Chapter 59: blood

Logan’s pov

“Are you challenging my father Mr Knight?” Justice asked him and he nodded.

“Yes I am challenging him” was his response and his eyes landed on me.

Why?

Did he challenge my father for me?

but why?

I didn’t ask for any of this and I have never shown any interest in being an Alpha King.

“I didn’t ask for any of this, don’t do this if you are doing it for my sake” I said, and Justice scoffed.

“Yeah right, you always act like you aren’t interested in the throne but all this time you planned this with him didn’t you.

You are trying to stab father in the back” Justice said, and I shook my head.

My eyes landed on Charlotte; she was just watching everything unfold.

Mr Knight plotted against my father?

He is the one who was poisoning him, or did he just take advantage of what happened to my father.

Did he notice that my father’s aura isn’t as it used to be which means that he is weakened?

Or did he plan this from the very beginning?

But we did set a trap to find whoever did this to him.

“Everyone quiet down, are you seriously challenging me?” my Father asked Mr Knight one more time who nodded.

“Father, you do know what will happen when you lose right?

you will lose your position as beta and be banned from the pack mansion.

That’s if he doesn’t decide to ban you from the pack or kill you” Dean said trying to knock some sense into his father.

“That’s if I lose, when I win then we will finally have an Alpha King who will actually be capable of protecting us” he said and then looked at me.

“Please stop making it sound like you are doing it for Logan. You are doing all this for your own good” Alexa said rolling her eyes.

But I could see what she was trying to do.

With Mr Knight insisting that I am the proper future Alpha King and that he is doing this for me it only means one thing.

To people just like it seemed like to Justice they will think that I put him up to it.

Then even if I am made Alpha King everyone will hate and resent me.

My father has been a good King to them.

Yes they do have a few complains but none that will make them be okay with him being back stabbed by his own son.

And because of that chances are that my reign wouldn’t last that long.

I will get challenged every day and will likely be killed in my sleep if that’s possible.

But I do know that my father will live, but who is doing all of this?

Could it truly be Mr Knight?

And why drag me into all of this to begin with.

“I am sorry but what is this challenge you all keep talking about” Charlotte said.

She looked at me and winked, playing the clueless human suits her really well.

“It’s a fight, between the Alpha King and my father. A fight to the death” Dean answered and looked at me.

“I am really sorry Buddy; I didn’t know that my father would do such a thing” he said, and I just shrugged.

“Its okay, lets just see this through and hope that they both make it out alive” I said, and he nodded.

“Fine, tonight we shall battle, and I will show you that I am still the strongest” my father said, and his eyes landed on Charlotte.

She smiled at this, what would I have done without them?

Today my father would have been challenged as weak as he was he would have been killed.

I didn’t even notice something this important about my own father.

I lost my mother and that alone was too painful, we couldn’t handle the grief.

Although In our world people are always dying because of the war and hatred among supernatural beings.

You never can get used to all that pain and loss; it always hurts every time you lose someone.

Like it did when we lost Clara’s mother, she was best friends with my mother and more like a second mother.

So, I don’t even want to imagine the pain I would have felt being made into an orphan right in front of my eyes.

And the rules of the challenge are very strict, you can’t help at all even if they are about to kill each other.

If you step in then chances are that you will also get killed In the battle.

They don’t want anyone interrupting the battle since both parties agreed to this.

My father could have simply refused, but everyone knows that it would make him look weak.

A weak leader isn’t respected or listened by anyone.

So all the Alphas have to accept even if they don’t want to.

My father left the room.

I went right straight after him and Justice along with Charlotte followed.

“Sir did you have to accept? Cant you just simply tell him that you have no interest in fighting?” Charlotte asked him.

“If he did then Mr Knight would have been proven right, that father is now weak and not fit to lead. Which wont go well with the pack members” Justice explained to her.

“Who cares about what the pack members say? All you have to be concerned about is your own safety and nothing else” Charlotte said.

Justice scoffed looking at me, “Your human mate just doesn’t get it” he said.

“Well, if that’s the case then can’t you fight on his behalf?” she asked me, and I shook my head.

“Even if he could, your mate would die in a battle against the beta.

I think I am the only one who can fight him,

it would be a hard challenge to win but I could manage” Justice said with his head held high.

“And what about Logan? Can the win and why do you think he cant win?” Charlotte asked him.

“Your mate isn’t even a match against me, trust me unless you want him to die I suggest you don’t even mention it again” Justice said with a smirk.

“It’s okay son, I will fight him and if I die then I die” Mr Knight said.

“How could you say that father?

He wants Logan to be the Alpha King, is that what you want as well?

well Logan has always been your favourite” Justice said with a frown.

I suspected that he had something to do with this, but this is extreme even for him.

And now that I think about it he has more to lose than anyone else.

Hell, he even blamed me for it, he wouldn’t do something that will risk the chances of him being Alpha King.

This has been his lifelong goal; his entire dreams have everything to do with the title of Alpha King.

“I still cant believe that he would do that to you, you were practically brothers” I said to father who shrugged as he sat down.

“Well sometimes even such relationships are nothing in the face of great power and influence” Justice said.

“Is that your way of saying that you would do the same?” Charlotte asked him.

“Yes son, if I chose your younger brother as the Alpha King would you challenge him?” father asked him.

This is honestly the one question I have had ever since our parents told us their decision.

The way he acted; he was always so over competitive that it made me wonder if he would challenge me.

And even if he did if he challenged me and won what would he do?

Would he kill me?

would he lower my rank and that too to what point?

Or would he banish me from the pack and turn me into a rouge werewolf?

“What? Why does it feel like everyone is ganging up on me? why don’t you ask Logan this question?” he asked looking at me.

“Because unlike you brother I have made it clear that I am okay even if I don’t get the position.

But you, you always make it look like no matter what you must have it” I said, and he scoffed.

“I am the eldest, that title is my right, and I can’t believe I have to justify myself in front of your human mate. I am leaving, see you at the challenge father, and yes Logan.

I would challenge you if he made you King.

Just because we are blood doesn’t mean I will let you take what’s mine, that title has always been mine” he added before leaving the room.

“Well now we know how he truly feels, so much for blood being thicker than water” Charlotte said, and her eyes landed on my father.

“Sir, you need to win this no matter what.

There is a lot going on that we cant afford a war over the throne” Charlotte said, and my father nodded.

“No matter what, I will make sure that people remember who I am. I am Alpha King Dylan Spade” my father said.

“Dylan, is that really your name?” Alexa said standing at the door laughing.

What name was she expecting?