Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 195

After that I wasn't the same. "I'll walk," I told Kaiden quietly. "I can walk now."

But he didn't let go. He didn't say anything.

That night, people didn't have anything better to do than try to find a cause to all of this. Lying in the dirt, adults took turns blaming our alpha for having the audacity to die. Blaming our luna for not being able to properly negotiate a peace treaty thereafter. Blaming our nation for dividing itself into two factions-the Blood Pack and the New Moon Pack.

Some people even went as far as to argue that it was the Eclipse Pack's fault, the people who had originally stolen land from both us and the Silvermoon. If they had never done that, we wouldn't be disputing what belongs to who now. But that night, the worst accusation I heard by far was when they blamed that boy who was killed. They blamed his parents too for not enforcing the curfew. It took only a few hours of walking to turn our martyr into a criminal.

While all of these adults played their dumb game of blaming everyone but themselves, there was only one thought in my mind. My brother. He was lying down beside me looking more tired than I had ever seen him, but at the time I thought it was only a physical thing.

"Tomorrow, Kade," I whispered. "I will carry you, so don't worry. We'll be okay."

He let out a chuckle, but it was a tired one. Spaced out. Labored. "With my luck, I'll be carrying you again, so have some compassion and let me sleep."

"Okay." But I was cold then, so I burrowed myself beside him. Though we tried to get some rest, the adults spoke well into the night. And when the guards told them to shut up, they switched to the group mindlink so everyone could hear.

Over the sound of their humming thoughts, Kaiden quietly asked me, "What do you think is more effective, Ryssy?" He stared into the open night sky, his body just a silhouette at that point against me. "Placing the blame or finding a solution?"

I tried not to laugh when a teenage girl beside us groaned out an, "mhm." She snuggled closer into her boyfriend's arms, and the guy chuckled too, warning her not to start anything.

I thought about that for a while. "Why not place the blame though? Because what solution could there be?" I finally asked.

I knew that Mom's solution was sitting on the porch.

Dad would yell about stuff with his friends.