Chapter 0374 Chapter 0374 Hannah My stomach dropped as I read that message over and over.
âHey, Alpha. Long time no chat.â
WhiteRabbit had returned. Somehow, and for reasons I didnât yet understand, that elusive internet vendor who had once sold me contraceptiveâlaced diet pills had returned.
âWhat do you want?â I typed back, my fingers trembling slightly. I felt like a fool for responding at all, for not immediately running to the guard stationed outside my door, but my curiosity got the better of me.
The bubbles appeared, disappeared, then reappeared. The anticipation made my heart race.
m Finally, a response came through: âYou should know that I had nothing to do with putting the contraceptives in those pills. I was just given them to sell to you. But I can tell you who gave them to me... For a price.â
A price. In exchange for valuable information.
1 could find out who had been plotting to keep me from getting pregnant, and maybe even why. Assuming the information would be real and not entirely made up.
For a moment, I almost asked what that price would be. The temptation was almost too much, and my fingers hovered over the keyboard, itching to find out. To finally punish whoever had caused my death.
But then I remembered who I was now.
âI was Alpha Hannah, not the desperate, confused girl I had been all those months ago. I wasnât desperate for information. I was safe now. My baby was safe.
And I wasnât about to fall victim to an online drug peddler, âFuck off,â I typed, gritting my teeth. âIâm not interested in this sort of thing anymore. I have bigger fish to fry than the likes of you.â
The response was almost immediate, the notification ping cutting through the silence: âSuit yourself. Iâll be here when you change your mind.â
Not if. When.
With a shudder, I turned off my phone and tossed it onto the nightstand, the soft thud as it landed next to my crown serving as a final punctuation to the exchange. There would be no âwhenâ..
First thing in the morning. I would show this conversation to my head of security and have them track WhiteRabbit down. I would not be paying any price for that information. I didnât make deals with scammers.
But the next morning, I didnât tell anyone. I almost did, but... something stopped me. Curiosity, perhaps. Or fear. I couldnât be sure.
I didnât tell anyone the next day, either. Or the next day. In fact, months passed. And that last message sat waiting for me, mocking me.
Chapter 0374 âIâll be here when you change your mind.â
+25 BONUS Over the next two and a half months, I threw myself into my work as the first female Alpha of Silvermoon. The days blurred together in a whirlwind of meetings, decisions, and constant battles against outdated perceptions.
It wasnât easyâmany of the older men looked down on me. To them, I was just a trophy wife who happened to stumble into the role of Alpha. To them, I didnât deserve respect or even the time of day.
At more than one meeting, I was outright ignored and talked over. And at more than one meeting, Iâd have to slam my notebook down and rise from my chair and shout at them to pull their heads out of their asses and listen to me.
And at more than one meeting, their eyes would simply flick to my growing belly, smirks stretching across their faces, and they would carry on with their cruelty.
But not all was lost..
As the weeks passed, whispers about Noahâs struggles in Nightcrest reached my ears. The pack grapevine was alive with gossip, each new tidbit more shocking than the last.
He was facing Apparently, his engagement to Zoe wasnât sitting well with many of his business partners backlash for how he had treated me, losing opportunities left and right. They thought he had no loyalty, that partnering with him would result in being stabbed in the back.