Chapter 7 The King's Prey

• 【Kaelen POV】
• The woman collapsed into me.
• I instinctively caught her.
• Her back slammed hard against my chest.
• A wave of burning heat, thick with the stench of blood, instantly wrapped around me.
• I looked down, my gaze freezing in place.
• A silver dagger was stuck right in her chest.
• “Damn it!”
• “Jax!”
• “I’m here!”
• “Break his limbs! All of them!”
• “No! Kaelen! You don’t dare!”
• Damien screamed in terror.
• “I’m the Alpha of the Silver Moon Pack! You touch me, you’re declaring war on every single Pack out there!”
• “Declare war?”
• I smirked.
• I bent down and scooped Selene up horizontally from the floor.
• I could feel her body convulsing violently from the pain.
• I stared at Damien.
• “First,”
• “You’re on my turf, and you laid a hand on my woman.”
• “Second,”
• “Damien, did you forget something?”
• “I’m a Rogue.”
• “The one thing I’m not afraid of? War.”
• I didn’t spare him another glance. Holding her tight, I turned and headed upstairs.
• “Go ahead, make a move.”
• “No—ah!!!”
• Damien’s blood-curdling scream echoed from downstairs.
• ...
• “Bang!”
• I kicked open the door to the med room and laid her down on the tiny bed.
• “Fuck, why the hell isn’t she waking up?”
• Jax rushed in after me, his fists still smeared with blood.
• “King, her wound’s getting worse!”
• “The silver toxin is spreading!”
• Of course I knew!
• I could smell it!
• “That dagger... we don’t dare pull it out!”
• Jax was sweating bullets, panic written all over his face.
• “If we yank it out, she’ll bleed out instantly!”
• “But if we don’t, the silver poison will keep eating away at her insides!”
• “Her self-healing... it’s like it’s stopped working!”
• My brow furrowed deep. I started regretting not stepping in sooner.
• I could’ve stopped Damien the moment he tried to slap her.
• But I didn’t.
• I wanted to see just how far this stubborn woman could push.
• Turns out...
• She actually slapped Damien!
• A broken Luna slapped an Alpha!
• Honestly? That slap was fucking satisfying!
• I admit it.
• From refusing to mate, to exiling herself, ignoring the Alpha’s orders, and then slapping that asshole...
• This woman had officially caught my interest.
• That dumbass Damien—who the hell does he think he is, messing with my people right in front of me? He’s asking for death!
• “Shut up.”
• I cut off Jax’s babbling.
• Reaching out, I touched her forehead.
• It was burning hot—like a branding iron.
• “Selene.”
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• “If you even think about dying on my turf, I swear, I’ll toss your corpse right back to Damien.”
• I knew threats worked better than sympathy with lunatics like her.
• Sure enough.
• Her eyelids... twitched.
• Suddenly, her eyes snapped open!
• “Diamond... diamond necklace... you... you’re holding it? Don’t... don’t let that bastard take it... it’s all I’ve got left.”
• “At a time like this, you’re still worried about a necklace, you crazy bitch.”
• “Help me... find someone...”
• “Who?”
• “Hecate...”
• Her breathing grew weaker.
• “That witch doctor... don’t trust her...”
• “She... works for Evangeline...”
• “I know, no need to say it.”
• “Silver Moon Pack... Ayla.”
• “She’s my... only friend.”
• “Help me... get in touch with her.”
• “I need proof...”
• “Evangeline... two years ago...”
• “Wolf poison... ‘Rogue’...”
• “Payment... records...”
• Her eyes finally closed for good.
• ...
• I stood by the bed, staring at her pale, ashen face and bluish lips.
• “Wang?”
• Jax whispered.
• “Is she... dead?”
• “No.”
• I turned away.
• “She can’t die yet.”
• “Her revenge isn’t done.”
• “Her ‘game’ is just getting started.”
• “Jax!”
• “Here, Wang!”
• “Get a few things done, fast.”
• “First,”
• “Contact her friend, Ayla.”
• “Tell her Selene’s with me.”
• “Get the wolf poison evidence she needs.”
• “Yes!”
• “Second,”
• My eyes landed on the bloodstained silver dagger I’d brought up from downstairs.
• “You’re going to Silver Moon Pack yourself.”
• “Tell Damien his people are here.”
• “I’ve confiscated his silver dagger too.”
• “Third,”
• I threw on my coat.
• “Silver poison... only a witch can cure it.”
• “Go get Hecate.”
• Jax’s face went pale. “Wang! Hecate’s Damien’s personal witch doctor! She won’t come! And besides... Miss Selene just said she...”
• “Of course she won’t come.”
• I smirked.
• “She’s a witch.”
• “But I never said I was asking her to save someone.”
• “Don’t ask questions, just bring her here.”
• “I wanna see if the one who can poison can also save.”
• ...
• Three days later.
• I sat on the couch in the med room, wiping down that silver dagger.
• The blood on it had dried.
• Selene was still lying on the bed, unconscious.
• That old hag Hecate was locked up in the dungeon.
• She’d pulled the dagger out and smeared on some special witch medicine.
• Of course, she only agreed after Jax snapped her fingers one by one.
• But she insisted whether Selene woke up or not was up to the Moon Goddess.
• “Wang!
• Jax burst in like a maniac, phone in hand.
• “Ayla... just replied!”
• I looked up.
• Jax’s face was dead serious—like I’d never seen before.
• He shoved his phone screen right in front of me.
• “Kaelen!”
• “That silver dagger... Hecate herself poisoned it!”
• “This isn’t just any silver poison!”
• “It’s some new shit she cooked up, related to wolf venom... called ‘Soul Corrosion’!”
• “There’s no cure. None at all!”
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