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    “Please forgive me, Alpha Lucien. It was all a misunderstanding, I swear it was. Please-please forgive me!”


    I watched as the Alpha of Bloodthorn, the second strongest pack, a man my father’s age, one who once wore his pride like a crown fell to his knees. His head pressed to the floor, his body trembling as he begged.


    Begged for his life. For his pack. For everything he’d ever loved.


    Lucas.


    A greedy bastard.


    I regarded him with cold, unflinching eyes, the smoke from my cigar curlingzily in the air as I brought it to my lips. My expression remained impassive-bored, even as I sat in my chair, my brothers by my sides.


    ude and Ss.


    Each wearing different expressions.


    ude looked confused at the situation yet interested, amused as he stared down at Lucas, his feet propped on the desk, eyes glinting with mischief, lips curved into azy smirk.


    Ss, on the other hand, already knew about the situation, about the call yesterday, and barely spared the scene a nce. With a book in hand, he read-calm, detached, like he always did.


    The air in the study was heavy and thick with silence, broken only by the slow ticking of the clock on the wall, each tick sounding like a countdown.


    Seconds dragged on.


    But instead of answering, I brought the cigar back to my lips for a second time, inhaled deeply, then let the smoke curl and fade into the tense air.


    When Lucas realized no one would speak, he lifted his head slightly, met my gaze with terror in his eyes and tried again, his voice cracking as he pleaded, tried to exin, tried to lie.


    “Alpha Lucien, please forgive me. I really wasn’t the one who said those words yesterday, my beta said them by himself. I am innocent. I would never say something like that.”


    He spoke as his body broke out in sweat, gray hair clinging to his forehead. He looked up at me in desperation, but my expression didn’t change.


    I stared down at him with an unreadable gaze and began to drum my fingers slowly on the desk, a habit I used whenever I wanted to think, to strategize. Only today the thoughts were of how I would make him suffer. 1


    My eyeszily traced his trembling form. My head tilted as blew out another plume of smoke, deciding I would take his fingers first.


    Then his toes.


    I’d give him five minutes to recover before starting again, next would be his ears, I would cut it off then I’d sh his chest with my ws, leave him barely alive, barely breathing, and when his cries finally rang loud enough, I would cut out his tongue.


    Thest thing would be his head. I would take it and hang on the borders of the Bloodthorn pack when my brothers and I imed it.


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    The corner of my mouth curled into a humorless smirk as my eyes settled on his neck. Lucas shivered, opening his mouth to speak, but ude beat him to it, an excited glint in his own eyes as they flicked to me.


    “Brother, can you tell me what’s going on? What did the old man do and-“His gaze dropped to the desk and his smirk widened when he saw the open box. “Why is there a tongue in a box? Who does it belong to?”


    He asked, and I didn’t even bother to spare him a nce. Last night, when I was about to exin that we would be iming Lucas’s pack, he’d made the usual excuse, said he was tired, wanted to sleep and ran off to his room.


    The next second Ss, who hadn’t lifted his eyes from his book, spoke in a low, emotionless tone. 1


    “Lucas offended Lucien yesterday by bringing up Father, how he still carries the trauma of watching Verek rip Father’s head from his body and he said he would help fight Verek, but he wants thend we bought, and he hopes we would reconsider making his daughter the Luna of Fangspire. And the tongue in the box…”


    Ss flicked his cold gaze to Lucas, who quickly looked away in fear.


    “It belongs to his beta. Tomorrow, Lucien will kill Lucas and we will take control of his pack.”


    As soon as he said that, his eyes returned to his book and he continued reading, flipping pages without another word.


    Silence fell over the room. For the briefest moment I felt it, a surge in the air, a killing intent from ude directed straight at Lucas.


    He gasped, staring at ude with a terrified expression. After a beat, ude’s lips slowly curved into a smile and, under his breath, he murmured,


    “I see.”


    Lucas lowered his head and cried, “Please forgive me, Alphas! I swear to the goddess it wasn’t me who said those things, it was my beta and-”


    But he never finished.


    ude moved, so fast he was barely even a blur. One second he was leaning back in his chair, the next he’d materialised behind Lucas, hoisted him up and leaned into his shoulder with a sick smile as his nails lengthened into sharp ws, one pressing to Lucas’s throat, digging just enough to draw a thin bead of blood.


    Lucas gasped, eyes widening, his body going rigid with fear


    From his face it was clear he hadn’t even noticed how ude had moved, only that if ude sank that w deeper, he’d die right there.


    “A-Alpha ude-” Lucas stammered, but ude cut him off, never taking his eyes from me, smile fixed and hungry.


    “Brother,” he purred, “can I finish him? I’ll save you the trouble. I never liked him, I’ve wanted to end him for a long time.” His gaze flicked between me and Ss, who didn’t bother to look up from his book as ude continued, “However, you two said there was use for him, but since you don’t seem to need him anymore, how about I do the honor?”


    An unamused scoff escaped me as I brought the cigar to my lips and took a long draw. As I exhaled, Ss flipped the page and spoke without looking up.


    “Should he do it, or do you want to, brother?” Ss asked, is voice t as his eyes followed the words in his book. “If ude does it, he’ll take his time, have his fun with Lucas. He’d probably keep him alive for a week before he ends him. If you do it, you’d grow bored, you’d likely be done in three days. I think ude should do it.”


    ude’s smile deepened. I watched him press an inch of his w into Lucas’s neck, blood welled and Lucas


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    grunted, a high-pitched scream tearing from him.


    “No-no. Please, spare me! I will give you anything you want. It will never happen again! I swear!”


    He pleaded, but I tuned him out and crushed the cigar into the ashtray with slow, deliberate movements.


    Ss was right. ude was a psycho who loved toying with people, torturing them. Unlike me, he never grew bored. To him it was a game, something entertaining which exined why his methods were always unique and vicious.


    Once, he’d given a victim a chance to escape, they had to outrun him and cross the borders of Fangspire. They could change into wolf form to run while he chased them in human form.


    He’d given them hope, and the moment they thought they made it, a second from crossing the border, he’d catch them, drag them back to the dungeon, and begin the torture all over again.


    “Fine. Torture him,” I grunted, eyes on ude. “However, will be the one who puts an end to his life.”


    ude chuckled at that, lifting a perfect brow. Before anyone could react he pushed a second w into Lucas’s neck, not enough to kill, but enough to make him cry out, tears streaking his cheeks. He didn’t dare push ude away, he knew that would only speed his death.


    Smart man.


    “Please spare me,” he gasped, breath ragged, voice breaking between sobs. “If you spare me, I’ll fight. I’ll bring all my men to fight alongside you. I’ll do anything you tell me. I’ll give you my loyalty. I- I was your father’s friend when he was alive, please…”


    ude snorted, blond hair falling over his face as he mused. “And why would we need all that when we could simply take everything from you?” He leaned in close to Lucas’s ear. “Your men. Your life. Your pack.”


    Lucas’s body stiffened and he closed his eyes, then pleaded on. “Y-you need me to fight Verek. You don’t know him, no one’s seen his face but me.” His eyes flicked to me and Ss. “You can’t kill the only man who knows what he looks like, right? I-”


    Ss cut him off. “Release him, ude.”


    I watched as Ss closed the book and set it on the table, his eyes fixed on Lucas. “We will not kill you, at least not for now. But the next time you forget your ce, you will regret it, Lucas. Do you understand?”


    Lucas’s eyes widened and he let out a shaky sigh of relief, nodding despite the obvious pain from ude’s w. “Y -yes, I understand. It won’t happen again!” he wailed.


    Ss continued without missing a beat. “However, in exchange for your life, Fangspire will also acquire thend you bought recently. I heard there’s a gold mine there. We will take it. Do you agree?”


    Lucas’s face went pale, surprised Ss knew about the mine and for a heartbeat he hesitated. ude pressed his nails harder into his neck, Lucas grunted and stammered, “Y-yes! I agree. It will be yours.”


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    The moment he agreed, ude chuckled, slid his ws back, and to my disgust stuck out his tongue, dragged it through the blood on his fingertips, then leaned away with hat slow, satisfied smile as he looked at Ss.


    “A gold mine for his life? Seems like a reasonable trade.”


    Lucas lost his footing and copsed to the floor, clutching is bleeding neck with trembling hands, eyes closed, relieved he was still alive. My gaze flicked to Ss, he watched Lucas with the same empty look he always wore.


    This had been his n from the start.


    I’d never intended to take that bastard’s life, he was still the only one who’d seen Verek’s face, which made him


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    useful. My n had been to scare him. Ss, however, had wanted the gold mine all along and had used the moment as leverage.


    What a cunning man.


    The corner of my mouth curved into an amused smirk. At that moment the study door opened and Verya stepped in with casual ease. Her eyes flicked to Lucas’s trembling form, a scoff escaped her as she nced at my brothers and me and muttered under her breath,


    “Devils.”


    She ignored everyone, took her seat, crossed her arms, and said, “Let’s start the meeting on time. I have to return today to get more information on Verek. Let’s not waste time.”


    I stared for a beat longer, then reached out for another ciga Pulling out the golden lighter, I flicked it open and lit the tip, and for once, I found myself agreeing with her.


    We shouldn’t waste time. From the very beginning, that wolfless girl had been in my mind, and Dealen had been hungry to have her.


    To y with her and since he’s been goodtely, I would give him control.


    Nyssa Kim


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    Hey everyone, thank you for reading! I wanted to ask if the smut scenes are too much, and if you’d like me to reduce it. I would appreciate your response.


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