Chapter 101
Tessa’s POV
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The silence that followed down the line was growing thick.
I didn’t know what I expected to hear next. Maybe more scrambling. Maybe the call would disconnect altogether, a cowardly retreat from
the mess they’d made.
“Is anyone still there? Or will I have to catch a flight back with my new friends to speak to someone directly?!” Kion hissed loudly, his
accent strong and backing as Kane snorted a laugh at his words.
I turned to him, eyes wide, only to find an overly amused look plastered across his face now – enjoying the entire ordeal and the thought
of the council losing their minds in the office back home.
Before finally…
“Good afternoon. This is Alpha Frederick, elder of the Alpha Council speaking…” came the voice, now more composed and way more
polite than what I had gotten him. “Who is this again?”
There was a tremble under the surface of his tone, being masked poorly by the man’s forced arrogance.
Kion’s lip curled in disgust. “I already told you who I am. I am Alpha Kion. Of the Serpent Russian Pack. And I believe you have
something to say to me directly since you called my office while I was gone?” His gaze flicked toward Kane, then settled on me.
The shift in tension around the room was electric. Kane’s arm curled a little tighter around my waist,, protective, silent, waiting despite no
physical threat being anywhere near.
“I didn’t intend any offense,” Frederick began, forcing his professionalism, clearly realising the precarious position he was now in. “We
were only concerned, that’s all. Concerned for the balance. One of our own Alphas crossing borders and stirring up trouble, we have to keep on top of these thi-”
“You insulted my mate,” Kane moved me in an instant as he stood to cut in to the conversation, his voice like stone. Dangerous. “You questioned my judgment, degraded her, and mocked the bond that makes her mine – all while I wasn’t fucking here!” He snapped, as I stepped aside to allow him to get closer to the phone.
A steady breath could be heard coming through from Frederick next before; “Yes, hello to you too Kane, I can see you’re upset but-”
“You fucking demanded to speak to her directly,” he continued, not giving the man a chance to fumble his excuses. “Without me present. Without permission. You broke your own damn rules. And better yet, you dared to do it while we were in the middle of a war zone here in Russia.”
Frederick went quiet again.
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I stared at the speakerphone like it was some kind of portal – the voice on the other end so far away, yet somehow still managing to make my heart pound.
Not from fear anymore… but frustration. I knew we hadn’t done anything wrong. And still, that man had made me feel like I was nothing. Like I was the one who asked for all of this to happen!
“Is this how your Council operates?” Kion sneered his own disgust, pacing slowly behind his desk to join Kane’s side. “Sending threats to foreign packs through phone calls? Belittling your own humans who’ve played by your rules for as long as they’ve been alive? The little human that you are so mad at, has already survived more than you will ever have to from behind your pathetic cushioned chairs!”
“Please, you are both exaggerating this whole-”
“Exaggerating?” Seth barked from across the room, laughing darkly. “We came here to take back what was stolen from us. Only to unite
with the Russian packs to help free their caged women and children who had also been taken from them! Girls were being treated here
like fucking cattle and you’re worried about yourselves?!”
That silenced Frederick.
A longer pause came this time.
A shuffle of papers, maybe.
A whisper in the background from his fellow idiots.
All just cowards hiding in a fancy office.
I found myself suddenly standing up straighter, my feet moving closer towards the desk now, before…
“What is it exactly that you fear?” I asked before I could stop myself.
Everyone looked at me.
Kane’s eyes burned through me and his lips parted in slight shock that I’d gotten myself involved.
Even the speaker fell quiet.
But I didn’t stutter. I didn’t shrink back.
Not this time…
–
“Because If it’s knowing that an Alpha like Kane and a Beta like Seth came here to do what your Council full of so called ‘Alphas‘ would never in a million years have the guts to then just admit it! But don’t pretend that it’s about politics. Or war. We all know it’s about fear. You’re all just scared. Scared of how easily you could be overrun!” I conclude firmly, shocked at my own words but certainly not
regretting them.
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The silence that followed was deafening. My breath shook a little in my chest, but I didn’t look away. Even if the man on the other end
couldn’t see me, I needed to say it.
Frederick cleared his throat. “Kane… get that pathetic human of yours under control or else we…”
“OR ELSE YOU WILL DO WHAT?!” Kane thundered in an instant, slamming his hands down on the desk to the point a jar of pens spilled
over and papers fell.
“She has spoken out of tongue to a member of the Alpha Council!” Frederick defended hastily.
“F**k your entire Alpha Council! She is my mate! Therefore, she has more power to back her right now that you could ever dream of having!” Kane yells loudly, ensuring that he heard each and every word.
More silence came, as rushed whispers poured out in the background of the call.
Kion leaned in closer to the mic now, tone quiet, but lethal. “You’re not in control of this anymore. You’ve made a hellish mistake this time. The only one stirring up a war with us Russians, is you. Please listen to me, and listen closely… if my two new friends here need us to fly over there, to watch as your council gets burned to the ground, then I’ll be there – knocking on your gates without warning.”
A sharp inhale came.
And then…
The line disconnected.
No goodbye.
No apology.
Just sheer fear and arrogance.
Kion slowly straightened, setting the device back on his desk with careful precision. “Pathetic,” he laughed dryly.
I breathed steadily, words caught up somewhere between my lungs and my throat. But I didn’t need to say anything else.
I knew I had done the right thing and that I wasn’t alone here.
And the look in Kane’s eyes when I turned to stare up at him again told me everything I needed to know.
He was proud.
I was no longer the frightened girl they’d pulled from a cell.
I was his- a woman willing to stand her ground, speak her truth, and no longer let anyone in this world, Council or otherwise, decide
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what I was worth.
And for the first time since this war had begun…
I felt powerful.
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
