COLE'S POV
I am sitting in the packhouse office with both Elijah and Nathan as we try to work out how someone could have put silver into Skyler's drinks. We ended up having everything in the Alpha house tested, thrown out and replaced. I look up at Elijah as he gets up from his desk and walks over to mine and asks,
"Is there any possibility that it could be Alpha Jackson?"
"Alexander has all patrols keeping an eye out for him, but if he is anything like his brother and from what Antonio was saying, he is even worse. He could have anyone breach our borders and enter the territory."
Elijah goes to say something else but instead leans on my desk and holds his head. I do the same as a sharp pain shoots through mine. I then hear Alexander yelling down the pack link,
"ALPHA'S WE ARE UNDER ATTACK, PATROLS WE NEED HELP... INTRUDER DRIVING A BLACK SUV..."
We all growl, run out of the
INTRUDER'S POV I was surprised when I got the call from Alpha Chris. He saved my life even after he knew what I was and why I had infiltrated his pack. He freed me from my master, gave me a little more training and then sent me on my way, saying, "I NOW OWN YOU!! I WILL UTILISE WHAT YOU KNOW AND WHAT I HAVE TAUGHT YOU UNTIL ONE DAY I WILL ASK FOR YOUR SERVICES FOR A VERY SPECIAL TARGET AND THAT WILL REPAY WHAT YOU OWE!" So, I went from one master to another. The only thing with Alpha Chris is that I do actually get a resemblance of freedom. I may not always agree with what he wants me to do, but if I ever refused, I would need to run and run far as he would kill me without a second thought. So once I complete this one I am finished with him and thank Goddess for that as he is starting to scare me even more than usual. I look over the file he sent me and then do a little investigating myself. I find where she is and what she does from one day to the next. I take note of the patrols
ALEXANDER'S POV I slowly fight my way out of the darkness. I try to move but find my wrists bound and so are my ankles and where ever I am lying; I am on my side and it's cold. I try to link Cole, knowing he was with me when I passed out, but there is nothing. I then try my wolf Austin, but all I get from him is a small whimper. Since I can't reach anyone through the pack link, I fight the heaviness in my eyes and force them open. I look around to find that I am in a room that actually looks familiar, but I can't think of where I would be. I then see that Cole is still out cold on the other side of the room. He, too, has his wrists and ankles tied, but he also has a rope wrapped around his chest. Maybe as he is an Alpha, the female didn't want to take any chances with him. I then hear a whimper and look around again quickly as I remember Skyler was with us too, but she is not in the same room as us. I hear the whimper once again and know it came from Skyl
GRETA'S POV I watch as Master Alpha Chris whips Luna Skyler with his belt. I remember what that feels like and I still have the scars on my back as proof. I am surprised that she has managed to keep in her screams, I can hear her in her head begging him to stop, that she will be good, that she will do as she is told and that he, as her Alpha is always right, a gift from my other half. I want to stop him, knowing that this is not doing her unborn pups any good, but as soon as I interfere, he will know that there is something up. I stay on the floor where he knocked me until he pauses and whispers into her ear, "My brother should have given you to me when I offered to take and train you in every way at the age of 5. You wouldn't have then caused your mother's death and in the end, my brothers as well... You would have returned to him a female he could enjoy without the consequences, as I would have taken care of that as well... I can't wait to break you,
ALEXANDER'S POV I didn't mean to mark her, I just wanted to protect Skyler, and then once we had our hands on her, Austin wanted to taste her. I catch her as she faints. I know she is a werewolf and I know there is more to her than that, but I am just not sure what. Not that I care, she is my mate and I will protect her just as I protect Skyler. I pick Greta up and carry her over to the sofa. I lay her down, run my fingers down her cheek, tucking a bit of her hair behind her ear. I lean down and kiss her forehead before heading back into the room I was tied up with Cole. I go over to where Cole is still passed out due to the amount of silver and wolfsbane he is still wrapped in. I cover my hands and quickly untie him, throwing the rope and cord to the other side of the room. While I wait for him to come round, I search the rooms and find one of Cole's mother's old blouses. It is old and out of fashion, but it will do. I then head back into the other roo
SKYLER'S POV It was heartbreaking to realise that the uncle I loved as a pup was even worse than my father was, and with the female Greta, I could understand where she was coming from. Doing anything and everything possible to escape the brutal punishments that would come your way when something wasn't done to perfection. When I felt Cole and Xander's Alpha aura return to protect Alexander and then he admitted that if one was punished, then the other needed to be punished as well. I couldn't watch that again, so I snap, "NO!... Not again!... Never again!..." I then run, I run out of the door, into the woods and straight to the lake waterfall field. I told Nathan about the time James stood up for me and then turned on me so he didn't have to go through it again, but he was not the only one to have suffered because of me after my mother died. The next one that tried to stop my father from doing what he did best cost them their life...&
*** FLASHBACK CON'T *** He gives me a soft kiss on my cheek and then steps back before slapping my face. My head snaps to the side, but I don't make a sound. Another thing I have learned not to do is the more noise I make, the more he likes it, and the more he does. He then turns to the other males, smiling, "Alphas! See, as I said, already trained not to make a sound..." As he turns back, he hits me again and again and again and with each hit; I keep in the scream of pain that wants to come out. When one of his hits knocks me to the floor, I glance over at James, who is still standing in front of the door. I can see the guilt in his eyes increase and I then get a light tug on our private sibling mind link. "I'm sorry sis, he didn't buy that Ryan and I were just mucking around and things got out of hand as the very first punch Rya
*** FLASHBACK CON'T *** I now haven't seen Zoe for 2 months and during that time my Alpha has been drilling into me what my place is once again and that I am to treat everyone as they are of a much higher rank than me. I knew that Zoe and her parents were due home sometime over the next few days and as soon as I heard Zoe's parent's car pull up out the front of the packhouse; I smile. Even though I know I shouldn't have, I dropped the plate I was washing back into the sink and run out of the packhouse. I ignore the pain that is running through me in waves as I run up to her and wrap my arms around her, making her fall to the ground. We are both laughing as she says, "Hey! Girl, did you miss me or something?" "Nahh, why on earth would I miss a wolf-like you??" I laugh as I shrug my shoulders, making
SKYLER'S POV I blink the tears out of my eyes as I remember making myself a promise that I would never put any of my friends in that position again. I would never ask someone to stand up for me when I don't deserve it. After that day I never saw Zoe's parents again once I had passed out in his office, my father told me that Zoe's mother had been asked to transfer back to her old pack and due to what I had caused him to do to her daughter he had accepted and allowed them to return. "After my father killed Zoe, his punishments increased in both frequency and intensity. He then threatened that if anyone ever interfered again, I would have to watch them take the same punishment he had given her. So to protect, every one of the friends I had made while I was friends with Zoe, I once again shut everyone out. I kept everyone at a distance, not allowing anyone to be my friend again for fear my father would eventually kill them all, even for just talking to them."