SWNOVELS Chapter 75
Chapter 75
EZRA’S POV
Pay! She will pay!
Those blank eyes stare at me
as they have been staring for
the last few hours. Not a
single blink…not one. But
what kind of blinks could a
severed head in the middle of a table give?
No one in the room eats.
They all just stare at me as if
I was crazy.
“I am getting tired of losing.”
I mutter. “WHAT?! What am
I to do?!” I scream. “Why
does she always have the upper hand?!”
Glass cups, ceramic plates, and all sorts of things that
you can find on a dining
table are thrown across the
room by me.
“She was right there! I had
her right in front of me so
many times!” I shout.
There is only silence by
everyone who watches. Even
Kaecy, especially Kaecy.
“You!” I point to a newly
recruited general. I figured
that the enemy has generals so why shouldn’t I? “Give me
an idea! What should our
next move be?!”
No answer. He nervously
opens his mouth but no
words come out.
“USELESS! Sienna is more
useful to me even when
dead!” I point at her
detached head in the middle
of the table.
It was sent to me and arrived
this morning. Courtesy of my demon ex–mate!
The man continues with his
silence.
“You don’t wish to speak?
Fine!”
I grab him by the throat and pin him to the table.
“Hold him!” I say to the
guards and they do not
hesitate.
I force him to open his
mouth and with the meat
knife on the table, I cut his
tongue out.
He shakes and screams until
I am done and let him go. he
falls to his knees
whimpering.
“Speak when I tell you to speak! Or deal with the consequences.” I throw the bloody tongue on the table.
“Alpha, I know that you are angry but taking it out on us
will not give you the results
you want.” One of them speaks.
“And you speak too much!
Are you a traitor?”
“No, Alpha.”
“Hold him down!” I shout.
My personal guards make
quick–to–follow orders. They
hold the defiant bastard
down on the table.
“Don’t talk when I tell you to and lose your tongue. Talk
too much when it is not your place and also lose your tongue!”
“Brother!” Kacey protests as I
hold the knife up.
He rarely ever interjects
anymore.
I point the knife at him.
“You’d betray me too, wouldn’t you?”
“No.”
I walk closer to him. “Maybe
I should pluck your other
eye out.”
Kaecy quickly looks down.
My attention goes to everyone in the room now.
“You all sacks of withered
balls! Pieces of shit, good for nothing! Not one of you can do what I ask you to do!”
None of the assassins I sent
ever came back.
The only one who ever did anything useful around here
was Sienna and now there
she lies…part of her anyway.
Sienna was not new to me.
She was someone I indulged in back when I was doing my training away from the pack. She is one I cause pain with to Casseope many times. I
knew she had a bit of an
infatuation with me and when I blinded myself and killed my father, I called her to help. I knew she delved into magic but I never knew
how useful she could be. She
also was the one who kept
me calm and in check. She kept me focused on the end goal. Now there is no one to stop me. I’ll take this whole
damn pack down with me
but I am okay with that as long as I get to have…kill…
Cass. Kill…
I am sitting back on my chair now feeling a bit calmer.
“She is starting to look unlike herself.” I mutter, looking at
Sienna.
“Yeah… being dead does
that.” Kaecy mutters.
Not to mention the smell is
starting to get to me.
“Take it.” I swat my hand at my guards. Bury it where I can’t smell it anymore.
I yawn. “Do any of you know any other witch?”
They all shake their heads.
“Witches are hard to come
by.” Kaecy says.
This I know.
F**king Cass had to kill her!
I never knew she had it in
her to kill like that. Not just
Sienna but also in the arena.
I watched the masked
woman kill a man and thought nothing of it but
now, knowing that it was her
all along…I never knew she
had it in her.
I slam my fists on the table.
Who the hell am I kidding!? I say I want to kill her but I
don’t! I want to f**k her!
Even after breaking our mate
bond I still want her like this!
I want to take her and make
her mine! Put her on a leash
and make her do my every bidding! Display her as the little slut she is but no one
gets to touch her except me.
When I get her that is what
I’ll do. I’ll have her n*ked
chained to my bed so I can
do whatever the hell I want
with her. As for my brother,
I’ll peal the skin of his b*dy and keep him alive long
enough to see me break MY
MATE…
Kaecy’s POV
Mad…my brother has gotten mad, crazy. I don’t recognize him at all anymore.
What he has done to this
pack is unforgivable. He has
ruined us. Everyone is
scared. He has no limit to the
things that he does.
That witch used to keep him
in check but now I don’t
know what is going to
happen. The only time he has some semblance of
normalcy is when he deals with others who are not part
of our pack. Maybe it is just to keep face.
Alpha Oliver suddenly walks
- in.
Ezra lifts himself up. “So?!”
I stay quiet listening to the conversation, making myself invisible along with
everyone else.
“I told you I had a way with words. They will hear you.”
“Yes! Finally some good
news!”
This Oliver got the other packs to meet up? He must be good. All these other packs never wanted to get
involved with our feud all
these years. So to get them to meet with us is a rare thing.
But I’m sure that if these other packs knew how crazy
Ezra was, they would not
give him the time of day.
“We need them to join us.”
“Well, I got you the meeting but getting them to join us will be a bit more tricky. No
one wants to go against the
Dark-‘
“Don’t f**king mention their
name!” Ezra shouts.
Oliver holds a hand up.
Unlike us, he has no fear of talking to Ezra.
“If we had had Zao right now as an ally, this would all be
much easier but alas, he is
dead.”
“Don’t remind me…and she
was there! How did he not
know that he had her!”
“Maybe he did?”
“Then he was a traitor all this
time!”
“Even so, he would have still
been useful. You need to
learn to not give in to your
emotions so much. Learn to
use people to your advantage even if they piss you off.” Oliver says.
Ezra pays him no mind and continues to speak. “And how the f**k did she end up with him? I couldn’t even get to her and I was trying.”
“No idea but now we have to
focus on the task at hand.”
“Yeah…getting all these packs
to join us.” Ezra says.
“Yes but…”
“But?”
“All these years they have stayed away. They won’t be
easily persuaded in fact…..I
really doubt they will join
us.”
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“So then what?”
“Do not fret. There is always
a way. There is no way that
we will be able to defeat the
Dark Fang Pack without their help. They will help whether they know it or not.”
Ezra growls at the mention of the enemy pack. “Maybe seeing that you and I have an alliance will help with that and they will follow suit.”
“I don’t even have a pack right now.” Oliver says.
“But you have all these rogues with you? So that might be enough. How did you end up with so many rogues anyway?”
“I paid for them. Dipped into the family fortune. But that
is not what we should use as
a focus. We need to put
emphasis on the river packs
they attacked and took
control of.”
“Yeah… you are right. That
will be what undoes them.”
“Then leave it to me. I am a
good talker and if I can’t get you these alliances, I have plan B already good to go.” Oliver says.
The way he says this makes
me think that this man is
very smart. He has been playing games maybe even playing both sides. I don’t
like him one bit.
“And what do you want?”
Ezra asks. “You are doing all
of this but never told me
what you want in return?”
“I want my pack back.” He replies.
“The pack that you left?” Ezra
asks.
“If I would have stayed, they
would have killed me. I knew
my pack members would be
safe because these people
like to recycle and reuse
their prisoners of war. It
would have been a waste for
them to have killed all of my
men.”
“I see. So you have given thought to all of this.”
“Yes.”
There is much more to this
man than he leads on. I have
a bad feeling about him.
As their talk leaves the room,
we all feel like we can
suddenly breathe once again with my brother out of the
room. We all look at each
other but do not say a single thing.
As the day progresses, the night finally arrives. I leave
my room and head to the
game room, just as I do almost every night.
There are only three more people here. The poor man
who got his tongue cut out
today sits in a corner with his brother who protested and almost got his tongue chopped off too.
Christoph, the man who was my father’s beta, sits here as well, drinking. He learned to play the game quickly when
Ezra took over. He did not
once protest when he got
removed as beta or
interfered with any of Ezra’s
decisions. He has kept
himself invisible from Ezra’s
radar.
Suddenly, someone who does not belong here walks in. Matilda, the old cook. She walks in with the pretense of handing out pastries that
were left over at dinner.
Something she tends to do
and did even before Ezra
took over. She would walk
around the pack house
handing them away but this
time, there is an ulterior
motive to it.
“Here you go, young Alpha.”
“Thank you. Did the grain
you use come from the outside of the pack?” I ask.
“No, but I will be using it tomorrow morning for the morning pastries.”
I nod. “I see.”
“Then you should probably tell your cooks to use blueberries. It seems they
are in bloom this season.”
Cristoph mentions.
“They have not been in season here.” She says.
“But they will be…and our
pack will benefit from it,
especially with so many.”
“I see.” She says, pensive.
“Also…” The guard that
soothes his brother starts
speaking. “…make sure to throw the rotten apples away. There is one in particular
that is at the root of it and
seems to help all the other apples rot.”
“Is this apple newly arrived?”
She asks.
“Yes.”
“I see. Very well. Thank you
for your suggestions.”
Sugestions…code talk. Only
those who are not being
watched can deliver
messages so she fits the bill
perfectly.
We all almost got caught
meeting once so now our
meetings are like this. We
don’t talk to each other
unless it is by hiding what we are trying to say in a normal
chitchat. It is still a risk but
no way we are all going to sit back and let Ezra do what he
wants. We contemplated
killing him with poison in
his food once but Ezra has a
taster. It was the witch’s idea.
She was a smart one. It’s a
good thing she is gone but
she was the one who kept
Ezra on a leash.
Now Ezra is out of control
and I am not sure anyone will be able to hold his crazy
back.