Total pages in book: 109
Estimated words: 103548 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 518(@200wpm)___ 414(@250wpm)___ 345(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 103548 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 518(@200wpm)___ 414(@250wpm)___ 345(@300wpm)
“And let’s do that by killing for them.” My gaze flicked to my desk, and the sketch lying on top. “Starting with that filthy, evil bastard—the shadow.”
Five pairs of eyes flashed gold.
“Agreed.”
TWO MONTHS PASSED, and in that time, so much changed.
Only the war council could propose and pass laws as they pleased, so it was still true that we needed the clan leaders to draft the laws, and then Nyx, Badr, Orion, and Edric could vote and pass them, getting them to do that proved a lot easier than expected.
After all of Wolf Nation looked into the eyes of true evil, they hit the streets. Executing citizens without a trial, attempted forced rape, holding children hostage, throwing the omegas out of the academy, reinstating the academy’s unequal rules, blocking betas, epsilons, and omegas from connecting and organizing on social media, and rejecting all the wanted changes proposed during the forums.
In one horrible video, all of Wolf Nation woke the fuck up.
Parents marching in the streets for custody rights. Omegas marching for better and equal rights—including a permanent change to the Corvin charter that their attendance was a right, not a privilege. Epsilons demanding to choose their own paths in life. Everyone demanding a swift and vicious end to alpha dominance.
Tracy’s uncle was thrown out of his brother’s house and into prison when her mother returned, telling her story for all of Loop Garou and Wolf Nation to hear. Part of that story included the many times she went to the police for help, and they threw her out—claiming a clan alpha could do whatever he wanted.
A mob of sun wolves attacked their local police stations, dragging the officers out onto the streets and making examples of them. Wolves from other clans had to be sent in to settle the riot and unrest, but that kicked off the start of the first independent epsilon-led investigation into the police force. So many officers were fired, some stations only had three people left manning them.
After gutting the police force, the protestors turned their sights on their clan leaders. Turned out their participation in the forums mattered more than they thought.
Many praised Mara for her commitment to making her clan safe for women before it benefited her politically. Even Magnus, who was dragged to the forums by the ear because of his mate, was recognized for calling for justice for every metal wolf that was hurt in the mess hall riot—not just the alphas.
But as for Nyx’s father—the forest clan alpha, the nepo baby water clan alpha, the moon alpha, and the wind clan alpha, everyone had a front-row seat to their scoffs, eye rolls, and refusals to change all throughout the forums. So their sudden reversals during the protests and their canned speeches about wanting change, were seen right through.
The public told them flat out either they proved they cared about all of their people by drafting the laws proposed in the forums, or they better barricade themselves in their mansions because from then on, the right of defeat challenges would never stop coming. All but Nyx’s father agreed and passed the laws.
Two weeks after Teodore Drach held a profanity-laced press conference, shouting about how he wouldn’t be blackmailed into passing nonsense, bullshit laws, he was challenged by his own son... Sol.
Turned out the brothers shared more in common than they thought, which included a hatred of their father who sent their only loving parent away so that he could dominate and destroy their childhoods.
The first thing Sol did when he took over was draft the law ending alpha-only custody in the forest clan. Nyx passed it into law the second it hit his desk.
After that, a flurry of new laws were proposed and passed.
An end to that approved job list bullshit—Passed.
An official independent epsilon-only force to investigate and monitor the police—Passed.
Stronger inheritance laws stating property and monies go to who they’re willed to—period—and if that property is passed on, it must be witnessed by four unrelated witnesses who can attest there was no coercion—Passed.
Command-based murder, rape, and theft resulting in mandatory sentences from ten years to life in prison—Passed.
Complete and total protection for coming children of the new generation stating that no law could ever be passed requiring harm to them or the forced or coerced use of their power—Passed so fast it made my head spin.
And on and on it went as each individual clan formed their own public forums, and told their clan leaders what they wanted directly.
The paperwork was coming in hot and heavy, drowning my fates in more administrative work than they could believe, but they had the time to do it because Corvin Academy was closed.
Not permanently, but after everything that happened, the school needed to clear out while some students went home to recover from the trauma of the riots, and others to be prosecuted and sentenced for leading them.