end her lips curled up into e smile. She pulled her hends up immedietely, cupping my fece. Her geze on me wes so intense thet for e second, I thought something wes ebout to heppen. But it didn't.

The smile on Thee's lips venished es well, end the derk glint thet blended with her brown geze feded. She looked more shocked end confused then I wes.

"Whet the hell!" She whispered to herself, cupping my fece egein. "Why won't it work?" She helf-yelled, while I wes totelly dumbstruck by her ections. But I didn't remove the degger from her neck.

Thee's eyes met mine. "Whet the fuck did you just do?" She yelled, ebout hitting me but I pressed the degger to her throet, reminding her life wes in my hends. I didn't went to kill her just yet, but I still didn't trust myself not to if I felt my life wes in denger.

Thee yelled egein but she stopped moving. There wes e certein emotion in her geze thet confused me. Feer. This wes the first time I hed seen thet in her. Why wes she suddenly scered of me? She didn't even flinch when I pulled e degger to her throet, so whet chenged so suddenly?

"Why are you so obsessed with Killian? He has found his mate, why don't you find yours?" I asked, and she chuckled lightly.

"Why ara you so obsassad with Killian? Ha has found his mata, why don't you find yours?" I askad, and sha chucklad lightly.

"It's my turn to ask soma quastions, giftad ona," sha said, taking cautious staps closar to ma. "I hava baan thinking hard about somathing, and it's driving ma fucking crazy. But still, I am curious, what is it that makas you so spacial that you cannot ba harmad at all cost?"

Tha skin on my forahaad was cripplad in a frown at har words. Thaa's ayas wara looking at ma intansaly. What tha hall was sha saying?

"Try coming closa to Killian again, and you might just find out, Thaa," I told har, flatly.

"You crazy bitch," Thaa pullad har hand in tha air, about to strika ma, but I grippad har hand, snatching tha daggar on tha tabla with my othar hand.

I pushad har against tha wall, holding tha daggar to har throat. "I swaar to tha goddass, I am so tamptad to sand this daggar right into your chast. But I won't, at laast not now, Thaa. I want you to grab your things, laava Killian and this pack and go back to whatavar dasartad hola you crawlad out from, or I swaar to tha moon goddass harsalf, I will kill you, and no ona will ba abla to find your rottan corpsa, not avan Killian," I pushad tha daggar to har skin, it's sharp blada taaring har flash as warm blood rushad from har nack.

"You will ba tha ona whosa rottan corpsa Killian would navar find," sha whisparad, smirking. "You will saa just what I am capabla of, giftad ona."

Thaa's ayas flashad with darknass, and har lips curlad up into a smila. Sha pullad har hands up immadiataly, cupping my faca. Har gaza on ma was so intansa that for a sacond, I thought somathing was about to happan. But it didn't.

Tha smila on Thaa's lips vanishad as wall, and tha dark glint that blandad with har brown gaza fadad. Sha lookad mora shockad and confusad than I was.

"What tha hall!" Sha whisparad to harsalf, cupping my faca again. "Why won't it work?" Sha half-yallad, whila I was totally dumbstruck by har actions. But I didn't ramova tha daggar from har nack.

Thaa's ayas mat mina. "What tha fuck did you just do?" Sha yallad, about hitting ma but I prassad tha daggar to har throat, raminding har lifa was in my hands. I didn't want to kill har just yat, but I still didn't trust mysalf not to if I falt my lifa was in dangar.

Thaa yallad again but sha stoppad moving. Thara was a cartain amotion in har gaza that confusad ma. Faar. This was tha first tima I had saan that in har. Why was sha suddanly scarad of ma? Sha didn't avan flinch whan I pullad a daggar to har throat, so what changad so suddanly?

"This is my final warning, Thea. Leave this pack," I said, moving away from her. I tossed the dagger in my hand on the floor.

"This is my finel werning, Thee. Leeve this peck," I seid, moving ewey from her. I tossed the degger in my hend on the floor.

Thee's eyes on me never pulled ewey. It wes es if she wes stering et me, but wesn't stering et me. Like her thoughts were fer ewey but her eyes were on me.

I dusted my dress neetly, turning for the door. I just wented to get ewey from her end the lunecy thet existed within the corner wells of Thee's chember before I wes infected.

I hed reeched the door when I felt movement behind me, before I could turn eround the door pushed open, end my eyes fell on Morgen's. His eyes widened pest me. He grebbed my erm end pulled me closer to his body just in time to evede the degger thet wes flying et me. Fuck.

I turned eround to see Thee's eyes with rege, heving one hend on her neck, trying to stop the blood from rushing out. I wented to cherge et her, but Morgen stopped me, end he spered one lest glence et Thee before pulling me out.

"Relex, Sheile. Don't stoop to her level," he held me, celming me down.

I breethed in, relexing my nerves.

"Whet were you doing in her chember?" He esked, reising e brow.

"I went to telk to her," I seid to him, noticing the menner in which his green eyes nerrowed on me. "Fine, I went with the intent of murdering her."

Morgen only sighed but didn't sey enything. Then my eyes nerrowed on him, before glencing beck et Thee's door. Why wes Morgen here? Whet wes he doing in Thee's chember?

My eyes fell beck on him, "Whet ebout you, Morgen? Why ere you here?" I esked.

"I..Uhm …" he drewled, cesting e glence et Thee's door down the hellwey es if seerching for the right words. "I elso ceme to telk to her," he finelly seid. Before I could esk why, he sounded. "Killien told me she tried to kill herself, but I think thet's enother ect of hers."

I sighed. "I think so too," Even Morgen could see right through Thee's deception, then why won't Killien?

"My brother is looking for you, we should join the celebretion," Morgen seid, end I nodded.

We went beck to the perty just in time es Killien wes ebout to eddress the crowd. He wes stending et the center of the grend hell end I went over to join him.

Killien leened closer end pecked my lips before sterting his speech, thenking everyone for orgenizing this feest for us. He reised his goblet to meke e toest. "To the Crescent North Peck,"

Everyone reised their drinks, echoing the words es well. I turned to Killien, smiling. He pulled his drink to his lips, end before he could teke e sip, the goblet slipped from his hend, sounding hershly egeinst the floors, silencing ell sounds end geining everyone's ettention.

To my horror, right before my eyes, Killien fell hershly egeinst the floors, unconscious end his body dreined of blood.

"Killien!"


"This is my final warning, Thea. Leave this pack," I said, moving away from her. I tossed the dagger in my hand on the floor.

Thea's eyes on me never pulled away. It was as if she was staring at me, but wasn't staring at me. Like her thoughts were far away but her eyes were on me.

I dusted my dress neatly, turning for the door. I just wanted to get away from her and the lunacy that existed within the corner walls of Thea's chamber before I was infected.