Let The Alpha Fall 103

“Hello?!”
Lori answered the phone, knowing fully well who the caller was. She had been expecting Sabine’s call ever since they
launched their series of coordinated attacks on her.
It had taken at least five days before she finally deigned to call her.
She knew the woman would call once she found out the extent she was willing to go to.
And Sabine did not disappoint.
“Lori.”
She answered in a clipped tone.
“How have you been Sabine?”
She asked and Sabine didn’t reply for a few seconds.
“I’ve been better.”
She grunted and Lori resisted the urge to chuckle. She was itching to gloat.
“Must have been a pretty hard week…”
“I’ve had better…”
Sabine murmured.
Lori examined her nails as she smiled to Myra who was sitting next to her and listening to every bit of the conversation.
Myra had come to ask her when she would resume practice, Lori had avoided all talks of practice and told Myra about
what she was up to instead, Sabine had called right in the middle of their discussion.
“Your people say hello. Although… can’t really make out all they’re saying when they’re screaming and shouting… it’s
all muddled.”
The cells were full of them. Every inch. At least a hundred held captive. Lori almost felt bad for them. Gabriel had tried to make them as comfortable as he could, but he couldn’t help reiterating to them the reason why they were there in the
first place.
Because of their alpha.
“What do you want with them?! They’re innocent!”
She barked into the phone.
Lori could hear the anger in Sabine’s voice and she almost high fived Myra. It was clear through her tone that she was
finally getting to her. She had finally gotten under her skin.
“I want nothing from them. Just you.”
“Your son?!”
Sabine scoffed.
“Why would I give him to you now when my people are with you? Release them to me first and I will release your son!”
“You must think me stupid Sabine.”
“I’m not releasing them. In fact, their days are pretty much numbered right now.”
“You wouldn’t.”
Sabine whispered and Lori finally chuckled.
“Oh believe me I would.”
Her voice was deep, low and commanding. It sent Sabine scrambling.
“That’s against the law. The Invito and the other alphas will come for you.”
Lori shrugged.
“What stupid laws?! The ones you discarded when you stole my son and killed Elliot?!”
“Besides… I am not a werewolf. I am not bound by your laws…”
“I’ll get to the point since I have somewhere to be. But I’ll make this short and simple. Deliver me my son and you’ll be
sure to have each and every member of your pack safely delivered to you. Fail to do so and you can consider them all
dead.”
With that. She ended the call.
Myra looked at Lori.
“Do you think it’ll work?!”
Lori sighed.
“I hope so. We’ve taken everything away from her. Her money, her people, her lands… it’s her move now.”
Myra inched in closer.
“She must be planning with other alphas. Didn’t she have alliances with Kate Caddel’s father?”
Lori smirked.
“She did.”
“Did?!”
Myra asked and Lori nodded.
“Gabriel paid a courtesy visit to George Caddel yesterday night. The old man doesn’t want war with Gabriel and his
spiteful daughter also doesn’t want the same. So he has promptly agreed to back out of the alliance. I’ve told him to
inform Sabine when she asks him for his help.”
Myra furrowed her eyebrows.
“You mean he’s not the one helping her currently?! Because so far our men haven’t been able to find her or any traces of
her since she left New York.”
Lori shook her head. Equally confused too. There must be another person. Someone else working behind the scenes with
Sabine.
She aimed to uncover the person. Whoever they were.
“George Caddel might be rich and powerful, but he’s not stupid. He only ventured into the alliance out of spite. He never
needed it in the first place. Especially when such alliance only benefitted Sabine.”
“It’s someone else who is helping her. We don’t know who that is yet…”
She added.
Myra sighed.
“Oh well…. I know we’ll find out soon.”
Lori nodded as she excused herself.
In the bathroom, she pulled out the crumpled envelope she had seen lying in Gabriel’s gym bag.
It was unusual for her to have found it, because she rarely had reason to touch his stuff except she was helping him with
something.
But he was looking for his phone and he had been searching for it.
Instinctively she checked the bag, saw the phone and the crumpled envelope.
She had been inclined to dismiss it before the name on the front of the envelope caught her eye.
Axel.
She left it there at first, giving Gabriel his phone.
Few moments later she went back to the gym bag and she dug out the envelope and read the contents.
A dinner and a proposal for an alliance.
Gabriel didn’t tell her anything about it.
Why?!
She thought as she pocketed the envelope in the folds of her pajamas. She had later hid it inside her bedside drawer.
It had been on her mind ever since then and for some reason she didn’t ask Gabriel why he didn’t talk to her about it.
Besides, they had spent a lot of hours apart after that, so she couldn’t bring it up properly because of his busy schedule.
The preparations for the Luna rites drew closer and all week he had been attending the meetings. He also spent ample
time in the office, conducting interviews for the new position that was about to open up in the company since he was
taking a step back from the day to day running of the company.
He had come back home so exhausted on some days that Lori couldn’t even dare to bring it up.
She knew he was being cautious, that was why he wouldn’t work with Axel.
But it was a chance to bring down Sabine and if Axel would be able to help them, she didn’t see a problem in it.
Even though the time for a reply had expired, she wondered what would happen if she reached out to him privately, for a
better understanding of his terms.
She dismissed the thought as quickly as it came into her mind.
Gabriel would be furious if he learnt that she was consorting with Axel behind his back.
It was best to bring it up with him and try to coax him to at least hear out Axel’s side.
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“I cannot believe this.”
Sabine whispered as she slammed her phone on the table. She was in the dining room, where she had just finished
eating dinner with Axel. It was the first time they were having dinner together.
The chef had made turkey, now the contents of the meal was beginning to turn in her stomach as she thought about the
annoyed state the call she had made had left her.
Axel raised his eyebrow while glancing at her.
“They got to Caddel. He tells me our alliance is over and I shouldn’t expect his help anymore.”
Axel scoffed.
“I’m assuming they have something to do with that.”
“You did expect them to fight back didn’t you?”
Sabine shook her head.
“No. Not this way. I’ve lost everything.”
She murmured and Axel shrugged.
“Not everything. You still have the boy. You have me.”
Sabine hesitated.
The boy.
“But my pack… my people.. it seems Lori is planning to execute them all.”
Axel waved his hands.
“That’s just an empty threat. I refuse to believe Gabriel Caine would let her do that. He’s too self righteous.”
Sabine was not convinced. The manner in which the switch had begun, how everything had started happening all at
once, losing her properties, her accounts being frozen, her people being kidnapped, her alliance with George Caddel
being called off, they were not playing games with her.
“Lori isn’t. And you know he’d do whatever she wants. She is bloodthirsty.”
Axel scoffed.
“Can’t blame her. She wants her son back.”
Sabine glared at Axel.
“Who’s side are you on?!”
Axel smirked.
“The winning side obviously. We have what matters, every other thing doesn’t.”
Sabine didn’t reply. That was easy for him to say since he had lost nothing.
She was entirely left in his mercy. He could kick her out and take the boy, or even kill her, there was nothing stopping
him.
Now that she had nothing. Nothing and the fact that she was in his house with no protection of her own. Surrounded in
the middle of trees, trees and more trees.
She was entirely dependent on him.
“So what do we do now?”
She asked and Axel shrugged.
“Nothing. We wait it all out then commence with plans of our own.”
Sabine raised her eyebrow.
“What plans?”
They had barely spoken after she had arrived at his place, even though she had asked him for an audience many times. He was never home and she wasn’t allowed to leave.
She was beginning to think allying with him was the worst idea she had ever had. She was practically a prisoner in his
home.
“The boy of course. He’s valuable, his blood is hot commodity right now. I have a few interested buyers.”
Sabine’s face paled at the thought of what Axel was insinuating.
“Maybe not now. He’s still a baby after all. Let’s wait.”
Axel scoffed.
“I’m afraid my clients are impatient. But I’ll see what I can do. Angel’s blood is pretty rare commodity so you can imagine
their excitement.”
Sabine smiled uneasily.
“Yes. If you’ll excuse me.”
She murmured as she hurriedly le