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Chapter One Hundred and Fourteen
Thane was in a red cloak; his amber eyes seemed a shade darker. I hadn’t realized how tall and intimidating he was till now; there was something about him that was… Threatening.
I had this feeling that something bad was about to happen. Maybe it had to do with the fact that Thane, who I had shared the same room with for the past months, hadn’t even stared at me once; I might as well have been invisible. I could sense the aura around him, forcing my wolf to bow in submission. Tonight he was indeed different.
Bailey led us to the underground structures that had good resemblance to a cave. All the while, I couldn’t shake away that feeling that something was off. I was about to walk forward, but Axels‘ hand on my shoulder restrained me.
“What?” I questioned.
“We wait here,” Axel informed me.
Bailey and Thane walked forward, leaving us behind, her hand wrapped around his, and my chést tightened. They stopped in the middle of the room.
“Alpha Thane of the Nightshade pack, you’ve met all the requirements; are you ready for the crown?” she asked.
“Not all requirements,” Thane said, and her eyes met him.
“Your father is no longer in the way; you are a powerful wolf, so that shouldn’t be a problem, and you have a mate as required. There is nothing left undone,” she says, but she still studied him.
“Riley is not my fated mate.”
It was completely silent. Bailey was never really shocked by anything, but she was now, and sol was I. Clearly, Axel hadn’t been expecting that either.
“Thane, what are you doing?” I asked, but he didn’t look my way, not once since I met him today.
“You deceived me
Alpha,” Bailey hissed.
“I did. But you will still go through with this ritual.”
“Rubbish,” Bailey says, “You will only get yourself killed; you cannot deceive the gods; you will only anger them.”
“We would go on with this ritual.” Thane insisted.
“And then what? You will deceive the gods with your many charms?.” Bailey asks, finally turning to me. “If he tries taking the crown without the requirement, it would be seen as a sign of disrespect right on the face of the goddess; she would turn him to nothing but white ash, just as he did the elders.”
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“Don’t bring her into this Elder..”
“And if you die?”
“Then so be it.”
“You are very stubborn, Alpha Thane.”
“Tell me, how many people could resist the Elder’s sorcery?” he asks, and that silences her.
“No one can. But that doesn’t prove anything.”
“It doesn’t?” Thane questioned, and I could see Bailey giving in.
“It would be a shame if you died after everything,” Bailey said.
“Thane, you don’t have to do this, please…”
“Nothing you say would change his mind, Riley, Axel said to me. For the first time, he looked worried about Thane’s decision.
Bailey hands rested on a square–shaped stone.
“By blood we emerge, another successor fit to rule; if you will see him fit, adorn him with the crown, mother of the moon.” Bailey chanted silently, and just then the square–shaped stone glowed blue, a mist filling the room, so thick I could hardly see through it. The once blue stone turned red.
“No,” Bailey gasped. A strong wind blew through the room, and I had to hold onto Axel.
his body, Then everything ended and Thane stood, his eyes glowing red; tentacles crawled up forming into a crown over his head; he seemed to glow; everything about him was surreal. Bailey fell to her knees. “My king,” Axel did the same, and lastly I did, my eyes o
downwards.
cast
He never did need me. Even without a mate, the moon goddess chose him as the king; the moon goddess saw him fit to rule. But something about him changed; maybe it was the I could sense from him, or it was how cold his eyes were.
power
He was now the king. Our king. My king.
