Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Three

I didn't need a crowd to witness the trial. I had only invited en pack members, but no doubt, once it was over, news of what happened here would spread to the whole pack. The trial would take place in the dungeon chamber.

Phil and Austin took their positions by my side. I doubted I looked any better than I had a few hours ago, but I was ready to face them. The door swung open, and three soldiers dragged in the rebels-Stark, Luthor, and, of course, Kade. The very one who had shot me.

The moment they spotted me, they went pale.

The soldiers didn't have to force them to their knees-they went down willingly.

"We... you shouldn't be alive. There's no way you could have survived that," Stark said, disbelief clear in his eyes. "It shouldn't be possible..." he kept muttering to himself.

"Silence," I said, and they fell quiet. The tension in the room thickened with each passing second. "This is how this will go-you speak only when I ask you a question."

He stared at me as if

alive. The shot to my stomach had been fatal, but the

did you for one moment think about how it would

the only one brave enough to answer. "The plan

telling me," I said. I could see it in the way the others kept darting their

failed. Military rule. We believed that this could be the beginning of something new and..... different. But there

to seize control-to force their way into the council even after walking away from it, afterall, I would be dead, there would be no one

But the others were too reluctant to act... perhaps even

back to Keith; he had talked about respect and loyalty being earned, but these people had wanted to seize power into their hands; they

to come to mind. He never liked the idea of a woman as Alpha.

make a move.

to you. I don't care if I'm stripped of my title or forced to work in the fields among the farmers-I'll do it. But I don't

in his eyes, he knew death was laying wait for them all. "We've made a grave mistake-one that will never be repeated. We know the consequences of our