Chapter 36
Xavier"Daddy! Save me!"
Tristan's voice comes crashing into my skull making me become disoriented for some time. He sounded panicked and afraid, something I wasn't used to hearing from him.
I was coming from a meeting with one of our neighboring packs when his voice sounded in my mind. We were with Jayden and we had just entering pack territory when Tristan shouted through our link. "Calm down buddy, where are you and where is your mother and what happened?" I asked him, trying to get him to calm down so that he could clear his mind from his fear and tell me where he was. "I don't know where mom is, I couldn't reach her no matter what I tried" he replied, his voice small but a bit calmer.
I guess the fact he couldn't reach Amelia was enough to send him into a panic zone.
"I was playing in the pond when Brian came over and hit Paul and Augustine in the back of their heads then grabbed me and threw me over his shoulder.This book has many missing chapters and scenes if you're not reading it on [J] o bn Ib. c [o] m .I tried fighting him but he hit and called me a brat. Then told me to keep quiet because no one was coming for me" he continued, seeming to get angry at each word.
I was completely fucking pissed off. We had suspected that there were probably more traitors in the pack but damn it! A part of me didn't want to believe that the people I had loved and protected since I become an alpha would fucking betray me in this way. Brian was a trainee that had lost his mate a few years back while Paul and Augustine were the guards assigned to Tristan.
They were among the best of my warriors and I charged them with Tristan's protection because I trusted them and also because they loved Tristan as if he was their own.
To have them be easily defeated, something had to have happened because knowing the two towering giants they wouldn't be easily taken down by just a bump to their heads.
"Then what happened" I asked while I mind linked Jayden to gather the warriors that were at the pack borders because we would be going hunting.
"Then I tried calling mom but her brain was shut off and I couldn't get her or Onyx" he said more calmly, something that I was grateful for.
"It's okay, she is probably held up somewhere. Can you tell me where you are? Is there anything around you that you recognize?"
I needed to know because this was very vital in finding him. If he can tell where he is, or any landmarks that he recognized then it would be easy to find him.
I tried sniffing, hoping to catch a hint of his scent but there was nothing. The mother fucking bastard had probably covered their scents to make sure nobody was able to trace them.
That he would betray me like this and take my son after I had welcomed him to my pack and gave him purpose after his mate passed is something I couldn't forgive.
When I found him, I was going to hang him by the balls before tearing him limb from limb.
He was going to be a fucking example of what happens when you try to kidnap my boy. I was done being nice, every single traitor was going to die a fucking painful death, I wasn't going to show them any mercy.
"We are in the open fields, near the borders where you told me to never go ever again" he said, his voice low pitched.
I knew exactly where he was and I had to get there before Brian crossed the border. I told him to continue talking to me and if he notices that Brian was about to cross over before I reached him, to try and distract him and buy me some time.
Without wasting time, we shed our human skin for fur and then we were heading toward the border knowing well the others will follow.
I didn't need back up cause I knew I could easily take the fucking prick down on my own, but Jayden reasoned that it was best just in case it turned out to be an ambush.
The border he was talking about was on the other side of where I was. We had one of the largest territories so it would take a while for me to get there.
I had forbidden him from going to those borders because one, there were no guards stationed there and two it bordered Alpha Ryder of the black mist pack.
Even though we had an alliance, Ryder was bat shit crazy. He wasn't the most stable of alphas so he was a loose cannon and so were all members of his pack which consisted of males only.
Fifteen years ago they had offended a god when they raped, beat up and nearly killed the god's half human daughter who had been visiting earth for the first time.
For some reason the idiots had thought she was a spy from their enemy pack sent to seduce them and learn their secrets and so they had decided to punish her by gang raping her. Since she had yet to come into her powers, they had overpowered her. They were with her for days before they had tossed her back to the river bank where they had found her.
It was after the god had shown up in their pack territory breathing hell that they had realized their mistake.
The god didn't want to kill them because that would have been an easy escape so instead he cursed them.
They were cursed to live a lonely life without the touch of a woman or man in some cases, which for werewolves was torture because we fucking needed physical touch.
Touching a partner caused them physical pain and it also killed the said partner. They literally had the killer touch.
For fifteen years they have been starved of physical touch and that is bound to drive any man or wolf crazy.
They were all unstable and most packs tended to stay the fuck away from them because they were the ultimate killing machines driven by pure, overflowing testosterone.
I do get the god though, wasn't I heading to beat the shit out of Brian for attempting to kidnap Tristan.
I couldn't imagine having a daughter and having her undergo being raped and beaten half to death. I would have burnt the whole fucking world down and that still wouldn't be enough to satiate my anger.
It isn't known if Ryder was part of it or not but I know I wouldn't do that to any woman even if they were spies.
My warriors and I live by a code, we don't hurt women or children no matter what. No one knows what happened to the woman but the black mist pack hasn't had any peace since then.
I stop my train of thought when I come to the clearing and find Tristan struggling against Brian as he tries to pull him across the border.
He backhands him and I almost come out of my skin, pushing my paws faster towards them.
I almost stumbled when right before my eyes, Tristan's eyes turned black like Amelia's, his fangs and claws came out.
He growled right before he clawed Brian's right arm from the elbow right down his hand making him yelp.
This was really extraordinary because we normally don't show signs of shifting until we are around thirteen then shift at eighteen.
But here was Tristan at only seven and already able to draw out his fangs and claws. I was fucking proud of him.
He raised him left arm about to hit Tristan again when Ace jumped at him tearing off his whole fucking hand left hand.
The screams that filled the clearing was like music to both our ears. He was a fucking cunt and we would be showing him no mercy
I could hear the others joining us but Ace and I were too focused on our prey. We got up from him and he did the same, though a bit weaker than before.
The fear in his eyes made me smirk internally knowing that Ace was going to play with him for a bit before ending his miserable life.
We circled him, clawing him whenever he tried to escape past us. We did it for a little while before I asked Ace to give me back control.
Brian was kneeling before me, bleeding from multiple claw wounds and so weak that he had a difficult time keeping his head up.
"I've got to say Xavier, you are fucking savage...I thought I was sadistic, loving the fear and screams of my enemy but you...damn, you're on another level" I turned towards the voice only to find Ryder standing at the border with a smirk on his face. I looked around at everyone gathered, my warriors and his warriors with Tristan being held close by Jayden.
I turned my eyes towards the asshole at my feet and felt completely nothing as I lifted him by the throat.
"Please, please...spare me I beg you, I didn't mean to take Tristan." He stammered begging for his life but at this point I didn't care.
I could feel Jayden trying to reach me but I completely blocked him.
I was about to rip into his stomach when an angry roar interrupted me. We all turned to find Amelia standing at the edge of the clearing darkness behind her.
"Leave him, he's mine!" she ground out before her eyes turned completely black.
I didn't need to be told twice, I let him go and stepped aside but before Brian could fall on his knees, Amelia's hand was around his neck squeezing the shit out of him, you could see the veins bulging out from his neck and his temples.
I might have felt sorry for him if he hadn't been trying to kidnap my son.
"You know, I've had a very shitty day...I just found out that my sister is mated to my number one enemy and then I had to watch her soul literally being torn into two after the mother fucking bastard rejected her so I had to put her into a coma to stabilize her" she gritted through her teeth.
"Do you know how it felt watching her get stuck into a partial shift because her spirit and that of her wolf had been split into two? As if that wasn't enough the moment I thought I could catch my breath, I heard my baby boy screaming for me, his fear almost suffocating."
I was shocked to learn that Bianca had found her mate and he fucking rejected her. There was nothing worse as being rejected, I would think about that later, but it tugged at my heart that this is the fate that had been chosen for one of my closest friends.
I also can't believe that I had been planning on doing the same thing to Amelia. Ripping her soul into two. It was honestly a dick move and I was a fucking dumb ass for ever thinking that.
By now the entire sky had turned black almost like it was about night time. I was still in awe at how powerful Amelia was.
It was amazing how the shy and insecure girl I used to want nothing to do with had now turned into this scary bitch who can rip out your heart without even flinching.
"Please spare me! I am sorry...he promised me to bring back my mate from the dead" Brian whispered in a broken voice.
"And you were stupid enough to believe him, that's not my fucking problem" Amelia replied completely unfazed by the man who was completely pissing his pants.
I don't know about you but I would be doing the same fucking thing if I had been the one being held by the neck by the dark goddess.
"You know what? I won't kill you..." she said letting go of him, making him breathe a sigh of what I thought was relief for being spared.
This pissed me off because I couldn't believe that she was sparing him.
"Thank you! Oh goddess, thank you"
He continued chanting, unable to see the devious smile that came over Amelia's lips which made my anger evaporate.
"Oh don't thank me yet, I won't kill you now...but you are going to wish that Xavier had killed you before I showed up" she finished with a sinister smile that sent chills down my damn back. The asshole kneeling on the ground started shaking as if he was imagining what was going to happen.
By the looks of it he had already resigned himself to his fate, which would be worse than being dead.
"Do you still have the underground torture cells? I would have taken him to my dungeons but he wouldn't survive the crossing over" Amelia addressed me and I just nodded my head.
"I'm going to have a lot of fun with you" she said, turning back to Brian with a huge smile just before she and Brian disappeared leaving all of us staring at the spot they had been.
"Damn, that was fucking hot" Ryder said a look of admiration on his face just before he and his men retreated back to their territories.
After they left I searched for Tristan but he wasn't in the field.
"Where is Tristan?" I asked Jayden almost panicking, since he was the last person I saw Tristan with.
"I asked Asher to take him back to the pack house, didn't want him to witness you or Amelia ending the fucking bastard's life"
I felt my heart calming down knowing that he was for now out of danger. I gave him a nod and changed, giving Ace back control and run towards the pack dungeon smiling internally.After all, we had a traitor to deal with and like I said, I was going to make an example out of him once he finished telling us all we needed to know.