Chapter 256
King Roland sat on his throne as one of his men of arms read out the letter sent by the message owl.
“And so being the deception of Alpha Bale of the moonlight pack, judgement in accordance to the order of wolves would be given to Alpha Xaden to execute. And in regards of this message being passed on shall be relayed to the Royal court of the wolves of Lun-Noire. Yours sincerely the members of the wolf council.” He finished reading.
There was a murmur from the members of the royal wolf court.
“Silence.” The king ordered and they all went hush.
The Queen was not seated on her throne because she had taken I’ll and released from duties while he performed all the duties.
It was now mainly on him seated on the chairs.
Belle was seated down on the slower chair and her mother seated lower than her.
“This is verified information from the wolf council?” The King asked.
“Yes your majesty.” The wolf in arms replied. “It was signed in their blood.”
The king leaned back in his chair. “Xaden is most definitely going to kill Bale.”
“Xaden can not take such decisions without his majesties approval.” One of his advisors said. “This is why our laws were put into place. Regardless of the fact that he is given the veto right to exact judgement on Bale, he should not be allowed to be exercise such powers carelessly. If he does then others will follow in his footsteps.”
There were murmurs in the crowd.
“I agree with you.” The king nodded. “But if anyone of us present would recall no one stepped in to stop him from his actions.”
The King leaned back in his chair exasperated.
“Now we have unleashed a demon on the streets.” The King said with a heavy sigh. “We created the monster that Xaden is today and we are going to have to deal with it whether we like it or not. It is all our faults.”
The main seven pack houses and their alphas or representatives went quite.
“It is good to see that we all agree on something.” The king replied helplessly.
“So we will stand and do nothing while he goes on and kill bale who is a well respected member of the wolf community?” Edgar the Alpha of the Black side pack.
Who also happened to be a very close friend of Bale.
“You are talking in Bale’s favour because he is your friend.” Ramsay who was one of the only true friend of Alpha Orion, the father of Xaden when he was alive and till his death.
“Well you did nothing for him did you?” Edgar snapped back.
Ramsay was one of the few desert wolf packs that had agreed to a peaceful pact to the royal family.
“You fucking son of a whore!” Ramsay spat. “You purposely closed any way for the message owls to send messages across. It was you that was lady of the reason why we never got messages on Bale’s impending attack on the Crescent pack.”
And it was true because Edgar’s pack was known to have a control on birds that were sent out with messages.
Messages had been sent to Orion’s Allie’s for help, but they had never gotten it.
They had only gotten word of the gruesome massacre.
“You are accusing me of such treachery without any proof you bastard!” Edgar spat in rage.
“Deny it and see if I do not turn you into sand!” Ramsay swore.
Those who were in support of Orion chanted behind Ramsay while those who were in support of Bale chanted behind Edgar.
“Enough!” The King silenced them before they turned into their wolves and began tearing each other apart. “I am in no mood to see bloodshed on my court floors so you will all seize these nonsense argument as if you are women.”
The men sneered at each other but said nothing.
The King had his fingers against his temple as he sighed in reluctance.
“Xaden has gone through a lot. I should have put an end to what Bale had done before it even happened. I take full responsibility for that and so should the rest of you present. Orion did not deserve what happened to him neither did the rest of his pack. Bale has been hiding under the protection of the accord for too long. It is time that he faces his own judgement. I declare that Xaden be free to handle the moonlight pack on his own.”
There were murmurs amongst the crowd but there were also people who nodded and belived that he had given the right judgement.
“And what it Xaden does not stop them your majesty?” Someone asked aloud. It was Reinhardt alpha of the green pack. “What if he kills Bale and finds that that is not enough bloodlust for him. It is not new news to us that Xaden has desire to dress blood of everyone whom he belived had a hand in the murder of his family.”
“And to those who turned a blind eye.” Someone added.
There was a chill down their spine because they had not done anything to stop it.
The King had thought of this himself too.
Because he too was terrified of Xaden.
He was not certain how Xaden would react once he had accomplished his take of killing Bale.
Perhaps he might come for the rest of them.
Bale sighed heavily. “Well all we can go is pray to the gods to that once he had killed off bale and revenged his family, then his desire to kill will end.”
Even though the King himself belived that this was quite unlikely.
The looks on all the other men said the same thing.
He cleared his throat. “Send word that I have approved the judgement of the moonlight pack in the hands of solely Alpha Xaden. The way we turned a blind eye when we needed him, is the way we turn a blind eye now that he does not need us.”