~Asher's POV~
I pulled a chair for myself that one of the pack members brought for me and looked at the beta of Ocean Howl Pack who was shivering under my gaze.
He was sitting on the ground with his hands tied behind his back and his uneven breaths mixed with fear were reaching my ears. He is one of those fifteen men who was working with Joseph in capturing the fairies.
"I-I I'm sorry your majesty."
His stuttering made me chuckle, he anyway knew this moment would come but still, he dared to follow his shitty alpha's words.
I tilted my head to the right while directly gazing into his fearful eyes, "Your actions went way far for a sorry."
My low deep voice made his heart beat rapidly and so loudly that my Lycan started chuckling in my head.
"He will pee in his pants if you growl at him," Kai chuckled.
"Didn't you know that you would be taken care of by the royalty if you didn't stop troubling the fairies?" Ethan asked.
He gulped but didn't say a word which made me scoff internally, I might not be a mind reader like my mother, but I know the expression and smell of overconfidence very well. These shits literally thought that no one from the royalty would take action against them.
Everyone from the ocean howl pack gathered around us but made sure to have a great distance from the blood moon wolves. Ian, Archer, and others came with Joseph and other people who were involved in this and Evan came from somewhere else with a woman walking beside him.
By the relief on her face, I can tell she is Joseph's mate.
"He used to beat her. She has scars on her body," Kai growled.
People gasped to see her and someone from the crowd said, "She is alive..."
"You made people believe that your mate died?" My head snapped towards Joseph and a loud growl came out of my mouth.
I quickly went in front of him and grabbed his face. His face started to get hot with the heat coming out of my palms and he started begging for me to stop.
"Why do you want a fairy when you have a mate who I can smell is pregnant as well?" I lowly growled at him and loosened my grip on his face so that he could speak.
He caught his breath and glanced at his mate who was looking at him with tears and hatred in her eyes.
"Who wants a normal she-wolf when I can have fairies who can perform a lot of magic for me?"
"He dug his own grave," Archer muttered.
"I would have given you the love that no fairy couldn't give you, f*****g moron!" The girl yelled.
"I don't-"
I didn't let the pathetic alpha complete his sentence and snapped his left arm from his shoulder. I let the snapped arm burn while lying on the ground and twisted his ankle making him scream at the top of his lungs.
"Fairies are not even loyal to their own mates and you thought they would be loyal to you? What kind of sickness do you have in your mind? You got a werewolf mate who would have given you the life you deserve, but no... Just like a power-hungry bastard, you ran after something which is not even yours."
I thought he will plead with me to stop giving him burning sensations but his bitter chuckle made me furrow my brows.
"These words are coming from a man who is himself mateless. Did your mate die, Prince Asher?"
I generally don't like going wild on anyone in front of so many people, but how dare he bring my mate into this!
I slammed his body hard on a tree trunk and let his broken ankle burn slowly. I dropped him on the ground and roared, "I am not an old hag who has lived his life without a mate. My mate is out there breathing perfectly and once she will be with me, she will be witnessing your death."
He screamed at the top of his lungs due to the fire raising in his ankle and everyone bowed in submission to me. He was screeching so much that people from his pack started to shiver and some of them told more names who were involved in this activity. Some of them by doing this with their will and some by force.
The Fairy King appeared out of nowhere and I suppressed my growl, I told him last time not to pop in front of me like that.
He moved his eyes like a scanner everywhere with furrowed brows and said, "I can't see the fairies whom he captured. Eight of them are missing."
"Did you check the dungeon?" I asked my beta.
"There were no traces of fairies," Ian answered.
Not controlling my powers anymore, I let my fiery red eyes come to the surface with smoke surrounding me and grabbed the face of the weeping alpha and made him stand on his broken ankle, "Where are the fairies?"
"There is a secret passage in the dungeon which leads to a room. All of the fairies are there..." He said lowering his head in submission.
"He is hiding something," Evan quickly said.
Where I am able to see in the darkness with my Lycan senses, Evan can tell whether the person is lying or hiding something. And if his Lycan senses say that he is hiding something, then for sure there is something that he wants to keep out of our sight.
My claws dug deeper into Joseph's cheeks and groaning in pain, he told me something which I didn't want to hear. Another she-wolf apart from his mate, is also captured and she is from the Red River Pack. It's the girl that Alec mentioned.
I threw Joseph in the Fairy King's direction and told him to have his time with him.
"Do not kill him until I tell you to do so..."
"Is that an order?" he asked with a quirked brow.
"You can consider it that way as well..." I replied with a smirk.
"Like father like son..." he chuckled.
I smirked proudly at his remark. I love how my Dad keeps everything in control and how strongly he presents himself in front of others. It's because of his aura and personality that he is respected in every supernatural world and every realm. I always look forward to him, I always wanted to be like him and now hearing comments like this for over a year... I can certainly say that I am somewhere near close to making him proud every day.
"Still near?" Kai asked.
"Yes... I have to be like this my whole life so I can say that my dad was proud of me always." I replied smiling internally.
We went to the room which was hidden behind the dungeon walls and I must say that I am somewhere impressed by this stupid alpha. He wasn't smart in considering that royals will be coming after him if he didn't stop his deeds right there but he was smart enough to build a room behind the dungeon walls with a lot of precautions on the pathway.
Along with having laser sensors, there were small holes from which small arrows were coming out at each step and with a lot of darkness on the way, James from my clan got hit with the arrow as it wasn't easy to identify where those holes were.
But for me, it was just a piece of cake. Every royal lycan has a special ability and mine is to see clearly even in darkness. I burned the arrow holes and laser shot fitting and the fairy king lighten the way with fire in his hands.
"I guess the fairy king was scared of the future werewolf king when you strangled him and burned his neck," Evan chuckled in our mind link.
Indeed he was. We have the same fire element but neither he tried to fight back nor did he dare to use his powers to protect himself from the burns that I gave him.
We entered the room and saw eight fairies and one she-wolf sitting in the corner of the room. She was hugging her knees while there were tears stains all over her face. I fisted my hand, I will hand over her mate to Alec but before that, I will give him ten times more pain than his mate has endured.
Her eyes lit with hope after seeing me and she instantly bowed while getting up from the floor.
"Who is your mate?" I softly asked.
"His name is George Thompson, Prince..."
Her voice was so low and broken that it broke my heart. How can someone be so cruel to his own mate?
These fuckers deserve to be mateless their whole life. I don't understand why the moon goddess even takes effort to bind them with someone.
Fairies popped away after showing their gratitude to me and the fairy king took Joseph away.
I saw the ocean howl people comforting their luna and heard some whispers that who will be their next alpha. I looked at Joseph's mate, Marie, and asked what does she want to do with her life.
"These people love me... They always did. I want to stay here only."
I nodded, "I believe that a woman can lead a pack and you are already a born leader with alpha blood in your veins. I make you, the leader of this pack and from today onwards you will be the alpha of this pack. By the way, why didn't your father come to your rescue? You are his only child."
Tears started coming from her eyes and I understood that fucker did something to the alpha. Damn... How the f**k did I miss so many things altogether?
I am sure I will be getting an earful for this from my parents.
"If the alpha is bedridden, then who is leading the pack?" Ethan asked.
"It's the beta who is leading the pack. I heard the alpha was in a car accident... But... The reality is something else," Ian said.
"Ian, arrange a meeting with the night moon beta within his territory," I said and asked Marie if she is ok with the beta becoming the alpha and she nodded her head, "He is my cousin as well. I know he will lead the pack amazingly."
I nodded to her and leaving her in charge of the ocean howl pack and warning everyone not to go against their new alpha's words, I made my way back to my pack.
I smirked, I have several new people to throw in the dungeon and improve my powers more.