Chapter 2

Longwei's POV

I walked reluctantly to the pack house. We should have shifted in our wolf form but my father forbade me never to shift. Even at that my speed in my human form was faster than a cheetah. As a werewolf, since the day I shifted to know I have a wolf, my father had warned me never to shift again till he told me to. I don't know why he said this but I've never disobeyed him and my wolf never tried to come out. I didn't even get to know the color of my wolf.

Being that I couldn't shift, I used a sword instead that was gifted to me by my ancestral grandfather. My men were walking behind me. Not that I would mind if they decide to leave me behind. In fact I am more than grateful to have the whole walk to myself but as their prince, they wouldn't leave me. They just kept walking behind me.

I couldn't help but to keep on thinking about what the handler said about the prophecy. I've never heard of such a thing before. Not even my mother made the mistake of mentioning it to me. I wished I couldn't believe the woman but her words were so alive in me. I kept wondering what this prophecy has to do with me. I just wished it's not what I'm thinking. I wished that the Handler was lying just to get me disturbed.

After the long walk, we arrived at our destination. It seems so fast in my eyes because of what I know I'm going in there to face, but to my men it was indeed a long and tiring walk. We were only a few that left for the war which also got me thinking that my father really wanted me dead. In a short time I was right before my father who was seated on his throne explaining things to him.

"How dare you disobey my order!" He roared after he asked me of the woman he told me to bring and I told him she's dead.

"I didn't Alpha. She killed herself" I defended myself.

My father has forbidden me to call him father but Alpha.

Knowing the kind of father I have, I know if I do not defend myself, I'll not be able to get out of trouble easily.

"You liar!" He roared again.

This was getting me angry. He called me a liar as if he had any evidence to prove that I truly lied. Not that I wasn't prepared for his wrath but it's still getting on my wrong side.

He is my father. At least he should be considerate about things here.

"I'm not lying" I said between gritted teeth.

My father stood up from his throne. " How dare you speak while I speak!"

He moved closer to me and gave me a slap and I stiffened at the pain it gave to my poor cheek.

I could hear murmurings rising from those in the room. This was all new to them. I know they would have thought me to be the bad one because my father is all loving outside but not inside.

"You are just so useless," he pointed at me.

I look at him and then back to my feet saying nothing. I just stood there to hear him speak of how I'm a threat to the peace of the kingdom just because of one mistake I made. It's not as if I knew the woman was going to kill herself. This made me wonder what he needed the woman for.

His words were making me boil with anger. If he wasn't my father, I would have ripped his head off and put it in his hands.

"If it was so easy as you speak, why did you then sit comfortably on your throne instead of going out there to bring her yourself?"

It was until I heard gasps that I got to realise I was the one that spoke to the Alpha King in such a manner. I don't even need anyone to tell me that I'm so dead. Not even a single Alpha in our province would dare speak to the Alpha King the way I just did.

We are a Chinese breed and that makes us automatically Chinese. According to the story my mother told me, she said that it was when our ancestors were cast out of their original home that they came to dwell in the province of Hubei. Then the place was so peaceful that not so many werewolves were here. Now we dominate Hubei. We are well hidden in the forest of Hubei. We also do have a lot of wolves that spread across China. Our ancestors made sure we are rarely noticed by humans but notwithstanding we still have those that hunts us until centuries ago that we made them believe we've been wiped out. Now they don't even know of our existence.

My father, Gui Jinhai, was so wrought with my words. I looked so scared because I was sure I didn't say those words. He looked at me with anger. I felt like pleading but I know that won't stop him from punishing me. It will only boost his power to torture me to death.

"Do you want a death wish?" He said with his Alpha eyes beaming red.

I shook my head to tell him no.

"You are an Alpha King. You are ten times stronger than I am. So you should be the one out there fighting, not sit here lazing around but all you do is get angry and scold me for running your errands".

This time no one needed to tell me that I was the one who talked. I could vividly feel my mouth moving. It's as if my mouth now has a mind of its own. This is going to send me to doom.

"What the hell is going on with me!" I screamed in my head.