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MAXIM'S POV

I walked into my office with anger flowing out of me. I could not believe that some pack members could go rogue on me after everything I had done for them. They betrayed me all for what? A scoundrel who called himself my rival.

Dragoni Pack has been an enemy to me for years even before I was born. Despite the many wars we have fought, they have refused to stand down until they ruled over every pack that existed around the world. Now, foolish omegas thought they could betray me without getting punished.

"Alpha. What shall we do about the rogues?" Stanley, my beta asked.

I backed him and glared at the wall before me. The urge to hunt down all of them was great inside me. I wanted them dead and before they died, they needed to suffer for breaking the rules of the pack. I wanted to skin them alive and hang their skulls as a warning to those who dared to repeat the same action.

"Send some hunters and find them. Make sure every one of them is found and brought back to me," I ordered with anger eating deep inside me.

"Yes, Alpha," Stanley said.

I felt him leave the room then I took a deep breath to calm myself down. The last thing I needed was to trigger my wolf. He was more violent and had too much power over me when I was angry and making him aware of my emotions right now would create problems because he would not rest until he and I found those bastards.

To form a distraction, I sat down at my desk and opened my laptop to work. As I scrolled, looking for any pending project, someone knocked on my door.

"Yes?"

The door opened and I looked in its direction to see who it was. My brows furrowed when Andrew walked into my office with a crestfallen expression on his face. In fact, he looked like he had seen the moon goddess herself. He was paler than usual with a look of dread masking his face. I rose to my feet in worry as he approached my desk with careful steps.

"Andrew?" I eyed his body to see if he was fine.

"A-Alpha Maxim," Andrew said with a bow and stood straight right after.

"Why are you here and not at the hospital? Is everything alright?"

Andrew looked away from me. His eyes refused to stay in one place as it moved from here to there. I took a whiff and got a hint of his fear oozing off him and his wolf. I waited to hear him speak and when he didn't, anger filled me.

"You will speak, Andrew!" I clenched my hands to keep myself at bay.

"Yes, A-Alpha." He cleared his throat and adjusted his glasses. "I… I have something to say and to ask."

"What is it? I do not have all the time to waste."

I sat back down on my chair and waited to hear him speak.

"A woman was rushed to the hospital and upon seeing her… I… Alpha Maxim, she had your scent."

I shrugged, feeling indifferent about the information.

"It must have been one of the women I brought to my bed. What use is this information?" 

Andrew scratched his neck and chuckled.

"Uhm… Alpha Maxim. This one is different. She is… She is human and… Uh…. She carries your child."

I sprang to my feet at his words. My ears had heard wrong. A human was pregnant with my child? This had to be a lie.

"What are you saying, Andrew? You do realize that you can be killed for spewing such lies on my name."

"No! I am not lying, Alpha. This woman is truly pregnant with your child. I can sense the child growing in her womb and also smell your scent on her. Your scent is remarkably strong, I cannot lie."

This could not be happening. This was false. None of what Andrew was saying was true. How could I impregnate a woman, worse, a human. A petty human. A human and a wolf had no business mingling with each other so how the fuck did I get one pregnant?

"Who is she?"

"Amaya Jones." He pulled out his phone and handed it to me.

I looked down at the screen and in an instant, I recognized who it was. The passport photograph on the form was the image of the woman I had fucked nights ago. The woman who I had fucked once and thought I would never look back. This was the same woman who made me restless and grow with lust for her. She was the one who I got pregnant, and she was human.

Fuck.

This was blasphemous. This could not be happening. I, Alpha Maxim of the BloodClaw Pack laid with a human and fertilized her womb with my seed. I have sinned and ruined my bloodline and the pack by impregnating a fucking human.

"Alpha?"

The more I stared at her picture, the more a sudden weight of hate for the woman developed. This woman, Amaya had somehow masked her scent, which was supposed to make me know whether she was of a supernatural species or human and now she carried my child.

"Alpha… There is something else."

I looked up from the phone and raised an eyebrow at Andrew who looked even more pale.

"She is missing."

I did not care if she was. She did not matter to me. She was just an avenue for me to relieve myself. It was better she got lost than to make me disgrace my pack and title.

"So?" I walked away from my desk to the large window overlooking thick trees and bright skies.

"You don't understand, sir. She has been abducted by the Dragoni."

Everything around me stood still at that name. 

"What did you just say?"

"The Dragoni pack found out she was pregnant and has her. I had someone tail her. She has been taken hostage, and I do not know what they plan to do but Amaya is carrying your heir and if we do not save her, you know what happens if a rival pack gets a hold of an heir, born or unborn."

I gritted my teeth and turned back around with a new wave of anger flowing through me. My wolf crept into my conscience, taking over my mind and soul.

"We must find her and kill them," my wolf whispered in my head.

I snarled. "Get the troops ready."

I will find this woman and make her pay for this.