Chapter 609

Madeline:

My heart was already carrying a heavy burden.

When I reached the motel, I saw many warriors standing guard.

Byron told me they were his own.

He did not want to ask Ron, nor could he accept help from the council.

He could not rely on Baxter’s mother either, and Ron’s guards were no longer an option.

The reason was simple.

Ron had texted us and informed us that his pack had been compromised.

The pack members were threatening him to bring me in.

At first, I thought that was everything.

But when I reached the motel, I realized there was more to the story.

When I received a text message myself, I was confused at first, trying to understand what was going on. The text was simple.

Unknown: Are you going to let him get hurt again?

Those words did not make sense to me.

Were they threatening Ron? Were they going to attack him? What was going on?

“Okay, listen, do not go anywhere without taking the warriors with you,” Byron said as we reached the motel room.

The moment I was about to step toward the door, I stopped.

It hit me that there were people inside waiting for Baxter.

I turned to look at Byron with hopeful eyes.

“You should not waste all your warriors on my safety. Please look for Baxter,” I requested, urging him as tears began to form in my eyes.

Byron’s pack was extremely small, so he did not have many warriors.

Whatever he had, he was using them to protect me, and I did not like that.

“Don’t worry. Once you are in a safe place, we will be fine too,” he said.

Then he told me that once he made sure I was safe, probably in his pack, he would send his warriors out to look for Baxter.

But the problem was that Baxter could be in Ron’s pack or somewhere in its woods or mountains, and their people were no longer helpful.

I wondered if they found him first, what would they do to him?

That was when I stepped inside and saw my children sitting with Lord Jonah, while Lady Eugenia paced around, clenching her fist.

She stopped the moment she saw me.

“Where is my son,” Lady Eugenia rushed at me.

If Byron had not stepped between us, she might have knocked me back.

“Don’t you know what happened? How are you still accusing her?” Byron yelled at her, then stopped when he noticed my children were getting scared.

“They’re looking for him,” I uttered, reaching my children and sitting down on the bed.

They immediately shifted from Lord Jonah to me, hugging me tightly.

“Did somebody kidnap Daddy?” Bodhi asked.

As soon as he asked that, I realized Lady Eugenia had not kept the truth from them.

The tears in their eyes told me they had already cried enough.

That was when my phone started to ring again.

I noticed the same unknown number that had been sending me strange, cryptic messages.

“Excuse me,” I said, stepping away from my children so they would not hear what was happening.

However, Lady Eugenia moved closer to me.

“What is going on? Is it Baxter?” she asked.

I shook my head and walked away, putting some distance between us.

“Hello?” I answered.

“Has Alpha Ron not told you that we have his Luna’s dead body?” the man said.

For some reason, I recognized the voice immediately.

It was the same man who had snatched the bottle of cure from me.

“What?” I could not stop myself from raising my voice.

“We have Luna Yuvonne’s body. We have asked Alpha Ron to hand you over to us, or her body will decompose in the wild. He has not listened to our demands yet. He to hand you over so by

refuses

evening, if you do not surrender, we will do things to her body that will

make her demise as shameful as

her life,” the man said.

He sounded completely unhinged, and his words brought tears to my eyes.

“You” I tried to speak, but he hung up on me.

I looked up and noticed Byron

standing in the doorway, watching

my face Everyone was starineet

me.

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I rushed out, with Byron following after me.

Thank God Lord Jonah did not let my children come after me.

“What is going on?” Byron questioned as I briskly moved away from the motel room.

I finally stopped, turned around, and told him everything I had been told.

“What the fuck is wrong with these people?” Byron shouted, running a hand through his hair I cannot believe they are doing this to their Alpha. I can only imagine how much pain Ron must be in.”

His words made me remember Yuvonne’s last promise to me.

Until now, I had been hopeful that things would get better once Baxter woke up.

But now there was no sign of him, no information. I began to wonder if they had him

too.

If the doctor was involved. If something had been removed from the camera

footage.

But it had not.

We had checked every frame. Not a single minute was missing in the last ten days.

Did that mean Baxter was dead?

He was not supposed to be taken out of the coffin.

As I began to realize that I had lost my sister, Baxter, and now Yuvonne’s body, I felt

responsible.

I had been so clueless.

They were right about me. I was not the hero I thought I was.

So at that moment, I had to make a decision.

I did not want Ron to lose Yuvonne too, not even her body.

I could not let them humiliate her after her death.