Tempted By My Ex's Brother-in-Law (Aria and Grayson) novel Chapter 209

Chapter 209

Tasmin let out a broken cry, blood running from the corner of her mouth.

Alpha Thalira stared down at her like she wasn’t her child. Like she was filth.

“You,” Alpha Thalira said, voice shaking with fury, “have disgraced Frostpine Pack. And you have disgraced me.”

“M–Mother…” she sobbed, shaking her head violently. “Mother, please… please don’t-”

She tried to crawl forward like she could lick her way back into Thalira’s favor.

“You don’t understand,” Tasmin kept wailing, her voice cracked and raw. “I didn’t do it for myself. I did it for the pack! I did it for Frostpine!”

A wave of disgust rose in my chest.

Even now she still wanted to paint herself as a martyr.

Tasmin’s eyes flicked desperately over the crowd, like she was searching for even a single person who still believed in her.

“I had to!” she cried. “None of my sisters could lead on the battlefield! They were all too weak. Too soft! But the members needed a hero. So I had to step up and do something!”

Her voice rose higher and higher, almost hysterical, like she truly believed what she was saying.

“I didn’t fake the victory because I wanted power,” she sobbed. “I faked it because I wanted Frostpine to survive. If people find out the rogues can invade us at any time, all soldiers and members will lose their hope. There’ll be a wide range of panic. Do you really want that, mother?”

The crowd stirred again.

For a moment, I worried it might work–that every would really believe in her. Because humans were stupid that way. They loved a dramatic lie, especially when it came with tears.

But then Morrigan suddenly stood up. She clenched her teeth, looking at Tasmin with despise and hatred in her eyes. “You did it for the pack? Please. That’s the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.”

Tasmin’s head snapped toward her. “Fuck off Morrigan. This is none of your business!”

“Of course this is my business, Tasmin. You just called us weak and soft. I won’t stand here and let you insult me like that!” Morrigan cried loudly and then turned to Alpha Thalira. “Mother, I’m not even surprised that she faked the victory. Tasmin’s always a liar, remember? Ever since she was a kid, she’d lie about her grades, her life, her boyfriends. Everything about her is a lie!”

Tasmin’s face turned purple. “Shut up.”

But her elder sister continued in an even louder voice. “And she’s cruel and unreasonable and incompetent. Remember how many times she had abused the commoners, and you had to come up and save her ass. mother? You know it very well that she can’t be trusted with anything important!”

Tasinin’s lips trembled. “I said shut up!”

Morrigan shrugged. “If Mother had let me lead the army back then, maybe I would’ve actually won that battle. Maybe Frostpine wouldn’t have thousands of dead soldiers buried under your lies. You big, fat loser.”

That hit like a knife.

Tasmin’s pupils expanded. And then she jumped like an enraged cat.

“You?” she shrieked, suddenly forgetting she was chained and bleeding. “YOU?! You can’t even hold a fucking sword without shaking! You faint when you see a funking dead mouse. You won’t last a single second on the battlefield!”

Morrigan’s face turned red. “Bullshit! At least I didn’t massacre my own soldiers to cover up my failure. At least I’m an honest person with honor.”

“Honor my ass! Every company Mother handed over to you is losing money, because you’ve been stuffing your own pockets with it all. You call that honor?!”

Morrigan inhaled sharply and turned to Alpha Thalira with panic, “Another lie! Don’t listen to her, mother. She’s just trying to shift the focus away from her!”

“Hypocrite!” Tasmin spat. She tried to lunge, but the guards yanked her chains back hard, forcing her to her knees again.

“You weak puss!” Tasmin screamed at her sister. “I lost that one battle but at least I’m brave enough to face the rogues. What the hell have you done? All of you would have been dead if it weren’t for me! ALL OFF YOU!”

Orion jumped up and pointed an accusing finger at his aunt. “See that grandmother? See how ungrateful and cruel she is? You should expel her today!”

Meave jumped at him and grabbed his collar. “Get away from my mother! The only person should be expelled is you! You pathetic weak dickhead!”

Orion cried out in horror and wrestled on the ground with Meave.

Tasmin and Morrigan were still yelling at each other.

And all guests were enjoying this family scandal while whispering excitedly among themselves.

This whole place had turned into a complete chaos.

“ENOUGH!!!”

Alpha Thalira’s voice cracked like thunder.

Everyone froze instantly.

The Alpha stepped forward. Her eyes were bloodshot, her fists clenched at her sides like she was fighting the urge to rip all of her kids apart with her bare hands.

“I did not raise my daughters to be this,” she said, voice low and shaking. “And I most certainly did not build Frostpine Pack to become the laughingstock of the entire world.”

Tasmin’s sobs became smaller, pitiful. “M–Mother…”

But Alpha Thalira didn’t soften. Not even a little. She looked at Tasmin like she was dirt under her boots.

“I am disappointed,” she said icily. “Not just in you. In this whole family.”

My dear family all looked uneasy. Then Alpha Thalira announced, “The grand parade is cancelled.”

There was a short silence and then the crowd exploded again. All guests were crying out in disbelief:

“What?”

“Cancelled?!”

“After all this–We came all the way up here!”

Alpha Thalira didn’t care.

“Any celebration is now a disgrace,” she said coldly. “From this moment on, Frostpine Pack will enter mourning.”

Then she turned sharply toward the guards.

“Throw Tasmin into the dungeon,” she ordered. “Chain her with silver. No visitors. No food. No water.”

Tasmin’s eyes widened in absolute horror. “No! Mother! Please-!”

She thrashed violently again, screaming. But Alpha Thalira didn’t even glance at her. Two guards seized Tasmin like she was a sack of trash. Meave screamed and cried following them out.

I quietly let out a breath that I had been holding. At that moment, I felt…no, not relief. Because I took down one enemy but there were still so many others left. This was far from the end.

I just felt so….empty.

Tasmin had destroyed so many people. Ruined so many lives. Even if she would get punished later, those lives were still gone. Lost. Forever.

I wished there was a crueler way to punish that monster.

Alpha Thalira’s gaze swept through the campsite one last time, over the stunned soldiers, the whispering guests, the trembling family members-

Then she turned sharply and stormed away. Her cloak whipped behind her like a black shadow.

People started leaving in groups, voices sharp and excited, like they’d just attended the greatest entertainment show of the century. Now that Alpha Thalira was gone, there was nothing holding back the gossip.

I had no doubt that the whole world would know about this in the next couple of minutes.

As guests walked pass by me, I heard their whispers:

“I can’t believe this…Alpha Thlira was a great Alpha but now look at her pack…”

He raised a hand and stopped me. “Let me finish, girl. My son Eren admires you. And I do too. If you marry him, you’ll have strong backing. A strong mate. A loyal alliance.”

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