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CONNOR

"I am warning you, Connor. You are not supposed to kill him. Let me interrogate him first and then I'll let you take over."

I recall Fenris's words that he had drilled into my head, before entering the dungeon where the rogue is kept. I struggle with my instinct, my wolf trying to claw his way out of my body, wanting justice for our mate.

Catrina's sleeping, finally, after suffering through her heat for eight hours continuously, I am grateful that she's having at least a couple of hours to rest. Her heat is at its peak which means that she won't be able to sleep for more time even when her body's exhausted. Her heat will overcome the need to sleep and therefore, the need to have sex will be the most important thing for her body now.

It was difficult to leave her side but when Fenris called to let me know about the rogue's interrogation, I couldn't resist witnessing the rogue's answers and then killing him. The sooner he's dead, the faster will my Cat recover. She still is scared of the rogue and her fear eats at me, makes me realise how badly I failed her.

My fingers have already curled, claws lengthened, drawing blood from my skin. Beside me, Dominic sniffs the air, his fangs descended watching Fenris interrogate the rogue, responsible for his goddaughter's trauma. The only reason why Cayden is absent today is because Fenris commanded him to be in bed.

"I just follow my Lord Xavier's steps," cackles the rogue, not responding but this was known. They don't answer without losing one of their body parts. Fenris sits quietly in front of him. He slowly lifts his hand, the one with his claws lengthened and then steadily, claws the rogue's toe, separating it from his foot.

The rogue screams like a banshee, his screams providing a deep sense of satisfaction to me yet making me want to do it myself.

"Now tell me why did you have all those females trapped?" asks Fenris. His voice is low, calm yet deadly but the Alpha Command is pouring off him in waves, his wolf completely in charge.

"I... Master Xavier has lots of clients in the human world," begins the rogue and then stops to look at Fenris, closing his mouth. As a trigger, Fenris claws off a second toe, making the rogue weep this time and I grunt at the cheap, whiny mudak.

Spineless motherfucker!

"They are wolves, rogues and they have needs. Master Xavier provides those wolves with the females to satisfy their wolf-urges."

The answer of the rogue shocks me. It angers me beyond my comprehension, not able to believe that someone would fall so low as to use another person as a product.

"How many years is this going on?" asks Fenris, this time, clawing off another toe from the rogue's foot. The rogue is weeping now, whining, begging to stop but Fenris is so far gone now, in his blood-thirsty rage that he doesn't acknowledge the rogue, silently waiting for him to reply to the question. The rogue finally does.

"Five years, now. Oman Wulfric, Master Xavier's friend and supporter approached Lord Xavier with a proposal to allow him to have a few females from the dungeon. Since those females were of no use, Master Xavier thought of using them in exchange for money."

"Continue," is the only reply from Fenris and when the rogue doesn't, he loses another one of his toes which has him singing like a canary.

"Wulfric bought a few females but they couldn't survive his sexual appetite because a wolf is naturally very sexually aggressive. Females are too but only after they have their first heat. Wulfric told Master to provide him with a female who's more sexually active."

"Bastards," I mutter as Fenris claws off another one of the rogue's toes. Only five toes are left, after this, he'll move to the fingers, but I am not patient anymore, I want to rip the bastard's limbs and then his head off his body for what he did to my mate and those females.

"That's when Kestrel thought of a spell, a blood spell which would work on a single, unmated female to induce artificial heat. This would allow the female to be sexually very responding."

"No, please. I'm telling you, please don't," whines the mudak when Fenris goes to claw off another toe.

"Kestrel knew of the spell but to make the serum, they needed a doctor and that's when they found me. I was an ordinary rogue, trying to make ends meet when Xanthos found me and took me to Master Xavier. Xavier offered me a good amount of money and free access to the females so I agreed. I made the serum but it wasn't working on the females. When it was given to Sierra, it was understood that it works on females who have found their mate, with their wolf responsive a little, the serum shows its effects immediately and with the unmated single females, the serum needs to be injected two times with the moonflower's pulp."

The moment the rogue stops speaking, Fenris gets up from his chair and picks up a knife. He silently goes behind the rogue and then starts shaving the rogue's head. The rogue realises this and starts screaming but his hands are bound together making it impossible for him to stop the blood-thirsty King.

"Tell me, were those female bodies who landed around the school, naked with their heads shaved, victims of your barbaric experiment?"

"Yes," the rogue cries, begging Fenris to stop and he does but only after the rogue is bald.

"Hmm. Tell me more. Exactly what I should know," Fenris's Alpha Command is so strong that even my wolf feels it.

"That's the only work that I do. I was given the task of making the serum and when I found Catrina, the dormant, I developed a personal interest in her to see if her wolf emerges. That's why I made the serum to trigger her wolf with pain, and her wolf came out but she went into heat. The side effect of the drugs is that it causes the female pain when she's touched by someone other than a mate, usually another male. That's it," begs the rogue, his head now bent, submitting to the King.

"What about Xanthos. Where's he?" I ask, wanting to get this done and over with so that I can return to my mate. She won't rest peacefully until this rogue and Xanthos are dead.

"Answer him," speaks Fenris, this time circling the rogue's fingers. The rogue blabbers and then immediately starts answering.

"Xanthos and Helena are planning something. They were talking about capturing the heir to the Alpha. That's what I know. Xanthos said that he'll kill you and your daughter. He would then have Sierra and with her, have a pup who'll rule the werewolves of Recrania."

I sigh in disgust. The bastard has a mate, yet he wants someone's else's mate to live with. Like father, like son, they say. 

"What else do I need to know, Lance? Tell me. I feel you hiding something from me," Fenris whispers this in the rogue's ears, making the rogue shudder in fear. A foul smell makes its way to me and Dominic, making us frown but then we realise that the rogue has peed in his pants, causing Dominic to chuckle.

"I don't know-,"

"He's lying," I growl, scenting it off him I waves. He knows something.

"No, I don't know for sure. But I had once heard that Master Xavier has the daughter of Alpha Lucian and Eva."

"WHAT?" this time Fenris roars, his rage increasing ten-fold at the news of his sister being imprisoned by Xavier. I had only heard about her once but I know that Fenris was secretly searching for her. Knowing that she is trapped and not on the run must be a huge shock to him.

I immediately walk into the cell, Dominic behind me who walks to Fenris, calming him down and I walk towards the rogue, lifting him by the throat and out of his seat, ropes and all, and bang him to the nearest wall.

Letting my wolf take over, I allow myself to be in half-shift and roar in his face.

"No. Wait, Connor," only Fenris's Alpha Command stops me but still it takes a lot of control, to not rip off this rogue.

"You said Xanthos is planning to kill me. Does that mean he's going to attack my pack?" asks Fenris, thinking now.

I look at the rogue who's still in my choke-hold unable to answer. I loosen my hold a bit, allowing him to speak.

"Yes."

"Where is my sister?"

The rogue looks at us, one by one in the eyes and then shakes his head. I growl at him and he shudders in fear, the smell of urine and his fear, making it very difficult to breathe.

I increase the pressure on his neck, once again asking him about Fenris's sister but the rogue just shakes his head.

Roaring now, I pull him off the wall and bang him on the floor, going on my knees to pull at his head. If he's not answering then he's no longer of use and I no more have to keep a lid on my rage.

"The... c... c.... cave," he gurgles.

Getting the answer that I need, I let my wolf take over, shifting over the rogue and biting off his head, separating it from his body. The rogue's heart beats slowing down now as I watch in immense satisfaction as the life leaves his body.

My mate is avenged!

"Connor. Shift back," orders Fenris, so I do, wiping my face off the blood and stare at Fenris as he looks at me grimly.

"Catrina's heat is building." Fenris's information, linked to him no doubt by Nora or Sierra has me up and alert. My wolf has been growling inside my mind but I thought it to be because of the rogue's presence.

"I'll go. You will have to clean up this mess alone," I say, looking at Dominic who has only been witness to all the werewolf drama. His interference could cause a war between wolves and vampires.

"You go! I'll help," offers the bloodsucker and I nod at him in acknowledgement before walking out of the dungeon and making sure to wipe off all the blood, not wanting my mate anywhere near the bloodbath that I had just now.

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Trotting into Catrina's home, I sniff the air, scenting my mate's arousal heavy in the air, tasting the sweetness of chocolate and cream on my tongue. Quickly shifting back into my human form, I don't bother to wear clothes since no one's in the house, Nora and Sierra having walked away the moment they sensed me entering the house.

"Oh, god!" I hear my mate's agony in her prayer, yet the breathy note in it has my wolf pushing forward to be near her. It drives me crazy to leave her side but I have a mess to solve. 

Taking two steps at a time I reach her room and open the door, when the wave of her scent hits me, leaving me breathless for a while. Letting her scent wash over me, I walk inside the room, since running towards her is not possible because of the hard-on that I am sporting.

The moment she sees me, she's out of the bed and running towards me, letting those sparks fly managing to take me by surprise every time that happens. My wolf preens in my mind, urging me to claim her again, to mark her again, yet I hold back, lifting her and carrying her to the bed.

"Are you in pain?" I ask, rubbing her arms and back, hoping to bring as much pleasure by my touch as I can.

"Not now," she moans, rubbing herself on me. Her action catches me off guard. It's a sign of her wolf being close to her, yet her eyes are brown. Not knowing what's going on in her body, I hold her steady, looking into her dilated brown eyes. They are brown, darker, like melted chocolate, making it difficult to resist falling under her spell.

"Do you feel anything in your mind, baby?" I ask, making sure my voice is steady to not scare her or build unnecessary hope. She looks at me as if knowing that I am asking for a reason. Thinking a little, she shakes her head and then nods as if unsure.

Realising that it must be difficult to answer clearly, I frame my question differently.

"Do you feel as if someone's triggering your emotions?" I ask yet feeling as if I am not clear to her.

She frowns and then thinks again, all the while cuddling into my lap, triggering my wolf. I let him come forward to sense if her wolf has risen to the surface or not. Merging with my wolf, I try to gauge if her wolf's close and as if sensing my wolf closer to the surface, she starts rubbing herself all over me, her wolf clearly guiding her body's action.

I shift my hands into claws, letting her see while holding her with my claws, to see her reaction. The reaction is so visceral that I watch the change happening in front of me. Her eyes go from brown to golden in a few seconds, her wild mane of hair, leaving a trail of heat over my chest, making my wolf try to claw his way out of my body, to claim our mate. 

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