The King's Wife Is The Alpha's Mate

After the big meeting, The Blood River Pack found themselves in a state of the conundrum. Their answer to their Beta was nothing more than a half-hearted response and truly not what they wanted.

The vast majority of them had been eager to fight the Riga Kingdom and finally put an end to the decades-long war between humans and lycans. Unfortunately, the precarious state of the Luna had left them under the care of their Beta since the Alpha didn't even leave her side even for a bit.

A lot of the lycans ended up exchanging silent looks, communicating with their eyes and the unhappy expressions on their face.

There was only one thing on their mind and it was this: The Alpha was too preoccupied and concerned with his mate to pay any more heed to anyone else besides his wife.

The hybrid Luna was not favored by many members because of many reasons. One, she was not a pure woman who was mated to only their Alpha.

Even though Leland forbade the pack members to gossip about his wife, people still talked behind his back. They knew the circumstances surrounding the Alpha and his mate's relationship.

That woman was already mated to another lycan and even brought children with her when she entered the relationship. It was seen as a bad thing because how could their great Alpha mate with someone else's used goods?

Lycans were extremely possessive of their mates. So, seeing their Alpha accepting a woman who already had a previous mate before made some members think he was cuckolded by that woman.

Surely someone like him could get anyone he wanted. So, why settle for someone less than he deserved?

Some female lycans were also very unhappy with their relationship. Once they knew the Luna couldn't even shift, they considered her a disgrace to all female lycans.

They thought she didn't deserve the title to be the Luna of Blood River Pack. If Leland didn't end up with the witch that his mother was so pressed on getting together with him, so why not choose from one of the many beautiful and strong female lycans among members of his pack?

The fact that Sophie was birthed by the woman who abandoned Blood River Pack decades ago for a human male was another minus point that they couldn't seem to forgive.

Of course, a lot of the negative sentiments were spread and fanned by Isolde and some elders who were loyal to her. They made the people think that their Alpha had become soft because of the woman he married.

The only reason why nobody said anything openly before Leland was because they feared him. Nobody wanted to be on his bad side since he was still the leader of this pack.

Plus, his past reputation and the body counts that he killed before he took the role as the Alpha to replace his father were something they still remembered wholeheartedly.

Nobody dared to offend him. He had become softer after he got married, but that didn't mean the real him would not come out to the surface if he was agitated.

However, today, things changed a bit. The cancellation of the attack that they had planned meticulously for months and worked hard for years was a big blow to many people.

Many pack members grew up and lived their lives with the sole purpose of getting their revenge and seeing the day when they could finally topple the human domination in Riga.

Lucas' statement that the attack was only postponed, not canceled until they could find a better time, did not sit well with most pack members. Provocations here and there left them in agitated states.

Unfortunately, even the Beta was a little preoccupied with the task given to him by Leland to investigate the maidservant of their Luna. Lucas gazed one last time at his fellow lycans before going off the stage.

The next on his task-list was searching for evidence on who poisoned the Luna. The current prime suspect was truly no other than Dinah.

However, Dinah was nowhere to be found amongst the crowd.

Lucas still needed to confront the woman. After Isolde left with some of her trusted men, Lucas ordered two guards to check all exits and make sure no one could leave the manor secretly.

He waited for Leland to give more orders, but the man didn't even leave his mate's side for a long time. So, he finally took it upon himself to do everything that needed to be done.

After he finished explaining the situation to the rest of the Blood River Pack, a majority of them looked unhappy but did not choose to go against his decisions. They grumbled but not openly.

As Lucas went down the stage after addressing the Blood River Pack, he was suddenly approached by Brin. The older lycan patted him in the back and said, "Good job, Lucas. I will take it from here."

Lucas frowned but bowed his head. "Elder, there's not much to do. The important thing is that the pack stays here… but I need to go do something that the Alpha charged me with. If you will excuse me."

"Of course, I will not hold you back."

The moment that Lucas left the grand hall of the manor and was completely out of earshot, Brin immediately took the center stage and gathered the crowd's attention back to him.

"Who among you are prepared to let this opportunity go to waste?" Brin asked. His voice boomed in the hall as he eyed them with a stern frown. "Is one pack truly beholden to one lycan alone? The Blood River Pack is strong because we are many. We should let one man define our future just because he has become weak and no more desire for victory!"

Chaos was stirred amongst those in the pack. The elder truly understood which buttons to push and use to provoke the pack and follow what he wanted.

He proceeded to tell them about how many people they had lost in the last war. How many of their beloveds had suffered under human rules.

At the end of the day, so many members had switched their loyalty to Brin.