His tortured mate

Chapter 6

Craig

She thought that Katy had killed the brothers? To what lengths did Damon go to make Katy look like a monster to her sister? How far did he go to cover up the murder and the rape? Where did he hide the drugs? Either he had Caylee permanently high, or he was one hell of an actor. To have her blind to all his crimes, and there were so many of them that even someone that has been alive for hundreds of years would struggle to keep up, for more than five years? I am struggling to wrap my head around it.

"Mason? Wesley?" Caylee says, pulling me from my thoughts. She reaches out her hand and places it on Mason's chest. She is trembling, sucking in a deep breath when she feels just how real and alive he is. "How is this possible?" She asks, her voice soft as if she is afraid that if she speaks too loudly, they will disappear. Mason flinches at her touch and takes a step back. The flash of hurt in Caylee's eyes makes me growl in warning at Mason, but then I am reminded that he is the one that stopped Katy from killing her after he witnessed her pleasure in taunting Cole before striking that killing blow that would've ended his life, had it not been for his mate. It was at that moment he realized just how twisted the male was that had turned him.

"We thought you might need our help. She needed to see that we chose Katy and this pack. We saw what Damon had to offer and honestly, Caylee, you need to get your s**t straight. I don't give a s**t that your mate might cut my throat for saying this, but wake the f**k up. You should be dead, you f*****g desreve to be dead for trying to kill a human that was defensless." I growl at him, but he doesn't stop, clearly having a death wish. "Do you not see how he f****d with your head? Or are you truly monsterous enough that you were willing to kill a f*****g child because he choose to love his mother?" He keeps going and I can see Caylle pulling back. I pull her behind me, regretting that I even wanted her to see the brothers.

"If I were you, I would walk away now." I tell him through clenched teeth, trying to keep a leach on my wolf.

"You babying her won't help her. She needs to see what he did, she needs to realize that she would've never done half the s**t she did if it wasn't for him screwing with her head. Or maybe she is just as psychotic as he was and therefore, you are wasting your time. She will never stop trying to kill innocents if she is anything like him." Mason keeps going, clearly not seeing how close he is getting to having his life cut short.

"Get the f**k away from here!" I scream at him, but there is not an ounce of fear in his eyes as he shakes his head at me and then turns his back on me, his brother giving me an apologetic look before following his brother. I turn back to Caylee and find her staring at Mason in shock. "Are you alright?" I ask her, wrapping my arms around her. She is tens in my arms, hardly breathing as she stands frozen. "Please talk to me."

"What did he mean when he said my mate will cut his throat? My mate is dead, so why is he worried about my mate?" Of course that will be the part she is stuck on. f**k, I hate to say this, but I wish that she would've thought about everything else that was said.

"Your mate isn't dead, Caylee." I say in a sigh.

"Damon is dead. Katy killed him." She says, still staring after Mason and Wesley.

"Yeah, she killed him, but she didn't kill your mate." I don't want to push her, but maybe Mason had a point. It won't get her anywhere to baby her. She has been here for weeks and there has been very little sign that she will let her hatred go, or that she will see the truth.

"Mason and Wesley are alive." She says, switching the topic so fast that I have whiplash from it.

"Do you understand now that Damon lied to you? If he could lie about the brothers, what else do you think he lied about?" I want her to see it, to admit that Damon isn't as perfect as she had him pictured in her head.

"Who was in those boxes? Who did she kill then?" She asks and I turn around and slam my fist into the door behind me.

"She didn't f*****g kill anyone! Well at least not those people that Damon made you believe were Mason and Wesley. Katy has been a victim just as much as you were and at some f*****g point you will need to see that. Mason is right, you nearly f*****g killed Cole and for what? What was your motive? I need to f*****g know why you were willing to killing your own nephew? I need to know why you were willing to kill a human boy that has given his life to protect his mother, to keep her alive. I need to know that the Goddess didn't give me a mate that is anything like that f*****g monster that killed women and children because the Alpha of the pack was fighting alongside Jackson. I need to know that I am not standing here, trying to protect a monster that takes pleasure in killing the innocent!" I have lost it. She keeps repeating that Damon is her mate and by now she should've figured out that he isn't her mate. How can she not see that what she had done was wrong?

"You want to know why I tried killing Cole? I tried killing him because he was on her side. I didn't care that he was young or human, all I knew was that I needed to keep Damon safe and that I wanted my sister to feel the pain I felt when she killed my parents! I didn't care about Cole, just about Eva's pain!" She screams and I take a step back.

"How did she kill them? By forcing Damon? Tell me, how would she have been able to force a full grown man, a werewolf at that, to kill your parents? You saw what happened when you nearly killed Cole, you know that she nearly killed you because of what you had done, tell me, did anything about Katy's reaction look like a mother that would use her son as a weapon to try and kill her own parents? Why the hell would Katy even try to kill your parents? Because they gave you more attention? Because she was jealous? Come on, Caylee? You are smarter than that. Does anything really make sense in that messed up head of yours? Katy had no reason to kill your parents. Katy was trying to fight for them. Katy was tied up, forced to watch as that bastard tortured them and then she was forced to watch them torture you. I know you have blocked off the memories and that you refuse to remember because remembering is far worse than the lies that Damon told you. Because if you had to actually allow your wolf to the surface, to show you the truth, you would come to regret the fact that you had slept in the arms of the man that had mamed and tortured you and your parents, you would have to come to with terms that you killed innocents to protect the f*****g devil. You would have to face the fact that you nearly killed your own family because you believed you loved the man that hunted them and took everything from them and the worst part is, you so very nearly succeeded. But here is the thing, Caylee, you can't run and hide from the truth forever and at some point you are going to hit that rock bottom and I don't know if I can hold on long enough to pull you out of it." I am done. She had the proof right in front of her and yet, she is still trying to blame it on Katy. I know I need to get out of here, get away from her before I do something stupid, like forcing the mate bond on her in hopes that it will force her wolf to the surface. Before she can say anything, I shift and run into the woods that surround the pack.