Conquering His Cold Heart

290 First Kill

“So you’re telling me that you sent those werewolves after those vampires because you wanted to avenge me?” Everard asked Graham in a bone-chilling tone.

Graham had proudly explained how he had recruited all those werewolves within a short span of time and how they had carried out the perfect revenge plan on behalf of their King.

And even when he was sensing that the King was somewhat angry, he agreed to what the King had asked without any hesitation. “Yes, Your Majesty. I couldn’t just sit around and watch when our mortal enemy dared to throw fists on our newly appointed Ki–”

A fist came flying in and landed right on Graham’s face before he could even finish his sentence.

Everard had punched Graham so hard that he collapsed on the floor the very next second.

“How dare you think that you could do as you please and then say that you did it on my behalf?” Everard shouted so furiously that his eyeballs looked like they would pop out of the socket.

However, Graham didn’t learn his lesson yet. He instantly got up on his feet and defended his action.

“But Your Majesty, that vampire might have thought of you as someone weak if we hadn’t taken any action. And he might have tried to do something similar in the future as well thinking that you would keep quiet anyway. So, I wanted to let him know that he messed with the wrong person and that he would never be able to get away after laying hands on you.”

Everard suddenly grabbed Graham by his neck and dangled him in the air without breaking a sweat. He looked Graham dead in the eyes and then snarled, “And now, do you think that they will just fold their arms and sit around when you attacked their King!”

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He slammed Graham’s back against the cold hard floor and straddled him. He strangled Graham using both of his hands and shouted in rage, “And do you really think that I will let you live when you almost killed Anastasia and Alexander?”

Jerome hurriedly came and grabbed Everard by his chest. And he tried to pull the King away from Graham since the poor werewolf was gasping for air and was ready to pass out.

“Your Majesty! You will kill him if you keep that up! Please don’t let your anger cloud your judgment.” Jerome pleaded for Everard to stop while trying to drag him away. However, he couldn’t make Everard budge at all.

“He could have killed Anastasia and Alexander if it wasn’t for that vampire, Jerome!” Everard screamed and almost instantly, his eyes got filled with tears at that dreadful thought. “I would never have been able to forgive myself if something had happened to them.”

And knowing that the man he was strangling was the one who had planned that attack, Everard couldn’t control himself anymore. He protruded his claws and then dug it right into Graham’s throat.

Graham coughed up blood from his mouth and his neck also started to bleed profusely.

Jerome didn’t want the King to dirty his hands by killing someone from the clan. He didn’t want that more specifically because the full moon was nearing. And he didn’t want the members of the Crestfire clan to go against the one and only candidate of the alpha. He didn’t want someone else to be selected as the alpha of the clan just because of the one mistake from Everard.

Thus, he tightened his hold around Everard’s chest and used all the energy in his body to stop Everard from killing Graham in the fit of his rage.

Everard, however, forcefully leaned forward to free himself from Jerome’s hold and snarled right in front of Graham’s face, “I am going to finish you right here and now and make an example out of you so that from now on, the others won’t dare to do anything stupid on my behalf.”

“What will Anna and Alex think of me now? I might lose my friends because of your stupid action and your stupid revenge, you moron!” Everard made another slash across Graham’s chest and mentally prepared himself to kill Graham.

Graham’s face had already turned purplish by now because of the suffocation. He was finally thinking that maybe he had made a mistake by trying to take the matter into his own hands. When his mind was fully on the revenge plan, he forgot to consider the fact that the Crown Prince of Orsenia was a very good friend of the King.

He covered the wound on his throat with his palm to control the bleeding and then mumbled with great difficulty, “Please for…give me, Your Ma…jesty.”

However, by now, it was already too late to amend his mistake by asking for forgiveness. In Everard’s eyes, what he had done was something very unforgivable and unforgettable.

Jerome saw how Everard had his claws held out as if they were the paws of an animal that was ready to kill its prey. And realizing what the King was about to do, Jerome shouted while grabbing Everard’s arm, “No, Your Majesty! You can punish him after the fair trial but not now. Else, people might not take this positively even if he is in the wrong.”

His words fell on deaf ears.

“You were the previous beta, weren’t you? Your words will be enough proof that he deserved this,” Everard said in the most chilling tone ever.

And without wasting another second, he forcefully pulled his arm away from Jerome’s hold and punched his claws into Graham’s chest.

“Arghhhhhh…” Graham’s agonizing scream echoed far and wide. He could feel something sharp poking against some organs inside his chest, and he knew that his end was near.

Everard clenched his jaw tightly and heaved a deep breath before holding what felt like a heart in his palm. He felt so disgusted by the texture of that beating heart that for a split second, he wanted to pull his hand out of Graham’s chest and do as Jerome had asked of him.

But then an image of Alexander and Anastasia lying dead on the heap of other corpses flashed in front of his eyes.

‘They could have ended up like that…’ Everard thought to himself and before he would get a second thought, he forced himself to pull the heart out.

And just like that, Everard took someone’s life for the first time ever.

“Nooooooo…” Jerome watched the King in horror, aware that this would lead to a big problem later.

Everard was horrified by the sight that was in front of him as well. He looked at the warm heart that still pumped a few times in his hand. Goosebumps ran throughout his entire body and he felt like throwing up.

So, he quickly tossed the heart aside and then got up on his feet.

And while he was still under extreme stress after taking someone’s life, he ran away from the scene.