The Alpha’s Borrowed Luna
Chapter 150
The gardens were breathtaking a riot of colors and scents that seemed almost impossibly perfect. Winding paths led through carefully tended beds of flowers, many of which I’d never seen before. The afternoon sunlight filtered through the leaves of ancient trees, casting dappled shadows across stone benches and bubbling fountains.
“This is beautiful,” I breathed, turning in a slow circle to take it all in “I can’t believe I haven’t been here before.”
“It’s one of the pack’s best–kept secrets,” Frost replied, his earlier tension easing as we walked deeper into this haven. ‘Alaric didn’t care much for it, but Ophelia loved gardening. She spent hours here when she was trying to escape him.”
We had just rounded a particularly lush section of the garden when a familiar figure stepped onto the path ahead of us. Lysandra’s blue hair gleamed in the sunlight, her posture straightening as she spotted us.
“Beta, ‘Queen‘, greetings,” she said, her tone carefully neutral.
“How are you doing, Commander Lysandra?” I replied, equally formal
“Very well, I had actually wanted to see you.” Something in her expression set me on edge–a nervousness I’d never seen in her before.
“I might not be able to say this next time.” She glanced around, as if ensuring we were alone in this section of the garden
would have wanted to speak to you ‘alone‘, actually…” Her gaze flicked to Frost, who had tensed beside me.
“No,” I said firmly. “Whatever you have to say to me, you can say to him too.”
“I don’t know… how the beta would react to this.” Her uncharacteristic hesitation only heightened my concern.
“Well, he is staying here.” I crossed my arms, making it clear this wasn’t negotiable.
“Okay, whatever happens…” She took a deep breath, squaring her shoulders. “You know about the attack some months ago; those offenders I think they had all been in black cloaks, and they broke into your room when you were alone.”
“Yes, I think I could vividly remember that and also how they had been massacred by Kaius.”
“I had been able to alert the beta and the alpha on time because… I had orchestrated it all.” The words fell like stones between us.
“What?” I stared at her, certain I’d misheard.
“I had felt threatened by your presence, you were going to swoop in, out of nowhere and take a position I had long prepared for, and so I thought maybe with you out of the way…” Her voice trailed off, but the implication was clear.
Before could respond, I heard the distinct sound of a gun being cocked. Frost had drawn his weapon so quickly I hadn’t even seen him move, the barrel now pointed directly at Lysandra’s head.
“Frost, please drop the gun.” My voice sounded distant to my own ears, shock still reverberating through me.
“No.” His voice was cold, deadly in its certainty.
“But after some further thoughts… I noticed how stupid that was, and so I called it off, but they had been so willing, they wanted to go on with this plan, with or without me; I didn’t let them know that I was no longer a part of it, just so I could notify Alpha Kaius on time.”
“You know what I think?” Frost questioned, and before she could answer, he continued. “I think you would have gone through with
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it, then you saw how dangerous it could be; you would have been discovered as the culprit, so you tried stopping it, but they were already riled
up,
and so you came up with yet another plan, to win the Alpha’s favour–or to be noticed, so you played along, and at the end, you turned against them when they least expected it and was seen as the hero. Did I get that right?”
“But…”
“I asked you a question; did I get that right?”
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