“That is a story for another time, dear Lily, right now we have other things to attend to,” he told her with a cold smile then ordered the men to follow him. They roughly pulled her out of the cabin and into the forest. Lily kept her chin up with determination but on the inside was more terrified than she had ever felt in her life.
James looked at the men before him; the werewolves were bound around their wrists with silver laced chains so they were unable to break free and the humans with normal handcuffs. All of them were on their knees in a straight line; there was a total of five werewolves and three humans.
James kept his shoulders back in a rigid erect position, glaring down on them in hopes of appearing intimidating and Tony was doing the same at his left. Andrew walked in front of them with an angry expression that James, if he didn’t know him better would consider hateful. Doctor Thompson stood not far behind the alpha glaring at all of them with an angry expression as well.
He watched as Andrew began his speech to the werewolves. He started out kindly promising that they would receive the highest level of mercy if they cooperated with him. James was sure some were about to speak, but something seemed to keep them quiet. The alpha let his disappointment show then turned to the humans. He promised no harm would come to them, and he wouldn’t turn them into the police if they would cooperate but just like the werewolves they seemed as if they wanted to talk but something kept them silent.
Andrew waited several minutes, but no one spoke. He sighed heavily then ordered the werewolves be taken to the basement for holding while the Alpha and other elders discuss what was to be done with them. The humans were to be sent to the police station, there was enough of their pack on the force to ensure that they would be busted for a breaking and entering charge.
Chris and another werewolf dragged a very distressed Greg before the alpha. It was a surprise to everyone when it was revealed that he was the third unknown beast. Another three werewolves stood near in case Greg attempted to resist. James eyed the werewolf before him with curiosity. He was no longer the trembling weak omega James remembered. This Greg was muscular and radiated power that he had only seen in himself and the blonde.
Even though Greg was definitely upset, he didn’t have his characteristic tremble whenever he was in a state of distress. “Explain to me Greg, what happened when I asked you to go over to Lily’s?” Andrew asked him with a clear note of sympathy in his voice and Greg’s head fell to his chest.
“I was ambushed by some a werewolf, but not a normal f one but one like… him” he said looking towards James when he said the last part. The alpha nodded for him to go on. “He knocked me out and next thing I knew I was in a silver cage” he explained hesitantly.
“Then what happened Greg, why are you like this and why did you attack your own pack?” Andrew asked.
Greg looked slowly up towards Andrew with hate in his eyes. “At first he tried to get me to join him by using lies and when I refused to listen to him he threatened my family. He forced me to become like… this and said that if I didn’t do what he told them then he would kill my mom and Brandy,” he growled with anger his eyes were not leaving Andrew’s. Doctor Thompson scoffed with a look of disbelief.
“You attack your own and expect us to really believe that you did it because this man threatened you? Why would he want to change someone like you when he has so many other stronger wolves to choose from? Take Tony here, for example, he would have much more to gain from threatening him instead of you,” the doctor told him and Greg hung his head against this chest but didn’t reply.
“Go easy on him Xavier; Greg has always been loyal to the pack and me. I don’t doubt this lunatic would use threats to get what he wanted. He obviously sees the other beings in this world as his play things and doesn’t understand nor hold respect for life,” Andrew explained, but that only seemed to anger Doctor Thompson even more.
“You are too generous Andrew,” the doctor snapped and Andrew gave him a warning look and he fell quiet. Andrew turned to Greg again.
“Who is this mad man Greg? What does he want,” Andrew asked with a soft tone and Greg didn’t answer for a long time.
“I can’t say Alpha,” he finally answered bitterly looking at the alpha then at his beta, the doctor. “He… he didn’t reveal himself to me.” James eyed the omega curiously, he had a sneaking suspicion there was more to this story than Greg was letting on.
“You’ll be staying at my home, Greg. Victor, you keep watch over him until further notice, don’t let him out of your sight for any reason do you understand me,” Andrew ordered a dark haired werewolf who nodded and lead Greg into the house. The Alpha slammed his fist against the railing of the wooden porch causing it to rattle and groan against the abuse. “Nothing, we have nothing,” he growled and Doctor Thompson patted him on the shoulder.
“Don’t worry Andrew, we will figure out how to get one of them to talk until then we need to find Lily. She was under our protection and we’ve failed her. We should organize a search party quickly before any possible trail gets too cold,” the doctor explained and Andrew nodded.
“You’re right of course Xavier, can you please take the lead. I need to clear my head,” He told his beta.
“Of course Andrew, it’s completely understandable. Don’t worry I’ll do everything in my power to get your daughter back,” Xavier swore and the alpha thanked him, walking into the house looking completely crushed.
Within a half hour, there were ten werewolves gathered in Andrew’s backyard, not including Xavier, Chris, or James. They prepared to start the search for Lily and James was surprised to not see Tony anywhere. Lacy had quickly joined no matter what Chris or the alpha said.
“Lily is my sister and I will not be sitting around at home waiting for news. Now either you can take me with you or I will go on my own,” she yelled at them and it was clear the only solution was to take her along. The search party began to enter the woods when Tony finally showed up and grabbed James’s arm. Tony pulled him back towards the house. James was about to complain but noticed the urgent look on his friend’s face.
“What’s wrong Tony?” he asked and Tony looked toward the search party nervously before he pulled James closer to the house.
“I just had a talk with Greg. I didn’t buy all of his story. I could feel he was holding something back so I wanted to talk to him in private. After some persuasion and promising to take his family’s safety as my personal duty he agreed to talk to me,” Tony started then looked towards the now disappearing search party before he once more pulled James closer.
“The maker is Xavier Thompson James,” Tony said in such a low whisper that only James’s superior hearing could pick up. James looked at Tony in shock and disbelief.
“Xavier Thompson? But he’s been friends with your father since they were kids. He’s the beta and the pack’s doctor, he helped me when I was found,” Jams replied, feeling skeptical.
“Apparently Xavier has had something against my dad for a long time and this is his plan for revenge. From what Greg tells me he wants to be the alpha,” Tony explained.
“How can you be so sure he is telling the truth, Tony? Maybe this is the psycho’s plan to divert our attention from him. If it’s Xavier and he wants to be alpha why didn’t he attack you or Lacy instead of me, Greg, and Lily. Greg and I have no sway over Andrew and Lily may be like his daughter, but she was only a human. Why would he plan a trap for himself and head a search party for Lily?” James asked, crossing his arms around his chest.