Chapter 4

Jeremy's POV

Diana's desperate cries echoed behind me as I made my way past the rows of cells until I couldn't hear her voice anymore. One of the guards locked the main doors of the prison as soon as I had made my way out of it and I nodded my head at him once when he bowed his head in respect.

"Keep an eye on her," I said to him as I walked past him and started to head towards where my power bike was parked. My mind was already formulating a plan as it was, and once again, I've got to give it up to myself – that I was a genius.

Granted, I hadn't expected Diana to not have a wolf inside of her, and as soon as it had been revealed that she was a stealer, all traces of affection I once felt for her drifted out of me into thin air. It wasn't like I was previously in love with her, I didn't even think I have it in me to love someone, to begin with. I had only declared my love for her because I knew it was what she wanted to hear from me, some mushy shit that would make her melt in an instant.

Diana was a pretty young girl, and I did not doubt that she'd make a good Luna because she was sweet, kind, and very attractive – but that was before I had found out that she doesn't have a wolf. A wolfless person would never be my mate, I couldn't even imagine that happening.

She has got to have been high on some stuff to have thought I was still going to mate with her after realizing that she was a stealer.

I climbed onto my bike and pulled my helmet on, and I slid my glove over my fingers the next moment.

She wasn't going to be completely useless to me though, she was now like a priced asset to be– a good-looking one at that, which was going to make my plan so much easier to accomplish. She was going to be of great use to me– all thanks to my really fast brain for quickly thinking of something which she was going to use in benefiting me so much.

I breathed out a slow grin and started the bike, speeding off into the roads in the next moment.

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I placed the glass of wine I was currently sipping from on the table before me, and then I picked up my pen and scribbled something down as soon as it had popped into my brain. What I had ended up coming up with had been way too big, I just had to draft the plan out to not end up confusing myself.

Perfect.

I said to myself as I scanned my eyes overall what I had ended up writing down, feeling proud to have been able to come up with all of this in such a short period.

It was some hours after I had gotten home from visiting Diana at the prison, and I had been holed up in here ever since, planning and replanning until I finally got the perfect plan ever – and Diane was going to be playing a huge role in it.

I was going to be sending Diana over to the Blue Moon pack, as a gift to the younger brother of the Alpha of Alphas. The Blue Moon pack was the head pack of all other packs in this part of the world. The other packs beneath the Blue Moon pack all had different packs leaders – who were the Alphas leaders of the various packs– and all those Alpha leaders, including myself, were all under the Alpha king of the Blue Moon.

The Alpha king of the Blue Moon pack was the Alpha of Alphas, and every other alpha leader, including myself – was all beneath him and all reported to him a couple of times a year, in a meeting for every alpha from other packs beneath him to meet up.

The Alpha of Alphas was none other than Ryan Sylvester Shumani, and I couldn't help it, I hated him so much.

I picked up my glass of wine and downed the rest of the content in one go, feeling the wine burn the back of my throat as it slid down, and I welcomed the burning feeling with open arms.

The Alpha of Alphas, Ryan Sylvester, has a younger brother named Williams, who had once found his mate but ended up losing her, and was currently mateless. That was where Diana was going to come in, I was going to offer her as a priced gift to Ryan, for his younger brother – and he was most definitely going to accept my supposed gift with open arms because it wasn't news that people who had lost their mates– widowed wolves, become an automatic maniac because of how intense the loss of losing their mates was.

It has been a while since Ryan's brother has been left without a mate, and if he continues to remain mateless, he was going to end up turning into a rogue wolf – something I was sure Ryan wasn't going to want to happen. No one was going to want to willingly mate with a widowed wolf, but in this situation, Diana wasn't going to be left with a choice. As someone without a wolf, Diana wouldn't be hurting anything inside of her by mating with someone that wasn't originally her mate, which is why I was very positive that this plan was going to work out smoothly.

Now, if only Diana wasn't going to make a fuss and just go ahead with whatever I tell her…

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Diana's POV

"What do you mean I have to go to the Blue Moon pack." I demanded as soon as Jeremy had spoken, trying to place a hold on my anger because I knew that it was going to do me no good.

Jeremy had ended up not coming back last night to my disappointment, he had left me all to myself here in the cold and empty cell. It was still a little hard to grasp the fact that the same Jeremy that had promised to give me a beautiful life once we mate together could be this heartless to me in the blink of an eye.

Today would make it a full day of me being locked in a cell, and now, Jeremy had come to see me once again – not to set me free as I had hoped as soon as he had shown up, but to deliver some sort of news that sounded absurd and crazy to my ears.

Jeremy looked extremely calm and unfazed as he made to speak. "It's for your own good, Diana. All that I'm doing is for your complete good."

He paused and lifted a hand before continuing. "Would you like it if I had freed you yesterday? You might have ended up getting kidnapped by one of the widowed wolves littered around the pack because your scent was going to be irresistible to them. Would you have liked that?" He demanded and I felt my insides flatter a little as his words slowly sank into my head. I slowly shook my head after a few moments.

"That's what I thought, and you don't even seem grateful." He accused and I felt a small wave of guilt and shame wash over me.

"I am grateful!" I argued, and then I waved a hand around the inside of the cell I was currently in. "But it's a little hard to show how grateful I am since I'm currently imprisoned for doing nothing." I sighed out to him as I sniffed a little.

"That's exactly why I want you to go to the Blue Moon pack." He spoke up almost as soon as I was done and I felt my heart skip a few beats in fright.

"What has that got to do with me? Why do I have to go there?" I inquired as I shivered a little and wrapped my arms around myself. I was still in the dress I had worn yesterday morning and it was a light one, a material that wasn't meant to be worn in a cold place.

"You'd go start a fresh leaf there, I'm sure you'd be able to find your actual mate there because we were never really each other's mates, to begin with…" Jeremy trained off and I ducked my head, feeling my inside start to crack open even more. It was still hurting a lot that Jeremy didn't end up being my mate, and that he wanted nothing to do with me– he was sending me over to a completely different pack.

"I don't want to, I might get killed off there instantly, the Alpha of Alphas is a very ruthless man and would have me fed to his wild animals without any hesitations," I said to him after a couple of moments had passed, and I slowly lifted my head to stare at Jeremy– who aaa currently scrubbing a hand over his face as a harsh breath escaped his mouth.

"Diana, you won't be going there as a commoner, you'd be going there to get mated with his younger brother. His younger brother is super nice, way nicer than the Alpha of Alphas. Once you mate with him, his elder brother isn't going to ever have a problem with you– not that he'd ever had a problem with you, to begin with." Jeremy paused and I inched forward a little, but still not touching the gates of the cell, just as he continued to speak.

"The Alpha of Alphas isn't as bad as everyone makes him out to be, those are just a bunch of stupid rumors, and you're going to enjoy your stay there. You're going to end up being thankful to me for deciding to send you over there because you'd end up living a better life there than here. You want to live a life outside of prison, don't you?"

I began to nod my head, before I could even fully absorb all that he had just said, of course, I wanted to live a suffering-free life, it was my biggest reason for really looking forward to yesterday because I had thought that was going to be the end of all my sufferings and the beginning of my happiness.

"Then, all you have to do is to agree to move to the Blue Moon pack, and your life will return to normal there. You'd make new friends and all that you've always dreamed of." Jeremy continued and I blinked when I glimpsed something close to desperation on his face, which made me take an unsure step backward as all that he had just said sank into my head.

It all sounded way too good into true, because for one– the members of the Blue Moon had been present at the open arena yesterday when I had ended up being declared as a stealer, which made all that Jeremy was saying about me starting a new leaf and easily making new friends start to sound too good to be true. With the way I had been avoided yesterday, even by my parents and sister, I was sure no wolf in their right senses who was present at the Arena yesterday was going to want to be friends with me.

"I don't believe you, Jeremy." I finally spoke after a few minutes, and the facial expression that crossed Jeremy's face was a shocked one. I continued after a few moments.

"I have a feeling you're lying to me, I don't think it would be easy for me to live a normal life in the Blue Moon pack since all of them were present yesterday when I was declared wolfless, cursed and a stealer, which made me conclude that you're probably lying to me– I'm not stupid, Jeremy." I lifted my head once I was done, instantly noticing the way Jeremy started to squeeze at the iron of the gate which one of his hands had been lightly gripping before.

"I'm not lying to you, Diana. it's all for your own good."

I shook my head and took another step backward. "You are. You're lying to me. You're trying to take advantage of me– of my helplessness, of the fact that I'm desperate and ready to do anything to leave this cell." I murmured quietly, without looking away from him. My heart was breaking more and more as each word left my mouth, and it made it all worse to see the truth staring right back at me from his face the next moment.

"You're impossible, Diana! I'm not fucking taking advantage of you, I'm trying to help your miserable life out here." He snapped in the next moment and I flinched a little as his words hit me like a slap on the face. It probably shouldn't come as a surprise to me that he had almost been about to take advantage of me, but because I was still finding it hard to completely wrap my head around all that had happened since yesterday, made his words caught me unaware.

"Jeremy…" I started to speak in a whisper but he cut me off harshly.

"Shut the hell up, Diana! I should have fucking left you to get mated to some lousy fool yesterday, can't believe I wasted my time to get you saved only for you to try to act all smart with me today. You should be feeling grateful to me, you cursed stealer, but what did I get in return for my kindness? A fucking ungrateful bitch who felt like she had a right to make choices in this current situation."

As each word hit me, it was like I broke even more, and before he was done with his sentence, tears had started to slide down my cheeks. I couldn't believe I had once thought Jeremy was the most amazing and perfect wolf to get mated with, not knowing all that was lying beneath the facade he always put out.

"Of course, you'd start sobbing. All you do is sob pathetically, and you think I was trying to take advantage of you? What makes you think you're even worth taking advantage of? Huh?" He snarled out and once again, I flinched and tried to stop my tears from coming almost immediately.

"Only things with benefits– meaningful things, are the kind of things that can get taken advantage of – not someone as useless and worthless as you currently are, so whatever stupid notion you've got in your head, you had better let it out the window this very moment.

Somehow, I had managed to get control of myself, including my tears, before he was done speaking and he gave me a long, unreadable look before existing.

I tried my best to remain calm, hell bent on not breaking down now that I was alone– even though it felt like an intense war was going on in my head at the moment.