Scarred Alphas by Norisha May
Chapter 81

"L-late?"

"Yeah, late." Ezra holds an invitation up. The same one all the other Alphas had.

"How dare you set foot here?!" I shout unable to contain my temper.

"I got an invitation just like everyone else." He nonchalantly says.

"Don't bullshit me! You know this was all you, you f**ker!"

Colt holds me all this time because I have been trying to get to him. All I can think of is ripping his head from his shoulders.

"Let me go, Colt!"

"No, this is exactly it. This is what he wants...what he is up to." He says.

Victor nods as he rushes to me. "This is how he'll gain the support of all the other packs. If you attack him, itwill be considered a violation of the protection seal.Some paragraphs are incomplete if you are not reading this novel on FindNovel.net. Visit FindNovel.net to read the complete chapters for free. They will all band together against us." then I will have to take control here. Take a deep breath, girl, and be the Alpha we need right now." My eyes dart to him with anger.

He nods. "His time will come. Bide your time right now and watch him closely."

"It seems there is a problem?" Oliver speaks.

Warrick stares at me to try and get my answer.

Grinding my teeth, I speak. “No, no problem at all." I look at him. "Sit. Enjoy the food."

Warrick relaxes and Colt lets me go.

Warrick then addresses Victor. "Victor, the borders?"

"I have not received any update of anything out of the ordinary."

I continue speaking to the guests. "As I was saying..." My words are tense. "I want to thank you all for coming. It is quite a surprise that you all made it. As stated in the invitation, this will be a neutral feast. A safe festivity even if there is conflict between us. You may talk freely but also remember that you are my guests, I will not tolerate misbehavior." To be able to say all of this, I have to force myself not to look at Ezra and Oliver. I feel like if I do, I'd fly over to them and rip them apart.

I give a hand gesture telling them all to sit and then the feast commences.

People start speaking with each other. Ezra and Oliver sit in one of the other tables far from us but all I can do is keep my eyes on him.

I have him so close and yet I can't do anything.

Excruciating frustration.

All sorts of ideas run through my head.

I could command one of the maids that is serving us to kill him for me. But my conscious hates the idea.

Killing is not an easy thing to do and I would ruin the maid's life. She'd be executed by the neutral law.

All I can do is imagine myself getting up and plunging my stake knife right through his eye. I don't think I will ever be able to be in peace as long as he lives. I want him dead.

To my displeasure, Ezra starts speaking. "Oh dear Bryn and Miles. How I miss you. It saddens me that you were not able to be there for Mother's death. It was agonizing for her. She screamed your names searching for you but you weren't there. Alas, I am the only on she had for comfort in her last moments of breath."

Bryn is paralyzed with fear while Miles frantically looks everywhere he can except at Ezra."

"Leave them alone." Colt says, in a calm tone.

Ezra gives him an angry look he can't hide.

"All mighty Colt, always to the rescue. Little brats can't take care of themselves."

"And you don't change.

Always a bully to the very end."

"And what end is that, brother? Are you saying that I will die soon?

"If you do, it is because you made your own bed."

"That sounds like a treat to me."

"So? As long as I don't act on it, I am not breaking any rules, right." Colt smirks.

Ezra is pissed and shaken while Colt remains calm and unbothered. I love it.

"So tell us, Alpha, why have we been invited here." Alpha Holmes asks me.

That is a damn good question. I have no idea of what to tell them.

I take a long sip of my drink as I think of what to say.

"I can't wait to hear this." I hear Oliver utter.

My hands tighten around the glass, cracking it. I set the glass on the table making a loud noise.

"I'll be completely honest, I didn't invite you all here."

The room grows silent and they all glance at each other with confusion.

I point at Oliver and Ezra. "I am pretty sure that those two are the ones who invited you all here."

Oliver and Ezra look a bit shocked. I am sure they did not think I'd just be telling the truth.

"I don't know what the agenda behind this was if that is what you want to ask but they are here. Ask them yourself."

All the Alphas look at Ezra and Oliver's direction.

"No idea what you are talking about. We received the same invitation as all the others did."

"I don't buy it." I say.

"Maybe it was someone else here. Maybe one of the people you took in I mean, you take so many strays. My siblings, rogues...the witch."

"Witch? So you have a spy in our pack." I sit defiantly.

"Oh no, not at all."

"Then how do you know this? No one knows about

Honora."

"I just remember her." Ezra says.

Remember her?...from where?

I look at Honora who shrugs. "I've never met him before."

"What a horrible little liar."

Ezra whispers.

I look between them. Ezra has a smirk and Honora looks unfazed.

I leave it alone for now but I don't like it. It bothers me.

"How are you holding up?"

Colt whispers in my ear.

"Not good. I don't understand why are we indulging these men."

"So that we don't make more enemies." He responds.

"I am tired of playing good, Colt. They play nasty so why do we have to play by the rules?"

"Like I said Cass, consequences."

"Damn the concequences!"

I have been raising my voice and now notice that almost everyone is watching me.

"Someone is a bit agitated."

Ezra mutters.

"Agitated? Agitated?! You are lucky I don't skin you alive right now you f**ker!"

"Ah, is that why you brought

us here? To threaten me?"

I really should. I really should just kill him right now.

"You killed Lauren! All because you didn't get your way. You might call yourself an Alpha but you are just a pathetic piece of meat plaster on this earth to be a cancer." he looks serious now. "She begged. She begged me to let her live. Even played the pregnancy card on me but I cut her down like a f**king pig-" He gargles his last words as his mouth and throat fill with blood.

"James!"

James stands behind Ezra with a knife plunged into Ezra's neck. He takes it out and thrusts it in his neck again and then starts stabbing Ezra over and over on his back.

People start panicking but I smile as Ezra stares at me, a look of fear in his eyes.

Look at me, you bastard. Let my joyous smile over your death be the last thing you see.

I wish it was me doing it but James deserves his vengeance.

I watch as Ezra breathes his last breath and soon his eyes become void of life. He is finally dead.

Guards immediately apprehend James.

"Let him go!" I rush over and command them. They immediately release him.

"What is this?!" An Alpha complains.

"You can't just let him go!"

"I can and I will."

"This is unacceptable! He killed an Alpha in a neutral festivity! He must die!"

"Try it and see what happens!" I warn them.

"We can't stand for this!"

They all start getting riled up.

"Yet you will do nothing to him."

I can see the concern on Victor's face, Garret's, and even Colt's. But I have no intention of letting these men hurt James.

"He is under my protection and if you want to get to him, you have to go through me."

"So you want war?"

"If war is what you wish to have for a man who deserved this death, then so be it."

I look at Oliver who seems amused and unfazed by all this, in fact, he wasn't even surprised when James killed Ezra.

"War? No need." James says. "You shouldn't be punished for my actions. I've done what I wished. Avenged my beloved and my child and kept you safe. I can leave and be with them now."

"James, that is not going to hap-" While I am saying this, I watch as he brings the knife to his neck and slices it.

"JAMES!" I scream and rush to him. "NO!"

Unable to say anything, he just smiles and closes his eyes.

"No!"

I cry, merging my forehead with his.

Silence befalls the festivity. For a few seconds, there is not a single sound.

When the space of silence passes, Victor speaks. "It is settled!" He shouts at the Alphas. "You wanted blood! You have it! The matter is now settled!"

Suddenly, Oliver starts clapping and laughing. "This turned out to be a better show than I had expected." "Show? SHOW!" I shout.

"Yes, show. It baffles me how good I am. Everything went as planned. Pure perfection."

"It was you pulling the strings on James." Warrick suddenly speaks.

"Yes and very wise for you to notice."

"Wait...what?" I look at Warrick.

"James was the one behind the killings." Warrick reveals.

"What?!"

"It is true. I had a plan. And it involved James killing Ezra. He did well I think."

"How! And why did James kill those three pack members?"

"To protect you." Oliver smiles. "See, before l...took you that day, I might have told James that these three particular people were planning to assassinate you.

But since I was leaving, I had no way to protect you. The man was so out of touch with reality that he didn't notice that you were gone from the pack and still was plotting his killings. All in the name to protect you. I also spoke to him about his mate and how she was killed. How I couldn't stop it but told him of every single detail and made sure that he knew it was all Ezra's doing. It was a trigger for sure. Of course, I never witnessed his mate's murder but he still believed it. It was fuel to the fire forwhen I managed to bring Ezra here. Wasn't sure how I was going to do that at the moment but I am very good at improvising as you can see."

I am shocked. I think we all are. This man was much more dangerous than we all thought.

"And...all for what?" I ask.

He leans back with a big smile. "All to gain a pack and territory."

"You...you can't just take over his pack."

"I can when they have no more Alpha family running things and all they have seen is me. Plus, mixed with them are the mercenary rogues I bought. So...who will there be left to stop me?"

"All of us." One of the Alphas says.

I am glad that they don't agree with this ludicrous idea.

Oliver lifts a hand up with a phone in it. "If only. Your mistake was that you had your full attention on Ezra when we got here." As he says this, I notice that it is not a phone in his hand. He presses a button on the device and suddenly I am on the floor with my ears ringing and there is smoke everywhere.