“Then, where was she right now? Seriously, Almera, I haven't seen that woman since Amoux attacked our pack.” Karen's forehead ceased after she heard what Almera told them.
“I'm certainly sure that I saw her in the kitchen. Let us check if she was there.” Almera began walking toward the kitchen area, and Leah immediately followed her. She gritted her teeth, and she couldn't believe she wasn't successful in getting rid of a traitor in her pack.
When they were inside the kitchen, the cooks were too prepared for them. Almera turned around and scanned; she was too eager to prove that she had seen Hannah in the kitchen.
“I don't think that she's here, Almera,” Leah said, using the mind link. She aggressively sighed, for she was too impatient to find Hannah. She wouldn't know what she would do if the true traitor in her pack were Hannah.
“Good day, Alpha Leah. It's too good to see you here in the kitchen. Is there anything else that I can help you with?” Leah immediately turned her eyes to the main chef. She blankly stared at her, which made the chef jerk in fear.
“I want to see someone here.” She coldly said.
All the cooks stopped what they were preparing, and they all went close to her and were too willing to help their Alpha.
“Our Alpha wanted to see Hannah right now.” Almera severely said.
“Oh, Hannah? She's been out of town for a month, I think. She told us that her mother wanted her to return to their house, so I immediately approved it since she was a great kid!”
Leah glared at the chef, which made the chef tremble in fear. She gasped heavily to prevent herself from getting mad at the chef.
“A-Alpha, did I do something wrong?” The woman worriedly asked.
“Yeah, you did wrong! Why did you permit her to go out in our pack without the Alpha's permission? You know our rules; we should allow someone with the Alpha's orders.” Almera was more frustrated. It looked like it was Hannah who did that to Leah. She's not wrong from the very start.
“But, I thought that Alpha Leah approved of her going out to our pack. She had a sealed letter, so I immediately let her out without asking. She told us that Alpha Leah agreed because her mother needed her.”
Leah was trying to calm herself down after she heard what the chef was talking about. She didn't remember that she had allowed someone like what the chef was telling her.
“And I am thankful I got the letter before she went out.” The chef quickly went to the cabinet and found the letter that Hannah had given her. After a minute of searching for it, she found the letter and gave it to their Alpha.
She was trembling in fear when Leah coldly looked at the letter in her hands. She almost jumped when Leah took it and rapidly opened the letter.
Maybe she was too innocent outside, but she was a fighter. There's gossip about how she killed many men who wanted to take her out being an Alpha. She wasn't known as being a ruthless Alpha, but she hated traitors so much. The chef still remembered how she witnessed their Alpha being not merciful to those men who betrayed the three Alphas.
She couldn't believe that Leah was capable of doing that. When they slowly reconstructed their pack again, her three Betas announced that the new Alpha hated the traitors too much. She created a rule that if someone betrayed her, that traitor would face death by her.
“I want you to inform us if Hannah went back here. But I don't want you to tell her I am searching for her.” Leah secretly gnashed her teeth in so much annoyance. She couldn't believe the traitor they were searching for wasn't in their pack anymore. But she thought Hannah would be back here, especially if she was connected to Anaya.
“I'm sorry, Alpha, if—”
“What are you apologizing for? This letter had my seal, but I don't even remember that I used my seal to stamp a letter. You don't need to say sorry, but I want you to do something for me.” Alpha Leah smirked. If Hannah wanted to play with her, she would do everything to play with her games too.
“If Hannah wanted to go home again. I changed the rule; I want you to remember what I told you, or else I won't forgive you all.”
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“Alpha Leah, you don't need to scare them. They might be telling us the truth.” Almera whispered. Leah shook her head in disbelief; there was a part of her not believing what the chef reasoned out.
“Sometimes, I needed to be ruthless so they would be scared of me. Almera, you know how I hated those traitors.”
“I know, but I think they're all innocent. Did you notice how they looked scared whenever you were staring at them? I think they're not traitors here; it's only Hannah.”
“Hannah had so much courage to go back here in my pack. I know she had someone's back here. It's not only her.”
“What makes you think that way? I don't believe that she knew someone here. She's too lonely.”
“Almera, I don't think the enemy would send anyone here in my pack. If my enemy wanted me to die like what they wanted to happen, they would instead send two or three persons to ensure they would be successful.”
“If they do that, we might suspect them too fast.”
“I know she's not the only one. Do you remember when you found me in the library unconscious?”
“Oh, crap, please don't you dare mention that part. Of course, I couldn't forget that! I was about to reach my orgasm when we heard you shouting. When we rushed you to the hospital, my lower abdomen was throbbing and hurt too.”
Leah's serious face turned sour when she heard Almera's words.
‘This bitch dared to tell everything to me, especially her sex fantasies.’ Leah thought. Her expression turned grumpy. She couldn't stop herself from glaring at Almera.
“Hey, why are you glaring at me? Alpha Leah, don't be jealous. You still had a chance to explode whenever you wanted. I want to tell you that even though I wouldn't say I liked Amoux too much, I want you to be happy and cum whenever you want.”
“Almera, I can't believe you!” Almera started laughing so loudly when she saw how disgusted Leah's face was. She liked whenever Leah was mad at her or whenever she was irritated with her.
She thought that maybe it was part of the stage of her pregnancy. Sometimes, she wanted to see Leah every day; she totally understood why she was with Leah when she wasn't aware she was pregnant.
“Hey, bitch, stop acting like you're a virgin here because you aren't. And you're pregnant. You're so sensitive as if you didn't suck someone's cock.”
“It's your ass who's still a virgin here, bitchies!” Almera added. She smirked when she saw how mad Leah was, as if she was ready to hit her.
“Oh, please don't be mad. I can't help it. I liked it whenever I saw you getting irritated with me. Maybe this was part of my freaking pregnancy hormones.” Almera defensively left her while whistling.
Leah was watching Almera walking away from her. She smiled when she saw how Almera moved her hips like a duck.
‘This bitch was too crazy! I can't believe that I offered her to be my Beta. I need to think about it again. If I knew that she was insane, I would— ah, fine, Almera helped me a lot! I wouldn't be here in my position if she hadn't been with me.’
‘Oh, I would be grateful that we're friends.’ she thought.
Leah sighed. She realized how helpful Almera was to her. If Almera didn't help her whenever she needed her, she might be dead.
She followed Almera going to the dining part of their house, but she stopped when she saw Adam staring at her using his deep eyes. He walked closer to her and tapped her shoulder.
“What happened? Did you see her?” Adam asked.
“I didn't. The chef told me that Hannah went out to the pack because her mother wanted her to get back to their house.”
”Wait, she's your pack member, and her family wasn't here? How is that possible? I remembered that this pack was too strict, and the guard won't accept a new member, especially at their correct age.”
“Yeah, I remembered that. But Hannah wasn't the new member here. She's an old member.”
“So, did you see her face?” Adam inquired again. Leah was stunned. She didn't even remember a woman named Hannah in the Red Moon Pack.
“I didn't.” She answered. She felt guilty that she had a lot of time to communicate with her pack members from the start, she thought she was doing fine handling her pack, but in truth, she was not.
She felt that she was the most useless Alpha the Red Moon Pack had ever had, or maybe, she was too emotional. Leah couldn't understand why she felt that way; all she thought about was how she wanted to end her suffering.
Her heart was secretly weeping that she might be dead. What about her child? She wanted her child to face the world. She wanted her child to experience how to be loved and cherished. What about Amoux?
Even though she kept telling herself that she needed to accept that Amoux may have been destined for her, there was Anaya who wanted to torment her.
“Adam, did you think that I'm gonna die now?” Leah asked out of nowhere. She closed her eyes, and her heart cut into a million pieces. She was hurt. She had a lot of plans, and what was the use of her healing ability if she didn't heal herself?
“Why are you asking me that? Are you scared that you might die?” Instead of answering Leah's question, Adam asked her.
“I don't understand why they wanted me to die so badly. Adam, I didn't even remember doing something terrible to them. Why did they want to do this to me?”
“I don't know the reason, Alpha Leah. But, what I noticed in this world, there are a lot of greedy people here, and I don't like being here. Even though I don't want to stay here for so long, I know I have a purpose that I need to achieve here. And that was the reason why you're still alive. You had a purpose, and you needed to believe in yourself.”
“Alright, I may have had a purpose, but I might be dead. What if I didn't even reach to get birth?”
“Stop overthinking. Think about your baby first. I remembered that our grandma asked me to search for a leaf. She believed this herb was the key to getting healed from the disease.”
“Yeah, I recalled that. Richelle told me about it. She wanted to find the herbs, but we couldn't search for them.”
“Wait, are you sure that Richelle knew about those herbs? I thought it was just a myth. Many healers wanted to find a sample of that leaf, but they all failed. That's why some healers thought it was just a myth.”
“Adam, I don't think so. I know that plant existed. I wanted to find it as soon as possible.”
“That herb was made for all the healers who wanted to get healed by that disease. Richelle told me that this plant was growing in the sand and had a healing ability. Maybe they had powers or something?”
“I don't think there was sand like that, Alpha Leah.”
“Richelle said that this plant will grow with all the healers in this world. I couldn't get that plant, and it was in the middle part of the forest.” Adam was stunned and gazed at Leah.
How is it possible that a plant that they've been searching for for so long was planted in the middle part of the forest, and that part was the place where the majority of the healers got assassinated?
“I think I know where we should find the plants, but we couldn't even go there. It was forbidden.” Adam scratched his forehead and felt annoyed. He wanted to find the plant so severely; he didn't want his cousin to die because of the disease.
“That place was forbidden. And we needed to have permission from the highest council here.” Adam added.
“And why did we need that? Are you talking about Sergio here?”
“No! I'm talking about the highest council, who was managing that place. Maybe, Alpha Brandon knows them because one of his relatives was working with them. Didn't he tell you that he was ready to help you to talk to the highest council?”
Leah stopped and tried to remember what Alpha Brandon had told her. She slowly remembered that Alpha Brandon promised him he would help her, but her forehead slightly ceased when she remembered something. She glared at her cousin, who wasn't beside her anymore.
‘Oh, please, please, did he see us fucking each other? Oh!!’ Leah groaned in frustration.
Adam's ability was good, but she disliked it whenever Adam discovered everything she had done, especially when she saw having sex with someone because of her privacy.
“Don't be mad at me. I skipped that part because I didn't want to watch porn. This was the disadvantage of my ability.” Adam defensively hid in the wall when she glared at him. She wanted to punch him so badly, but she knew how capable Adma was of protecting himself.
“Please, don't tell me you discovered it because you invaded my memories again.” Leah gritted her teeth.
Adam quickly shook his head, he was acting that he was acting, but a smirk was plastered on his lips.
“Of course, it wasn't you. I still remember Alpha Brandon at that time. I was talking to him, but his mind was flying somewhere, so I thought he had a problem, so I used it. I'm just a concerned citizen here!"
“Did you think that I would believe whatever you say? Adam, you're acting defensive!”
“Leah, it's up to you to decide, but I'm telling you the truth. I don't know that you're fucking with each other on the training field at that time.”
Leah's eyes widened, and Adam started running to save his life.
“Adam, get back here!” She screamed out of her lungs. She was about to run, but she stopped when she remembered her baby. The safety of her baby was one of her priorities.
“Damn that asshole! I kicked your disgusting balls once I caught you!” Leah screamed in so much frustration. She was agitated and wanted to kick Adam.
“Karen!” Leah's smirked when she finally realized that she had the last card in her hands. If she couldn't handle her cousin, maybe, Karen could do that for her.