<h4>Chapter 241: INTERROGATION 4</h4>


    He mmed on the table so hard that everyone shook.


    Even the owl itself was trembling.


    "I said enough." He said. "Enough of all your bloody lies. Enough with the deception. All of it. Spying is an offense punishable by death."


    She swallowed hard.


    All eyes were now on her.


    Triumph, relief, and a few stares of pity.


    "You knowingly gave out information about this pack to your family so that they could gain the upper hand when it was time for me to exterminate them." He said.


    She was crying so much now.


    Her entire body was shivering.


    It was like him being so kind to her was only a dream. It was like just a few hours had not happened when he had set his head against her chest and cried for the death of Eleanor.


    It was like how he was so tender to her the night before had not happened.


    It was as if he had not even kissed her forehead when she had woken up from thea.


    It was like none of it had urred.


    It all seemed like a faint dream.


    "Perhaps you are the reason why Aurora is dead." He said.


    She looked up at him quickly. "No. I had no hand in that."


    "You are a treacherous bitch." He snarled in anger, and his eyes were red. "You will do anything to get what you want. If you could do all that you did. Was stopping you frommitting more offenses."


    She shook her head. "No, I would never hurt you, Xaden."


    "I am now certain that Aurora found out everything about you." He began. "She was going to tell me when you informed your family, and they found a way to kill her. You nned the whole thing."


    She shook her head fervently. "No, please, Xaden. I had nothing to do with that."


    Xaden gave a bitterugh, and then he turned to one of the members of the wolf council.


    "You can see for yourself." He said to the woman.


    She has white markings on her face.


    She looked at him before going to the owl on the table.


    She touched it, and her eyes went white.


    Then she went back to her Normal state, and her eyes reverted to normal.


    She turned to Xaden. "The previous messages have been wiped out. But then there is something else. Thest one that she was to receive was still intact."


    She turned to Jasmine and said. "It was a message on how she was going to poison you, Xaden."


    The room went chill and quiet.


    Even the cool breeze of the snow stopped


    Xaden turned to look at her.


    It was as if he was broken from within.


    As if this sudden revtion had cemented everything about her.


    "Is this true?!" He asked in a hushed and hurt voice.


    Her lips parted, hoping to say something, but no words were formed.


    She had not received that message.


    She had been waiting for the owl to return so that she could tell them she no longer had any interest in doing her father’s bidding.


    She shook her head. Even though she knew that he would not believe her, she tried to exin to him, to make him understand. "Xaden, I will never hurt you. You need to understand this. Never."


    He turned away and it was as if he was swaying left and right trying to recover from the depths of his mind.


    She went up to him and knelt down. "Please, Xaden I would never-


    He raised his hands up, silencing her. "Enough."


    When he turned to look at her, it was no longer Xaden.


    It was a man who was fueled by rage and hate.


    Burning so powerfully that she could feel it. She could almost even taste it.


    He shook his head. "You deceived us. And you will pay."


    The weight of his words dropped on her head with such power she almost copsed.


    "Where is the original daughter of Alpha Bale?"


    She swallowed hard. "She is back in the pack. I believe they hid her there."


    Then Xaden turned to the members of the wolf council.


    "You now see that Alpha Bale has disobeyed thews of our pack," Xaden said. "The height of thews that he has broken. The height of deception. I married his daughter and took her as mine, and yet he gave me another. He has also used his deception as a means ofmunicating and spying on me. We do not even need to remember how much of a crime spying is."


    Then Xaden turned to them. "What is your judgment."


    The members of the wolf council whispered amongst themselves and said. "For breaking over fivews that have been ced in ordance with wolfws, Alpha Bale will be stripped of his ord. You, Alpha Xaden, are now in the right to exact punishment on the one who wronged you."


    There was murmur and uproar amongst the small group of people present.


    "So as a shortened section of the wolf council." They announced. "We decree that from this very moment. Alpha Xaden of the crescent pack is free to attack Alpha Bale of the moonlight pack as his initial ord is now dered void."


    There was now massive and serious murmuring in the crowd.


    Jasmine knew what this meant.


    It was all over.


    He would kill her father and everyone else.


    This was if he did not kill her first.


    "And so shall you be free to punish those who have offended you." The wolf council rounded up.


    Xaden stood without looking at her.


    "There is one more thing," Xaden said. "One more thing that the moonlight pack did to me."


    They were now all silent.


    Jasmine looked up, wondering why he had more against her.


    Or were there other things that her father had done that she was not aware of?


    "Alpha Bale when he was attacked by family years ago," Xaden announced. "Took my sister. Alive."