‘Sterile’ Mate, Pregnant Mistress? Zero Fucks Given—I Took His Pack Instead Chapter 04

‘Sterile’ Mate, Pregnant Mistress? Zero Fucks Given—I Took His Pack Instead Chapter 04

“What?”

Garrett suddenly remembered all those calls from the pack council. His face went white.

“Garrett!” Amber stuck her head out of the healer’s chamber. “The healer says the pup can sense its father!”

But Garrett was already on another call.

His second-in-command’s panicked voice came through.

“Alpha! Ten allied packs just severed ties. They said our territory proposals are absolute garbage. The scouts are all halfblood wolves who have no idea what they’re doing-one of them drew fucking stick figures on a border agreement!”

གན་ང་ན་འ ག་ ག་ ས་ ་ ཚད་ ་ ་

“They’re done with us. Treaty breach penalties? We’re looking at twelve hundred silver marks and loss of hunting grounds.”

Garrett’s phone hit the stone floor.

He turned to Amber slowly.

She blinked. All innocent. “What?”

“I’m hungry. Can we get deer heart after the examination?”

“GET OUT!” Garrett’s wolf surfaced. His eyes flashed gold. “This is YOUR fault!”

He shifted and bolted back to the pack house. The war room was destroyed.

Alliance contracts shredded everywhere. Territory maps covered in childish scrawls. Border proposals with crude drawings

all over them.

His treasurer handed him a notice sealed with silver wax.

“Alpha. The vault council froze our reserves.”

Garrett stumbled back against the wall. He suddenly remembered my face when I walked out into the rain.

He finally understood what he’d lost.

He frantically called my number over and over.

Every time: “The wolf you are trying to reach has severed all bonds.”

Amber showed up, hand on her belly.

“Garrett,” she whined, then saw the chaos and gasped dramatically. “What happened?”

Garrett’s head snapped up. His eyes looked feral.

“Who the fuck told you to demote my patrol unit? Who said you could bring in those useless wolves?”

Amber backed up fast. She’d never seen his wolf this close to breaking through.

“You-you said territory patrol was mine! My friends are strong! I gave them high tribute-used your authority!

High tribute.

Garrett suddenly remembered. Three moons ago. That feast. I’d asked-carefully-if we could grant the unit/rank increases.

He’d thrown his chalice across the hall.

His chest felt like silver was burning through it. He couldn’t breathe.

“Look what your ‘strong friends’ did!”

He hurled the proposals at her feet. Stick figures all over them.

Amber scrambled to pick them up. Her face got paler with every page.

Just then, the halfblood wolves walked in.

“Yo! Alpha!” Bleached-hair guy threw his arm around Garrett.

“Don’t thank us too hard, man. We totally improved those proposals!”

Amber was frantically trying to shut them up. Eyes wild. Shaking her head hard.

But the girl kept running her mouth.

“Garrett, dude-your ex’s unit was trash. Their proposals made zero sense! Good thing Amber kicked everyone out!”

Garrett went completely still.

He slowly rose from his chair. His voice came out quiet and deadly.

“Oh yeah?”

The wolves didn’t get it. They kept bragging.

“Hell yeah! Amber knew what she was doing bringing us in!”

“For real! We made those proposals way better!”

“Dude, you don’t even know-that Sloane chick’s whole unit was a fucking joke!”

Amber was getting more and more panicked, trying to stop them.

But they wouldn’t shut up about how they’d replaced me and my wolves.

Garrett’s eyes turned completely gold. His claws extended slowly.

“Tap. Tap. Tap.

His claws scraped against the stone desk.

The sound made everyone’s wolf instincts scream *danger*.

“You done?”

He spoke so quietly you could barely hear him. But the whole room went dead silent.

The wolves finally realized Garrett was looking at them like prey.

“Guards!” Garrett’s Alpha command hit like a shockwave. “Drag these fuckers out! NOW! They’re banished from pack lands

FOREVER!”

“Garrett!” Amber screamed. Tried to grab his arm. “They’re my FRIENDS! You can’t just-you have to COMPENSATE them!”

Garrett shoved her hand off so hard she stumbled. “COMPENSATE them?! I should RIP OUT their throats for this!”

He pointed at the ruined proposals. “OPEN YOUR EYES! LOOK! THIS is what your ‘talented’ fucking friends DID!”

“You know what these alliances were worth? You know what they just cost us?”

“Garrett!”

Amber tried to argue but the Alpha fury in his eyes stopped her cold.

“You too. Get out.”

He pointed at the doors. “Pack your shit and leave my territory.”

After the war room finally cleared out, Garrett collapsed into his chair.

He tried my number again with shaking hands.

Still nothing.

Suddenly he remembered something. He jumped up and ran out into the night.

At the territory border, Garrett shifted and ran to the crossing point, lungs burning. “Check tonight’s crossings to Frostclaw lands. Did Sloane Nightwhisper pass through?”

The border guard stared at him-fur matted with mud, eyes wild. “Alpha… Alpha Brennan sent a convoy. They crossed half an hour ago.”

Garrett’s legs gave out. He collapsed in wolf form.

He finally got it.

The she-wolf who drank silver-laced drinks for him till she puked blood. Who secured alliance after alliance. Who stayed bonded when they had nothing.

She was gone for good.

When Garrett got back to the pack house the whole den felt dead.

He shifted back to human. His clothes still smelled like rain and failure.

The pack’s last three hundred silver marks just got seized by the vault council. Now they couldn’t even pay the den servants.

“Garrett? He’s nothing! You think I actually want him?”

Upstairs in the Alpha chamber he heard Amber’s voice, trying to whisper but not quiet enough.

Garrett froze halfway up the stone stairs.

“The pup? Ha. Obviously it’s not his.”

Amber’s laugh sounded like poison. “That cursed loser? He can’t sire anything!’

The stone banister cracked under Garrett’s claws.

“Once he’s completely broke I’m gone. What a pathetic waste of an Alpha.”

Amber’s voice cut off. The chamber door slammed open.

Garrett stood there, eyes completely gold.

“Gar-Garrett.”

Amber fumbled with her phone, her belly knocking over the vanity.

“Let me explain!”