Chapter 47

• ALICE
• As the days progressed, it became increasingly clear that happiness would be a rarity if I stayed with Declan. If we even survived heat season. The worry took away my sleep and my mother's words started to get to me. I wasn't going to end up with absolutely nothing. I refused to succumb to such a fate. Staying with Declan was only going to give him a title and with the way things were progressing between us, I doubted that was even an advantage to me anymore. So I did as my mom has advised. Whatever it took to secure my happily ever after. Except, I added a twist of my own. I wasn't going to just do everything in my power to end up as some miserable Luna to some gay Alpha. I was going to do everything in my power to get the better man. I made an order while the preparations for the next pack meeting were going on. It was a hectic time for the servants around. If the Gardenia was doing pack meetings in the confines of the Gardenia mansion, it meant something important was going to be said and the workers needed to give their best to their pack. This gave me the opportunity to send a servant to get me a full bottle of Erotonic and Mene's tears. The name was a bland representation of what truly resided in the bottle. Erotonic was an Aphrodisiac that increased the sexual desires of any creature that came into contact with it or so I had been told. I had never actually used the tonic. I had never had use of it until now. Mene's tears I was familiar with. Rumored to have been created when the tears of the goddess became a river whilst she mourned her human lover, the liquid had the ability to coerce the truth out of liars. These two were integral to my plan. To my happily ever after. So I bid my time. Allowed Declan to stay away from our shared room for as long as he wished. Time trickled by, ever so slowly, but good things did come to those that waited and one breaking dawn, I was awakened by my alarm.
• "D day," I whispered to myself before stepping out of bed and fishing out the bottles. They were well hidden in my drawer and under lock and key. Not the most subtle place to hide something as incriminating but Declan didn't give a shit what I used my time or my body to do. I sat in front of the mirror and looked at myself. My hair was tangled and It seemed I was suffering from another acne breakout but despite the imperfect skin on this supposed perfect day, I couldn't stop smiling. My plan was foolproof. The universe smiled at me too because there was a gentle knock at my door a few seconds later. I opened it to see the servant who had helped me get the bottles in the first place. She was also aware of my plan. At least, the bit she needed to know. Poor girl, she was so desperate to up her rankings in some way. Born an Omega, there was no hope to do that with hard work so she resorted to buttering me up. I on the other hand saw a tool that I could use to further execute my plan seamlessly. But I wasn't a bad person. If I did get what I wanted today, the light she so desperately needed would shine her way.