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"Please go out and wait for outside." The alpha patted his daughter’s arm.
He suddenly cald himself, and I could tell the council mbers were still struggling to understand the whole situation. They shook their heads, and Sylvia even hid her face in her hands.
"Is it true? Have you all been watching everything? Is it true that the monsters are created by you?" Sylvia asked, finally voicing the right questions, while the alpha began to panic.
"I will not answer until Vanessa leaves," he insisted. His daughter shook her head at him, clearly disappointed.
"I’ll be waiting right outside," she replied, then stepped out.
Now it was the four of us. I expected the alpha to start lying, but instead he dropped to his knees at Sylvia’s feet.
"Please forgive us. It was not my idea. This started with our ancestors. Our parents began all of this. We are just trying to clean it up now, but also," he paused.
I shook my head in disbelief. He avoided looking at and continued speaking to Sylvia and Roberto.
"Please stop this girl. You have no idea what this will do. It will ruin everything. It will even ruin your reputation. People will question why you never figured this out."
As he kept speaking, I began to worry. He was very convincing. And the way Roberto and Sylvia started to get out of their chairs, I began to worry about their verdict.
The two council mbers rose from their seats, watching the man beg at their feet, pleading with them to stop from speaking and exposing everything.
"Please listen to ," he begged again.
Lady Sylvia raised her palm.
"Listen to you and let our youngsters die for your entertainnt?" she snapped, making the alpha suddenly break down in tears.
"Please, this will ruin us. People will demand the dethroning of all the alphas. They will even question your ability," he cried.
Roberto’s cough cut him off.
"You think you can scare us?" he asked casually.
I let out a deep breath. I was about to tell them that Ian was already working on exposing these people, and that their support and refusal to be manipulated had confird we had taken the right step.
However, before I could speak, Lady Sylvia crossed the room and stopped in front of , tears in her eyes.
"We disappointed you all," she uttered. "But now we are in this together. We are going to stop these people."
As soon as she said that, I smiled. Then, suddenly, I felt sothing stab into my back.
I turned and saw the alpha standing behind . I had no idea when he got there.
One mont he had been begging at their feet, and the next he was stabbing in the neck.
I pulled away and shoved him back, touching my neck and realizing he had injected with a large amount of Wolfsbane.
What worried was that the council mbers did not look alard.
"What the hell?" I grunted, touching my neck again and again. Dizziness hit almost instantly from the amount injected.
"Did you really think we were doing all of that without their assistance?" the alpha asked, chuckling. His earlier tears were fake.
"What?" I whispered, turning toward the council mbers.
"We are not bad people, but a little entertainnt is not harmful," Lady Sylvia said.
That was when I realized how foolish I had been. There was no way sothing this cruel could have continued for so many years without their knowledge or support.
"If only you had stayed in the academy, we were already considering letting you go because of your mate bond with the headmaster’s son. You could have lived normally, but no. You had to be the hero," Lady Sylvia continued, circling as my knees began to buckle.
I tried to stand, but my legs would not respond.
"But you forgot, little girl, just because you can fight monsters does not an you can fight us. We can play with your mind, and we did," she added.
"I wish the outco had been different. It would have been nice to keep you alive. Imagine the ratings when, after many years, you appeared at the North again just to shock the viewers. All that planning wasted," she went on, clapping her hands and grimacing with bitterness.
"You ruined it all," she muttered.
I stayed on my knees, my hands pressed against the ground.
"You’re all animals," I uttered, breathing heavily.
"Daddy, what is going on?" Vanessa suddenly shouted as she slamd the door open and rushed inside.
I lifted my head and watched her look at , then at her father.
I no longer expected her to be on my side, but she shocked by running toward . Her father grabbed her arm.
"Let go. What are you doing to her?" she scread, struggling against him.
"Calm your little bird down, or she will suffer too," Lady Sylvia yelled at the alpha, clearly angered by his daughter defending .
"No. What did you do to her? Does that an everything she said was true? Dad, how could you do this? They are sending your daughter north next ti. How could you support this?" Vanessa cried, fighting as her father held her in place.
"Well then, little girl, let’s think of today as your wish coming true," Lady Sylvia said, her tone changing as she stepped toward Vanessa.
"I believe everything happens for a reason. Maybe you ca here and heard all this because your life was about to change. Maybe you were not ant for the North," Lady Sylvia comnted.
I watched Vanessa’s resistance slow.
"How about we spare you from the North altogether? You know we have the power and the ans to do that," she added, trying to buy her silence.
Of course, her father was the main reason they were giving her this chance instead of killing her like they would have done to anyone else.
Sylvia looked at , then at the girl.
Vanessa looked at and then at Lady Sylvia before she straightened her spine. "I will never be sent to the North, ever?" she asked.
As soon as she said that, Roberto, Sylvia, and her father laughed at her.
"Of course not," Sylvia replied.
That was the confirmation. She was not on my side anymore.
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