Chapter 37 Chapter 37 ALPHA LEO "I will not change my mind, Mother!" The Alpha was tired of this conversation. Tired of hearing the same words over and over again. "HE TRIED TO KILL ME!" His voice echoed around the room. The servant holding the tea tray whined. His Wolf reacting to the Alpha's energy and anger. Alina, his mother, and Luna Regent to his pack, was undeterred. "I don't believe that. No more than I would believe Serina would have tried to kill you." Leo jerked at the sound of his dead beloved's name. "How convenient for your concubine that the future Alpha tried to kill you. With both of your deaths, the throne falls to Aler. Goddess bless that child, but if the pack falls into his hands, our kingdom will collapse." What? This was the first time he'd heard this topic from her. He knew she favored Dax, but Rebecca had shown clear evidence against him, proving he had tried to drug Leo that night. Then, when he'd failed, he started the fire. "You don't know what you speak of, Mother. You weren't there that night." "I know that the girl Rebecca brought forward is a liar. They just caught her trying to frame the head maid in order to take her place. I know that Rebecca wants her son to be Alpha I know" "You know what you know, and out of respect for you, I'll be kind and say only that you. Weren't. THERE!" She recoiled at his words. He wasn't calling her brainless, but her beliefs were biased, and he needed to "What would Serina think of you?" She whispered, but he heard her all the same. tread carefully. His insides burned. He wanted his mate back. He wanted to see her turn the comer with her bright smile and contagious cheerful personality. He wanted to wake up and see her hair tangling into his face and have the same argument about how she should stop slipping coins to the servants. His heart ached. She would hate that he'd banished Dax. He was the greatest gift that she'd ever given him. Memories of the boy bounding through the nearby forest as a pup played through his mind. He missed his son almost as much as Serina, Dax had been his pride and joy. Sure, the pup had no idea what he'd wanted to do as Alpha, and he spent nearly all the money he had on wenches and alcohol, but he was bright and brilliant in war councils. He would have been a fine Alpha someday. "She would hate me. She would demand his reinstatement, but just like you... She wasn't there. What would you have me do? Ignore all of the evidence and clairs him clear and free? I've already established an investigation, and I must abide by what my investigators find." He walked to the window and stared at the city down the hill. It was early spring, and the merchants were finally returning from the distant packs, looking to make coin and trade. The breeze brought the smell of the Magnolia on the wind, and his Wolf came forward, hoping to entice Leo into a run. To leave this toxic conversation and shift into the powerful form of his Alpha Wolf Goddess, how he wanted his son back, but there was nothing he could do, and every time she brought this subject up, he was reminded of what he'd lost. His Chevalier had found nothing regarding that night. The glasses were indeed poisoned, and the fire had been set on purpose; an accelerant had been found cuating the walls and what was left of the curtains. The only other person who'd been there that night had been the maid who delivered the mead, and he'd watched her leave the room before they toasted to the memory of Serina. "I'd have you lift the exile so that your son can get proper medical care and we could then hopefully hear HIS side of the story." Exhaustion filled his bones. The doctors had already informed him that Dax was brain-dead. He would never heal as his Wolf would also be brain-dead, and no shift could happen. He'd lie, unmoving, not thinking, just wasting away until he passed. Which was soon, if his spies in Dax's castle were to be believed. However, this was information that his mother needn't be told. It would only hurt her. Maybe letting her have her hope was a mistake. He turned from the window and looked at his mother. Her long black hair fell over her shoulders in thick waves. Her piercing blue eyes were shrouded in long black lashes. She looked like she was thirty, instead of in her late sixties. Her cream and purple dress accentuated her long form, pressing her bodice up and allowing her shoulders to look confident. "I won't do that, mother. He sighed, done with this conversation. "I can't do that. There's nothing left of his brain. When the doctors examined him, they confirmed that he was brain-dead. He won't be coming back. He's gone." Her face plas relaxed, and her mouth fell open. Obvious shock road her body as her eyes disassociated into her Woll's, "Get out. I can't look at you right now." He expected that. She couldn't be reached. He should have left her in her delusions. She was no better than Rebecca and her half-wit son, Alec Le stalked to the door and banged on it, letting the doormen know he wished to leave. As the doors opened, he couldn't help but think more about how estranged he'd grown to Alec. The woman had obviously addled his brain. What he'd seen in Rebecca originally, he couldn't remember. She'd been pretty to Chapter 37 inck at, but he swore that there'd been something else. Something that had called to him. It was expected of him to mate with several bitches in the hopes his seed would spread. For the betterment of his kingdom, they'd said. More like a betrayal to his mate and heart. I truly have no one anymore. As he was leaving his mother's library, he heard her collapse to the floor, but she'd decided her fate the moment she'd dismissed him. He heard the doormen run in, and chans unfolded behind him. 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