I looked back at Liam with concern, and Fang's grip on my wrist tightened. He did not like the way I was going to save someone else when he had assured me. At Fang's signal, Bane bent down to slit his palm and pour his blood into Liam's mouth. I watched with my jaw slack a bit. Blood abilities were only with the Warchilds, so Bane would be Alpha if he had it.

"Is he using blood noesis?" I asked Fang.

Fang's eyes were fixated on Bane doing his job as he answered without turning to me, "No, Bane's special abilities make him resistant to the poison, so his blood is a kind of antidote to anything toxin."

So Bane was not a Warchild. Liam's body, which had gone in a seizure, calmed down and his eyes that had rolled back came to their normal position. He was slowly breathing and the nerves that had prominently come out from on his neck soothed down.

I still could not believe Liam tried to kill himself. Was he scared of Fang that he chose to kill himself instead of facing whatever Fang had in store?

"He poisoned himself. Why?" I asked, straining my neck to look at Fang, who was standing close to me.

Fang's eyes moved from Bane and he bent his neck to look at me, "People only do that when they are in the wrong, little one." His hand went around my waist in a protective sense.

Something told me Fang already saw through Liam's head and knew who was the culprit behind it. The person was trying to harm me in such a wrong way it made me conscious of Liam being innocent or not.

If was marked by Liam today, it would have made me void of any future with any other person and if I were to dissolve that bond then there were chances one of our wolves would have died. The marking and the one were done with the soul and once bodies united after mating, the two become one spiritually.

Suddenly a shrill voice of a girl came inside the tent and our heads turned in the direction, "Alpha, is everything alright? I heard screams from the forest," she said with her hand innocently over her chest to show her concern. She had black hair and honey brown eyes with a body that curved near the right area. A total beauty, if viewed from a man's eye. I noticed how she had referred to Fang as Alpha and it looked like I was the only one who called him by his name here.

Her honey brown eyes moved to me and how Fang had held me close to him by my waist. I had got so used to Fang's behaviour of always coming close; it felt normal to me until the girl's jealous eyes landed on us.

I immediately took my distance, but Fang held my wrist to make me stand right beside him. He looked at the girl with a passive face, "Someone drugged the lone wolf who tried to attack our special guest here, and seems like he committed suicide to hide the culprit."

The girl came close to Fang, putting her arm on his bare chest, "oh no, is our guest okay?" Her big eyes moved to look at me in a caring way while her body moved closer to Fang, claiming him. I could not even smile at her. Instead, my face was holding back a cringe at the way she acted around Fang, like a damsel whom Fang would save.

I was sure she was that important minister's daughter that Fang kept around him, and it internally made me chuckle that Fang actually thought this girl was important.

Fang smiled at the girl and chimed, "She is perfect, but it was terrible on your part to try and hurt my special guest, Sylvie"

Sylvie's face turned pure, "What are you saying, Alpha? Why would I do that?"

But that rang some other bells in my head. The scent that I had followed a while back. I now remembered it was the same that I had smelled on Fang that night, of the other girl. Which meant Sylvie was the one who had tricked me and drugged Liam. But why would she do that when she didn't even know I was Fang's soulmate?

Fang read my thoughts, and he got all his answers just like I did; that Sylvie was the culprit here. He let go of my hand and jerked Sylvie off the ground by her throat. Her face went red, and she was trying to speak, but her tiny throat was at the mercy of Fang's big hands.

"Fang, what are you doing!" I shouted. This was not the way to handle things. Someone might have tricked her. She looked pretty innocent to do something like this. My hand went over Fang's biceps, "Stop, you will kill her."

Bane suddenly disrupted the tense environment that had built here. "He is back, Alpha." The moment Bane said those words, Fang let go of Sylvie and she fell down, coughing and gasping for her life. Liam was truly back and the terror of not having died smeared across his face. I rushed to check whether Sylvie was alright, rubbing her back to comfort her disturbed self. She surely never received this side of Fang, and it had her shocked. It was the first time even for me to see this side of Fang.

Fang walked up to Liam and instructed, "Everyone out"

Bane and the other grey wolf bowed and quickly left the room. Fang was about to touch Liam's head when I heard Sylvie click her tongue, and in a flash, she held my neck with a knife against my throat. Fang turned around instantly and Sylvie spoke in a sobbing voice, "Why can she call you by your name, Alpha? I have never been disobedient to you and I still can't call you by your name."

"Sylvie put the weapon down." Fang's words came as a command, and I could feel his blood boiling.

"It is only me who will stay by your side," Sylvie was going hysterical for no reason. I had nothing to do with Fang. Fang took a step ahead when Sylvie pulled me back, "and you tried to kill me just for this nobody. I was just trying to get her away and be good to Liam, give him a mate. So you and I could be together forever But turns out there is another girl, and this girl is closer to you than me."

My hands were raised ahead, ready to counterattack, but the knife was too close and Sylvie needed to drop her guard for a moment so I could turn it around.

"Sylvie," Fang growled as his teeth turned jagged, canines slowly growing. "I am going to say this for the last time. Put. The weapon. Down"

But how could Sylvie do that? I could tell she had been putting up a compassionate act in front of everyone, which was breaking piece by piece and there was hatred she harboured towards me for reasons to which I did not understand. That cannot be possible just because I was Fang's special guest. I laughed at the situation, making everyone in the room look at me confused, "Look what happens when you play with people's emotions, Fang." I stated.

Sylvie closed the gap between the knife, drawing my blood. Fang growled and as he stepped forward and Sylvie, with no hesitation, gave him a warning by sliding the knife across my skin, leaving a trail of dripping blood.

The frustration in Fang was building up because it was making him helpless. His claws were forming out, ready to rip Sylvie off the moment he catches her. But talked instead of any action, "If you want to call me by my name, then go ahead, Sylvie. Just let her go"

Sylvie looked at Fang with tear-filled eyes, "Can I really? Always call you by your name?" Fang nodded, and Sylvie was filled with joy. "So you also would stay away from this girl? I get to smell other women on you, Fang. I don't want that, just be mine."

Even with a knife held at my throat, a smile spread across my lips. The wicked smile that Fang always carried around with him, and that had Fang alerted of me going to test with luck.

It was heartwarming to see Fang hold back for me, and he was truly letting things slide for me. To have me safe and it told me how much he wanted me. But for what reasons, just because he wanted me or for this revenge? However, an injured me can still be recovered for the sake of his revenge story, but he was doing it for me not to be hurt. He was desperate to save me and I wanted to violate that, defy his desperation.

Fang narrowed his eyes at me and then at Sylvie, "Just let her go, Sylvie. Here, come to me." He extended his arms ahead before I could pull an antic and snap Sylvie again.

This man was just using Sylvie to his need, and the girl had gone so hysterical. It was maybe her own personality as Fang would never bring on himself such pain in the ass. I had to get her away from him for her own good. My eyebrows creased, and I said in the most girlish way as I could, "But you were going to marry me and make your mate, Fang."