Lucas' POV
Fucking Zackery! I'll fucking kill him! I swear I'll fucking cut him into pieces and feed him to my hounds!
I thought to myself as I was riding back to the camp.
"It's been raining and the road is really muddy. I don't think you should ride that fast." My wolf said in my mind.
"Shut the fuck up, Finn! I paid for the fucking construction of this road and I didn't pay for a fucking puddle of mud!" I shouted and whipped Torrent again.
He started to run even faster.
"I don't like the idea of you being tortured, but I want you to know that you can't cut anyone into pieces when you break your neck. You won't be able to hold your own dick," Finn said.
"Finn, you're a fucking son of a bi..." I haven't finished the thought when Torrent slipped over something and fell to the ground.
I was thrown off the back of the horse and dropped to the ground.
I rolled a few rounds on the ground and lay in a puddle of water on the side of the road.
"Now your arms are broken. Are you satisfied now?" Finn asked me.
I knew he was fucking gloating.
I lay in the puddle without moving, soaked and drenched in mud.
I can't believe I've paid a million krons on this fucking road! I thought to myself. Tomorrow I'll ask people to burn this fucking road and the mother fucker who has designed it!
"Yeah, that's a very effective way to resolve road rage. Burn the road and kill the engineer," Finn scorned.
I didn't say anything, lying on the ground.
The Moon started to get out of the clouds and the silver moonlight started pouring down my chest.
The wounds that Zackery left were still there with blood dripping down.
"Why didn't you heal them? They look pretty bad," Finn said.
"Use your fucking brain, Finn." I snorted, "I'm not smart but I could still tell why the fuck he wanted to torture me. Only Lycans can heal the wounds by themselves. If my wounds magically disappeared overnight, what does that say to him?!"
"I don't like you losing too much blood," my wolf said. "You ought to go back to the camp and let Louisa treat them. Then, maybe she can sleep with you tonight because of sympathy."
"That fucking gigolo knows, Finn. He fucking knows about who I am," I covered my face. "Nobody knows about my identity except Lucian."
"Are you crying now? " Finn said. "This is the perfect time for me to say 'I told you so' since I've told you over and over again that you can't trust anyone in this world. I mean, Lycidas is killing everyone who knows about his past experience. Isn't that sending you a message? However, I don't think your sassy Beta has betrayed you. I can't believe I'm saying this, but he's a very decent gentleman and an even better friend. Someone is trying to sow discord between you two and you're being a fool for having doubts about him."
"Who would want to do some fucking things like that?" I asked.
"You know, when you walk upright, your head is far away from the ground. Now you're literally lying on the ground, buried in dirt, so hopefully, your brain will be able to generate some down-to-earth plans to resolve the current situation," my wolf said.
"What do you mean, Finn?" I asked. "Do you know anything that I don't know yet?"
"Yeah." He replied in a shit-eating voice.
"Fuck, Finn. Why the fuck didn't you tell me?!" I shouted.
"Because you're so full of yourself and you have never bothered with asking," Finn said.
I shot out a string of questions, "Who's the mole, Finn?! Tell me! Who betrayed me? Who traded Kylo's whereabouts to Dire? Who told Zackery that I'm a fucking Lycan?!"
"Don't rush to judgment so quickly," Finn said. "He doesn't know you're a Lycan yet and he just can't find out. That's why he wanted to beat the bush desperately and see what happened. So, this, in a way, proves that Lucian isn't the one who betrayed you, because the person who betrayed you doesn't know who you really are."
"You mean Kylo?!"
Finn said, "His wolf fought me during the Full Moon. He might have associated your disappearance with the appearance of me. But he isn't sure about it."
"But why?! What have I done to him?! He was a fucking rogue in shackle covered in shit when I found him in that fucking shithole! If I hadn't stopped him, he would have fucking bitten off his feet to get rid of that shackle!" I roared in despair.
Fuck it. I hate being betrayed by people that are close to me. I want to cut him into thousands of...
"OK, OK, hold that thought," my wolf said. "You can't possibly cut your Gamma into thousands of pieces, because he is nothing but a small character, a piece on a large chessboard. You need to find out who's behind all this."
"What am I going to do? I can always put a shackle on his feet and throw him back into a shithole until he tells me the truth," I said.
My wolf sighed and said, "Your arm is broken, not your brain, so use it, Luke. Your Gamma would rather cut off his feet than being shackled. He would tell you anything you want to hear, but that might not be the truth you're looking for."
"So what the fuck do you want me to do?!" I asked.
"I need to talk to Lucian now," my wolf said.
"I can't call him," I mumbled.
"Why not?"
"I might have accidentally called him my servant today."
"You didn't!" My wolf raised his voice. "I was taking a nap and I didn't know what happened. If this is a joke, you'd better tell me now, because it's really not funny."
"Listen, I'm not proud of that, either," I said in a low voice, "I was out of my mind at that time, I mean. Kylo told me that Lucian doesn't want the same things as we do."
"Of course, he doesn't! You want money, status, and women! Lucian has already got all of them!" My wolf shouted at me. "He's around you all the time because he takes you as his younger brother! But you came across as nothing but an asshole! Call him right now and apologize!"
"I never apologize," I said barefacedly.
"There's a first time for everything," my wolf said. "It hurts for the first time, but it gets better when you get used to it. Asshole. Call him right now!"
"No."