The back door opens and a man I had only ever seen once steps out. His eyes glint in sunlight and I can see the evil that lurks behind those endless pools of red. Sniffing the air, I can’t catch his scent, like he doesn’t exist, except I know he does as he is standing right in front of me. He is well dressed and his hair is longer than what it is in the photo’s in the conference room. Dark and just sitting above his shoulders, stubble on his face and a strong jaw and has a striking resemblance of Alpha Damien. I had heard the rumours that the Alpha may be the son of Kade; I didn’t want to believe he was any relation to this monster. Seeing him standing here, I could see the similarities.
“I see you got my message little one” He says, stepping closer and gripping my face. His fingers digging into my cheeks as his eyes search my face, I can see his fangs protruding under his top lip.
“Where is my mate?” I try to ask around the tight grip he has on my face.
“You don’t get to ask the questions, you will just have to take my word he is alive. But I am sure you already know that through the bond you share” He says letting my face go.
“The question I have for you is, what are you willing to do to get him back?”
I felt bile rise in my throat, my stomach turning at what I was about to say. We have it instilled in us from a young age that your pack is everything, live by the hierarchy to protect and serve. This was going against everything I was taught, everything I believed.
“Anything” I gasp, the words feeling like poison on my tongue leaving a foul taste in my mouth.
“Good, because I have a task for you. My son killed his mother, killed my mate, and now I want you to return the favour. We have been watching. I have eyes everywhere, I know they are watching the borders closely, I know they are planning something. The blood Moon Pack has arrived. Little did they know this was the plan all along”
“You want me to kill Lily?” I ask.
“Yes, that is exactly what I want you to do. And for it to work you must not let her know, not let her realise she has died”
“I don’t understand. How would she know? She will be dead”
“You will understand, just make it quick and clean. She trusts you, you can get close to her” Kade tells me and I nod. Lily trusts me and I would trust my life in her hands, which just makes knowing what I am about to do all that more awful.
“Why are you doing this?” I dare to ask and am surprised when he answers.
“Twelve years ago I created the ultimate predator, I found a way to replicate immortality, and it lies within her blood. I want to watch Aria be destroyed by the one person she raised, I want to show her that the Hybrid queen can fall, and show her Lily’s wolf was never broken; she just needed to be awoken. Needed to meet her full potential. Twelve years, I waited. Twelve years I was tortured by her father and twelve years without my mate and my son. Now I am going to get my revenge by taking the one thing he tried to keep hidden. Abel should have killed me when he had the chance, because now he is going to know what it feels like to lose his daughter. He took her from me, killed my daughter, took everything from me and now I am going to take everything he holds dear from him. I will not lose another child because of his family”
“But why, Lily? She had nothing to with any of this, she was a child” I ask, enraged that everything always comes back to Abel, comes back to a war we were never part of. Now we were just the collateral damage.
“If you want your mate back you will do as I ask, and once all this is over I will give you your mate and you will be free to leave”
“And If I fail?” He chuckles darkly.
“I will post him to you in pieces” My stomach drops somewhere cold and dark and I feel my heart caught in my throat.
“Kill Lily, then get out of there. Aria won’t be a match for her”
“What do you mean?” I ask, Aria is the most powerful Lycan hybrid in the world, a direct descendant of the moon goddess herself.
“Because Lily is not only a pure hybrid, she has a wolf, the one thing Aria doesn’t have. But her blood is just as pure, and Aria will never see it coming. Even if she does, Aria won’t be able to kill her little sister, the sister she raised that is more like a daughter to her. The only thing they ever got right about Lily. Is that she is more unhinged than me, that Layla is truly the biggest monster anyone has ever seen and Lily will never be able to stop her. I made sure that bond was severed the day I forced her shift, Lily has been right all these years not to let her out. Layla will be her ultimate downfall, ” He says before opening the rear door and climbing in. He opens the window and the rogues hop back in the car.
“You have three days, three days and I will mail you a piece of your mate, I will do that every day until the task is done. So if I were you I would work quickly, before there is nothing left of him” He says before I watch the tinted window slide back up. I watch as he pulls out of the park and leaves before collapsing. The air leaving my lungs suddenly and I can’t breathe. I have to kill her, kill my best friend. I have to betray both Packs, betray what I believe.
Moon Goddess, please forgive me.
Chapter 47
Lily’s POV
Two days had passed since Damien and I mated. Layla felt calm within me, relaxed and over all so did I. Two days and I was finally putting the last touches on my wall when Damien walked in announcing that lunch had been made. Reid and Damien had been working tirelessly and had come up with a few ideas on where Kade was hiding out. We were just waiting for the confirmation to go ahead with their plans.
Aria and Reid were constantly at each other’s throat, which was driving us nuts. He wanted to protect her, yet it wasn’t in Aria’s nature to run because things got tough. She knew what she was capable of. And I could tell she needed to see it end, knew she couldn’t relax till she knew for sure it was over. I understood that need, understood exactly how she felt. This whole thing hung over our heads heavily. I would be glad to see it over, no matter how it ends.
Damien walks in the room and stops. He hadn’t been in here for the last two days and he stopped staring at what was once a blank wall. I feel his arms wrap around my waist as he nuzzles my neck, inhaling my scent.
“You finished it, It looks great. I didn’t know you could paint so well” He says, staring at the painting on the wall. It wasn’t quite finished yet. It was missing one thing. The painting was of both Damien and I with our wolves at our feet.
“Why did you leave the middle between them blank?” He asks, walking over to it and staring at the grass between both of our wolves.