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"Well... I am still having a hard time sinking it in." Zander looked from his cup of black coffee to his Alpha friend as he remarked with an open mouth."What? The weapon?" Zander guessed because it was a hot topic of discussion out there in the foyer between the Alphas who were chit-chatting amid their important conversation about how to take this animal of a man, human by birth yet a disgusting creature at the heart, down?
"Um yeah, I mean, would you have thought that the axe you were using to kill that scoundrel of a creature was actually an armament of the first paladin?" Ryley said in a breathy voice.
"No." Zander shrugged his shoulders.
He was looking into his phone at the pictures he and Reyne clicked some minutes before her abduction.
His mind was somewhere else and he failed to share Ryley's astonishment on the topic concerning the axe of the first paladin.
It was too hard to accept that the weapon they had bee
106 She yelped, snuffing weakly and frightfully. Reyne was broken behind repair. Her will broke. Body on the verge of giving up. Even then she remained perseverent. Just sometime more before aid would come for her. Help was on its way. "Kill us? Little kitty, you think your mate will stand a chance to stand against us?" Phoebe Augustin placed his large palm on Reyne's slightly visible abdomen and embedded it beneath her top. She convulsed. Twisted and tossed. Reyne screeched her lungs out and acted insane until the hand was expelled from her. The old man fizzed away. As much as he had wanted to fuck the teenage she-wolf, he had not desired anything else like that in a while now. But he had to hold a constraint on himself if he fancied fulfilling his dream. That being realized, he moved away with a struggling sigh. "Ah, you are a wild little bitch and this makes me wonder if you are so hard to control, are your mate and
Sleep deprived for the whole night, Zander spent it sitting on the roof outside Ryley's bedroom, seeing the starry sky.His wolf was restless. He could not breathe properly since he could sense the torment befalling their mate. The entire night they kept staring at the stars, hoping for her to look at them too, assuming that she was fine and not in the basement as described by the magician's wife.Then just as the first ray of morning erupted, taking earth under its embrace and brightening the dark atmosphere, he felt somewhat relieved. Because it was time now."Zane," Ryley peeked out of the window of his room at him."You are called downstairs. Come on." Zander didn't need to be told twice because the first time was enough to fill his chest with energy.He hurriedly jumped down the roof and barged in through the main door. Zander gulped his saliva in n
108"Be careful, you all. Free our members and be back soon." Alpha Kent patted at the shoulder of Alpha Hercules before they settled in the car and left with the woman.When the car was gone from our sight, we came out of the window and peeked down— only to witness Alpha Kent and Ryley with others looking up at us.I was still cluelessly glaring at my father. I was grumbling in anger and pain because when I entered Ryley's room to get the axe, my father held me down and prevented me from going out of the room as he hushed near my ear, 'Don't move, Zane! Just don't move.' and right before my eyes the alphas got into the car and took off!Now that the car was gone and when I freed myself from my father's iron grip and came out of his clutch, which was too difficult to break down earlier, I looked around myself— only to be overwhelmed."What the fuck is going on?" I
109 With the sun hovering high in the sky, shining proudly down at Earth, the cars came to an abrupt halt much to Zander's surprise. He was mentally motivating himself as he stared out of the window and when the cars pulled at the highway across from them, he broke from his deep thoughts and stared out the window. "Why did we stop here?" He questioned, his fingers clenching at the pulled down window glass. His father was sitting beside him in the backseat. He blinked with a small smile at Zander and replied, "You weren't wondering about flying all the way till Vegas, were you?" Zander confusingly with his chest rising and falling as he took disappointed breaths, same out of the car like the others. Before he prepared another question, he looked before him at the Woods and things started making sense. They were in Woods Land, the dangerous woods of their pack. It
110A physical flash and burn shocked Zander to the core with its all-encompassing depth and strength and power as he hissed in exasperation at the view across from him.They were in the theatre where the Mad Magician's magic show was flaring in full swing. All the werewolves including himself were astonished observing the crowd that had gathered to see his show. Oh no, it was not because he was showing anything extraordinary as for now, but because of the slogan he had used in the advertisement regarding shape-shifting demonstration which was going to happen toward the end of the show, as a show stopping magic demonstration.In that instant, every other thought and emotion had ceased to exist except for a cascade of urgent directives to kill that bastard of a man he watched standing in the middle of the stage, showing some magic trick of fire through a woman."That's Phoebe Augusti
111With his mouth pressing at hers, Zander looked around the room with his peripheral vision. It was a vast area. As far as he can see, there were doors and huge corridors.He assumed he would note the region in his mind during the kiss, and go away after knocking her down. But surprisingly, he didn't know what to do.His inside curled. The thought of Reyne made a wild current of dissatisfaction run down his spine. Still, he continued moving his mouth on her as he guided his hands around her waist.Just as heat of pleasure wormed within her, she eased down. The heat helped loosen her tight muscles and seize her trembling. Finally when Zander recognized she would not backfire his plan of occupying her sexually, he parted and stared in her eyes with a fake smirk."I've been wanting to do that since I saw you outside the theatre. You are hot!" She tilted her head back and
112She was threatened to not cry as it would ruin her make-up. Reyne couldn't keep up with their threats though. With the grief of her father's death weighing down on her chest, she sat in the cage wearing nothing but a flimsy tight one piece suit that covered her from knuckle to neck.She was told they would come to take her out on the stage. She was supposed to end the show, using her shape-shifting technique as the show stopping demonstration. Earlier she tried to refuse and what they did was whip her in the back. They scared her to do even worse that she easily gave up.Worse was that they put her in a cage. A real freaking cage as though she was an animal. She was not an animal. Damn it. She was an extraordinary creation. That's all. Who was going to explain it to the humans notwithstanding.Now Reyne could apprehend the meaning of her father's words, that he used to say all this while. Thi
113Satisfaction. It was a kind of satisfaction he never derived before. Not from bullying or hurting people. It can only be derived through killing... Killing the enemy.His chest swelled in pleasure and eyes brightened. The scent of Reyne stayed in his breaths. The air held her fragrance, which his lungs gladly sucked in.Those alphas waiting out there said that they would leave as soon as they found Reyne— without creating any scene, but he couldn't stop. He had to kill him. Kill them all. They tortured his Reyne. They threatened their kind. And hunters... He killed him half right when he mentioned them.But it was over. Zane killed them here and the doppelgangers killed his psycho wife there.He smiled to himself as he rushed ahead. He just wanted to get to his Reyne and hold her tight. His crawl was quick. Zane was moving further steadily until— he witn