The Were CEO’s Secret

Chapter Fifty-Three – Challenge Accepted.

Reina’s heart skipped when she heard whipping sounds, she crouched on the floor, hiding from whoever held it.

Her traumas were coming back and she could hear the evil laughter of her punisher.

“What are you doing?” she heard a voice. She jumped to her feet, not wanting to look weak.

She saw it was the Alpha Luciana, she was not clear as the sun blocked her face. But from her height, and curves, she knew it was her.

She tried not to look at the whip or she imagined it on her body. You had grown a telepathic feel to it due to how frequent she had felt it.

The Alpha bounced the whip and she shrieked loudly, unable to help it, she hid herself.

Luciana smirked. “So this scares you, doesn’t it? That’s an omega’s life. Not here anyway.” She moved away from the girl and tossed the whip.

Reina sniffed, biting her lower lips in shame. “I’m sorry that I’m not strong enough.” But she’d be, she was promising. She had to live to her name, trample on all who looked down on her.

“You’d learn.” Luciana said, gulping down water from her glass. “You came to tell me something?”

Reina adjusted her stance. “Yes actually, Alpha. I’ve been noticing someone, perhaps a crazy fan of Lady Garcia’s…”

“Lady Garcia? That’s what she said you should call her?” The Alpha smirked.

Reina shrugged. “I don’t mind.”

“I mind. Call her only Garcia when you’re with me. So what about the crazy fan?”

“I feels someone is watching me. I feel his eyes on me. I feel he needs Garcia for a bad thing. I tell her but she doesn’t believe.” Reina sulked.

The Alpha brushed hair past her face. “How does it feel? Has Garcia taught you how to identify threats?” she enquired.

Reina pursed her lips. Was that a thing? She shook her head in the negative. All she had been doing for Garcia is be her maiden everywhere.

If she felt like seeing her being busy, she’d ask her to train with a dummy. She wasn’t teacher material at all but what could she do?

“Well, does this fan threaten or annoy you? If it threatens, then it’s a werewolf like you. Annoyed, then it’s just a human.”

Reina nodded to her teaching. She snapped from her and thought for a while. “I feel threatened. It’s must be a wolf.” She blurted.

Luciana shrugged. “Then fight it.”

Reina’s shoulders slumped. “Fight it?”

“Yes, since you feel threatened, it’d probably be a wolf of higher status than yours. Fight it, kill it and increase your rank. Honey, you can do it.” The Alpha smirked.

Reina shook her head, then nodded. “Alright.” Determination flashed in her eyes. She balled her fists and made a sudden turn behind her.

“Argghh!” Cole groaned as she bumped into him. He held his right hand and winced. “Alpha, I need to speak with you.”

Reina’s cheeks flushed as she saw his eyes on her, she rushed out, hiding her red cheeks. Cole glared at her. “She couldn’t even apologize for bumping into me?” he rolled his eyes.

He met his Alpha’s gaze intently at him.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“Since when did someone bumping into you give you pain, hmm?” she glazed over his arm.

He let go of the arm, gritting his teeth as he did. “I’m okay, Alpha. It was just… sudden.”

Luciana nodded, but then she punched his arm making him fall back. “You are injured, aren’t you? That’s why you’re groaning. Who did that?”

Cole frowned. Pulling his jacket up and revealing a gore injury, it had a tattooed message inscribed on it. “It’s Alpha Johnson’s doing.”

Luciana’s eyes darkened. She saw the message, ‘Challenge Accepted’, and a smirk crept to her face, soon she was laughing.

Cole pulled the jacket down, he pressed his lips together and grimaced. “So, are you laughing at me, Alpha?”

She stopped. “Actually, no. I just think it’s funny that you wasted your time to meet Johnson, only to get tattooed on.” She shrugged.

“It still meant you’re laughing at me.” The Beta hissed. “I went to get the apology as the council ordered him but he grabbed me instead. And his lead warrior had really strong arms.”

Lucian wrote in her journal. “He’s an Alpha. I wouldn’t have proffered an apology either. Nathan suggested it, I knew it won’t work but I wanted Johnson to annoy the council. That worked.” She slapped her journal shut.

Cole was staring at his injury painfully. “I can’t have this tattooed in my arm. I’d meet the doctor for a solution.”

“Rub the ointment on my table on your hand. It’d clear off. Tell Avery to protect our borders from an attack. I need to meet the council.”

Cole scrunched his face. “For what? Johnson didn’t listen to them.”

“Yes, so I’d go ask for permission to attack him. He’s on their bad side but I don’t have to be too. Let’s work slowly, hmm?” she patted his head.

“If you feel offended, go to his gold customers and beat them up. He won’t have an ally. Keep an eye on Nathan for me also.” The Alpha added.

Her mother had informed her that Nathan’s doctor was attacked by Johnson for no reason.

Maybe the man planned to hurt her brother but wanted to kill his source of help first. The Alpha really had cards he intended to pull.

Cole nodded before strolling into the Alpha’s house. He got the ointment and rubbed it over his injury, he winced as he did so.

“Alpha, I’ve been meaning to ask you. Garcia is still Johnson’s mate, right?”

Luciana accidentally lost concentration and her glass of water fell from her hands, she glared at Cole, who went back. “She isn’t!”

“She hadn’t really rejected him, Alpha. Or else she could have gotten a second chance mate by now?”

Luciana picked the glass and threw at Cole but he missed it. “Beta Cole, I said she isn’t.”

Cole dropped it, whenever she called him, Beta Cole, he knew he was pulling her strings hard.

Garcia was like her daughter so involving her with Johnson wouldn’t be funny. “Alright, Alpha. I’m sorry.”

Luciana’s glare softened. “Is it about you not meeting your mate yet? You think you might be Garcia’s second chance mate if she let herself?”

She saw his disapproving scowl so she folded her arms. “If that’s not what you meant, what then? She rejected him already?”

Cole raised his hands. “Agreed. But she doesn’t involve when other she-wolves talk about him. A wolf said Garcia told her to not speak Johnson round her, claiming she hated him but I don’t think so. I’d kill Johnson soon so I need to know if she’s completely over him or it’d hurt her.”

Luciana exhaled. “One, I’d kill Johnson not you. Two, well, Garcia did say she’s over him but he’s her fated mate, it’d take her some time.”

Cole just shrugged.