He’s an Alpha She doesn’t Care novel Chapter 32

Edward

He stood looking at Carlotti in the pack cell before him and she looked like she’d been crying a lot. Her eyes were all puffy even though she had not taken a single punishment yet as to her crimes. Other than being stripped of her nice clothing and put in cell clothes, and had her jewelry and make–up removed, her phone taken away from her, nothing had happened to her.

She looked pitiful or was trying to. He had no idea which it was, likely the latter, she was still sporting that silver cuff, and he had heard her own mother had come down here and stared at her demanding to know what the hell was going on and yelled at her when she’d not spoken. Now here he was, her Alpha standing before her, staring down at her sitting there on the ground.

She didn’t even know what her punishment was yet. He’d not told her, and she was sobbing. uncontrollably before him. Telling him she was sorry, that she wouldn’t do it again. He didn’t even know what she’d truly done yet, which meant she could do it all again if he took her at her words and released her right this minute, because she’d not confessed to doing anything.

That car ride back here to the pack with Chester and Luther had seen her say nothing at all, but Chester had gotten anger from her the entire way mixed in with thoughts and feelings of it being Wynta’s fault that she was getting into trouble. So again, if he didn’t get to the bottom of it, Wynta would still be her target.

“I’ve decided on three days on the shaming post and three lashes, because you thought it was acceptable to hit Wynta three times. Blame her for the lashes you took, after the last full moon, when you know damned well what the rules were around that Luna Celebration and you were the reason Jared put Wynta out of the car so she didn’t turn up.

“You should think yourself lucky that I didn’t lash you like I did Jared, who not only got those three lashes but then got one for everyday she was missing as well. Five days it took to find her and get her inside this pack. So, I could in theory have lashed you another five times. Like I did him. Do you think that is a fair punishment?” he asked her now.

Her eyes were cast down, but he saw the way one of her fists balled by her side before she pulled it out of sight. ‘Still angry‘ Chester mind–linked to him from his place against the wall.

‘I can see that,’ and he could. This girl still didn’t think she’d done anything wrong.

“I wonder, Carlotti, if after this punishment, you’ll see the error of your ways or if you’ll just continue to blame Wynta for this punishment you’re about to receive. I don’t even yet know the full extent of all you did. But Jared is also unhappy with you, that claim you made in Wynta’s office about he and you being in a secret relationship…” he shook his head.

“I encourage my boys to all date. I don’t even care who, though I do prefer it to be from another pack or a human even. So, when they find their Mate there is no animosity from she–wolves inside this pack. So that was a lie. The question for me is why would you lie about something like that… was it just to make sure Wynta wouldn’t bring it up? Or is there something more to your words.

“Jared himself wants me to get to the bottom of that, informed me he wouldn’t date someone that didn’t have an education or a job, would just leech off him. I also know my boy. he doesn’t like she–wolves that fall at his feet or beg for his attention. You don’t know him well, he’s been gone the whole time you’ve been a part of this pack.”

Still she said nothing. “Haul her up, Chester, let’s get her punishment underway.” She didn’t fight his Gamma going in there and bring her out to be put in the shaming post, and he thought that was because she could take the lashes and the three days and then come off it and go right back to plotting and planning after that.

He walked along with them and connected himself to the entire pack, to come for a formalized meeting in front of the packhouse. It was politely worded, but they all knew it meant someone was going to be punished. By the time they arrived at the packhouse, most of the pack were also standing around waiting. He watched Carlotti balk at the sight of everyone here, and she looked at him questioningly.

He wasn’t required to explain himself to her, she was shackled to that shaming post and the silver cuff removed from her. As he took the cat of three tails from the box it was kept in, that Ernesto himself was carrying. Her own stepfather handing out the punishment tool; that spoke volumes to most standing here.

“A crime was committed this morning against one without a wolf, and one that, though is not a pack member, I have been trying to bring in for five years now. Carlotti attacked without due provocation Wynta Morgan, you all know I want to bring her into this pack, that my own Luna is also looking to find ways to bring her into this pack.

“Yet Carlotti here has decided of her own accord, that Wynta is not welcome inside this pack, and appears to have set out to try and make Wynta feel that, and tried and get her to leave. So for all of you in this pack, my pack, where I rule, and I say who stays here and who doesn’t. That also think Wynta shouldn’t be a part of this pack and should just go away. This is your first lesson on what will happen to you if I find out you have helped Carlotti in any way.

“Who struck Wynta, who is without wolf, and still recovering from her injuries after being washed away in that heavy rain a few weeks back? Threatened her with three hits, only got one in, but still intended to strike her three times.” he shook his head. “It was all caught on film because, thankfully, being a rogue, Wynta has her own security cameras in her office to protect herself from people such as Carlotti.

“She will get three days on this shaming post and take three lashes, for that act alone. Now before I get to that, Jared had a request, seeing as Carlotti took it upon herself to claim she was Jared’s secret lover, and they were in a secret relationship. To which my son denies, and I believe him. I’ve not gotten to the bottom of that one yet. But there will be a full investigation into it after the three days on this shaming post.

“Which will give this little liar, the time to think about all she’s done and come clean, or the time to come up with a new lie, to try and get past me, which will not happen, but if she tries it, she will just be banished from this pack and turned rogue.” He stated and saw Carlotti’s head whip up and her eyes go very wide.

He hunkered down and looked right at her. “Oh, did you think I would stand for your behavior forever! You and everyone inside this pack know of my intention to bring Wynta in, yet have intervened, and I think in more ways than one, likely by the time I’m finished with you, it will all come out, slowly and agonizingly painful I imagine, by that still angry look on your face.”

He pointed to her “That she–wolf you’re angry at, has never even set foot inside this pack. There is no reason for you to hold any grudges against her. As far as I’m aware, she’s never even so much as dated a wolf from this pack, so you can’t say she stole your boyfriend either. Why do you hate her is what I’ll get to the bottom of. After your time on this shaming post,” he informed her and stood up.

“Three lashes,” he stated, and struck her three times with that cat in quick succession. “Now! believe Ernesto, you have something you wanted to add.”

“Yes, Edward, after the events that unfolded today and what I saw and heard on the recording inside the office. I have decided to strip Carlotti from the Beta extended family line. She is no longer considered my stepdaughter. Will no longer hold any Beta privileges, or live within the packhouse,

“I have a already canceled her pack card and confiscated her car. If she is to be released from the cells after investigation, she will be of no status other than standard warrior, and will have no money to her name. She will have to go and find a job or find she’ll be homeless within a month due to unpaid rent for the single dorm accommodation she will now have to live in.”

He was watching Carlotti as she stared at Ernesto, and mixed in with all the pain from the lashing she’d just taken, was anger at being de–ranked and losing everything. He shook his head slightly, so very entitled he thought to himself, but said nothing about that, only “What happens to you now, Carlotti, is all on your own hands. Whether you stay as a working, contributing pack member to this pack or be banished and become the thing you seem to hate the most, a rogue, is entirely up to you and the answers you will give me when you come off this shaming post. It is Monday,” he looked at his watch. “7pm, so you will be on this post. until Thursday 7pm and I will interrogate you on Friday.”

He looked to his wolves, “If any of you are involved in any of this, I suggest you present yourself to me and tell me your part before I pull it out of Carlotti, or you’ll all suffer the same fate. If, as it is suspected, Carlotti here plotted and planned for Wynta not to arrive inside this pack so I couldn’t initiate her into it on the last full moon.

“Which also saw my son and heir being used for that very thing, that could be seen as treason against my eldest son. Seeing as he was under my direct order to bring her in, and someone went out of their way to try and make him fail in his duty. I will also be getting to the bottom of that.” he stated, “You’re all dismissed.” Edward told them and turned and walked away.

Marian stepped up to him. “Is Wynta okay?” she asked with a frown.

“Yes, but she’s got a split lip. I organized for Jared to take her home, though she dodged him. “He nodded and shook his head.

“To be expected if what you think about her is actually what happened. She’s not going to want to be escorted around by an Alpha.”

“I’m aware,” he nodded. “But I gotta start small. They got off to a rocky start, though I have a feeling that is all Carlotti’s doing. Come let me fill you in on today’s events.”