Chapter 2Pulsifini's POV.
The banquet was held at 9,00 p.m. as scheduled.
The grand curtain was drawn, and people dressed in gorgeous costumes would enter in turn, accompanied by beautiful music.
The residence at night is filled with a touch of mysterious beauty. The moon like holy light shines in all corners of the mansion. The gauze curtain is like a misty moon shadow. The guests of honor, dressed in exquisite costumes, were the stars that adorned the moon.
I was in charge of welcoming guests at the banquet, and although I was at the end of the line, I was able to see the guests entering.
"Because you are beautiful enough to show off the beauty of our Blood Moon Pack," Lillian said so. I still feel shy when I think of her smile at that time. Maybe she was also complimenting my mother.
Cheers rang out from the venue, and I hurried to focus. The first to enter were our allies, most of whom I didn't recognize.
Next came the Gamma and Beta of our Blood Moon Pack. The small man with dark brown hair and brown eyes would be our Gamma. I've only seen him a few times from afar. He was still very recognizable with some gray hair mixed in with his brown hair. I'm sure the green-eyed man with dirty blond hair is our current Beta Ford, who is tall and very eye-catching. But Lillian spits on him for being a playboy.
And finally, the Alpha. In an unstoppable whisper, he entered. A handsome man with a strong, powerful body, with fluffy black hair and lake-like ice blue eyes. He seemed to have the ability to freeze time, and in the few seconds that he walked into the venue, my eyes were firmly clutched by him. I sighed in silent admiration, this is the bloodthirsty Alpha of our Blood Moon Pack, Alves Tobias.
Without warning, he suddenly looked at me with a deviation of his eyes. His gaze was so cold that the tip was like a thorn sticking into my skin.
The spell that had trapped my gaze was immediately broken. I hurriedly lowered my head and made a respectful face.
I held my breath as my afterimage caught the slightest deviation of his toe. My brain went blank and my head dropped even lower.
Good thing it was just a false alarm. He didn't stop for anything and walked straight into the meeting.
He let me go for now.
Alves's POV.
The party is in an hour and the servants are still making final preparations.
I had already changed into my tuxedo. The dress fit well, but I still felt irritable and couldn't sit quietly. I walked to the window, loosened my bow tie, and the people in the courtyard were still busy.
Suddenly I remembered many years ago, when I was still a child, and I begged my father to allow me to attend the pre-war meetings as well. I begged my father to allow me to attend the pre-war meeting because not long ago my mother was attacked by a rogue group and unfortunately died.
I can still vividly remember the look on my father's face at that time, his face was silent and serious, and he finally said only one thing to me. "No, Alves. you are not ready. The only thing you have to do now is to go to your defense class."
I was stopped by his beta, who closed the door to the conference room. I was trapped outside alone, and maybe the next thing I knew I was going to cry.
Then I suddenly noticed a little girl sitting next to me. She looked small, sitting on a stool with no way to get her feet on the ground. She should have stayed there for a long time, so she saw my humiliating tears too?
I haphazardly wiped the tears from my eyes and asked angrily, "Who are you?"
She was cute because she even gave me half a stool to vacate. Hearing my nonchalant question, she froze for a moment, then whispered her name. I had to guess that she was the daughter of one of the adults in the conference room. But why come here? Where was her mother?
"Who is your father?"
"It s Gamma."
Oh, it's that Lord Gama. I knew he was single, and I heard that his wife died in childbirth.
With the comparison, the little girl in front of me seemed to be a little more miserable than me, and she had never even met her mother.
"Do you miss your mother?"
"Sometimes."
"What do you do when you miss her?"
"Look at the moon."
"Why?"
"Because my father told me that my mother went back to serve the moon goddess, and looking at the moon is looking at my mother."
I don't know why I got caught up in the memory and recalled it so clearly. I shook my head, trying to shake off the irrelevancies. Devon sat at his office working on paperwork, Cornell had gone off somewhere.
"I think the elders are wasting their time. I haven't felt the smell of mate in many years."
At my words, he looked up from his busy schedule, "But there is always hope, Lord Alpha. War will break out soon, and you must leave an heir for the Blood Moon Pack before you go to war."
"A mate who hasn't appeared for so many years won't suddenly show up at an impromptu banquet. But that's good, they'll be able to be quiet for a while after they taste defeat."
Cornell walked in at that moment, and he heard me. Like he had something to be happy about all year, he said with a smile on his face, "Isn't there still a candidate, Lord Alpha?"
I didn't understand what he was joking about, "Who? Why don't I know?"
"Of course it's our future friendly Blue Moon Pack Alpha Bard's daughter, Miss Gladys Bard, I heard that Alpha Bard didn't plan to bring her this time, she begged her father for a long time before she reluctantly agreed."
Cornell is familiar with these tidbits of information, but what does that have to do with me?
"Don't say that again, I'm not interested in her."
"Yes, Mr. Tobias."
"So the signing of the peace agreement can be ensured to be foolproof?"
"Yes,my respected master!"
"To be able to free up our hands to defeat Douglas, we must first ensure stability around us, even if it is only temporary. Don't stay here, go to your posts and stand by."
"Yes!"
I returned to the couch and fell into deep thought. Although I had slept with many women before, Shu still hadn't found his mate, and he considered himself a lonely wolf. I often felt annoyed by this too. But what could be done about it?
The party was held as scheduled. It's a good thing that this banquet has another purpose, to sign a peace pact with the neighboring countries, otherwise how boring it would be. All banquets in the world are the same. Entrance ceremony, speech, the start of the banquet, signing of the agreement, speech, continuation of the banquet, end of the banquet. I am tired of this process, but as an Alpha of the pack, I will have to repeat this ritual over and over again in this life until I die.
The ritual announced my entrance, as the host, I stayed at the end of the entrance guests, by the time I could enter, the venue was full of people after the entrance was immediately followed by my speech. My eyes were straight ahead and I was not interested in the welcoming crowd on either side.
Suddenly, I became aware of a special presence. It was a very pretty young girl, an unfamiliar face. The welcoming party in front of the venue was usually young and beautiful maids carefully selected by the person in charge, all of whom were representative of the Blood Moon Pack in terms of their looks.
But she could still be the first to catch my full attention and hold them firmly. She had large gray eyes with light pupil color under the light, a rare and precious gemstone, but warmer and softer than a gemstone. Her chestnut hair was combed at the back of her head, a few strands of hair just right to trim her white neck. She was gazing at me, her eyes timid and passionate, and I wondered if this was the satisfaction I could get from being in the gaze of onlookers again after a long time.
I noticed her.