Chapter 101

Zenovia

I went near the phone and took it in my hand. It was from an unknown number.

Biting my lower lip nervously, I clicked on the message.

-Baby girl, don’t you miss me?-

Sid.

I had totally forgotten about him. He had said that he would contact me later, but I had been so caught

up with training and my shifting that I did not even think of him for a moment.

Even when I thought of my father and mom, his thoughts never popped up in my head.

My initial reaction to that message was being afraid and nervous as I read through the message a few

times. But then I told myself I did not have to…not anymore.

I was not a wolfless omega that he could toy with. Not that he had any business knowing I had

awakened my wolf.

In fact, it would be perfect for me to enact my plan of exposing his mother through him.

I thought about it for a while and typed a message.

-Not really-

I had barely placed the phone on the bed and turned around when another beep sound reached me.

-Come on, I know you did. I just thought of messaging you when Alpha Drake mentioned you today. I

am sorry and miss you-

My fingers froze on the screen when I read that. Alpha Drake…my father…he mentioned me?

He still thought of me?

I had missed him like hell when I awakened my wolf and was dying to tell that to him. He had been my

biggest motivator, along with Mom before our life went downhill.

Did he really care about me? Was he regretting selling me to Callahan?

Various doubts flashed through my mind. Each added more confusion to my already bewildered brain.

I was also not sure if Sid was simply making up stories to make me talk to him. But then I had to know

what was going on in the pack, in my home.

So I typed a message and hit the send button.

-I hope everything is well-

I wanted to know if Luna Celeste was not simply looting from the pack treasury and allowing the other

members with enough funds.

His reply came in shortly.

-Alpha Drake is just a little tense. The new changes in the treaty are taking away most of the rights and

freedom from Alphas-

I furrowed my eyebrows and hastily typed -I don’t understand-

-Wait, let me call you-

My eyes went wide. Messaging him was okay. But I was in no mood to talk to him. And what if anybody

heard me talking to him?

The phone began to ring not even a second later, but I quickly put it on silent mode and dashed to the

doors and windows to ensure they were well shut.

Then I grabbed the phone and went inside the bathroom and received the call, careful to keep my voice

low.

“Hey baby girl, how are you?”

“What happened to dad?” I went straight to the point.

If he was unhappy with my lack of interest in answering his earlier question, he did not show,

“Your Callahan….he is making the policies stricter and tightening his grip over pack affairs. People are

not happy with the way he is managing things.”

My Calahan?

I ignored that too and asked, “How is it affecting Dad?”

Sid answered, “Our pack is not that well-known. If you noticed, Alpha Drake and a few others were not

even invited to the pack meetings recently. He fears he is losing credibility amongst the other alphas

that Callahan favors. It will be bad for our pack if we lose out on our reputation. Nobody would want to

do business with us in the long run.”

I wondered about it. I knew little of pack affairs, but I recall that Callahan did not have a favorable

impression of my dad when he first came to visit us.

He was upset about the rogue menace already and Luna Celeste cooked up a story of my betrayal to

save herself.

Of course, they never found out who my so called boyfriend was, but I guess Celeste or my pack were

never in the spotlight to warrant Callahan’s attention.

He simply left after a short chat and never set foot in my pack territory again. There were other alphas

and packs that were more important and made a name for themselves by providing him with more

information and reports.

I also faintly recalled Elijah saying he had gone to the west to get the report. Had he visited my pack

too?

I had to find out the report and see what it contained. I knew Luna Celeste had been requesting loads

of funds but must have splurged it instead of putting it to good use. And my father would suffer for her

mistake.

My father got swayed by her words, but he was definitely not a scammer. His records and papers

would always be clean, but

now I was not sure.

I was lost in thought, but Sid’s voice brought me to the present.

not

call

“But I did

you to tell you that. Are you still upset with me? I am willing to apologize again. I am sorry for

everything, baby girl.”

I did not know what to say to that. My thoughts were more occupied with my father than Sid’s lame

attempts to pacify me.

“Would you not be upset if I tried to drug you and force myself upon you?”

asked, and surprisingly, Sid fell silent for a while.

“I understand I wronged you, baby girl. I just was not thinking straight. And that is why I am apologizing

to you over and over again. I miss you.”

He said, but I did not have it in my heart to outright yell at him. I needed more information from him.

“Look Sid, I am not your ‘baby girl’. I am just… your stepsister. And I hope you help Dad rebuild our

pack and its image instead of fooling around.”

Sid looked a little hurt by my words, but I felt nice to finally ask him to stop calling me ‘baby girl. It irked

me to hear him say that.

“I…I liked you, Zenovia. I still do. But if you don’t like me, that is okay. I was just missing you.”

“You said Dad was not invited to the meetings with the Lycan King, right?”

Sid replied, “He wasn’t.”

I did not comment on his earlier line and even he didn’t probe me further about it. Earlier, I had been

too weak to state my thoughts right away, but now, with Thunder, I could feel some of her confidence

seeping into my bones.

“Hmm, well, it only means that you have to pay more attention to the pack matters and administration.

After all, you are going to be the future alpha of the pack, right?”

I said, and I could practically see his face brighten when I said that.

“You…you think I am fit to be the next alpha?”

I did not know how to answer that. Most alpha sons would automatically be promoted as the heir to the

alpha title. And though Sid was not my father’s biological son, he could still take up the title because

my father adopted him.

“Only if you run the pack better than Dad did,” I answered after some thought.

I expected him to be hurt, but his tone was positive.

“True that. Now, I’ve got to go look at the pack treasury and the fund allocation. Bye”

Saying so, he disconnected the call and left me staring at the phone for a while.

Was he really trying to improve, or was all of this just a farce? He did apologize to me multiple times,

and I knew he used to be quite a playboy, even back then. Though his way of showing his affection, or

whatever it was for me..was oddly creepy.

But was it only because of Celeste’s upbringing? Did he deserve better treatment from me? What

about my father? I simply ran away from him instead of explaining my side to him and left him with

vultures.

My thoughts drifted back to my father and home, and I longed to see him. Now, after talking with Sid,

the urge intensified even further.

I kept replaying my conversation with Sid over and over again. Back at our pack, he used to be

obnoxious and arrogant, but he never apologized to me in his entire life, never showed the will to lift a

glass of water, let alone work hard.

Now, he seemed… to understand things.. at least based on the way he spoke to me. It should have

made me feel happy that he was changing, but what if something was going wrong in the pack?

Celeste was not really a good planner and she must have worsened the relationship of our pack with

that of others in her haste to establish dominion over the others. And Sid was not the brightest bulb,

either.

I feared some pack would easily wage a war against ours and overtake our territory. What if somebody

attacked and he…

No, I could not let that happen.

I had to find out what was going on. And I had the perfect plan to see my father again.