Queen Takes King, Checkmate.

Chapter Eighteen.

Jamesons' POV.

I sat there at my desk in shock, fear mostly of what all of this would do to Charlie if she found out or got involved.

"He's been spotted with the Tigerlilly pack multiple times the past week. The dude is still in bandages but is persistent when it come to Charlotte..." Jackson mumbled grimly.

I skimmed my fingertips across the surface of the photos, my heart felt like it was in my stomach as I looked over them all.

Markus with Alpha Tyson, markus looking back over his shoulder, Markus kicking a wolf from the Tigerlilly pack to the ground and a blurred pucture of him with a hand around the throat of someone I couldn't define... I couldn't even figure out if they were male or female...

Either way, he's lost his mind and sold himself just to get to Charlie and to take her from me.

"What do we do?" Jackson asked quietly, the eerie silence of the office was deafening as I sat there with my thoughts running a hundred miles an hour.

"For once, I dont know. But Charlotte cannot know about Markus, make sure you do not leave any mobile phones or any landline phones around this house because she will call him when she has the chance to" I mumbled, sliding the photos back across to him as I scratched my chin lightly.

"How do you know that? You cant seriously be thinking the worst of her in a time like this, can you?" Jackson retorted, leaning back in his chair across from me.

I shook my head, remembering her calling out for Markus as she slept...

"Just make sure no one from the pack mentions Markus or what he is doing because I will handle this. I dont need her worrying about anything or thinking that she has no choice but to go back to him" I snapped.

Jackson nodded again, deep in thought but then spoke again.

"So you reckon a war is inevitable?" He whispered, mainly thinking out loud.

"War? No, this wont end in war but a fight? Yes, that will be inevitable. People will die because of this pups stupidity as an alpha but they wont entirely be from our pack" I explained, knowing that if Markus wanted to team up with Alpha Tyson and go against me for the sake of getting to Charlie, he had another thing coming because we weren't as stupid as he was.

"For now, we continue training as usual and say nothing of Markus to the others?" Jackson asked again, slipping the photos and written evidence into the folder again, so no one could see them.

"Yes" I said shortly, realising that if Markus wanted Charlie back, and he was willing to use brute force, he would have no chance.

It was only a matter of days now until my mate went into heat, weather she liked it or not, we will mate and we will be bound together so strongly that even if she wanted to go back with Markus, she couldn't.

Our bond would be far to strong after we have mated, that and I knew Charlie never went anywhere with anyone unwillingly without putting up one hell of a fight.

Charlotte's POV

The bruises were still there, along the side of my body but my ribs themselves weren't uncomfortable any more as my lycan healing was starting to kick in.

That and the two painkillers I got from the first aid kit in Jamesons bathroom.

I was dressed in only a towel, my hair a wet tangled heap on the side of my head as I had tied it up into a loose knot to keep it out of the way while I was rummaging through Jamesons bathroom cabinet earlier.