Noah's view:
I'm beyond angry , I can not believe my pack is not agreeing with me , ever since I'm known to be the heir or was the alpha no one has dared to retaliate against me because I am never wrong and I make the right decisions always but, these women just made me a villain in front of my own pack.
They are so bewitched that they can not differentiate right and wrong . I hate it when the pack have different opinions , how would I maintain the entire race of werewolves when I can not take control over my pack without different opinions and the fact that those women still make me feel the same justifies the words of the old lady said which, I know for sure are wrong . It makes me sick
that day prior , at the evening:
"Simon , let's go and meet the people around the dukedom . I heard those women went around to meet the middle-class family we need to go and check if they had bewitched them or anything. And by now I'm sure the news of their sickening deeds must have spread across the dukedom ."
we were here to look after the mess those women created but what astonished us is, they never did anything that could have harmed the dukedom instead, the made it for better .
Appointing the soldiers to take shifts around the middle class at night to prevent any unwanted abuse ,
Appointing special trainers to teach women around the middle-class people , self defense irrespective of their ranks.
Putting on a curfew at every low class bars regarding their times of running them ,mainly the one which showed supremacy against women.
Collecting all the pent up taxes from the rich people and putting in the basic necessities like roads , street lights , electricity and drainage.
Making sure there was no area without a school.
why would they do all this . I strike it off as they wanted to get in the good books of my people , so they could trust them when they betrayed them , and that makes me feel sick .
As I enter ,I see everything has changed for good from the last time we visited here. people were more freely moving , laughing and roaming on the streets and we could see there was construction going on every where . The only difference was every time e came here people bowed to us with utter respect to us which could be seen through their eyes but now , everyone where bowing to us as a compulsion as I look beside me, I see Simon start noticing it too. We both give each other a nod before we get down the car and start going around as we reached the main point where we set the meet up with the people there , everyone stands up and bows to us which had the lack of feel.
I notice the one old maid , who used to work around the palace in the garden and join us brothers when we asked her to play with us . we were very affectionate to her but, later she married and moved out . I walked straight to her as she bowed in utter respect.
" how have you been Margaret " I asked with a gentle voice
" fine , your highness ." your highness.!? as long as I remember she always called me alpha or young alpha . I see my brother raise his brows in astonished look like mine but , we decided we would take those tings later on.
" how is the situation around " I asked trying to get over the situation .
" we are mourning , your highness." right the duke was buried with traitors , those bitches are surely a pain in the ass.
" my condolences for the loss of your dukedom , I'll make sure to bring the duke to a decent burial ground. And I'm really ashamed of me and my brothers falling or those goo-" I was cut between my sentence as she started speaking which was against the royal protocol.
Which she knew like the back of her hand.
"do you see the confetti over there , your highness ? " she asked pointing a different direction , which was filled with the dessert of color paper.
" what about it ? " I asked confused of how it was related to the conversation.
" those were thrown around on the day the Duke was killed and all the perverted men of high ranking were captured for the deed which to this day are traumatizing" I was taken back by her statement .
"I was a part of the celebrations so was everyone else in here, including my grand daughter who was a victim of such trauma , who now would not come out of praying hall to wish the well being of her savior"
I was caught off-guard , so are they meaning to tell me that I was wrong .I was angry , no matter whether she was a women who saw us grow up , this kind of disrespect is not acceptable. As I was about to burst out she spoke again.
" I know this may cost me my head but, I'm still going to complete what I had to say, your highness. The women who you imprisoned might be a dark witch or might have bewitched us but , if the causing harm and getting bewitched meant to have our self respect being safe , to have the relief that our daughters are being protected , the reassurance that she can defend herself . to get to live out of the dark and better conditions , we are more than happy to be bewitched and used. I won't lie to you , you just lost the love of a king from every single person living in the dukedom by imprisoning the 'witch' but, I can assure that they will be living forever in our hearts . The people of your kingdom , whom you couldn't save from your own hierarchy. But you need not worry the other rich hierarchy people might be very happy to extort our resources all over again. and you can go on make the country more prosperous while we morn the loss of our savior .
oh and I have met her personally once, your highness. she held my shoulders when I was about to bow in front of her, And bowed in front of me instead saying
' we are sorry for all the trauma you have faced all these years ,I assure you there won't be anymore such cases . The kings them self would have dealt with this if they had the knowledge but they are busy and asked you to give his apologies too.'
according to you they might be a witch but , to us she was a help that we assumed we would never receive . And we will forever remember them and pray for them in our heart with in power . you might be considering this a rebellion but this is more of a worship of love we received as no ones ." she said and left with all the crowd around here
"did we lose to them Noah ?" I had no answer to that
Back to the present:
I was contemplating on visiting them , but still went anyhow even though I knew ELLEN might be sad with me going there . But I need to know what their intentions are. I was nearing the area where they were asked to clean the snow by Ezra's idea . As I was nearing the area I had a whiff of it again the very smell that was once a beautiful dream , the one that haunts me every day.
The scent of strawberries and chocolate
but the scent was getting very thin even though I'm practically where they were working . Before we could get it super dense sitting in the office itself while they were in the other end of the mansion. It was almost like the person with the smell is fading which made my wolf whimper , but I tamed it . Then again it could be because they were not able to do any witchery for a long time so they so they might have turned weak and maybe the effect of spell is getting weak.
And when I finally spot them , my heart shattered . It was as if someone was squeezing my heart forcefully , it made my knees very weak.
It was all blurry as I felt being all shackled and nailed to my position , she was there looking all skin and bones with the supposed to be blue hospital robe all red with her blood . with hands filled with bruises carrying shovel that was looking way too much for her petite figure. I've been lost at that moment .
(where after our lips met while I was looking into her eyes 'I'll let it pass this once but the only one to put a mark on you should be me.') why am I even thinking of that now, I shake off my head to get rid of the feeling
I gasped for air as I felt like I'm drowning. she was shivering like a leaf and about to faint any moment but was holding onto it. and guarding onto what looked like her other two sisters , while cleaning around that area , but was very wary of something . But from what ? when I turned around I found what it was .It was Simon with a bottle of wine in his hand who was going towards Natasha. And suddenly they were having some heated arguments as I see she started to walk towards them. and just then she slapped him.
and I was on my foot as fast I could go to her before his hand reached to her , hitting her. I don't know but , at the moment it felt like only I was the one with the rights to do it.
"shut the fuck up " those word left my mouth before I notice , I'm sure the slap itself was very hard as she fell a two feet distance from me whimpering with the effect of fall . I see Sara pulling herself from all the energy she could produce as all the three sisters going towards her , trying to help her up but , no one could as all of them were way to practically weak for that. at last with a very painful whimper with shaky feet she finally stood up as my eyes were wide with horror , The place she fell was now a mixed combination of snow and droplets of blood that were ripped open from her wounds and cheeks .
she looked right into my eyes ,with a look that I couldn't define . But it surely killed something in me.
'both of you come to the forbidden land , things here got ugly' Simon spoke in the link to whom I assume to be my other brothers.
" I hate you" were the only words that left her mouth. And my mouth let out a loud whimper as I was about to fell on the ground a very fast running Hayden held me . but all of us fell on the ground as we could hear all of our wolves whimper as the same words came from all the sisters and a heart breaking look they gave us . all of them went back to their shovels digging the snow as we were left speechless