Chapter Forty-Seven – New Alpha King.
Chris’s POV
Black Hills hadn’t recover from Your Silver’s visit. Neither had I. It was the lowest I’ve ever been but couldn’t even fight.
It brought back old traumas and regrets and birthed new hatred also. My tormentor was my one time mate.
I dared not call Your Silver by Rihanna. She didn’t want me to and that was because she wasn’t her, she was a ghost of her.
Rih would never hurt so much people in the name of freeing slaves. Rih didn’t have the heart to be rogue.
But Rih was a silver wolf? How could I have missed it?
Yet she let herself be treated so poorly by other wolfs. It made me feel everything I knew about her had been a lie.
“Alpha King, you have a visitor!” my guard said, bowing. I sighed, nodding and gesturing for him to let them in.
My court hadn’t had a visitor for days, all the Alphas were displeased by my decision to let Silver Pack be under us.
What did they expect of me? To let her kill them and Vanessa? Also, my last soft spot for her made me not to send my warriors after her.
But I regretted it. She humiliated me more by stealing my Luna. It was an insult to a King like me.
“Chris.”
I looked up to the man and lady who just walked into my court. My eyes dimmed in anger. Where these my visitors?
Before me was Former Beta Royal Sam and his wife, clinging unto him.
The elders had ordered their son, Beta Royal Raymond, to be in suspense after discovering his sister never died.
I knew she said he didn’t know but the events angered everyone.
“How dare you show your faces to me after discovering the beast your alleged dead daughter became?” I barked.
Sam frowned, letting go of his wife and came forward.
“We didn’t know she faked her death and we both know she wouldn’t have if you hadn’t been selfish!” He pointed at me.
How dare he? I was his King. And did he grow a bone to answer back while on retirement?
I chuckled, getting down from my throne. “Since when did you have the guts to reply me…”
“Since your selfishness ridded me of my daughter and made my wife sick.” He pointed at his wife at the last part.
I glanced at the Beta’s wife and sighed. That lady was never a good mother to Rih as far as I knew, always tried to get my mother’s favor.
She suddenly became sick after hearing her daughter died, she should be better now since she wasn’t.
“So I am selfish? I think it’s better I had rejected her, she had the blood of a beast inside her…”
“You call silver wolfs beasts?” the Beta’s wife asked, walking closer to me. “Like your grandmother?”
My eyes dilated. Both she and Ray were always reminding me that my grandmother was a silver wolf. But had she brought trouble to me?
“Mind you, my grandmother was different. She made my grandfather an Alpha King. She didn’t torment him.” I replied.
“And so will be Rihanna’s fate. She will make her mate an Alpha King.” Her mother deadpanned.
I tilted her head, folding my hands. “And how?”
“You don’t know, do you?” Beta Sam smirked. “The other half of the prophecy. It was not as popular as the first.”
“Many feared that they was no other silver wolf to make it valid but there is, my daughter.” His wife chuckled.
What were they getting at? My father once told me of the second half of the prophecy but I had long forgotten.
He said it was important to have a silver wolf, especially a young one. Was there something I was missing?
“What does the second prophecy say?” I asked them, since they seemed they wouldn’t be telling me.
“The second prophecy says that the next silver wolf will make another Alpha King!” Beta Sam smirked.
Confusion befell me. Another Alpha King?
“And together she and her mate will defeat a great evil coming to the lands of the Werewolfs.” He added with a smirk.
It sounded oddly familiar to what my father said, and it planted a new fear in me. What Alpha King? What evil was greater than Your Silver?
“You rejected her, so you disqualify yourself from being that Alpha King Chris! The Moon goddess gave you a chance and you abused it!”
I snapped my head to the Beta’s wife as she shouted. Her eyes were glistening with excitement. What? I disqualified myself?
The new Alpha King would be mated to the Silver Wolf that will save the land of Werewolfs from evil?
That should have been me and Rihanna then. If I can’t be the one, then who? Who’d be the Alpha King she’d destroy the evil with?
I glared at the woman who just spoke. Was she insinuating that I will be overthrown?
“You speak treason, you are aware, right?” I said in a low tone.
She stared at me. “Your grandfather used to say, Kings call the truth they don’t like treason.”
Her stare gave me chills. Have I really disqualified myself from something great?
“Well, we came here with a request.” Sam said breaking the tensed mood. “Your father permitted me but I’d need you to permit us also.”
I returned to my throne, breathing heavily, stunned by the realizations of today. “What request do you want?”
“First, I am grateful that you accepted her pack under yours.” Sam started.
I rolled my eyes. Accepted? As if I had a choice.
“Second, information she sent to all the Alphas was her coronation will be postponed as she had no Beta.” He informed.
“She is planning a coronation?” I wondered out loud. How dare she organize a ceremony for being Alpha when she forced it on me?
“Yes, I bet she didn’t invite you then. She invited the other Alphas apart from Red Moon, and I guess you.” Sam shrugged.
That girl was directly pissing me off. It’s not like I’d have attended. “So what’s your request?”
“To deploy to her pack.”
My eyes shone.
“What?” I stood from my throne.
His wife came forward. “Please, we’ve been away from her for long. Ray blamed us all those years, we weren’t very close to him either.”
It was true, I knew Ray only visited his parents once in two weeks to send food supplies. He rarely stayed there.
“Letting us reunite with our daughter is the greatest gift you can give you me after my retirement, Chris.” Sam pleaded.
I scoffed loudly. “What makes you think she’d like to see you after faking her death and leaving for three years.”
“Then we get rejected. But I wanted to try first. We made mistakes.” He held his wife’s hand. “We want a chance to correct them.”
I exhaled, and sat back on my throne with my head’s raised.
They were no use to me and could leave.
Only that a Former Beta leaving to the rogue-turn-alpha pack from an Alpha King’s pack was insulting.
I looked up to them and smiled. “Fine, you can leave to your daughter’s pack. And never return.”
They bowed in pleasure. My head shook. I was losing wolfs to that her pack already. And that prophecy still bothered me.
Who would the next Alpha King be? Someone who’d overthrow me? Who dared? I have to make sure I keep tabs on who that’d be.