Twisting Her Fate
Chapter 78

When the ruckus dies down. Madden looks down at the discarded phone, watching Lani bait in such a way is disturbing to watch, but it is a necessary evil. "Do we still want to go to the other packs?"

Lani shakes her head

"Maybe we will hold off and hope that he asks for that coffee date soon, no point shaking the hornet's nest now when we might just be so close. Levi, can you help Terrance make that serum he was talking about"

Levi nods, knowing that his job is to escort Terrance to the lab, but he doesn't mind, he likes watching his mate prepare the potions. There is a certain sparkle in Terrance's eye when he does something that he is so talented at. "The rest of us will just sit tight and keep doing what we have been doing. I want to find out if reports have been made about anyone in the surrounding packs. I refuse to believe that they haven't showed something before" Meanwhile, Jameson stops at the entrance of the dungeon and looks at the two guards. They are fidgeting slightly as he approaches, Jameson just smiles his signature disarming smile. He is a handsome man with slightly soft features giving him a sunny look, unassuming. "How are you two doing today?"

The guards have nothing against Jameson. In fact, they like him, he trains them hard, but he is always fair with divvying out the patrol duties and even rosters himself into border patrol just as much as the others, which is a far cry from Gabriel. But Jameson doesn't partake in the warriors extra curricular activities that Gabriel provides, so that leaves a certain divide.

"We are going well beta"

"I am just here to inspect the cells"

The warriors can do nothing but step aside and let Jameson through. Jameson walks forward and enters the door, walking down the few steps and reaching the concrete hallway. The cells are deathly quiet, Jameson frowns as he steps forward, his steps echo in the empty area. He stops as he looks around the very empty cells, he shakes his head as he inspects the cells one by one. There is nothing, there is no one at all.

Jameson takes a deep breath in, walking to an empty cell, the floor stained with fresher blood. It is far from new but it isn't as old as the others, maybe a couple of weeks old at most. Jameson stalks out the front and looks at the warriors who are shifting from foot to foot, not meeting Jameson's eye.

"Care to explain why you are guarding an empty prison?"

It is the biggest waste of time that he has ever heard of. The warriors lower their heads and follow Jameson in as they explain what happened, saying that all Jameson needs to do is to contact Maggie as she was there.

Jameson shakes with rage as he stares at the empty cell. The long dried blood puddle is so large he cannot even imagine the damage done on the poor woman.

"So you are telling me that the quiet girl Karina suddenly decided to kill herself by mauling her own face when the only other person in here was Maggie?" "Well yes, it is Maggie"

Jameson understands straight away what the warrior is eluding to, Maggie is meant to be the luna, but it can not just be a title left unchecked, she doesn't even have the mark on her shoulder and everything about this screams sketchy.

Maggie said that Karina killed herself and the body was just burnt without any investigation. The alpha wasn't even informed?

"What was Karina like before this?"

"She was quite, she just said she didn't do anything at the start, then just accepted her food, even thanked us for it" Jameson can only nod.

"Leave me"

Jameson watches as the warriors leave. He walks into the cell to start investigating. He falls to his knees and extends his claws slightly to pick up a gold chain that is stuck to the floor in dried blood. Jameson knows very little about jewelry, but this is one of the cheapest and nastiest pieces he has ever seen. Maggie would never be caught dead in something like it.

The fact that it was a present from Astrid is even more implausible. Astrid is submissive but she is on the cutting edge of fashion. Not everything she wears is ultra expensive, but everything she wears is beautiful. Gifting her daughter something so tacky? Highly doubtful.

Jameson sits on the hard mattress of the bed thinking about Karina as he stares at the mess. How did this happen under his nose and he didn't even notice? He has been so worried about everyone else having problems, but maybe the problem is his own. How can he say that Gabriel is doing a bad job if Jameson isn't being the best beta he can be? If all this could happen and he didn't even notice.

But as Jameson stares at the mess, he has no idea how to seek justice for Karina. Everything tells him that Maggie did it, but proof is required. The only proof is a shitty necklace. Jameson sighs as he runs his hands down his face.

***

Lance walks out of the pack house and straight back to the alpha house. It is quite a walk he just left his car parked in front of the pack house, his dress shoes and neatly pressed suit are far from being the ideal clothes for walking, but before he knows it, he is running, one hand gripping the phone that he never intended to use. Before he knows it, he is standing at the top of a cliff. He still remembers the day that he stood at the top looking down at his mate, who was smashed into pieces at the bottom. He has never come back to the cliff since, but as he looks down at the jagged rocks below he wonders what it was like for that sweet tender woman to actually take that step, to leave everything behind like she did.

Lance is not sure if this is the place that he should be making this phone call, he is not sure if it is better or worse. But what's done is done. Nothing he does now can change the past. He used to feel bad about it, but now it was all worth it because otherwise he might have destroyed the whole half moon pack. He presses call on the only contact on this phone.

A shaky female voice picks up the phone.

"Hello?"

"I need Ryan back with me"

A loud breath is released on the other end of the line.

"I have expected this phone call for twenty years, but I can't do it Lance"

"I don't care what you can and can't do, I need him back with me, he is mine"

"But Adrian"

"He will know whether you tell him or I tell him"

"Lance I can't"

"It will be worse coming from me. The worst thing that will happen is he will kill you. You have twenty good years. You should be happy"

"F*ck you Lance"

"Been there done that, it is nothing to write home about"

A sneer can be heard.

"You didn't have to write home about it did you? She already knew, didn't she? Isn't that why your mate threw herself off a cliff?"

Lance looks from his scuffed shoes that were so immaculate in the morning down to the jagged rocks below, it is like he can see the blood once again, hear the voices telling him that the luna was dead.

"I lost my mate and you will lose yours, funny isn't it?"

"Ryan doesn't know"

"Well, he can hate you as well. It isn't really my problem"

"I hate you"

Lance laughs.

"You have one day and I will be coming to collect Ryan and start grooming him"

"Everything you touch is destroyed. Look at what your precious son did, you destroyed him and now you want to destroy my son?"

"He is my son also"

"Unfortunately"

"One day, be ready"

Lance hangs up the phone. Thinking back to that night. Adrian, his half brother, had just found his mate and they were taking it slow. He wanted everything to be perfect for her, he wanted to show her all the romance he thought she deserved. Adrian wanted a relationship built on more than just fate bringing them together, he wanted to make a deep connection before they put marks on each other.

Lance just wanted his brother to suffer one last time. He found Adrian's mate, Kathryn, seduced her and f*cked her. It resulted in a pregnancy. Kathryn called in tears, unsure what to do. Lance, who had always wanted to rub it in his brother's face, couldn't do anything as what he did cost his own mates life.

Kathryn moved up things with Adrian, to cover up the pregnancy and Adrian just believed that he got her pregnant first shot. Ryan was happy without Lance and Lance had no intention of revealing anything, but since Gabriel has messed things up so badly. Lance has to call in his backup plan, even if it means turning the world upside down.