New Delhi (Delhi, India).

The Year, 1995 (30 Years Ago)...

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"To what do I owe your Royal Highness' presence here? Isn't this place too filthy for her Ma-jes-ty?"

There was an obvious sarcasm laced in Laila's voice.

The visitor, Queen Lalita Kumar, immediately got on her knees as she pleaded with tears streaming down her cheeks. "Please, sister, I … I need your help. Please. My son… my son… He is… he is…"

"Dying." Laila completed the sentence for her estranged younger sister.

"Yes, he is, sis. And you're my last hope, please."

"I won't beat about the bush, Lalita. Your son will die. Die he must. So I suggest that you get going before the Alpha hears of your visit to this place."

"No!!! I refuse it." Luna Lalita exclaimed. She then crawled on her hands and knees to kneel right before her big sister and grabbed Laila's leg. "Sister, you must save my son. Otherwise, I'll lose everything. He is also your nephew.

Remember, you once loved him as your own son. Please. I'll pay whatever price you demand as long as you're able to save him. Even if that includes... you... you already know what I'm talking about."

"Hmm." Laila sighed and then turned to the desperate Luna. "Fine, if you insist. But don't say later that I never warned you; my dear, little sister."

A wicked smile secretly formed at the corners of Laila's mouth.

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New Delhi.

Present Time, 2025 (Today)...

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"Mr. Supt. Do you have anything for me?" Queen Lalita, the Luna of the Kumar Pack, asked as soon as she entered and joined the visitors at her son's main private medical facility.

In the room were three scary-looking prison inmates in their uniforms seated across the table, facing the jail superintendent.

"Yes, Luna." The jail superintendent replied and offered a seat to the Luna.

"These ones are scheduled to be hanged within two to four days' time. I've already had them go through the prepared documents." He said.

He then placed some documents before the Queen, who also went through them.

"And do you all agree to the stipulated terms?" Luna Lalita addressed the three death-row criminals.

"Yes, Ma'am." They said and nodded in response.

"Then sign the NDA (Non-disclosure Agreement), and your families will receive the compensations as stipulated herein." Luna Lalita stated.

The three convicts did as told, although a bit hesitantly.

"Take this one to him first." The Luna said to a guard and pointed to one of the inmates after the superintendent left.

***

The eyes of a beast-like, stoutly built man glowed crimson red as someone got thrown into his room.

In a swift propulsive movement, he instinctively pounced on the unknown intruder and sunk his claws into his shoulders to hold him into position before sinking his elongated fangs into his neck to quench his bloodlust.

But...

"Aaarrrggghhh!" The red-eyed man quickly releases his prey as he groans, for an indescribable pain surges through his entire body.

He slumped down on the hard floor as he felt weaker by the second.

"Leave! Now!!!" He growled.

The poor criminal did not need to be told twice. He quickly took to his heels and bolted out of the place.

(I guess he wasn't ready to die after all now that he was facing a certain death).

***

"He refuses to feed your Majesty. We have sent all three men to him, but his Highness sent each one of them back." A guard reported.

"What?! Why? I mean, why would Renjith do that? Does he want to die?" Lalita queried rhetorically.

She then gestured with her hand for the guard to leave.

"Hema!" She called for her head servant.

"Yes, Luna."

"Tell Dr. Jayaraman to meet with me as soon as possible."

"Yes, my Queen."

"Laila, you witch. See what you've caused me. But your deception will never win over me or my son. Just wait and see. I'll do whatever I can to bring him out of your curse and misery." The Luna said to herself after dismissing her head servant.

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"I... I want out. I want out of this." Aiesha stammered.

"Hm?" Alpha Rajesh Kumar seemed to have not heard what she said.

"I want out of this relationship. This affair. I can no longer continue with these secret meetings with you, your Majesty. I also want to have a family of my own. So, let's end this." Aiesha managed to let out her thoughts.

The Alpha King was quiet. It was clear that he didn't like what his sugar baby had just said.

"Why? Have you found someone else?" He asked after a while.

Aiesha got off his lap; the Alpha frowned.

"No. I haven't."

"Then why do you want to leave me? Hm?" He tried to kiss her wrist, but she pulled back her hand.

"You promised me that you would help me get married to my friend, Renjith. Isn't that how you got me in your bed in the first place? But it's been years now, and you still haven't been able to help me with that. So I'm going to gather courage and ask him out myself."

"What?! No! Never!" The King exclaimed as he quickly sprung up from his seat and pushed her into the chair as he towered over her.

He grabbed her by the chin and turned her face to keep eye contact as he spoke, "You, my dear, will not marry my son or anyone for that matter. You became mine and only mine the very day that you came into my bed."

"But... but... that is not what you promised..." Aiesha was finding it a bit hard to breathe because the King's pheromones were starting to fill the room up.

"I don't care!" The Alpha squeezed his lover's chin as he said that.

"If it's marriage you want, my dear Aiesha, I can give you that. You can be my fourth and last concubine; I don't mind. But I will never let you go. So you better keep that in mind." He added before angrily leaving the room because he got an emergency to attend to at his palace.

Aiesha rolled her eyes as she thought to herself. 'Who said that I want to be numbered? It's your son that I've always wanted and not your rickety old ass, you old man.'

"They say that if you want something done very well, you do it yourself." Aiesha said before calling for her house manager. "Bhumi."

"Yes, Ma'am."

"Get me a good rut-inducing drug. I'll be expecting an important visitor in a few days."

"Yes, please."

Aiesha dismissed her employee afterwards. "Now, let's see who will get things their way, old man. Haha..."

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Chandigarh (Haryana state, India).

A Few Days Later...

"Your dad is going to kill me if he finds out that I am the one that gave your mother's address to you.

Are you sure that this is a good idea? I mean, are you going to see her after all these years of her absence in your life?

I believe that your father may have a good reason why he refuses for you to go and search for her. Shouldn't you rethink this? My dear? Please?" Charvi, a dominant female alpha, asked her stepdaughter.

Sevina shook her head and did the hand sign, "No, mother."

"Hmm." Charvi sighed. "Okay, fine. But make sure to call me if anything. Okay?"

"Okay, mother. Thank you so much." Sevina did the hand sign for that and hugged the older woman before leaving the house.

Her father and her younger half-siblings were not at home at the moment. Both ladies didn't want him to know about Sevina's trip to her mother's place.

Charvi herself will be going back to the office too after Sevina leaves. She only came home during lunchtime to get something.

Watching her stepdaughter's retreating back makes Charvi a bit worried. She had seen the other alpha woman a few times in her line of work, but she didn't know that much about her except what her beta husband and the media said.

Charvi prayed in her heart that Sevina's birth mother would receive her well and not add to the pain that she's already inflicted on the small family she left behind.

*

Ding-dong! Ding-dong!!

Sevina checked the address on the phone before pressing the doorbell once again.

Ding-dong! Ding-dong!!

She has managed to finally get her stepmom to give her her birth mother's address, as her father refused to even talk about her.

Sevina still doesn't know much about what had happened between the two, but for her, she would love to see the woman who gave her life.

So here she is after a journey of three-plus hours, waiting for someone to come and open this huge gate in front of her.

"So you're saying that this woman here, Madam Aiesha, is your mother?"

A beta lady who was dressed up in a suit like an office secretary pointed to the woman in the picture that Sevina had shown to her as her biological mother.

The security at the gates had called the lady for her. It seems she might be working for her mother.

She bobbed her head and wrote on a writing pad, "Yes, I did. Is this her house? Is she at home, please?"

There was a little hesitation before the lady responded. "Um... alright. Follow me."

The interior decoration of the place was top-notch. Sevina is really surprised to see that her birth mom lives in a nice place.

They entered into what looked like a living room.

The lady, Bhumi, turned to her, with one hand pointing to the beautiful furniture.

"You may please have a seat. Madam Aiesha had to leave for an emergency, but I am sure that she will be back soon.

You can call any of the servants for anything that you need by pressing the button on the wall behind you.

Madam likes her privacy, so we only come in here when she calls for us.

Also, Madam is hosting a friend who is currently having his lunch. Just introduce yourself to him if he sees you, but do remember to keep at least a five-meter distance between you two. Okay? I'll have someone bring you some refreshments." Bhumi said, and left.

A few minutes later, a servant came in to serve Sevina some refreshments, and she too left afterwards.

Sevina was nibbling on the savoury treats served to her when a mixed scent of mustard and peppermint accosted her nose.

She sniffed the air and realised that the pungent smell was coming from inside the house.

As a curious young adult, Sevina couldn't help but follow the alluring scent.

The further she went, the stronger the scent became.

Forget about her being a wolfless beta, but Sevina Vishwakarma does not emit any pheromones at all, and neither can she scent anyone's.

So she did not realise that the scents arresting her nose now were the pheromones of an alpha, nor did she even notice that her body had also started to react to them.

Her body started to change. She suddenly felt very hot and weird all over her body, yet the temptation to keep going towards the source of the scent filled her mind.

As a 19-year-old beta who has never experienced such strong scents before, it still didn't register to her that she was walking towards an alpha in a rut.

In her trance-like state, Sevina opened the door leading to the hallway inside the house despite the changes happening to her. She was becoming quite weak at this point.

Her face had become very reddish as the scent intensified. Her legs were becoming weaker, and she felt a bit weird down there.

But she was now very close to the scent source, which she believed was coming from behind the door that she was now standing in front of.

She made to raise her fisted hand to knock, but "thud!" she slumped and fell on her ass on the cold, hard floor.

The discomfort made her lie on the floor in a foetal position. She hugged her knees tightly to her chest and started whimpering on the floor.

"Help me." Was what she wished she could voice as she was now very weak. She started making some weird sounds like she was whining and moaning instead.

The cold floor felt quite soothing against her body that was heating up, so she started to take off her clothes in order for her full body to have direct contact with the soothing floor.

Still not aware of her actions or her surroundings.

***

Alpha Renjith could tell that the person whose scents were making him lose his senses was getting nearer and nearer.

'Weird. Am I getting a reaction rut? Here? Now? No!!!' He thought to himself as he quickly darted into the closest room and locked the door.

But the alluring scent continued approaching his direction, and now here he is, trying really hard with all his might to stay clear-headed.

"Aiesha, is that you?" He asked from inside the room, but no response came.

Except for the sweet, alluring pheromones that the one behind the door kept blasting him with, making him both horny and quite disoriented.

Unaware of his own actions now, Alpha Renjith found himself opening the door.

The image that met him made him turn his face away immediately.

It was that of a half-naked 'Aiesha' whining and whimpering on the cold floor with low moans escaping her lips occasionally.

It was not her half-naked body that made him turn away, but rather, her inviting, white neck. It invoked some contradictory urges in him.

One moment, he wants to possess and devour his 'childhood friend,' and at the same time, he wants to protect her with every means available.

The Alpha rushed back into the room and brought out a blanket to cover her nakedness before he scooped the slender 'alpha woman' into his firm arms off the floor. All the while avoiding looking at her inviting neck.

Sevina wrapped her arms around her helper's neck and nestled into his embrace, exposing her neck right in his line of vision.

It was extremely difficult for him to keep it in his pants due to their close proximity.

And knowing that she was naked and only in just a bra and panty underneath the blanket, too, didn't help things at all.

But even that urge does not come close to him wanting to suck out all of her blood out of her exposed veins.

The tall Alpha fought every urge to bite this prey as he carried her into the room and locked the door right after while she was still in his arms before taking her to bed.

He was very glad when he finally made it to the bed and was finally able to lay her on it.

'Aiesha' tried to say something, but the Alpha couldn't hear, so he decided to leave the room before things turned for the worse.

He was really struggling to keep his last bit of sanity.

He didn't know what was happening with his friend, and he didn't want to take advantage of her while she was in this state.

He feared that what if he ended up killing his friend like he had done to all his lovers in the past?

However, without warning, 'Aiesha' grabbed him and dragged him onto herself, and before the Alpha knew what was going on, she had connected her soft lips to his firm ones.

And that was when Renjith lost it.

'Fuck with being a gentleman. Now let all hell break loose.'

His obsidian eyes turned completely black, like that of an abyss, as he sunk his protruding teeth into her neck and began sucking her delicious blood.

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Sevina stirred in her sleep for a while before she opened her eyes to find herself in a strange man's embrace. She was using his arm as a pillow while the man's other hand was on her waist, cuddling her.

Her face was to his chest so she could feel his every breath. She found herself being lulled to sleep again by the nice scent coming from him and, soon, drifted off to sleep again.

*

Sevina woke up with a start some two more hours later.

She had thought that everything was a dream, but seeing the man peacefully asleep and yet still cuddling her proved otherwise.

It was a bit dark now; only a few rays of light from the setting sun outside illuminated the room.

She felt sharp pains all over her body, especially her neck, which was quite itchy, but there wasn't any wound.

She tried to move out of bed and leave as quietly as possible. It was then that she realised that both of them were completely naked!

She pulled the blanket to cover herself and got off the bed, leaving the man naked and bare.

She then scanned the room for her clothes but only found her bra and panty among the scattered clothes.

Sevina quickly put them on and went outside the door for the ones she had left there after stripping earlier on before the man had carried her inside.

Sevina tried to leave quietly, wishing not to be seen, but just right when she was about to reach the gates, she ran into the lady who had ushered her in earlier.

"Oh, I'm very sorry. I've totally forgotten to come and tell you that Madam wouldn't be returning today. Sorry you had to wait for this long. It's almost dark now. Should I call a taxi for you?" The lady apologised and asked.

Sevina shook her head in the negative and hurriedly left the place.

***

"Sevina, is everything alright? You don't look too fine." A next-door neighbour asked.

But just like she had done when another one had asked the same question earlier on, Sevina didn't mind this one either.

She locked herself in her room as soon as she entered their compound and didn't even bother to check if their help had gone to pick her brothers from school yet.

Her thoughts were muddled with the disbelief of what had just happened.

'Who is that man? Is he mother's relative?How come I had allowed things to go that far?'

Sevina felt so dirty for leading the man on and letting him do all those things with her. And the worst part was that she doesn't think that she hates any of it.

Tears welled up in her eyes, and not long after, she soon drifted off to sleep.

Not knowing that this incident is about to shake up a thirty-year-old pact.