Chapter 618
Theo screamed as the blood poured from his mouth. Rowan let go of his mouth and stepped back. “Shut up.” I smeed him once. “You are a wolf, for Goddess’ sake. Act like it.” I shook my head as he whined. “It’s already healed. Enough.” backed up to the table and dropped the pliers. “Now talk, or we will just leave.”
He shut up after that. “Why did you go and do that?” He growled.
My father snorted. “Did you think we were just going to trust you not to commit suicide? I mean, your little band of traitors created the false tooth for exactly this scenario.” He stepped up to the chair and grabbed the armrests, leaning over Theo. “This way, you can talk to your heart’s content, but you can’t end your life to escape.” My dad pushed back. “Now, listen to your
Queen. Talk.”
Theo’s eyes glowered at me. “You are actually mated?” The disbelief in his voice was thick. I just nodded and then pulled my
shirt to the side.
“Yep.” I popped the p at the end of the word. “Goddess blessed and everything.” I let go of my shirt. “Why? Were you hoping that the King was your mate?” Rowan coughed, covering his laugh. Theo snapped his head towards him and let out a tiny growl.
Nix snapped at that and surged forward. “You would do well to remember that I will not take the disrespect that my mate has put up with from you.” Theo turned back to me with a sneer. Nix urged us forward, and with a quick flick of her wrist, she smacked Theo’s face twice. “Rowan grew up with you. So he allowed you to dictate certain things because he thought he was respecting
his elders and his father’s will. But make no mistake. I do not have the same outlook as you. You are traitorous, pathetic little
men who sold out their kind and Goddess for money.” We leaned over him, and I felt a tremble. “I will have no qualms about
torturing you. I will actually relish it.” I grinned as Nix pulled back.
“You wouldn’t.”
I felt my grin widen into a full smile. “I ripped my grandfather’s heart out of his chest, and I crushed it while he watched.” I tilted my head down. “Do you really think I would have any issues pulling your toenails and fingernails off?”
My dad choked. “You did what?”
I winced a little as I turned back to him. “We really haven’t had time to talk about everything that’s happened…but yeah.” I
wiped my hands on my jeans as I felt the phantom blood drip from my fingers. “Garith is dead.”
He waved my words off. “I don’t care about him. I want to know how you ripped his heart out of his chest.” My smile came back as I shifted into Nix’s second form. “Holy Goddess, you have a wolfman form?” He whirled toward my mom. “Do you have
one?”
I shifted back as I watched her shift. “NO!” Theo screamed. My mother shifted back to her normal form before we all turned to
Theo.
“What’s wrong?” Rowan’s words were low and threatening. “Are you mad that there are still Lycans alive? I mean you all tried so hard to wipe us out.” He slid into view. “Don’t worry, we will repopulate.”
Theo screamed again, this time in anger, and I walked over and swatted my mate. “My parents are here.”
My father snorted again. “We are going to be a part of the repopulation.” My mother smacked his shoulder. “What? Obviously,
one quarter Lycan is enough to have a Lycan form.”
I nodded. “Yeah…I don’t know what the cutoff is. Sterling is part Lycan, right?”
Rowan nodded. “We shared a great-great-grandfather or something. He had two sons. One mated a Lycan; the other a wolf. His dad, I think, still had a Lycan form, but his brothers and he don’t.”
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“Who fucking cares?” Theo rolled his eyes.
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“I mean…we do.” I pointed out. But we all settled against the wall across from his chair. “Well, we are here. Talk.” T glowered at us, but his mouth remained shut. That annoyed me. “Listen. We came here because you told the guard you wanted to talk. So here we are.” I tilted my head. “You pulled us out of bed. You wanted us here.” I waved my hand, gesturing for him to speak, and still nothing. I groaned. “Talk, or don’t talk. I don’t care. We will get the truth one way or the other.”
Theo’s face tightened. “What do you mean?”
I tsked as I pushed off the wall. I started a slow walk around his chair until I was directly behind him. “Come now, Alpha Theo.” I leaned over his shoulder. “We all know what an Alpha will do to protect their pack.” I stood straight as his breathing picked up. I continued my slow walk back towards the table. “And we all saw what you and your friends did to that poor woman.” Theo
jolted.
“You wouldn’t dare.” His voice was barely above a whisper.
“Of course I would.” I grabbed the scalpel I had brought. “I mean, if a man can do it…why can’t I?” I turned with a flourish, waving the scalpel in the air. “Tada!” I smiled as the silver scalpel caught the light.
“No!” he screamed.
But I smiled as I walked back slowly. “Don’t worry. I’ll have to go slower. I’m not a doctor, and I don’t want to just kill you…you understand, right?”
