Chapter 800 – Hidden Desires of the Werewolf King Novel

Filed To Story: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel

“She is clean of trackers, and we were not followed. Her cell phone and tablet are powered off, and we brought them in a Faraday bag. The tech team is looking into those. Other than her attitude, things went smoothly,” Keith responded.

Keith was leading the team in extracting Cassie from the Steelbite pack. Normally, high-ranking soldiers would be involved in that type of mission, but because they were using teleportation to move, and Amelia’s identity as a witch was not widely known, Dayson and Talia decided to send a few people who already knew what Amelia could do.

In order for Cassie to not find out about witches, they knocked her out at the point of pickup, and they woke her up only after reaching the packhouse of the Shadow Fang pack. She had no idea how long she had been unconscious or how she got there.

Cassie didn’t know they would knock her out, and she threw a fit after waking up, hence Keith’s comment.

Cassie pressed her lips into a line while looking at Dayson, who leisurely sat on his extra-wide executive chair, and he spread his arms, silently inviting Talia to sit on his lap. Only after Talia sat there and his arms closed around her did Dayson look at Liam and Amelia.

“Cornelia should be here with James soon. Make sure to tell them where we are. After that, you are dismissed for the day.”

Liam and Amelia acknowledged Dayson’s instructions and left the study.

“The two of you can wait in the hallway,” Dayson instructed Keith and Arya.

With four people gone, Cassie got more comfortable in her chair.

Seeing that Dayson didn’t talk, she did. “Won’t you ask me anything?”

“In a minute,” Dayson responded.

“Are we waiting for something?”

“Someone,” Dayson corrected her.

Cassie was not sure what to expect. Dayson rested his chin on Talia’s shoulder, and his eyes closed as Talia leaned on him. Dayson and Talia looked like they were relaxing.

After a brief knock, the door opened for Liam to peek in.

“They are here,” Liam said and pushed the door open for Cornelia and James to enter.

“James Redmayne?” Cassie was unable to conceal her surprise. She turned to Dayson. “Are you selling me out?”

Dayson cocked an eyebrow at her. “James is here because I called for his presence. As for me selling you out, it will depend on what you have to say.”

Cassie was not happy about it. “I agreed to talk to you. I have information, and in return, you will give me a ticket out.”

Cassie didn’t like all these additional people. Cassie and Talia were not getting along well, and Cassie had no idea who Cornelia was. But James was the young Alpha of the Red Moon pack, and Dayson knew that Alpha Richard and Alpha Edward were collaborating. Why did he bring James here?

Dayson was losing his patience. “Listen, Cassie. I brought you here, and I can easily send you back.”

Cassie’s eyes widened. “You wouldn’t do that.”

“Don’t test my patience, Cassie. I can tell Alpha Richard that you came to me with information about him, but I didn’t believe you, and I decided to let him handle the situation because I didn’t want to dirty my hands. Do you want a way out? I need to hear what you will give me in return.”

“That’s not what we agreed. You send me first…”

Dayson raised his hand, making Cassie stop talking. “We didn’t agree on anything beyond me listening to what you have to say. Well, I am here, listening.”

Seeing Cassie’s stubborn expression, Talia put her hand over Dayson’s, indicating that she will take over. Cassie obviously thought that she had some leverage over Dayson, and Talia didn’t like it.

‘Let me get into her head,’ Liseli said eagerly to Talia.

Talia wanted to find out what Cassie knew, but the image of Vincent’s confusion and diminished mental capacity was something Talia wouldn’t wish on anyone. Not even Cassie.

‘Let’s leave that in case of an emergency,’ Talia responded.

‘This looks like an emergency to me.’

‘Lis, you are not helping.’

‘I want to help, but you are not letting me.’

Talia couldn’t believe how casual Liseli was about this. And it was more than casual. Liseli was thirsty for blood, willing to crush Cassie like a bug. Pregnancy hormones were messing up with Talia’s mood, affecting Liseli as well.

‘Let’s calm down first,’ Talia said. ‘We should use minimal force to get her to talk. We can always resort to violence later.’

Liseli snorted, and Talia felt that the old wolf yielded. For now.

Cassie groaned when Talia’s aura pressed on her, making it difficult to breathe.

Cassie looked at Dayson, thinking it was him, but then she saw Talia smirking, and Cassie realized who the source was.

Cassie panicked. How could Talia exert so much pressure without even trying? Was it because of Dayson’s mark?

“What are you doing?” Cassie asked with a strain in her voice.

“Getting your attention,” Talia responded before retracting her aura. “Now listen and listen well because I will say this only once. Here is how this will work. You will give us the information you promised. If we don’t believe you, we will send you back. If your words are believable and useful, you will stay in a safe house until we confirm if what you said was the truth. If it turns out to be rubbish, we will send you back to your father. So if you want your ticket out, you better start talking, and it better not be nonsense.”

Dayson’s hold on Talia tightened. She was bossy, and it turned him on.

Cassie could see that Dayson was looking at Talia with sparkles in his eyes and her insides tightened from the jealousy that swelled within her. She knew that Dayson was taken. She couldn’t believe how he had changed from a cool and aloof guy into a doting mate. If the Moon Goddess paired up Cassie and Dayson, wouldn’t Cassie enjoy this special treatment?

Cassie remembered Talia as a weak and submissive Omega who was sneaking into the kitchen and not fighting back after getting slapped. Did Talia change so much because of Dayson’s support?

How much would Cassie’s life change if Dayson picked her over Talia?

Liseli growled in Talia’s head. ‘How dares she look at mate like that!?’

Talia agreed. Cassie was gazing at Dayson with the longing that was pushing Talia’s buttons.

‘SNAP-SNAP!’

Talia snapped her fingers to make Cassie look at her.

“If you keep looking at my Dayson like that, I won’t care about what information you have. I will rather face ten calamities than allow any woman to get close to my mate. So you better start talking before my patience runs out.”

Dayson swallowed hard. He really wanted to tell Cassie to scram so that he could have his way with Talia right there, on his desk (it wouldn’t be the first time). The idea of such a powerful female claiming him as his and then giving herself to him was the biggest turn-on ever.

“Do you plan to let her go free after this?” James asked from the side.

Dayson frowned at James. “I assume there is a reason you asked that.”

James looked at Cassie, and his smirk made Cassie’s hairs stand on ends.

“We have ways to make her talk,” James said. “Instead of wondering if she was sent here by someone, or if she is lying, or if she is concealing something, we might just force her to tell the truth, to tell us everything, and then we can dump her body. No one will find her.” James turned to Cornelia. “I know my Cora would love a werewolf specimen for her experiments.”

Cornelia looked at James dreamily. “You know me well.”

Cassie was sure that her heart would come out of her chest. Will she pass out now?

She was almost confident that Dayson wouldn’t harm her. Not seriously, at least. And she believed that Talia wouldn’t go to the extremes, but James was a different story. He was Alpha Edward’s son, and everyone knew they were ruthless.

“Wait! Wait!” Cassie spoke breathily. “I came here to cooperate. I have information that will be useful to you. It can save lives!”

Talia rolled her eyes. “Should we believe you are here to save the world?”

Cassie regretted her idea of coming here. “You can’t kill me!”

“I have no intention of killing you,” Talia said. “But I will send you to give company to Miss Jade. If you don’t want to experience hard work in the name of charity for the world to see, I suggest you start talking. Or are you thinking that delaying is working in your favor?”

Cassie gritted her teeth. What were her options?

Disagreeing would probably mean going to a dungeon, or maybe they put her to do dirty jobs like Jade. Everyone knew that Jade was forced to work in the Shadow Fang pack; no one bought the story of how a fashion supermodel would ruin her image for charity.

“As I mentioned, my father is collaborating with a few other Alphas to attack the Shadow Fang pack. Someone is organizing them, and rogues are involved as well.” Cassie lifted her chin. “I’m sure you confirmed that after what happened at the Spring Leaf pack.”

“Rogues were there, but we didn’t see a single warrior associated with a pack,” Dayson said.

Cassie shook her head. “You wouldn’t notice them. Warriors were observing from a distance. Rogues were used to see how close they can get and to figure out the best strategy to divide your forces so they can capture their target.” Cassie frowned when she saw Dayson’s skeptical expression. “You don’t believe me? Didn’t you notice that rogues are switching from infiltration and scouting to attacking?”

‘She is right,’ Talia spoke to Dayson through their mind link. ‘Rogues are escalating. At the Blue River pack, they would retreat and avoid fighting unless cornered, yet at the Spring Leaf pack, they were attacking.’

Dayson agreed. Cassie’s words were not wrong, but that didn’t mean he could trust her. Actually, the more Cassie made sense, the less Dayson trusted her. Cassie was not meddling in politics or warfare. It sounded like someone coached her on what to say.

“Who is pulling the strings?” Dayson asked.

Cassie shook her head. “I don’t know. I’m not sure that even my father knows.”

Dayson cocked an eyebrow at Cassie. “Are you expecting me to believe that Alpha Richard will follow instructions of someone without knowing who that is or their goal?”

Alpha Richard was shrewd and prideful, but those were exactly the reasons why he wouldn’t allow anyone to push him too far. It was one thing to accept paying a tribute but working with rogues meant turning his back away from everything packs stand for. Even his own pack would reject him as their Alpha if this were spread. They would label him as a traitor or mentally unstable. Rogues have no loyalty, and their wolves are feral; no one would follow an Alpha that went rogue.

“It’s not just my father,” Cassie said. “There are other Alphas also.”

“Who else is involved?” Dayson asked stiffly.

Cassie glanced nervously at James. “Alpha Edward from the Red Moon pack.”

Dayson already knew about Alpha Edward and Alpha Richard. Those two were allies for a long time, and they were openly against Dayson since he took over as Alpha. Dayson wanted to know about others.

“Who else is involved?”

Cassie shrugged. “In the last few weeks, my father also talked to Alpha William and Alpha Patrick, but I’m not sure how much they are involved.”

“Is Alpha Adam part of this plan? What about Alpha Peter?” Dayson started listing names, and Cassie shook her head.

“If they are involved, I’m not aware of it.”

“If you don’t know about others, how can you be sure that my father is involved?” James asked from the side. It’s not that he didn’t believe her, but he wanted proof.

James saw this as an opportunity for Dayson to get more allies. If there was evidence of Alpha Richard and Alpha Edward working with rogues, Dayson could use that to sway neutral packs to join him. Alphas would follow power and benefits either for personal gain or as an excuse for how it benefits their pack. However, working with rogues only brought misfortune. No one would associate with rogues unless they are ready to give up on their pack.

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