Chapter One Hundred and Four
Chapter One Hundred and Four
I noticed an usual change in the pack today.
The atmosphere was tense, and people gathered in small groups exchanging words in low whispers. For the first time, I could walk around the whole space without any attention on me. That was new, not that I complained.
I took a corner, only to run into Beatrix. Gone was the girl with red swollen eyes and dishevelled hair; she seemed to have redyed her blue hair, there was a glow to it.
Once again, she was back to the girl I knew, the one who always had that calculative smirk on her lips. She was in a black uniform, with the pack logo at the side, and that could only mean one thing.
“Congratulations, Commander, for reclaiming your position,” I say with a smile that was very much fake.
“All thanks to you.” Her smile matched mine.
“I won’t be assuming we are friends now.”
“No, we are not.”
“That’s good.” I walked on, and she followed.
“Have you heard the trending news?” She asks, and I knew it had to be what everyone was buzzing about, but I had no idea what it was. I couldn’t let her know this, though.
“So there is a gossip going around; who cares?, When is there not?” I said coolly, but I cared. I only hoped this technique worked, and of course it did, because she spoke on.
“The Alpha King had passed on.”
“What?” I asked shocked
“It means he is dead,” she says.
“I know what it means…”
“So you had no idea; that is so sad; you heed me for stuff like this.”
I gave up the act. “How did he die?” I asked; it just seemed impossible, but she could be lying, again, she had no reason to lie about that!
“No one knows,” she says, keeping her voice down. It didn’t make sense, Alpha Slade, one of the most powerful werewolves in the world is ‘dead‘… and no one knows who did it?, “It could be anybody,” Beatrix says, “or it could be someone interested in his title, someone who wanted his heritage rightfully passed to him.”
“No. Thane had said he would challenge his father, he wouldn’t try to murder him.”
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“That’s what he told ‘you,” she replies, planting the doubt in my mind. “Have a nice day,” she added before walking away, and I stood there, dumbfounded. Thane should have told me, How could he do this?
I wasn’t mad at him because I wanted his father alive, but I was mad because…. I knew that the end was near and soon I would be of no use to him.
I headed straight to his office, walking in without bothering to knock.n
“You told me you wouldn’t…” I trailed off when I noticed Thane was not alone; Axel and Freya – Slade’s Mate, were both present.
‘Maybe you should take a seat,” Thane offered, and I held in all I had to say. Taking a seat, Axel locked the door.
Freya turned to me. “I would have preferred to say this in her absence,” she says, and I noticed she was not in a veil this time either; she was in a dark brown suit and pants, her hair done up to reveal her neck. She looked… different, beautiful, even with the scars that were now very much visible. I had never seen her in such a type of clothes.
“She is the Luna of this pack, so anything you have to say, I would advise you to speak up before I have to investigate it all myself.
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“Okay then. I killed my mate, the Alpha King, and also your father. I am Slade’s murderer, she says, and my mouth drops open in surprise, Thane on the other side didn’t seem at all shocked by the news and Axel had a small smile on his face.
My mother had said that Freya was the only one who might even hate the man more than she did, but this… this surprised me. I always viewed Freya as someone who would rather accept what was done to her because she had learned she couldn’t fight him. I never once expected that she could one day grow the back bone to kill him.
“And why would you do that, mother?” Thane questions, his voice stern.
“Because I had always hated him, because he put me through hell and I had been waiting for this opportunity all my life and it came when he was with that girl, drunk, he was purposely putting me through pain and I.. hit him so hard with the metal pole, there was a lot of blood that’s when the idea came up, I had the dagger, all made of silver, I had always carried this around, waiting for when I would finally get the opening. One stab straight to the heart was all that was needed, but I made sure to go beyond that and now I am free of him and I have no regret, whatever the consequences are I would proudly bear that” she says, Her eyes hardened, like one too used to pain it had become second nature, still I couldn’t help the pity I felt for her, this time I could relate, Ryker had done the same thing to me causing me to lose my baby, the only difference was that I let him go when I finally had the chance to kill him but Freya hadn’t being as merciful.
