Chapter 5
It was then, in the morning when the spacious room, beautiful and soft rugs lay on the marble floor. The competition is filled with two people hugging while looking at the morning sky from the window, both of them are discussing the incident of the former Beta's daughter who admitted to being her mate, and Jeremy, their son did not admit it.
"I thought, Shireen never lied. I'm afraid, this is the plan our son put into action. I'm afraid a disaster like before will happen because of rejecting his mate, can't you tell the elders to release Shireen and ask her." Selena, the ex-luna and mother of alpha Jeremy, protested the results of last night's meeting for the right punishment for Shireen.
"I Can't, I've tried and Shireen doesn't make a sound. Cutting off her hand for injuring the wolf clan's luna is the same as death, but this is the easiest punishment an elder can give to the daughter of the former dark pack beta, dear…"
Hearing that, Selena was crying, she still couldn't imagine if this gorgeous woman would lose the function of her hands. How cruel, but there was always something wrong. Even her second son shows it, a mother's intuition is never wrong when she senses if there is a problem with her two sons.
She followed Luis, the man who often came to the dungeon to visit Shireen. Even the sound of his crying resounded, only Shireen was in the dungeon alone. And her son Luis always accompanies Shireen until dawn, how stifling that is.
Selena watched and heard all the wailing from her son, and now it was Jeremy. His eldest son also showed something odd, even though he had reached a very mature age, he was still childish and playboy. Selena was afraid that what Shireen said back then was the truth. Grace takes Shireen's mate, everyone knows that Grace is a wolf who lost her mate.
That is, she has the freedom to find any mate. Wolves who have lost their mates are creatures that are hated by wolves who have a mate because they often seduce and even take other people's mates. All of this is an empty secret, they will reprimand and even punish any wolf caught doing this.
Because it's a crime, but if they take a wolf that doesn't have a mate. That's fine, not when you take someone else's mate who has found their mate. Then the death penalty is what will greet them.
"Can't you just help her, Shireen is only doing things in self-defense. No child will be able to silently do such a cruel thing if there is no trigger. You know... Antoni's eldest daughter always follows her parents' words, all this time we all know how she stays away from people because of her sister..."
"Sorry... I can't do anything, all the power is in Jeremy's hands..."
"Ah!! Why, why so cruel... then talk to Jeremy. He'll listen to you..." But Selena got a nod from her husband.
Alpha Martin had spoken to his son before, but he was an adult and didn't like being dictated to. Jeremy knew what to do, and let the elders give a liar like Shireen the punishment he deserved.
That's Jeremy's response when Martin discussed it.
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That morning, everyone listened to the outcome of the punishment for a big liar. All the wolves know Shireen's mess at Jeremy's alpha adoption party and chide for Shireen's behavior while glorifying Grace, a beautiful sister, and a good luna.
Inside the house, in the bedroom of two grieving people, Teresa wept in her husband's arms when she heard the punishment handed down to her eldest daughter. The regret came now, she regretted slapping Shireen and not hugging her then. She accused her daughter without asking more.
"Can't you say something nice!! Why did you let them impose such a cruel punishment!!" Teresa screamed and hit her husband's body furiously.
The sadness piled up violently, and she received a heavy blow for what she did a few days ago along with the punishment of cutting off both of Shireen's hands. The elders said if this was leniency they should have been sentenced to death, how cruel.
"Sorry..." Antoni couldn't help but apologize.
He couldn't attend the court at the elders' meeting to punish his eldest daughter, it was apparent that everyone was deliberately judging Shireen with severe punishment. In hindsight, the death penalty was better than being crippled by having both hands cut off.
"I am stupid!! We shouldn't have been defensive then, Antoni. My daughter....my daughter Antoni!! Help her, please…" Teresa pleaded with tears of sorrow. "I'm going to beg alpha Jeremy, I'm going to beg him for leniency!!"
Teresa spontaneously moved towards the door, she was like a person who had lost her mind. Her eyes also seemed to move erratically, all he could think of was saving Shireen from this terrible punishment. No parent wants their child to be disabled as a punishment if even alpha Jeremy can't save Shireen.
So Teresa will take her daughter away from prison, even if she has to fight the elders and also the wolves in her pack. Nothing can help his daughter, Teresa languishes and Antoni restrains his wife from going crazy by hugging her from behind.
Teresa still remembered the vacant stare of her dispirited daughter, Teresa still remembered how the silver wolf raged and shed tears of blood from the wound. Teresa should have known from there, Shireen probably wasn't lying about what she said.
"Teresa… please, please don't be like this. Calm yourself…"
"Bastard!! How can I calm down when a few hours from now my daughter will have her hand cut off in front of so many people!!!" Teresa screamed with her eyes bulging with anger, her face filled with tears of sadness that can't even be expressed in words.
"Teresa calm down..."
"DAMN IT!! HOW CAN I CALM?!!" Teresa screamed while crying, while Antoni hugged his wife with deep regret.
As a former Beta who was respected and looked up to, he couldn't save his daughter from execution today. How helpless he was, because of this state of panic. Teresa and Antoni forget one thing, Grace, the daughter who is now considered Luna can help make all the executions easier.
If She forgives her sister and asks the elders to let go, then it will all be over. Unfortunately, Grace didn't say anything even until now when she listened to her mother's mournful cries from outside the room.