Anna
"Let me go" I snarled at the man who held me down. "You sure you want to do that?" He asked in a surprisingly calm voice. I eyed him with suspicion but then anger clouded my vision. "What should I do?" I asked in confusion. "They want to take my mother from me" I broke down from pain of watching my mother go through all of that.
"Alpha what do you propose we do to her?" An elderly man spoke from behind the panel. And as he asked that question the hall became silent and I noticed the alpha give a hand signal to my uncle who was the gamma and he came and stood beside him and bent over to whisper something. At the same time I noticed the group of elderly people rise from their seats to go and stand behind the alpha.
"Who are those?" I asked from thean who has held me back from acting out. He was the same person who I bumped into earlier. "They are the elders in council" he replied. "Do you know what the in trial is about?" I asked again as my curiosity got the best of me and something told me that the man beside me knew more than he was letting on. " Well if I tell you now then it takes away the fun of getting to know your self... You know the thrill of finding out first hand" he answered straightforwardly. So he didn't deny knowing about it and I also noticed mom looking at him ever since we sat here together. Did she know him?
I was about to ask another question when I heard the someone speak. "Merita, did you know you were carrying the child of an alpha when you got married to beta felanie?" One of the elders asked. And I felt like fainting. My breath hitched, my stomach dropped and my vision blurred. But nothing made me ready for the next revelation that shook me. " Yes" my mother replied with her head cast down. Her demeanor showed something sad. Shame? disgrace or was it guilt. From where I sat I couldn't breathe. Air vanished from my lungs as soon I heard my mother's confession or was it affirmation. I felt strange. I felt betrayed. So everything I knew was a lie? My life was a lie! My loving family was a lie! The happy home was a lie! Maybe that was why Dad was always away from work. Or did he not know too. Did my mother lie to him too? Since he wasn't defending her then it was possible he knew nothing right?. I began to question everything. I didn't know who to believe anymore. Mother always said we could trust each other. I thought I knew everything about her. I loved her. I adores my mother. But she lied to me all my life! "Then you know you have commited a huge crime of treason and deceit against the father of your child and also your mate." The elder continued, they were 5 of them that were standing and it was one of them that was doing the questioning. They all work great robes and white ropes tied around their waist with black canes in their hands that looked intricately designed and polished from normal wood. "So what do you have to say for yourself merita?" A slim elder who hadn't spoken much the entire time asked my mother.
"Not guilty Elder in council, during the time I got pregnancy I approached the said alpha at the time, but he refused to take responsibility and that was when I met my mate.i explained my situation to him and he said he didn't mind, if you can just ask my husband he will tell you I am saying the truth " replied trying to stand her ground and sound composed but I could tell she was holding back tears and didn't like it that I got to see this side of her. He broken side. Her sad face made my chest twist uncomfortably. I felt a pang of pain from the helplessness I felt. Even though I hated that she kept me in the dark all this years. She still loved me and I loved her as my family.
"Beta felanie is this true?" The elder turned to my father to question him. "No elder in council, I only found out a week ago" he said with a straight face but I noticed he was trying hard to avoid my mother's face because she completely lost it and began to sob loudly. She staggered back and almost fell if not the barricade that held her up. It was sad. I made to rush but the man by my side held me back but I pulled away with force that caused me to stagger forward shocking both him and myself. I ran to the front but I was intercepted by the guards around. I never knew I had it in my to act like this but I had to. Everywhere fell silent and I struggled to get myself out of the grip of the four guards trying to restrain me. "Young lady you will sit down and not disrupt this proceeding" it was one of the panel people that spoke. He was older but at his point I didn't care. My mother was being framed. I couldn't just sit there and do nothing. "No I would do no such thing" gasps filled the room. Most men looked at me with shock like I had commited a taboo and most women looked in surprise and a bit of pity like I had crossed the line and will be killed. But I went on because I had already lost my family thanks to lies tearing us apart but I couldn't be quite any more so I went on. "You all gather here to frame a woman you should respect. The wife of your beta and my mother. I would not let you or anyone ridiculed her. If she has an affair and you judge her then you judge yourself because you men keep concubines too don't l you?" I fumed, each word flowing with fury and fiercely shooting arrows at everyone. I didn't care that they stared at me like I had gone mad. Well maybe I have. My heart kept beating furiously against my ribcage, my head felt big and my knees felt weak. I stared at the alpha and noticed him glaring daggers at me but I refused to lower my gaze. I maintained the eye contact act despite the intensity of his fiery gaze, the clenching and unclenching of his fist and the tight gritin of his teeth along the countouring of his face that showed how angry he was. In the midst of recklessly heroic confrontation whispers flowed, tongues wagged and lies brewed and spun and they were waved into truths. Suddenly a voice broke my thoughts "merita felanie has been exiled from this pack as the final decision of the elder council. Her husband would be remanded in the dungeon and will be tried in two months for being an accomplice to a traitor." I don't know who made the the announcement but my breath grew short and I began to lose consciousness and fainted.