Forged in the Flames by Karima Sa'ad Usman

Chapter 28

I gave my father a minute and did not trouble him to speak. I planned to listen to him and not interrupt to get the whole story. He took a couple of deep breaths and continued to talk.

“One day, Gamma Giles told me that he had overheard Leon planning to usurp power. He wanted to murder Mathias. I could not say he was lying because he had no reason.

We decided to investigate and found out he wasn’t Lying.

Leon wanted to be King; he had a grudge that he was to be King had his mother not been a mistress.

He also hated werewolves because his brother made me his beta and second in command, giving me and Giles more power than him.

He was envious.

I tried to tell the King subtly, but Mathias refused to listen. He loved his half-brother dearly.

We let it rest and kept an eye on Leon and his group. The other Lycans on the rank supported Leon’s agenda, and we knew all of them.

We managed to spoil most of their plans, but they finally planned a bold move to murder the King.

We told Mathias about it, and he promised to s*tri*p us of our rights and power if we continued trying to poison his mind against his brother simply because his brother did not like us.

We should have left it alone, but we were afraid that if Leon succeeded, it would doom the werewolves of Forest.

Forest would not be a haven for our kind anymore. Gile then decided to sacrifice himself for the cause.

I was to round up the traitors while he would go after Leon on the night they chose to murder the King,” he said, tears streaming down his cheeks. My father was crying. I guess it was a demon of his past.

“It didn’t go as planned. Princess, and what was supposed to be a simple arrest turned to a battle, and Giles killed Leon,” He said, crying bitterly. “Mathias went crazy. I tried to explain to him that it wasn’t intentional and that we were trying to arrest the traitors. He did not believe me, but he did not act immediately.

Isabelle said we were trying to usurp power, but Mathias was wise enough to think that if that was what we planned, we would have come after him and not Leon.

while the investigation was ongoing. That made us look more suspicious because Werewolves were responsible for food, and all

werewolves working in the kitchen were executed, and we were removed from the ranks. I do not know what happened,

were turned into slaves. What we were trying to prevent had happened

were not allowed to see the King or complain to him.

liberate our kind. Even though they had removed us from the ranks,

military was underfunded, and we were sent

territory, had a lot of anonymous

he made it more complex instead of making things a little easier.

though our living condition was terrible,

the hardship in

meeting, and we

for Leon’s death, and the werewolves in the kitchen had been

his riches and

want to say or do anything that would make my father stop

finally responded, he said he would rather die than

would never let us take over Forest. He said he regretted being friends with

be happy that he did not wipe us out. The

brother and the officers who were trying

have no future under a mad king, so

gathered ourselves to leave for Woodland. King Mathias came for us,” he said

the night of that battle was that he spoke as if he had not spoken to us since

dare you plan to attack me after everything I did for your kind? How

to us and how he expected us to continue living under such circumstances. He said he had been lenient enough, but we were going to die that day,” My father said and sat on the

said he rather die than let us usurp power from him and divide his kingdom.

me as if I had done something exceptional. But I had lost a friend. I could not handle the praises and knew our days would not be pleasant. We just wanted a settlement in Forest, not the

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