Chapter 55
CHAPTER 55.
shback…
“Hey,
can Ie in?” Nick was standing by the door to my office. I had just visited Cole in the dungeon,
my mind was a f*cking mess and I could not handle any more at this moment.
I ced the picture of Cole on the table and nodded my head.
“What’s up?” I asked. Nick sat down on the chair in front of the desk. He raised his head and looked
around at the surface of the table. His eyesnded on the picture I had just ced down.
He picked it up and scanned it.
“I spoke to him.” He said and looked up at me.
I clenched my jaw and leaned forward.
“Why?”
“I heard he was one of the people who hurt Gabby.”
He
was.”
“We got into some interesting…history, I knew what he was getting at but I didn’t appreciate him
fishing for answers.
“Why don’t you just cut to the chase, I have a lot on my mind right now.” He nodded his head and
ced the frame down.
“I have a n, one that you cannot tell anyone about. Including my brothers and sister.” I was
getting intrigued and at the same time, a feeling of dread filled the room. I didn’t want to keep
secrets from Gabby, I didn’t want to lie to her or in any other way hurt her again,
I had promised, both her and myself, that I would keep everything honest.
“Sorry, I can’t promise you that.” He sighed and bit down on his lip His eyes rose and I could see the
intentions in them. Whatever n he had was going to be a whim.
“Please, it’s for their safety.” He said and lowered his head.
Shit
What do we do?
“We promised her no more lies”
I know but something is up
And we have to find out what it is. Aiden, we also promised to protect her, we have been beating
ourselves up trying to figure out a way to do so. Maybe this is the way”
I looked at Nick and bowed my head,
“I promise.”
“Cole told me much about your past. How you edged him into this life of hypocrisy and douchery.
You were the devil on his shoulder,
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shouting louder than hismon sense. He told me about the person he used to be before you
affected him.” I clenched my jaw tighter and was hoping he’d get to the point before my patience ran
over.
even
“He seems like a good man, deep down. I know what he did, to both Gabby and Cassy so I’m
proposing a way for him to showcase his other sides and simultaneously make up for the bad he
has done.”
“And how exactly do you n on doing that? How is he going to make up for raping a girl?” Nick
raised a brow and leaned his elbows
on his knees.
“Howe you didn’t give two shits about the allegations until Gabby came along? That girl,
Casandra, she walked on these grounds, seeing the face of her tormentor every day. Why didn’t
you do anything sooner?” This a question I had asked myself for a long time. Since the morning that
Cassy came out of the bedroom with Cole. I knew the truth, why hadn’t I acted ogit?
*1 was messed up, yed by my brother, and more protective over my friends than the innocence
of a girl,”
“Who used to be your friend, no?” My eyes started glowing and I growled.
“That, right th
there, is why I cannot trust you with my sister.” I was taken aback by hisment.
I leaned back in th
in the chair and blinked several times.
“You’re unreliable, you cannot own up to your mistakes and you me your pain on everyone else.
The second someone pushes up against you, saying something you don’t like, you fall back on that
default setting that was put in you so long ago.”
I shook my head and scoffed. Defensive, I knew th
that.
Where the f*ck were my words? Why was I quietly sitting and letting him lead the conversation?
“Because now you’re talking to an actual Alpha”
I looked up at Nick. My blood was boiling but it wasn’t at him, my anger was directed at myself.
“Tell me what you want.” I said and tried pushing back the anger.
When it is time
“I want you to release Cole, not yet but soon. Something will happen, it has been quiet for too long.
You will know and then I’m gonna need you to send a guard and let him out of the cer. He will be
ready and on mymand, I will instruct him
further.”
“What is it he will do?”
“I don’t know yet but he will do it, that I can promise you,”
End of shback…
His face was bruised and dirt covered it in patches. His eye was swollen. His clothes had been
changed and he was wearing a t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Dried blood on his arms and his neck.
Cole looked around the room and Gabby gasped. I looked at Nick, the n had been set in ce
the second we heard about their parent’s arrival. In the car on the way back to town, Nick told me
what Cole would be doing to clear his name, or at the very least he would clean it a bit.
Warriors, meet Cole Askon, your new Alpha.” Everyone was looking around in shock but I met my
father’s gaze and he calmed.
The warriors kneeled.
“Before he takes his ce as Alpha of the pack, he has a mission. Have you been informed?” He
asked Cole who bowed his head.
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“What…what is happening?” Gabby asked. She turned her head and looked at me. A pang of guilt
hit me in the chest.
“Aiden…Aiden did you… did you know? Please tell me you didn’t,” she said and shook her head.
“I did.” I said. She stepped away from me and bumped into one of the warriors. Her eyes cast
around the room frantically and my mother walked toward her. Gabby bumped into the table, she
stumbled over her father’s leg, and fell down on the floor next to them. Cole had raped her best
friend, something Gabby knew too much about herself. And now he was free.
“Oh my god…” she breathed and started hyperventting.
o, you didn’t, please tell me you didn’t,” she said to me and shook her head.
“No, no,
My eyes softened. Everything softened as I saw her scared and fragde body pushing up against the
wall.
“No,” she cried.
“Gabby, I’m sorry but I promise you it is for the best,” she scoffed and wiped the tears.
She was about to step forward but a body came in the way and she was pulled into a hug. My
mother wrapped her arms around Gabby and held on tightly.
“Be upset, cry, let your feelings out, and don’t you dare bottle them up and wipe those tears yet. You
are not made of stone, my love, you are not meant to take this much pain, not alone at least. Let me
take some of it for you,” She whispered and stroked Gabby’s hair.
Gabby’s eyes started watering and then she dug her face into my mother’s neck and sobbed. Her
fingers tangled in my mother’s blouse and she held on for her life.
As the crying had eased and Gabby pulled back, my mother wiped her tears and then turned
around, using herself as a shield in front of Gabby. C0ntent ? 2024 (N/?)velDrama.Org.
“Continue.” She said and looked between me and Nick with a death re.
“Nick and I have talked and decided to give Cole a chance to be spared.”
“What?” Gabby
Gabby breathed and narrowed her eyes.
“Before he takes the title of Alpha and leads your pack, he will first go, with five chosen warriors,
and bring Cassy back from Asher’s pack.” I said and lifted my head.
Suddenly everyone dropped a breath and leaned back.
We all knew the danger of this, one could argue it was a suicide mission but Cole was a good
fighter and obviously sneaky. But more than that, he was hellbent on proving himself and getting
back on my good side, which I didn’t know was possible or not,
“Cole, you have agreed to this?” My father asked in a monotone voice.
“I have, sir.”
“Why?” My mother asked.
Because I am aware of the choices I have made and there is nobody else to me but myself. It
doesn’t matter what lies in my past, I could still have controlled my future and I decided to do what I
did. Now I will face the consequences and whether or not this gets me killed or I am not given the
title, I don’t care. I have to make this right. Both for you Aiden, but also for Cassy.” He said and hung
his head.
Mr.Maler nodded his head approvingly.
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