Chapter 52 Sotto in exile
"Adri, I'm sorry......I......" Charles apologized to Adri with his head bowed, but Adri's anger did not diminish. "Adri, let me talk to Karina alone." I said to Adri as I sat up from the hospital bed.
Adri glanced back at me and then at Karina.
"I'll be right outside, call me if you need anything and I'll be right in." Adri said and walked out with Charles.
Karina stood in place without moving a step, and only after a long time did she look up at me.
"You told Adri that I did it, didn't you? To make him hate me completely, even hate me, that's what you wanted!" Karina questioned, glaring at me.
"I did say that even if I tried to hide it, he would still know, and at that point, I'm afraid it won't be a matter of one punch. The reason I still have the patience to talk to you properly is because Charles, it wasn't an anesthetic he gave me, although I don't know what it was." I said truthfully.
"I did just use him because he liked me and wanted to be with me. But it was Adri that I liked, all along, and you stole him from me!" Karina looked at me even more angrily.
"If he really liked you, he wouldn't have been snatched away by anyone, it was Charles who really liked you. what happened before, was between the four of us, and if you were to continue, it would become between two families, and your father and family would be punished for it. If it comes to that, even if Charles likes you, he can't save you." I said to Karina.
"You're threatening me?" Karina was filled with anger.
"You can interpret it that way, but I never wanted to be an enemy with you, and even in the beginning, I didn't think I would be with Adri. You just thought that Adri should be with you and couldn't accept someone else being around him." I said to Karina.
Karina looked at me and didn't say anything, just turned her head to the side.
She wanted to contradict me, but again, she was just silent.
After a while, Adri pushed the door open and walked in, sitting next to me.
"Adri, I know you probably won't forgive me, but I only did that because I like you so much......" Karina tried to explain to Adri, but couldn't help but shed a tear.
"I should have made it clear to you earlier that we should have been great friends and I treated you like my own family, caring for you and protecting you, which I think is what a brother should do. But everyone is telling you that you should be with me, but we both deserve to have our own lives." Adri said to Karina with a sigh.
"I always liked you, even without anyone telling me what to do. But you ended up choosing Kasha over me. I knew the moment Kasha fell into the river that I wanted to kill her just because I was jealous." Karina kept wiping her tears. Charles also came in and took a tissue and handed it to Karina.
"As long as you promise not to think the same of us again, this will be just the four of us." I said to Charles.
"Adri, I won't wait for you to like me again." Karina said, turned around and walked out.
Charles took one look at Adri and followed Karina out, Adri just sighed.
Mede and Carlton learned that I was hurt and rushed to the hospital.
"Kasha, are you okay? What happened?" Mede asked, looking at me as soon as I walked into the room.
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"Nothing, I ran into a bunch of rouge last night," I said to Mede.
"It must be those bastards again, they don't belong in this city, every time they get into trouble they run away and hide, there's no way to find them." Mede said angrily.
"Over in Puro City, Joslin has caught a few rouge, they said something about rouge." Carlton also said to us.
"What did they say?" Adri asked, looking to Carlton.
"The rouge alliance has not only rouge, but also a part of the wolves, and even the nobles, who are all related to them. rouge has done a lot for them, so those people will definitely choose to help rouge in order to keep what they have done from being exposed," Carlton replied.
"What about the purpose of rouge?" Adri asked again.
"Their final target is His Majesty the King. The few rouge that captured it said that the Alpha of the rouge, was Sotto, His Majesty's once exiled brother."
Carlton's words froze Adri and me for a long moment. "Exiled?" Adri and I looked at Carlton at the same time.
"Twenty years ago, Sotto, who had just come of age, got drunk at a banquet at the royal palace and broke into the palace of one of the former king's princesses, and was thus exiled. It wasn't long before the king received word that Sotto had died at the border."
"But the king did not send anyone to confirm this, nor did he even mention bringing Sotto's remains back. If he really is still alive and has become the Alpha of the rouge, he will definitely retaliate." Mede said with a gloomy expression. "What are we to do? Now who can confirm whether that man is Sotto or not except the king? Maybe the real Sotto has died at the border and that man is just an impostor." I said to Mede.
"Until that is confirmed, let's pretend we don't know anything. What we need to address now is to find out who those nobles associated with the rouge are before they can pose a greater threat to the royal family." Mede said. "We will find a way to find out about this, I will inform Kamo and ask him to track the movements of the storm wolves and other rouge, they are the best at this. Our alliances with the other packs must be made soon as well, it will be too late for the rouge to launch an all out attack." I told him that I hoped the rouge would at least not start a war before I gave birth.
But I also knew that war wasn't something that wouldn't happen just because I didn't want it to.
All we can do is prepare for everything before the war comes.
"Those rouge said that they are researching a potion that can degrade the werewolf genes, or even completely restore the werewolf genes to human genes. Once the research is successful, our chances of victory will be drastically reduced." Carlton said to us with a frown.
"There is really such a potion?" I looked at Carlton, how did this kind of thing get into the hands of rouge?
"I've heard of this, it's said to be some kind of genetic virus. There was once a werewolf infected with this virus, no longer able to change into a werewolf, all the characteristics of a werewolf disappeared, and finally became an ordinary human, and this virus is contagious." Mede replied.
"It's contagious? My God, what the hell are they doing? We have to find a way to stop it." Adri said solemnly.
There was already a strength gap between werewolves and ordinary humans, if the werewolves all lost their fighting ability, then it would become easier for rouge to take over the city.