Inside the dimly lit, stone confines of the pack’s prison, Sage, his body trembling with uncontrollable fury, grabbed Blythe by the throat. His Alpha strength was overwhelming. "She was my mother and you killed her!"
Aiden scrambled to pull Sage away, but the Alpha was stronger. "Sage, get yourself in control!" Aiden shouted, then roared at the top of his lungs, "Warriors! Get here now and stop your Alpha!"
Finally, several pack warriors rushed forward, their combined strength managing to tear Sage away from Blythe. She instantly collapsed onto the cold, damp prison floor, desperately gasping for air, clutching at her bruised neck as she struggled to breathe.
"Let go!" Sage roared, fighting his restraints. He unleashed a loud, terrifying Alpha growl that vibrated through the stone walls, causing every wolf, warrior, and prisoner alike to shake in terror.
"Calm down, Alpha!" Aiden said, tightening his firm hold around Sage’s straining body. "You are supposed to wait for your family to co! They must know what—what Mrs. Blythe did!"
Blythe lay shivering on the floor, her own fists clenching tight. This truth, she had thought, would stay buried forever. However, to keep her daughters safe, she had no choice but to tell him the truth.
"Alpha, please calm down," Aiden repeated, pleading, struggling to maintain his grip and soothe the rage radiating from his alpha.
"Calm down? How?" Sage growled, tears of pure anguish blurring his vision. "She killed my mother! My mother was always around , yet I never found out who she was!" He struggled violently against the warriors. "I’ll rip her apart! I will not let her live!"
Aiden didn’t loosen his hold on Sage for a second. He deeply empathized with the devastating pain his Alpha was going through, the sudden, violent shattering of his past. But he had to keep him in control. The revelation was too significant for a hidden murder. The true culprit had to be unveiled to the council, where Blythe would have no choice but to admit her monstrous cris publicly.
Sage breathed heavily as she tried to calm himself and the restless wolf inside him. "Let go," he ordered Aiden. The rest of the warriors had already stepped back while Blythe dragged herself toward the wall. She was waiting for William to co because only he could save her from the wrath of Sage.
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The car screeched to a halt outside the heavily fortified Pack Council Detection Center. William, along with his two daughters, Naomi and Zoey, and Princess Katelyn, imdiately stepped out. A grim-faced warrior was already waiting for them, who quickly led them inside.
"Will Mom be released?" Zoey asked the warrior, her voice small and hopeful, yet edged with uncertainty.
"You’ll find out soon," the warrior replied vaguely, refusing to make eye contact.
"I think Sage called us because he’s going to release our mother," Naomi stated, clinging to the most optimistic scenario, desperate for their lives to return to normal.
Katelyn, however, felt a cold dread settle in her stomach. She knew that simply would not happen. Everything she had heard through the rushed mind links and the tense atmosphere indicated that Sage hadn’t just found a truth; he had found the devastating, long-sought answer to the mystery he had searched for years.
Finally, the family erged into the cold, stone corridor just outside the prison cells. The air was thick with residual tension, and they imdiately saw Sage flanked by several pack warriors.
"Alpha, your family is here," Aiden inford him, his voice tense.
Sage turned, his eyes still shimring with a residual, dangerous gold, and t his father’s shocked gaze.
"Mom!" Both Zoey and Naomi cried out simultaneously, rushing forward toward where Blythe was slowly being helped up from the floor by a warrior.
"Don’t take a step forward!" Sage commanded, his voice cracking like a whip. He imdiately ordered, "Warriors, leave the corridor at once, except for Aiden."
"What are you doing, Sage?" William questioned, his voice laced with confusion and fear. He glanced at Blythe’s dishevelled appearance and her bruised neck. "Did you put Blythe into torture?" he asked, his worried gaze fixed on his son.
"I wish I could do that!" Sage roared, his voice thick with raw agony. "Did you know my mother married the vegetable seller? Did you know? Tell !"
"What? No! All I know is that your mother ran away," William stamred, his confusion genuine, unable to track his son’s sudden, violent accusations. "And which vegetable seller are you talking about, Sage? Can you explain this to ? Aiden, free my wife," he ordered, his priority still the imdiate well-being of Blythe.
"Are you lying to ?" Sage’s eyes flashed red as he took a watchful step toward his father. "You knew it was my mother. You and your wife killed her, didn’t you? You both are murderers!"
"Sage, what the fuck are you blabbering?" William yelled, reflexively raising his hand in a gesture of paternal authority, but stopping himself short of striking his son.
Aiden, recognizing the imminent danger, quickly intervened, stepping firmly between the raging Alpha and his father.
"Sir," Aiden spoke quickly, cutting through the chaos. "Mrs. Blythe is the one who killed Vance’s parents. She confessed to her cris earlier. And the woman who was the wife of the vegetable seller, it was Alpha Sage’s mother," he revealed the devastating truth in one swift statent.
Naomi and Zoey gasped, utterly shocked, while William’s eyes grew wide in horror and disbelief. He slowly glanced at Blythe, who had kept her head shafully bowed.
"Your mother ran away from ho when you were young," William whispered, scrambling to make sense of the past. "I—I didn’t know she was in the pack. Blythe, is this true? Did you—" His lips trembled, unable to voice the appalling accusation.
"Mom, did you really kill Brother Sage’s mother? But why did you do it?" Zoey questioned, the horror of the truth instantly bringing tears to her eyes. "How could you do this?"
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