Hector didn’t know how to handle a sudden situation like this. He wasn’t ready for it. His father had asked him to deal with River and Hunter and keep them busy and then he had inserted his own agenda of trying to keep River for as long as possible because he was feeling attracted to her, but this- he never anticipated that River would come with such a volatile revelation.
“How can you claim that you are Alpha Lowell’s daughter?” Hector hissed, as he balled his hands into tight fists. “And you think that we will believe anyone who walks in here and claims it?”
River remained quiet for a while. “It is easy to claim my inheritance, Hector,” she replied calmly. Then she leaned forward a little. “But how are you and your family going to deal with it?”
Victoria and Mrs. Miller were totally confused and shocked with the information that River just gave. For Victoria, it meant that she would no longer be a Luna and that was the worst possible thing she could imagine. She had thrown herself to Hector to satiate his physical needs every time he demanded. She had woven a web of **and deceit and love and trapped him in a way that he would reject his mate if he ever found her. And he did that for her. But now? Now the tables turned so sharply that Victoria felt her whole world crumble in front of her eyes.
“You are talking nonsense!” she squealed and was about to hit River, when Hunter stopped her hand and shoved her so hard that she was pushed to the ground. She shrieked as terror surged through her.
“If you dare to lift a hand on River, I won’t hesitate in severing it from your body!” Hunter hissed, glaring at her. Victoria winced. She hoped that Hector would fight for her but he stood their numb in his place, too afraid to move. Mrs. Miller didn’t know what to say. Alpha Lowell was her former Alpha and he was killed. It was said that his entire family was killed and no one survived when Alpha Maxim challenged him. “Alpha Lowell was a ***,” Mrs. Miller said. “He couldn’t protect us. He betrayed us and-” she glanced at Hunter. She gulped when Hunter narrowed his eyes on her. In a very low voice she said, “-joined hands with the Lycans.”
“And who fed you this information?” River asked, crossing her hands across her chest. “Who started this rumor?”
Mrs. Miller’s eyes became wide. The person who fed this information to them was none other than Alpha Maxim. But how could she say that in front of Hector?
“You better ***up, River!” Hector said. “No one will believe your lies. You better pick up that certificate and go back to the Veil with your Lycan King and be his breeder. No one wants you here!”
Hunter was on Hector’s throat. Hector grabbed his wrists to yank off his hand, but the Lycan was too strong.
Victoria shrieked. “Leave him!” Hearing the commotion, several students and teachers came into the office. “Leave him!” she shouted again.
Hector punched Hunter in his belly and Hunter gave it back to him. He punched him heavily on his chest. Hector tumbled to the ground as air punched out of him and his face became red. Lycans were way too strong and he was no match to him. He wheezed and coughed as Victoria rushed to his side. She began crying. She looked at River and in order to garner pity from everyone cried, “River, why can’t you leave the two of us in peace? I know that you like Hector a lot, but that doesn’t mean that you are going to get him hit by Alpha Hunter, It’s not Hector’s fault that he loves me and not you. Why are you being so mean to us? Please leave us and let us live in love and harmony.” She looked at Hector and stroked his hair. Then she helped him to stand up.
River scoffed at Victoria. She knew her games. She had been a victim of her games, but no more. River started clapping. She clapped slowly as she glanced at others in the office. “Nice try, Victoria,” she said. “But let me make it very clear to you.” He looked from her to Hector. “I *** Hector. I despise him so much that if given a chance I will challenge him for my position right now. And I can never ever like a man who can’t even protect his woman. Look at you. He can never protect you. And…
“This is not the case, Victoria said in a shaky voice as she clutched Hector’s arm.
River took a step forward. “Did you forget how much he wanted to get back to me in the Veil?” At that, she heard a growl. It was Hunter. She placed a hand on Hunter’s ar casually stroked it. That seemed to calm him. She continued, “If that wasn’t enough, I know that hector wants me back even now despite the fact that I have rejected him and he has rejected me! And the reason why he ignored me as his mate was… you.”
At the word “reject there was an audible gasp from many. No one knew that River was Hector’s mate.
The fact that he rejected River because of Victoria was simply ***. How could an Alpha reject his mate?
Murmurs broke in the crowd. Victoria looked at all of them with a blush on her face.
Hector had to do something to contain this situation which was speedily going out of hands. “River,” he growled. “It is better you leave this pack as soon as possible and never return.” He grabbed the certificate from the table and slid it to her. “Take it and get out and go back to ***online interior designing course you want to do. Stop telling lies to create unrest in the pack. Is that clear?”
River chuckled. She took the certificate and tore it into several pieces. She flung it at him. “I will not take this fake
certificate, Hector. You better write my real father’s name on it and then I will take it.”
Hector sneered. “You have no proof that Alpha Lowell was your father. He betrayed this pack of werewolves and so my father punished him. Betrayers don’t get to live. You should be happy that my father killed him and his family because if he hadn’t, then he would have been running with his tail between his legs as a rogue!”
River wanted to slap Hector, but she controlled herself. “The day I will bring the proof that Alpha Lowell was my father, that day I will challenge your father for the position of Alpha of the Crescent Moon pack.”
Fresh murmurs of surprise and shock broke all over again.
“She is going to challenge Alpha Maxim?”
“No one dares to do that unless one has Alpha genes!”
“Is she truly Alpha Lowell’s daughter?”
“That betrayer?”
River was furious. She turned to look at them. “My father never betrayed his pack. He only wanted to have peace with the Lycans to stop them from mindlessly killing the werewolves! You have been given wrong information!” Hector was shocked. The girl who was so meek and scared at all times, was now standing in front of him and talking about challenging his father who was the Alpha of the Crescent Moon pack? She had changed drastically. “Don’t listen to the lies of this girl! She is saying all this only
because we offered her to be the breeder of the Lycan King,” he spat. Hunter was getting impatient. “Enough!” he roared. Everyone out there became quiet as they started to tremble. He grasped River’s arm and said, “We will come back. This is not over. But right now, I want you to come back with me!”
