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Casey
“How can you not care? They took Zora away,” she said with a shaky
voice.
“You did not see how they bound her in chains and took her away, Casey. She could have pointed at me or let them kill you, but she gave herself to them,” She said, getting all emotional.
“And she is now a lady of the north. I believe it served her well,” Ramsey said with a bit of jealousy or scorn.
He used his daughter to force Zora out of our home; now, Zora got herself a bigger and better wolf.
“Zora was lucky with the wolf Lord,” she said, and I stopped her. It was evening time.
“We need to return to the hotel.” I said, standing up, and she stood with
- me.
I was tired of the conversation, and I wanted to get away from Ramsey My mind was still processing what Darius told me about his involvement with the attack.
“I will see you tomorrow, daddy,” Lori said and hugged her father. Ramsey kissed her cheek, and he shook my hand. Lori and I walked away.
We returned to the hotel suite that we shared with Sheperd and Cruz.
After I showered, I changed into something comfortable and picked up the intercom to order a meal.
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“What would you like to eat?” I asked Lori when she exited the bathroom, and she smiled at me.
“Surprise me,” she said and came to bed in her night dress.
I ordered her favourite and ordered mine. She was excited and rested her
head against my chest.
“Lori,” I said, and she looked at me with a smile.
“Do you tell your father everything that is going on in our home?” I asked her, and she was silent before responding. I knew the answer was yes, but I kept it to myself.
“Not that I go and tell him, he talks to me about things, and I find myself answering the questions. He is very curious, and you know I am his only child,” she said, giggling, and I pretended to laugh. Realising I needed to be secretive around Lori.
“Casey,” she said, and I answered her gently.
“Now that Zora is getting married and you know she is happy, are we going to get married too?” She asked me, and I sighed.
“We have claimed each other already. There is no need for a ceremony. Only chosen mates practise blue moon ceremonies and weddings,” I said, and she was silent.
I knew it was customary to have a wedding ceremony with her, but I refused simply because I knew her father was the one pushing her to do it, and I did not want to name her Luna officially too.
I wasn’t there yet.
We ate, and Lori fell asleep thirty minutes after we finished eating. The movie we were watching was boring, so I could understand.
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My eyelids became heavy too but sleep left me when I heard Sheperd roaring in the living area.
I left the room in my pyjama pants and saw Sheperd angry and fuming, pacing up and down the room.
“What is the meaning of this? Lori is trying to sleep,” I said, and Cruz looked at me angrily.
“What good are you?” he said, and I frowned at him,
“All you had to do was demand a swap, and you failed. How can you call yourself our leader yet have no leadership in you? You have no spine,” He said, and I was slowly getting angry.
“You are a coward, Casey, a fucking coward. No wonder Tamai moved on quickly,” Cruz said, and I punched him.
I heard something crack, but I didn’t care. He had struck a nerve with me.
“You will respect me!” I said, getting angry. Sage had had enough of their nonsense. I was a peaceful man, but I refused to be disrespected anymore.
“I accepted the invite because of you two. Came here and ridiculed myself for your sake. I begged Darius Hand for your sake. I am a leader in my own right, yet I stooped low for your sake, and you call me a coward!” I said, livid.
“If you had kept your ranks in check like a proper alpha should, no one would use your men to attack the border of Gad, and Darius won’t rain down his terror on us and take our mates from us.
I am still hurting from my loss. I can never get over it. How dare you call me a coward?
It takes a lot of strength to walk away from a fight when you are challenged. I see Zora in Darius’s booth at the arena, and I dare not look. I
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dare not let my stare linger or talk to her. Do you think it is easy? It is your fault, Cruz! They took our mates because of you!” I said and then looked at him.
“Eloise isn’t an object that you can swap at will. She is a person, and she is happy now. She is expecting a baby with Raphael Orlov, move on. She would not get back to you even if you were the last man on earth. After all you did to her?” I said and laughed from frustration.
“Are you on drugs, Cruz?” I asked him,
“No woman would return to a man like you after you treated her that way You are sick. You need help. I still can’t wrap my head around you asking your soldiers to fuck your wife in front of you. I can’t wrap my head around it. It is sick, and you need help. She is free of you, so let her go,” I said and looked at Sheperd.
“And you. I need to figure out where to start. I am ashamed that you two are my friends. I have done enough for you two. Let this be the last time either of you will talk to me about the mates you lost to better men. And before you think of a jab, I accept that I lost my wife to a better man. It is time you start accepting it, too,” I said, and Sheperd shook his head.
“You might be our leader, but we are alphas. Yes, I made a mistake with Kara, but I am willing to make amends. Everyone deserves a second chance. I won’t be at peace if I do not try. I was blinded by lust and fooled by the bond, I had to try. Casey. I can’t come this far and humiliate myself this much to not take her back with me,” Sheperd said, tears welling up in his eyes.
“I didn’t mean to beat my Kara. Gabriella Shieldse told a lot of lies, and 1 believed her. Some of my men were in league with her. I believed them, I hurt Kara because I believed them. I thought Kara was malicious. I thought she deliberately hurt Gabriella Shieldse. I believed all the lies they told me…” Sheperd said and sat on the couch crying.
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“I swear, Casey, I didn’t mean to. It is just that things got heated between us and I reacted, and then I found myself doing that all the time,” he said, and I did not want to hear him or Cruz anymore.
“Then you two will have to do it on your own. I am not going to aggravate Hand, Sidorov and Orlov over this,” I said and returned to my room. Lori was sitting up and crying in bed.
I knew she heard me, but it didn’t matter.
I got into bed with her letting Sage take over, and tried to console her. I was trying, but I needed to move faster.
We headed to the arena the next day, and Sheperd and Cruz decided to seek out Eloise and Kara.
They wanted to catch them when they were alone and plead their case. They were delusional, but I admired their perseverance. Too bad I did not see this going well for either of them.
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