My Miracle Luna
Their Gemini Wolves Chapter 56

{Wyatt's

P.O.V.}

It's been gloomy around here for the past three days since William and Olivia left. After everything that's happened, I figured it was in our best interest to be upfront with the pack about their absence. I spilled the beans about pretty much everything-William and Olivia's true identities, why he was so close to Rylee since day one, why they left, and where they went. The pack members were stunned, and a large portion of them weren't too thrilled to find out that we had been lying to them yet again. Some had quite a bit to say about it and, of course, those same individuals had the nerve to ask if there was anything else I'd like to say to them in a tone that could only be described as highly disrespectful.

I decided to take Dorian's advice by threatening those same individuals with an ultimatum. If they didn't like how Rylee and I were running the pack, they were free to leave. They seemed taken aback and flustered since no Alpha of Blue Lake had ever made that threat before, but I stood my ground. All things considered, I didn't have time for juvenile tantrums. With Rylee possibly being pregnant again and Eric still on the loose, I needed pack members that would stand by us without a shadow of a doubt.

My parents were still in the dark about everything else that recently happened, so I told them about Lexie and Lanie's dormant powers that suddenly came to light and Rylee's potential pregnancy. Once my mom heard the word pregnancy, she went straight to the kitchen to cook Rylee the only meal she would be able to keep down-steak and potatoes. It finally dawned on me that this was the same meal my mother made for her when she was pregnant with Sam and, at the time, my memories were altered. Even with Rylee moping in our room and only entertaining Sam, I was grateful that she would allow my mother in, and she would actually eat. My biggest fear was that her emotional distress would ruin her appetite, but it didn't, and I couldn't be more relieved. Even if she wasn't opening up to me, I knew she was at least talking to my mom. I wasn't sure if Rylee just needed a maternal figure in her life right now; but, as long as she wasn't bottling up her feelings, I would give her space and let her heal however necessary on her own terms.

It was finally time to return to work since I had been on an extended leave of absence for far too long, and things at the company were getting more hectic with each passing week as projects came in left and right. Since the Alpha from Spain was singing our praises to his fellow Alphas in Europe, word had spread all the way to Asia, and I was now in short supply of teams to handle business. Human Resources decided it was a good idea to host a job fair and, as the CEO, I had to oversee it.

I was worried about leaving Rylee so soon after William and Olivia's departure, but she reassured me that she would be fine and encouraged me to go. I knew better than to smother her and trusted that, if anything happened, she would link me or my parents would. I wanted Rylee's environment to be as stress-free as possible, if that meant I had to get out of her hair for ten hours a day, then that's what I was going to do. It would also give me a chance to check in with West to see what Eric and Ash were currently up to. I had Jason reach out to him with instructions to come by the company as soon as he had the chance.

*Ring ring ring*

"Yes?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Valencia, but there is a Daryl West here to see you."

"Send him in."

"Yes, sir."

The door opened, and West seemed a little hesitant to come in. He lacked confidence as he checked out my office as if he had never seen one before.

"Alpha, you're a creature of habit," he mentioned before taking his seat.

"What?"

"Your office here looks exactly like your office inside the packhouse," he replied. I scanned the room and realized that he was absolutely right. How did I not notice this? I shook my head because we were getting off track. "We're not here to talk about the interior of my offices, West. We're here to discuss if you've learned anything new about Eric and his plans."

"Not much, to be quite honest. Eric is a secretive bastard, he only meets with his individual moles one at a time and different locations so that none of us see each other."

"Wait, did you say moles? As in, more than you and the one at Golden Moon?"

"Yes, that would be the definition of more than one," he replied with a smart-a's tone. I gave him a death glare. "Ahem, sorry."

"How many?"

"How many what?"

"How many moles does he f*****g have, goddammit!" I shouted at him, making him jump.

"Christ, you don't have to shout at me. I have no idea, okay!? All I know is that it's multiple. At least one from every neighboring pack."

"What? How the f**k does he have a mole in all of the neighboring packs!?"

"The same way he got to me. Leverage. All he has to do is find a weak pack member, threaten their family, or mate, and wham bam he has a mole on his payroll."

"You said he has some kind of hidden wealth that he's using to pay all of you, right?" He nodded his head. "Is it with him at Silver Lake?"

"No clue, he pays us in crypto."

"Crypto? As in Bitcoin?"

"Something along those lines. He uses Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and even this thing called Dogecoin."

"Where the hell did Eric get his hands on that much cryptocurrency!?"

"Again, Alpha, you're asking me questions that I don't know the answers to. I've told you this already, but he doesn't tell us shit." I pinched the bridge of my nose in utter frustration. What the f**k was the point of having a mole for ourselves if he was completely useless? Part of me thought I would just kill him myself and deal with Eric in person, one on one. But, the whole poison aspect of everything came back to me so I scratched that idea from my head.

"Is there anything you can tell me that would be of some kind of use?" I asked him desperately.

"Well, the other day he and Nicole were fighting again. Something about Eric and his betrayal not too long after they had their mating ceremony." This caught my attention real quick, and I snapped my head up to look at West. "What did she say? Oh yes, she said something about his trick to conceal the fact that he was having an affair was useless, and that she knew exactly where he was. Something along the lines of, 'it doesn't take a genius to know when their mate is being unfaithful, and all of the black magic in the world couldn't hide the pain she felt during his infidelity!"

"Wait, you're saying that Nicole knows that Eric had an affair not long after they had their mating ceremony?" I reiterated to make certain I heard him correctly.

"Yes. She was livid. The screaming from within could be heard from outside. The fighting got so bad that Ash and his sister came out of the lair beneath the packhouse to get away from it." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. So there was, in fact, a lair beneath the crumbled packhouse. West was good for something after all-gossip.

"What else?"

"Well, from what I could hear, Eric said his stepping out was Nicole's own fault because she was lousy in bed and something about her v****a being loose..."

"AIY AIY!! TOO MUCH INFORMATION!" That was the last thing I wanted to hear.

"Good grief, you act as you've never had s*x before."

"Nicole is old enough to be my mother, you f*****g moron! No son wants to hear about an old woman's private parts!"

"I'll be sure to let your mother know that you called her old," he taunted me.

"Moving on! What else did they say?"

"Ummm... oh yes, Eric went on to say that only one woman would ever make him happy and that, even in death, she would always be better than Nicole. He never said the woman's name, but that one statement had Nicole screaming at the top of her lungs and she started to trash the lair. You could see puffs of dust and smoke rising from the ashes of the Silver Lake packhouse." My thoughts were right, Nicole knew about Eric leaving her for a few months to assault Megan while she was in captivity. Not to mention, Eric had practically admitted that he was with her during that time. "He also threw it in her face that he fathered children with this other woman." I snapped my head towards him in horror. "What did you say!?"

"Patterson, he threw it in his mate's face that he fathered children with this other woman that he's so in love with."

"He said that!? To Nicole!?"

"Yes. Is there a problem?" I bit my bottom lip. This wasn't good. This meant that Eric knew about the girls. This also meant that Nicole would eventually figure out who they are and it was only a matter of time before she came for them. If the mole from Golden Moon caught wind of this, then he or she might tell Eric where Lanie and Lexie are. Which, in turn, would tip off Nicole. There's no telling what she would do if she got her hands on them. I needed to warn Chad. "Alpha? Is there ..."

"No. No problem. At least, not one you need to worry about. Is there anything else you need to tell me?"

"Ummm..." he thought for a minute. "Ah yes, there is one more thing. I overheard Ash and his sister talking and, apparently, Ash plans on challenging his father after they kill all of the Alphas at the next Alpha meeting." "What Alpha meeting? There isn't one on the calendar until next year. I doubt Eric is going to wait that long."

"I don't know. You're the Alpha," he replied with another smart-a's remark.

"Get the f**k out of my office, West. And keep your head down. You get me as much information as possible. And if I find out you even think about betraying me again, I'll find your family, and they'll watch as I rip off your head, do you hear me?!" I growled at him. He gulped, nodded his head, and scurried out of my office.

As soon as he was gone, I made sure that I didn't have any meetings on the books. Thankfully, my calendar was clear for the rest of the day as Human Resources planned for the upcoming job fair. I wasn't needed until the actual day so I decided I would have to call all of the Alphas in the area and Elder Jonah as well. If there was a mole in every neighboring pack, then Eric was getting ready to get his hands dirty, and we needed to prepare for it under the radar. Damn, I really wish that William was here right now. {Third Person P.O.V.)

After West left Wyatt's office, he made his way out of the city and back into the lush forests. When he was out of view of the main highway and cars passing by, he quickly shifted into his wolf and set off towards Silver Lake. Although Wyatt was under the impression that he had West in the palm of his hand, what he didn't know was that West was still working for Eric, and very closely at that.

When he returned to Silver Lake, he made sure that no one was around and slipped into the lair beneath the ruins. As he made his way further and further down, he finally made it to his destination. He knocked on the door a few times before it was opened. "West, what do you want?"

"I did what you asked. I told him what you wanted me to tell him."

"Did he buy it?"

"I don't know, Alpha. He seemed to have bought it. He was surprised to hear about an Alpha's meeting coming up since he said that there wasn't one on the calendar until next year. Hopefully, this means that he will be concerned enough to call an actual Alpha's meeting like you hoped," West replied as he took a seat on the small armchair in the office.

"What else did you tell him?"

"Nothing. Though he kept prying, I kept telling him that you don't tell us s**t, so..."

"WHAT?!" Eric roared at West.

"What?" West asked in confusion. He couldn't fathom why Eric would suddenly become angry and shout at him.

"YOU TOLD HIM THAT THERE WERE OTHER MOLES!?" Eric seethed as his eyes turned black with rage.

"I... I... I... No ... I didn't mean to ... I just-" West was cut off by Eric grabbing him by the throat. As his airways were being constricted, he began heaving to get oxygen into his lungs by any means necessary. He clawed at Eric's arms, but it was no use. For Eric, though disgraced, was still an Alpha. "Please, Al-Alph-a," he muttered to the best of his ability. West's face was starting to turn blue; Eric, unable to control his rage, crushed West's windpipe, suffocating him to death.

Eric dropped West's body where he stood and kicked it to the side to add to the pile of dead bodies of pack members from the other packs that Eric had commissioned as his spies. One minor mistake on their part meant death as Eric had zero patience for stupidity. Just as he sat down in his chair, the door opened, and Ash walked in.

Ash looked around at the dead bodies, and his eyes landed on West. He shook his head and looked at his father disgustedly. How he could be related to such a coldhearted murderer, he will never know.

"You need to stop killing them! We're running out of moles because you keep killing them!"

"They're idiots! They can't even do the simplest thing right. West was stupid enough to tell that good-for-nothing petulant child, Wyatt, that we had more than one mole!" Eric shouted at his son, trying to defend his actions. Trying but failing, for in Ash's eyes and ears, he would never understand his father's logic on killing the people that were meant to help rebuild their fallen pack, Halfmoon. If they couldn't get werewolves to betray their pack to join theirs without the fear of dying over the smallest infraction, then Ash's plan to challenge his father would be pointless.

"You have to stop killing everybody!"

"I'M THE ALPHA!!!" Eric roared at Ash. Though Ash wasn't afraid of Eric anymore, he didn't want to risk Eric killing him in retaliation before he had a chance to fight back. Ash bit his tongue and bowed his head, even though it pained him to do so. "Did West at least do what he was supposed to do and tell Wyatt that there was going to be an Alpha's meeting coming up?" Eric calmed down and sighed.

"Yes. At least he was able to do that part right."

"Then we're ahead of schedule. Who cares if West told him about the other moles. At the rate you're killing them, there won't be any moles left by the time all of the Alphas meet."

"For once, that pea-sized brain of yours has a point," Eric said, mocking his son. "As soon as all of the Alphas meet, we will send the gift basket of were-wine."

"Were-wine?" Ash asked in confusion.

"We won't need to kill them with our own hands this time, or with the help of dark magic, for an old friend of mine has come to my aid and provided me with something that I know will kill all of them within seconds." "What?" Ash asked.

"This," Eric replied and pulled out a syringe that was filled with black liquid.

"What is that?"

"This, boy, is called Dimethylmercury."