<b>Chapter </b><b>129 </b>
I look around again, this time seeing shaking heads or curious eyes.
<b>“</b>Xavier Bluemon is a psychiatric doctor who joined the council fifteen years ago when I became alpha. Over the ten years that I’ve been dealing with the prospect program I’vee to rely on him for information pertaining to helping abused wolves escape their pack. Eight years ago the council decided that there were too many cases of abuseing in for the general council to deal with at which point they made the abused and tortured wolves department. Xavier was promoted to the head liaison position in that department. As I’ve already mentioned, I’ve made contact with Xavier earlier tonight seeking advice on how I can help Cole without Cole’s willingness to talk. I turned over the photographic evidence I have without mentioning his name or pack. When he told me that getting a meeting with the council could take a while, I took the time to make a formal request with the council to ess his medical fecords. I want to see what the other packs found out, what they did to him medically, and what they reported back to the council. I have also made a formal request for information pertaining to why the council has visited the Red Fang territory a month after Cole was sent home early from the packs he visited. Unfortunately I’m not anticipating a favorable response as I left out one of the more important answers that the council would want to know. Why do I need this information? I see a puzzled look on your face Pat. What are you suddenly thinking about?”
“You keep saying that Cole isn’t talking but you seem to have a lot of specific informati
on him. What exactly is he not talking about?”
“To offer him protection through a protection from abuse or torture orders he has to agree to digitally record at least one incident of torture or multiple incidents of abuse for submission to the council. The submission can’t simply be ‘he hit me with a belt‘. No, not at all simple. It’s actually quite traumatizing for the wolves who have actually been abused to go through the process of reliving the abuse when they have to describe in detail what happened to them. Can you seriously imagine what it would be like to detail how many hits you took to your groin before you became desperate enough to break the chain that’s holding you? That’s the only information so far, that Cole has directly said. That and he exined what’s going on with the luna. Everything else hase from secondary sources which doesn’t count as reliable testimony.”
“You’re telling me that Das, a wolf that hates Cole, telling you he saw Alpha Charles kicking Cole in the stomach can’t be used as evidence?”
Damian’s voice is incredulous as he tries to understand what I’m saying.
“When I mentioned what Das said, Cole neither confirmed nor denied getting kicked over a dozen times in his abdomen. The only thing he has directly told me about was that he had bruises on his wrists from breaking the chain. That he knew he couldn’t take all the hits without yelping so he did what he could to protect himself. Everything else I know has been put together from information given to me by Jamie, Dr. Carter and direct observation of his behavior.”
“So what’s going to happen to him if he doesn’t talk?”
Damian is starting to sound quite worried about Cole.
“If I haven’t heard from the council by the end of the first run and I can’t convince him to talk then there’s nothing I can do. I will have to let him leave.”
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