~Unknown POV~
A bucket of ice-cold water was poured over me. It was laced with wolfsbane, making every part of my skin that the water touched burn like acid.
"Wake up!" I heard someone shout. It wasn't the Alpha, but he held authority, probably the Beta. What was his name again? Oh right, Alex.
I slowly peeled my eyes open, ignoring the burn damage that made my eye sockets glue together.
I was healing quickly, and I was beginning to be able to make out certain details. In front of me there were two men and I could smell a female was standing behind me, how kind, they brought me a snack.
"If you answer my questions, I might spare your life. However, if you lie or refuse to talk, I can promise you a slow and painful death." I gulped, that was definitely the Alpha, I saw where he got his reputation from.
"I understand." His arms were crossed over his chest, his eyes were dark, meaning his wolf was trying to surface. Let's not let that happen. I saw what his wolf did to the others. I didn't want a rerun of that show.
"Good. First question, what's your name?"
"My name is Sebastian."
"Why are you here?" I can't, he will kill me, but if I don't then the Alpha will kill me, so either way I was a dead man. I might as well have some fun going down.
In one swift motion, I was up on my feet and standing behind the delicious-smelling female. I wondered who she was. However, the second I stood behind her and placed my hand around her throat, she gripped it, bent it, and using her knee she broke the bone by my elbow.
"AH, YOU BITCH!" I growled as I held my arm in my other hand. That bitch was dead.
I started to shift but I couldn't. Why the hell couldn't I shift?
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Sebastian."
"Natasha?" Why was Natasha here? She's gonna blow everything.
"It's nice to meet you again. Clara, would you mind giving us some privacy?" She asked who I'm presuming was a warrior.
Clara looked over at the Alpha who with a slow head shake, gestured for Clara to leave. She bowed her head and left the office.
"You two know each other?" The Alpha looked between me and Natasha. I threw her a helpless look, but she was always stubborn, not giving a fuck about you when it came to the truth. We were never really friends.
"He knows my father." Oh, you bitch.
"I will ask you again, why are you here?" The Alpha seethed as he dug his fingers into my wound making me nearly faint from the pain. I may be a werewolf but I was a rogue, which automatically made you weaker than a wolf who belonged to a pack and definitely weaker than an Alpha.
"The girl! I was told to get the girl!"
"James," Natasha said with a warning. James removed his hand from my arm and instead delivered a sucker punch to my nose. I heard the bone-breaking as the blood came spilling out. I fell to my knees. This was it, my last few breaths.
"Who told you to get the girl?" You really don't want to know the answer to that, James.
"You sure you wanna know?" I asked him. At least I asked, the decision was up to him.
"Who?" He asked, seething through his teeth. His eyes were glowing. His wolf was now on the front line. I locked on his eyes and lifted my head.
" Jack." I felt a hand wrapped around my throat as I was lifted off the ground.
"WHY THE FUCK DOES JACK WANT AVERY?" He wasn't my Alpha, yet my wolf was wincing and he had his tail between his legs.
"Because...Because he heard that she was ha...happy, and they couldn't accept that. They paid a hefty amount of money to... get the girl and they...they were planning to sell her to the Wizard." I felt the grip around my throat being released, not one second before I passed out and I dropped to the floor.
"We had a deal." James said as his eyes bore through mine.
"They went back on the deal, they don't care anymore, they don't care about the soul contract either. They don't care about the locking spell. I'm sorry, Alpha, but I had no choice."
"You had no choice? You could've said no!"
"He has my daughter. Yes, they offered money but I didn't accept it. None of us did. However, then he took my daughter and some of the other pups and we had no choice." As I looked into James' eyes, I could see sorrow swimming around in there. He was upset, he was overcome with sadness. He truly loved this girl. How was he planning to protect her from every wolf that was coming for her?
"Looks like Lily was right," I began as I struggled to get up on my feet.
"This girl sure is special. She said something about unbreakable love, something she wished all her children would experience."
"You knew my mother?" James asked me. He and his Beta looked at me, scanning me to see if I was lying. "Lily and I were close growing up. I belonged to the Half-Moon Pack. I knew Avery's parents too. On occasion we would run over to your pack and we would all hang out. When your mother was younger she had several recurring dreams. She said she believed she talked to the moon-goddess. We all told her she was crazy," I looked down laughing at the memory.
"She knew what would come to happen to our pack and to Madeline, but she swore me to secrecy. I still didn't believe her until the day where it all came crashing down. Multiple attacks were taking place and then the Luna got kidnapped, she came back, and suddenly a while later she was pregnant. I met up with Lily and asked her how the hell she knew. She had just shrugged and looked at me sadly, telling me 'It was the moon goddess'. I couldn't call her bluff after that. She knew everything. I told her that we must tell the others but she refused. She said that this had to happen. She said that it was faith and that this was all part of something bigger. She said that we had to let everything take its course. You were just a child and she rarely talked about you or your siblings. She did everything she could to protect you.
And then it happened, our pack was ruined, hundreds dead, the Alpha and Luna called for a truce after that, some pack members joined the rival pack and some found homes in neighboring packs. Even some of us, like me and the ones you slaughtered out there, became rogues and have been living on our own ever since. We were abandoned by our leadership, all because they didn't believe we would win. Maybe we wouldn't have, but a real Alpha couple fights with their pack until the end. They chose the end before it could choose them."