Bryden had betrayed him. Khaos should have known this. His judgment was clouded because Bryden had been nothing, but loyal to him all this time.
Just like Caiden, Khaos assumed, it was only a mishap of his judgment when he had to deal with Killian, since the two of them used to be close in the past. Yet, in retrospect, it was a pattern.
It could be said that Khaos’s lenience toward his beta and gamma because for him, Bryden and Caiden were the people that he would consider as close as the definition of family, yet both of them had betrayed him.
Not only that, Bryden actually did it for the second time and this time, he really had crossed all the lines. There was no coming back from this.
"I am sorry but I can’t tell you about it, because I know what you are going to do. You will ruin the ritual for her. You will not be able to go through with the last ritual." Declan was panting heavily with Khaos’s hand still pierced through his stomach. "My great lycan, please, understand that this is for the best for our situation. You are not in your right mind now. That’s why I have to do this. Not because I have betrayed you nor I didn’t oblige to your order, but because we know you are not capable to do the logical thing here."
’We.’
The word didn’t go unnoticed by Khaos. His grey eyes darkened and he looked even colder, more dangerous.
"The fact that you have gone ahead to chase down your mate to be here and to stop the ritual when you knew very well that she is capable of going through the last curse, is the proof that you can’t see the whole situation logically. That’s why we need to take this case and make our own decision."
Declan was vomiting blood now. His healing ability couldn’t heal him when Khaos’s hand was literally still inside his stomach.
Yet, Declan kept talking. This must be the longest conversation they had. When they were in the River Creek pack, they didn’t really interact with each other, since there was Rhett, who would be more dominant.
"Please, think about my advice carefully. The cult has been the advisor for the old dynasty for centuries, you know that. That’s why I am here, ass your advisor, you need to know that this is for your own good and for the rest of all of us."
From the scriptures that he read and from the story that Ezra told him, there was a group of people, who had helped with the ritual, but it was only the lycan family, who knew about the identity of these people.
As it turned out, it was Terrence family from Wolfdale Kingdom. It did make sense, since they had sent one of their daughters to the Great Palace, while the other daughter turned out to be the Shell.
Meanwhile, Khaos didn’t want to hear Declan’s bullshit anymore. He threw his body away from him, he clawed a good chunk of his flesh and Declan’s body skidded across the throne room. He was coughing blood, he was panting and holding his stomach, which now had a big hole in it as his healing ability was fighting for his life.
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