Chapter Forty Nine

Lucien's POV

“What the hell is going on here?” I asked , my voice conveyed how fast my patience was drifting. I have the chance to avenge Trivia and I wasn't going to waste it, even if the culprit shared the same DNA with her.

“Mummy, is this brother bothering you?” The little girl asked , her look for more intimidating by the second. Suddenly an image flashes in my head and I recall where I knew her from. The image was from a memory of playing hide and seek with the little girl in front of me. And that was over two decades ago.

“Cut the crap, Suzie!” I growled angrily. I walked to Angelina's bedside because I already knew what her presence meant. Chase was in the building and I wasn't going to let anyone stand before me and my revenge.

The blank face on Angelina was intoxicating. She was still keeping up with appearances even after realizing that she was busted.

“You know who I am, brother?” She asked, advancing slowly. Her eyes glowing red and her aura getting despicable as she approached. Everything made sense, she was an alpha's daughter the last time we saw. I guessed her father had passed and she was the new head of their tribal pack.

“I don't care. I recommend you leave this hospital and my pack before we make a scene,” I voiced clearly, my head held high as we locked gaze.

“Enough,” Angelina disrupted the intensity. She got up from her bed and received new clothing from the man that had just stepped into the room. I recognized him also, he was an alpha. One from the north, brutal people that eat their own kind during winter.

“Chase is here,” I muttered with a soft laugh. At that moment I had realized that we had been playing into their hands all along, doing what they wanted and expected from us and it didn't sit well with me.

“I didn't mean for it to get here, Lucien,” Angelina said as she took off the hospital robes exposing her naked body. She walked to me, her eyes boring into mine expressing just how much she had gone.

“If the bitch didn't step into the picture, all this won't have happened,”

“Take me to Chase,” I demanded. The room was silent for a while as she wore the clothes.

“Our father is busy,” Suzie replied with a cryptic smile.

“He has some runaway pet to capture,”

I instantly knew they were speaking of Brielle. My eyebrows cocked furiously and my hand moved on instinct. I grabbed Angelina by the neck and rammed her into a wall.

“Come any closer!” I growled as Suzie and the alpha companion attempted to take me.

“Just one inch and I will crush the wind pipe of the traitor that killed my mate,”

“Lucien… you..shouldn't…” she rasped, barely audible as I crushed her wind pipe.

“Give your next words meaning,” I grunted as my grip tightened.

“My patience is running out,”

“Well she can't speak. You are choking her to death,” Suzie said. I could hear her tiny feet drawing closer to me, taking cautionary steps.

“You might be thirty years old in a kid's body but I am smarter,” I remarked and she stopped the move she was about to take.

I took a long look at Angelina's red eyes as she suffocated. The gathering tears was a trigger to the already stirred anger. It reminded me of Trivia in her death bed. She wept because she didn't want to and she wouldn't have had to because it wasn't her time.

“You killed your sister,” I muttered as I pressed further. The warm feeling of her larynx crushing on my hand was satisfying enough.

Just when I thought I would end it all, a voice halted me. “Stop, Lucien. Keep your hands from her or I will eliminate every man, woman and child under this roof without blinking,”

It wasn't just the voice that stunned me, it's scent as well. I could suddenly perceive all their scents including the ones that were mingled with the people around the hospital.

“What do you want, Chase?” I asked, hesitating to do as he requested but I knew it was going to be futile. They were all alphas and I was alone, the casualties would be colossal.

“Let her go,” He responded and I let go of Angelina who passed out on the floor. She wheezed and panted desperately, her vocal chord would be messed up but it was just an affliction that she could heal from. I could never hold Trivia again.

“Why come here? What did you do to Zane?”

“So many questions,” He retorted with a beaming smile.

“Your brother's mind had been warped by Suzie,”

“Yay!” Suzie cheered uncontrollably.

I looked around the room of psychos with my heart racing furiously.

“What are you talking about?”

“He doesn't know what those orders are but when it's time, he will carry it out without hesitation,” Suzie spoke, her voice conveying how excited she was.

“That's why the sedative didn't work, his subconscious knows and is scared,” I muttered to myself. A smile crept on my face as a thought came to mind.

“That smile, I appreciate it,” Chase said as she advanced nearer.

“I want you to be strong as I tear your life apart. As I strip you of everything you hold dear, as I break you,” His deep voice echoed as he gazed straight at me.

I chuckled softly before responding “You can't win, Chase. I'm never going to be part of your puppets and that scared you,”

“Scares me? No little Lucien, it's the most exciting feeling I have ever felt,” He spoke with intense joy.

“I have never felt my heart race like this,” He added as he placed his hands over his chest.

“Father wants you with us and you will be part of us. Either in pieces or by submission,” Suzie chipped in.

“Where is Brielle?” I asked, advancing towards him like a bull ready to run down its target.

“Easy!” He held me back, holding back a laughter that infuriated me even further.

“My Luna awaits you in the spot you left her. I left behind a gift for her, one you will find…. rather excruciating to watch,” He replied with a wide grin that exposed all his dentals including his unnatural fang.

I took one look at Angelina, who struggled to sit back against the wall and I knew I had a choice. It was either I take care of her at that moment and lose Brielle or walk away.

“I will tear you apart,” I said to her before stepping out of the room.

“It's always a pleasure, Son of Eclipse,” Chase’s voice thundered behind me as I walked away. I didn't look back, I kept walking to the visitors waiting room.

I hurried there to see Brielle seated exactly where I left her with a man lying on her thighs.

“Are you okay?” I asked, scurrying around for any sign of them.

“I'm fine,” she breathed as she reached out to my hand.

“Who is this?” I examined the man in tattered clothes.

“This was fiance, Ken,” she answered as her fingers gently caressed his head.

Something was different about her as she held him. She looked normal, almost happy and that didn't sit well with me.