Page 123 of Losing My Siren Luna
Alpha Wayne’s other men were more than willing to talk after that. They answered all our questions, but they didn’t seem to know much. Just that Alpha Wayne had his eye on our pack for some time and wanted a way to acquire our resources. They were under the impression that the marriage was meant to bridge our packs, but Isaac’s reaction to the questioning had me thinking differently.
“We will finish this tonight,” I told Nilo, needing time to think and process everything that happened. My anger was getting the better of me again, hearing how Alpha Wayne expected his niece to become little more than my breeder, so he had a blood claim to the rights of my pack.
“Where are you going?” He asked.
“To think. Keep injecting them with the drug. I don’t want their beasts breaking free, I will be in my office if you need me.”
As I pass by the bloody Isaac, he mutters, “Does she know this side of you?”
“Who?” I asked in a level voice.
“Who else?” he spits a clot of blood from his mouth. “Elelira. Does she know what kind of monster you are?”
“I’m the monster?” I snarled, my lip curling above my canines. “Says the man who used to rape her mother?”
A maddened laugh leaves him. “Rape? That woman asked for it. I was promised her daughter, and she decided on her own to take her place until her daughter came of age.”
Killian pushes forward, extending my claws as they sink into his neck, choking him. “The fact you don’t see how monstrous that is gives me all the more reason to kill you.”
“Do it,” he chokes, spitting in my face. “It won’t stop anything.”
Not yet, I tell myself. He obviously knows more than the others. I need to regroup and come back when I’m sure my temper is under control enough that I won’t kill him before I get the answers I want.
That doesn’t mean I can’t let him suffer some more while he waits for his fate.
“This one looks a little weary from his travels,” I told Nilo, releasing my claws from his neck. “I think he could use help getting over his sea legs. Prepare him a basin of our finest wolfsbane to soak his feet in for a few hours. That should help.”
Nilo smirks darkly. “His hands are looking a little dry too, Alpha. Can I give them a good soak too?”
“Why stop there?” I grinned, Killian shining in my eyes, my aura pushing forward, making it hard for the man before me to breathe with his unhealing wounds on his neck and my oppressiveness. “A full bath. Just the neck up left out. I still want his mouth working so he can speak later.”
Nilo rubs his hands together, eager to get started. “One wolfsbane bath with silver-laced bath salts coming right up.”
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I forgot that my office is a mess. Walking in, I groaned loudly, wishing I had just let the omegas clean it for me. I try to get the worst of it picked up, but give up when I get to my desk and everything scattered around it.
I’m too tired and feel disgusting after this morning's events. My hands are still covered in blood and grime, not really working effectively in cleaning. I leave bloody smears on everything I touch. A lot of the papers that were on my desk were for Lira’s festival this coming weekend and I don’t want to get them dirty if I can help it.
I fell down in my chair with an exhausted huff, then leaned back closing my eyes, wishing for all this to be over so I could get back to my mate. If I go see Lira right now with my appearance, she might panic again. I need to get cleaned and look less monstrous before I go to see her.
“I didn’t get my mate time last night,”Killian whines.
“I didn’t either. Stop complaining. I will give you extra time with her tonight.”
“Good,”Killian huffs, “I want more kisses.”
I do too. I could kiss and hug her the rest of my life and I don't think I could ever get enough. I could never get enough of anything about her. We could have done more than kisses and hair brushing last night if these damned men didn’t have to show up. We could be fully mated and I wouldn’t be bound by the damned contract anymore. I could tell her everything, then find out how she really died so I can prevent it from happening again. Her father told me he was going to take care of that part, but I haven’t heard from him in some time.
Cedric went to go see him. I hope that went well and they aren’t planning on trying to take her away from me. I doubt Lira would willingly leave me at this point, but you never know what Cedric or her father will say or do to try and protect her. They both think the worst of me.
I mind linked Cherum and made sure Lira was still okay. He lets me know that Cedric is back and talking with her now while he stands guard outside of her room. Why he isn’t in the room with them, I do not know, but I’m too exhausted to ask.
Lira wouldn’t let Cedric continue thinking that I was the reason for her distress. I should trust her to handle him while I worry about handling those men in my dungeon.
I can’t believe that man, Isaac. He truly thought it was okay to try and claim Lira as a child? He has to be at least twice, if not three times, older than her. It’s disgusting. I should let him suffer worse than the men who hurt Yasmin. I can take some pointers from Percy. I don’t know if I have Percy’s patience for a slow and painful death, but I can make sure it’s as painful as can be.
My beautiful mate must have suffered so much in her uncle’s pack. I’m glad that, for whatever reason, he arranged her marriage to me. I need to dig more into the reasons why he chose to marry her off to me, but I’m still grateful he did. There is a reason he chose to force a marriage alliance on me. I know it. Whatever the reason, I'm going to treasure Lira now that I have this second chance with her. She is my everything. My perfect and amazing Luna, wife, and mate.
