Chapter 70
The silence in the throne room was louder than the fast heartbears of the Mirza pack alpha. He couldn’t understand what had just happened, but the only way to describe it was that he had screwed himself over. There was no ending and his apparent admission made it seem like he knew what he was doing. Maybe he would learn the first lesson that anyone who ever dared to go after what Miroslav Ibrahimovich got to learn on the first attempt. No one, absolutely no one would ever be ahead of the Lycan King, especially when it came to whatever was happening in his Kingdom.
The Lycan King had all the eyes and ears and he could know things that even the deities probably didn’t know of. He was literally the greatest King for Asmoria and as Alpha Bashir stared in shock, while the room started silent. Staring silently with wide jaws, he wasn’t sure what the fuck he was supposed to do. The Lycan King surely wouldn’t know everything, yeah? Well. the fact that the King already knew his coniection with his father was something that would forever haunt Alpha Bashir
“Y- that Impossible,” the alpha said as he tripped on his words, looking around the room as if to beg for help, before his eyes went to the Queen’s. He knew that if there was someone who could overturn the King’s request was the Lycan Queenr but Ralphine herself was still trying to understand what the heck was happening here. Each day, she was surprised by the Lycan King’s abilities. This man knew more than anyone could comprehend in one sitting and yet he was always so calm
about it.
Ralphine was thinking back to how happy the King had been a few hours ago. How he had been acting like a kid who finally got what he had been hoping for, almost like he had won the lottery. Of course, he always made Ralph feel like she was the best thing that happened in his life but he never failed to remind her that she was his saving grace. However, even with all that in play, she was also learning that the King had always reminded a King to his people. The big mushy erasthai of hers was something else.
Oh, but the Lycan King was a strategic man.
“There are over fifty witnesses in the room, Alpha Bashir. Unless you want to go against the treaty, and need I remind you that going against the treaty means giving up your freedom and putting your people as targets of the Lycan Kingdom. I’m not sure you know the extent of the fury of ten thousand Lycans, especially if they are ordered by their apparently unhinged King to go after your pack. I’m assuming you know the math. Which is also why I know that you understand that your people won’t last three hours,” the King said with a smirk.
“Now that is a threat, Alpha Bashir. You tried to taint my hard work and it’s only fair that the game stays balanced, don’t you think? Anyway, when do you plan on handing your father over? As it is, he was in the guest house last evening, or did you think I came up with the brilliant idea to go against my Queen’s desires? That woman scares me, and yet I invited you over” the King said, earning chuckles from the people in the room while Rapuh just facepalmed.
It was crazy how even in the middle of all this, her husband was able to crack jokes. There was sheer madness here and the fact that there was a chance that Alpha Bashir had lied about more than just the fire made Ralph want his blood. She hated. traitors with a passion so strong. But then she had to remind yourself that this whist was meant to be dealt with according to the laws and the procedures. But what were the chances that all of this would be settled at the end of the day? This wasn’t how shit was supposed to be, not when there was more than what they could handle.
“Please, Your Highness. My father is innocent. I can prove it, just give me some time,” Alpha Bashir said and the King got up- from his seat, and began walking towards the alpha. Everyone could sense the change in the atmosphere and they were reading themselves to run away from this palace in case shit went sideways. Hell, even Heion, who was always happy and excited when Miro caused chaos, was ready to take the first portal out of the throne room. This wasn’t what he had imagined too, and he couldn’t wait for it out.
“Oh, Alpha Bashir. You walked right through my front door with the intention of taking my Queen from me. You knew that we were getting mated last night. You knew because I saw you there I saw you lingering in the hallways, and even standing at the door, pretending like it was all sunshine and unicorns. I sensed you and I knew so well that the fire was accidental. Only you were brave enough to try and fight me for a woman who doesn’t even want you.
“And even if there was a chance that she wanted you, she bears my mark and if you didn’t know what the Lycan mark means, it means that she is mine, forever. She is mine to love, mine to protect and mine to cherish. She is mined to live with, mine to hold and keep sane, mine to care for and she is mine, to give the entire universe to, if ever she asks of me. That woman sitting on the throne is my Queen and she bears my mark, but even that didn’t stop you, right? That’s why you sent rogue
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warlocks here to see what could be done.
“You walked in during the coronation because you wanted to know the specs of the Kingdom. Did it ever occur to you that I wanted you to know the ins and outs of the Kingdom? Did it ever occur to you that every little thing you did was under al microscope by me? That I knew and manipulated the odds in your favor? Or what? You think just because she was betrayed by Drescher and her best friend came to save her from me, she would run with you?
“I gave her the chance to leave, Alpha Bashir. She was never my prisoner. I told her it was okay if she left me. I gave her an unconditional release and promised to never go after her. I swore to love her from a distance if ever there came a time that that was what she wanted of me. If the Lycan Kingdom was suffocating for her, I promised I would let her go and I did… Alpha Bashir. I let her go and she walked right back into my arm. She didn’t come because she needed my protection, or even that she was scared of me. She came back because somehow in the mess that was Miroslav Ibrahimovich, she saw a light that no one ever would.
“She was never yours, Alpha Bashir, never,” the King said and Alpha Bashir gasped.
The alpha looked at the Lycan Queen hoping that all of this was lies. He hoped to get some sort of reprieve or understanding from the woman who was supposed to be his best friend and yet all that he got was a cold shoulder and disappointment on her face. She looked at him with spite, and like she hadn’t imagined he could go this low just for her. There had long been sentimental fools in the entire realm, but to her, Alpha Bashir topped the list and her eyes told him
that.
Seeing no other way out, the alpha did the one thing that he shouldn’t have.
And it cost him a lot.
