Alpha Bane''s POV


    "The maids have been instructed on what to do. They''re carrying out the n as I speak to you," the Alpha King revealed to me as I smiled in delight. "Sincest night, they''ve gone around the entire Castle, relentlessly talking about it and trying to figure out who the mole is amongst the guards."


    "Has there been anyone yet?" I asked, intently gazing at the Alpha King as he sat on his majestic throne.


    "If there have been, we''d have been sitting here with the fool right in front of us, thinking about the best way to teach him a lesson that he''d never forget."


    "That''s if he lives long enough to remember the lesson," I threatened. I was so full of anger for whoever it was as I hated treason with passion. No guard had any right to betray his Pack. It was why I hated the Rogues so much and couldn''t wait toy my hands on them. Luckily for me, I was going, to begin with, that culprit so I could have a feel of what was toe.


    "If I see him here," I warned. "I might be forced to kill him myself with my bare hands!"


    "Let''s take things easy, Alpha Bane. Remember that if he is the mole, then he has leaked information concerning our Pack to someone on the outside. We need to question him first to find out who he''s working for and what he has told them already..."


    "Then I can kill him?"


    "No. Not that. For him to say all of those things, he might need to be promised that he wouldn''t be killed. Perhaps, we could send him to exile or something like that. We need that information more than we need him to lose his life..."


    "We need them both and we can have them," I disagreed. "Nothing stops us from beating the truth out of him. I will make him so terrified that he''d have no choice but to say what he needs to say and then I''ll be rid of him. Such a guard doesn''t deserve to live. If we send him out of this Pack. Who knows if he''d reunite with our enemies and make us regret that mistake?"


    The Alpha King paused a bit and just stared at me. He looked at me like I was some kind of a stranger. He had never seen me that upset and I could understand that. I hadn''t been that upset anywhere close to him.


    "Still, we don''t have to kill him, Alpha Bane. We can keep him locked up until the war is over. Once that happens, we''ll..."


    He was cut short by the entrance of two huge guards who had bald hair. They walked right into the throne room with each man holding one arm of another man, struggling with all of his might to break free from their grasp.


    "Ivan?" The Alpha King yelled, so surprised to see the man.


    I recognized him too. He was a man who was very much trusted in the Pack, especially by the Alpha King, as he always let him have ess to the dungeon very freely.


    "How could you do this?" The Alpha King asked, looking very betrayed.


    I was stunned but I didn''t want to draw any conclusions as there were a lot of reasons why a guard could have been brought to the throne room. He could have been caught in theft or perhaps, disrespected another guard who was of a higher rank.


    "What happened?" I asked the other guards.


    "He fell for the trap, Sir," said the guard by my right-hand side. "The maids caught him panicking and making some strange movements as soon as he heard about the bounty. That is how we knew that he was guilty and so we decided to bring him here."


    I stood from my chair and walked slowly to where they were. Then cing the index finger of my right hand on his jaw, I lifted his head so he could look into my eyes. "Is this true?" I asked him in a very low tone. I needed him to be asfortable as ever while answering the question.


    I could feel him shake as I stared into his eyes. He was very terrified and he couldn''t say a word which seemed to annoy me even more. I saw sweat drop down from his face as his teeth made sounds from rapidly hitting each other. His eyes were so wide too. Yet I didn''t know if his silence was a sign of fear or a show of defiance.


    "I said, is it true that you''re the mole?" I yelled, this time in annoyance as I sought to shoot out my ws and dig them right into his eyes. If he was the spy, then he didn''t deserve to see any more than he deserved to live. Indeed, without his eyes, there was nothing he could see to say to his partners if they did call on him.


    "Ye-Yes," he coughed, a bit unintentionally before squeezing his face to show the seriousness in his words and probably show us that he wasn''t so scared anyway. "It''s true and I don''t regret it one bit. Besides, I didn''t kill anyone nor did I cause any harm to anyone in the Pack. I simply let Princess Sophia escape because she was being unjustly held captive. I did what I did to protect the woman that I love."


    Everyone in the room gasped. I turned to the Alpha King whose jaw immediately dropped. That was unexpected. Who could have known that Sophia could go as low as being with a guard?


    I was so full of fury at his words and I immediately spat on his face in disgust and then without thinking twice, I hit him flush on the face as hard as I could, forcing him to cough with blood spilling from his mouth.


    Aurora''s POV


    As I walked down the hallway, on my way to the garden to spend some time there alone, I saw a few maids walking and chattering.


    It had been so long since I was in the garden and so I thought it wise to just get there and be by myself. I also wanted to say a prayer to the goddess concerning all that I heard from the witch so that I''d be able to do all that she asked of me, seeing that they weren''t the easiest things to do.


    As I walked past a couple of maids, I heard them say something about Alpha Bane and I slowed my movement, so I could hear what they were saying very well.


    I couldn''t. They seemed to have noticed and quickly spoke in low tones. I noticed that the ones that saw me first didn''t speak at all again which made me wonder what they were trying to hide from me and why.


    "Hey, you two. Come here at once," I said to the maids from whom I heard Alpha Bane''s name.


    As soon as they came to me, they bowed their heads and I nodded to acknowledge that their greetings were well received. "What are you people talking about? I heard you both call Alpha Bane''s name. Why?"


    "It''s the culprit, my Princess," one of them immediately answered. "The culprit has been caught. He was caught by some maids and a few guards after he fell for the trap set by the Alpha King and Alpha Bane."


    "Who is he and where is he now?" I asked, musing that I never got to hear things until they were toote. It was a frequent urrence that wasn''t pleasant to me at


    all.


    "He''s currently in the throne room. The guards led him there not so long ago. The culprit is..."


    I immediately left them and began to walk toward the throne room. It was no use hearing his name when I could see him for myself. I had no time to waste and luckily for me, Anna, walked out of her room and I asked her to walk with me to the throne room.


    As I got into the room, I saw a very enraged Alpha Bane, hitting a man with his fist over and over again, even though he was already bloodied.


    He had gotten the man to the floor and climbed on top of him, freely swinging his fists very wildly as theynded on the man''s face.


    The man''s screams were very faint. He might have been so weak after such an onught. "You need to calm down, Alpha Bane. Stop it. You can''t kill the man. We need him to give us the information that we need," my father pleaded with him but he wouldn''t listen.


    I put my hands over my ears and screamed as much as I could. He turned to see who it was and our eyes locked. Just then, I remembered the witch''s prophecy about Alpha Bane and how he was going to change and be much more aggressive. His eyes were so red.