Chapter Hundred-Seven – Lessened Rank.
Chris’s POV
Where the hell was Sasha! It was becoming the major problem in my life, even more troubling than Logan.
She should be almost four months now. Was she going to deliver wherever she was at? Was she really dead?
Couldn’t the moon goddess be merciful to my child at least? And Sasha wasn’t to blame for all my errors in the past.
I’ve been paying for them, even my throne was about to be taken from me. Why me!
The glass cup in my hands shattered to pieces, making me realize I was clenching my fingers around it.
I threw it down and kicked it away. Everything was frustrating me.
The door to the courtroom was knocked on and same time a guard poked their head in. “Alpha King, Beta Ray is here. You said to ask if….”
“Yes, yes, let him in.” I replied hastily. The guard took his head back and the door was opened widely.
Ray strolled in, holding two oranges. He threw one to me from the distance. I caught it on impulse. “Howdy!” he asked.
What’s with him? The orange looked sumptuous so I dug my teeth in. “Your report doesn’t seem like a bad news.” I said.
Earlier, I told him about Logan saying he had his sister so he left to Silver Pack to check.
Ray nodded. “Yeah, she’s at her pack and feeling better. I even got another news.” He plopped on my Luna’s chair.
I didn’t mind, it’s been empty for a while. I faced him, crossing my legs and feeling better to have someone to talk to. “What?”
“Jaden and my sister aren’t actually mates!” he started excitedly.
I was blank first, then my joy grew, before it dawned on me that the problem wasn’t adverted by Jaden not being her mate.
The Silver Wolf was still fated to have a mate who’d be the new Alpha King, just it wasn’t Jaden, which wasn’t good.
Like he was a better candidate, after me. Who else did the moon goddess have in mind?
Since I wasn’t excited, Ray nudged me and added. “But I feel he’s interested in her, romantically.”
The corners of my lips rose up, and I lifted my head. “Don’t blame him. Who wouldn’t.”
My eyes widened as the words successfully flew out of my mouth. I turned to Ray and he hid his smug grin. “I know right.” He nodded.
“I didn’t mean it that way. I meant, Jaden has every right to be attracted to her. She’s strong, beautiful and has a silver wolf.” I defended.
Again, everything didn’t come out right. Ray nodded again, chewing on his orange. I wasn’t appreciating his silence.
I cleared my throat. “Anyway, he shouldn’t bother tell her his feelings because, as per the prophecy, she has to wait for her mate.”
Ray nodded yet again, throwing the remaining orange, in his hands, into his mouth. He glanced at mine, then smiled.
I handed them to him. “So there’s nothing new happening there? Your sister is surely boiling to look for Logan.”
“Not really, she’d be more strategic now.” Ray noted. “Direct attacks had proven futile.”
I scoffed. Finally. She had learnt how not to be impulsive and try thinking first. I loved it for her.
“Whatever she’d plan, I hope she’d let us know. We’re in this together, Logan is a threat to the whole Kingdom.” I reminded.
“Yeah, and to think he was once an Alpha of his own pack. I can’t believe he killed them all. He’s really crazy.” Ray shook his head.
I spaced off, trying to remember everything Logan ever said about his family. He mentioned his pack wanting to live like Werewolfs.
That meant he was an Alpha to pack of Lycans.
And since he was a Lycan Alpha King then he had killed Lycan Alphas. He should be really powerful then.
But, so far, with all the near death battles he had engaged in, he didn’t seem as powerful.
I remembered seeing his eyes glow yellow while in my prison, but he increased ranks fast.
It’s easy to gain ranks if you’ve had them before but what had made him lose them? Could he have lost his touch due to years of inactivity?
“Is there a way for an Alpha to lose his ranks?” I asked Ray.
His mouth was still moving after swallowing my orange in one go, he shrugged. “Maybe transfer of energy. I heard you could lose ranks.”
Yes, but not many wolves would do such. And Logan was selfish, he’d never transfer his energy to anyone.
“Anything else. It’s related to Logan. He wasn’t actively an Alpha King for a while but his rank wasn’t supposed to reduce like that.”
Ray had a focused gaze on the door, then cocked his head. “You’re right. He isn’t as powerful as I expected.”
“Definitely!” I agreed. “Something caused it.” And whatever it was, I’d like it to happen again.
My Beta thought hard, then folded his legs on the Luna chair. “Another thing that reduces ranks of Alphas is childbirth.”
What? My brows raised.
Ray waved his hands, dismissing his earlier words. “No, no, I mean child… um… having a child. Yes.”
It still didn’t make sense. I tried helping him. “You mean the stress in having a child?”
That was more of the female’s issue than the males. Logan was a male.
“No, having a child, especially the child who’d be Alpha, it could take a toll on the father as the sperm donor.”
My mouth shaped in an ‘oh’ form, I nodded.
Ray continued. “That child drains power from their Alpha father, as they’d be the next Alpha.”
I was mute for a while. I’ve heard a similar thing from my father, when he say he birthed me. Now, I understood, he meant the Alpha in me.
I heaved a sigh. Perhaps after Logan became Alpha King, he had sons who should have been Alphas. And it lessened his strength.
“Since Logan killed everyone in his pack, I bet he killed his sons who’d have been Alphas too.” I sighed.
That felt good in a way.
The last thing I needed were vengeful young Lycans joining their father to torment me.
“You know Alphas can be a female too, so maybe sons and daughters. And if they’re daughters, you’d never know if they had kids.”
Ray wasn’t helping with his speculations.
I frowned at him. And hearing about ‘having kids’ caused a kind of depression in me.
The door of the courtroom opened again, and I raised my head slowly.
A frown was on my face as I knew it could be my guard and he hadn’t knock.
“You had replaced me with your Beta, already? I’m not surprised!” a fat lady hissed, leaning on the door. Who was that now?
Ray jumped from the Luna throne. “Sasha? You came back!”
I stared at Ray then at the lady. That was Sasha?