They didn’t slow down their steps toward the strategy room, where they held the meeting. The five alphas had been waiting for him. The king would arrive last.
Once Cane stepped into the room, he saw the alphas were sitting on their respective seats, while their betas and gammas stood a step behind their alphas.
The tension was so thick, as they awaited the final decision that would seal the fate of the Blue Moon pack. They would fight tooth and nail for this pack to not be merged with Howling Wolf pack, because aside from all the benefits that Cane would get, he would monopolize the mines all by himself if that happened.
Jace and Ethan immediately approached Cane and stood behind him when he sat down on his seat. The room was so quiet, it was so different from the day of the introduction a week ago.
[Ask Will to find Iris and bring her here on my order.] Cane mind linked the beta.
Gerald had done something to Cane in his slavery days, which severed the mind link between the members of the Howling Wolf pack.
He forced them all to drink poison, which cut the ties between one another, to weaken their unity, but only recently Cane managed to mend the severed bonds, but it was only with his beta and gamma, and they couldn’t use it if they were more than three steps away from each other.
Jace immediately walked toward the door and talked to Will about what the alpha had ordered him to do.
“Why should we get that girl?” Will frowned so hard. He thought this matter had nothing to do with her.
“Just do what you are told,” Jace said and then patted his back. “Go.”
Will didn’t have any other choice and left the premises to go to the mines, where Iris would be at this hour.
Not long after that, the king arrived and the final discussion about the fate of the Blue Moon pack would be decided now.
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Not too far from Iris, Will was standing with his arms folded in front of his chest, staring at her with a stoic expression. People tended to look at her this way if they were not directing a hostile gaze at her, thus she was used to this.
“You need to come with me,” Will said, once Iris looked at him. “Now.” He added when Iris didn’t move.
“Where to?” Iris asked, she stood up and dusted her dirty dress off the debris.
“This is the alpha’s order,” Will replied.
That was enough reason for Iris to stop asking about anything. If this was the alpha’s order, then she couldn’t afford to make him wait for long. She was afraid that he would show his temper.
Iris finally went with Will and as usual, she had to half run to keep up with his long legs, as he walked so fast. She almost felt like there was something chasing them.
But, this was his normal gait, most of the shifters walked like this and if anyone had to be blamed, it was Iris, for having short legs.
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“Me, as the judge of this ordeal, will make the decision based on the majority of votes and all the alphas have agreed to this.” King Aeon started his speech. “Based on the majority of votes, we agreed not to merge the two packs together and I will restore Mason’s status as the alpha of the pack.”
Ethan and Jace were seething when they heard that, they were visibly upset with that declaration, but Cane looked so calm as ever.
“Mason can’t be the alpha of the pack,” Cane said calmly, as he leaned his back against his seat and stared at the king. He didn’t taunt him by calling him ‘my uncle’ again, because it was not wise to aggravate him in this situation.
No matter what, he was still the king.
“He still has a lot to learn about leadership, yes, but he is the alpha’s son. The title will be passed down to him.” The king looked at Cane smugly, knowing that he couldn’t retaliate and this was a basic rule for shifters like them. They didn’t really have a say in it.
However, Cane shook his head and then told Jace to do something. The beta walked out of the room and returned with Aderan, who dragged Mason into the room, to join this meeting.
Cane was aware that there would be a slight possibility that he would win this case, therefore, he had a backup plan or two at his disposal.
“Outrageous! Why did you bring him to this meeting?!” Alpha Gill stood up and glared at Cane to see a naked Mason being dragged into the center of their attention. He was gagged, unable to speak, with both of his hands tied behind his back while chains limited his leg movements.
“Calm down!” The king was furious. He pounded his fist on the table. He glared at alpha Gill until he yielded and sat down again, after that he shifted his displeasure toward Cane. “What is the meaning of this?”
“I brought him here just in case all of you have forgotten that he is not qualified to be an alpha.” Cane stood up and walked toward Mason. His eyes flared with anger, but Cane didn’t care, he received that anger gladly, since he was having the upper hand this time. He could have him killed if he wanted to.
“Restore his status and he will get his people to help him maintain the pack!” Alpha James from Bloody Wolf pack shouted. “He was a prisoner, yes, but the king has restored his status, you should treat him with respect!”
“No. The decision has not been made yet.” Cane then kicked Mason, so he would roll over and show his private part. “I think all of you forgot about this tiny little fact.”
All of them glared at Mason, who was so exposed for them to see, but none of them talked, thus Cane broke the silence.
“He has been castrated. There is no way for him to produce an heir.” Cane looked at all of them one by one, as the realization dawned on them and they started to understand where this was going.
For the alpha, even though you were a first born, if you couldn’t produce an heir, then it would be the end of your reign.
“That’s your fault to have him castrated!”
“He can adopt and raise an heir to be his own!”
Yet, no matter what excuses that they threw at Cane, they knew they were baseless and the king couldn’t disagree with Cane.
That was the importance of an heir.
“You should be punished for castrating the heir to the alpha title!” Alpha Gian from Silver River pack, was outraged.
“Punish me?” Cane tilted his head and directed his hatred toward the alpha, who immediately clamped his mouth shut. “He is a war prisoner. There is a rule that the conqueror can do whatever to their war prisoners and even now, he is still a war prisoner, until the king says otherwise.”
But then, for the king to say otherwise was not easy, because there was another rule that he had to consider.
And moreover, that was the same excuse that those alphas and the king used a decade ago when Cane asked for help when he and his people were enslaved and were treated no different from dirt.
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