CHAPTER 3

Darco's POV

Has it been over a year and half I last saw Helena? She had come to me with a smiling face that early morning with a clear sky and atmosphere of spring at the Lead Lake situated at the pack. She was jumping and hopping through the metal rails of the bridge and I couldn't get enough of her radiating beauty as I stared at her from afar where I was waiting for her.

She called out to me "Darco" with a wave and I smiled back before proceeding to walk towards her direction. Running to my side with a woven bamboo basket in her hand, she was giggling and finally linked her arms around mine when we met halfway on the bridge. She was my mate and we have been dating for over two years, everyone knew about us but we were never ashamed or try to hide that fact.

She would come over to my place and I would walk her back to her place whenever she's leaving making us the inseparable love birds. "Did you wait for long?" she asked as we turned to walk down the bridge and I replied with "No, I just got here not quite long", lying, even though I had been waiting on the bridge for over thirty minutes.

"I am sorry I came late, I suddenly had to fix some things and that took a while" she apologized and I told her it was okay.

We went to the huge field close to the mountain and settled there to eat the food she brought along, we had promised to go on a picnic that day.

After eating, we ran around the field, looked at flowers and went back to the bridge to look at several fishes playing in the water. We were still on our date with our finger intertwined when Gray, the Beta' son rushed to our side with a panicked expression.

I asked "What's wrong?" with a calm voice and he blurt out "There is trouble at the palace" making me wonder what type of trouble it could be.

We rushed down to the palace to see the dead bodies of both the Alpha and Luna being carried out on a stretcher as they carried them into the ambulance. My eyes flashed between black and red for minutes as I could not comprehend what was happening in front of me.

I shouted "What just happened? What happened to them?" at the security guards standing in front of them and one of the guards informed me "They were visited by the Jones family and the next thing we heard was gunshots. Series of gunshots were fired by them and they killed both the Alpha and the Luna" which I laughed crazily at for a while because there is no how they would do that.

The Jones are my in-laws and their daughter is right beside me with the basket we brought from our picnic so why should this kind of expensive joke be playing itself out right in front of me? Something didn't feel right no matter how I tried to look at it from different angles. One of the police officers walked up to us and said "You will have to come with us for questioning and we will be arresting you without warrant" to Helena who was still standing beside me.

"What do you mean I am under arrest? I didn't do anything" she protested but the officer answered "Your parents killed both the Luna and the Alpha so we need you for further questioning" before leading her into the van.

The case was investigated and it was proven that she knew about it, and that was the reason she called me out for the damn picnic. She clearly told me that her calling me out for the picnic was the last favor she could offer so I wouldn't get killed, that statement made me despise her so much at that very moment. What audacity? She did me a last favor when she knew that my parents would be killed by hers? I have never met someone as crazy and evil as her.

The murderer of my parents is now here asking me to kneel down in front of her if I want the vaccine? That will be over my dead body!