It took me a long time to recover from the shock.
"So you always thought I didn't survive?" I wrote on the paper.
"That's the information I got. I also went to the Fly Rock Pack at the time and saw the bodies of Lucy and a newborn pup. We didn't investigate further due to overwhelming grief."
I lowered my head. Somehow, I felt a little sad. If they had investigated it, I wouldn't have been an orphan after my father's death. Maybe I wouldn't have been kidnapped. But it had happened. I didn't blame them. I was just sad.
Derek suddenly said, “It seems that you have a good relationship with Baron. Just to be clear, he tried to poison Erika.”
Hearing this, I changed my face. Derek just told me Baron was the one who poisoned me time and again.
“What?” Bentley punched his fist at the desk.
Alex rubbed his forehead with his hand, stood up, and walked over to the window.
After a few seconds of silence, Alex said in a slightly raspy voice, "Yes. I've been thinking about it since last night. As much as I hate to admit it, everything indicates that Baron isn't as innocent as he seems. Perhaps he had something to do with Lucy's difficult birth. I should have killed him! But instead, I helped him!" At the end of his sentence, Alex clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
Baron was a jealous, paranoid, vindictive, and calculating monster. He must have set up my mother's death. And then he tried to poison me. I was so angry that my body trembled.
"I'm glad you feel that way. By the way, there was Richard, who wanted to kill me so badly. He used to grab Erika and torture her to death..." Derek continued. “That man is too greedy and I don't want more dealing with him and his pack,” Alex said as he came back from the window. He turned to me and asked in shock, “Is what Derek said true?”
I nodded.
Alex took a deep breath, trying hard to calm down.
“Richard’s Gamma has betrayed him. I can take him down easily as long as you don’t take his side. It will be best if we can cooperate,” Derek added.
“I’m in.” Alex turned to look at Derek and said without hesitation.
A smile appeared at the corner of Derek's mouth. He rose unhurriedly from his chair and then shook Alex's hand.
"I'm not trying to defend myself. Now that we're both family and partners, it's still necessary to explain what happened last night. Erika told me that she wasn't captured last night. Rather, they had been poisoned and had inadvertently broken through your defense when they were escaping..."
After hearing Derek's explanation, Alex's brow furrowed.
"So they can't wait to do it anymore. We can't wait any longer. We need to get rid of Baron and Richard as soon as possible."
"That's what I thought. Now that we've come to an agreement, it's time for Baron and Richard to pay the price," Derek said.
"Wait." Bentley cut in.
We all looked at him.
Bentley looked at Derek and asked in a serious tone, "You have disrupted our defense system. How about that?"
When I heard that, I started to get nervous. That's what I was afraid of. After all, the war started last night. Could Alex forget about it?
Without waiting for Derek's answer, Alex scolded Bentley, "This defense system is no longer useful. Now that Erika is alive, we can't remain isolated from the world anymore! "
Derek and I exchanged glances and both breathed a sigh of relief.
With the important things settled down, we began to make small talk. Derek told them the story of how we both fell in love. He did not omit the unpleasant part. Alex told us about Lucy's past.
"She was much better than me when it came to fighting. She could have been a good Alpha with great fighting skills. But..." Alex sighed, his eyes wet. "Many things are meant to happen. Sometimes things are going wrong before we know it."
"By the way, there's something I'd like to ask you. Alex wanted to say something.
I knew what he was going to ask.
I looked at Derek and asked him to answer.
"Erika was kidnapped as a child and was poisoned. But she was immune to many poisons. The kidnappers thought she was dead. But she was saved by Charles and survived. Since then, she has been unable to speak. That's also when she got the scars on her face."
When Derek finished, Alex couldn't contain himself any longer. He slumped down on the chair, put his hands over his face, and started to cry.
I was stunned by his reaction, not knowing what to do. At that moment, Bentley gestured for me to go and comfort Alex.
I rushed over and gently patted Alex on the shoulder as a gesture of comfort.
"Sorry. I was just thinking how upset my sister would be if she saw all that her child had suffered and I had done nothing."
I was not an emotional person. But at that moment, my eyes were also moist. But there was nothing I could do but continue to pat his shoulder and wait for him to calm down.
He calmed down quickly. He stood up and turned his back to me to dry his tears.