The Were CEO’s Secret

Chapter Thirty-Eight – Balance

“Don’t ask me who I am. I refuse to tell you.” The man replied. There was a feminine lace to his tone but Nathan was sure it wasn’t a female.

“I can kill you now and know. Why are you following me? Who sent you?” Nathan raised the knife again.

The man didn’t flinch. “No one sent me. I sent myself. And it’s a rare sight for a Billionaire CEO to be shopping at such small store, isn’t it?”

Nathan sighed. The person knew he was a CEO so it wasn’t a simple stranger, he had disguised himself pretty well, who ever could unmask his identity was surely no mere man.

Also, with his speed and ability, Nathan could tell he was a wolf. Only not sure what rank he’d be. “So what do you want with me?”

“He doesn’t want anything. He just wanted you to know he’s following you.” Keon replied.

“You wanted me to know you’re following me? To get me scared or what?” He asked the man.

“To let you know that if I can easily follow you, you who has superhuman abilities but isn’t a wolf….”

Nathan’s eyes dimmed as he spoke. The man knew he wasn’t human, what if he told the public? He held the knife tightly.

“… then it’d be easier following Stephanie, wouldn’t it?” the man sneered.

“Don’t touch Stephanie!” Nathan stabbed the knife besides the man but the man shuddered.

“Wait, wait!” he pleaded before realizing the knife wasn’t on him.

“Let him go. He isn’t after you. Or Stephanie, in fact. I feel nothing dangerous with him. He’s not on our side and isn’t against us.” Keon uttered.

Nathan frowned. Was this fox telling him to let go of a man who knew his secret, threatened to harm Stephanie, and isn’t on their side?

Keon answered him, inwardly. “He’s a balance. A balance that’d cause chaos in your pack and Johnson’s pack. Letting him live would make the chaos be in your favor.”

Nathan withdrew the knife from the wall and handed it over to the man. “Fine. I’d let you go. You don’t have what it takes to hurt Stephanie.”

The man snatched the knife and gazed at it. He looked up at Nathan. “You let me go? Really?”

Nathan shrugged. Keon better me right about his judgment, this time. “Yeah, go. Don’t follow me or Stephanie. Do anything else.”

The man scaled through a wall and jumped to the roof. He disappeared out of sight after that. Nathan was stunned. That was no ordinary wolf.

“Keon, you really told me to let this man go? What about Stephanie! He literally said he could get Stephanie!” Nathan continued on his way.

“He is being tough. I can’t tell who he is but I know he doesn’t mean harm. At least not yet.”

Nathan sighed. “Not yet! Why should we wait? You know what, I’d call Stephanie and tell her to be careful of anything. Just in case.”

Keon smirked but said nothing.

“Hey, What’s up?” he asked when Stephanie picked up.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“Hey! I’m still at the office, I’d be done soon. As I said, I can go home myself. Shop for your sister. Last time I met her she literally said she’d eat me.” Stephanie shivered on the memory.

Nathan nodded. “Yeah. But Stephanie, be careful when going home. I saw a man. Keon said he isn’t dangerous but be careful. Okay?”.

Stephanie paused. If it’s nothing why should she be careful. Well, not like it was a crime to be. Her furrows wrinkled. Who was Keon again?

“Okay, I’d be careful but who’s Keon? Aren’t you Keon, why say Keon in third person?” She walked out of her office with her bag.

Nathan heaved a sigh. “Keon is me, okay? But the inner me. Like how wolves have an inner animal spirit or something, yeah, that. Be safe.”

Stephanie smiled. “Oh, okay. Bye.” Nathan hung up. Stephanie exhaled and walked to the coffee dispenser, hoping to enjoy coffee on her way on.

On second thoughts, since she was to be careful while going home, she decided against the coffee to not get distracted.

She walked out of the building and strolled down to a junction. A man wearing black clothes, a mask and a tuxedo jacket followed behind her.

(At An Abandoned Street)

Alpha Luciana threw out the gun from her hands and shifted to her wolf, a large grey wolf. Her name was Selena and under the night sky, she looked like a silver wolf.

The assassins withdrew, knowing they’ve unlocked her beast mode. A brave one, amongst them, ran forward with his sword to slash her head off.

Selena dodged him and using her hind legs to kick his chest. He flew to a building. The rest rekindled their spirits and charged at the wolf.

Selena clawed and chew and kicked but they were numerous. She was even lacking the joy of ripping and tearing apart.

Making a sprint far from there, she turned back to them, her eyes flaming.

They hadn’t chased after her, thinking she was running away. She swore at them. She would never run away from a fight.

Even if it were with Chinese Assassins, the few humans who could actually kill a werewolf.

Her eyes burned brighter when she remembered that they were the ones who helped the Werefox capture her mate that year.

She never got to revenge on them. It was time.

Running back towards them, she let out a howl.

She steadily dodged a drugged dart that was shot at her and grabbed the shooter by her mouth.

Things went down dirty. She was sure her warriors would only come within five minutes so she had to reduce the assassins before then.

“Look out, Alpha!” her lead warrior, Avery, screamed. Selena caught the long arrow with her mouth. She broke it into half and through the pointed edge back at her shooter.

She growled as a sign for her warrior to shift, soon crackling sounds and snarls were heard and the warriors joined their Alpha in the fight.

Selena stayed back, gasping for breath. The assassins, according to their creed, would have come to her as a hundred.

She wasn’t sure how many she killed but she’d know. They never returned till they finish their mission. They’d hunt till they succeed. But none would live to succeed.

It was down to the last man. Avery threw him forward in front of her Alpha. Luciana had shifted back to human form.

She stooped to the man on the ground. “Who sent you? Johnson? Big Shark Joe? The government? Damn, I have so many enemies.”

The man was slowly bringing out a knife from his shoe. “Please, please, spare me.”

Luciana frowned. “Spare you?” she grabbed the man by the neck and his knife fell to the ground.

Seeing that the man nearly stabbed her, Luciana snarled and tore off his gullet. He flung his body to the warriors.

“Bury the rest but don’t bury that man. He said to spare him but dare double cross me!”

She growled angrily, running her hands through her hair. She saw some warriors were injured and her claws buried into her flesh as she clenched her fists.

The warriors bowed, leaving her to be. They dragged the man’s corpse away. Avery came closer to the Alpha to help her wounds but she rebuffed her.

“They’d heal. For now, I need to know who sent this assassins to me. If it’s Johnson, then he just started a bloody war!”