The Alpha Who Saved Me
Chapter 91

CHAPTER 91

Declan

I'm truly happy for both Quinn and my cousin. Asher is a handsome little pup, and I can tell that he will grow into a strong Alpha one day. I'm glad that Quinn is happy again and she now has a family of her own even if I'm not part of it. The Goddess Selene must have a special plan for me, at least I hope she does.

I've been watching the app on my phone that has Lila's tracker on it, but it's not showing me anything I can use. Going to the store or to the next town to get her hair done will not count as her stepping out on me. I know that she is where the tracker says she is because I have a warrior on her at all times when she leaves the pack house.

I've got to be missing something here, because this is not the same Lila that has been disappearing at all times of the day since. after Holden was born. She's even started doing more Luna duties such as visiting the disabled wolves, bringing them food and supplies, along with visiting the school and daycare, all jobs that the Luna does.

As I sit in my office contemplating all of it, a thought comes to me, "She better not have had the nerve to do what I'm thinking she did!" I say to myself out loud. Linking my Beta to meet me in my office, I start over by the bookshelf.

"You wanted to see me?" Carter closes the door behind him.

"Lock the door and start helping me." I order.

Carter scratches his head, "Uh, are you going to tell me what we are looking for or is it a surprise?"

'We are looking for a bug.' I link him and put my finger to my mouth, silencing him.

My big bad Beta flattens himself against the door as he looks around at the floor, 'What kind of bug is it, and how big?'

I roll my eyes, 'For the love of Goddess, not that kind of bug!' I go back to sliding my hands over the bookshelves, 'A transmitter bug. Seriously, how are you even my Beta if you are afraid of a little insect anyway?' I snicker and shake my head.

'Fuck you, Dec! You never had a childhood trauma where a bug crawled into your nose while you slept and implanted itself! Do you remember that? I had a bump on the side of my nose for a week until it decided to try and crawl out on its own!'

I do remember that incident. He was standing in front of the class reading his book report when suddenly a big worm-looking thing started coming out of his nose. Everybody freaked out and when the teacher went to grab it, it went back up his nose. He had to go to the doctor and be sedated, so the doctor could pull it out. I never realized it ended up giving him a phobia, I kind of feel bad now, as I chuckle to myself. 'Yeah, sorry. Just start looking over by the file cabinet while I finish with the bookcase.'

'Why do you think you have a bug in your office?' My Beta asks as he slides his own hand all around the cabinets and opens the drawers.

'Lila hasn't gone anywhere.'

'And that has to do with this how?'

I stop and turn, 'I think she bugged my office. I've been thinking. about it and there are too many things that have come about where she shouldn't have known but she did.'

'How far back are you thinking?'

'Well, I would guess all the way back to before Quinn's eighteenth birthday. How else would she have known about the family. birthday dinner. Then there is her accusing Quinn and I of sleeping together.' Carter stops, 'Were you really having an affair with Quinn?'

'No! We did mess around in here, but that's it.'

'So, you're thinking that she knows about the transmitter?' He asks, 'Do you think she has taken it out or what?'

'I don't fucking know, but she has been acting really strange lately, and if she did take it out, then she's still carrying it with her for now. According to the app, she isn't sneaking off like she was doing all the time and she's been taking up Luna duties.'

'Lila doing actual work?' He laughs.

'Tell me about it, but she is.' I state.

'Yeah, but I doubt she's...'

I glance over at my Beta when he cuts himself off. He's over by my second set of file cabinets, holding the picture frame that has a photo of me and my dad in it. I watch as he pulls off a small square black piece that was stuck to the back and holds it up.

'Bingo!' I hurry over to him and take it from his fingers, 'That bitch!' I growl.

'Just calm down, Dec, you don't know that it was her.' Carter tries talking some kind of sense to me, but it doesn't work.

'Nobody else would dare bug my office, it was her!' I close my fist around the small device, wanting nothing more than to crush it, but I want it as evidence. I meet my Beta's eyes and snarl, 'Find that bitch and throw her in the cell. She is not to have any wifi or television this time. She wants to act like a criminal, she can be treated like one!'

"Yes, Alpha." He doesn't bother linking me to respond as he walks out of my office.

I pick up a nearby chair and throw it at the wall, shattering it to pieces and putting a big hole in the drywall. I'm seething at the moment. That bitch has played me one too many times; I will not allow her to make a fool out of me any longer! Without waiting until I get outside, I shift into Duke and charge out the door. I hear my mother call out to me as I pass her in the hall, but I don't stop.

Duke runs for hours, shutting off our link to the pack as he does. I don't give a shit at the moment. I have given this pack everything, even my only chance at being happy. Lila had almost everything. she could have ever wanted, except for my love, she could never have that. Is this what it's all about...because I wouldn't be that kind of mate to her?

At this point I'm just talking to myself because Duke is too enraged to carry on a conversation with me. This is why he takes off the way he does, because he can do so much damage with his temper and when he gets like this. Duke is a very strong wolf, one of the strongest and fastest. Had he had any powers, I would swear that he was one of the last Dire wolves, but he's not. I can trace our bloodline all the way back to the beginning of time. We

are just a strong bloodline, and we are meant for greater things. than what we have now, that's for sure.

After hours of running without direction, I begin to recognize my surroundings. The all too familiar trees and markers indicating that we are leaving Storm River territory and about to enter Dark Moon's has me trying to put a stop to our running.

'Duke, we can't run to her every time we need comfort. She isn't ours.'

'Tala, I need Tala!'

'We can't, Duke. Tala and Quinn belong to Mace and Gavin.'

'No! Tala is mine...I want Tala!' He's talking like a barbarian at the moment, and I don't understand what has come over him. We have talked about this, how Tala will soon mate with Mace. He wasn't happy about it, but he accepted it, or so I thought.

We pass some of Dark Moon's patrol and luckily, they recognize. me, so we don't get stopped. I don't know what I would do if Duke attacked one of Quinn's pack members because they would not survive. Duke lifts his nose and sniffs, and suddenly he picks up speed and I think he's heading for the pack house, but then he veers slightly and picks up speed once more. Apparently, Quinn and Tala must be out for

a run.

Here is an extra chapter for you! I don't normally post on Wednesdays but figured I would get a quick one in for you...enjoy!

(= Also, you can go check out the 1st book in my vampire series The Vampire's Hellion - The Elite...these warriors are not your typical vampires! =)