Chapter 72 Conri
Conri
After I ask my Brother why he thinks she got convicted I know where his thoughts are going, the same place and time as mine and I know why the Council chose us to go get this girl. Not that they don’t trust anyone else to do the job, but because of our past experiences.
The Alpha is waiting for us as we stop in front of the Pack–house and I can tell by the look on his face he is not pleased to see us, not that Evander or I care about that at all. “Alpha, we received a call that one of your Pack–members attacked your Luna. We are here to bring her in front of the Council.” I say.
Before the Alpha gets a chance to say anything his Luna steps forward, “She hit me in the face and broke my nose.” She growls angrily and the Alpha has no choice but to show us where they are holding the girl. On our way to the dungeons the Alpha tries to convince us that his Luna was over reacting to Umayza’s attack.
“Alpha, Umayza attacked your Luna and broke her nose. There were witnesses to it and they convicted her of assault, we will take her to the Council for her sentencing.” I say, not that the Council will sentence anyone without hearing the full story.
Over the years I have seen males and females brought in front of the Council and some of them were actually sentenced for their crimes, but most of them had been relocated or given the chance to get revenge for a wrongful conviction. Not that Packs were informed of what happened to the Pack- members we brought in front of the Council.
Squad–members, that are sent to get a convicted member from a Pack, usually don’t even find out what they were accused of or what their explanation for their crime was. Sometimes we get to hear the story as we bring them to a new Pack or we escort them towards the Sanctuary.
We walks down the stairs into the dungeons, through a hallway leading us further into the dungeons and the Alpha opens a door that leads into a small room with one cell. My eyes get drawn to the female inside the cell, her hair in a messy bun on top of her head and her chocolate brown eyes don’t reveal anything.
My Lycan growls in my head as she shows us what she is wearing under that sh
I link Evander to tell him I won’t allow her to walk out of there dressed like that. He orders everyone out of the dungeons to give her time to change into something more comfortable for her.
My mind is on Umayza and I know her appearance affected Evander as much as it did me when I see him adjusting himself after I had asked what that piece of fabric was about. Lhad quickly shoved it into her bag when her back was turned to me, I wanted the Council to see what it was she had been wearing at the time.
My Lycan is convinced it has something to do with the attack and I have to agree with him on that, it was a little to revealing for my taste. I think as long as she was standing still there wouldn’t be a
problem, but if she moved it would have revealed more than any male should be able to see.
From the corner of my eyes I see movement and my yelling at Evander wakes Umayza up, her eyes are on the left side of the road as I watch the right side of the road. Once I am certain the Wolf is gone I call Council–member Boaz with the information I have and once he gives the okay we head for the nearest Safe–house.
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Despite the situation she hasn’t lost her sense of humor and my Lycan shows me an image of us chasing after her. I guide her into the cottage and show her where her room is, but she is more interested in the kitchen. There are fresh fruits and vegetables in the fridge and I can smell that the Alpha has recently been here.
Looks like the Council warned him we were on our way and I am glad he put some provisions in to the fridge and cupboards before we got here. Umayza seems at ease as she is putting everything she wants on the counter, I watch her as Evander walks into the cottage and for a moment he stops to look at what is going on in the kitchen.
He smiles as he walks towards the back of the house with her bag, “You might want to get the dress out of there, I took it as evidence for the Council.” I say through the mind–link and he growls back at me. I chuckle at him, knowing exactly why he growled at me.
I hear water running in the shower and I wait for Evander to get back to the kitchen before I head for the shower myself. Once I am back Evander asks her if she wants to eat first or if she wants to shower first, “Food first.” She says as she places three plates on the kitchen–island and takes the seat across from
me.
Evander sits down next to me and we are enjoying the food she has prepared for us. She asks us if anyone knows that we are hear and Evander tells her that the Alpha does, but that he won’t be coming here as that is the deal the Council made with him.
Want them to “None of the Packs come to the Safe–house when it is occupied, the Council doesn’t know who is here and it is for their own protection. If your Alpha was to call here, no one will be able to tell him if you are here or not.” I explain and she tells me that that makes sense to her.
Evander and I tell her to take a shower while we clean up the kitchen, at first she wants to object but
one look at us and she thanks us before she walks to the back of the house. It do ants to object but
I clean everything up and I start making coffee for Evander and myself
take
us long to
I hear her sniffle the air as she walks towards us and I ask her if she would like some coffee as well, “Yeah, might keep me awake long enough to answer the questions from the Evander and I chuckle as we know a meeting can be boring at times.
Ouncil.” She says and
Evander tells her that normally we don’t hear about the charges or why someone committed the alleged crimes, that we hardly ever hear about what triggered them to do what they did and that in some cases we are more than curious to find out.
“Well, looks like today is your lucky day as you will be here when I have to talk to the Council.” She says, but she doesn’t sound as if it bothers her that wee will be hearing everything as well.
Umayza
It is nine in the evening when Evander sets up a laptop for the conference call with the Council, unlike I had expected I feel comfortable with the two males next to me and I know that they will keep me safe while I am with them. Instead of multiple screens popping up for the conference call there is only one and I can see the seven Council–members.
Conri introduces the Council–members to me and Council–member Dayanah tells me that she will be leading the questioning for this investigation, she asks if I want Conri and Evander to leave the cottage. “That won’t be necessary, they have seen a part of what I need to tell the Council.” I answer.
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Conri sits down to my left as Evander sits down to my right and for some reason I feel completely at ease, I don’t feel the anxiety I would feel as I had during one of the meals back in my Pack. I take a deep breath to calm my nerves and I decided to start my story with how we came to live in Bright
Moon Pack.
“My parents were fated Mates, but my maternal Grandparents didn’t approve of my Father and my parents left Mom’s Pack to be together. However, they were hunted down by my Grandparents and by the time they finally caught up with my parents I had already been born.
Not that it stopped them from hunting us down, they didn’t even stop after Mom died while protecting me. Dad kept running until we reached Bright Moon Pack and Dad was offered the position of Assassin as that is his rank, Dad was able to build a normal life for us there.
It wasn’t until I turned fourteen that we found out this Pack has a rather strange look on Mates, our Alpha doesn’t allow anyone to accept their fated Mate and anyone that finds their fated Mate is ordered to reject them. Every female starts living in the Pack–house at the age of fourteen, no exceptions.
The unmated females have to stay inside the Pack–house, we were not allowed to go to our family’s homes and they were allowed a minimum of contact with us at the Pack–house.” I feel the males next to me get angry the more I say and even the Council–members look angry.
“We have to do all the chores in the Pack–house, we prepare the meals for everyone and when we have our meals our stations get covered by mated females. During the meals we sit in assigned seats and each day different unmated males sit on either side of us.
When a female turns seventeen our Luna takes her to a part of the Pack–house we call the fitting room, your measures get taken while our Luna picks out a drawing of your outfit and from that day on the female has to attend dance classes.
They teach the female a very sensual dance, which you have to perform in front of all the unmated males six months before you turn eighteen and if a male wants to have you as his chosen Mate he informs our Alpha. There is a ceremony for the High–ranking males and one for the Warriors.
With my Father being our Pack’s Assassin I normally would have to perform in front of the High- ranking males, but the Wolf that attacked us asked our Alpha to put me in front of the Warriors as he has an interest in me. I am not sure if our Alpha wanted to grant his request, but on the day I attacked our Luna she told me she had convinced her Mate to allow it.
She told me she never wanted my Father or me to join the Pack and this was her way of getting revenge. They also altered my dress to be a lot shorter than it initially was and when I asked her about it she told me how she had helped my nightmare to get me in front of him.” I didn’t look at anyone as I spoke and my eyes are still on the floor once I am finished.
“Umayza, you had every right to attack her and we won’t sentence you for this crime. I will send a team to investigate this Pack, because I want to know why the Luna didn’t want you and your Father in her Pack and we will put a stop to their way of running their Pack.
Is there anyway you can contact your Father?” Council–member Dayanah asks and I shake my head as I didn’t have my phone with me. “Council–member Dayanah, her Father handed me a piece of paper with a phone number on it before we left.
He asked me to give it to her once she was safe and if you would allow me to give it to her.” Evander save and Council–member Davanah tells him to give it to me. I smile as Ionen the niece of naner and
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