Chapter 104 The Trial

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    “Now forget about seeing her again in this lifetime, the rogueughed. “She is gone, and it’s my time to go too,” then he bit through his own tongue before Alpha Hugo could stop bhim/b.

    Blood poured. His body convulsed and went still,

    Dead.

    “No–NO!” Alpha Gideon’s scream echoed across the cliffs. “Grace!! Grace!!” he shouted, trying to bbreak /bthe invisible force stopping him. Seeing him losing his mind, bAlpha /bHugo rushed to stop him.

    “Gideon, you know it will not break! No one, not ba /bstudent, not even instructors, can leave the Academy grounds busing /bbthat /broute unless they’re on an assigned btrial /bor they have official business. The barrier bsenses /bintent. Both byou /band Jude bwant /bbto /bleave, to bchase /bafter Grace. bThat’s /bwhy it is stopping you. Stop bnow/b. It will not work or it might actually bbring /byou trouble!” he yelled.

    bAlpha /bGideon stilled, his wolf in his eyes.

    Though Alpha Jude seemed to hear none of it. He kept ramming himself against it like an insane beast, his body bleeding from the previous injuries from his fight with Alpha Gideon. This startled bAlpha /bHugo. He rushed over to pull him back from the cliff.

    “FUCKING STOP, JUDE!!” He growled in his face. “It’s toote,” he said gravely. “We cannot pursue her using that path. She’s already been taken!!”

    IF SHE’S BEEN TAKEN I WILL BRING HER BACK!!”

    BE TIED BY THE RULES!!”

    “HOW? DON’T FORGET YOU ARE AN INSTRUCTOR HERE. YOUR HANDS ARE TIED

    “I DON’T CARE!” Jude roared and in one fluid movement, he dug his bws /bunder the Alpha Instructor’s sigil on his upper arm. “This bis /bthe thing tying me, bright/b?”

    Alpha bHugo /bpaled, “What do you think byou /bare doing?”

    He could not finish his question because Alpha Jude tore the tattoo boff /bwith his ws.

    bSkin /bripped.

    Blood sprayed.

    The sacred ck btattop /bsplit apart in chunks of torn flesh and faded.

    My eyes widened, others were equally shocked. Even Alpha Gideon.

    “From bthis /bmoment bonward /b1 am no longer part of the Academy!” Jude growled.

    Jude, don’t! Hugo tried.

    But at was toote

    The tattoo valedpletely, leaving only a raw, bleeding scar. And then-

    Alpi Jude leapt over the waterfall.

    bIn /bthe link of an eye he was gone

    “RUCK JUDE!” Alpha Hugo roared at the top of his lungs, realizing he couldn’t stop him. He could only watch his figure dispar the slight fog down of the waterfall and darkness

    The clearing raploded in sols Everyone at the edge, looking down into the misty abyss below.

    Even Godeon good from .fung he tried disappear Throwing away his title, huure, and reputation all for a

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    In that moment, Alpha Hugo turned sharply to Gideon, sensing something that no one could imagine.

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    “Don’t even think about doing something crazy too. Gideon!” he rushed closer to him. “We’ve already lost Jude now. We can’t lose you too. You’re the head of the Academy! If you go, this ce will fall. The Elders will act. The Alpha King will know. Then everything that you built over the years including this Academy will be doomed! So don’t fucking think about doing banything /bcrazy!!”

    bBut /bAlpha Gideon looked torn in btwo/b.

    “My daughter is in Nightshade bAlley/b,” he whispered, voice hollow. “I have to go and get her.”

    Alpha Hugo shook his head, “No, you bcan’t /bgo by yourself. Remember there is a trialing. The rules bsay /btwo of bthe /binstructors have to be here during a trial. bNow /bJude is gone, you and I have to be here, or there bwill /bbe nothing but disaster! None of us can postpone the trials because of personal breasons/b!”

    With his roar a dead silence fell in the clearing. bAlpha /bGideon snorted hard like a mad bull, looking like he was about to burst in his fury, and break everyw but then he nced at the Alphas whose future was his responsibility. He was not a man who ruined others lives for his own–selfish gains.

    Though, he was also a father whose daughter was in danger.

    He was torn between his fatherly love and responsibility as the Head of the Academy.

    I could no longer watch it all and stepped forward, “I’ll bgo/bb./b”

    Everyone turned to me, their eyes filled with surpriseb, /beven Alpha Gideon and Hugo.

    “You?” Hugo frownedb. /b

    I nodded, “I will go and bring Grace back safe and sound.”

    No matter what others said, I still felt like I was the reason all of this happened. If I had not provoked her and instead had let things bgo/b, nothing would have gone wrong. I was not sure whether that rogue would have still taken Grace or not, but whatever it was I wanted to save her.

    “Alone” Alpha Hugo questioned.

    “I can do it.” just as I said it, I found him looking bpast /bme.

    Confused, I bnced /bback to find bRonan /bbehind me. I gasped theh noticed Finn and Asher.

    I was still surprised. Could they be balso/b…..

    They stood beside me like warriors. Quiet. Steady.

    bBut /bkyker he was standing under the tree. Never refusing

    Next Reed stepped bforward/b. Then bCassius /b

    Until one by one, the other Alphas joined. Like the army

    “We will gu,” they bsaid/b.

    Gideon stared in surprise at all of us.

    ks like we have a situation here Healer Aran calmly stepped forward, attracting everyone’s attention Perhaps. we will make this a trial What do you say?

    Sijetu Ilugo blinked. “A inait

    Ana nodded. “A mission to save Grace Official Assigned That way the barrier won’t bresist /bthem. Nor will the Elders

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    bFinally/b, his voice rose over the clearing.

    “From this moment, the next trial begins. All of you. Your mission is clear.”

    He drew in a breath, voice deep

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    “Go to Nightshade Alley. Find my daughter. Bring her back balive /bband /bsafe. If you find those who darey a hand on her…”

    His eyes burned like fire. “Bring me their heads!”

    Everyone scattered but I stood there feeling Ronan’s fingers brushing against mine. “What are you doing?” I nced up bto /bhim, this time meeting his gaze properly. His violet eyes were calm but hidden bwith /bpossessiveness locked deep into mine.

    He suddenly hooked bhis /bfingers in mine and whispered. “bJust /bdon’t want to let you go