Chapter 48

Claudia's POV

The alarm clock on the bedside rang for a long time. My head was about to explode. I reached out to press the alarm clock, but Isaac was faster than me. He took the alarm clock and smashed it against the wall. "Boom!" The room immediately quieted down. I couldn't blame him for his bad temper. His head should be more painful than mine.

Last night, we drank up all the stock at home. We said we just need a glass of red wine to help us sleep. I didn't know who suggested playing a small game. Moreover, Isaac and I were people who were unwilling to admit defeat. In fact, it was a draw. But I used magic to cheat a few times when my tongue could still chant a spell.

I endured the headache and looked at the calendar. Then I struggled to get up from the bed. Isaac pulled me back to the bed.

"Where are you going?" he asked me with his eyes closed.

"Toby is coming today. I'll pick him up."

"Oh god!" Isaac rubbed his temples. "Him again? Why can't he just get out of my life?"

"Don't say that. He's your younger brother." I piled the quilt on Isaac and walked to the bathroom.

"F*ck... Can you ask him to leave?" Isaac made a dull sound in the quilt.

"No, if you don't want me to meet Toby alone, I advise you to go with me."

Isaac finally sat up from the quilt. "You are a devil." He came out of bed wearing only a black flat boxer shorts.

I looked at Isaac in the mirror. How could he look like a model after a hangover? I combed my long hair that was tied together because of rolling on the bed and thought.

He hugged me from behind, looking like he couldn't sleep. I could only urge him" Go and take a shower. You smelled of alcohol."

"Well, you too. Do you want to join me?" His hand restlessly touched me.

"Get out. We have no time."

"One day you will be punished for talking to me like that." Isaac walked into the bathroom.

"I'm so scared." I shrank my neck expressionlessly.

"You definitely will." Isaac poked his head out of the bathroom and said to me.

When I came out of the bathroom, Isaac had already made breakfast. Actually, according to the time, it should be lunch. This may be the only benefit of living with him. I don't have to step into the annoying kitchen.

"I didn't expect that Neil would invite Toby to his coronation ceremony."

"He knew that he couldn't beat White Claw pack, so he chose to continue to negotiate with them. And with you here, Toby will come."

"I hope he won't be like Andre." I remembered the times when Andre tried to harm us with the means of negotiation.

"He doesn't dare. Neil doesn't have the power. The commanders will watch him."

"Will you be sad when it comes to the ceremony? I remember that you really wanted to be Alpha."

"When I was young, I wanted to use this to gain the approval of others, because I was not strong enough at that time. But after facing death and despair, it doesn't matter anymore. I just want to get what I love the most." He smiled at me.

"But still I was a little sad." Neil is our Alpha. "It is so embarrassing to say it. I never saw that he had this ambition. Who knows why he wanted to be Alpha so much?"

In fact, I could see from Neil's eyes that he had always been jealous of Isaac. Perhaps in his eyes, becoming Alpha was the only way to prove to others that he was stronger than Isaac. But I couldn't tell Isaac that this was between the two of them, and I couldn't interfere.

Isaac and I waited for Toby at the door of pack. He was a little darker, and his skin was a beautiful wheat color under the sun. The moment he saw Isaac, the smile on his face collapsed.

"What is he doing here?" Toby pointed at Isaac.

"He came with me to pick you up."

"I don't believe it." Toby sniffed the air. "Why has your smell changed? Wait, have you been marked by him?"

I subconsciously touched the mark on the back of my neck. "Is this obvious?"

Toby looked very angry. He clenched his fists. I used my elbow to pound Isaac and let him put away the flaunting expression on his face.

Toby's POV

I wanted to punch Isaac's smug face. Claudia was surrounded by his smell. All kinds of complicated emotions were intertwined in my heart. I was very angry that he dared to casually mark Claudia. But they were mate. Thinking of this, my heart ached again.

After Andre was exiled, I returned to White Claw pack. Claudia still stayed in Crimson Shadow pack. I knew that she wanted to accompany her mate. I could feel the change in her attitude towards Isaac after she re-established her relationship with Isaac. Although it was difficult for her to notice it herself, I could tell from the way she looked at Isaac that she still loved him. Claudia finally opened her closed heart, but I couldn't be happy.

I couldn't bless her because I liked her from the first time I saw Claudia. It was the same now. Her beautiful green eyes looked at me, full of worry. I didn't want her to be sad, so I put away my emotions.

Neil made this coronation ceremony like a ball. He even let the people attending the ceremony wear dresses to enter, but it was a good idea. He let me see Claudia wearing a dress.

Claudia wore a champagne-colored dress, and the "V" shape of the dress revealed her beautiful back. The slit on the side of the dress made her slender legs faintly discernible in the silk fabric. Her silvery-white long hair was curved to a wave, shining like the river under the moonlight. She was so beautiful today that I almost ignored Isaac beside her.

But Isaac was too outstanding. His expressionless face was like a statue, and his eyes were cold. Only when he looked at Claudia did his expression become gentler. I didn't know why all the women present were looking at him.

"You look very handsome today," Claudia said to me.

"I'm very happy to hear you praise me, but can you not look at me like that? This is the look of an elder." I hate Claudia treating me like a child.

"Oh my god, am I like this?" Claudia's ears turned red. She was really cute at this time.

"Move your eyes away from my mate." Isaac stared at me and said in my mind. I really miss the time when he did not know how to use mind link.

"Being polite means when talking to someone, you have to look at them."

"Being polite means to stay away from other people's mate."

Claudia glanced at Isaac and then looked at me. "What are you whispering in the mind link?" She was really damn sharp.

Isaac pretended not to hear her and turned his head to the other direction. I smiled and said to Claudia, "It's nothing."

Suddenly, all the lights in the hall turned down. A strong white light hit the rotating stairs on the left side of the auditorium. Neil slowly walked down from stairs with a glass of wine. Oh my god, did he think he was a Princess on her 16th birthday?

He walked to the standing microphone under the stairs. "Thank you for coming to my coronation ceremony."

I didn't remember what Neil said after that. It was just some boring nonsense. Just when everyone was sleepy, he suddenly changed the topic to Isaac.

"The person I am most grateful to is my elder brother, Isaac. Without his support, I can't become Alpha at all." Neil motioned for Isaac to stand beside him.

Claudia held Isaac's hand in panic. Isaac smiled at her. "It's okay." Then he let go of Claudia's hand and walked away.

"Protect her," Isaac said to me through the mind link.

Isaac walked to Neil. Neil intimately put his arm around Isaac's shoulder and said, "I hope Isaac can accept it and become our pack's Beta."