Chapter 126 BONUS CHAP. 33 - DOWNFALL
\-CLEO'S POV-
Alpha Vance redirected his lethal glare to Alpha Richard Krymes.
Blayne and I stood in an embrace watching the scene. Clinging to his touch was my attempt to placate my nerves. His wolf was on edge because he didn't want me out of his sight or away from him.
The Omega participants from Fangrymes huddled in proximity. Other members of the pack, both clothed and naked, drew close to watch the conviction. Anxiety seeped through their pores.
It was Krymes' turn to bow to someone, namely, the towering Alpha King. Duke stood tall and broad with a permanent scowl on his otherwise handsome face as he kept a watchful eye on the surrounding wolves.
Unclad, Wade ran up to us and bowed his head to deliver the report. " Alpha, all our men are unharmed. Venomane lost three hundred warriors. We got the people out of the underground bunker. Everyone is accounted for and the borders are secure, sir."
"Contain the dead and let their families take care of them. They may hold proper burials if they choose. Assist with the injured and ensure that they get medical treatment." Vance spoke with a savage, deep- seated bitterness that made everyone around him flinch. "Order your troops accordingly and rejoin me when you are done."
"Good work," Blayne complemented to the elite. Wade nodded in accord before scurrying away.
The sooty atmosphere that the Alpha King overwhelmed the pack with caused all of Venomane to cower in whines from nerve pains. It felt like I was being pushed down to the ground and my knees buckled. Then Blayne's arms stabilized me.
My gaze found Beth's and I requested, "Could you please get some shorts for our men? I want everyone covered."
Blayne's dick was not a tangible heritage to be on display for the women here. Especially since the Luna bitch kept ogling him by raking her eyes appreciatively over him. She had no shame considering that her Alpha mate was kneeling right beside her. Beth sauntered away with Adele and another girl to do my bidding.
"Richard Krymes, your day of judgment is here." Vance venomously decreed in a loud resonating tone. "You will pay for your crimes."
Around me, the wolves on either side stare at the convicts, nodding in approval. They were seeing their monarch administer justice today. In this moment, they depended on us for an extraordinary change.
The Luna sobbed dramatically, clasping her twitching hands together in a prayer sign, "Please, spare me, Alpha Vance. I was a victim too. He abused me for years." I felt no compassion for her.
"Liar! I've never put my hands on you." Richard spat defensively, casting daggers at her.
"You insulted me by fucking around all those whores. You flashed each one of them in my face and I couldn't do shit about it!" She gritted through the tears, flitting hatred in her eyes. "I've endured your emotional abuse for years."
"Jessica, you failed to report his crimes to us." Duke shook his head and she swallowed hard. "You neglected your responsibilities and allowed your Alpha to force pack members to enable his tyranny."
Blayne released me and stalked to Alpha Krymes' side. He scoffed as he slammed his right fist into his left palm, and cracked his knuckles to indicate that a thrashing was due.
"Blayne...." She dropped formalities as her hands descended to the ground after crawling on her knees to touch my mate.
"Watch it, bitch!" I gritted and fought back the wrathful expletives that desperately wanted to escape my lips. The impulse to break her admirable, perfectly manicured fingers rode me.
Blayne's eyes narrowed with resentment with a tick in his jaws. Realizing her blunder, Jessica quickly corrected with eyes that hopelessly begged for mercy, "Alpha Vance, my character is known to all three of you." Her pathetic gaze bounced from one man to the other. "I would not have turned a blind eye if he hadn't......"
Streaked with anger, Vance boomed, "Speak woman!"
Jessica hung her head. Remorse coated her face as she bit her bottom lip until her teeth pierced into them and blood spurted. Apparently, she was unable to spill any dirt on Krymes. I hugged myself while watching the scene. My naked mate was too close to this woman. It bothered me how his delectable cock dangled in front of her. Where was the fucking shorts?
Vance sinisterly chuckled. His laughter was both guttural and frightful. "Were you Alpha commanded or blackmailed?"
Tremors gripped the Luna and she wailed. Guilty as sin. "B-bl- blackmail." She concealed a lot. What else was the bitch hiding?
"That's right bitch! You are going down with me today." Richard released a humorless laugh to himself over their mishap. He knew that today was his end and I was happy to see it come to pass.
Blayne swung his fist, hitting Richard squarely in the nose with a sickening crack, causing blood to squirt out of his nose.
"Fuuuuuuuuck!" Richard growled with strained agony. His boiling rage and humiliation would only rifle the Alpha King's wolf.
Based on the raging emotions inside of him, Blayne's been dying to do that for self-gratification. Richard bent over with palms on the floor, coughing up blood. I was satisfied that my baby got him good.
Given that I was powerless to interfere or contribute my own damage to the despicable man, I was relieved when Blayne struck him and would have no qualms ripping him to shreds. That blow was definitely for me.
"Alpha, why don't we let them run loose? Then we'll hunt to kill."
Blayne ridiculed to turn Krymes' own game on him. Without a doubt, I would have joined the hunt to get revenge on him for what he did
to me.
"They are not worth our energy." Vance's black brows rose up and his emerald eyes darkened.
"Alpha, please.......we realize our mistake. We will make amends if you spare us." Finally, Richard began to plead in a shaky tone.
Gamma Caleb and Beta Kenny muttered their appeal for redemption.
Attesting for atonement. I shook my head in bitter contempt. These two men had watched Daxton do sexually unwelcomed things to me. In the past, they laughed me to scorn.
"You know how I fucking hate liars, Richard!" Vance bellowed as they whimpered. I, too, believed that they were incorrigible.
My parents were slain by the Krymes. My guilt over the fact that Daxton killed them as a result of me and that I was unable to give them a decent funeral has afflicted me for years. Even so, they would exact their retribution now. The result will be a more promising and peaceful future for the residents of Venomane.
Blayne delivered a vertical knee strike to the evil alpha's chin. He
flipped backwards and dropped flat on his back, inches away from two pairs of feet. Elite Elias and Thomas looked down at his bloodied
face with his mouth now twisted. My mate clutched him by the throat and dragged him to kneel once again before Vance. More
blood is expelled from his mouth.
"I, Werewolf King and High Alpha of Dark Wolverson Pack hereby find Alpha Richard Krymes and his commanding officers Gamma Caleb Brown and Beta Kenny Lewis guilty of enslavement and unjustified mass murder of pack members." Alpha Vance grabbed Richard by the throat in a sweep that was so fast that I could not see when he took the first step to land in front of the man. "You even went as far as to harm one of my own people."
Our werewolf's hearing detected the breaking of his vocal cord as
blood also brimmed the corner of his pulping eyes. Richard gasped with choking sounds.
With his right hand, Vance raised him high above ground level and
then released the Alpha. As gravity pulled his body down to the green ground, Vance's right hand clutched the raw flesh of his chest, twisting his body and slamming Richard hard into the hard cold ground as his grip lock claws sank deeper. The earth shook and caved
in as all the bones in Richard's body broke. The stench of death came from him after he took his last breath.
Beth and the other two girls had been issuing shorts to all the men.
Vance took one and cleaned his bloody hands when Adele came to us. I took one for Blayne and Duke helped himself. Gamma Caleb and Beta Kenny shook with fear. They were next after witnessing the horrendous death of their ignoble Alpha.
"Kill them all," Vance growled with blazing specks of red in his iris.
"With pleasure." Blayne gave them a wicked smile and elongated his claws, eyes dilated.
"No! No!" Luna Jessica rambled nonsensically for a lenient sentence. "You can't. Don't. I'm not. They. No, please!"
"Arrgghhhh!" Blood curdling shrills rolled out of their mouths. In one go, Blayne's long, hard, sharp cream claws sliced the necks of all three fear-ridden people.
Faint celebration came from the pack. The rulers they despised were now deceased. Through a few teak trees in the north, I spotted Aunt Sora kneeling at the side of a dead body. Anger seethed in my gut. The shorts that was in my hands fell. In curiosity, brisk footsteps took me over to her.
Uncle Paul, Aunt Sora's mate, was the dead man with a ghastly wide
hollow in his chest. There were claw marks running down his face and his eyes calcified blood. She cried softly, clutching his hand on her chest. They had a son together. Beau was two years younger than me. He never accepted me as his cousin because of my Omega status. "Where's Beau?" It's not that I cared, but I thought he'd be by his mother's side to console her after losing his father. I could hear her throbbing heartbeat and the taste of fear in her blood. "He's with his mate." She gulped and kept woeful her head down.
"Why'd you do it?" This was the point of seeking her out. She never came to the cell to see me. This would be our first conversation following her betrayal of having me abducted. I dared to stare into
her traitorous eyes.
"Your Gamma mate would come for you and assess the pack. I
thought that by bringing you here against your will, the royal troops
would eventually be led by the Gamma to rid us of the Krymes. You were the perfect bait, especially since the evidence that I sent you would reach the king." With one hand she brushed loose champagne-
blond hair from her drenched face and her watery pastel green eyes looked up at me.
"I was leverage," I snorted with hate-filled thoughts, battling my
own tears. "You did not have to concoct the plan by yourself. The king would have handled it." I evenly emphasized my words and pointed to myself, "I would have acted on your behalf."
She sniffed and more tears dribbled down her cheeks. "I'm sorry, Cleo. Our children started to go missing because Krymes wanted more money for the pack. He was selling them off as slaves and servants to other species. Paul found out and began collecting evidence. Many of us hated him." She paused thoughtfully and dried her eyes. The sob was stuck in her throat as pain laced her voice. "It was Beta Kenny who killed Paul." "Why would he do that?" My hard glare did not leave her. Originally, I believed that he had died in the war by a Dark Wolverson
warrior. To kill your own member during battle signified that Paul had committed a serious offense.
"Because we refused to fight for the pack. We withdrew when we
realized that we were being attacked and hoped that it was your Gamma." She said, biting her quivering lips. "I prayed that you'd survive."
With a calm rage, I frowned. There was no substance to believe
anything she claimed. "Yet you never visited me in that hell hole that Krymes had me in."
"I was forbidden to see you. They said no visitors." She crossed Paul's hand on the crater of his chest and stood. "Are you going to
kill me too?" She was panicking, looking straight into my eyes with her defeated ones. I had every right to take her life. It would be justice.
"No. I'm cutting ties with you." Perhaps one day I'll forgive her, but
not today. For now, utter disgust and disappointment abided when I think of her.
The sorrow in her eyes deepened. She closed them momentarily and took a deep breath. I studied her face and sadly sighed. "Living without your mate will be enough torture for you." I turned
and strolled over to Blayne and hugged him with my head on his rock -hard chest. The aroma of death lingered and blood soaked the grass. His scent soothed me. Thank goddess he wore the shorts that I had
obtained for him.
Sigh.
It has been a hell of a day. I was ready to go home. Blayne and I needed a cold shower. Then I visualized us making love before going
to sleep, snuggling in the electricity of our love.
"Move these bodies and burn them," Vance instructed the elites and
they marched over to pick up Krymes and the other three. Then his narrowed eyes landed on me.
Jittery and anxious, I scratched the left side of my neck and sent my
eyes heavenward. My emotions conflict and overlap with each other.
The perturbation and dread that loomed over the others froze my
body. With an understanding of the deep shit that I was in, Blayne quickly appealed to Vance for my pardon for being an obstacle in the conquest. "Alpha, Cleo didn't know about our mission and....." "Wasn't she on the special assignment that I sent her?" Vance
massaged his beard and swiveled his head to look at his Beta. "Hmm, Duke?"
Duke chuckled at what Vance implied before his subordinates." Indeed, she was, Alpha."
Blayne's heart relaxed and he kissed my forehead. Vance was willing
to let it go with the impression that I was covertly carrying out
orders.
"You know what to do with his bloodline." Vance eyed Blayne. "The name 'Krymes' must be removed from the pack insignia."
He nodded with a, "Consider it done. None of them will get away."
Richard Krymes was dead and the innocent who had passed away can rest peacefully knowing that the evil that assisted to kill thousands was now dead, and his followers were completely extinct.
His reign of terror was over.
Rumors of the Alpha King were a dishonor to his reputation. In
reality, he was powerful and could be as ruthless and brutal in war. With the exception that he was revamping the werewolf kingdom and creating a justified realm for peace and improved livelihood.
"Blayne and Cleo, you will remain here with the elite team and warriors for a week to control and normalize the pack. In the interim,
the pack may submit a petition if there is a man here whom they deem fit to take the alpha title. Otherwise, I will choose one that I see
is suitable for the position," Vance stated. "But...." I began hesitantly. It was Zoe who sprung into my mind. We'd be miles away from her. Though I paused because Vance was in
his kingly mode, which made it dangerous to oppose his order. His aura was potent enough to choke a wolf on its own. Additionally, despite that my people were now Dark Wolverson members, they felt comfortable with my presence in getting settled. They wouldn't want me to be gone for too long from the region. "Speak," he tersely snapped with his unrestrained aura radiating in
waves.
"Zoe......" I was cut to a halt.
"It'll be alright. It's just one week and my parents are more than happy to keep her." Blayne pointed out and encircled a hand around my waist. "We'll video call her on the phone and Alpha Vance will
watch over her."
"You may deal with your Aunt and relatives as you see fit but I have
already lowered their rank to omegas, and I will not repudiate my decision." Vance finalized.
In doing so, the Alpha King opened a general mind-link and conveyed his personal message to Venomane's pack members. It was a beautiful and majestic moment when every single one of Venomane's wolves bowed on their knees as he proceeded up the lawn grass path to the choppers with the Beta and his team. "See you later, buddy." Duke slapped Blayne on his right shoulder
and departed in the Chinook helicopter. One remained for us to
utilize.
The first yellow hue of sunrise graced us. Oh no! It was time to be active and productive again. Regrettably, I had been awake for the last twenty-four hours. My heart twisted because, right now, I wished for nothing more than to be alone with Blayne. Howbeit, I transitioned from being an Omega to a rogue leader, then to a royal gamma female. Now I was assisting my old pack with cleaning up their crap. Who would have imagined that my journey would lead me here? Truth be told, I was not psychologically prepared for the responsibility that came with my new role. Today I finally understood what the Royal Gamma Female represented and
the significance of it.
After the helicopters were airborne, Blayne turned to me to face him.
He put both of his palms gently against my face and pressed his head against my forehead. Our mouths were millimeters close. Our hot breaths mixed. Our eyes locked in each other's lust. I was spent but there was work to be done. "Where do we start?"
Blayne sucked in a deep breath. His eyes dilated with a sudden flash. He clicked his tongue twice and displayed the most obscene smirk.