Two chapters today, but it didn't feel complete if I didn't add the drive over
Asher’s pov"You?!" Alpha Braxton roared, and before he could say more, I had used the spray on him. I would much rather just start beating him up, but we had to get him out of here, or his death could be tied to Maggie and Rain.Maggie would tell his Luna that Alpha Braxton had to leave urgently. That Rain offered his car for Alpha Braxton to use. We were actually the ones who would use the car, and we would leave it in a ditch somewhere on the road to Alpha Braxton’s pack. Then we’d get in another car and get Alpha Braxton back home.That’s why Leia had come. I had to be so damn patient and wait for my chance to kill this bastard. Carrying him from the warehouse to the car, then from that car to another, seeing his face, so ready to be beaten, and being unable to touch him. It was driving me crazy.The only thing that calmed me down was Leia, who, ironically, was the only one who actually kicked Alpha Braxton in the face while he was knocked out on the floor."What?" she had said. "Y
Maggie’s povWe were halfway there when Tallulah was contacted. She wasn’t contacted through mindlink, which would have been the obvious option, but by phone."No, he hasn’t made contact with me. Let me try." She said, sounding nervous."No, I can’t reach Alpha Braxton."The person on the other end was talking, and I could see Tallulah was starting to get more nervous by the second."He said he needed to go, and he borrowed Rain’s car. I am currently being driven back home."…"No." she said, sounding scared. "I don’t know anything, sir. I haven’t felt anything either."…"Okay, I will let you know if anything changes." Tallulah finally said and she hung up.She turned to me and looked pale as a ghost. "Something happened with Alpha Braxton on the way back. They can’t reach him. A search party will be sent, but is it possible for you to drive faster?""No problem," I said, hitting the gas.She looked out the window and said, "I need to get my girls out, just in case.""Your girls?" I a
Tallulah’s pov"We need to go now." I whispered as I got all my kids out of their beds. My oldest helped me get the younger one ready. Braxton Junior, or as I call him, "Brax," looked at me with concern. He used to be so sweet, but lately he has become more distant. I think it’s because of Dolores' training. Ever since he turned ten, he has been separated from the rest as part of his training to become the next Alpha.Dolores…. I can’t believe I actually killed her. But I had to save my babies. She only cared about money, and she never showed any interest in the girls. I knew that all the girls were good for, in the eyes of Alpha Braxton, and Dolores was marrying an ally or prospective ally. I hoped they would find their true mate before that; not even their father could go against that.But now he was dead, and Dolores was too, and I wasn’t done protecting my kids. I needed to get them out, because if the pack found out what I did, I would surely be killed, and my children would be ra
Leia’s pov"Ash?" I asked when we sat down for breakfast.Asher had spent an hour with Alpha Braxton, doing goddess knows what to him, and after that, he wanted to clean the whole fucking mess himself. I didn’t know if he was embarrassed by what others would find or if he just needed a moment to calm down.But after he showered, he pretended nothing happened to our sons. I fucking loved that he was such a good dad to them, but I felt his struggle within. Killing someone wasn’t easy, even if it was an evil fucking bastard."Yes, princess?" Asher replied, earning an eye roll from Argo."Princes? Still?""It's my name," I laughed. "Princess Leia, remember when I showed you Star Wars?"Argo wasn’t a fan, but Airk was, and thank the fucking goddess, because I needed at least one kid to be a geek like my dad and me."Aren’t you a bit too old to be a princess?" Argo said and if looks could kill, he would be dead by now. How dare he call me old."Your mother will always be my princess; now run
Maggie’s povIt’s been a few weeks since Tallulah arrived at the Iron River pack, and although she isn’t so scared anymore, she is still not willing to share much. It’s hard, though, because we still have no actual confirmation that Aeryn and Elora are there. So it’s just guesswork at this point until we can find Marco.Hopefully today’s meeting will help with that, because we’ve finally been able to schedule a meeting with the alpha of the Shadow Mountain pack, who claims to want to build a factory near or in their pack.I am coming with Rain to do my spy shit."Spy shit?" Alice said, laughing."You know, lying and stealing. No one expects a little red-headed woman." I joked.I was actually a little nervous. I would have to improvise because we didn’t know much about this pack, besides that Marco grew up here. We couldn't just ask them about Marco because that would be inappropriate during a business meeting, but maybe I could find something out by talking to the Luna.I left the kids
Leia’s pov"Luna Leia, may I come in?" Lula asked."Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about something anyway." I replied and motioned for her to sit down.Tallulah, or Lula, as she liked to be called now, had stayed with us for almost six months. Six fucking months have passed, and still she hasn’t shared much more. She was fucking terrified of that school and the people that ran it.She would share things about how she was treated or the classes she had, but nothing that described the rooms or the buildings. There were no names, no descriptions of faces, and no information about the surroundings. Nothing that could actually help us."I would argue that knowing how your daughters are treated could be beneficial to your mental health." Reina said."My mental health is fucking fine and we have no proof that they’re there. Of course, I'd rather they were at school than in some alternate horrible reality that they're being used as, -""Do not linger on these thoughts." Reina warned me.She was
Leia’s pov"They found him." Ash said, rushing into the living room."Who what? Who?" I said, unsure of what he was saying."Marco. Frank. Whatever the bastard's name is. Damian and Kane have found him."I didn’t expect to hear that at all. They had been looking for fucking years. Damian and Kane didn’t mind; they got to travel the world together and see beautiful fucking countries at the same time. Sometimes Angelina and Jayden joined them, so they could spend some time together. But lately they've been on the hunt for that dickhead Marco and they’ve been looking at tropical islands. Which is difficult given how many tropical fucking islands there are."You possess that knowledge?" Reina asked, surprised."No, I fucking don’t have an exact number of islands around the world. I just know there are a shitload of islands."They started in Asia, looking at tropical islands there, thinking Marco would want to hide as far away as possible. But then, after Maggie and Rain visited the Shadow
Asher’s pov "One more time, Marco. What did you do with our daughters?" Marco smirked, but behind his fake smile I could see he was scared. "I burned them in that house." He lied, and I was done playing games with him. He was going to die anyway, so like a villain in a damn movie, I would tell him all my secrets and hope he would reveal his. "You’re not the villain." Logan said. But it kind of felt like I was. I didn’t like beating up a man when he wasn’t able to defend himself. It was important that Marco would pay for what he did, and I needed to be the one to do it, but I didn’t enjoy inflicting pain. I wasn’t some psychopath who liked torturing or killing people. That’s why I was the one to clean up after myself after I killed Alpha Braxton. He deserved everything he got, but people didn’t need to see that side of me. Look at what I was capable of. I didn’t even want to see that side of me. It was the "Iron Alpha" side that people would call me. The killer. But that wasn’t a