The Wannabe Warrior
Chapter 151

Zane POV

Dad grunted and growled as he read through the stack he had, and I was not too far behind him with my thoughts.

My aunty had been working on getting the throne since the day granddad had handed it to dad, trying so many different ways to take dad down.

I remember dad saying a little while ago. It is his father that had done something all those years ago and he was paying for it now, and I wonder if what we are discovering now is what he was thinking, though I doubt he could have realized how far my aunty would go to get her revenge and how much she wanted the throne. It is sad that a two-minute difference in the birthing of a life has caused such a scale of revenge and hatred.

Each file we opened made us cringe.

This file I had in front of me at the moment, was on how she managed to convince Clarence to join her in the quest to take the throne. Clarence believed he should be the one to have the throne. Aunty Gladys allowed Clarence to believe she supported him in the quest, but she was going to double cross him and take the throne from him as he was not of royal b***d.

The different ideas they had about trying to take over, one was the royal warriors and getting one of their own warriors in the royal warrior team and to slowly poison the others into believing that dad was not the rightful king.

That one dug deep at Mitch, he had worked hard training these guys, and to replace out that they were going to use that training against them had him growling as he read the reports that had been sent regularly from one of our own trusted, higher up warriors.

The rogues coming together was the Advisor’s idea and they let him nurture that one. Then, when grandma died, it was an attack by one of Clarence’s men.

He was aiming at granddad falling apart after Grandma died, but he didn’t, he was a tough old man, giving in to nothing or no one, and losing his mate only made him tougher.

‘You know the journals from Luna, tie in with all of this, she had mentioned the Clarence men incident and later about the rogues and advisor, her early journals talked about high school days and Emery and Gladys being close, how she felt out of the circle and would do almost anything to be included in their inner group of close friends. The journals have a lot of information in them and they make a lot more sense. Now that I have been reading the information in these files, a lot of the journals seemed to be in a code, but reading these, I think I just did not understand her gibberish. She often used the letter E and now I understand that E means Emery. I think if I go back and re-read the journals we can tie all of this together, but when you look over all of this, my sister has been working on being queen since she was thirteen years old and she became power hungry and a bully, back then I put it down to hormones and puberty, but now I think it was just a delusional mind.’ Dad growls, getting more and more frustrated as he reads the information, and he had no idea his sister was so upset over everything, she had always appeared to be kind.

‘Dad, do you think the royal warriors told aunty Gladys about the Deep Earth people?’ I asked suddenly, worried about their safety.

‘If they didn’t, I am sure they would know by now, after the attack they have just made. Let’s hope Zakary is as good as he appears to be.’ Jonathon answered for dad and they seemed to both growl at some page that dad was reading and Jonathon was looking over his shoulder reading it too.

‘What is it?’ I asked, puzzled at their reaction to the page.

‘This is a report on the death of Alpha Dnaiel’s Luna and Jonathon’s mate. It’s not a pleasant read, Jonathon, do you want me to scan it and send it to Daniel?’ dad asked sympathetically.

‘No, he has come to terms with death now. We have had some revenge. When the advisor died and letting him know, that more are out there that had a hand in it, will only have him running back here to join in the fight, he had a new born pup recently, I think it would be best for him to enjoy that new pup and after all this is settled, let him know all about it.’ Jonathon gulped back some emotion as he finished, the file was graphic, informing who ever this report was for, of the brutality of the attack and the success of killing the target and a bonus target. I can see Jonathon almost tear up as he read it, acknowledging that his mate was a bonus and not part of the intended target. Just in the wrong place at the wrong time, or the right place, depending on how you look at it, if Luna picked up Madison on her way home, she would surely have died in that attack and not Jonathon’s mate..

He wanted closure, and I am sure he will want to be part of the removal of my aunty. From the reports I have read so far, it shows that Aunty has had many years of built up jealously and hurt about not being the chosen one to be queen and rule the kingdom, but it was not dad’s fault. The decision is always for the king to decide who to give his crown to and, in history, it shows that the throne and power has always been given to the male, so why she could not accept this and to hold on to the hate of not getting the crown for so many years has amazes me, and I think with each one of her failed attempts to hurt dad, the more the hate grew, I don’t think it is just the crown anymore, somehow it had morphed into something more and I also believe that even if given the crown, she still would not be satisfied.