Chapter 23
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Three years ago
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A week later, The Alpha woke up but was still weak from the poison that had spread throughout his entire body. His left eye was now permanently blind due to being destroyed by the poison. He could have lost his life but Kiona was there to save him with her magic.
He struggled to sit up on his recovery bed while Kiona fed him some potion that he grimaced immediately after each spoon left his mouth. The door to the room barged open and Howard who was now looking better stomped in while holding a letter with a royal seal on it. The Alpha was inviting him to a council meeting. He had waged a war against the king of another race without the knowledge and consent of his king. His crimes were much more than treason as he had also threatened the safety of his pack by breaking the seal on Decanal which made her succumb to blood lust, killing more than fifty wolves in the process. It was only normal if the Alpha king summoned him.
He tore the letter after reading the content, the king would never understand. The cursed creatures killed his parents and separated him from his sister, his only family for years. He would die before he saw his sister mate with their king. He could never forget the face of his dead mother, the former Luna after she was killed by the vampire, and the pain he went through seeing his father slowly lose himself over the death of his mate. That was the reason why Leonard decided to stay away from the concept of true mated from the moon goddess.
Mates are weakness, he believed. If his father didn’t mate with his true mate, he wouldn’t have been weakened that much by the death of his mate. He even rejected his mate when he found him because he didn’t want to become weak just because he fell in love. He rejected the wolf and had her banished from his pack. He often laughed whenever he heard that the Alpha king was searching for his true luna, he would never do that and he would remain by it. If he could reject his mate and promote non-soulmate marriages in his pack then why wouldn’t he go to war because his sister is mated to a vampire? He would but he didn’t expect his sister to choose her mate over him and the pack.
” Perhaps I can help with that?” Kiona’s soft tone brought him out of his thoughts as he stared at the torn pieces of paper on the floor.
“What?” He asked with a weak voice, Howard sighed. He was too tired of running the Alpha duties on Leonard’s behalf to be scheming any other thing at the moment.
” You don’t need to go to the Alpha King. You could have your kingdom without having to bow to an Alpha like you?” Kiona purred dropping the bowl of the healing potion on the table next to Howard who rolled his eyes at the pitiful statement.
” Are you suggesting I wage a war against His Majesty?” Leonard scoffed hard with a glare at the witch. ” As if the last time you suggested that, it ended well. I will take any punishment the Alpha king has for me” He added relaxing more into his bed.
” Think about it. At this point, it’s not only the Alpha king that is after you now, what about the vampire king? You tried to kill him and you injured his mate! What do you think the council is made up of? This matter is beyond the judgment of the Alpha king alone. All the leaders of every supernatural race will be the ones to decide your fate, you will be hanged publicly and your pack will be destroyed. Is that what you want?” She asked, without his knowledge; her eyes flashed deep purple lulling him deep into her manipulation.
” Just get to fucking point, will you? I don’t have time for your games. I know very well how the council works, thanks for the explanation” He rolled his eyes as he said sarcastically. She sighed.
” I can seal your entire pack location to another dimension. It will cease to exist in this current location and nobody will ever find you” She said and he raised his eyebrows at her. He knew every one of her gifts comes with a certain price, he wondered what it would be this time. Howard’s eyes narrowed because he thought it was a very bad idea.
” On what condition?” Howard asked skeptically. The witch only smiled flashing her full set of white teeth.
” Decanal” She answered. There was a pin-drop silence before Howard became enraged with anger.
” How dare you demand for my sister?” He shouted punching the bed even in his weak frame.
” No .. no Lenny. You will have your sister. I only want the wolf, if I separate the wolf from her body, she wouldn’t even recognize her mate again and you can get your sister back and also get your pack hidden” She said with a calm expression. Leonard thought about it for a while and said ” Won’t she die? Losing a wolf can be harmful to any werewolf not to talk of forcefully taking it from them”
” No, I know what I am doing. She won’t die and she also won’t remember anything. I’m ready when you are ready” She said.
” I don’t think that is a good…” Howard tried to chip in but Leonard cut him off.
” I will witness the ritual?” Leonard asked and the witch nodded giggling excitedly. Howard sighed, he hated every part of the deal and one part of him screamed at him to hurry and tell the Alpha king about their plan but another part remained loyal to the Alpha.
Three days later.
Inside a big white room, Decanal, still in the wolf form was tied and cuffed with silver chains, laced with a heavy amount of wolfsbane that hung from the ceiling. Even after spending close to over a week inside the prison, the crimson red of the wolf’s eyes never dulled even for a moment. The wolves guarding the entity were already tired of the little games the wolf played with them once in a while.
The games were often sadistic and always tormenting to the poor young warriors who were only following their Alpha’s orders. Even though the wolf never moves from one spot, she manipulates their mind at night and scares them with menacing growls during the day. Sometimes she lets out heart-piercing howls that could drive the strongest wolves crazy. The two guards were tired but they couldn’t complain.
Soon both the Alpha who was now spitting an eye patch and the witch Kiona emerged from the passageway. They opened the door of the prison room and the wolf only gave them a wolfish grin. Without a word, Kiona started pouring a green substance around the wolf, she then took out a hand-drawn portrait of a wolf without eyes and placed it in front of Decanal.
The wolf struggled with the chains, growling loudly seeing what the witch was about to do, after three hundred years the witch still wanted to separate her from her human counterpart again. Decanal snarled and growled loudly while Kiona started chanting, she placed her hand on the wolf and placed the other hand on the portrait.
The green substance started glowing before surrounding the snarling wolf. The light became brighter as the words on the lips of the witch became faster, with one last painful howl, the wolf transformed back to Diana and a single light traveled from the body and entered the portrait. The eyes of the wolf in the portrait became red immediately.
” This isn’t over” The voice of the wolf came from the portrait before the room became silent. Kiona moved to take the portrait but Leonard snatched it from her.
” I only permitted you to separate her wolf from her body, I didn’t promise to give the wolf to you,” Leonard said raising the portrait above his head.
” You know I can kill you with a flick of my fingers” she threatened but he only looked deep into her eyes.
” You can but will you?” He replied not backing down. She scoffed instead, she had given up already.
” I don’t need it anyway,” She said while Leonard ordered the two guards to carry Diana to the pack hospital after draping a blanket over her naked body.