Chapter 85 Pay 

Elinor’s p.o.v. 

No one ever gave me the time of day, it was always Donovan this and Donovan that. Dad had his heir and he thought that Mom had her Princess, but he couldn’t have been more wrong. Mom hated that I wasn’t a boy, that was until someone pointed out I would get an Alpha Mate. 

Zalia was different, she made sure I felt seen and she listened, really listened if I needed her. She never treated me differently, just as she didn’t treat Kali or Slater differently. We might have been the second. born Pup to a High–ranking Wolf and Lycan, but to her we were individuals. 

I made sure I was better than Donovan at everything I could be better at, I studied hard and always. listened to anything Dad had to say. I trained as much as I could, but I knew I would never be able to beat Donovan. He was an Alpha and that meant with the right training he would be unbeatable. 

For a few years I thought Donovan wasn’t training as much as he should, because Zalia kicked his ass almost every chance she got and even though she was a Gamma’s Daughter, she shouldn’t have been able to beat him in a fight. I was about twelve when I started paying more attention to their fights and I noticed that Zalia was not only better in fighting, she was also much stronger. 

I started to pay attention to our current and future leadership after I made that discovery and I realized quickly that Dad didn’t hold much power as an Alpha. The power I felt from other Alphas was stronger than that of my Father and even though I never tested it. I could tell that Zalia’s powers were stronger than Donovan’s power. 

At the of fourteen I discovered Dad’s secret hiding places on the Alpha floor and it didn’t take me long to figure out that Dad was not the rightful Alpha to Mogn Stone Pack. After reading his journals I never was able to look at him the same way again, he had lost my respect and trust. 

A year later I found out that Donovan was a hypocrite, he would always comment on males and females that slept with someone that wasn’t their Mate and that while he was doing exactly the same thing. It made me more adamant to become the best Alpha I could be Donovan wasn’t smart and strong enough to become Moon Stone’s Alpha. 

Than luck was smiling at me, Donovan had gotten caught and Dad had been furious. Mom convinced him to make me the Alpha, but I knew it was Dad’s way of getting Donovan back on track and it became even more clear when he started training me. He only showed me the boring paperwork as he called it, but nothing on our borders, our security or our finances. 

The pictures Kali and I found taped to Donovan and Gibson’s door made Dad lose his patience for a moment, but it didn’t last long. Zalia moved out of the Pack–house and I thought it had everything to do with Donovan and Gibson, but I had to stifle a smile when we all found out she was the one to take out Donovan and Gibson. 

It was also the day I realized why Zalia had been able to beat my Brother at every turn, she had been hiding her bloodline. I wasn’t the only one that noticed her aura, but my Father and my Brother took it a little bit too far. ‘They deserve everything that is coming to them and I do know what that means. 

For a little while I thought I would still become the Alpha of Moon Stone Pack, but Zalia kept revealing one secret after the other. Dad not being the Alpha, Dad stealing money from the Pack and last but not least, Zalia being the rightful heir to Moon Stone and Crystal Cove Pack. 

How the fuck did she get this lucky? Both her Grandparents were from an Alpha bloodline, her parents were both from an Alnha bloodline and that makes her very strong Aluha. But instead of handing Moon 

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Stone Pack to me, she decided to disband it and give the territory to Little River Pack. 

Zalia’s exposure of my Dad and everything he did, has caused me to become the laughing stock of the Kingdom and no one treats me with the respect I once got as an Alpha’s Daughter. His plan to have Donovan forcefully mark her got him sentenced to death and Mom is facing severe punishment for helping him, the only thing that has saved her from a death sentence is that she didn’t know what Dad had planned. 

Alpha Eros asked the Queen to take me and my Mother with her, he didn’t want us in his territory and now I am under guard at the Palace. A Warrior follows the wherever I go and it is starting to annoy the hell out of me, I can’t even seem to find a peaceful moment in my room. 

Time passes slow when there is nothing for you to do and that gives me plenty of time to get pissed off with everyone. Mom is now a Servant at the Palace and we live on the same floor as every other Servant, something Mom really hates. I just pretend to listen, when she is ranting about having to work with the Palace Servants and how far below her they are. 

I am spending most of my days in the Library and my Guards seem to let down their guard with every day that passes. 

I have been summoned to the Queen’s office twice so far and both times she asked me what I planned to do with my life. I told her the truth both times, I don’t Have a clue what I want to do with my life and I don’t think I will have a long life anyway. 

In the Library I found a map of every territory in the Kingdom and I let everyone believe I was looking for a new Pack. My finger would be moving across the map, but my eyes were glued to the territory that belongs to Crystal Cove Pack and I memorize every piece of the border. 

There is a territory to the north of them and it belongs to a small Pack that I have never heard of, but then again Dad only had interest in larger Packs. I keep returning to the map and every few hours I look up a Pack that is far away from Moon Stone territory, but I always find something I don’t like about it. 

It takes me a week to get my plan together and it is the same amount of time it takes for the Guards to really stop paying attention to me. Slipping away from my Guards is easy, but getting out of Mystic Moon territory proofs to be a bit harder and just as I cross the border the alarm sounds. I guess that means they know I am no longer in the Library and it also means they will start searching for me. 

I slowly make my way through no man’s land, I don’t want any border patrol to spot me and I still have a long way to go. Somehow I will make my way into Crystal Cove territory and then I am going to make Zalia pay for what she did to my family. 

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