Chapter 32

DANTE

My heart stopped as I looked down at her body in the basement, she was unconscious, she looked like she was dead, but I knew too well that she couldn't, I could hear her soft intake of breath, but it was slow

“Open the door” I ordered the guard and immediately pulled her from the ground, my body was completely folded and pressed into the ground, even if she was conscious, she couldn't go out on her own

Anger raged within me as I carried her in my arm. Both her ankles were broken, and I couldn't see scars all over her body from healing. I was going to kill whoever thought it was a good idea to do this to my wife.

I climbed the stairs and froze at the top as chills went down my spine and I need not be told that someone else was down here

“Jake, take her to the hospital immediately” I put her into the guard's arms, and he ran, I closed the compartment door making the place look a bit, but I could see as clear as the day “… Do not make me find you, I know you're here” I perceived the person's faint scent as the person had covered his or her scent with a mask.

I slight movement at the left made me pause, that wasn't footsteps, it was a distraction, and then I heard the stairs without thinking I bolt like light and my hand was against his throat

I stared at his face and I knew he didn't belong here, the stench like a lab rat, my jaw came in contact with his jaw and blood immediately spilled from his house, my body shook in anger

He had dared to touch my wife, almost kill her, knocking her out and… The thought had me slapping him across the face in repeat. His face slowly began to swell as the smug he kept on his face began to falter.

“I'm going to ask you one question, and you're going to answer” He glared at me and I knew he needed more torture

“All this for a weak woman?” He questioned and something snapped with me.

My claws grew out, and I pierced through his skin, causing his bloody scream to fill the room, and it sounded like a melody I'll play on a violin. I pulled out, letting his health quietly before stabbing him over and over in the same place.

“That woman! Is my wife! You drugged her and tortured her while she was unconscious because you knew she was going to eat you alive!” I growled and he flinched.

His body healed the wound I had reopened many times before I clawed his face. I hated the mere sight of him, he had touched my wife, pushed her into an uncomfortable position.

“Who sent you?” I growled, and he immediately pushed back to avoid more scares against his face.

“His majesty, king victor” A chill down my spine, Victor hadn't even claimed the throne yet, and he was already baring my title

I reached for the man's neck and snapped out off his body. Victor, I snarled at the mere thought of his name. I was going to kill that man, I didn't know how it was going to happen, but that man needed to be dead, as he was putting everything at risk not dying

I will not risk my throne for anyone

I ran up the stairs, letting his body rot in there as I closed the compartment, without thinking, I drove to the hospital at a high speed, following my wife, I knew words had reached the pack with the way everyone was looking at the car

Pulling up and stepped out and walked into the hospital rushing, the receptionist pointed to the door down the hall as she screamed at someone over the phone

I had always hated hospitals, there was always a discomfort even if I have been alive for more than a century, I have watched the people die and give birth, constant circle, but I fear the plague has come to do something worst, worst than the last one

Pushing the open, I saw her taking to the nurse about pulling the wire from her

“You have absolutely no patience” She looked at me and her features softened

“Tell her to pull the tube, or I will” She sounded very irritated by the tube on her voice and I looked at the nurse, forcing her to get out of the room without removing the tube

“The tube is keeping you health, wait a short while, and I'll pick it out myself” I walked close and without pulling the tube off I carried her from the bed and squeezed her tight “… He is dead” Her body stiffened then slowly began to relax.

“After I left you, I was meant to head back to the dungeon, I don't know what happened next, it happened so fast, and I couldn't fight what I couldn't see before everything went blank, and I was unconscious”

“I'm sorry I couldn't be there on time” She shook her head while I felt her tears against my shoulder blades and I held her tighter

“It's not your fault, I did force you to bed right before” I chuckled knowing it was true before I pulled away

“You would have died”

“But I didn't” She laid back, trying to find her comfort on the bed before she relaxed

“A few guards will stand at the door, while I go to deal with Sierra, we need answers and Victor is already claiming my position before he got it” She studied my features quietly before nodding “… What is it?”

“Have no mercy upon her, do to her what you will do to Darren if he was in her place. Sierra is extremely stubborn and that's the only way you can get her to talk”

“You don't have to worry, I have all under control love” I kissed her forehead and walked out of the room “no one goes in there except the nurse”

“Yes sir” Rolling my sleeves up I walked towards the dungeon, my heart still raging. They wanted to kill my wife, have her powers, but I was not going to let that happen, she was mine and mine alone.

I took a turn into the dungeon and the smell of blood reached my nose. I looked at Sierra, and she was nothing like I left her, pride coursed through me knowing this was all my wife's doing.

“I…” She froze when she realized it wasn't Leah, rather it was me. Her heart began to race uncontrollably, I could hear it and feel her fear at the tip of my fingers.

“What does Victor have in mind?” I asked softly with my hands skimming through the drawer of weapons, trying to find something suitable that seemed harmless until it's not.

“I don't know” She spoke too confidently, and I threw a dagger at her without turning to face her

I watched her eyes widen as strands of her front hair were cut off, and the dagger left a cut on her forehead

“I didn't come here to watch you spill lies about my answers, I'm not soft-hearted like my wife” She looked as if she wanted to speak, but she chose to kept shut “… I'm sure your mother will not mind seeing her daughter die” her eyes snapped to me.

“My mother is longer gone, please let her rest!”

“And what did they tell you after you returned from your journey. That the house went ablaze, and your mother was still inside, no one could save her, and she died” Her eyes widened and get body trembled.

“H… How did you know that?” I ignored her question and continued to skim through the drawer, “… No one was meant to know that, how did you know that?!” She screamed, but I remained deaf.

I heard footsteps in the corridor and I smiled

“Your mother choose to abandon you, and you thought she was dead”

“I would never have abandoned my daughter!” The woman's voice echoed through the corridor as she was dragged by the guards.

I watched Sierra's face mask fall and break into pieces, and then I began, I let one of the guard whip her repeatedly while he'd mother cried. After few minutes after I let her, my mother rushed to her.

“Please let her go, you can do anything you want to do to me your majesty, please let her go” Her mother cried, but I didn't care

“How are you still alive?” Sierra asked her mother and just then I sent a dagger flying through the woman's skin and into her heart, making her eyes widen “… No, no, no… I have questions, you can't die…" She choked on a sob as she struggled with her chains.

“Guards get her to the hospital” I ordered quietly and continued to fiddle with the small blade in my hand, “while she's getting stitched up how about you tell me everything you know?” She looked to the ground with tears streaming down my face.

“Victor read ancient scrolls each night about Leah. He had an obsession with her time to time and would speak of her often like the power he craved so badly. He wanted to find the woman that will break the curse so he began searching but along with that he began using black magic until it became another addiction” I played with my blade.

“He met someone for black magic?”

“The witch of the west” My heart skipped a bit, of course that's where he will go, “what next?”