Chapter 61
Daran’s soldiers poured into the lumber camp and controlled all guards. All hardbors in the camp
were shivering in fear. Balvina quickly came to calm these people down.
Maxie still couldn’t believe what she was saying, “But how did you know where my families are…‘
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Daran walked over and answered on J’s behalf, “J believed that Baron must have
something on you to have you work for him. She found that your family hadn’t returned to your old
house for almost 3 years. And I have my men dug out the old surveince footage from 3 years ago
and found out where Baron took them.”
He paused and then said with a deep voice, “Sorry Maxie, I should have found out that you were
living under his control earlier.”
Maxie covered her mouth and shook her head in tears. She and her families fell into each other’s
arms, sobbing on each other’s shoulders, venting out everything they had suffered for thest 3
years.
J looked at them and felt her heart swell. She knew what it felt like to reunite with families. She
got the same feeling when Casper brought her home almost an year ago.
At the meantime, Daran’s soldiers brought the guard of this lumber camp over. The
guard was no longer harsh and violent like he was earlier. Instead, he dropped on his knees
unvolunteetarily in front of Daran in fear and trembled like a sheep.
“Alpha Daran,” the guard quivered. “Please forgive us…We know nothing…We were simply told to
keep an eye on these workers!”
“By whom?” Daran asked with a freezing voice.
The guard hesitated. The soldier standing behind his back grabbed his left hand and pinned it on
the ground forcefully. Picking up an axe, the solider looked at Daran and waited for his order.
“Chop his hand off,” Daran sneered icily. “Maybe that will get him to talk.”
“Yes Alpha!”
The soldier raised the axe high in the air. The lumber camp’s guard let out a horrific screaming,
“NO–Wait! My boss is Gamma Baron! Please…let me go!”
The soldier dropped the axe back down and grabbed his cor bringing him to Daran. Daran looked
down at his fearful and sweaty face and asked, “Who are these workers? And what is this lumber
camp for?”
The guard almost wet his pants earlier. He was ready to spill everything out now.
“T–These workers are all Gamma Baron’s hostage. If someone defied him at work, Gamma Baron
would abduct that person’s family and brought people here. We got the family of his father’s former
captain who refused to take his order now, the ountant who wouldn’t cook the book for him, a
journalist who threatened to expose him and a few girls who didn’t want to be his mistress…”
The longer that list got, the darker the look on J’s face was.
She thought Baron was just a gutless puss. But as it turned out, he was so much more than that.
She regretted not getting to the bottom of this when Baron first set her up in the crazy bear
incident.
Daran seemed furious as well. He red at the guard and snapped, “So what do you have these
people do all day? Chopping woods?”
“Well…yeah. This lumber camp is actually very lucrative, made Gamma Baron lot of money. And if
somebody refused to coborate, we’d take them into the forest and kill them there…‘
Maxie’s little sister gasped a small cry and buried her face into Maxie’s arms. Maxie patted her
shoulder and casted a resentful look at the guard.
Then she bent down to pick up the whip on the ground and turned to ask Daran, “Alpha, if I may?”
Daran gave her an affirmative nod.
Maxie strode forward, raising the whip up in the air, andid a harshsh across the guard’s face, “-
This one if for my father!”
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The guard screamed covering his face, rolling around in pain. But Maxie continued anyway,shing
that whip mercilessly.
“And my mother! My brother! My sister…And all the innocent people in this lumber camp!”
Workers gathered up around them and they watched Maxie beat that guard up. When she was
through with it, the guard was on the ground, half–dead. A round of enthusiastic apuse broke out
from the crowd.
Maxie dropped the whip and turned back to J and Daran. Grateful tears were shinning in her
eyes.
“Thank you…Alpha Daran, for stepping up for me and my family.” She choked, “And Gamma J,
thank you for getting to the bottom of this. I treated you terribly earlier today and I feel awful…”
“You were threatened by Baron. We all get it,” Jforted her. “We’ll let the soldiers clean up
this mess. But at the meantime, is there a ce we can talk?” Maxie’s father quickly wiped the tears
away from his eyes and nodded, “Of course. Please follow us, Alpha and Gamma J.”
They led Daran and J into a small cabin and closed the door.
“Your family is safe now, Maxie.” Daran said, “And I believe that you havee to realize what an
evil person Baron is. All Riverside soldiers need to know that too. They can’t go to the battlefield
with that bastard. So to aplish that, we will have to-”
get that ount book. Yeah, I get it,” Maxie said with a low voice.
She fumbled in her cor and pulled out a ne. There was a tiny golden locket on the
ne.
“Here.” she handed the locket to Daran, “There was an address and a number engraved inside of
the locket. The address is the safe where I kept Baron’s ount book in. And the number is the
password.”
Daran took the locket and gripped it firmly.
“Thank you for your trust,” he said solemnly to Maxie.
“No need.” Maxie took a deep breath and replied to Daran with a smile, “I know that you are a
wonderful Alpha. And I am d to continue serving in your troops.”
With this lumber camp being taken down, all workers/prisoners needed to be sent back home.
Daran spent a few hours talking to these people, making arrangement for them, and documenting
their testimonies.
When all those works were done, Daran turned around and found that J still hadn’t left.
She was leaning against the wall, smiling to him.
A gentle smile touched Daran’s lips as well as he walked towards her, “What happened? I thought
you left already.”
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“I wanted to see if you need any help,” J looked up into his gorgeous eyes. “You are quite a
badass today, Alpha Daran.”
Daran chuckled lowly and backed against the same wall next to J, “Not as badass as the
Gamma who ughtered a bunch of crazy bears.”
The night breeze brushed their cheeks. The silver moonlight was soft and beautiful. After a long
night of chaos, they both felt rxed at this moment.
“You know-”
J broke the silence all of a sudden. There was a hint of nostalgic in her voice.
I was very happy when I found out that you are my mate. But not because you are handsome, or
that you are the Alpha,” she said.
Daran averted his head to look at her. His voice became hoarse, “Then what’s the reason?”
“Because you always give people a sense of security. Like these prisoners here. The moment they
saw you by the front gate, they instantly knew that they were safe. You
have that kind of power in you, Daran.”
“…But I let you down. Didn’t I?” he asked.
J let out a small sneer, “Yeah, because you were so busy protecting someone else…But why
are we talking about it now? It is so in the past already.”
She stood up straight and wanted to leave. But arge hand caught her wrist and spined her
around.
The next second she fell back into his arm.
“I know you don’t need my protection anymore but…”
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His s e xy and husky voice was by her ears. And his muscr arms tightly wrapped around her slim
waist.
“…But I’m willing to take a bullet for you anytime, J,” He said.
His firm chest was on an inch away from her nose. The familiar smell of his scent filled her nostrils.
J felt her heart skipped a leap at this moment.