Chase’s POV
A flicker of irritation passed across my face as I sat in my study. Why must my joy be always cut short.
” don’t just stand there man, come right in” I gestured for Sngis to sit bit he shook his head.
“I’ m fine yout highness” he muttered. I nodded.
“Very well then. So What do you have for me Angus?” I sighed as I began to go through the files. The ones I was meant to go through before I went on a date with Arya.
“Your highness it’s the elders”
I rolled my eyes. ” Oh gosh, egst do they want now?” I looked up at Angus. He opened his mouth but I beat him to it.
“Don’t speak” I raised a hand to his face. I think I know what the problem is about this time. Angus scrunched up his eyebrows. “They want more land for their son’s transition ceremony or what right?”
Angus’s face went back to normal as he shook his head.
I exhaled. ” Alright I’m listening”
Angus stared at me. He seemed to hesitate for a second.
“You okay?” I blinked as I watched him uncomfortable. Well that word was not one I would use for someone like Angus. My beta was a poker faced you guy who always said his mind. Smiles sometimes, especially when he was with Kelsi bit he frowned most times in my study. Even to me. I mean one of the reason I kept him by my side was because he was brutally honest with me.
Angus shook his head and then later nodded. “I’m… I’m okay your highness”
I narrower my eyes at him. ” Angus spit it out! You are not a stammerer” I yelled.
He sighed deeply. ” Your highness remember, no matter what I say to you” he paused for a second. ” You must be calm”
“That’s bullshit” I muttered.
Angus nodded. ” Okay. Your highness it’s the elders. Well some of them. They had gone to see Alpha Jake of the East high pack.”
That was all I needed and everywhere was on fire.
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The fire from the jail lamps burned slowly. An exact opposite of the one in me.
No wonder Angus didn’t want to speak.
I looked ahead of me. Five elders were toed to a stake. They were bleeding from all the openings in their body.
Their moans and groans were music to my ears but that was not enough. I wanted more. I needed more. I haven’t heard that heart felt cry of pain.
And until then, I’m. not stopping.
“Silence!” And every where became ghost quiet. I watched as the guards stood behind them with the whips. Ready to strike even at the blink of my eye.
I stared the five men. Greedy animals.
Ever since Arya agreed to be mine, I have been in a good mood but these idiots have come to ruin it all.
If there was something I hated. With my life. It was traitors. People who lie to you, only to come before you and behave like angels. When they pressed on me to get a mate, I was hate. Shy even, that the elders of my pack cared for me but who was I kidding. The moment I let down my guard, they were already having talks with my enemy. That was how mu parents were killed. Because of trust. Too much of it.
Dinning with him. I gritted my teeth. What annoyed me the most is myself. How low have I sank for these people not to be afraid of me.
“Take off the blind folds” I ordered.
The clothes were removed and they gasped in seeing me.
“Your highness we are-” I ran swiftly to him and began to squeeze his throat.
“What part are you sorry for?” I growled. The man was kixkimt and pushing me as he tried to breathe.
“Yo…yo” he wheezed.
“How much did he give you?” I growled as I stared at him with disgust. Hate. I have never craved blood so much like before.
” I .. I…can’t-”
” I guess you’ll have to die” I tightened my grip on his neck and there went the snap. The others gasped. I moved away and his limp head fell off.
I glanced at the guards. ” Feed him to the dogs.”
“Yes your highness” his body was quickly removed and taken away and I was left with four.
When I turned my eyes on them, they flinched.
“Hmm” I grabbed a towel from the tray Angus was holding. ” What am I going to do with you?”
” Your highness have mercy!’ one cried out.
I scoffed. ” Mercy? I don’t have that” I muttered. ” You should have thought of that when you were laughing and drinking with Jake Lucas ” I said with a smile that didn’t reach my eyes.
I stared at them. They were shaking like leaves.
“Okay I don’t want to waste your time or mine, I need to send you on your way” I said.
The remaining elders stared at me. Confusion in their eyes.
“Release them”
“What?”
I turned. It came from Angus. I chuckled.
“Come on let them go”
The guards though confused followed up with my orders. That elders were released.
“Now leave my pack. I never want to see you again. Dead or alive” either that I turned my back. and headed out of the cell.
Angus caught up with me immediately” Your highness are you letting them go?”
“Yes. It’s dark. It’s easy for them to run before sunrise”
Angus didn’t say a word ad we walked back to the palace.
That night I asked that I would be alone. I sat by my thoughts wondering why I might have shown my weakness to these men. Suddenly I had a gard knock on my door.
“Come in!”
Angus walked into my room. “your highness, the elders are dead. They were torn apart by a mad werewolf”
I chuckled.
“You laugh. Where you awate of this upir highness?” Angus raised an eyebrow at me
I shook my head. “I’m as innocent as you” but with the way Angus stared at me, I didn’t know when I burst into laughter.
“Your highness you knew?”
I smiled.
“It’s said it was Alpha Jake’s men that sent that crazy Rogue”
I nodded with a half smile. ” Jake was quick, wasn’t he?”