Chapter 115
I don’t have time for Alice’s lies and if she’s trying to buy some time for herself then she is in
for a very big surprise.
Luckily Liam arrived and I told him to get Isabella in her room and take her to Faith’s because I can’t risk leaving her here and having Kyle come and take her because somehow he knows every trail to my pack and he poses a danger to my family.
I wraped my hands around Alice’s arm and dragged her out of the house.
She screamed behind me, stumbling every few steps, but I didn’t slow down. Her struggle was useless. She was twisting, pulling, fighting like a trapped animal, but my strength outweighed hers maybe ten times over, and right now, the fury filling me was stronger than any restraint I had left.
We moved fast through the Pack. The few members who were outside looked up, their faces frozen in complete shock. They saw the rage boiling in my eyes, the raw, untamed look of the Alpha, and they immediately bowed their heads and backed away. They were horrified by what they saw, but nobody questioned me. Nobody dared to slow me down.
As we moved closer to the center of the territory, more people appeared. They started spilling out of their houses. It was like a sudden, terrible call had gone out. They formed a growing,
silent crowd behind us, drawn by the drama. Soon, there were hundreds of witnesses.
“Astor, stop! Please, stop” Alice kept begging, the tears already mixing with the dirt streaking her cheeks, but I ignored her. Her pleas were just noise to me now. Every pull she made, every desperate cry, just fueled the fire burning away my patience.
I dragged her all the way to the steps of the Packhouse entrance. This was the most important place in our territory. This was where everyone gathered.
When I reached the very front, I shoved her forward. I simply let go. She hit the ground hard, falling with a thud.
Just then, my father came running along with some of the few high ranking members of the Pack. He must have heard the shouts and the rising noise of the crowd.
“Astor! What in the Goddess’s name are you doing? Stop this right now!” he barked.
I slowly turned my head, fixing my gaze on him. I didn’t need to shift fully. I only needed to let him see the monster inside. My wolf was right at the surface. The pure, rage of my Alpha
command hit him like a physical blow.
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He stopped dead. His shoulders dropped. He had no choice but to submit to his son, the current Alpha. He lowered his head, his face defeated.
I straightened up, turning my attention back to the massive crowd that now surrounded the entire front yard. The silence was heavy, broken only by Alice’s sobs on the ground.
“Listen up!” My voice was a roar, sharp and powerful, bouncing off the stone walls of the Packhouse. “What is going to happen today will serve as a lesson! A lesson to anybody who tries to betray me or tries to go against me!”
My mothe, pushed through the front of the crowd. She looked from my father’s defeated stance to Alice shaking on the ground.
“Astor, what is going on here?” she asked, her voice laced with confusion and alarm.
I didn’t answer her directly. I addressed the Pack. I needed them to hear the entire, horrible truth, word by simple word.
“Five years ago,” I began, my voice lower now, dangerously steady, “Faith gave birth to twins. She only got to see one of them. The other child was kidnapped immediately after birth. We didn’t even know about her until a couple of days ago.”
I paused, letting the weight of the truth settle on them.
“We didn’t have to look far,” I spat out, my eyes locking onto Alice. “We searched only to find out that Alice is the one who kidnapped my daughter.”
Before I could even finish, my mother’s voice cut across the silence. She sounded furious.
“Astor, stop! That is a lie! Alice would never do something like that!”
I saw the rest of the Pack nodding their heads in agreement with my mother. They had known Alice for years. They believed in her kindness. They had been fooled, just like I was.
“Don’t even dare defend her.” I said. “Whoever doesn’t agree with me must be in cahoots with her. You are all blind. I have proof. Proof that Isabella is not Alice’s daughter. Isabella is mine, She is Faith’s daughter!”
The noise that went through the crowd was a wave of gasps and shocked murmurs. The revelation was too huge, too unbelievable for them to grasp right away.
My father was the first to find his voice. “Astor, it… it couldn’t be,” he argued weakly.
I looked down at Alice, who was now weeping openly, her shoulders shaking violently.
“She used black magic!” I accused, pointing a stiff finger at her. “She used dark spells to hide
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my daughter’s scent, to hide the truth from me and from our Pack. All this time, I didn’t know that the little girl I was raising was actually.”
Alice screamed up at me, the tears pouring down her face. “It’s not true! It’s all lies! You just want to get rid of me. You have your mate now. You want to give Faith my daughter back so you can be the hero, but you are lying”
“George!” I barked, turning to the Head Warrior standing nearby. “Bring the silver chains!
Now!”
Alice heard the command and stopped crying instantly.
“No! NO!” she shrieked, scrambling backward on the ground, trying desperately to get away.
I signaled two of the female warriors. They moved fast, grabbing her by the arms and forcing her back down against the stones. She struggled wildly, but she was trapped.
George arrived quickly, holding the thick, gleaming chains. They were wrapped around her wrists and then secured around her chest.
Alice screamed. It was a high, horrible, sound, the sound of her flesh burning. The silver started to smoke faintly against her skin. She thrashed, screaming until her throat must have
been raw.
I knelt down beside her, ignoring the dreadful sound of her pain.
“I don’t buy your whole story about poisoning Isabella or whatever lies you told me before,” I hissed into her ear. “Nothing is going to stop me. I will torture you, and then I will give you a very slow, very painful death for what you put my mate through.”
“Isabella will never forgive you!” she managed to choke out through the pain. “I am the only mother she has ever known. She will hate you for killing me”
“She will forget you,” I stated coldly. My heart felt like stone. “Isabella is young. Sooner or later, she will accept Faith as her true mother, and she will forget all about the woman who
raised her.”
I grabbed a handful of her hair, forcing her face up toward mine. “I might consider making this easy for you, Alice. Just confess. Tell me what your full involvement is with Kyle.”
I stood up, turning back to the Pack. I needed to finish this, to make sure they saw her for the
monster she was.
“Kyle is the one who killed those two innocent children” I announced loudly. “And Alice is involved with him. She helped him. She is his accomplice.”
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I looked out at the sea of shocked faces.
“So, tell me now,” I demanded. “Do you still think she deserves to be saved?”
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The silence was deafening. Every head was lowered. They were finally forced to see the truth.
Alice let out one last, ragged scream, a sound filled with pure, murderous hatred and desperation that cut through the pain of the silver.
“Faith deserved everything she got!” she shrieked, tears and blood staining her face. “Why? Why does Faith get to have everything while I lose? All I wanted was to be a mother to your child. But I lost my baby, and Faith got to give birth to two”
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