*****Erika''s POV*****


    "What would you like to drink?" We were seated at the round table in the meeting


    room.


    I had chosen that over the throne and sofa in the big room that could easily hold fifty to sixty persons. Every part of this mansion was big and luxurious.


    "No I''m good." He opposed.


    "I like to offer my guests something to wet their throat, especially if they havee a long way to see me. So please, allow me do this, Alpha Robertson." I insisted, wearing my formal smile.


    He looked from me to Kat as though he was wondering why she was seated beside me. What was he expecting? For just the both of us to be locked in a room? And do what? Kiss and make up?


    If that was what he was here for, then he had a long thinging for him. I was no longer that Erika of Moon Forest, that girl was long gone. This was Erika of Iron w and I was in my territory.


    "Alright, if you insist." He nodded.


    "Thank you." I nodded too. I turned to the maid who had been patiently standing beside me waiting for his response. "Go get him a cup of...is coffee good? Or you need something strong?" I knew he liked to drink whiskey but I was no longer his wife to decide those choices for him.


    I would not assume a position I had been chased from. Humiliated and embarrassed beyond my imagination. I willed those memories away.


    "Whiskey is fine, if you''re not bothered by it." He said.


    I frowned a bit. Why would I be bothered by his choice of drink? He meant nothing


    to me, we were nothing to each other...not anymore. The bond had been


    dissolved and the marriage annulled.


    "No, Alpha. You''re free." I turned to the maid. "Bring him a decanter of whiskey and a ss."


    "Yes, Alpha." The maid bowed.


    Out of the corner of my eyes, I noticed Alexander''s brows slightly raised in shock over the mention of Alpha the maid had called me. He was still finding it hard to believe over the fact I was being called Alpha.


    "Get us a bottle of wine and two sses, please." Kat told the maid. "Tell another maid to help you with the trays and drinks."


    "Yes, My Lady." She bowed and went away to do as she had been instructed.


    "So, what brings you to my pack, Alpha Robertson?" I fixed my stare on him, waiting his reaction when I called this pack mine.


    "Uhmm. I..." He looked lost for awhile.


    I wanted tough but I held myself. That would had been un-Alpha of me — if that was even a word - and I did not want to look that way to him. I wanted to keep my aura, and let him sniff the authority and power that was oozing off of me.


    "Please, I''d suggest you speak up as I have some other important duties to attend to." I was proud of myself in that moment. The tone had been firm and powerful.


    The maid came In then with one other maid. They reached our side and dropped the ss and decanter of whiskey before him. She poured whiskey in his ss and left the decanter covered. The other maid was carrying our own tray of wine and two sses, she dropped it before us - Kat and I. She also uncorked the bottle and filled our sses.


    They bowed and took their leave after asking if there was another thing we


    wanted to which we replied negative.


    "So Alpha, please let us get on to the business why you''re here." I took a small sip


    of my drink and dropped it, meeting his own gaze.


    Was he looking ufortable? Why did he look to me that way?


    "Alright, there''s trouble." He began.


    I frowned, my gaze met Kat who shrugged cluelessly. "What sort of trouble, Alpha Robertson?"


    "Uhm. Moon Forest are undergoing an attack at the moment, and we need help.”


    "Moon Forest, is the third biggest and strongest pack, what pack are you finding too hard to get victory over? I mean, it''s quite ludicrous if you ask me. Is your security down and weak?" I was taunting him and I guessed he knew it, which was why his face fell shamefully for a


    moment before heposed himself again.


    He cleared his throat. "I would like to say Moon Forest have held their own fort but


    we are up against an enemy that have decided to fight dirty even though we are trying to win this battle without going dirty."


    "Well, there is nothing clean about war. To win, you have to do anything within your power to win. If your enemies are going dirty, you go dirty." I told him.


    When did Alexander begin to think this calm.


    He was ruthless when I knew him and I would not think he would be this scared of engaging in a war. What had changed? Was there something he was not telling me? I could feel his fear, as though he was desperate to be rid of this chaos he was experiencing his pack.


    "Yes, I know Erika..."


    I raised a brow. "It''s Alpha ckwood. Pay me the same respect I''ve been paying


    to you."


    "Sorry, Alpha ckwood." He corrected.


    "Thank you. So, what exactly do you need me to do for you concerning this war?"


    I asked again.


    "I need your help." He stated.


    Almighty Alexander needed help?


    Wonderful! How the tables had


    turned. He would never have


    believed it if he was ever told that he woulde back to me to ask for


    help. Well, he technically was not aware he was going to meet me but


    now that he had, there was no


    choice for him.


    "I do not know how you rule your pack but I have a rule." I informed him.


    "What rule?"


    "I do not help packs that are troublesome. So, Alpha Robertson, if you have started this war, then I can not help you."