Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“The same way he got to me. Leverage. All he has to do is find a weak pack member, threaten their family, or mate, and wham bam he has a mole on his payroll.”
“You said he has some kind of hidden wealth that he’s using to pay all of you, right?” He nodded his head. “Is it with him at Silver Lake?”
“No clue, he pays us in crypto.”
“Crypto? As in Bitcoin?”
“Something along those lines. He uses Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and even this thing called Dogecoin.”
“Where the hell did Eric get his hands on that much cryptocurrency!?”
“Again, Alpha, you’re asking me questions that I don’t know the answers to. I’ve told you this already, but he doesn’t tell us shit.” I pinched the bridge of my nose in utter frustration. What the f**k was the point of having a mole for ourselves if he was completely useless? Part of me thought I would just kill him myself and deal with Eric in person, one on one. But, the whole poison aspect of everything came back to me so I scratched that idea from my head.
“Is there anything you can tell me that would be of some kind of use?” I asked him desperately.
“Well, the other day he and Nicole were fighting again. Something about Eric and his betrayal not too long after they had their mating ceremony.” This caught my attention real quick, and I snapped my head up to look at West. “What did she say? Oh yes, she said something about his trick to conceal the fact that he was having an affair was useless, and that she knew exactly where he was. Something along the lines of, ‘it doesn’t take a genius to know when their mate is being unfaithful, and all of the black magic in the world couldn’t hide the pain she felt during his infidelity!”
“Wait, you’re saying that Nicole knows that Eric had an affair not long after they had their mating ceremony?” I reiterated to make certain I heard him correctly.
“Yes. She was livid. The screaming from within could be heard from outside. The fighting got so bad that Ash and his sister came out of the lair beneath the packhouse to get away from it.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. So there was, in fact, a lair beneath the crumbled packhouse. West was good for something after all-gossip.
“What else?”
“Well, from what I could hear, Eric said his stepping out was Nicole’s own fault because she was lousy in bed and something about her v****a being loose…”
“AIY AIY!! TOO MUCH INFORMATION!” That was the last thing I wanted to hear.
“Good grief, you act as you’ve never had s*x before.”
“Nicole is old enough to be my mother, you f*****g moron! No son wants to hear about an old woman’s private parts!”
“I’ll be sure to let your mother know that you called her old,” he taunted me.
“Moving on! What else did they say?”
“Ummm… oh yes, Eric went on to say that only one woman would ever make him happy and that, even in death, she would always be better than Nicole. He never said the woman’s name, but that one statement had Nicole screaming at the top of her lungs and she started to trash the lair. You could see puffs of dust and smoke rising from the ashes of the Silver Lake packhouse.” My thoughts were right, Nicole knew about Eric leaving her for a few months to assault Megan while she was in captivity. Not to mention, Eric had practically admitted that he was with her during that time. “He also threw it in her face that he fathered children with this other woman.” I snapped my head towards him in horror. “What did you say!?”
“Patterson, he threw it in his mate’s face that he fathered children with this other woman that he’s so in love with.”
“He said that!? To Nicole!?”
“Yes. Is there a problem?” I bit my bottom lip. This wasn’t good. This meant that Eric knew about the girls. This also meant that Nicole would eventually figure out who they are and it was only a matter of time before she came for them. If the mole from Golden Moon caught wind of this, then he or she might tell Eric where Lanie and Lexie are. Which, in turn, would tip off Nicole. There’s no telling what she would do if she got her hands on them. I needed to warn Chad. “Alpha? Is there …”
“No. No problem. At least, not one you need to worry about. Is there anything else you need to tell me?”
“Ummm…” he thought for a minute. “Ah yes, there is one more thing. I overheard Ash and his sister talking and, apparently, Ash plans on challenging his father after they kill all of the Alphas at the next Alpha meeting.” “What Alpha meeting? There isn’t one on the calendar until next year. I doubt Eric is going to wait that long.”
“I don’t know. You’re the Alpha,” he replied with another smart-a’s remark.
“Get the f**k out of my office, West. And keep your head down. You get me as much information as possible. And if I find out you even think about betraying me again, I’ll find your family, and they’ll watch as I rip off your head, do you hear me?!” I growled at him. He gulped, nodded his head, and scurried out of my office.
As soon as he was gone, I made sure that I didn’t have any meetings on the books. Thankfully, my calendar was clear for the rest of the day as Human Resources planned for the upcoming job fair. I wasn’t needed until the actual day so I decided I would have to call all of the Alphas in the area and Elder Jonah as well. If there was a mole in every neighboring pack, then Eric was getting ready to get his hands dirty, and we needed to prepare for it under the radar. Damn, I really wish that William was here right now. ***Third Person P.O.V.)
After West left Wyatt’s office, he made his way out of the city and back into the lush forests. When he was out of view of the main highway and cars passing by, he quickly shifted into his wolf and set off towards Silver Lake. Although Wyatt was under the impression that he had West in the palm of his hand, what he didn’t know was that West was still working for Eric, and very closely at that.
When he returned to Silver Lake, he made sure that no one was around and slipped into the lair beneath the ruins. As he made his way further and further down, he finally made it to his destination. He knocked on the door a few times before it was opened. “West, what do you want?”
“I did what you asked. I told him what you wanted me to tell him.”
“Did he buy it?”
“I don’t know, Alpha. He seemed to have bought it. He was surprised to hear about an Alpha’s meeting coming up since he said that there wasn’t one on the calendar until next year. Hopefully, this means that he will be concerned enough to call an actual Alpha’s meeting like you hoped,” West replied as he took a seat on the small armchair in the office.
“What else did you tell him?”
“Nothing. Though he kept prying, I kept telling him that you don’t tell us s**t, so…”
“WHAT?!” Eric roared at West.
“What?” West asked in confusion. He couldn’t fathom why Eric would suddenly become angry and shout at him.
“YOU TOLD HIM THAT THERE WERE OTHER MOLES!?” Eric seethed as his eyes turned black with rage.
“I… I… I… No … I didn’t mean to … I just-” West was cut off by Eric grabbing him by the throat. As his airways were being constricted, he began heaving to get oxygen into his lungs by any means necessary. He clawed at Eric’s arms, but it was no use. For Eric, though disgraced, was still an Alpha. “Please, Al-Alph-a,” he muttered to the best of his ability. West’s face was starting to turn blue; Eric, unable to control his rage, crushed West’s windpipe, suffocating him to death.
Eric dropped West’s body where he stood and kicked it to the side to add to the pile of dead bodies of pack members from the other packs that Eric had commissioned as his spies. One minor mistake on their part meant death as Eric had zero patience for stupidity. Just as he sat down in his chair, the door opened, and Ash walked in.
Ash looked around at the dead bodies, and his eyes landed on West. He shook his head and looked at his father disgustedly. How he could be related to such a coldhearted murderer, he will never know.
“You need to stop killing them! We’re running out of moles because you keep killing them!”
“They’re idiots! They can’t even do the simplest thing right. West was stupid enough to tell that good-for-nothing petulant child, Wyatt, that we had more than one mole!” Eric shouted at his son, trying to defend his actions. Trying but failing, for in Ash’s eyes and ears, he would never understand his father’s logic on killing the people that were meant to help rebuild their fallen pack, Halfmoon. If they couldn’t get werewolves to betray their pack to join theirs without the fear of dying over the smallest infraction, then Ash’s plan to challenge his father would be pointless.
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