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“That is exactly my point. You let ego and your mate bond with Elena get in the way of making decisions for this city.” Osiris snaps, leaning across the table. Khan presses furiously against my skin, wanting to tear them all apart for going against me when Alpha Cane speaks.
“I just want to clarify that this has nothing to do with me. Consider me Switzerland,” he states, and Osiris and I both look at him.
“Your time as head of the council is over, Axton. Stand down before you embarrass yourself.” Osiris sneers.
“No. You will get everyone here killed. You can’t run a city, you barely run your pack. Don’t think I don’t know about you filing for bankruptcy. Does your pack know how much debt you have got them in and who bailed your father out of it?”
Osiris growls and I hear the other alphas whispering amongst themselves. “Is that why you killed him, because he cut you off?” I snarl.
“I didn’t kill my father!”
“Then where is he, Osiris? It’s amazing how you return to the city and one of our elders goes missing the same fucking day.” I growl at him.
“I know you did it. I know exactly what you were involved in. If I were you, I would stand down unless you want me to bring every single one of your skeletons out of the closet come election day.”
Osiris laughs, standing up. “We all have skeletons, at least mine aren’t in cold blood.” Osiris chuckles, saying the one thing, not one of these Alphas would be game enough to say to my face.
“Marco did well to cover it up, but not well enough. I have all the evidence I need to ruin you. But I won’t stop there. When I am done, I will not only take your pack and the city, but just to really kick you where it hurts, I will take your mate, too.” He laughs.
“Elena would never be with you.” I scoff.
“Are you sure about that? Because last I checked, she refuses to let you mark her and why is that?” He questions. Yet he was digging his own grave here, threatening my mate, and that hole was growing deeper by the looks on the other Alphas’ faces.
“She is mine. I don’t need her mark to prove that when she carries mine!”
“For now she does, but when you’re rotting away in prison and she is trying to keep her pack and yours afloat, don’t worry. I will take good care of her until you return.” He retorts.
“Osiris! You are taking it too far!” Thomas snarls and Osiris smirks.
“I will take it further. Just make sure you pick the right side, Thomas, and remember who was there when you needed help!” Osiris snarls, turning his gaze to Thomas. Thomas purses his lips and averts his gaze to the far wall.
The Alphas murmur amongst each other. Osiris may have numbers on his side, but his comment about Elena I can tell does not sit right with any of them. Mates are sacred, and stating you would take one from another proves how low one would sink for his own gain.
“So that’s what you’ll do Osiris, threaten our mates if we don’t agree?” Alpha Soyer speaks up.
“What? No,” Osiris sputters, shooting me a glare.
“Now whose ego is getting in the way of rational thought?” I retort with a smile. Alpha Soyer nods and so do a few other Alphas, but each looks undecided still. Osiris glares at me.
“With that mindset Osiris, I can see you’ll take this city far! What will you do next? Do you want to take a step back into the 30s? Are you going to tell your pack before they can take a mate you get to try her out first?” I ask him and he growls, his eyes shooting daggers.
“Because that is what you’re suggesting, that once in a seat of power, you’re allowed to breach our most sacred laws, taint them and twist them to use at your disposal? Are you okay with that Alpha Soyer? Can he try out your mate?” I ask him and Soyer snarls, his fist crashing down on the table with a thunderous boom.
“I’ll kill him before he could ever try!” Soyer threatens before stalking out of the room.
Chapter Forty-Seven
“It appears you hit a nerve, Osiris. We don’t take too kindly to threats to our mates in this city, even those of us that aren’t mated, correct Thomas?”
“I may not see eye to eye with Axton or Elena, but there are some lines you don’t cross!” Thomas retorts and Osiris’ eyes move around the table.
“Switzerland!” Alpha Cane raises his hand, and I fight the urge to roll my eyes. We know he wants no part in any of this. He didn’t even want to be Alpha.
Osiris laughs. “It was just a little healthy competition. I have no intentions of going after Axton’s mate.” Osiris quickly states, recognizing his mistake.
“Had you been in this city long enough, Osiris, you’d know the very law you threatened to break. We put it in place! Mates are off limits, and anyone that breaks that earns death. What happens between mates stays between mates only.” I inform him.
“And I hear Elena has fought and protested hard to have that changed. Aren’t all her pack members from abused mate bonds? You abused your own, from what I hear?” Osiris says, his eyes flashing, daring me to disagree so I don’t.
