Chapter 24

***Chastity***

I hadn’t thought I was ready for this, but I now knew I was. I didn’t believe in death like this, but she had done so many things. The biggest being murdering my mom. She needed to be punished for that. I also knew that if I was asked if I had anything to say, I knew that I did. I just needed to get up the courage to do so.

The courtyard was very noisy. Everyone seemed to be talking amongst themselves. The whole time, Aurora stood there looking very smug. She looked like she thought she was getting out of paying the price for what she had done. It started to worry me that maybe Beta Dimitri had lied to me about them not changing their mind on her being punished. If they did, I would have to run away. I couldn’t keep living as I had been.

The courtyard quieted down as soon as Alpha Joseph stepped onto the stage, and moved to the microphone. He didn’t say anything at first. He just seemed to look around at the crowd. He then turned back to all of us, and looked us each