Chapter three

After waiting for three whole hours and the Alphas who were supposed to come for the division of the pack that recently lost their Alpha didn't show up, he decided to wait for another thirty minutes before leaving, he was about to ask someone to inform Shirley that they would be leaving in the next thirty minutes when a voice sounded urgently in his head.

"Alpha Zane, we just caught a wolf pack sniffing about the boundary." His gamma mind linked him.

Zane left the room immediately going out so that he can give out instructions.

"I don't have to tell you how to do your job, you know what you're supposed to do." Alpha Zane responded by mind-linking his gamma.

Zane put him out of his thoughts for a few minutes and carefully massaged his temple, but it didn't seem to help, he desperately wished he was in his pack right now but it wasn't possible.

This morning, he had awakened with a bad headache, which was exacerbated by his wolf's unrelenting prancing around him. Zane has been tempted to find a means to completely shut it out, but he can't, since they are one, with his wolf being the annoying one, and he can't murder himself by shutting out his own wolf. The headache of this morning came back with full force.

He was so frustrated that the incident had to happen when he was so many meters away from his pack. Seems like the intruders knew he wouldn't be around so they used the opportunity to invade.Shame on them because they would be in for a surprise.

Seems like Amelia sensed something was wrong because she after Zane a few minutes later and she found him standing alone his eyes focused which indicated that he was mind-linking, someone.

"Zane, is there any problem?"Amelia asked quietly.

"Amelia please not now, he shouted at her"

"You need to tell me if something is wrong so I can know if there's any way I can help you" she replied.

What exactly do you want, Amelia?" He inquired once more, this time with a firm tone. He shut the mind-link down again so that he can tell Amelia off. His mind was already racing, and he needed to be alone right now.

“Your chilly demeanor isn't going to throw me off!" Her attention was fixed on his.

"Fine!! I was mind-linking Cole when you so rudely interrupted me. He informed us that he caught some strangers sniffing around our pack. So can you please excuse me so that I can look for a way to manage the situation?" He said in anger.

Amelia didn't reply at the moment because she was shocked so he reopened the mind-link with Cole again.

He ordered him to take the rogue to the dungeon and follow his instructions very carefully.

"How many are they?" Alpha Zane inquired; his tone chilly.

"Seven Alpha, four male, and three female," Cole explained.

"Is the room prepared now?" Alpha Zane asked after a few minutes of impatience, he really wished he was there right now and he replied with a yes.

When you get them to the dungeon, be sure to go with some guards, you will see all sorts of torture devices on the table, the nicest of which was the wolfsbane in a large jar.

You are to select a chain, turn it on, touch the tip to ensure that it is working perfectly, do that now Zane commanded. From the way the link cracked, Zane confirmed that the electricity was intact. He also ordered Cole to dip the chain in the jar of wolfsbane and smiled evilly when he was confident that Cole had done it and it would work properly, knowing that wolfsbane has a burning impact on werewolves. Aside from burning them, it also weakens them, making them ideal for what he planned.

 Zane told him to start the torture and he immediately grabbed the wolfsbane-dipped electric chains and clamped them around the man's neck. When he turned on the lights all at once, their yells echoed around the room.

He shut it off after allowing them to scream for about five minutes since he didn't want them to die before getting the information he needed and before the Alpha returns. He grabbed a chair and dragged it forward before taking a seat in it.

"How did you get here? And who sent you? " And don't make me repeat myself twice," Cole cautioned.

"No one Sir," one of the females replied because the guys couldn't converse.

“Okay,” Cole said, smiling, "let's play your game, but I advise we finish before the Alpha gets here if not you would all regret it." He said as instantly activated the electric shackles, and the men shouted in agony.

The she-wolves began crying as soon as the male yells filled the room, and HE questioned again, "Who sent you here?"

“Please, believe me, we were just passing through and didn't realize we'd crossed your lines until it was too late, no one sent us..." A young woman with fiery red hair begged.

“Do you think I will buy your story? you're actually expecting me to believe that? Try again," he said sarcastically.

"It's the truth, Sir." The brunette raised her voice.

"How did you get caught sneaking through our pack trying to disguise your tracks? You think I wouldn't detect it? Or you think because our Alpha is away, the pack is unprotected?".

"We were hoping to leave without being noticed because we'd heard how you treat trespassers," the redhead explained.

What do you think I'm here for? You don't think I'm a complete idiot, do you? Cole snarled angrily.

They were deafeningly quiet and didn't say anything. Then he turned to the third female, who hadn't said anything since they'd stepped in, and told her that this would be the last time he would ask her that question. “What brought you here, and why are you here?” But she didn't say anything in reply and just cried.

"Alpha they are refusing to say anything"He mind-linked Zane

"Torture them until they reveal what they're doing here."

"Yes, sir" Cole replied through the mind-link moving forward and grabbing what seemed to be a vibrator.

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 Alpha Zane breathed out in frustration if not being present, then he turned around and saw his siblings approaching.

"What the fuck are they doing here?" he wondered.

"Why are you out here smiling evilly? What did instructions did you give to Cole?"Amelia asked.

He walked past them, heading back to the sitting room totally ignoring her as she marched after him, calling his name over and over. He tried to block out her voice, but she was shouting so loudly that it was difficult. He was almost at the door when she caught up with him and grabbed the sleeve of his shirt.

He turned to face his irate sister, who was looking at him with a cruel scowl. If looks could kill, Alpha Zane would be six feet beneath the ground, but he didn't care. After all, he was already frustrated because he couldn't get any information from the trespassers.

"What is it?" He asked impatiently.

"Are there any girls that were captured?" she queried, her gaze no worse than his. He silently thought, if she keeps glaring like this, her eyes would be ruined.

"What if there are?" Alpha Zane asked as he folded his hands on his chest because he was fully prepared for her lengthy lectures, but he definitely wasn't prepared for what she said next.

"Do you think you don't have anything in common with our parents?" You're frighteningly similar to them, if not worse!" She erupted in a fit of hatred and fury. He was speechless for a few minutes, but then wrath seized him, and HE grabbed her throat and slammed her against the wall. She was about to say something when she noticed his expression and chose not to. HE was so furious that HE almost ripped her heart out. HE had to take a deep breath to calm himself down, but it didn't seem to help.

HE was enraged, and if she had been anyone else, she would have been dead by now.

“Please don't ever compare me to them ever again! never! Do you understand?" HE grew upset and yelled at her.

She tried to speak, but she couldn't because HE was choking her. HE tried to take his hand off her neck, but his wrath made it difficult, so HE counted from one to ten and gradually slipped his hands away.

"I am not like them, and I will not become like them!" HE screamed. In a fit of rage, HE flung her away from his sight then turned back to the direction he just left.

HE morphed into his wolf form and leaped into the woods. HE started running to try to relax, but it didn't work. The only thing that makes him feel better these days is if HE breaks or damages something. That is why he prefers being alone in the forest and return home whenever HE feels better and more relaxed.

As HE approached the forest HE ran into when he found out about his mate, HE slowed into a stride, his chest heaving from the pace with which HE sprinted. When HE came to a halt and sat down on the ground, trying to calm himself down, all of Amilia's words came flooding back to him.

“I will never be anything like my parents, I am not like them!” HE kept reassuring himself. HE says it every morning as if it were a mantra because HE felt that denying it flatly will make it true.

"You are!" his wolf sneered.

When he looked down, he discovered he was naked because he destroyed his clothes when he transformed and transitioned back to his human form when he had stopped running, he was currently entirely naked.

"I'm not!" HE yelled to his wolf in response.

"Keep telling yourself that, but we both know you're just like them; after all, you've had their blood coursing through your veins," his wolf said to him again.

Alpha Zane exclaims, "Shut up!" HE was outraged.

“You won't be able to silence me, you know?” his wolf chuckled, “because I'm you and you're me, and we're one.”

Alpha Zane was outraged once more, so he went to a giant tree and punched it, sending it flying meters away, but he wasn't pleased. HE shifted back into his wolf after destroying about seven trees because HE couldn't possibly go home naked, and then HE mind-linked Robert asking him to bring him the extra clothes in the car.

 As soon as HE got in, he saw everyone pacing around thinking about different things. No one noticed him at first, but they did when HE shut the door. "Please accept his apologies, Zane..." His sister started walking towards him, but she came to a halt as he glared at her aggressively. He moved past her, refusing to speak to her since doing so would fuel his fury. She deserved to suffer in self-guilt after what she spat from her mouth, thus his silence was completely warranted.

When he got to the wine bar, he got himself a drink of bourbon. "What an ungrateful bitch!" He cursed angrily under his breath. "After everything, I went through to keep her safe, she still compares me to our parents? She forgot that if I were like my parents, she wouldn't be alive today.

“She was simply stating the obvious." His wolf spoke up.

“How come you're still talking to me when I thought I locked you out?" Alpha Zane replied his annoying wolf.

“You’ll have to work harder than; after all, you know you can't succeed in completely shutting me out because we're one; and, I wasn't talking to you; I was only expressing my thoughts; you can choose not to listen." His wolf scowled. "I only hope you won't be too harsh on our mate," he added.

 "Whatever!" Alpha Zane maintained his frown.

 "Promise me," his wolf begged Zane.

 "OK, on one condition," He said.

"What condition?" his wolf inquired.

 "I can only accept her if she comes from an Alpha lineage," HE explained, but as you can see, that is not possible because she comes from a FUCKING BETA LINEAGE, he said to his wolf.

 "You're kidding right?"His wolf asked. If wolves could frown, Alpha Zane imagined his wolf frowning.

"No, I'm not" He replied his wolf

He cleared his throat and spoke...

"Someone should fetch Shirley, it's time to go home, we are leaving right now," He said.