Chapter 17

"1 million!" A very loud voice exclaimed, everybody including me whipped their head to see who was talking, much to pretty much everyone surprise it was Alpha Raphael.

He walked down the stairs, everyone eyes were on him watching his every movement.

"Tell me something, why didn't anybody tell me that there was an auction going on here?" He asked in a very stern voice. He sounded angry?

"S-sir, w-we t-thought that you wouldn't be interested." The presenter said.

"I wouldn't be interested?" He let out a chuckle, and before I knew as soon as I blinked my eye, he was on the stage next to the presenter. There was fear visible on the presenter's face and body language.

"Now what make you think that I would be interested?"

The presenter didn't know what to say, he began sweating despite the Air conditioner being on full blast.

"Anyways, I would buy that gem for 1 million, no question asked."

The presenter put mic to his lips and spoke into it saying: "the gem has been sold for 1 million..." Kurt stood up from his sit. "1.5 million." He said with so much confidence that it made look at him like he was crazy.

"1.5 million? Son didn't you hear when I said that I have already bought the gem for 1 million or do you have selective hearing?" He said sarcastically.

"Don't you dare call me son when you just use a good amount of 10 years to senior me." There was a slight discomfort amongst the audience that was very palpable. However, it seems that they were enjoying this drama, all of them aside from me.

"Oh, someone is getting quite courageous now isn't he? I said that the gem would go to me for 1 million, and there is nothing that you are doing about it, boy." He added that last as a means of mocking Kurt, trying to pull him down a little bit, however I could see that Kurt wasn't planning on backing down.

"2 million," Kurt said, and Raphael let out a breathy laughter.

"You want your pack to go bankrupt. Your pack doesn't have that amount of money."

Kurt didn't listen to him, instead he kept on increasing the amount until he eventually got to ten million.

Raphael just looked at Kurt with an amuse expression on his face. He turned to the presenter and told him to wrap the gem up and hand it over to him in his office, with that he left the stage with the presenter watching as he left.

The door next to the stage slammed shut and the presenter returned back to reality, he turn to look at the crowd.

"The auction is over, everyone go back to your rooms."

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Kurt was pacing around the room, chewing on his finger nails, while I just sat down on the couch drinking warm tea that I ordered from room service.

Kurt's tea was on the table, untouched and getting cold.

He ran his hands through his hair almost pulling it out in frustration, he then turn to look at me, then it suddenly looked like he an idea was forming in his head.

He came and sat next to me on the chair, wrapping his ark around my shoulders he pulled me close to him. "You know, Alexa sometimes in life you just have to do things the hard way. Especially when life isn't going as plan for you at the moment."

"What exactly are you talking about?" I asked having zero to no idea what he had planned in that head of his.

"What I am telling you is. At we are going to plan a heist. We are stealing that gem from Alpha Raphael."

I looked at him like he was crazy, which wasn't too far from he truth cause he had this crazy look on his face which was enough to scare anyone shitless.

"No, we are not doing that." I removed his arm away from my shoulder and stood up and head to the balcony, placing my hands on the railing looking at tbe vast buildings that the city had to offer.

"This is something that can be negotiate with." I heard Kurt say from behind me, I turn around and tilted my head at him.

"So I was the only one that saw what he, Raphael, did at the auction?"

"That's something even someone as weak as you can do." Well that's a lie, cause I can for sure not do whatever that shit was.

"Kurt, why exactly is that gem so important to you?"

"I can't tell you," he said. "But I am letting you know that the both of us are going to steal that gem."

"If you are not going to tell me, then there is no reason for me helping you."

"I am not asking you to help me, I am just simply saying that you are coming with me to steal that gem one way or the other."

I walked away from him, back to the room. I wasn't planning on getting myself involved into something that would implicate both of us.

"Alexa, like I said this isn't you doing me a favor. This is your Prince requesting something from you."

"Don't you worry about the reputation of Nightfall pack? What do you think your father would say about this? What do you everyone that is under your care would say about you stealing something worth millions? Talk to me Kurt what do you think?"

"I think that i am doing the pack a huge favor and that my father would even be proud of me." Suddenly I started to wonder why exactly did the Moon goddess pair me up with a man like him.

"Look, I know that you are scared of being caught..."

"And being put behind bars and getting my face plastered around the news of me being a bandit."

"Yeah, that. But trust me when I tell you that I have a full proof plan."

I bit my bottom lip, I didn't want to do this. I look at Kurt for a bit then I looked away, with my fingers tucked underneath my chin.

I let a sigh of defeat. "Fine what's the plan."