I can feel how upset you are. You are angry for my sake, for Faye and for Marina. That means a lot to me.
Obviously, I am pissed at the guy who brought so much harm to my mate’s loved ones! Fuck that guy. I hope either Liam, Dad, or Aurelia rips his head off his shoulders. I wouldn’t mind if a satellite dropped down onto him either. Anything to make him go away. Though, on a second thought, it would be too quick a death for what he did!
“Felix!” Liam calls out to me.
Gwen and I turn to look at him, noticing that he is waiting together with Dad and Aurelia. Celine is there as well. “Maddox?” I ask.
“I told him to leave it to us,” Liam says. “I think it’s better for him and his mental health.”
“I guess you are right.”
“Marius is with Faye,” Celine tells me before I can ask. “Flora, too.”
“It’s impossible for anything to happen to her if Flora is with her,” Dad says.
I also wish Gwen had stayed back, but at the same time, I know I can’t prevent her from coming. Marina was her best friend, and she was left with the broken pieces after what Thomas Jackson did. It’s her right to get closure.
“Your mother said to call her in case we need backup,” Dad explains. “Let’s try not to escalate the situation.”
“Yeah, if Mom intervenes, it might end bloody,” Liam says. “Not that I would mind. But I want the guy alive. I want him to pay.”
“Exactly,” Dad says. “I want to get all the names of packs that are allied with him, like Maddox’s father is. I have a feeling there will be a lot of dirt to uncover.”
“Then let’s settle on getting some answers out of him,” Aurelia says.
“Where is he waiting?” I ask.
“Outside of pack grounds, right at our borders. Vince and a couple of warriors are keeping an eye on him,” Dad says. “Ready to go?”
We all nod. While Aurelia takes the lead to navigate us to the spot we are expected at, I take Gwen’s hand, squeezing it. “You okay?” I whisper.
She takes a while to answer. “I am not sure,” she admits. “But I am relieved he is finally here. Hopefully, we can get rid of him for good now.”
Then Faye will be free,she links me.And I will be free. Marina will be able to rest in peace, knowing no one will threaten her daughter, and that no one is going to hurt her anymore.
We’ll make sure that today is the last time this guy will threaten any of you.
While following my family, I wonder once more about Thomas, trying to brace myself for the man I am going to meet soon. No matter how prepared I think I am, it still knocks the air out of my lungs when I finally lay eyes on him.
He is standing at our borders together with some of his warriors, a smile on his lips while he tries to chat with Vincent. Vincent just looks more than a little pissed, but it doesn’t seem like Thomas minds. He looks like the man in the pictures, and fuck, yes, he looks like an alpha. It’s so off-putting how friendly and polite he looks, likely a perfect mask he has been wearing for a long time.
But it’s his smile that gives it away. There is something off about it.
It sends a shiver down my spine.
A man who tortured his mate is not supposed to smile like that. He probably looked like that at Marina when they met. I remember the photo of them with Maddox’s dad, and she looked happy. I want to cry when I think about how happy she probably was about finding her mate, only to wake up in a nightmare.
Despicable!
To my surprise, it’s not Dad or Liam who steps forward but Aurelia. “Thank you for waiting, Beta Vincent,” she says, calling him by his official title like we always do when we need to underline someone’s rank in front of others.
Vincent nods at her. “He is yours, Alpha Aurelia.”
Thomas laughs. “You are the alpha, little girl?”
Dad raises an eyebrow at that.
Aurelia, however, remains unfazed. “Well, it doesn't take a lot to receive the title nowadays, does it?” she says sweetly.
