His Puppet

No Longer Mrs. Cooley: The Architect's Return

Xiao Xiaosu

I went to the City Clerk’s office for a routine copy of my marriage license to finalize a trust fund audit. I expected a simple piece of paper, but the clerk’s pitying look told me my entire life was a lie. "The license was never finalized, Ms. Oliver. In the eyes of the state, you are single." The three-hundred-guest wedding at the Plaza and the Vogue features meant nothing. My husband, Gray Cooley, had intentionally filed the documents with a "procedural defect" so he could discard me without a legal divorce. Moments later, an iCloud invite titled "Our Little Secret" popped up on my screen. It was a photo of my best friend, Brylee, holding a positive pregnancy test at our Hamptons estate. Gray’s text to her was the final blow: "Happy anniversary, babe. This baby is the best gift. Once the trust unlocks today, we’re done with the charade." I soon discovered they were even stealing my career, reassigning my architectural masterpiece to Brylee while preparing my eviction notice. Gray's mother called me a "barren mule" in a leaked recording, mocking the infertility I suffered after saving Gray’s life in a construction accident. I wasn't a wife; I was a three-year placeholder used to secure his inheritance. How could the man I bled for treat me like a disposable prop? How could my best friend carry his child while pretending to comfort me through my darkest moments? The betrayal burned until it turned into a cold, hard stone of fury. I didn't cry. Instead, I walked into the penthouse of the Barretts, the Cooleys' most powerful rivals. I signed a marriage contract with Kane Barrett, the man the tabloids called the "Beast of Wall Street." "I want a wedding," I told his father, my voice steady and lethal. "Bigger than the one I had with Gray." If they wanted me gone, they would have to watch me become the woman who owns their world.

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Alina stands outside the door listening to her fathers conversation with the dark wizard, normally werewolves don’t believe in dark wizards but gods and noticing that her father was actually talking with one she became curious to listen.

"I need him out of the way, I am afraid he has more wisdom than I have and people will compare my reign with his, additionally I am not ready to leave my Alpha’s position to anyone, not even my son" Alina hears her father say as her eyes widened in shock.

"I won't suggest you kill him now Alpha Thomas, it would cause a lot of suspicions, why not cast him into stupidity first so that the love your people have for him will be reduced to nothing." The dark wizard responded.

"I know my people love him but they also believe in the gods and the gods already declared that he should be named Alpha '' Alpha Thomas replied.

"I know of that but his death would also bring question, let's make him act stupidly first then push himself to suicide, that way his death would seem natural" The black wizard suggested.

"Hahaha, it is foolish of wolves not to believe in dark wizards, you have never disappointed me since the time I took my father's position as Alpha '' Alpha Thomas responded in laughter as the black wizard also joined in the laughter.

Alina quietly leaves her hiding spot, it's unbelievable that her father has actually been dining and talking with black wizards, a specie which was totally forbidden in the werewolf world, joining the two pieces together, she finally realised that her father was serving the gods in the eye of the people but originally he dines with the wizards.

She thought of warning "Alex" her brother but why should she? her father was finally making things easy for her, Alina is the first child and she is meant to be the Alpha but it had to skip her only because she is a female, she will make her father carry out his own plan and silently watch stupidly as she had always done, everyone in the pack believes her to be a weak wolf and that's how it should be till she lays her next plan and makes it an action.

With those that she heads outside towards a cave where she practices her fighting skills everyday, no one would actually look for her as no one cares anyways.

"What about Alina?" The black wizard suddenly asked the Alpha admist creating the right spell to cause his son stupid.

"Alina doesn't even stand a chance, that girl is the dumbest so we will leave her, her brother is the only one that inherits my wisdom, so he is the only threat" Alpha Thomas responded.

The wizard laughs wickedly as he continues his spell, raising his hands up and a large ball of smoke forms on his hands, he starts to say some words that are inaudible.

Chanting out Alex name, he throws the smoke at a mirror image of Alex that had appeared right after his change, mumbling some words again the image disappears as the wizard laughs wickedly.

"it is done, he is going to start perceiving some horrible smell for his nose only and he will be seen as a mad man sooner or later, that way we can push him to suicide then" Black wizard said as the Alpha smiles in satisfaction.

"But hold on, isn't it extremely childish to give him such an ailment, I mean smelling of horrible things seems like a joke" Alpha Thomas finally said.

"HAHAHA, I know and that is the point of it all, they will see him as childish and term it to madness they we will hypnotise him to commit suicide, they will think his madness had drawn him to to do it" The wizard explained.

"Well even though it seems silly, All I want is the result, I can't hand over my Alpha Title to him, it is mine and mine alone" Alpha Thomas concluded and right after wicked laughter erupts the air from the wizard.

"Someone is coming and I can't be seen, till next time Alpha Thomas" Black wizard said as soon as he perceives the footsteps of someone approaching and disappears.

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