Fate's Dark Side Chapter 232

"I am surprised that you would go to this length for your Alphas, Leo," 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 Avery from the abusive Max, who beat her wolf senselessly and treated her like shit," I said, and he was ashamed.

"Where was your leader spirit then, Leo? Were you too blind to see that these men were maltreating their wives? Do you know what Kyle did to Linda?" 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 bravery 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 Tamia as if it was something simple. You might not have beaten her and Kaira 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 Amanda'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, Leo, they wanted their women to just take it, and now you want them to go back," I said and smiled.

"If you had any respect or conscience, Kyle should not have a pack in the east. He should be stripped of his position and disgraced for his conduct. Linda should be given her land and money. Maxwell 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. Linda 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 Tamia. 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 Maxwell and Kyle, 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 Richford with him.

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.

I couldn't risk it anymore, and Leo seemed like someone who would willingly work with me.