CHAPTER 11 A TRUE EMPRESS

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Darren POV

When Daniel said he wanted to talk to me this was definitely not one of the conversations I thought we'd be having, I'm currently in my office with him and he's telling me about these accusations of my royal guards abusing their new mates, the omega clan leaders I had them watch over.

At first I tried to tell him that he was just imagining things but then he told me he'd seen proof, that the clan leaders were to afraid of their new mates to say anything about it and how he'd saw multiple bruises on them, but the most shocking part of all was the fact that my first empress knew about this, that the rumors were actually true and they were being abused.

"Are you 100 percent sure about this? I don't want to say anything without proof?" I reasoned, he just looked annoyed at me, "I'll bring one of them back here and you can see for yourself the bruises and the scared looks they have whenever their forced mates are mentioned." He gave me a very heated glare when he said forced mates, I winced and flinched a little bit, not gonna lie.

Then he went and brought back the clan leaders and they refused to look me in the eye, and you could tell they were scared, "I know that you all are not too fond of me but I would like you to be honest with me. Are you being abused by my royal guards?" I asked them honestly, they looked at each other then they looked at Daniel and when he smiled and shook his head yes, that's when they told me everything.

Apparently it was worse than I had been told, not only were they being abused and forced to perform sexual acts,  their so called mates were sleeping around and even invited the women they were sleeping with back to their homes, where these women even took part in their beatings, after hearing everything I was utterly disgusted.

I sent the clan leaders back to the party so I could talk to Daniel, I sit back in my chair and sigh, I can't believe I was so blind to what was happening, "I honestly can't believe it, I knew there were rumors but I never pictured this." I said honestly, "How did you picture forcing people to be the mate's to go? You murdered their loved ones, stole their rights to choose their own life partner, mated them with people you control, and to top it off forced them to live in the same place that the murderer of their family member lives, all so you could keep them under your thumb, and not to mention you bribed the dominant new clan leaders to betray their family to you, so while they lead the life of luxury the omega's lead lives of misery, And you expect me to believe that you're still some kind and loving emperor?" He scoffed at me, and in all honesty he was right, I knew he was.

"You're right, I never wanted this, I wanted them to get to know their mates, and maybe one day love their new mates, please tell me how to fix this, the only way to abolish their matings is to announce to everyone what they've been doing, but even if we convince others that I knew nothing about this, unless someone takes them in as household members they've got nowhere to go, and only I or one of the empresses can have household members, and I highly doubt they'll trust me or the empresses to protect them, especially seeing as the first empress knew all about this." I growl out the last part, Alice will be dealt with, that much is certain.

Just then Daniel sighs, "What if I took them in?" He asked, I raised a brow at this, "Daniel the only way you can take them in is if you agree to be the southern region empress and I'm highly certain you don't want to be the empress." I replied dryly, he gives me a bored look, "I don't but if it means keeping these people safe than I am willing to do it." He says and honestly he sounds like a true empress. I smiled at him and he immediately burns my hope, "Let's be clear, I'm doing this to protect these men and their families from a mess you started, I don't fully trust you yet but if you can prove to me that you're the kind emperor you are wanting to claim you are then I will be willing to at least try to have some kind of relationship with you." He says and then walks off elegantly, like a true empress would.

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