Chapter 18

"What did you say?" Bella barked at the elders again. No one spoke, she looked from one elder to the next, giving them a daring glare. Each elder looked from one to another, afraid of what would happen next. "No one is going to speak up, right?" No one spoke still. "Fine," Bella smiled, she turned and made for the door, she could hear the elders sigh in relief. "Guards!" Bella stopped abruptly at the door and yelled, dashing the hope of the elders. The guards came running in, "My Lady" They all chorused. "Take all these elders and give them twelve strokes of the whip each until they confess who spoke about that witch" "I will talk!" It was a female elder who finally spoke up, she was visibly shaken. "I bet you will" Bella smiled, she took a seat on the Alpha seat that she had conquered, "I suppose a little violence does it for you huh?" No one spoke. The silence only annoyed Bella more, she looked from one elder to the next and then back to the female elder.