The Enemy Alpha Wanted His Heartless Luna Chapter 09

Time flew by.

At the development site along the upper reaches of Moon River, I stood at the entrance to the temporary camp in a protective jacket, reviewing the blueprints.

Garrett approached from behind and handed me a bottle of water.

“After the Council rejected Brandon’s development permit, several members of his pack were removed from their positions.”

“Hmm.”

“Leah’s been officially dismissed, too. Her father even came to see me, asking if I could find his daughter a job in our pack.”

I didn’t respond. I simply folded the blueprints, tucked them under my arm, and headed deeper into the development site.

I couldn’t care less about any of it.

As I passed a café, I came face-to-face with Leah.

She wore a thick, worn-out coat and carried a bag of groceries.

When she saw me, she paused.

I kept walking.

Just as we passed each other, she called out to me.

“Grace.”

I turned my head toward her.

“Did you do this on purpose? Did you deliberately get the Council to shut down Brandon’s project just to make me lose my job?”

“I was just following the rules.”

Leah’s lips moved, but no words came out. She gripped the grocery bag so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

“We grew up in the same pack. We’re both women. How can you be so heartless? I worked at Pack Hall for four years, and now I’ve lost everything just because you interfered with that project!”

“Save it,” I cut in. “You only got a position in Mistwood Pack’s administration and the chance to work with Brandon on cross-pack affairs because he went easy on you. It had nothing to do with your abilities.”

“If you need a job now, don’t come to me. I have no obligation to clean up your mess.”

Leah stared at me, her eyes slowly turning red.

Grinding her teeth, she said, “Grace, you never used to be like this. You always said the women in our pack should help each other…”

That was then. This was now.

I was about to turn away when she suddenly lowered her voice, as if deliberately testing me.

“Grace, you haven’t really lost your emotions or your wolf, have you? You’re just getting revenge on us.”

I didn’t look back.

Behind me, I heard her grocery bag hit the ground, followed by the sound of her crouching to pick everything up.

When I returned to the development camp, Garrett was leaning against the entrance, waiting for me.

“Did she cry?”

“No idea. I didn’t look.”

He nodded and pushed open the camp door.

“The next shipment of building materials arrives tomorrow. I need you to sign the handover documents.”

“Okay.”

I walked inside, spread out the blueprints, and picked up a pen.

The wind howled outside, making the wooden door of the camp rattle loudly.

As I bent over to sign the documents, I caught my reflection in the window out of the corner of my eye.

I sat there with perfect composure, looking almost exactly as I always had.

But the old Grace would have turned back if she saw someone crying by the side of the road. She would have gone out of her way to offer them a tissue.

The Grace I was now wouldn’t even slow down if she saw someone crouched there in tears.

It wasn’t that I didn’t want to stop.

The thought simply never crossed my mind.

My heart had been ripped out by their own hands on the night of the Luna selection.

The Moon River development project had only just gotten underway.

On the day the first project payment came through, I summoned Trevor to the Alpha’s office.

He stood in the doorway, a glimmer of hope in his eyes. Apparently, he thought I was finally ready to make peace with him.

“Hey, sis. You wanted to see me?”

I pulled a stack of bank statements and transfer records from my desk drawer and slid them toward him.

“Your four years of college tuition, living expenses, rental deposits, and graduation trip cost a total of $537,000.”

“Then there’s the $62,000 in loans you took from me over the two years since graduation.”

“That brings the total to $599,000. Go through the records and check the figures.”

Trevor bent over to look at the papers. His expression gradually changed.

“G, what are you trying to say?”

“I want the money back. The Moon River development project is short on funds. If you repay me, I can balance the books on my end.”

“Where am I supposed to get that kind of money?”

“The car in your name was paid for by me last year. I just registered it under your name. Sell it or use it as collateral, but come up with the full amount within a month.”

“Grace, I’m your own brother!”

“Family is family. Business is business.”

He stood frozen, his lips parting as if he wanted to say something. His fingers clamped around the bank statement until the edge of the paper bent under his grip.

“I don’t have the money to pay you back.”

“Then wait for the court summons.”

“Y-You’re going to sue me?”

His eyes widened as if he were looking at a complete stranger.

“If Mom were still alive, would she believe you’d use the money she left you to sue your own brother?”

I didn’t even look up. I continued signing the documents in front of me.

“I don’t care what anyone else thinks.”