The Dark Side Of Fate by Karima Sa'ad Usman

130 Ramsey's Questioning.

~Sylvester~

We stayed a while in the council hall while I bumped Leo, Devin and Christian up to noble status; my reasons were clear. I will only work with people I trust.

Dominic would be made lord under the Balyeav family. Unfortunately, he would have to bear the Balyaev last name. Our father had wiped out the family, and Dominic would have to resurrect the bloodline.

"I feel this thing was planned," Larry said after I had made my declarations, trying to incite people, and I laughed and stood up. His opinion didn't matter anymore, and he knew it, so his head remained bowed.

"I may be King, but I want to work with people passionate about our world. Alpha Albert, Corrigan, and Zakharov have shown their zeal to make this succeed.

I may be King, but I need trustworthy people to succeed. While their families will now have representation on the council, I will officially make Sean Kingston head Alpha of the west, restoring a seat that my father made vacant due to mutiny.

My main goal is to restore peace, and I know I have made this decision because of this purpose." I said and ended the conversation.

Unlike the past when the council will argue and debate the matter. All they could do now was advise. I was given total control.

Now it was time to fish the bastard out.

I could not wait to question Ramsey. I would start with him and then move on to the others. As for the Makhailovs, Peakmans and Wayats, I had something special for them.

We left the place and returned home. Tamia was very tired, so I accompanied her to the room so she could rest. My mother wanted all the juicy details of how the event went, and Avery offered to tell her, leaving me free to do my work.

I freshened up and decided to visit the council prison to question Ramsey. There was no way I would sleep without interrogating him.

Leo and Devin had pleaded with me to participate in the questioning, and I obliged them.

It was the least I could do, seeing they were the ones that championed the cause at the council.

Dominic and Christain proceeded to question Lenny Mikhailov so we could find Jacob.

Theo and Marcel proceeded to handle Peakman; Wayat would have to wait his turn.

I walked into Ramsey's cell with Leo and Devin. News had gone around that I was now a king. Even the enforcers at the prison greeted me. I should delegate this to someone else because of my status, but I wanted to do it myself.

Leo was related to Ramsey even though Amanda had left and was now far away, starting over. I could understand why Leo would want to participate in Ramsey's interrogation. The man had ruined his home because of greed, and Leo needed answers and revenge.

Devin excused us to check on something and told us to go ahead.

I let him go.

I knew we had to move quickly. I needed all the information I could get, and I needed to catch the so-called King.

Being his right-wing man, I knew Ramsey would lead me to him. So far, everyone had spoken Ramsey's name; it had to account for something.

I drew a chair and sat in front of him while Leo decided to stand.

Ramsey had a silver bracelet on, so his hands weren't tied, but he was useless because he could not shift or access his wolf abilities. Questioning him would be easy.

I looked at him, and he smiled at me. I knew he was trying to keep a brave facade. He knew he was busted, and his life was forfeit. It seems he would rather die a brave man than a coward.

His smile meant he was smiling at death.

I represented death to him, and his mind was right.

There was no way I would let him live.

Letting him survive to tell the story another day would be stupid.

"Your game is up, Ramsey," I said, and he nodded.

"I agree," he said, not putting too much of a fight, and I knew something was off.

"Who is the king?" I asked him, wanting to get straight to the point.

"Well, you are, of course. You got crowned today," He said, and I got impatient.

I wanted to be done with this and prepare for my crowning and wedding.

"I do not have all the time in the world. I have a list of all your associates," I told him, and he frowned at me.

"A list? What list? Who compiled this list?" the man asked, and even though I should be asking him the questions, I knew I needed to rub it in that his very own had sold him out.

"Well, your daughter gave us a flash drive of the list of your associates," I said, and he began to laugh. He laughed so hard that I felt stupid.

Leo wanted to punch him, but I stopped him.

"Amanda?" Ramsey said, and I nodded, and he shook his head.

"My my my, you are even a bigger fool than I thought. Your father wouldn't have fallen for this," he said, and I frowned at him.

"Where did she get this file from?" He asked.

"Your computer Ramsey, so quit acting," Leo said, and Ramsey bowed his head as if he was hurting. Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

"Do I look stupid to you?" Ramsey asked me, and I did not respond, making a straight face.

"So I would somehow compile a list of my associates and save it as a file on my computer. Amanda miraculously knew my password, and out of the many files on my computer, she happened to know which one to pick and copy?" he said, and putting it that way, it seemed a bit off, but the specific folders copied made me relax.

"She copied many files," Leo said, and Ramsey shook his head.

"I do not keep a list of associates on my computer. I never have and never will. I play solitaire and chess with my desktop and nothing more. That list isn't mine. You can send for my computer and give an expert to check if I have deleted anything from it," he said and looked at both of us.

"Where is she now?" He asked me, and I looked at him.

"Far away from your reach," I said, and he laughed.

"And I guess she is far away from yours too," he said, laughing, and I was impatient.

"You are pissing me off, Ramsey," I said with my command, and he shook, remembering why I was a Volkov, to begin with.

"You have been had," Ramsey said, and Leo wanted to attack him, but I stopped him.

"I do not know what my darling daughter told you, but she is cunning like that. She was smart enough to plan her escape if she got caught," He said, and I shut him up.

"Annika said you..." I said, and he interrupted me.

"Annika is a blind fool. And I am sure she is dead now because Amanda always cleans up her mess," He said with sadness in his eyes, and I became confused.

"You have let go of the only person that knows the king's identity," he said, and I punched him. I thought he was trying to get back at his daughter for giving him up.

Touching his broken nose, he tried to fix it a bit.

"I am not lying, your majesty," he said with sincerity in his eyes.

"Amanda schooled in Cains most of her life, where she met the King. He did not live there, but he visited there often, and they shared the dream of ruling together," he said and sighed.

"She met Leo a day after she arrived in the east. She came there with the sole purpose of recruiting me.

I would have declined if I knew she was setting me up as the fall guy. But what they offered was too good to refuse.

I had been disgraced in the east; it would have been nice to become a nobleman, more important than the man that took my position.

They did not have an army, so they needed to cause war. She sweet-talked me into it. Something about restoring our family's glory and giving me a seat on the council.

She said her mate was a Volkov and that they loved each other so much. He did not claim her, of course. Their wedding was to occur after they succeeded at creating the war.

Getting with Leo wasn't part of the plan, but she went to Casper's party, and they were fated. It was a massive setback because she was torn between her wolf and her desires," he said, and I called Kappa Wilson on the phone to check on Annika in her cell. There was no way Ramsey was lying. I could see the resignation in his eyes.