RILEY.
“Alpha, a man named Elliot Castello is asking permission to meet with you. He said he’s from the Moon Stone Pack and he knows Luna Nadia.”
I was just listening to my Beta as my eyes continued to scan the documents in my hand, but my ears perked up the moment he mentioned Nadia’s name.
“How did he know Nadia?”
“Tristan said he claimed he was Nadia’s fiancé.”
The monster.
For the past week, I’d been tracking this man, but I couldn’t even get his name. The only person who could provide me was held in one of Darvin’s cells, and I didn’t have the audacity to ask for Darvin’s help after he had already laid out the punishment I wanted for him. And I didn’t want Nadia’s uncle to know that I was looking for this man.
But he showed up here on his own. It only meant one thing—he still wanted Nadia.
As much as I hated this man, I wanted to meet him. I wanted to see if he was anything like me. Maybe I was a better man than he was. Then maybe I could forgive myself for everything I did to Andrea.
“Alpha?” Beta Dominic snapped me out of my thoughts and my gaze turned to him. His brows furrowed as he looked at me. “Should I decline the request or do you want to meet him there?”
I let out a deep sigh before my eyes darted to the clock overhead. Nadia still has one hour and twenty minutes before her training with Jenny ends. I needed to make this quick.
“Take him here. If he has a vehicle, make sure it is thoroughly searched before allowing entrance, and let someone escort him here.”
“Noted, Alpha.” He bowed his head before his eyes flecked white, a signal that he was reaching someone through his mind.
I had no idea what to expect. All I knew was that he must be in his late forties. Nadia didn’t say anything about his physical appearance except that she didn’t like the way he smelled of tobacco and alcohol.
The fifteen-minute wait felt like an eternity. But eventually, he arrived.
I was expecting an old-looking man clothed in baggy clothes who looked homeless, but instead, I was facing a man who looked younger than 40, clean-shaven with his hair neatly combed.
He looked nothing like the way I envisioned him from Nadia’s story. If I were being honest, he was fair-looking, and it made me cringe more internally.
I saw myself in him.
My Beta let him inside my office and pointed him to a seat on the couch, but he refused.
“Alpha Riley, thank you for taking your time.” He then turned his head around and scanned my whole office. “I was expecting to see Nadia. Is she not aware that I was coming?”
My hand under my desk coiled into a fist as I stared at him with a stoic expression. I was trying not to show him how I felt about him.
“I am under the impression this meeting is between you and me, so no, my Luna is not aware you’re here. Let’s get to business. Why are you here?”
“I came here to collect what I was owed.”
“And by that, what do you mean? I don’t fucking owe you anything.”
We were staring at each other, but the fucker wasn’t backing down. I had no fucking idea who he was and what connection he had, but it looked like he didn’t fear that I was an Alpha.
“No, you don’t. But your Luna does.” He blurted it out arrogantly.
“Go straight to the point. I don’t want to waste my time on you.”
“I’m not sure how much you know about your Luna, but I own her.”
My claws were threatening to come out. My nails were already digging deep into my skin as I kept my hand in a coiled fist.
‘Relax. I can feel your aura here. Hear him out. If you attack him, you will never get to the bottom of this.’My Beta’s words dug into my head, and I shoved my wolf off to the back of my mind.
