Chapter 140: Kneeling Before the Vengeful
Cassen stood rigid in the center of the council chamber, his body still trembling violently as he stared at the figure of Alpha Rolex standing tall before him, filled with a vengeance that had simmered for years. The realization that the man he had known as Dion, Maya's loyal bodyguard, was actually Alpha Rolex who was supposed to have perished long ago made the entire world he knew collapse in an instant.
"I..." Cassen attempted to speak, but his voice choked in his throat, consumed by a profound sense of despair. "I don't know what else to say."
Alpha Rolex gazed at him with a cold stare, showing not an ounce of mercy. "There are no words that can bring back the family you ripped away from me, Cassen. There is no apology grand enough to redeem the sins you and your mother have committed."
Cassen bowed his head deeply, his body as if losing all the strength that had anchored him as a powerful Alpha. Slowly, he dropped to his knees before Alpha Rolex a gesture he had never imagined making in his entire life.
"I surrender," Cassen whispered, his voice quavering with sheer hopelessness. "I know there is nothing I can do to restore what was lost. I... I am sorry, Alpha Rolex. For all the wrongs my mother and I have inflicted."
The entire chamber fell dead silent at the unexpected sight an Alpha long known for his power and arrogance now kneeling in complete resignation, confronting the consequences of past sins that had finally come to light.
However, before the tense atmosphere could subside, the doors to the council chamber burst open violently. Two guards half-dragged a bruised and battered figure into the room Madam Diana, her face covered in dark bruises and cuts, her clothes disheveled and torn in several places.
"Mother?!" Cassen gasped in shock, immediately rising from his knees and rushing toward his visibly suffering mother. "What happened to you? Who did this?!"
Madam Diana looked at her son with hollow, pain-filled eyes, her voice weak and trembling. "They... they came out of nowhere. Dragged me from my room and beat me without giving me a chance to even ask why."
Cassen held his mother tightly in deep distress, his eyes sweeping the room with a glare full of fury, searching for whoever dared to inflict such cruelty upon his own mother. Yet, not a single person stepped forward to answer. The entire hall watched in silence, as if the brutal display was merely a fitting consequence for the Moreno family's past transgressions.
"Who did this?" Cassen hissed, his voice heavy with suppressed rage, his eyes locking onto Alpha Rolex, who remained standing calmly in the center of the room.
Alpha Rolex shrugged indifferently. "I have no idea who the perpetrators are. But perhaps this is justice setting itself into motion, Cassen. The universe has a unique way of repaying every sin ever committed."
The words sent Cassen's rage surging, but he knew all too well that his current standing stripped him of any leverage to fight back or demand justice for his mother. With his Alpha status revoked and the dark truth laid bare, he had completely lost control over the spiraling situation.
Madam Diana sobbed weakly in her son's embrace, her frame trembling from intense pain and sheer terror. "Cassen... what will become of us now?"
Cassen could offer no answer. His heart was consumed by the same terror and confusion plaguing his mother. He looked around the council chamber, now filled with cold, hateful glares, realizing that both their futures hung precariously by a thread—utterly dependent on the mercy of the very people they had betrayed.
Amid the chaos and despair, Cassen failed to notice that behind the chamber's doors, a masked woman Sera, known all along as Ana was watching the entire scene unfold. Her heart churned with a mixture of pity and hidden satisfaction, knowing that the long-buried truth was finally coming to light piece by piece, paving the way for an even more intricate chapter in her quiet struggle for justice.