“He’s supposed to be my Beta.” Brandon looked genuinely confused.
I snarled again. “Find a fucking new one.” I spun in a circle, pulling in every scent in this house. “Bring me fucking Beta Derek, or I will fucking tear this place to the fucking foundation. Now.” I screamed again, causing the omegas to tremble.
“Please Amy.” Vince walked closer to me.
“You commanded her silence.” I whirled on him. “She was mine to protect. Mine. She was from my father’s pack, only here to find her mate. But instead you kept her here. Allowing your future Beta to torture her, and you commanded her fucking silence.” I felt my teeth elongate.
Nix, pull back. If you push any farther, you might force a shift.I sent her back calming vibes. She pulled back, but started to pace. But she turned and pushed her voice through my lips.
“Bring me the Beta pup, or I will find him and my judgement will be worse.” Vince shivered at Nix’s voice. But he rallied.
“Nix, I understand, but we saved her by keeping her here.” I laughed, but it was filled with venom.
“You can try to pretend you did this for her. But I am not blind, nor stupid. You kept her from speaking.” I stepped towards him. “How long?”
He looked stupid, fumbling with his words. “What do you mean?”
“How fucking long Vince?” My words dropped to a whisper. “I am holding on to Nix by the tiniest thread here. You kept my wolf here, and your Beta tortured her. And then you commanded her silence so that she couldn’t tell me.”
He tried to work up a smile. “I saved her from being killed by rogues.”
“You think what you are doing to her is any fucking better?” My eyes glowed so brightly I could see the light bouncing off the side of my nose.
“I thought I had time to figure it all out.” His words were whispered.
“You miscalculated.” I snapped.
“Amy.” Brandon came to my side and I saw the look that Vince flashed to him. These fucking men were dumber than I thought. Vince was begging him to lie. Pretend to not be involved. Calm her down. Vince could have screamed it. That’s how transparenthe was with his veiled look. “I didn’t know.” His words were soft, trembling, begging me to believe him. I felt his fingers slip into mine and I nearly snarled again. But I held back.
He’s trying to convince you, let him.Megan’s words were deadly. She had a plan forming in her mind.I’ll tell you later. But allow the two of them to calm you down. Agree to allow Derek to live as long as he accepts the rejection and Vince removes the command from Lynn.
Megan.I snarled.
But she shook her head.Lynn deserves his head, but she deserves to be the one to kill him.
Her words stopped me.Are you sure? I will kill him now and save her the trouble.
She found him balls deep in your sister. She rejected him, but he refused to accept the rejection. He then used their bond to torture her for over a year. And Vince here commanded her silence.Megan’s eyes glowed.Yes. Yes, I am sure she will want to kill him herself.
I turned back to Brandon. His hand squeezed mine. “I didn’t know.” He leaned in closer. “But I will help you get justice.” I saw Vince give a tiny nod out of the corner of my eye, and I nearly snarled.
“Promise me.” My words were stiff.
“Come to my father’s office and I swear it. I will help you.”
I turned back to Vince and snarled. “The only reason I am not killing everyone in this fucking house is because your son is my friend.” Vince nodded. Then he turned on his heel and went back up the stairs, stiffly.
Brandon smiled. “I’m your friend?” His words were soft as his thumb rubbed the side of my hand. “Just a friend?” He lifted his hope filled eyes to me.
“Don’t push me right now, Brandon. Your father and friend tortured my wolf for the last year behind my back.” My voice softened a little, and he winced.
“I automatically want to say maybe she deserved it.” I snarled, but he raised his hand. “But I won’t. When I was rejected, I thought about not accepting it, but I didn’t know who she was, and there was no way to win her over.”
“But Derek didn’t keep the bond active to win her back. He did it to torture her.” I turned to face him. “You haven’t seen her, but when I left her here, she was like me. Full of life, and a trained warrior. But now…” I left my words trail off and tears well up into my eyes. “Now she is skin and bones. Her eyes are dead. Her cheeks are sunken in.” I dropped my eyes and allowed a tear to fall. He wiped it off as I looked up and met his eyes. “She looks like a corpse, a walking corpse, like from the human zombie movie you asked me to go watch.”
He grimaced. “Is it that bad?” I just nodded.
“She is a shell of who she was.” I slid my hand out of his. “Now keep your promise.” I turned and started up the stairs. I pulled the wall between me and my wolves thicker, so that they would have to fight harder to get through.
