Nicholson stares at the man tied up in front of him, all bloodied and swollen yet he feels no pity for the man. He watches as the man takes deep labored breath and soon his groans reaches his ear as Tyson throws a punch in his wounded side.

"I like this" Tyson comments as he wipes his bloodied hands before he turns to grin towards Nicholson.

"Way better than exercising with you"

"Why?"

"The obvious I don't have to be careful" he shrugs his shoulder and Nicholson sits more comfortably in his chair raising a brow at him.

"Be careful? I did not know you were holding back on me when I knocked you down one too many times" he comments.

"Don't be too cocky, I was just sparing you because you are little cousin" he smirks and Nicholson throws his head back before laughing loudly.

"You are funny Ty, you are so damn funny I give you that" he calms down as few more chuckles leaves his mouth before his eyes zooms on Wilson barely conscious.

"But you know what's more funny?" Nicholson asks but before anyone could comments, he adds.

"When I bring his real mate and let her join us or shall I add let you exercise on her" he smiles in victory as he gets exactly the kind of reaction from him he was wanting from the last week.

Wilson thrashes trying to fight the chains he was, tied to wanting to rip Nicholson's throat for even mentioning his mate.

"Let me free and fight me like a man you son of a bitch" Wilson shouts spitting at Nicholson's way.

"No" he simply states as he walks towards Wilson and kicks him in between his legs as he wipes the spit that landed in his shoe.

"You don't deserve to be fought like a man when you never treated my sister like a man should," he adds as Wilson growls in pain.

"Bring his mate in" Nicholson orders before he goes to sit back on his seat and watches as the door of the room opens and the woman cries seeing her mate in such a terrible condition.

She runs to get to his side passing Nicholson but he was not as generous as he grabs the woman's hand and pulls her back making her land on the floor.

"Don't touch her," Wilson growls in anger but Nicholson just smiles cruelly as he grabs the nape of her neck and bangs her head on the ground.

"No" Wilson screams in pain seeing his mate hurt.

"No? Is that what Gracie told you? No?" he asks as he jerks the woman's head up and stares at Wilson who tries to; once again break the chain that was holding him back.

"What do you want, let go of her. You want to kill me right, just do it. Don't hurt her," Wilson begs when he knows it was of no use trying to fight the inevitable.

"What makes you think I want to kill you, but I do wonder how long you will stay alive seeing your mate's dead eyes?" he asks tapping his chin as if thinking about it.

"No, no Nick please, you are not that cruel please she has done nothing wrong please let her go" he begs and those words angers Nicholson to another level.

*******

"Not done anything wrong, oh how ignorant of you" Nicholson slowly speaks as he let go of the girl who scrambles towards Wilson touching his face and sobbing.

"Call Throne in" Nicholson asks Tyson who nods before he walks and then walks in back again with Throne.

"Do you remember him?" Nicholson asks as he stares at the girl who stares at Throne before she hugs Wilson and continues on crying.

"I will take your silence as your answer to be yes. Take a seat Throne, you always stand" Nicholson speaks and one of his man hurries to bring a seat for Throne, which he takes easily.

"Even if I am a man with few words there are times I have to speak and as for you two you have given me so much reasons to speak" Nicholson sighs as if already tired of talking.

"Throne here; he is best friend to my big brother and also brother to my sister-in-law. Therefore, you see that makes him family...

Moreover, I hate it when someone hurts my family. Not once, not twice but again and again and again, multiple times...

You see Throne is like you but do you know what the difference between you two is?" he asks as he stares from Wilson to Throne before he continues.

"Throne here knows, what will be the consequences if he hurt one of my sisters and moreover what happens if someone hurts his sister, am I right Throne?" Nicholson asks and the said man nods his head once understanding the threat too well.

"Do you have any idea how much of a shock it was to find out who your mate was? I mean small world...

Then my mind, started to ask one question repeatedly, why you would marry my sister claiming she is your mate and why your mate would stay in our life as if she knew nothing...

Then I started to ask the question aloud and there were so many answers yet I wanted to hear it from you two...

What do you say, ladies first?" he asks as he smiles at the woman who was now glaring at him.

"This is your only chance I am being generous and I promise to bury you two together" he smirks.

"What do you want?" the woman finally asks.

"The truth, all of it" he winks at her shamelessly before she sits back and waits for her to talk.

"What truth are you talking about?" she asks as she wipes her tears.

"What did you want from Damon pretending to be the love of his life while your mate did the same with my sister, dear Diana" Nicholson asks the woman.

*******

Nicholson walks out of the room with a dark face, his mood getting worse than the one when he entered the room.

"What are you going to do?" Throne asks as he walks behind Nicholson.

"What can I do?" he asks instead in anger.

"We should tell Eric about what we learned"

"Then go and tell him, I want nothing to do with him"

"But he can be of help"

"Like fucking hell will I ask for a help from one of them"

"Don't let you pride in the way Nick"

"Pride? I don't fucking trust you wolves and I will rather seal my land and hunt all of you down myself if I have to...

But asking help from one of you will the last of the thing I will do" he snaps as he loosens his tie and keeps walking.

"Why do you hate me anyway?" Throne asks aloud but all he gets in silence from Nicholson as the man walk away.

*******

Throne silently walks inside of Damon's house before he calls for his friend; he smiles as he finds his sister walking out of the kitchen hearing his voice.

"Throne" Tutu calls as she rushes to his side and hugs him.

"Hey, how are you now?" he asks as he stares at her face.

"Good, better actually you here to see Damon?" she asks.

"Yeah, I went to his office but..."

"He is home, cooped up in his office actually I don't know what the matter is but he seems moody, why don't you go and see him I will bring some snacks for you two" she states and he nods his head before making his way towards Damon's home office.

Throne knocks on the door twice before he walks in to find Damon sitting in his chair staring at the wall.

"Hey, what's up?" he asks as he goes to take a seat.

"Nothing" Damon sighs and that is when Throne sees the drink in his hand.

"Is it not too early for that?" Throne points at the drink.

"Something wrong" Damon asks instead.

"Uh, I just came from Nicholson's place. Diana and Wilson were there"

"And"

"It seems Diana knew about my situation from Wilson as we know it is not a secret among the pack...

She came to you with a motivation, when you did not fall for her she used my secret to use you...

Moreover, when even that did not work, it seems Wilson came up with the plan to use Gracie; they wanted to have a source of your blood...

If your blood cannot change the wolf back to human form it can do some damages even if minor it was effective enough, they said they were helping a man named Thomas and I talked with Eric and it seems that man is dead...

Still few of his goons may be trying to cause some troubles, the council will be handling he things from here on and Nicholson did say something about sealing the area, you should talk to him he seemed a bit off" Throne explains as he keeps staring at his friend.

"Is that it?" Damon asks as he sips on his drink and Throne frowns not understanding what was wrong with his friend.

"Yeah, you okay man?" he asks worried.

"Yeah, I am good are you?" Damon asks instead.

"Yeah, what's wrong with me?" Throne asks confused at his behavior.

"I don't know may be having some feelings for my sister?" he points out making Throne sigh.

"I don't know what he fuck is wrong with you all, asking me about that same damn question"

"Maybe it's time you answer that damn question"

"What do you want me to tell?"

"The truth"

"The truth is there is nothing on going between your sister and me, happy?"

"She is too young for you Throne, don't do something that will cost you my friend"

"Ha! There is nothing so great about your friendship Damon, come down from whatever high horse you are on" Throne spats at once getting up from his seat in anger.

"Well seeing I am best friend with a murderer and a fucking freeloader you should be grateful," Damon snaps and Throne takes a step back as if someone punched him.

Something falling down and crashing on the floor snaps both of their head towards the door to find Tulip standing with her hands covering her mouth and the tray on the floor with food and drinks spilled.

*******

Throne looks away from his sister and stares at his feet for a while before he walks out of the room.

"Thro..." Tulip tries to call her brother but Throne just walks past her without a word or a glance her way and Tulip cannot help but stand still not knowing if following him would be wise.

She does not know how long she stands on the door as nothing but her silent tears fills the silence between her and her husband.

Getting her focus back, she kneels on the ground trying to clear the mess she made, as she picks the cookies and cups putting them back of the tray.

She glares at her husband as he holds one of the cookies in his hand trying to help her but she refuses getting up leaving the tray on the ground.

"Tutu" Damon sighs as he gets up as well but she turns to walk out of the door.

"Listen" he calls following her out of the room but she keeps walking.

"Don't walk away," he shouts as he stops her by standing in front of her.

"Thro...you" Tulip closes her mouth once again as a sob escapes her mouth.

"Don't cry," he groans as he rubs his face.

"Then stop making me," she shouts at him at once.

"Stop making me cry, stop giving me reasons to cry" she shouts stepping away from him.

"Listen..."

"No, no Damon, I have listened too much so stop making me listen"

"I did not mean to..."

"You meant every single word, what is wrong with you? What is wrong with him loving Lily?

How could you just...he is your best friend too, and just like love, friendship happens from both side...

Freeloader...is that what you have been seeing him like. Just because he is in no condition of having money as you, you cannot just...

Why are you even fighting his case, what are you even fighting his case for if you have already set your mind that he is a murderer?

If you can marry his sister then what is wrong with him loving your sister, what is so wrong with him wanting to be with Lily?

Loving is no crime, or did you marry me out of pity?" she asks as she stares at him still in shock at what just happened.

"No, I..." Damon goes to start but she holds her hands up stopping him from saying or walking towards her.

"I never thought you would turn out to be such a hypocrite, Damon. If we are pointing each other's mistakes, well you are no different you know...

Your family is no different"

"Tutu" he warns her.

"They kill people too, killed more than my brother. At least, my brother was not in right state of his mind while your family"

"I said shut up, you are a part of my family too or have you forgotten?" Damon shouts making her jump in fright.

"It hurts, is it not? Because my brother is hurting too, you are not the first one to call him a murderer but today your words made him so...

As for being a part of your family, you are right I am. However, I do not wish to be anymore, I do not think I can be with someone who has no respect for the man he has known most of his life and no respect for my side of the family...

I had always put you so much high in my eyes but today you fell down and all of my respect for you has been, crumbled...

You just lost all of my love and respect for you Damon, I hope you will remain happy in this big house of yours with all of your money," she cries as she rushes past him.

*******

Damon stares blankly as he watches Tulip walk down of the stairs along with a bag, one she had brought along with her after she moved in with him.

"Don't go," he pleads as he walks towards her.

"I cannot look at you right now"

"I don't care, he can be with Lily I won't even say a word, just, just don't leave me"

"It's not about Lily anymore. I just cannot do this, you are his friend and if you don't understand him then who will?" she asks and Damon looks at his feet in shame.

"I am sorry"

"I am not the one you should say that to and even if it makes no difference, your act today has questioned everything between us...

If you see him as that then, how do you see me? I have nothing to offer you, I am as much as a freeloader as him, after all, all I do is spend your money and wait for you to come back, and your words it just made me feel so cheap, I feel like a whore right now" she whispers the last part.

"You are my wife" he glares at her for giving herself that name.

"I am a murderer's sister and as much as a freeloader as him, after all both of us has been freeloading from your family, is it not?

We would have been in streets if your father had not given us a shelter and how stupid of me, for even a second thinking I would be able to be your equal, well thank you for bringing me back to the reality as I know my place today...

I have left everything you provided me as it is in your room and even if I cannot pay it back, I hope one day..." Tulip stops as fresh tears falls down from her eyes making it hard for her to speak.

"You are over-reacting, please, I did not mean it. I will talk things out with Throne; just, just do not leave...

I said few words in anger please Tutu, I was not in my right mind, do not do this to me, to us" Damon begs as he holds her hands begging her to stop.

"You don't have to worry, I will not ask for anything when we divorce" she speaks the final words and Damon drops her hand, in shock.

"Di...what?" he asks stunned to hear those words out of her mouth.

"I will send the papers as soon as I can"

"Where is your ring?" Damon asks as he stares at her hands searching for their wedding ring.

*******

"I need to go" she wipes her tears as she tries to get past him.

"Where is your fucking ring, Tutu?" he asks as he holds her arms.

"I cannot do this, I need to go"

"You are not leaving me, you hear me you are not, where the fuck is your ring" he demands.

"In your room"

"That is our room" he glares at her.

"Not anymore"

"Don't," he warns but she just keeps quiet pushing his hands.

"Let go of me, I don't want to be with you anymore," she whispers avoiding his eyes as he keeps staring at her face.

Damon pulls her closer to him as he keeps staring at the side of her face while she avoids looking at him.

"You want to go; you want a fucking divorce, huh? You do not want to be with me anymore, is that it? Fine, go, go be a sister and do not worry I will send you divorce papers, free of charge of course for being a great fuck...

But make sure you sign those fucking papers Tutu, you fucking sign those papers and send it back to me because if you don't then...

If you do not then I will truly make you my whore, you will be whoring me for the rest of your life until and unless you say it with your own mouth that you are my wife...

I will deal with your brother and patch up with him, in my own way and you know damn well that we will be back in good terms but you, you, my wife; you just make sure you stay true to your words...

Let's see how long can you survive without me, how long until that ring is back in your finger" he warns as he steps aside for her to walk out of the house and Tulip has nothing left but to walk out of the house, she had started to feel home.