Chapter One Hundred and Forty
I felt sorry for Axel. His mother truly was a sicko
1 hugged him because it felt like the right thing to do, and after a few moments, his hands wrapped around me.
“I needed this,” he admitted.
“Thank you for letting me into your life. I feel like I had been selfish for never really asking all this time.”
Axel released me from his embrace. “Let’s go to the gardens; this is a place I go to clear my mind and it’s literally the most beautiful place in the pack“.
I had never really been one fascinated by nature; I wasn’t the type that adored flowers though it would be nice to receive them, but I’d rather prefer focusing on the issues at hand, and back in the Windborne pack I had a lot of that, there was no time to be entranced by
nature.
But it was different this time.
My mouth dropped open when I saw all the flowers of different colours. Though I didn’t know their names, but for the first time, I appreciated the beauty of nature.
We were not alone.
Beatrix, who I hadn’t seen since Thane’s crowning was here. The wind tousled her dark blue hair, as she turned to us.
“Beta, ‘Queen‘, greetings,” she says, and I didn’t miss her emphasis on my title as Queen.
“How are you doing, Commander Beatrix?” I answered when Axel said nothing.
“Very well, I had actually wanted to see you,” she says, walking up to us.
“Now might not be the right time.”
“I might not be able to say this next time,” she says to me, her gaze directly on me.
I looked up to Axel, and he gave a firm nod.
“I would have wanted to speak to you ‘alone‘, actually…”
“No,” I said before she could finish her sentence. “Whatever you have to say to me, you can say to him too.”
The ‘I need to speak to you alone‘ routine was getting exhausting.
“I don’t know… how the beta would react to this.”
“Well, he is staying here,” I said to her.
Chapter One Hundred
+25 BONUS
She took a few minutes; she seemed a bit lost in an internal struggle. “Okay, whatever happens…” she paused before starting all over again. “You know about the attack some months ago; those offenders I think they had all been in black cloaks, and they broke into your room when you were alone.”
“Yes, I think I could vividly remember that and also how they had been massacred by Thane,” 1 replied.
She took a deep inhale, before her gaze found me one more time, she was taller than me by a few inches, I noticed.
“I had been able to alert the beta and the alpha on time because… I had orchestrated it all.”
“What?”
“I had felt threatened by your presence, you were going to swoop in, out of nowhere and take a position I had long prepared for, and so I thought maybe with you out of the way…
Axel drew his gun, pointing it at Beatrix. I hadn’t even noticed he was armed.
“Axel, please drop the gun.”
“No,” Axel says.
“But after some further thoughts… I noticed how stupid that was, and so I called it off, but they had been so willing, they wanted to go on with this plan, with or without me; I didn’t let them know that I was no longer a part of it, just so I could notify Alpha Thane on time.” “You know what I think?” Axel questioned, and before she could answer, he continued. “I think you would have gone through with it, then you saw how dangerous it could be; you would have been discovered as the culprit, so you tried stopping it, but they were already riled up, and so you came up with yet another plan, to win the Alpha’s favour–or to be noticed, so you played along, and at the end, you turned against them when they least expected it and was seen as the hero. Did I get that right?”
“But…”
“I asked you a question; did I get that right?”
“Yes,” she answered silently.
