Ascension of a Gamma novel Chapter 42

Chapter 42 Gamma‘s Pride

– Rigel –

Fuck his possessive ass if he thought he could get rid of me. I wanted to see my princess in person; it was my duty as her knight. Lexy and Gale might tell me that she was doing fine and so was Liam, but that I had to see for myself.

It’d been four days. They were hiding something from me and if I found out Anna wasn’t well; someone was going to pay, preferably Gale.

“Last chance,” he said as we were almost in front of her bedroom door.

“I’d like to see him try.”

There was no way I was letting myself get pummeled by him. Just because he was the Alpha didn’t mean he could push me around. Getting overly jealous when I was around his mate, I swear to Goddess he was the most paranoid werewolf I had ever met. Like I could help it when women were naturally drawn to me.

I might be a player, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t loyal to the Alpha. For fucks sake,

ight be a player, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t loyal to the Alpha. For fucks sake, why couldn’t Lexy talk him out of it!

It’s the one thing she’s good at besides healing!

“He’s going to kill you,” Gale warned.

“In front of my princess? That wouldn’t b e right. Threaten me, maybe, but kill me? Not if he wants her to stay.”

I knocked on their door but there was no response.

“I told you we were too early,” he muttered.

“Shut up, Gale. Liam never slept in before. Remember our training days?” I replied and he shuddered. Those days were worse than dying that they left a scar in our minds.

I placed a hand on the handle.

“What are you doing?”

“Going in,” I said, then turned it and pushed the door open.

The bed was… there was only a mattress now, the bedsheets barely clinging to it.

w, the bedsheets barely clinging to it. Then we heard a universally recognized sound from the direction of the… bathroom.

I immediately closed the door and walked away. Gale was silent as he followed beside me.

“I heard nothing,” I said nonchalantly.” How about you?”

“How can I hear anything when they’re still sleeping,” he replied. 4.

We looked each other in the eye and nodded in agreement. That never happened, and because it never happened, we could never talk about it. Best keep it that way.

My princess was all grown up now. Guess she wouldn’t be needing me much now. I’d been cheering her up since I became her knight, which I volunteered to be just to annoy Liam.

She was a strong kind soul; it was easy to talk to her. She turned me into a real knight, eliciting a natural need to protect her at all costs. In many ways, she reminded me of my cousin.

reminded me of my cousin.

In my opinion, she deserved better than Liam. Then again, who was I to question the Goddess’s intentions? She must’ve been drunk when she mated Anna to the Alpha of her previous pack though, that was undoubtedly a mistake. If I ever meet that guy, I’d punch him so hard his jaw would disconnect. 2)

Gale would do worse, no doubt about it.

That poor bastard.

Who gives a shit? If it ever goes down, it’s well deserved.

Beating up our Anna until she was almost dead…

“Good morning, you two,” chirped Lexy, disturbing the silence between Gale and m e. “Rigel, what are you doing here?”

I raised a brow at her. “What? I’m not allowed in the mansion now? Is Liam going to sniff me out all the way here?”

“That’s not what I meant,” she said, laughing. “You look horrible.”

“No shit.” I grinned. This worrisome workaholic could use one less patient to worry about. “You don’t look any better

arry about. “You don’t look any better yourself.”

She looked down at her outfit, dark blue jeans, and a loose cotton shirt.

“What’s wrong with my clothes?” she mumbled.

“You haven’t been sleeping lately,” said Gale silently, stepping up to her and cupping her face.

“What?”

“You have bags carrying bags and you’re getting skinnier and your lips are chapped,” he said.

Quite the observant. In fact, I’m shocked they weren’t mates when Gale came of age. Liam would’ve been alright with it and so would I.

With that, it was proven. Our relationships with each other were meant to be nothing more but familial. Just four abandoned kids who fucked up at one point or another, still trying to keep it together

‘I watched them bicker back and forth

about their jobs and who needed a break.

put their jobs and who needed a break. Damn both of them, I needed a fucking break. At least one of us was on a break and having the time of his life. Ah… I shouldn’t be thinking about that – she’s my princess.

“Pervert,” said my wolf.

“Shut up, Rain. I don’t see her that way.”

I wasn’t the kind of guy who’d hit on anything that moved. Besides, she was m y princess, not my queen. The latter was reserved.

“Calm down, man. I’m your wolf,” he said, yawning

“Get your sleep. There might be more of them later, and who knows when packs will start attacking.”

“Gladly,” he said and retreated to the back of my mind.

We had almost no time to recover since the attack that night. It didn’t help that Jaymer went back to sleep. My men were getting exhausted by the day and with more of them getting sent to Lexy’s, she and her team had to work double.

and lier team liad to work double.

While the news of our Alpha waking up was a huge relief, the loss of his memories rendered him unable to perform his Alpha duties. So now, it was u p to the three of us, and for Anna to look after him in hopes that something would trigger his memories to resurface.

Although there was no pattern or any discernable motive besides the usual, these rogues were too many in number. Someone was coordinating these attacks, and we had no idea who. 1

He was the youngest in our team, having turned eighteen last month. Skinny as fuck, but the pup can fight. His wolf was vastly different from his human form, I mistook him for a stray when he jumped me as a wolf and almost choked him to death when he shifted.