The Wannabe Warrior
Chapter 77

Zane POV

I had been carrying out the dead in one of the tunnels. The smell no longer bothered me, though the sight of some of the dead was disgusting. I am sure some had been dead for almost a week.

They should have been put out into the snow. It would have reduced how fast the rot would have taken over.

The pile of bodies was higher than I expected, Madison had mentioned a possibility of over one thousand, and I think we are very close to that number, and that does not include the ones that we have in our cells at the moment.

The ones in the dungeons are lucky we placed them there, or they would have had a painful death too. I wonder if they would even see it that way.

Dad has a lot to do when he gets to those in the cells and dungeon and the packs that have been traitorous. I am glad I am not Alpha king yet. Those decisions will be hard, and if the elders or councillors want to get involved, they will replace my dad is not as soft-hearted a man, he has a reputation for being, when it comes to this type of justice that needs to be dealt, he can separate his feelings and work on the facts, and we have so many videos of what had been happening at the caves and the Dark River pack entering the mine almost every day, talking to the advisor, and the statements from Alpha Alex, and some of the high ranking member on the attacks that the advisor had been part of.

This battle had been planned for years, and was so close to becoming a reality, it scares me. I will be forever grateful to Madison and her war mind, her ability to ask the right questions and help you ask the important questions yourself and be prepared to look at those you trust and try and see things from another perspective.

Then, there is Mum. Dad is going to have a hard time making that decision. She had sided with the advisor. There was no sign of mind control, the advisor was her old boyfriend and, somehow, they had rekindled a relationship, right under dad’s nose, and that broke my dad’s heart. Beta Jonathon has been talking with him, promising to stay here in the kingdom and help him through the loss of his mate, because dad is not going to accept mum back. Not now, he has proof she was cheating on him. At the moment, Mum is in the cells, alongside Karen’s cell. They couldn’t see or hear each other, but dad said it was amusing that Karen was yelling for us to get Luna and she would vouch for her, not knowing that Luna was in the cell next to hers.

We have not told Madison yet of the decision made by Jonathon to move here. I think his experience of the loss of his mate is going to be needed, if dad decides that Mum’s actions require death, which could be his death too, or a lifetime in the dungeon.

My mind was replaying differently.

The talk and information I had put together while I did the mindless job of moving this rotting flesh.

I was no longer seeing the mess I was picking up as a person, but the object that needed to be removed. Then be placed on the ever-growing pile of smelly mess in the snow.

The deeper into the caves I went, the more decomposed the bodies were. One of the bodies, I tried to pick up, fell into pieces and I was left, just holding an arm as the rest dropped onto the floor with a splat. We had to get a wheel barrow and a shovel to remove some. The only way we knew it was once a person was because it had clothes on, the rest was just a blob of unrecognisable flesh.

At one pile, I did recognise a couple of people. They were once from the Dark River pack. I met them a few months ago. They seemed friendly enough. Little did I know they were spying on me and reporting back to the advisor.

Another reason to thank Madison, and her wonderful nose and for remembering the smell from all those years ago.

Madison had said to see this, a large mess of evil and stench; as, karma at work, that each and every one of these men and woman that had died in the cave and mine, were all about to attack and try to kill us and our loved ones, if they could, and fate had come forward first, and removed their deaths from making our hands dirty, that we do not have to live with wondering, if we attacked and possibly lost friends and family, to second guess every decision we made and if we could have done something differently, fate had taken away any self-doubt and dealt the mighty blow herself.

It was a nice way to look at it. Madison had said that she had held vengeance in her heart for far too long, and now, she no longer needed to carry the burden of revenge for her mother and Luna’s deaths, and that Karma had saved her from self-destruction, and she could look forward to making something better in her life, that she did not have to go on any longer trying to track the killers and she hoped that her dad and Daniel, could not get peace of mind, knowing the perpetrator was gone, it won’t bring them back, but maybe now her dad could replace a second chance mate and live life again.

Who knows what is in store for us all?