My heart was racing quickly now, so much so that I felt it would jump out of my chest.
"I've heard of you." He smiled darkly. "Heard of the Alpha's daughter who prances everywhere, spoilt, entitled, selfish, just like her father."
He was talking about Jessica.
His finger traced my jawline.
"I killed your mate." He told me. "Castrated him first, though."
My mouth dropped.
I didn't like Dean; he had been as proud as Jessica, but I was sad to hear he had succumbed to such a fate. No one deserved that.
I blinked at him in shock, unable to say a word.
"You don't believe me?" he asked, and before I could say a word, he snapped his finger again.
Another man brought an even smaller box.
"Take it and open it." He ordered.
All eyes were on me. All.
My hands trembled, especially when I revealed my first "gift." I feared I would discover its contents.
I pulled the ribbon, and then right in the box was a middle-sized penis and two balls.
This time, it was I who screamed.
I dropped the box, and its contents spilled onto the ground.
I heard someone throw up in the hall, and then I backed out.
Utterly afraid of this man.
He smiled, walked back up the four steps that elevated the throne's seats from the standard floor, and addressed everyone.
"I, Alpha Xaden of the Crescent pack, defeated Bale in battle, but he absconded to the accord, " he said.
My heart was still racing, and I could not believe what had just happened.
"Your coward of a leader should have died in honor, but he ran to save only himself." He announced. "By my right, written in the wolf council, the pack belongs to me and to do as I wish with it until the next new moon when I return for vengeance."
The wolf council stood listening to him.
"Son of Bale. Step forward." He ordered.
Abel, who seemed shaking and scared, walked up to Xaden.
I had never seen Abel scared of anyone or anything in his life like he did right now
It was swift and unexpected.
In one second, Xaden's hand became his wolf claws, and then he ripped Abel's head out of the body.
Everyone screamed; I could hear Luna Maria the most.
She tried to run to him, but she was stopped.
My father looked like a ghost, and his face was white and pale.
Abel's headless body dropped to the ground.
Xaden had Abel's head in his now human hands as he gripped it from the hair, and the blood dropped.
"The children shall pay the father's sins," Xaden promised.
And I swallowed. I was next.
"Cut the body parts and make sure you nicely chop his cock and wrap it for his father," Xaden instructed his men.
Then he turned to Alpha Bale. "See it as an early dowry."
Then they came in and took Abel's body.
Abel had tried to force himself on me, rape me; seeing his head, the way his body had come to a brutal end was terrifying.
Luna Maria was crying.
"My son!!!! My son." She wept.
"Don't worry," Xaden said. "Your daughter is next. And I'll handle her well."
My heart stopped immediately, and I could hardly breathe.
He stretched out his hand to me. "Come you will be my bride."