Pierce POV
Inappropriate timing but I can’t but help watch her ass move as she leaves. She is underweight at the moment but her figure is womanly with a curvy butt and boobs that I can’t help but imagine touching. She may have been on the run but she still gave off an air of class but with good morals. Was she really Odin’s daughter?
I wait until she has left the lower cells, or as Reuben likes to call them…the torture rooms. This rogue has been here for some time now, since we captured him when he tried to flee with Vicky. He’s not so much as uttered a word, even under torture.
Once the cells are secure I turn to him, I can feel my wolf trying to take point… waiting to rip this prick apart. But it’s isn’t my pack and he must have information to help me know what exactly Libby has been through. My warriors were still here but Reuben refused for them to watch him.
I get it, I’d be the same. He wants the direct pack mind-link in case something happens and he needs to act fast. My warriors were assisting with border patrol, knowing their Luna was here put them on edge. They demanded the right to help protect her, even if from afar.
I can’t believe she’s been able to identify the man we’ve been guessing about for weeks. The way her demeanour changed when she saw him made my blood boil. Could she be trusted? My wolf had the sense she could be, but that she has been manipulated in life and will need time to see the truth.
“Hey wake up!” I kick his leg, startling him as he pulls on the chains forgetting for a moment where he was. Lack of food, water and sleep will do that to a prisoner.
“What do you want!” He has the audacity to even growl at me, which angers my wolf even more. My hand wraps around his throat threatening to cut off his air supply. My wolf coming forward, snarling in his face.
“You will tell me about her.”
“I won’t say jack shit.” He musters some energy.
“You fucking will, she’s mine you hear me…mine!” I growl in his face, my wolf becoming aggressive at the thought of our mate in trouble. A hand touches the back of my shoulder, a caution from one of the guards to calm down.
“Alpha says do what you want but he has to stay alive.”
“Fine…I can abide by that!” I smirk at the guard, looking down at the piece of shit before me. This man was responsible for aiding in the kidnapping of Evelyn and the twins, as well as Noah and Cassandra. He’s already dead. It’s just a matter of when.
“Move him…” I demand.
“Alpha?” One of the guards questions me.
“Move him to the wall, chain him up against the wall…” I didn’t like this side of me particularly but I was an Alpha and there were times I had to get shit done.
I can see the sudden fear in his eyes, from being moved up against the wall.
“If you refuse to talk, then I might as well remove your tongue. Or, how about your balls…I’m in the mood for cutting…” I pick up a pair of scissors made out of silver, snapping the scissors open and shut to make my threat more effective.
“Why was she locked away?” I ask, my alpha command rolling off me and already making this Malcolm tremble.
We knew his name now, which meant Reuben would already be working with his is IT guys to find his records.
“Speak!” I roar, slamming him against the wall as I push on his chest. He shakes his head, the dick was stubborn.
“Open his mouth….”
“Alpha?”
“You heard me, if he isn’t going to talk then he can’t tell our secrets either…”
The guards both hold him steady and pry open his mouth, his tongue available for me to grab. I place it between the scissors readying to cut when he finally groans, begging for me to stop.
“Wait…wait….I’ll tell you what you want to know.”
“Why was she locked away?” I shout, my patience thinning.
“Odin needed her records wiped, for people to not ask questions.” He pants out.
“More..I need more..”
“Money, her mother left her money. He’s been using that to fund the rogue attacks with Vicky and myself. But he’s betrayed us, now that Evelyn is the key to holding both alliances. He’s fucked us over.”
“Are you reporting this?” I turn to one of the guards that had been mind- linking Reuben.
“Yes Alpha!” Of course he was.
“So she had no one? Nobody that came looking for her when her mother died?”
“What do you think wiping records means?” He sneers at me.
I don’t smoke but shit, I can see why Reuben was struggling to quit. I find him smoking outside the cell facility, did he come back for me? Making sure I didn’t kill the bastard?
“Well?”
“Well what, I presume your men told you everything he told me…”
“So she’s dead, or so to speak?” He places the cigarette on the floor and stamps on it.
“Yes, it would explain why there are no traces of her.” I reply, my hands running through my hair. Fuck, the poor child, used for her money.
We walk back to the alpha house together, to find Libby pacing in the hallway like a trapped animal. Evelyn is just watching her, cautious as if my mate is going to launch an attack on her at any moment. Her alpha aura filling the air, probably not helping calm my mate’s current state.
“Libby?” I take a step towards her, she looked extremely anxious, she was biting her nails as she continued to pace.
“We need to show you some things.” I place my hand out to her, and surprisingly she takes it. Her touch resulting in tingles dancing all over the palm of my hand. The sensation, firing my wolf even more to protect her.
“Mine!” He growls in my head. We sit her down in Reuben’s office, placing files in front of her, for her to read through.
We show pictures of the shipping container where Evelyn and the kids were held hostage, pictures of Reuben in the medical centre after being shot, pictures of the Silver Moon pack having been burnt down.
Evelyn goes a step further, telling Libby about how she found her parent’s dead. How Vicky kidnapped Rex and, to really show what type of a monster Vicky is, how she pulled Evelyn down the stairs when she was pregnant. Just so the Vicky could become Luna. How Vicky had killed her own mate and pack, with the help of Malcolm.
“Odin also wanted to mate with me, to take back the Red Stone alliance and combine it with the Silver Moon alliance…”
“Red Stone? Silver…? I…I don’t know what that means.” Libby closes the files, it was clear she had been raised as a human. That the werewolf world was alien to her.
I can hear her racing heartbeat, smell the fear emitting off her. She was edging away, checking the windows and door for a swift exit.
“I can’t stay, this was a mistake. I think I need to go back…” I can tell she has gone into shock mode. It wasn’t helping that Evelyn had turned frosty towards her.
“You can’t go back. Your life as you knew it is over…there is no going back.” Evelyn coldly states before picking up the files and storming out of the office.
“I…I need to leave.” She whispers more to herself than Reuben and I, her fingers massaging at her forehead.
“I’m sorry kitty cat, but you can’t leave me now.’
My words have the opposite affect on her. I can sense her wolf starting to get angry. Her head snaps towards me, her eyes flashing in a complete yellow glow, her wolf trying to take control.
Reuben had assigned her a bedroom, so that she could spend some time alone. To regather her thoughts. Have a shower, have a rest.
The only problem with that is she now refused to come down to dinner. My wolf was fighting with me to storm up the stairs and bring her back down… not only was she ignoring me, she was being rude when she was a guest.
We were making our way through dessert, Rex and Elspeth finally rejoining us, when Reuben groans as he eyes glaze over.
“What is it?” Evelyn asks, as she turns to him having been talking to Elspeth. Reuben stands up, not saying anything, only kissing the top of her head.
“Alpha?” One of my warrior’s voice enters my head.
“Our Luna has escaped!”
