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Aleena’s POV
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I quickly ran toward her.
Shit!
I quickly held her before she would have fallen to the ground. I smelt no one else scent in the washroom, then who the hell stabbed her. I looked around. The one-sided window of her washroom was open.
Could anyone enter the washroom through it, and after killing her, he or she run away? In that case, he or she would have masked her or his scent.
I tried to mindlink Noah, the beta of this pack, but then I couldn’t mind link about it.
‘Aleena, quickly leave from here!’ Leia warned me.
‘How can I leave mom in this state, Leia?’ I asked her and realized that Mom was breathing her last breath, I pulled the dagger out of her heart, and a lot of blood started oozing out of her body. I pressed my hand tightly to her wound to stop the bleeding.
‘Didn’t I say to LEAVE? This is a bloody trap.’, She yelled at me, and the next moment I heard a lot of footsteps coming toward the room. My eyes widened when I realized the pattern and design of this dagger were similar to the one which I had in my bag.
Was this dagger mine?
“Mom? Mom?” I shook Mom’s body, but she was already dead by that time. I gasped in horror and couldn’t understand what I should do next? Before Leia could answer me, the door of the room was slammed loudly, and a lot of pack warriors stormed in, and few of them even entered the washroom.
“Aleena!! Surrender yourself, or we will shoot you.”, Noah, the beta, growled.
What the hell!
My own pack members were standing in front of me, pointing guns loaded with silver bullets and wolfbane.
Soon, the familiar scent hit my nose, and I tried to look for him. Damned, I should not have left his side in the first place.
‘Stephen,’ I mind linked him, seeing him and others standing at the corner of the room.
‘Corporate with them, Lina. Don’t do anything or speak anything that can be used against you, okay?’ he explained. I doubt that even the toddler doesn’t disconnect the call this soon while watching youtube, the way my life was changing with every moment.
“Raise your hand in the air.”, Noah ordered, being a beta. The situation was familiar when a son ordered his father. I would have started to fight with him but recalling Stephen’s word, I just cooperate with Noah and raise my hand, and in no time, two of the warrior grabbed me up, pushing me against the wall, and cuffed my hand with silver handcuffs. Leia whimpered in pain in contact with the silver. Once they handcuffed me, they turned me around, and the dagger which I had pulled out of Mom’s heart, they carefully picked up wearing gloves, which they would surely send for the forensic.
“Aleena Williams, I hereby under arrest you for the murder of Luna Penelope Williams, of Silver Moon pack, and also asking your vampire friend, Julia, to kill Alpha Francis Williams.”
‘Not a word.’ Stephen’s words rang in my voice in my mind when he felt that I was going to open my mouth.
“Take her to the dungeon.”, Noah ordered to the other warriors, and just like the previous time, no one interfered again when those warriors started dragging me from thereto dungeon.
So, this was my second time in the dungeon.
‘Stephen, I didn’t do anything.’ I mind linked him. I didn’t have much time left with me because the moment I had already entered the cell, I won’t be able to talk to him.
‘I know. Only if your mother would have been alive, then I would have told that it was done by her.’, he responded. ‘But now that I too have no idea about it.’, he added.
‘Why do you think that Mom will plan something this nasty like this?’ I asked, not able to understand his reason for his doubt, but before he would have explained himself, I was pushed into the cell, which caused a disconnection of mind link.
Shit!
One of the warriors opened my handcuffs before locking the door of the cell.
‘I’m sorry, Leia, for not listening to you.’ I apologized to her, knowing that she had warned me about it.
‘It’s okay. I can understand that it was your mother, so leaving her at the last stage of her life was something you couldn’t do.’, She answered in an understanding tone.
‘Do you have any idea that why Stephen was doubting Mom behind all this?’
‘I’m totally clueless about it. Right now, I can’t point out our NEW enemy, who plotted all this against us.’
‘Same here. And if I start counting the number of enemies in my life, then the list of people who hate would not be less than ten to twelve pages.’, For the first time, I realized that I had made enemies more than friends. In fact, I hadn’t made a single true friend.
I was thinking all these things when one of the guards of the dungeon opened the door of the cell.
Why was he opening the door?
Was my trial going to be held today?
No. That was impossible. They would try to collect more and more evidence against me before deciding anything. In normal cases, I wouldn’t have been worried about this part, but now that I knew that I was being trapped by someone, I had no idea what other things were waiting for me.
Soon a familiar scent hit my nose again, and a smile broke on my lips, knowing that Stephen was here. After a moment, he walked inside the cell, and the guard left from there.
Well, that was strange!
He should have been here and made sure to hear everything that we would be going to the discussion. I meant that it was the rule for anyone to come to visit the prisoner.
“You okay?” Stephen softly caressed my cheek. Seeing him here, in front of me, and for me, was really acting like a booster. I knew I would blame mate bond for that.
“Yeah! As for now”, I mumbled. I had no idea how long I had to stay here.
“Don’t worry! You won’t be OKAY for long.”, he said, on which I furrowed my eyebrow, not able to understand the meaning of his words.
“Sorry?”
“You should be SORRY, Aleena.”, Stephen said in his previous cold tone, withdrawing his hand from my cheek. “But just SORRY is just a small word for the things you did to me.”, he added coldly. Trust me, at that broken, hell broke on me, seeing his old behavior, the same rude and cold. “I’m sure that you won’t be able to escape from this trap, and in case you smartly manage to escape from it, then I’m not going to leave you for using witch potion on me first and second for planning to use this on my Alpha.”, Once he finished, I was sure, I would be looking no less than a person who had seen a ghost.
“You know?”, All I manage to speak only those two words, wondering how was that possible? Mom was dead, and I was here then; how did he figure out the truth?
“Yes! Apparently. And all thanks to your Mom! I was looking for something to collect evidence to save you from all this mess, and I found your Mom’s diary where she had written each and every crime of yours in detail.”
Mom had a habit of writing a diary?
Since when?
And instead of writing her daily routine thing or her secrets, why the hell did she pen down my secrets?
“I promise myself that you will regret twice or thrice times greater than anything if I figured out that you did something nasty, just like I was thinking. And there you go! It’s my time, NOW. Unlike last time, I have evidence now for all the crimes you committed till now. All I have to verify your mother’s handwriting and you …. You are doomed, Aleena.”
I was now lost for words hearing him.
That was it.
Now, no one could save me from death.
I would soon be receiving the punishment for both the deeds I did and which I didn’t.
“Don’t stress your mind is overthinking, Beta female. Because whatever is going to happen next is the outcome of your crime. I hope you would have remembered my words, ‘What goes around always, always, comes back around.’ You didn’t take this fact seriously, did you? Hmm”, he said with venom laced with his voice. When he realized that I was not going to speak anything, he walked out of the cell. I followed him and watched him lock the door of the cell. He turned around to leave when I grabbed one of the silver rods of the cell in guilt.
“I’m sorry.” I apologized this time, unlike last time when I had warned him. He gave me a side glance over his shoulder, and without saying anything, he left there. I left the silver rod and looked at my palm, it had been burnt because of it, and it was important.
This would remind me of the punishment that had just begun. I deserved it and much more than this.
The universe was in the mood to teach me a good lesson by making me the killer of my own parents. Now I had to just wait and watch my end.
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Five days later!!
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I couldn’t believe that I had stayed here in this hell for five days. With no proper bed, no facilities except the tiny dirty toilet. I ate those foods which I had never dreamt of eating, and even the water served was not mineral water. The warrior who used to guard my cell had informed me today that today was my trial and the final decision would be taken by the werewolf king.
Yes, even he was here because right now, this pack had neither Alpha nor Luna at this moment. I was positive that all the required evidence against me would have been stacked till now. In case Noah would have missed anything, Stephen would help him in finding a little more evidence against me. I had no hope left inside me that I would be left alive after the final decision because if Mom really had penned down every crime of mine, then there was no chance anyone would help me, not even my stupid sister, whom I tried to kill to have his mate.
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#TBC
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