SWNOVELS Chapter 548
Chapter 548 In His Cage (Beatrice Dismay)
I had fainted after receiving the news of Akin’s death. My brain didn’t want it to go through that, so it shut down for a while.
However, I woke up with a panic attack. It was as if he wanted to go back in time and stop all this by killing Zane when he had
the chance.
When he was in the cabin with me.
If only I knew what it was, I would have finished it right then and there.
But sadly, it was too late. We let the devil walk freely, and now we have lost everyone we loved.
Beatriz! Helel called me from the cage next to mine.
“Why are you calling me? Now it’s all over,” I said, resting my head against the bars and staring into the void. My eyes formed
tears, clouding my vision, and then as they passed, my sight became clearer.
“Do you think I am not affected by this news? He was my twin; He was... My brother. But we must remember that he died saving
everyone. We cannot let his death be in vain. Besides, I have no idea where my daughter is,” as he spoke in a choked voice. I
shook my head and started sobbing loudly this time.
“Okay. Just drop them. Because we still have to fight for our people and our family,” Helel spoke loudly as I cried. I wish he was
in this cage with me. I needed a shoulder so much.
“Hey!” then he pulled out his hand and held it to me. “I promise to take revenge for what he has done. We won’t let him walk alive
after this.”
All the promises sounded too sweet, but could they bring Akin back?
I watched his hand, and as I was about to return the promise, we saw Colt being dragged and thrown into the cage in front of
ours.
Reign was nowhere to be found, and Shiloh was also missing. We never knew that the war would go so against us. “I’ll kill him,
fuck,” I said determinedly, but it was just words. We were trapped, and everyone we had ever loved was now in Zane’s cage.
“It must have been so... annoying,” he didn’t know what the right word might be to describe how Akin must have felt when he
was stabbed by his own brother.
“I was missing you,” Colt began to wake up, vomiting blood.
“Foal! Are you okay?’ I held the bars and shook them angrily, feeling the burn of the iron.
“I was talking about you, I wanted you to go ahead with Helel, the way Colt pronounced the words without interruption was a sad
notion of how he was worried that he wouldn’t have the chance to tell me about his last words.
The fact that he chose to wish me a good life, even when I knew it wouldn’t be with him, showed the difference between him and
Zane. But I don’t know how he thought he would be able to live a life that he’s not a part of. “I can’t believe he’s gone,” I covered
my face with my hands and started crying once more.
“Foal! Where is Evelyn? What did he do to her? Helel slid closer to the edge of the cage, watching Colt with his eyes wide open.
“I don’t know. I only know that Evelyn and Shiloh’s baby is their next target,” Colt coughed, gently rubbing his chest. “He wants to
end the line of saviors,” Colt’s statement made me think of Reign’s words. He told me Shiloh’s daughter would be special. Does
that mean she’s in the next line of saviors? “Where is the kingdom?” Colt uttered it, his eyes shedding tears.
It was strange how we were sitting here helplessly while our loved ones were being tortured somewhere.
“We don’t know. We..., Helel stopped talking when her eyes focused on someone coming towards us.
“What are you here to see now?” he shouted as he gripped the bars tightly. I followed her gaze to see Maura standing in front of
us. She wore a long black dress with her hair pulled back in a loose braid.
“I didn’t know...,” she began to speak, but ended up crying.
“Didn’t you know how a war works? You knew exactly what you were doing when you kept bringing dead werewolves back to life.
You knew someone would win, and the losing party would lose their loved ones and their lives,” I yelled at her, watching her
cover her face with her hands.
His guilt would not bring Akin back. “They told me you all wanted to kill him because you fed him to his brother when he was just
a child,” she whispered after calming down and forcing a calm posture. “And you believed it,” I shook my head in disbelief.
“The war was never about him. It was Beatrice. He killed Maddox because, in his twisted mind, the more he kills his loved ones,
the stronger he becomes. And the stronger she gets, the more chance she has of killing Beatrice’s classmates and being with
her,” Helel clenched her jaw as she explained the truth to the silly, gullible little girl before our eyes.
“He didn’t kill Maddox; It was a... Self-defense,” she began to stutter once the revelation of her lover’s truth became apparent to
her.
“Maybe one day you’ll ask him who his first death was and he ate with his characteristic movement,” Colt said, making her
tremble at his words.
“He...” she said, taking a deep breath before the silence consumed her. He ran close to my cage and held the bars before
grabbing my hands tightly. “Tell me you’re lying,” he insisted.
I didn’t feel bad for her. She looked for it herself. She was fighting for someone who was using her to get something else.
Instead of meeting her and hugging her to escape death, I had to face her and realize that if I hadn’t been on her side, Akin
would be alive right now.
That’s when she had to step back when Zane came and grabbed her by the arm to pull her away from me.