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Chapter 25

"How did you even manage to catch them?" I asked in shock to Bryce as I looked at King and Eli laying on the blood-soaked grass. Everyone's attention turned to our prisoners and they seemed just as shocked as I was. Tyler clucked his tongue in aggravation.

"Not easily, I'll tell you that much." 

Bryce nodded his head in agreement. "Fucker was too mouthy. He kept egging me on and then laughing like a fucking manic when I would take him down. I finally got fed up with it and was about to kill him before Nikolai came over and knocked his ass out." He gestured to the rock next to King's head and I looked at Nikolai dryly.

"We're werewolves with amazing strength and you decided to just knock him out with a rock?" 

"No smartass." Nikolai snapped and rolled his eyes. "I was in wolf form and saw Bryce getting agitated, so I was going to jump on King and pin him down but when I did, he fell and hit the rock and knocked out." I couldn't help but snort at that, finding the image in my brain very comical but I could sense anger coming from Kit, so when I looked over at him, I saw he was staring with pure hatred at Eli's unconscious form. Bryce picked up on his Betas emotions and called out to him. 

"Murphy fell through on his part of the deal and brought him to us already drugged."

"What deal?" I asked, suddenly remembering that Murphy was helping us. However, I was only told he knew Julian. I never knew there was more to the story. 

"Murphy never wanted to join Kings Pack but was threatened into it. Now, he just wanted to be on his own and do what he loves which is science. So, Bryce offered him the chance to do just that with the added protection of our Pack from others since he will still be considered a Rouge in exchange for Eli."

I looked at him confused. "But why alive? I don't feel like hearing him bitch and whine about how I get your dick and not him." I groaned and Kit smirked while everyone else looked unamused at my words.

"Trust me, he won't be around much longer." I didn't have time to ask for details because King started coming too and everyone immediately got on the alert. King looked around before jerking his hands, and once realizing he was tied up, he gave a tired laugh.

"Honestly? I'm not even surprised this happened." He chuckled and Allister glared at him.

"We should kill him now. What are we waiting for?" He snapped and the look of lust in Kings eyes when he saw my cousin was sickening. Even when he was in capticity, he still had the audacity to pine for Allister in front of his mate. Bryce was choosing to ignore the looks King was giving Allister.

"Notice someone missing from our prisoners?" He asked and I searched my brain trying to find the answer before gasping.

"Marcus," I answered and Bryce nodded before turning to King.

"He knows where he went." King gave him a droll look and Bryce snarled at him.

"Why do you care? Finding out where he went isn't going to help you."

"What is going on? Where did Marcus go?" My mom asked and King chuckled.

"I knew the bastard was betraying me. I was planning on killing him myself, but you guys just had to pick today of all days to attack and his punk ass ran off." He said in distaste and everyone was starting to get annoyed with how cryptic he was being.

"Just tell us where he is!" Allister yelled and King smiled. 

"I'll tell you everything for a kiss."

"Not happening," Bryce growled and King was finally realizing his situation and sighed, giving up on the flirting and beating around the bush.

"Answer me something, Bryce. Where is your ally?" He asked and Bryce looked at him with his eyebrows furrowed. "I only saw Tyrion and his men for a brief second before they disappeared. Do you not find that odd? The battle hadn't been won and I wasn't killed and yet they left you all high and dry."

"Listen asshole, I'm getting really sick and tired--"

"Marcus is working for Tyrion." I blurted out and King looked at me with a smile and nod. It only made sense if you really paid attention to how Tyrion acts. And of course, I am good at sitting in the shadows and observing people. The whole time Allister was kidnapped by King, Tyrion didn't seem to really care about Allister's well-being or safety. And then when he and his warriors were staying at the Pack for training, I noticed that a lot of his warriors were inside roaming our halls instead of outside with the rest of the members training. Of course, I never thought that was very strange because I always figured they were just trying to becoming familiar with the house since they would be staying there for periods of time.

"He just said Marcus betrayed him. Now, I don't know much about Marcus, but I do know he goes where power is. He was with us until he realized King could have the upper hand and take us down, but when he noticed King wasn't going to win this, he left. Now he wouldn't come back to us because he knows we would kill him without a second thought, but why would he go to Tyrion?" I explained, extremely confused by Marcus's motives. 

However, King seemed to have the answer. 

"Tyrion is just like Marcus. He loves power. Until your Packs joined together, he was the strongest Pack in the World. Now, he's being threatened from that position because of your Pack."

"This isn't making sense," Nikolai interjected and he had a point. It all was really mind-boggling. "Why would Tyrion help us?"

"I don't know, but I don't think its safe to discuss this in the open," Julian spoke up and everyone agreed to that. Apparently, we couldn't trust anybody. Who knows whats listening or waiting to attack was while we sit around here trying to make sense of all this. "Let's head back to the house. Lysander just linked me and said they had taken out the last of King's men." I saw the look of sorrow on Kings face as Tyler made him stand up. Nixon got Eli and we all headed out. Julian had parked a van a few blocks away from Kings hideout and we all piled in except for Nixon.

"I'm going to get a headcount of how many we lost and get their bodies before heading back." He didn't wait for an answer from anyone before shutting the van door and shifting to run back to the hideout. I glanced over at Drake, pursing my lips when I saw the faintest look of sadness etched on his face. But he quickly dropped it when he noticed me staring and cleared his throat. The drive back was silent. King and Eli had their heads covered with bags and ear plugs put in so they couldn't see or hear where we were going. I was going to assume they were putting them in the new torture room we had made in the basement, so Bryce probably didn't want either of them knowing where they were in case King had some sneaky plan under his sleeve.

Once at the Pack house, Julian helped Tyler get King and Eli and followed Bryce down to the basement. The rest of us went inside to clean up before meeting them down there. I wanted to see my dad before heading to my room, but my mom insisted I go clean up and spend some time with Kit. I didn't miss the little eyebrow wiggle she did when she mentioned that and yelled at her before rushing up the stairs and to my room. I groaned in pleasure at the sight of my bed and wasted no time jumping into the blankets. I heard Kit chuckle as we walked in and closed the door. Rolling over, I patted next to me and he walked over to--what I thought was lay next to me but instead, he crawled over top of me, placing his hands on either side of my head.

We were silent as we just stared into each other's eyes, our wolves seeming to purr in content at being reunited. But Kits eyes slowly traveled down before lingering on my stomach. I sat up a little and noticed he was staring at the gashes on my sweater and the drying blood from the cuts. They had long since healed, but the reminiscences of it happening was still there. I stayed quiet as he rolled the bottom of my sweater up before leaning down and placing a gentle kiss on my stomach.

"I don't care how it happened. I don't care what others think. All I care about is that your safe and our child is safe." He said quietly and I looked at him dumbfounded.

"Uhm, I kind of want to know how it happened," I stated and he rolled his eyes at me before moving over to lay next to me, but I was already sitting up to look at him. "I'm a freaking dude. We cant be pregnant. We don't have the parts for that to even happen."

"We'll figure it out. Once we get this mess with King, Eli, and Marcus taken care of." He promised and I couldn't help but add in my two cents.

"And Tyrion."

"Yeah, almost forgot about that fucking dick." Kit snarled and I just smiled before leaning down and kissing him. And what I was trying to have been a gentle sweet kiss, Kit had to turn into more and I finally had to pull away from him to breathe.

"I'm taking a shower. We don't have time to be having sex right now idiot." I chided and I decided to pretend and ignore the smug look on his face. Just like I pretended to ignore when he followed me into the shower. And I definitely pretended to ignore how many times we did it in the shower.

Yeah, definitely didn't have sex.

We were drying off and getting dressed after what was supposed to be a five-minute shower turned into almost an hour long shower when someone banged on the door.

"Are you two done fucking each other like rabbits?" Drake yelled and I bit my lip to hide my laughter. "We kind of have a very serious meeting to take care of." Even though he was trying to sound serious, he was failing hard because when Kit opened the door, Drake was barely holding in his laughter.

"Dude, you should've seen the look on Luna's face when she came back after trying to see Charlie and get you guys for the meeting." He laughed and I couldn't resist a little chuckle as we joined him out in the hall and started heading to the elevators to take us down to the basement. I was a little nervous about the fact that I knew exactly what answers we were going to be getting from this interrogation. But the fact that both of them threatened the life of my child was keeping the remorse I had at bay.

Don't fuck with pregnant women.

Or men.

Okay, this conversation is getting weird.

We carried casual chit-chat with Drake as he led us to where the others were--pretending like we weren't about to be torturing someone in the next couple of minutes. Once inside the room, I saw Allister, his parents, Bryce, Tyler and my dad all standing around while King was tied to a chair. I noticed Eli was nowhere to be seen, but I didn't care much for his whereabouts because I'm sure he was suffering regardless. My eyes met Kings when I looked over at him and the way they looked hazy and glossy told me that Bryce had gotten some Wolfsbane from Murphy before he went into hiding.

"Everyones here. Let us begin." Nikolai said with a clap of his hands and Drake closed the metal sliding door behind us. 

"Tell us everything you know and I might reconsider your future activities." Bryce ordered and King laughed before looking at him, his movements made sluggish by the drugs.

"You know, if someone had told me that going into cahoots with a traitor and psycho doctor would lead me into being held captive with my nearing death hanging over my head," He paused before shrugging. "I would probably think they were right."

"If you don't answer the god damn question and stop going off on little tangents." Lysander seethed and King sighed.

"A few weeks after you got Allister back and we learned Tyrion was helping you all, I began to notice the change in attitude when it came to Marcus. He was very secretive and quiet when it came to his duties. I became suspicious and ordered for him to be followed one evening when he was supposed to be checking on our defenses--instead, I learned he was meeting up with Tyrion to discuss the downfall of a major Pack. My spy wasn't able to hear much of the conversation, but I cared not for the rest of the information." He looked up at Bryce with a look so fierce, everyone in the room looked shocked.

"I am an Alpha. Rouge or not. The power flows through my veins. I do not take kindly to people betraying me. I don't give them second chances or think twice about how I want to punish their crime. Your first mistake was letting that bastard escape when you found out he was working for me. I wouldn't have given him the opportunity."

"If you're just going to insult our way of handling things, we can just kill you now and deal with Marcus and Tyrion ourselves." Allister snapped and King shook his head.

"You have no idea what you're up against. I lived with this man. He was my father-in-law. I know how he conducts his business and I know how ruthless he can be." He looked towards me now and Kit tensed beside me. "You've noticed the suspicions."

I looked around the room as everyone stared at me, waiting for an answer. But I didn't know if I had an answer. I mean yeah, I saw Tyrion's men walking around the house and everything, but they weren't going through anyone's things are in Bryce or Nikolai's office going through their files. 

"Uhm-" Was the intelligent start of my response, but Kit wasn't having it.

"My mate has nothing to do with this." Kit snapped and King just shook his head with a smile.

"You people are so idiotic it is literally killing me before you even have the chance to. Was Tyrion in the room when I hacked your servers?" He asked and my dad looked at him suspiciously.

"He was."

This caused King to let out a long whistle before clucking his tongue and shaking his head. "It all makes sense now." Was all he responded with and we all waited for him to finish, but after a minute he was still silent.

"Okay just kill this fucker. I'm tired of him being cryptic." Bryce ordered, but my dad stopped him.

"He knows something! We cant kill him!"

Bryce looked at my dad like he was insane. "He tried to kill your son and your grandchild. He kidnapped and raped my mate!" 

"I know, and I am angry over that but we need his information." My dad insisted. "Out of all the time Tyrion was with us, he never was one to share much detail about anything in his life. I tried to start numerous conversations with him, but they all were shot down by him. He came for his warrior's training and then he left. We know nothing about him, but King does." Bryce thought about this for a while before groaning.

"I will offer you the chance to stay alive in exchange for helping us," Bryce announced and everyone looked shocked by his statement, but Allister looked...hurt. "What happens to you after we deal with Tyrion remains the same, however." King nodded his head in agreement to that.

"You could kill me now and I wouldn't care. I've been ready to be with my mate ever since he was taken from me. But I will help you with this because I know this man needs to be taken down. He is the sole reason behind all the bad that has happened in my life and I will die happily when he is gone." Bryce was about to say something but my dad and I were sharing the same thoughts, only he acted upon them.

"Why did you want to know if Tyrion was in the room when you hacked us?" He asked and Bryce looked a little peeved at my dad for interrupting but the feeling dissipated when he became curious as well.

"I released some pretty sensitive and important information to you all when I did that. Information that can be very useful to someone looking for all the power in the world. And mark my words, Tyrion is going to be gunning for getting this information at any cost now." He snorted. "You guys thought I was bad? You haven't even seen what my dear father-in-law can do."

Everyone was thinking about what King was talking about, but I already knew. 

He was talking about me.

Tyrion knew I was pregnant and would be coming for me. I was a freak of nature. The first male werewolf--hell the first male--to ever become pregnant and he knew it all. I just got back from being kidnapped and now I someone was going to try and kidnap me again.

Can I just get a freaking break!?

okay so heres the deal. We have like 2 chapters left...maybe one. And I want to keep this book series going. So I want to know from you guys who would you like to follow along with on the next book?

Nixon and Drake

or

Kit and Charlies son and his mate

Please let me know cause I have great ideas for both but I cant choose which to start on first lol