MIA: A WEREWOLF'S CURSE

Chapter 30 : THE ALPHA'S FINAL JUDGMENT

Mia swallowed hard as she thought deeply about what to do to save herself from this dire situation. Her eyes darted to Aaron but he didn't seem to care anymore and that made pain slice through her chest but she knew something else other than pain, something sharp and more painful than any pain she felt right now was going to definitely slice through her chest.

"You're taking so much time. Are you going to prove yourself or not?" Miram asked with a slyness in her tone as she spoke.

Mia's brows drew together in a frown as Miram's voice cut through her chain of thoughts.

"Your time is ticking, darling. Come up with something now or else." Miram shouted.

"Please, I'm thinking." Mia said, not intending to be rude.

After thinking for a few more minutes,

"Ugh, fu*k this."

Mia heard Miram say and in that moment, a thought came to her head.

"The prisoner." Mia yelled.

The sound of the elders whispering among themselves filled the air around Mia. It was clear to her that they didn't understand what she was trying to say.

"How is it that a prisoner will help you prove your point?" Miram's father, who was also an elder of the council, asked.

"The way he'll react to the gem will prove it's worth." Mia said.

She was breathing very fast because she didn't think that what she was thinking was going to work.

Miram's shrill voice as she lets out a horrendous laughter filled the ears of everyone present.

"Do you think that this is some sort of child's play?" She asked.

She opened her mouth to say something else.

"Enough Miram. Let's hear what she has to say." Aaron's intimidating deep voice came, cutting Miram's words short and shutting her up.

She relaxed back into her seat but with a searing anger.

"Go on." Aaron said, using his head to gesture to Mia to go on with her explanation.

"I just need one prisoner and I promise that it will work." She pleaded.

They were all very skeptical as they looked at me.

"Please." She begged.

There was silence as nobody knew what to say or what to expect.

Aaron sighed, "fine." Then he turned to Justice who was standing very close to him, "get me one of the prisoners." He instructed.

Justice gave him a low courteous bow before walking out. The elders turned to themselves, whispering and talking about this was going to be a total failure.

The weight of it all seemed to be weighing so much on Mia that in that moment there was nothing more that she wanted than to be swallowed up by the ground. She had been there, in the council room for more than an hour and she was becoming fatigue as both the stress of everything and the load of having  to prove herself weighed on her.

The sound of the door to the council room opening, filled her ears and pulled her out of her train of thoughts. She looked up in the direction of the door and saw as Justice held a prison with chains strapped to the prisoner's neck.

He was looking very weak and battered and Mia saw that Justice wore a glove on his hand which he used to drag the remnant of the chain.

He dragged him to the centre and lowered him to his knee. Mia's heart jumped. She stepped away from the prisoner who was made to kneel in front of her.