Chosen by Fate, Rejected by the Alpha

998 Chapter 183- Trinity – Another Meeting in the Throne Room (VOLUME 5)

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Trinity

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When Reece and I woke the next morning, I felt a lot more relieved than I had when we went to sleep. Despite the fact that I had fallen asleep almost instantly, I had been very worried and stressed. I had just been so mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausted that I couldn’t stay awake anymore. And when I woke up, seeing Reece next to me, holding me actually, I felt the relief wash over me. I had still been worried that he wasn’t here, that I had been hallucinating all of the events after the battle. I hadn’t though. He was here and that was what mattered.

We got up and dressed in semi casual clothing. I wanted to meet with everyone in the throne room again, and that meant that we needed to be presentable. Still, it wasn’t an official audience with the queen kind of thing, and we were relaxing after the end of the battle and the case, so I was allowed to be relaxed about it all. I mean, I was the queen after all, who was going to punish me for not being formal?

The entire family ate breakfast together the next morning. My parents, Grandfather, Lila, all the kids, my little sister, Reece’s little sister, all of us. Everyone was talking happily and telling us how relieved they all felt this morning.

It wasn’t just that Reece was alive that was making us feel this way. I think that it was that the case was over. There was no more threat. No one had to worry about a random group of murdering assholes taking the lives of anymore of my people. And whether they kids knew about the situation or not, they had felt the tension in all of us. Now that the tension was gone though, we all felt lighter, freer, and happier. It was perfect.

I sent word to those that might want to be at the meeting today. The ones that might not know yet if Reece had lived through the night. I told them that the meeting would start at ten in the morning and to be in the throne room before I arrived. I might have been a little secretive about the meeting. That was kind of cruel of me I guess, but I was going to show them all when Reece and I walked into the throne room, that he had lived and that all was right with the world.

Reagan, Rika and Talia asked if they could come to the meeting with us, which I thought about seriously before agreeing to let them be there. Zachary, Zander, Zayden and Zaley also asked if they could be there, but I denied their request. Obviously, they were upset about it, but I told them that it wasn’t the same as their older siblings going. They were much younger than them and they wouldn’t really understand what was going on. And despite the fact that they knew Reece had almost died, they didn’t know the true details of what had happened in our community lately. And I didn’t want to upset them with that information at the moment. They would learn of it, eventually, but not right now. Not while they were still so young and innocent. They didn’t need to rush into being grownups. They needed to be kids for a little while longer.

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Reece, Reagan, Rika, Talia and I gathered in the waiting room behind the throne room as we listened to the others filing in on the other side of the door. We hadn’t allowed anyone except for Vincent to come with us to this room. The others were to go into the hall and wait with the everyone else. Again, I was being a little cruel, but it was all to reveal to them at once that Reece was alive and well. He even seemed to be moving without pain now. It was like nothing had ever happened.

After the doors to the throne room had been closed, a sound loud enough to be heard on this side of the large hall, I told the others to get ready. We were going to head out there all at once. Me and Talia side by side first, then Reagan and Rika next to each other, and finally Reece in the back. He knew that I was trying to make a big reveal here. And he was playing along nicely. So much so in fact, that he was standing about eight feet behind Reagan and Rika as he waited to walk out. He was going to make his entry delayed.

I saw the faces of everyone as we walked out of the waiting room. They saw me and Talia, then Reagan and Rika. Without Reece appearing right away, I knew that they were thinking that the worst had happened. There were several gasps and cries of ‘oh no’ as we walked to the center of the dais. Then finally, Reece came into view, showing them all that he was not dead, not even hurt. There were cries of joy and relief when they saw him, and a cheer rose up among all those that were gathered.

I saw Shawn, Dietrich, Shane, David, Athair mòr, Jackson, Rawlynne, and all the others looking at me with smirks that said, ‘how dare you trick us like that’. Well, all except for Dietrich. He had a different expression on his face, but I didn’t know what it was. Then again, he was always thinking something different from the others, so I didn’t really think much of it.

“HELLO EVERYONE!” I spoke loudly to the gathered crowd, raising my voice so that I could be heard above the sound of cheering. As soon as they heard me, the cheering quickly quieted. They were calming down so that they could listen to what I had to say. “AS YOU CAN ALL SEE, REECE IS ALIVE AND WELL. I WILL ADMIT THAT HE ALMOST DID NOT MAKE IT. I THOUGHT THAT I WAS GOING TO BE FORCED TO GO ON WITHOUT HIM. HOWEVER, WE USED OUR COLLECTIVE MAGIC AND LOVE FOR REECE TO SAVE HIM. ME AND OUR ENTIRE IMMEDIATE FAMILY THAT WAS PRESENT AT THAT MOMENT. WE ALL CALLED TO HIM AND ASKED HIM TO STAY, A REQUEST THAT WAS ANSWERED. OUR KING, MY MATE AND HUSBAND, FATHER TO MY CHILDREN, IS HERE TO STAY. THANKS TO THE GODS AND THE LOVE WE ALL SHARE FOR ONE ANOTHER, REECE’S LIFE WAS SPARED.”

Once again, a cheer rose throughout the room. This one was much louder and more thunderous than the first one. They were all showing how much this moment meant to them. They had no idea that it meant that much and more to those of us on the stage. Then again, maybe they did know. Who could be certain?

“LONG LIVE THE KING!” Someone shouted in the back of the room. “LONG LIVE KING REECE!” The words were picked up by the others and a chant was started.

“LONG LIVE KING REECE! LONG LIVE KING REECE! LONG LIVE KING REECE!” I felt that sentiment deep inside of me. Yes Reece, you need to live for a long time.

There were questions that came, but not until after the chanting had stopped. People wanted to know specifics about the battle. They wanted to know what all had happened to Reece. And they wanted to know more about how he was saved. This moment even started to feel like it was some sort of epic story that was being told rather than us showing the people that he was alive and well.

Reece told the group gathered that he was not the type to give up. He told them that when death offered to give him the easy and painless path to the afterlife, he had refused. He chose the hard and pain filled path back to his family and his people. He was nowhere near ready to stop living.

Cheering erupted several times during that meeting. And I knew that there were more than a few people that were crying in joy and relief. This was a moment to be crying tears of joy if there ever was one.

Before I let them all leave the throne room, I told them to spread the news of Reece’s recovery. I could have done it myself, but I knew that it would be different coming from the happily relieved friends and colleagues that had seen the evidence for themselves.

I watched the crowd of people filing out of the throne room, leaving in droves as they still cheered, laughed, and cried. It made me feel so much better about the way that I had handled all of this. I had thought at first that they might be angry about the delay in the news, or about the way that I surprised them. None of them had though. They had just been relieved and happy.

I saw a small group, consisting of my guards, coming toward the dais. Shawn, Dietrich, Shane and David were all smiling and shaking their heads. They felt the same as all the others had, that was easy to see. And I also knew that they would want to talk to me and Reece.

“Why don’t you three head back upstairs.” I told them calmly. “Take the day to rest and relax so that you can get your lives back to normal tomorrow.” They knew what that meant and they were all happy. They wanted to go back to school desperately.

Once they were gone, I motioned for the others to follow Reece and I into the waiting room that we had been in before. This would give us privacy to talk about whatever it is that they had in mind.