The funeral

The funeral
Rebeca

My mouth was open, my jaw dropped. My breathing stopped. Evandro Elton's head was separated from his body and his motionless body with a stake in his heart lay as it was destroyed by the sunlight.
"You! You... killed him?" And Noah answered: "With the stake you carved. And know that the last thing this worm saw before he died was the horrible face of his companion's beast."
There was a confusion of collapse and hatred inside me. The interruption of knowing that he no longer existed, that he would no longer kill any innocent creature. The hatred of not having been the one who killed him. Of knowing that Noah drugged me, deceived me and went alone after the leech. That he could have died for me and would only worsen my guilt.
I stood up, began to break everything that was left in that attic. “You tricked me, you deliberately drugged me, you could have gotten hurt, died… I should have killed him!”

Noah

Beca! I’m here, I’m fine. You weren’t in any physical or emotional condition. What that worm did to you, to your mother and father, destroyed you.
I’m your partner. I had an obligation to do something. It was time. He was injured, we knew where he was going. I had the two lycans from the Tasmanian Devil troop on site, it was just expected.
You were the one who started his death, when you managed to poison him. I just finished what you started.
“But I wanted to!” I started punching Noah’s chest. He held my hands and looked me in the eyes. "What were you going to do with your life? Chase him for how long? It's over, love. Let's start a new life. You're free from this past, free from these obligations. You need to be strong now, you have an entire pack orphaned by their Alpha. Are you going to abandon them? They need your leadership." I take a deep breath. Noah did the best. We could have lost him and it would have taken years for me to find him again. But now the anger was frustration. I wish I had, but I'm going to have to learn to deal with it. “You and I are one. What is mine is yours and vice versa. Justice has been served. And now you are protected and we can be together and we will return to Italy, your father wanted you there. And that is where you will be and I will always be with you, as long as I live.” She hugged me and I kissed her. I let her stay there as long as she needed to laugh. We left the attic and I went to the level to see the great hall where we would hold the ceremony and, afterwards, he would be cremated. Arton’s ashes would be scattered in the woods of his castle in Italy. That was his wish, known to everyone. My parents arrived and my mother, my aunt, Bella and Natsuke comforted each other. My father and uncle took the details of everything with me. Soon two gray-haired wolves arrived, by their appearance and aura I knew they were Marcelus, Arton’s beta and Geovane, the gamma. They were greeted with hugs by Rebeca. I was happy that They treated her like the Alpha she was and swore their loyalty to her.
Rebeca invited me and we agreed on the last details of the ceremony.
Marcelus, who was a childhood friend, opened the ceremony, passing the word to Rebeca and my father, as the father-in-law of the new Alpha, closed the ceremony.
In seconds, the cremation was performed and Rebeca and I left with the funeral urn.
I hugged my moon and Alpha and the level to sleep in the house where we were staying. My father and uncle took the Italians to dinner and hosted them in the small hotel in the city.
The next day, everyone would rest and after lunch fly back.
Rebeca and I would already be going to Italy to take up our new positions.
I called James to thank him for everything. He spoke to Rebeca and apologized for his absence, but just like João, he had to stay and take care of the pack.
Rebeca understood and thanked him for everything.
Upon receiving a message, the lycans decided to kill Felix and incriminate him as the person responsible for Elton's death. In case anyone was interested in the vampire. To avoid any kind of revenge against Rebeca.
I can only thank you for this last gesture. "It was a request from the king so that you and Rebeca could have peace, a way of thanking you both for the services rendered," said Sabrina.