Chapter 493
“Yes, I killed them,” Blythe admitted, her voice hollow but steady now that the truth was out. “Kimberly wasn’t supposed to live in this pack. As soon as I found out about it, I decided to kill her along with her husband p>
As she coldly admitted to her crimes, both Zoey and Naomi broke down, sobbing uncontrollably. William stared at his wife, his beloved mate, unable to reconcile the woman he knew with the murderer standing before him. Yet, a logic of Alpha surfaced: If the Alpha and Luna wanted to punish someone in the pack, it wasn’t wrong.
“Did you hear now? Your wife is a murderer!” Sage roared again, the veins on his forehead popping, revealing the sheer anguish and fury that consumed him. He grabbed the collar of his father’s shirt, pulling him close, and bore his searing gaze into William’s.
“Now, no one can spare her from getting killed by my hands! Try using your excuse that you were an Alpha at that time and Blythe was a Luna. I swear I’ll burn everything in this pack if you bring this logic to the council!” Sage pronounced, his voice a low, terrifying snarl.
Katelyn had never witnessed this depth of rage in Sage before. However, in that moment, she finally understood why he had chosen to become the man everyone had despised, a playboy who casually dated and hurt women. He had simply wanted to numb the constant, searing pain rooted in his fractured home life and missing mother. Though it wasn’t right to say he used such a path, everyone had different, sometimes destructive, coping mechanisms for loss.
William gulped, his eyes wide as he realized his son saw straight through his exact intended defense strategy.
“Your mother did run away, Sage,” William defended weakly.
“You are the reason she ran away!” Sage countered, gritting his teeth. “You never respected your own Luna! You had an affair with Blythe p>
“Mom, why did you do it? Why did you have to kill Sage’s mother?” Naomi asked as she frantically wiped away her tears.
“Yes, tell us!” Katelyn demanded, stepping forward, her eyes blazing with righteous fury. “Also, if you think you’ll be saved, then you’re wrong. You killed the former Luna of this pack, the mother of the current Alpha p>
“Why?” Blythe chuckled. Now that her life was at its end, she seemed utterly fearless. “Because she left her son behind.” Blythe spat out the name of Sage’s mother with contempt. “Gianna had a child with another man, Princess, but she didn’t dare to take her son away. She chose to live in the same pack, watching Sage closely, maybe planning to use him in the future p>
Her eyes hardened. “I don’t regret killing her. Gianna deserved this fate. My daughter could have led this pack, but William chose to keep Sage here. Yes, you’re responsible for this as well, William! I never liked Sage. You knew this. Yet, you kept him in the same house as ours. You gave him privilege simply because he was a boy, an Alpha by blood. You refused to kick him out p>
Sage’s grip finally loosened from his father’s shirt. A remorseful laugh escaped his mouth, full of pain and self-loathing. “Now, what do you have to say? If you stop me from ripping her apart, I swear, I won’t hesitate in doing the same to you.
“I am not stopping you anymore,” William conceded, finally stepping back. “But remember this. The moment your mother became a runaway, she was a criminal. Don’t forget that even the pack would have wanted her dead p>
He leveled his gaze at Sage before speaking, “And I never had an affair. If it was someone, then it was your mother, Sage. Yes, I know everything about her, but I didn’t know the man she was involved with p>
William’s voice grew thick with old pain. “She had you with me, but while being my Luna, she was involved with another man. I found the pregnancy reports she burned deliberately. I wanted to save my relationship with her. But what did she do? She ran away instead of facing me or her own son. She never loved you, that’s why she chose to leave you behind p>
Sage turned numb, the world collapsing under the weight of this new, shocking truth. He still desperately didn’t want to believe it.
Before he could even force a question out, William cut him off. “Do whatever you want now since you’re the Alpha. But keep this in mind: Your mother wasn’t innocent either. So, stop crying for her, and act like a mad alpha. Naomi, Zoey, both of you follow me out p>
He shot a contemptuous glare at Blythe, the woman he had trusted so implicitly, who had repaid him by committing the worst mistake of her life.
Naomi and Zoey quickly followed their father out of the prison corridor, leaving Katelyn alone with the shattered Alpha.
“He lied. I don’t believe it,” Sage muttered, his whole body tense, refusing to process the painful twist of William’s words.
“What if your father isn’t lying?” Katelyn asked him softly, approaching him with careful empathy.
Blythe, who was still slumped on the floor, managed to raise her head. A cruel energy fueled her last stand. “Sage, your mother was a bitch!” she spat, her eyes glittering with dark satisfaction. “I’ll make sure before I die the truth about your mother is revealed too! I didn’t know William was saving such a truth from me too p>
Katelyn saw Sage start to move again, a dangerous step toward his stepmother. Instinctively, she reached out and firmly grabbed his arm. “You need to be in control, Sage. Don’t get provoked by her words,” she advised, her voice sharp with necessity.
Sage, whose mind was a maelstrom of pain and betrayal and who felt incapable of listening to anyone, surprisingly yielded to Katelyn’s firm grip and clear advice. He turned and finally stepped out of the prison corridor.
Aiden, his Beta, immediately snapped into action, instructing the remaining warriors to lock down the prison.