Chapter Three
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“Nice to know you’re happy to see me too.” I said with sarcasm laced tone. I pushed his hand off me and walked to the other side of the room, somewhere he wasn’t.
My side hurt as I walked, I had broken a rib and I had to refrain myself from holding my side with my hand. Don’t want some old heartharded creature reminding me of how weak I am compared to his kind.
“Seven years and this place is exactly the same.” My hands were in my pants pockets, I turned to face him but this time, the fire in his eyes had dimmed down as his eyes were not back to their brown color.
“Why are you here?.” He growl and went back to sit on his old bergère chair. His arms rested on the armrest and he most feel like a god looking at me from under his nose with that contemptuous look in his eyes. Maybe he was indeed the god of this place, the god of in the unknown but he wasn’t mine. He wasn’t my god and I don’t plan on treating him as such.
“You don’t have to worry. I don’t plan on staying long.” I paced around the room and ran a finger on a dusty cabinet.
I clapped my hands together to clean off the dusts.
“I’m here for just one reason.”
“So speak up. I don’t have time for this.” He barked. It’s like he doesn’t have any other emotion besides anger. I could have told him to take a chill pill but I decided to drop it. I didn’t have the time for this either.
“I believe you have something of mine in your possession. I’d like you to set the Coltons free. And I’m not ready to listen to your bullshit about them committing treason ‘cause you, I and every other weird creature here knows it’s not true. So cut the crap and let them go.” I spat.
“I don’t see how this is any of your business.”
“Well now I’m making you see it. Release the Coltons from you cavern and I promise you’d never see me again.”
“You said those exact words seven years ago and look, here you are showing me the biggest mistake I’ve ever seen.”
I clenched my fists. I wouldn’t even try to deny the fact that that burned. I clenched my fists tighter trying to keep my anger in check. As much as it hurts, I wasn’t gonna let his words get to me.
“The only mistake here was my mum copulating with a beast.” I spat.
“I’d rather be a beast that me a worthless hybrid.”
My jaws clenched.
“As much as I enjoy exchanging pleasantries with you, I’m gonna have to pass this time. Let the Coltons go.”
He hit his hand on the desk, a loud reverberating sound echoed in the room. The cold gray walls shook.
“You will not tell me what to do. It is my Kingdom and I make the rules.” He barked loudly and his eyes shine a bright red color.
“Well I’m not about to let you have the head of someone that has done absolutely nothing but serve you. I’m not about to let you behead Penelope and her family.”
“Listen here you weakling, it would take me nothing to have you thrown in the same cavern as them. That’ll be me killing two birds with one stone. Getting rid of my mistake. Thread cautiously.”
My jaw ticked.
Why I hate the animal as much as he hates me, it doesn’t hurt any less whenever he refers to me as a mistake. I stood upright, looking him dead in yeh eyes. My lips set in a thin line, my face set and cold as the walls of the room.
I banged the desk with both hands and bent over desk. “Listen here, unlike every other person in this place, I am not scared of you. I’m gonna do whatever it takes to get Pen and her family out of there. And that includes getting rid of anyone that comes in my way.” I spat. His eyes flashed a weird color. Different from any eye color I’ve seen on a werewolf. If I hadn’t been looking into his eyes, I would have noticed the flicker of silver in them.
I smirked at him and gave him a mock salute before leaving.
*******
“Was it any good?.” Dylan asked as I approached.
“What’d you think.” I spat.
“Alright alright chill okay, no need to get all…. Cassius okay.” He gestured to the whole of me with just hands. “I mean no one said it was gonna be easy.”
We walked over to the elevator and pushed the number one button.
“Yeah.” No one did. No one said it was gonna be easy for me to be reminding of just how much he despised me.
“Are you okay though? You look like you’re in pain.”
“Well yeah I am.” I was refraining myself from holding my side. It hurt so damn much.
“What’s up?.”
“Apparently daddy says hi to his guests a little differently.”
“What? He punched you?.”
“More like slam me into the concrete wall.” I spat as I remembered how everything happened so fast. “Might have broken a rib or two.”
“Ouch. You’re gonna have to see Helena then.”
“Who the f**k is that.”
“A nurse.”
“I ain’t seeing any damn nurse here. What if she injected me with some wolf s**t and turn me to one of you.”
“Well you’re one of us.”
“Just because I’m here doesn’t make me one of you. Just because that beast up there is my father doesn’t make me like him.”
“Oh so you must think you’re human.”
“I don’t just think, I know for a fact that I am.”
“Oh right! So what now? Are we just gonna watch him do his thing now.”
“The f**k if I let him.” I was still pissed.
“Speaking to him, did he seem like he was actually going to have the Coltons decollated because I don’t know but for some reason I keep thinking he might have done this to gain your attention I mean it’s been almost seven years and he must have known how much Pen means to you.” Dylan said.
“So you think he did this because he misses me? You think me going in there we had like a father son reunion? I have broken ribs because of him and while I might not know how things go down here, I’m certainly sure that’s not how to welcome your child. Just cut the crap already Dylan, we both know he’s dead inside and cares for no one but himself.”
“Uhm well you kinda are like that too.” He pointed out.
“The f**k you think I am. I’m nothing like that animal. I care about people other than myself.”
“Oh really? People like who?.” He asked with a raised brow. “I’m curious.”
“Are you stupid or what? What do you mean people like who? Of course it’s people like the reason I’m here in the first place.”
I’ve always known Dylan to be a bit daft, I just didn’t know his case could worsen.
“Fair point.” He nodded and I shook my head at his stupidity.
“What’d your dad do about this. He’s his beta, doesn’t that mean like his right hand man or something.”
Dylan nodded.
“The elders of the council had a meeting the minute words came out. It didn’t turn out well I mean they’re still at the cavern aren’t they?.”
“Damn! Do they even get fed.” I thought out loud.
“I’m sure food is the least of all their worries. How was in there like? No one has really been in his space for two years now.”
“Just like the rest of him. Dead.”
The elevator doors opened and we walked out.
“We we can’t just wait here and do nothing. You’ve gotta find a way to stop that order. It’ll be morning in a few hours.”
“You think I don’t know that.” I spat.
“Oh wow. Are you always angry?.” He rolled his eyes.
The answer was no.
I wasn’t always angry. I mean I’ve always had anger issues but I’ve always had it under control. Seeing my father again just set it off. It pisses me off that anything pertaining to him drives me mad. He shouldn’t have that kinda hold on me. He wasn’t allowed to.
“My bad.” I murmured.
“What’s that?.” Dylan asked. I knew the fucker heard me, he just wanted to hear me apologize again. The hell I say that again.
“I asked you to piss off.”
“That did sound like what I heard the first time but imma let it slide.”
We walked in silence out the main gate and the wolves at the huge gain bowed their heads, welcoming me ‘home’ again. To hell if this is my home. There’s nothing homey about this place. Note that a place right out of an horror movie.
“Dylan.” I called as an idea popped into my head.
“What?.”
“Do you know the cavern they were three in?.” I knew for a fact that there were hundreds of caverns. Although I’d never been there or even close to the area before, I’ve heard stories of just how many they were when I was younger not to talk of what went down in there. I still remember the chills it used to give me then.
“Uhm yeah?.” He looked at me weirdly like I had suddenly found out that I could shift or something equally as weird as that.
“Good. Now lead the way.”
- Writer
