Chapter 619
Fiona’s heart stopped once she heard the declaration.
She closed her eyes and breathed a word of thanks to the goddess for the judgement being exacted out on Anna.
Finally!
Finally, Anna was going to leave and never return.
Nanny Nia who looked so real and shaken seemed about to faint in an instant.
Fiona hurriedly caught the old woman on her arm.
Nanny Nia smiled weakly as she looked up at Fiona.
“Finally.” Nanny Nia nodded. “Jasmine would get justice. Everyone who has witnessed any evil in their hands would finally get justice.”
“Yes.” Fiona nodded with delight. “We finally have justice.”
Fiona looked back at the state of the room.
Anna was kneeling on the floor, looking like a complete mess.
She was no longer well put together as she usually was.
She seemed in a complete disarray.
Uther remained on the floor, his leg still spilling with the blood from which Kire had severed.
He had no place to go.
None.
Neither did any of them.
Fiona looked at Anna who had been so horrible.
The revelation of all her crimes was brutal.
The most shocking of all, was knowing that Lily had been among.
Lisa and Anna she well expected, but Lily?
Lily who had been so kind and sweet.
She had been so distraught by her crimes that she had willing confessed before taking her own life.
For the longest time, it had seemed like Anna would never be caught.
As though she was going to forever go unpunished for her crimes.
But Xaden had shown that he still had a heart.
He had exposed her in front of everyone and even declared the death sentence.
“How I wish Jasmine was here to see this.” Fiona said through gritted teeth in anger as she watched the scene before her. “After everything she had been through. There is no one other than her who deserved to witness this.”
Nanny Nia shook her head. “Witness justice being served? Yes. But you know how Jasmine was. She was too kind and loving. She would have never wanted Xaden to execute his ow sister.”
Fiona rolled her eyes annoyed by a Jasmine’s too soft heart.
she was always being taken for granted.
“Well if that’s the case, then we thank the goddess that she wasn’t here. She would have done something silly like trying to stop the death sentence.” Fiona replied as she crossed her arms and watched.
“I second that.” Nanny Nia nodded in agreement.
Fiona sighed and turned to see Xaden seemingly bold and his face expressionless but Fiona knew him better than anyone else.
She knew that he was bleeding.
Having to lose his entire bloodline to such betrayal.
The very same bloodline that he had wished to have and yet today he was being forced to declare the dead.
“However.” Xaden said into the throne room and all the hoarded voices went hush instantly.
Fiona quickly turned to look at Xaden wondering what he had to say.
He sighed in heavily.
“As your Alpha.” Xaden continued. “It burdens me to do this. It burdens me to have such an example. My family was supposed to be an example to this pack. We were supposed to give hope when there wasn’t. We were supposed to hand good when there was bad. It is with shame, and disgrace that I openly admit that my own sister and uncle have ruined our bloodlines.”
The room was so quiet Fiona was a pin would drop and you would hear it the moment it lands.
“And for this, with the power vested in me as an Alpha, I hear-by reject the daughter of my father and my mother, niece to my uncle and sister of mine, Anna of the Crescent pack.”
There was an eerie silence that went through the room.
“I reject Uther of the Crescent pack, uncle of mine. These two are no longer of our bloodlines and no longer belong to the pack.” Xaden said.
Fiona breathed heavily.
Erik walked up to Xaden, this time with another scroll in his hand.
Xaden nodded at him and Erik took the front stage.
“In accordance with the laws of the crescent pack, the sixteen amendment forbids the Alpha or Luna of the crescent pack execution of a bloodline.” Erik said.
The crowd gasped, Fiona’s heart stopped.
“What?” Fiona mumbled as she gently placed her hand on her chest.
She could not believe it!
What stupid law was this?
Xaden had declared them to death, but yet there was a law that somehow prevented that from happening?
Regardless of whatever crime they made?
“This is bullshit.” Nanny Nia swore behind her/
“How can they say such a thing! After everything that has happened! After the truth!”
There was a murmur of disapproval amongst the crowd.
“However!” Erik continued with a loud voice the room went hush.
“In the case of a judgement that demands death sentence.” Erik continued. “They shall be sentenced to the caves of Chaos.”
It felt as though evil had come into the room.
Evil so powerful that everyone became scared.
Even Fiona herself was terrified.
“NO! PLEASE!” Uther screamed pathetically. “PLEASE I BEG YOU! Just kill me! Just kill me!”
Despite his leg being severed he crawled to Xaden. “Don’t let me go there. Please I beg you! Please! Kill me!”
Fiona had heard stories about the Caves of Chaos.
Her mother would sit her on her lap and tell her such tales.
From what she knew, the Caves of Chaos was a place where the goddess.
Before the creation of all wolves, the goddess Selene had gone to war with her sibling.
After the hundred moon battle, she emerged victorious.
The siblings who had survived, she had made a very special type of hell for.
The cave of Chaos.
It was worse than death.
No one had ever made it out alive.
There said to be a thousand years of torture while you begged to be alive.
It was a place so terrible and scary no one ever wanted to venture in.
I felt chills down my arms.
Anna being tortured nonstop without even having the opportunity to pause for a second.
She would cry and beg but she would be tortured so much she begged for death.
And death would never come.
At least, not until the cave was satisfied.
Anna didn’t really know about it because she looked relieved.
Stupidly thinking that she had been spared.
Not knowing that Uther’s frantic screams were for a reason.
Because he unlike her knew what would face them.
“For the Alpha’s bloodline to commit a crime so worthy of death shall never be enough in the eye of the pack for they are lessons to all. He or she who has befallen such judgement would suffer worse for death shall come to easy in an execution.”
And it finally hit Fiona.
The point of the amendment was to make it worse.
It was to make the offenders beg for death and watch it never come.
She thought about how cruel it was and nodded in agreement.
Yes!
This was what Anna needed.
A punishment so painful and dire that she would forget think of all the things she had done.
They were right.
Death would come to easy.
“Take them away!” Xaden snapped.
Ten wolf guards came in and swooped them
Up.
Anna began to scream.
“Xaden please!” She wept. “Don’t let them take me! I’m your sister. I am your only sister! I am innocent! Please! You would be extinct! Our bloodline and name would die! Please don’t do this!”
Xaden turned around and rose a hand.
The guards stopped.
Xaden slowly came down from his throne and walked to Anna.
He looked her all over, her entire being in a disarray.
She was now a beggar, desperate to do anything to escape her predicament.
“You are wrong.” He said aloud
Then to my amazement pointed at her.
All eyes fell on her
“THAT is my sister.” He said without taking his eyes off Anna.
She swallowed hard.
“Everyone here in this pack is my real family. By blood you were. But blood doesn’t define family. Even if our bloodline ends with me I have other family, my real family here to continue my legacy.” Xaden said. “You are dead to me! Know this and know peace.”
And Anna was dragged out of the hall room.
Fiona heard her shrill screams and she was dragged away.
She took in a deep breath unable to believe that it was over.
That Anna was finally gone!
In the far corner of the room, she saw Erik looking at her.
She swallowed heavily.
Now that Anna was no longer an obstacle in their lives, this now meant they could pursue a future together.
Or did it?
She didn’t think so.
She knew that was what he thought.
That they were fine now and everything would go back to normal.
But he was wrong.