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I rolled my eyes at Alec and took a quick glance at my mate. This is not how it was supposed to be. When I met her, we were supposed to have an eternity together. This was happening too fast, and my wolf sought to protect and heal her, but I couldn’t heal her from something that was cursed. At least, not without the antidote. And Bob, as he’d introduced himself to her, was going to tell me exactly what it was.
“Let’s go, Seuss.” Alec’s serious tone meant that it was time to go.
“I’ll see you soon, vixen.” I knew she couldn’t hear me, but it felt right to say.
I’d just found her. It couldn’t be over so soon. It took everything within me to walk away. I watched her the entire time as I backed toward Alec. If I didn’t go, I’d never be able to save her. Help would be here in a moment to stabilize her until my return. They just had to.
I touched Alec, and we faded from the nightmare we’d landed in and surfaced into the darkest part of my lands. Nobody was allowed here unless they weren’t coming back. This torture chamber was created by my great grandfather for this very thing. Getting the truth out of our enemies brought out a darker part of us that needed to be kept in the dark recesses of this place. “Bob” was about to pay.
Alec helped me strap the asshole in before I picked up the drill and held it to his knee. I glanced at Alec and he opened the wallet of our victim.
“Michael Sims.”
I turned on the drill and let it destroy the skin before starting in on the bone. The screaming began immediately, and I tuned it out until I heard the desperation. I didn’t bother with small talk either. Time was wasting.
“Who sent you, and what potion did you slip my mate?”
Alec tilted his head in curiosity. I’d spoken not two words to him since we’d left the scene of the accident. I needed the name of the potion to get Alice started on the antidote or I’d never be able to save my little vixen.
“Potion? What potion? I don’t know anything about a potion! I gave her a pill!” Michael begged with his cries of pain. Blood poured from his knee on to the floor.
“It was a capsule, dipshit. There was a potion on the inside. When you dropped it in her drink, it dissolved. What … was … it?” I started the drill again and let it do the asking.
“Ida … Ida! She told me to give it to her and she’d do the rest. I just joined this group of hunters, and they do things differently. They said that if I wanted to be somebody I needed to ask fewer questions and just do what they said.”
“What group!?!” I roared.
“They call themselves The Firm.”
My eyes widened. It was the same group that set out to get my mother, but how? I’d killed them all. They targeted the potential female mates of shifters because it drew in their males. My mother was an advocate fighting to ban the use of meds to quiet The Calling. It’s the call from your mate summoning you to claim them. The meds prevented knowing who your mate was and silenced the need to find them. My mother was totally against it. She’d spoken out freely on it several times, but it was allowed by the nation’s leader. The benefits outweighed the cons, and so it was still used. Hell, I’ve taken it since puberty, and she hated it. I’d never forget the name of the potion they used to kill her, and Alice could get me the remedy, but it came at a cost. We had the time that my mother didn’t on our side.
The healer. The one that fled. She was the reason. She had to be. Someone had shown her mercy, but I wouldn’t. She wouldn’t see it this time and neither would this fucker. I sent a quick message to Alice so that she could get started. While she was doing that, I prayed to the gods that my mate would hold on, and then I took fate of a different kind into my own hands. Michael’s torture would be agonizing, and I would enjoy it as I sought revenge for my vixen. All mine.
