Chapter 71 Riot In The Shadow
Chapter 71
Jax's POV.
“Give me four more bottles of this…” I ordered the ale-server, pointing to the bottle of ale in front of me.
She nodded pitifully, bowed and left my presence. That was my tenth for the night.
I had completely disguised myself as an omega going to just one of the few alehouses brave enough to open despite the difficulty we have faced recently in stormfang pack.
I instructed no guards to follow me, no shadow safeguard. I just wanted to drink away a few portions of my pain, even if at all I don't have solutions to them.
I located, private but unique corner in the alehouse. The humming melody in the background was soft enough not to disrupt my thinking.
My mind had drifted back to the recent challenges we had faced in the pack. It was no longer news that lyra had performed her magic as she used to do.
She had mixed her concoction the way she used to and pulled the rabbit out of the hole to save lives.
Those that have been struck by the gods have all responded to the medicine she hurriedly put together.
She had taken over the palace ground, administering and giving instructions like a trained healer to other volunteers.
I watched in shock as she worked, each movement reminded me of Mila? The passion in her, the sheer determination to see everyone healthy and safe, speak louder than mere words.
What would have happened if she had not shown up?
I would have known my fate by now. I would have been banished into the evil forest.
Sometimes,bI hate to say that she is indeed a walking genius. Should I fault her for that?
The way she had shielded the palace from celestial strikes by asking for mirrors and arranging it in strategic positions to reduce their impacts on palace ground… It amazes me. Comet-like strikes coming out from the sky struck a few places in the pack including the palace.
Lyra had instructed all pack members to strategically place mirrors in their homes for the past three days.
And it worked like magic. The whole pack members had been singing her praise and thanking the moon goddess for not looking at their enormous sins but sending a helper like lyra.
But despites of these, the rumor keeps spreading that the elites do not want me again.
That I had brought nothing but ruin and bad luck to the pack since I became king of this pack. That stormfang is now an object of ridicule in the comity of packs in the whole division.
To a very large extent, they were right. The moment the sun refused to blink its eyes on a stormfang pack, it had been months that the only water in the pack turned to blood until three days ago when it finally turned back to normal water.
Maybe Alpha Vexhood had finally had pity on us to beg the gods in their language before changing back to water.
And when gods finally heard his plea and the bloodied water changed back to water, poor wolves that took them in started to get sick, some died while the rest barely survived, but thanks to Rosa who had shown up and changed the scenario.
I had been depressed ever since this ordeal and had started consuming alcohol and looking for how to sleep with as many women just to remove the stress from my body.
Everything had fallen right in my presence like a pack of cards.
Even Rosa had disappeared suddenly , at first I thought the gods had come to punish me by first taking my Luna with them, making her disappear mysteriously.
But to my shocking surprise. The information reaching me this morning said that they saw my own Luna at the neighboring pack. I will conceal it. And play like I didn't hear anything, I want to know the lies she wants to say that she had left the palace without letting me know.
Wham! That was the sound that emanated from the two bottles the ale-server had slid it in front of me on the wooden table.
This makes it how many?”
The fourteenth, your honor.”
I told you not to call me that name,” I cut-in, looking around as if someone might be listening.
You would prefer…” She looked at me like asking for a suggestion
Looked for a second like a pup trying hard to remember something.
“Owl…”
Owl? As in birds? “
Yes,” I replied, nodding my head.
Ok, Alpha Owl.”
Don't put alpha there…”
Noted,”
I curve my hand in C-shape for her to come closer.
Then I squeezed a bundle of cash in between her breasts.
She removed the money from her bra, her mouth wide open, as she counted the cash in her hand, “my lord what is…
This will be your last warning,” I quickly countered.
I am.. so sorry…” she said with joy painted on her face.
What is this for?”
For one or two hours with you and two more bottles of this… “ I belched out, stench of ale into the air… point to the table for ale bottles.
Here?” She asked, still beaming with surprise. She answered like the place falls below my taste.
Yeah, tell me, is there anything bad about using this place?”
Nooo, not all,”
Then we are good to go.” I replied, gulping more into my throat like an addicted drunkard.
Ok then, I will be back, let me fix my room.”
Good.”
I continue with consuming my ale. Ruminating on the bitter lies Rosa would give when she comes back.
The smell of ale permeates the large room. The scanty noise of a few pack members sitting around each table, scattered across the room, blended with music in the background.
I gulped my ale In front of me looking, admiring the mixed lighting beautified the large room.
Then three wolves walked into the room, and not so far from where I sat, there was a partition made of up raffia palm that divided us. I could not see and they couldn't see me either. From where we sat, we could only hear each other's voices.
Thankfully, I had chosen a strategic position in the room so no one would easily recognize me, especially with the way I had disguised myself.
“Boss is coming in three days’ time, he had roll in cash for us to start riot.”
“Which would lead to the protest right?” The other voice countered.
“Yes. East wing and West wing will meet at the market square to riot and then it would escalate into protest. After that, we would march to the palace till the boss shows up.”