“How are you feeling?” Koda asked as he wiped the tears from her cheeks
“I’m tired” She said softly and her eyes fluttered shut for a second before opening them again and I got the impression she was trying to keep herself awake
“Then you should sleep sweetheart” I kissed her forhead and she nodded and jawned
“You’ll both be here when I wake up again?” She asked when we helped her lay down again
“Of course baby” Koda smiled and kissed her softly on the lips as she snuggled up and closed her eyes
I looked up at Koda and we held a silent moment of relief, she was alive…. she was alive…
Just went we thought we could relax and enjoy the moment, the universe decided to scr*w us over again and my father linked us.
“I want both or at the very least, one of you to the throne room now”
“Why?” Koda asked
“Because I ordered it, that’s why!” He responded and shut the link
Koda growled angrily “I can’t wait to be King”
“I hear ya”
‘So which one of us is going?’ Koda asked as he looked from me to Madelyn
I exhaled and held up my fist, I didn’t want to go and I knew that my brother felt the same way, this had to be resolved the old way, rock paper scissors.
Koda glared at me as he lifted his own fist “You could have just volunteered, it’s what a good big brother would do”
“Oh, so now being the older twin means something but not when I declared that I get Madelyn first”
Koda smirked but otherwise ignored my comments and we challenged each other but angrily I lost
“Fine!” I snapped and shoved him “If she wakes up while I’m gone appologise for me but I’ll try to be back before then”
“Will do” He saluted me and I wanted to punch him, even more so when he laid down and pulled Madelyn into his arms.
JAXSON’S POV
I walked into the throne room to find a lot of shouting werewolves, dragons and witches, all around my parent’s chairs while our councilors sat in their usual spots.
The second I walked in, however, most of the yelling died down, and they stared at me.
I wasn’t dressed for court today, I was still in my jeans and a short-sleeved shirt that Julia had brought to the hospital and I hadn’t showered and changed since the fire. All in all, I looked like cr*p, but I really didn’t care at this point, I just wanted to get this sh*t over with, so I could get back to my girl.
“Jaxson good” My father stood up “Get over here”
I walked through the crowd while Knox growled with his shackles up. He didn’t like being surrounded by our enemies.
I reached the front and bowed to my parents “I apologize for my appearance, but you asked me to come straight away. I didn’t have time to change”
A lied of course, I had time, I just wasn’t bothered too.
“It’s fine dear” My mother smiled despite the air being thick with anger and hostility “How is Madelyn? Has she awoken?”
“Yes, a few minutes before you summoned me, so if we could please hurry, I want to get back to her”
“Your brother is capable of handling your mate” My father snapped “We are in the midst of a war. These are several of the leaders of the dead”
He gestured to the angry intruders in our throne room, but I didn’t even acknowledge them.
“They are understandably angry about their dead and have agreed to help track down Troy” My father continued “But there has been some startling information found”
I didn’t care about any of this right now, all I wanted was to go back to my mate, I hated that stupid rock paper scissors game!
“The items your team recovered from the shed have been very troubling” My told me “Some of the files stated very detailed plans to start another war and create an even stronger werewolf race to take over. Apparently, he was one of the first werewolves that Fenrir created. Some even mentioned a plan to break him out of prison, so they could work together”
“If that’s true, then we should double the guards on Fenrir’s cell” Cole commented
“No” I said loudly and turned back to my father “What we need to do is kill him!”
The silence in the room was heavy and everyone looked around nervously. Even the non-council members knew that my father would never harm his twin. The last person to tell my father he should kill his brother ended up dead himself.
My dad looked at me with pain and anger “While I am King my brother will remain alive”
“Which is exactly why he’ll get free!” I snapped “Why am I even here, to discuss Troy’s psychotic plans? You didn’t need me for that, and you clearly won’t listen when it comes to your brother, so why was I summoned, I am needed by my mates side right now!”
My father growled “Watch your tone boy” He warned “You are here because you are the next in line for the throne, and we are on the verge of war. Your mate comes second right now”
“Does it really need to end up with a war?” One of the werewolf Alphas asked “I understand what Troy is doing and all that he has done is horrific, but not all werewolves feel as he does”
“Or so you say!” One of the witch leaders commented “We all know that werewolves are power hungry, if only you’d all be wiped out during the first war”
“If we’re power hungry, then it comes from the witch side” The werewolf commented “Most of the original werewolf Alphas came from witches being turned”
“How dare you!”
“SHUT UP!” I shouted over her “IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO GOT TURNED OR WHO’S POWER HUNGRY!”
“Jaxson!” My mother said in warning.
“Well, this is ridiculous!” I threw up my hands angrily “If Troy wants war, then let’s have it, I vote we go to war, I want Troy dead!”
“I second” Cole had my back.
“As do I!” Ryker announced, which shocked me because he always fought against wars whenever they came up, he had lived through the first one, and it had changed him “If Troy really is this big of a threat, then we cannot afford to sit back and wait for him to try and free Fenrir. We have to attack first”
“We don’t even know where he is” Jordan commented in his usual bored, grating voice “We don’t even know if he had a hand in the fire or the attack on the Luna. It could have just been Scott acting on his own and these so-called files Alphas Jaxson and Koda’s team found, may have just been nothing more than a plan he dreamed about but was never going to act on”
“Are you out of your mind!” One of the dragon leaders commented before I could “Why would he draft up plans he never intended to use, we will not allow some mutant dog to try and take over again and my King and Queen are in complete agreement, we want war!”
“He can’t even create this new race without a white Lycan” Jordan pressed on, ignoring the dragon as if he hadn’t even spoken “Unless Alpha Jaxson knows something we don’t”
I glared at him, I knew at that moment that there was no doubt he was working for Troy, and I’d make him pay for it.
“Perhaps your mate is a white Lycan like her mother” He continued “Has she told you what color her Lycan is, it would explain why Troy wants her?”
“No” I lied and turned my back on him “Ava is still healing, and my mate hasn’t shifted yet”
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