Chapter 144

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[SAMANTHA’s Point of View]

I had to find him.

I had to tell my husband that everything happening in his territory was part of a huge conspiracy, and we needed to stop it as soon as we got back to Silver Crescent!

Could it be why the Moon Goddess led me into this place, and not because of the thing Brianne told me that could help me with my newly reawakened powers as a primordial werewolf?

“Dominic, where the hell are you?” I whispered under my breath as I hid behind the tree where we stayed before we split up.

To locate him, I had to use my special connection with him through our bond. He wasn’t too far away, but he was surrounded by the powerful tribal werewolves who wanted both of us dead. I had to go to him, but he saw me, and I sensed that warning coming from him through our bond.

[Don’t!] Dominic snarled; his eyes were on high alert, glaring, ready to down anyone who would pounce on him. [Don’t go anywhere near here, Samantha! Stay where you are hiding!]

[You can’t fight them alone! You’ll die!] I screamed in his head in panic. [There are too many of them here!]

[It’s the point of luring them away from you, love. This way, you can leave safely and take the kids with you. Go anywhere away from here! Away from Silver Crescent!]

[Are you insane!? Do you think I can leave you to die in here!? No, Dominic! If you die, then we will f*cking die together!]

With all my strength, I kicked the one who was blocking my way to get to my husband. The tribal guy slammed against another, and they both rolled to the ground with everyone looking at them with baffled eyes.

“Get away from my husband!” They looked at me with a lethal glare, their throats reverberating with snarls, as I snarled back at them.

“Samantha! I told you not to—”

“No! I won’t leave you here!” I hissed at my husband as I ran and crouched beside him, shooting cold glares at the enemies in front of us. “We will get out of this place together, Dominic!”

Dominic looked at me from the side of his eyes and then grinned.

I was confused and surprised at that expression on his face until he grabbed my arm and jumped so high that my eyes widened. I never knew Dominic could spring this high, even in his human form, and that stunned the tribes of werewolves below us.

“Dominic!” I screamed at him, bewildered at what he was going to do. “What’s the plan?!”

“The plan is for us to stay alive!”

Dominic asked me to wrap my arms around his waist as he jumped from tree to tree until we reached the other side of the cave and found a smaller chamber, a hole in the wall that was big enough for both of us to fit. I checked if someone followed us, and there wasn’t. Dominic must have totally petrified them, seeing him as if he were flying.

I frowned. “How did you learn that?” I asked, grinning with annoyed amusement. “I had never seen you do that before.”

“I used to do that a lot during our training to get away from the mentors who wanted me to spend extra time working on more physical training,” he laughed softly as he looked at me with that boyish grin. A bead of sweat trickled down his chin, which meant that the trick he just did cost him so much strength and energy. “It has been years since I did it again.”

If we were in a different situation, I would laugh at what he did. But what I learned while I was away from him was more important. Biting my lower lip hard, I couldn’t look into my husband’s eyes. Would I tell him? Would he believe me?

“Samantha?” His smile turned into a deep, worried frown. “Are you hurt?”

“I need to tell you something, love.” I swallowed hard as I looked down at his hand when he squeezed mine. “It’s critical, so please listen carefully, Dominic.”

His eyes focused on my face as he saw how grave-looking I was, and that’s when I breathed out heavily and decided to finally tell him. “I think you are being surrounded by enemies, Dominic. And I mean not just outside the walls, but in the council. Your council was infiltrated by people who want to destroy Silver Crescent!”

“What are you—”

Without any hesitation, I explained to Dominic everything I found out about the other members being a part of a much bigger conspiracy that was rooted in this very cave—that the downfall of Silver Crescent was already planned as soon as the people from this cave turned successful at taking over his pack.

All he did was stare at me, both dreading and pale as he thought about all the realizations I told him. All the people who were part of the Silver Crescent council were already members since his father became the Alpha of the pack. And that meant they had held onto the pack’s power for decades, which my husband had worked so hard to become one of the continent’s best.

They had been using Silver Crescent as leverage for their plans to destroy the Royal Clan.

“Alpha of the Silver Crescent Pack!”

My husband and I were both baffled after we heard that deep, booming voice coming from someone below. I looked down and saw a pack of werewolves waiting for us to go down. A muscular guy was in front of them—a giant who was the biggest among them.

“Either you go down here and let us kill you both, or everyone you know in Silver Crescent will be dead!” he yelled at both of us with glowing crimson eyes full of bloodlust and anger. “Get down here and we will make sure not to let your children suffer when we kill them!”

I saw how Dominic’s eyes widened in rage. If I hadn’t grabbed his hand and held him back, he would have already lunged at the giant guy. There’s no way he could fight all of those werewolves below who wanted to rip us apart like ribbons.

But hearing him threatening us about our children…

My heart skipped a beat when Dominic pulled his arm away from my grip and dove down headfirst, shifted into his werewolf in midair with his claws stretched, ready to rip the leader of the tribal werewolves.

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