TAMING THE ALPHA - THE CURSE OF PASSION

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{Alarm clock blares loudly}

"Darn it!!" I cursed, shuddering on my bed which could contain extra three persons on it. "Why does Mondays always comes so fast??" I stretched my hand to the pigeon-like alarm clock as i turned it off before crashing back on the bed.

I opened my eyes but everything appeared blurry as the sun penetrated through the windows which curtains were a bit apart. I groaned as i turned downwards, in order to escape the blinding sun. I was taking some time off within my territory in the woods and my territory encompassed so many wild forests and not excluding the cabin i was currently inside.

I became more powerful and ended up having the largest territory from defeated rival packs.

I had carried along few healthy pack members alongside with me as i stuffed myself up with a lot of pack warriors as well. I had many rivals who wanted to ascend the throne. And i had made for myself so many rivals from far and within.

I equipped my men with powerful guns and they were also skilled swordsmen as well who he placed under daily training. They were up from as early as 4 AM to begin training and they had little time to rest. That was the strength of my pack, i had a great military strength which made my pack a deadly and fiery pack.

Three years ago, my life had come to a pause as my father got assassinated and from a little boy who lived a simple life, i had to ascend the throne. But then, like every werewolf with a dark secret, i also had one among many others.

It's been two cold years since my mother passed on from a plague inflicted upon the werewolf race by the old witch and ruling at this point happened to be my toughest years as I ruled a sick clan, the Night Howlers Pack.

Two years of being stuck in my unending mission to save my pack and race from extinction and yet, there was no hope as and I was already in my mid-20s.

I grew weary every single day as it was a hard and impossible mission to find the cure to my sick pack. The curse soon spread amongst different werewolf packs as they all went out in search of a cure.

After a ten minutes interval, the clock blares again and this time around, i jumped off my bed as i picked up the clock from the cabinet and smashed it on the ground and i walked into the bathroom as the clock stays broken on the floor.

"Good morning, Sir." Jones greeted as i stepped out of the bathroom.

"Morning, Jones!!" I greeted back, showing no interest in whatever he had to say.

Jones Weatherford happens to be the most trusted person in my life and he happens to be my beta as well.

"You seem not to be in a good mood today, can I be of any of help to you??" Jones said in a low tone as he lowered his iPad a bit.

"Tell the maid to come clean this mess and the gent down the alley to get my car all set." I responded as i untied the towel which was wrapped over my waist.

"Is that all you need?? How about your breakfast??"

"Just a hot coffee will do for now. I need to rush down to the fortress, I have an important meeting with the elders." I muttered as i wore my shirt on.

"Okay then!!" Jones said before leaving him to himself.

"F*ck my anger issues!!" I brushed my right shoulder as i looked at the broken clock.

I proceeded to the door with my briefcase and stepping out of my room, the first person I had seen was my newly hired maid. "Good morning, sir!!" The maid bowed as i walked passed her.

"You will see my clothes, take them to the laundry before noon and have a nice day." I said with a smile on my face as i walked away.

"Oh! You are down already?? Was going to bring it to your room." Jones muffled.

I had ignored him as i sat down on the dining chair. "How about the gent??" I asked after having sipped a bit of his hot coffee which burnt the tip of my tongue.

"Oh! He has done that already." Jones responded as he helped me with my briefcase.

"There is also an important meeting on your list, Sir!!" Jones broke the silence as i gave him a deadly glare.

"Uhmm uhm." He cleared his throat as he suspended what he was about to say. He lowered his head a bit as he waited patiently for me.

One thing i grew to dislike was having a conversation when i was about to eat and i was already having a bad day to start with. Few minutes later, i had dropped the coffee, leaving little inside the mug as i walked out of the cabin with Jones behind him.

All my workers had suspended what they were doing as they showed some courtesy by bowing down before me. I had the ability to be nice to everyone but it was overly rumored that it was better to see me wear a frown than to see me wear a smile because i was a sly devil. That was more like my nickname amongst my workers.

Jones had taken the lead as they approached his black Bugatti la Voiture which he had bought for a whooping sum of 18.5 million dollars.

"I received a call from Connor Timber. I think he has a very vital information that will lead us into finding her. The other meetings can wait." I said to Jones as i ordered him to change route.

"Oh! Welcome Alpha!!" Austin said with a grin on his face. "Since you are here now, why don't we proceed to the hall??" He said, pointing towards the elevator.

"And, your beta can wait in the car for you. The alpha said he can't trust anyone else but you and he wants this meeting to be as private as possible." He muttered as Jones took some few steps backwards.

"No! No!! No!!! Something doesn't feel alright here, Jace. You have to back off now!!" Fang scowled as he kept prowling within.

"Can you stop being scared for nothing, Damon??" I scoffed as i followed the men into the elevator.

"Finally, finally, Jace Steele, we meet again." I heard a familiar voice from behind as I walked into the room.

Before i could turn back, one of the hefty looking men had smashed my face with his elbow, sending me down on one knee.

"Say your last prayer because today, you won't be surviving this!!" The man muttered as he pressed the gun against my head.

"I've found your dirty secret, Jace." The man smirked as i looked at him, with my eyes go wild in dismay.

"You want to pull the trigger?? Huh??" Allison scoffed as he looked at me. His smile right there showed how much he despised me.

It has been three years since I fled away from my pack to the bustling city and every day, I find the courage to keep my existence a secret. Exactly two years from today, Allison had asked her out to be his mate and ever since then, we have been living as a couple in my little apartment and spending my monthly income which i got from the hotel I worked in, Swiss Hotel.

"What makes you think that even having pulled that trigger at me, that your f*cking and miserable life would come to an end, huh??" He rashly said as he grabbed Rosario's waist tighter.

Rosario and Darcy has been best friends since she relocated into the city and tonight, i felt betrayed by the two persons i had come to love so very much since my entire family and pack got murdered in cold blood by other alphas led by influence of dubious scientist, who also happens to be a werewolf.

"How could you do this to me, Rosario??" I cursed as my hands shook terribly as i held the gun with my index finger on the trigger.

"I did absolutely nothing to you, Darcy. All I did was show some kindness to him." She turned as she looked at Allison and she lifted her foot up as she kissed him deeply. "All you did was starve him, no good s*x, you only made his life boring and at least, finally I stole something from you, Darcy!!" She scoffed as she rubbed his chest.

I stood still as she got soaked with the drizzling rain. Passers-by stood glued to the scene as some of them had their phones high, videoing the moment, some felt pity while some giggled at everything that unfolded in front of the Casablanca.

"Is she going nuts??" A girl in her early twenties muffled.

I heard all the giggling and sympathetic talks and i couldn't help it but cry. "I promise you, you both will regret everything. Guess you are right, I have always been the fool, always loving and being loyal to d*ckheads, to men who thinks through their d*ck!!" I cursed as she returned the gun back to my purse.

"I, Darcy Snow, even after my death, shall haunt you both for the rest of your lives!!" I cursed as i glared at them. All that ran through my head right now was to end my pathetic life. For me, that was the greatest kindness ever to be made.

"You are just too pathetic, you can keep your sermon to yourself." Rosario scowled as she held Allison's right hand tight. "Let's leave here, baby. I promise to give you a good s*x tonight." She used her right index finger to rub his lips as she smiled blushingly.

I turned around, giving a deadly glare to everyone who had gathered to see what was happening. "What are you all looking at, huh??" I snarled as i walked away angrily and embarrassed.

I boarded a taxi back to Swiss Hotel as i couldn't take the pain any longer. I felt her heart ache so badly like they were about to fall into pieces. All i ever wanted was a peaceful life as I healed from everything life had thrown at me and today, i stood in front of the two very persons that swore to always stand by me through thick and thin.

I hopped down from the taxi as i ran hastily to go meet Naomi, the only friend i had left and i ran into Naomi's embrace, crying heavily not minding that other staffs were present there, staring at me.

"Come on, Darcy?? Can you not do this here??" Naomi snapped as she tried to comfort me. "Come here." She said as she carried me to the balcony.

"What happened again?? Is it about Allison again?? What did he do this time around, huh?? And I thought you said you were both going on a date tonight??"

Naomi kept on asking different questions and I had to cut her halfway, "It's over between me and Allison and I don't care if he has been cheating on me with my friend but how could he remind me of my miserable life?? How could he??" I cursed as I wiped away her tears.

"What?? He has been cheating on you with Rosario?? That arrogant sl*t??" She cursed angrily as she stood up from where she was seated. "Did you give her a dirty punch on her nose??" She snarled angrily.

"They can go and I am throwing him out of my house before noon tomorrow. He can pack in with his new love." I cursed as she stood up.

"I always knew he couldn't be trusted. At least you know his true nature. Such a shameless man." She spat on the floor as she pat my back, consoling me.

"You know what, why don't you wait a bit so that I can pack up all my things so that I can drive you home and probably spend the week with you, babes!!" Naomi muttered as she wore a cheering smile on her face.

I had forced a smile as i hugged Naomi warmly, sneezing from the cold i had caught.

{Bang}

We trembled as we heard a rushing sound which was accompanied with a gunshot and a man fell down from the top as he crashed on a glass table, shattering it into pieces.

We turned to see the man whose face was covered with blood and his white shirt soaked with blood.

"We have to run away before we get into trouble, Darcy. Let him be, we don't even know him for crying out loud." Naomi pleaded as her heart raced really fast.

"He.... Help me...." The man gasped out as his vision failed.

Luckily for us, workers were allowed to park their car at the backside of the hotel which made it easy for us to drag the stranger whose face we couldn't recognize into the back seat of the vehicle as we zoomed off, not wasting time.

"Hell no! We can't take him to the hospital unless we end up getting into trouble." I had refused Naomi's advice as i drove straight to my apartment where I had the man treated.

I had called an old friend of my mother as she sent me and Naomi out as she carried on with the treatment.

"Are you sure about this, Darcy??" Naomi asked as she stared at me with so much fear in her eyes. "What if he doesn't make it out alive?? How then are we going to get rid of his body??" She groaned as she crashed down on the sofa chair.

"He will be fine. But there is a little problem." The doctor said as she stepped out from my room. "He was shot twice, luckily for him, none touched his heart but the thing is, they were both silver bullets!!" She furrowed her eyebrows as she stared at me sternly.

"Huh?? Silver bullets??"Naomi popped up as she looked at me.

"He is a werewolf and from what I came to notice, he is a very powerful werewolf and at that, could stand as a threat to you in particular, Darcy." She mumbled.

"Who do you think he is?? An..."

"He's an Alpha and a deadly one at that. When he groaned in pain, I saw his eyes, they were extremely red like a blood moon. You have to dispose him before he wakes up." She advised as she picked up her briefcase and she left us alone.

"I warned you, Darcy. Now, how are we going to dispose his body before he wakes up??" She groaned the more as she paced about, completely confused.

"Can you just stop being too scared? It's already enough for me to handle for a day, first was that simp, Allison and now, a complete stranger who I helped from dying and now he poses a threat to my entire life. God, what's happening??" I sobbed as I crashed down on the sofa chair.

"I told you, he wasn't any of our business but no, you went on to help him."

"Can you just stop talking, Naomi and let me think?? Let me just think this through before he wakes up. If he happens to wakes up before we come up with a good plan to dispose him, then we should be saying farewell to this life." I groaned as I lowered my head, placing both hands on my head.

"We can just put him back how we brought him here and drive him to a lonely street and dump his body there." Naomi muttered as she stood up again and she paced about aimlessly again as I could hear her heavy breathing.

"Are you sure about that??" I asked her as I picked up the idea.

It was going to be a completely bad idea if we were to drive him back to the hotel. There were two things involved and that was, either we get stopped by the cops or he wakes up in the long drive.

We had tiptoed into my room as we saw the man lying on the bed. His face was bandaged as well as his stomach where he was shot and as we approached him, the more my heart raced really fast.

"Damn!!" Naomi had mumbled as she got closer to the stranger. "He has a strong perfume and how could a man has such scary tattoos all over his body, huh??" She asked, turning to my direction as she slowly squatted to touch his body.

I stood still as I admired how muscular he was, his cupped chest, abs and well trained biceps.

"Damn it!! I never knew he was this hot!!" She blushed as she rubbed his chest.

He had the tattoo of skulls, like a cemetery on his body and a cross tattoo that had a snake wrapped around it with its tongue out.

"Okay, enough of all these adoration. Do you remember we have to dispose him before he wakes up??" I snapped her out of whatever imaginations she was currently harbouring.

I had tied two of my thick duvets together as we dropped him on it and we both pulled the duvet with so much force as we dragged him out of my apartment and we supported him into the back seat of the vehicle. I had given him my favourite bathrobe as it was a cold night.

All my other bathrobe were all messy and I couldn't wear him any of them.

"I hope you get alright soon." I mumbled as drove off to the closest lonely street which was a bit far from my apartment. At least, that means we were safe and this was going to be the last night I get to see him. I exhaled sharply as I dropped his blood stained shirt and coat right beside him.

His eyes hitched as he laid on the ground. There was no better place to drop him than by the side of an abandoned truck.

"You will be alright, Mr. Stranger!!" I muttered as I covered him with the duvet.

"Come on, we have to leave now!!" Naomi called from behind as I returned back to the car.

It was a long, noisy drive back to my apartment as Naomi kept on playing some loud songs. I kept staring at her as I couldn't believe how she could have mastered all the lyrics to every songs.

I still had many questions running through my mind about that stranger and I couldn't just hold it back to myself any longer as I turned to look at Naomi.

"But who do you think the stranger is?? And why is he a threat to me??"