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We also decided to compile the list ourselves and use men from the estate to carry out the task. The mission would be a secret. The three of us were excited and could not wait to get it over with.
My meeting with Casey Grady was in two hours. We got ready and left for the Sports Arena.
There was a lot of traffic, and we got there thirty minutes before the meeting.
I went to attend to Casey in a private empty booth while the rest went to join my mother and brother in the rugby section.
Casey joined me in the booth when the meeting was set to take place, and I admired his punctuality.
“Your eminence,” he said, greeting me and looking uncomfortable.
“Alpha Albert, you requested an audience with me. Is everything alright?” I asked, and he nodded.
“Everything is fine, Lord Hand. The hospitality is great, and my people are having fun,” he said. At the mention of his people, I wondered how the two sorry arses were doing.
“How are your alphas?” I asked, and he smiled.
“They are alright. They are studying the rugby game as we speak,” He said, and I nodded.
“I hope your team gives more of a challenge this time,” I said, and he
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“I doubt they would, but we will be better next year. Once we get home, we will practice our moves,” He said, and I nodded.
We were served drinks, and I gave him the floor to speak.
“I do not know how to say, this.” He began.
“I warned my Alphas against it, but they insisted. As the eastern leader, I am obligated to try,” he said, and I composed myself.
“Max wants to swap Kara for his fated mate, Gabriella Shieldse,” He said, and I held my tongue so he could finish.
“And Cruz wants to swap Eloise for his fated Samanta. They do not want to disrespect you but feel they made the wrong decision. Since you want something of sentimental value, they believe their fated mates would be a better choice,” He said. From how he spoke, I could tell he was reciting something he had rehearsed several times. He wasn’t confident, and he did not sound convincing.
“This has to be a joke, right? Or maybe you want to swap Zora for your heavily pregnant mate, too,” I said as he shook his head.
“Zora deserves to be happy, and I see the light in her eyes. I took away her joy by not keeping my promise and rejecting my fated. You put it back there. I can’t tell you I did not love her because I did, and I still do, but you are what is best for Zora. My love is not selfish, and I want her to be happy. She looks very happy with you, and you passed the test I failed. She is with the best man. It will be silly of me to even try to ask you to give her back to me,” he said, and there was a truth in his voice that made me know he was genuine.
“You know Your friends‘ requests won’t be granted, right?” I said, and he
nodded.
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“Eloise is pregnant by Theo, and Kara is with Marcel. They are not
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things. They are not objects your men can give away and swap whenever they like. They are people and should be respected and treated as such.” I said, and he nodded.
“I am surprised that you would go to this length for your Alphas, Casey,” I said, a tinge of anger rising inside me.
“I must say I wonder what the moral compass of the east is. I would have been more impressed if you had stepped in and rescued Kara from the abusive Sheperd, who beat her wolf senselessly and treated her like shit.” I said, and he was ashamed.
“Where was your leader spirit then, Casey? Were you too blind to see that these men were maltreating their wives? Do you know what Cruz did to Eloise?” I asked him, and he looked down.
“I will tell you. He degraded her. Took her money and her lands as if that wasn’t enough, he had his men use and abuse her because he had gotten himself a shiny new toy. Did you not know this? Where were your confidence and brave then? Why didn’t you make the east safe for these women? Rescue them from the monsters? Now that they’re happy and safe, you want to throw them back into the hell I rescued them from?” I said to him, and he remained silent. I knew he was ashamed, but he
needed to be told the truth.
“You speak of your betrayal toward Zora as if it was something simple. You might not have beaten her and Monica up or humiliated her, but you abused her mentally. You crushed her soul. She told me everything. How you broke your promise, how you made her share. Did you bother to ask for her opinion before you jumped into Lori’s bed? Did you bother to care about how she would feel? No, you wanted her to be okay with it whether she liked it or not, likewise, your friends, Casey, they wanted their women to just take it, and now you want them to go back,” I said and smiled.
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“If you had any respect or conscience, Cruz should not have a pack in the east. He should be stripped of his position and disgraced for his conduct. Eloise should be given her land and money. Sheperdwell should be disciplined for his actions against his luna, but here they are, playing sports, asking for swaps and living their lives as if nothing happened. Eloise arrived here damaged and destroyed. It took a lot for Theo to get her to where she is now. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I did not take action against you because of Zora. Even though you hurt her, she still cares about you and is protective of you; if not, I would have taken over the east by force just to deal with those two clowns.” I said, and he looked up at me with misty eyes.
“You are right. Everything you said is right,” he confessed, and tears rolled down his cheeks. Something told me he had been doing a lot of crying for a while now.
“There is no night I do not sit up in bed wishing I had done things differently, that maybe my heart wouldn’t be so heavy. I loved her, and I still do, and it hurts me every day knowing that I fucked it up. It is a pain that will never go away, and I embrace it as my punishment, but as for Sheperdwell and Cruz, I did not know what they were doing until recently. You are right, I should have taken disciplinary measures against them, and I will move to do so when I get home, but you need to know our system is different from yours; unless you give the decree as lord, the best I can do is present the matter in our committee. Then we would vote on the punishment,” he said, and I realised I might have been too hard on the man.
There was a sorrow in his eyes that might never go away. He had lost a gem he would never get back.
I decided to let the matter rest and focus on more pressing issues.
I needed answers. I had problems that required to be solved quickly, so I decided to discuss Ramsey Kuhn with him.
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Hopefully, he would cooperate and work with me on it. I needed to start catching people.
Ramsey might be his in–law, but he might be a tool used to work against
- me.
After studying the events of that attack, I figured someone wanted to force my hand to attack the east so the east would rise against me feeling
wronged.
