The Son of Red Fang by Diana Sockriter novel Chapter 118

Chapter 118

“Cole’s extreme reaction when you came to get Jamie earlier this afternoon made an impression on me. It took a bit of thinking about it but enmeidering. when he tried to walk away from Dallas the first time and Richard kept him from doing so made me reconsider keeping him with the others involved in the fight. I had intended on putting him on house arrest until the investigation was completed here in the pack house when I stopped at the building to get my clothes. Just thirty minutes after dropping him off and you all can see the damage that was done.”

Patrick is silent as he nods his head to my answer.

“I’m still having a hard time understanding why if

from the pack why would you need to remove the others as well?”

“Going back to the true reason for this meeting might help answer your questions a little better. My original intent for the meeting was to introduce everything I’m seeing and why I’m taking the actions that I believe are necessary so that our future leaders of this pack can understand and recognize the difference between a troubled wolf in need of help and a trouble maker that needs to go. What we know right now is three days ago, Alpha Redmen forced Cole into the training room for physical punishment based on the accusation that he had raped Luna Sasha. We also know that the cuts and braises all over his body are a result of that physical punishment.

Now, if those cuts and bruises were on just his bottom, then there be quite as big of an issue. Although the marks on his rear can be argued as excessive force the council does allow for increasing force to be used on repeat offenders. Now if Alpha Redmen was reporting these assaults on the future luna to the council as he’s supposed to, then after the third offense the council would force Alpha Redmen to turn his son over for a trial. If it was proven that he was indeed raping the luna he would be physically punished by the council and sentenced to between one and five years in prison. Once he serves his sentence he would then be forced into exile and permanently banned from joining any pack. Additionally, if the council forced Alpha Redmen into a trial over his son and his son was found guilty of the offense then Charles Redmen would be forced from his position due to his failure to protect the pack.

The issues at hand with this particular punishment begins with this being the sixth time Cole has been accused and punished without the proper evidence to prove his guilt. The next issue is Alpha Redmen choosing to use the buckle end of the belt. Combine that with five separate locations in addition to his rear and now you’re looking at excessive force or abuse. Additional issues include the concentration of hits on his back to the point that it broke two of his ribs, multiple hits to his genitalia with the buckle end of the belt and tying silver around his leg tight enough and for a long enough time that it caused a second degree burn. The denial of medical treatment of the burn has allowed the silver to continue burning him until it’s nearly reached the level of third degree putting him at high risk of sepsis. All of these elements, both separately and together, are considered torture.”

I pause a minute trying to allow the rest of those at the table to finish eating. My main concern is Lilly as she’s always been very sensitive to abused wolves showing up and considering the internal injury she sustained today I need to make sure she eats.

pack?” “With all this evidence that he was recently tortured why can’t you just pull him out of his

Dasha, Dominic’s recently found mate, asks.

“That’s why I called Xavier. While I do believe that there are laws that would allow me to pull him from his pack immediately based on protection from torture laws, the laws definition on what is considered torture may have changed over the four years since I’ve needed to protect a wolf. While I feel that beating him with a belt between the legs until you can no longer tell he’s a male and purposely causing a second degree burn with silver would be considered torture I can not make a move without the council agreeing that it is.”

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