Chapter 226: Chapter 226

How similar that was.

“S-so, are you going to spare him?”

She asks, when she manages to have some composure.

“No.”

I answer. For a moment, I might’ve felt terrible. I might’ve felt terrible for lying to her and giving her a false sense of hope. But then I remember what they’ve done and all the people who hurt and died in the process and that tiny bit of guilt is squashed down just as quick. Her eyes glaze over as she stares at me, open-mouthed and shocked at the blunt reply.

“Y-you said-”

“And I lied.”

Within seconds she’s up and trying to charge at me just from pure rage, but the guards holding the chains around her arms yank back and she falls on her a ss with a thud. She glares at me, eyes still misty with tears and red from the stress. Thick droplets roll down her cheeks but she doesn’t make a move to wipe them away. I can tell she’s seething silently, probably proclaiming all sorts of threats and promises of pain and death in her head.

I look at her, trying to think back on any time we ever had a moment of affection. The affection she’d never given me in favor of Hestia. It’s sad. To think I would long for something I never had.

“They’ll be put into death. Method is up for debate.”

All chatter stops when Williams spoke.

We all turned to look at him but he kept his gaze solely on Sophie. She pushes against the chains purely in persistence, lips dropping open for a moment but she quickly starts to retaliate. She’s thrashing, trying to free herself from the binds burning against her skin, screeching out horrified no’s and you cant do this.

But Williams spoke, and he wasn’t going to go back on it. Instead, he turns to me and asks, “Do you agree to this?”

His gaze fleets from me to her once more and the question resonates with Sophie. She stops in her attempts to free herself to look me in the eyes. Begging. Almost bargaining with me in a silent plea.

“Isaac had given his vote and said he would follow whatever decision you would make. So I ask you, Alpha Crestfield: As the sole survivor of the attack at Duskfall, do you agree that the two traitors should face punishment by death?”

“Yes.”

There’s no room for hesitation, Sophie roars out, screaming at me and calling me all sorts of things. Ralzel is at my side, hand at my waist as he kissed the side of my face for comfort. My wolf merely watches as our biological mother curses the day I was born. She hisses out, “You act so justified but in the end of the day, you’re just like the lot of us. You’re a monster!”

The Female Alpha’s Sanctuary.

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And at that, the faintest smile graced my face, “I never said I wasn’t.”

They pull her away and out of the room, her feet dragging behind as her hollers echo down the halls.

The tension immediately lessens when she’d gone and Williams calls off the meeting. The other Alphas with their respective members take their leave after a word of goodbye and all of a sudden, it’s just us.

“Well… that was brutal.”

Weston mumbles, pushing himself off the wall as Emerson nodded in agreement. The two look over to us but neither Raizel or I return their gaze. His thumb gently runs over my skin, calming me as I try to clear my head.

Too much was happening all in one day.

Meredith hums, staring down the door where Sophie had been dragged to. She’d been quiet this whole time, and from the looks of it, she was deep in thought.

“You know, you never did tell us what your plan was.”

H ook at Meredith as she glances between Raizel and I. To say we were all exhausted with drawing out information and cracking down on Sophie was an understatement. The fatigue settled in my bones, but we pushed forth. We didn’t have much time to do anything else, really. It was only now that we had a chance to finally breathe.

“Plans?”

I asked her.

Meredith nodded absentmindedly as she drank tea. She’d been insistent on keeping Hestia locked up in one of the safe rooms with three guards posted by the door. Had it not been for the fact she was carrying a child, she would’ve been thrown in the slums like Benecio and Sophie had been.

But soon, time would eventually catch up to her and she’d have no choice but to face the consequences. She’d get hers eventually, it was only a matter of time. Meredith sighed, a slight frown marring on her face.

“With you two announcing you’re mates and all, you do realize that you have to swear into oath with one another.”

Her hazel eyes sweep around the room, “Usually in Alpha pairs, the partner would concede to the Alpha and join his pack if she was from somewhere else but….”

There’s an amused twist on her mouth, eyes sparkling with humor.

“With two Alphas, I’m not sure how this would work.”

“She’s right.”

Raizel rumbles, looking down at me as he gripped my hip tighter. She was right. I hadn’t really thought about the outcome of our mateship. It was all just going forth until now. Something like this was unprecedented, so there wasn’t really a traditional step to follow. No guide or example to look over. We were on our own.

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