You Rejected A Silver Wolf
New Alpha King

Chapter Forty-Seven - New Alpha King Chris's POV

Black Hills hadn't recovered from Your Silver's visit. Neither had I. It was the lowest I'd ever been, and I couldn't even fight.

It brought back old traumas and regrets and birthed new hatred as well. My tormentor was my one-time mate.

I dared not call Your Silver by Rihanna. She didn't want me to, and that was because she wasn't herself anymore-she was a ghost of her.

Rih would never have hurt so many people in the name of freeing slaves. Rih didn't have the heart to be rogue.

But Rih was a silver wolf? How could I have missed it?

Yet she let herself be treated so poorly by other wolves. It made me feel like everything I knew about her had been a lie.

"Alpha King, you have a visitor!" my guard said, bowing. I sighed, nodding and gesturing for him to let them in.

My court hadn't had a visitor for days. All the Alphas were displeased with my decision to let Silver Pack be under us.

What did they expect of me? To let her kill them and Vanessa? Also, my last soft spot for her had made me hold back from sending my warriors after her. But I regretted it. She humiliated me further by stealing my Luna. It was an insult to a King like me.

"Chris."

I looked up to the man and woman who had just walked into my court. My eyes dimmed with anger. Were these my visitors?

Before me stood Former Beta Royal Sam and his wife, clinging to him.

The elders had ordered their son, Beta Royal Raymond, to be in suspense after discovering his sister hadn't died.

I knew she said he didn't know, but the events angered everyone.

"How dare you show your faces to me after discovering the beast your allegedly dead daughter became?" I barked.

Sam frowned, letting go of his wife and stepping forward.

"We didn't know she faked her death, and we both know she wouldn't have if you hadn't been selfish!" He pointed at me.

How dare he? I was his King. And since when had he grown a spine to answer back while in retirement?

I chuckled, stepping down from my throne. "Since when did you have the guts to reply to me..."

"Since your selfishness robbed me of my daughter and made my wife sick," he pointed at his wife on the last part.

I glanced at the Beta's wife and sighed. That lady had never been a good mother to Rih as far as I knew-always trying to gain my mother's favor.

She had suddenly become sick after hearing her daughter died. She should have been better now, knowing she hadn't.

"So I'm selfish? I think it's better that I rejected her. She had the blood of a beast inside her..."

"You call silver wolves beasts?" the Beta's wife asked, walking closer to me. "Like your grandmother?"

My eyes dilated. Both she and Ray were always reminding me that my grandmother had been a silver wolf. But had she ever brought trouble to me? "Mind you, my grandmother was different. She made my grandfather an Alpha King. She didn't torment him," I replied.

"And so will be Rihanna's fate. She will make her mate an Alpha King," her mother deadpanned.

I tilted my head, folding my arms. "And how?"

"You don't know, do you?" Beta Sam smirked. "The other half of the prophecy. It wasn't as popular as the first."

"Many feared there was no other silver wolf to make it valid, but there is my daughter." His wife chuckled.

What were they getting at? My father had once told me about the second half of the prophecy, but I had long forgotten. He said it was important to have a silver wolf, especially a young one. Was there something I was missing?

"What does the second prophecy say?" I asked them since they seemed intent on not telling me.

"The second prophecy says that the next silver wolf will make another Alpha King!" Beta Sam smirked.

Confusion befell me. Another Alpha King?

"And together, she and her mate will defeat a great evil coming to the lands of the werewolves," he added with a smirk.

It sounded oddly familiar to what my father had said, and it planted a new fear in me. What Alpha King? What evil could be greater than Your Silver?

"You rejected her, so you disqualify yourself from being that Alpha King, Chris! The Moon Goddess gave you a chance, and you abused it!"

I snapped my head to the Beta's wife as she shouted. Her eyes glistened with excitement. What? I disqualified myself?

The new Alpha King would be mated to the Silver Wolf that would save the land of werewolves from evil?

That should have been me and Rihanna then. If I couldn't be the one, then who? Who would be the Alpha King she'd destroy the evil with?

I glared at the woman who had just spoken. Was she insinuating that I'd be overthrown?

"You speak treason, you are aware, right?" I said in a low tone.

She stared at me. "Your grandfather used to say, Kings call the truth they don't like treason."

Her stare gave me chills. Had I really disqualified myself from something great?

"Well, we came here with a request," Sam said, breaking the tense mood. "Your father permitted me, but I'd need you to permit us also."

I returned to my throne, breathing heavily, stunned by the realizations of today. "What request do you want?"

"First, I'm grateful that you accepted her pack under yours," Sam started.

I rolled my eyes. Accepted? As if I'd had a choice.

"Second, information she sent to all the Alphas said her coronation would be postponed as she had no Beta," he informed.

"She's planning a coronation?" I wondered aloud. How dare she organize a ceremony for being Alpha when she had forced it on me? "Yes, I bet she didn't invite you then. She invited the other Alphas apart from Red Moon, and I guess you," Sam shrugged.

That girl was directly pissing me off. It's not like I'd have attended. "So what's your request?"

"To deploy to her pack."

My eyes shone.

"What?" I stood from my throne.

His wife came forward. "Please, we've been away from her for long. Ray blamed us all those years, and we weren't very close to him either."

It was true. I knew Ray only visited his parents once every two weeks to send food supplies. He rarely stayed there.

"Letting us reunite with our daughter is the greatest gift you can give me after my retirement, Chris," Sam pleaded.

I scoffed loudly. "What makes you think she'd like to see you after faking her death and leaving for three years?"

"Then we get rejected. But I wanted to try first. We made mistakes." He held his wife's hand. "We want a chance to correct them."

I exhaled, sitting back on my throne with my head raised.

They were no use to me and could leave.

Only that a Former Beta leaving for the rogue-turned-alpha pack from an Alpha King's pack was insulting.

I looked up at them and smiled. "Fine, you can leave for your daughter's pack. And never return."

They bowed in pleasure. My head shook. I was losing wolves to her pack already. And that prophecy still bothe

red me.

Who would the next Alpha King be? Someone who'd overthrow me? Who dared? I had to make sure I kept tabs on who that would be.