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


    "What''s the meaning of this?" Kat asked as her hands holding the letter trembled.


    "Tasyra is about to be killed, that''s the meaning." Pa gave an answer and I dragged in a breath. Kat covered her lips with a hand in shock.


    "Who sent this?" She asked and this time I gave her an answer. "The guards brought it in and said that someone delivered it to me."


    "Who is that guard? Call him here Rika." I gave her a narrowed look and she nodded.


    I took in deep breaths before calling out to the guard.


    "Guards!" A different guard came running in to I and Pa''s surprise.


    "Where is the previous guard?" I asked, taking a seat beside Pa who looked tired already.


    The guard watched me in confusion.


    "Your Highness, I was the only one at the entrance all these while." He replied and I frowned.


    "There was another guard just now who came to deliver this letter to me, saying that someone just gave it to him at the entrance." I exined as we all watched him expectantly. The guard scratched his head and frowned deeply, lines appearing on his forehead.


    "Alpha, I can swear that no one was at the entrance except me. I had been standing there for a very long time and I saw no one walk up with a letter." He replied.


    I turned my gaze to look at the girls,municating with my eyes, asking them if the guard was lying or telling the truth.


    Kat bit her lower lip in confusion before opening her mouth to ask the guard.


    "How long were you on duty?"


    "Mydy, I''ve been standing at the entrance since yesterday morning."


    My head pounded at the results I was gathering up. It couldn''t be, it just has to be a lie.


    Those people couldn''t have infiltrated my pack without me noticing, can they?


    I took in deep breaths again and looked up at the guard.


    "Are you sure you were the only one on duty?"


    He gave a nod and bowed.


    "You may leave." It was Pa this time and the guard walked out of the room.


    "Fuck!!" I cursed, running a hand through my hair in frustration. "How did they get in here without our notice?! This people are so dangerous!" I yelled and slumped on the couch again.


    Pa stood up to face us this time as a frown settled on her face.


    "They infiltrated this pack.... But why? Only to deliver that letter?" She asked us, giving us a knowing look that spoke volumes. Pa had a point, those people wouldn''t have gotten in here to deliver the letter, except.......


    "Melisse!" The three of us shouted simultaneously and immediately sprinted to the direction of the dungeon where Melisse was kept.


    We saw the guards on dutyying on the floor as if dead. My heart dropped to my stomach as fear built in the pit of my stomach. Melisse better be fine. She had he key to finding these people.


    We hurriedly pushed open the door and ran into the dungeon.


    Just as we expected, Melisse was no more there.


    "No!!!" I yelled out even before I could hold it back. Anger, pain, fear, betrayal, all these feeling rose up in me and wed at my heart.


    Why did things have to go the right way one minute and the wrong way the other minute?


    This wasn''t fair!


    The guards and everyone ran out in an instant and seeing the anger sh in my eyes, they all backed away slowly.


    I rushed over to the sleeping guards on the floor and kicked them without mercy.


    The Ironw Pack should have the strongest guards in this entire Fangoria, but these fools had acted like theycked skills.


    I was so mad, so mad that I could punch a wall at this point.


    I kept venting all my anger on the guards and they went scrambling up from the cold floor.


    "What the fuck happened?!" I yelled the moment they all stood before me.


    "Rika, calm down." Pa began to say, but my head snapped in her direction and my gaze darkened.


    "Don''t even tell me to calm down!" yelled, not minding if I sounded rade or hurting her. I was pissed and no one was allowed to speak to me when I was in such a condition.


    I turned my heads to face the guards again.


    "You fools! How in the world did Melisse go missing?!” I asked them, taking a step


    closer and extending a hand to receive the whip handed to me.


    I was being ruthless, and it wasn''t my way of lifestyle. But the fools before me were supposed to guard Melisse and they foolishly lost her to the enemy. Melisse had made me promise to protect her if she gave me little details on the nning from the other people, but after my promise I couldn''t even keep to it.


    They''ve taken her away and would most definitely make her suffer alot.


    They might even kill her! Damn!


    “Alpha, forgive us." Was all they said, riling me up even further with those words.


    They knew exactly what happened and the only exnation they had was an apology?


    What exactly would their apology change? The fact that Melisse was taken away? Or the fact that they provoked me?


    "You morons!" I yelled and without warning, fashed one of them with the whip, not minding if I hurt him or her Dwas just trying to make myself calm down again.  fo


    Unlike Melisse, the guards whimpered instead and didn''t scream. The scream was the satisfaction I needed, but they refused to scream.


    I keptshing them with the whip, waiting for them to scream, but nothing came.


    Just as I lifted the whip one more time tond on one of the guards, I felt armse around me as I froze, the strong arm held the whip as well.


    I looked up at the owner of the strong grip and saw Jace''s pleading face staring back at me...


    "Please stop, Rika."