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Chapter Thirty Seven
Chapter Thirty Seven
I felt no pain, and it was strange; I had just been shot, right?
There was a loud thud as a body fell right beside me.
During their little arguments, someone had walked in; they hadn’t been quick enough to notice it. But it was the last person I expected to see.
Beatrix.
Behind her, Thane and Axel walked in; their eyes were coal black, and their gaze never met mine, but I could see the anger and fury in them.
“Axel, take her away,” Thane ordered, and Axel finally turned to me; he picked me up easily and led me away from our room.
I couldn’t believe it; I was safe.
Axel walked into a very unfamiliar room, and there was a maid there tidying up the space.
“You. Get out,” he says. I had never heard Axel sound so furious, and I had to remind myself that Axel couldn’t hurt me.
The maid scurried away as he placed me on the bed.
His gaze swept down my body, he slightly lifted my gown, and his hands grazed down my body, checking for injuries.
“What did they do to you? Are you hurt?”
“No, I am not. They didn’t do anything; you all arrived in time.” 1
“Tell me everything that happened,” he ordered.
“Someone came in… I had thought it was Thane, but it wasn’t. I knew something was wrong, and so I went to hide in the bathroom. They broke the locks, and they found me, the guy… I had seen him before.”
“That’s Nel”
“Nel, he had threatened to… he wanted to rape me, Axel.”
I couldn’t help the tears that escaped my eyes, but I shouldn’t be crying; I wasn’t hurt. Axel held me closer. “You are fine now, and they will pay all of them. I should have been there.”
“It wasn’t your fault,” I said. “They said something about a false trail,” I added.
“Yes, we got some news that some of the pack storages and warehouses would be robbed; we had been on our way there when Beatrix told us that she believed it was only a ploy to make us
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leave the pack. See, before now, we knew there was bound to be some kind of rebellion.”
“Has this been what’s been keeping you busy?”
“Partly, yes, and that’s why I was troed
when I couldn’t find you earlier when you went to
pay your mother a visit.” He explains and it did finally make sense.
“Beatrix had suspected this?” I ques
“Strange, right? I hadn’t expected that she of all people, would care.”
“Earlier, I suspected she had a hand in this.”
“That wouldn’t be surprising to me either. Thane seems to trust her though,” Axel told me, and I didn’t like that one bit, I didn’t like the fact that Thane trusted her.
She hadn’t given me any reason to distrust her, but there was something about her- something that told me she preferred taking things slow. If she was involved in this, then it surely would be strange that she had been the one to discover the truth.
“I had been so afraid Axel, I thought I would die” I admitted
“Don’t worry, Riley; no one in this pack would ever attempt to touch you without your permission ever again. At least not after the example Thane sets.”
“It is time” Axel said to me.
“Time, for what?”
“The Nightshade Pack is known for their cruelty and feared for their bloodlust. But we don’t kill innocent people; only those who cross us, and tonight, one of our own had done just that, a lesson would be shared with the whole pack,” Axel explained.
“What would Thane do to them?” I asked
“You will see,” Axel replied, and my heart slammed. It is not like I pitied any of them; whatever befell them was a recompense for their evil deeds, yet there was something about what Axel said earlier that lingered.
“Axel… they won’t die, right?”
I suspected they would be thrown into the dungeons, or maybe some other punishments, but death was out of it, right?.
“Riley, you are about to see another part of Thane, one you’ve heard about but never seen, it is a part of us all, but you should bear in mind, they wanted you dead.”
Axel passed me a dark brown coat, and I gladly put it over my partly shredded gown.
“Let’s go,” Axel said
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“Where are we going?” I questioned.
“The hall, but it’s commonly known as the Judgement Grounds,” Axel said, and a cold shiver rolled down my spine.
a
The hall was wide enough to contain over hundred people, Some of the pack members were already seated, waiting in anticipation.
There were no seats in place for the Alpha and the Luna, as I had expected, but from this There were no seats in place for the Alpha an position, I could see everything going on..
The soldier dragged six barely clothed men into the hall. They were all wounded, with deep claw marks marking their bodies. My eyes found one, I noticed that two of his eyes seemed to have been gorged out, and he stood there whimpering. 1
These were the men,that had attacked me, I realized with a gasp.
“They were more than six,” I said to Axel, who wasn’t at all fazed by the sight of the wounded
men.
“Thane wanted them breathing at least so he could use them as examples for others, but I guess he slipped,” Axel said, and I held in a shaky breath. Thane had killed the others.
I spotted Beatrix amongst the crowd; she spoke to a girl by her side, and I noticed there wasn’t a single scratch on her body–at least none I could see.
Many of the pack members stared at me, but none of their gazes burned as deep as the woman in a dark–blue woollen cloak. This woman was my mother, and our eyes did meet. She didn’t need to speak; her eyes told me everything. This had been what she had been warning me about when she told me that not everyone agreed to the Alpha’s choice and also when she told me that an Omega as a Luna spoke of weakness.
I looked away, not wanting to see anymore.
