Melana POV
I had to wait hours before managing to sneak into the territory. I guess I had my sister to thank for the added security. I trekked through the forest surrounding the pack house, being careful to move quietly, knowing the patrols would be listening for the slightest noise. Any disturbance yet the further I moved into Ace’s territory the more my heart raced.
I hated knowing I left Nathaniel back in the cells, I had no choice. I would have been caught trying to break into out-building. This was the better option. I just hoped they didn’t kill me before letting me explain. I needed to make things right, needed to fix this and save my mate.
Moving through the trees, the packhouse came into view and I had a clear shot straight for the house. I could see Tyson’s car and another I hadn’t seen before in the driveway, an Audi. Please be home Ace, I could be willingly walking into my own death, if Ace wasn’t here it was a guarantee, though I was nervous. Ace told me if he ever saw me again he would kill me, but I stood a better chance with finding him than Tyson. Tyson wouldn’t even blink before he killed me, no skin off his nose. He has wanted to do it for years, now I understand why.
I try to will my feet to move and step out of the shadows concealing me behind the shed. I had to do this, I had to do this for my mate and everyone else in the cells, for Emily so she could get her mother back. Josie chose already, she chose wrong and I was sick of digging her out of trouble. I resigned myself to her fate, I wouldn’t seal my mates too, not when he was willing to forgive me for what I had done, I wouldn’t risk losing him again.
Swallowing down my fear I make a beeline for the front of the house. I rush up the stairs before knocking on the door. No one answered but I could hear movement inside. I knock again glancing around worried about patrols spotting me, when there is no answer I walk around to Ace’s window. He usually left it unlocked. I reach up, gripping the windowsill and peering in.
I gasp, about to duck down and go to the front door when I spot Lucy straddling Ace, my cheeks flame. And I was about to step away when I heard a feral snarl. “Fucking Melana” my head wiping back to the window to see Lucy stalking toward. She didn’t even open it and I don’t know what was more shocking, the fact she dived through the closed window at me or the fact she shifted.
Her body crashed into mine and knocked me to the ground, her wolf tearing into my shoulder and I was too shocked to react at first. Her teeth sink into my leg and she viciously shakes her head. I tried to push her face away. Knowing if I attack her back Ace and Tyson would kill me.
Tyson launches out the window ripping the entire frame out as his wolf barrelled out and Lucy’s wolf grabs my arm, flinging me across the ground like a rag doll. Gravel tearing at my hands as I put them out instinctively. Lucy suddenly shifts back stalking toward me.
“Wait I am here to help”
“I will help you alright, help fucking bury you,” She screams at me. I look at Ace who was just staring at me with a disgusted look on his face when I feel Lucy’s fist connect with my face. Blood sprays the ground when she is suddenly straddling my waist.
“Fight back bitch,” She screams angrily while I try to block her blows. Her screaming anger was potent, her aura smashing against me and I knew they had both marked her, and could smell them all over her.
“Lucy stop, listen, please,” I begged her as she pummeled me, becoming angrier when I didn’t fight back. I felt my ribs break on the left side when her weight was suddenly gone. Her furious scream resonated through the air and I put my hand up when Tyson stalked toward me.
“Wait, please,”
“Tyson leave her,” Ace bellows and Lucy shrieks louder shifting in Ace’s grip.
“I am not defending her, Lucy stop,” he says, refusing to let her go even shifted and tearing into him.
Tyson growls at him and turns toward Ace who drops to the ground. I could hear him trying to calm her down, whispering softly to her.
“She knew coming back here would be her death, I know Melana she wouldn’t risk her hide for anyone unless she is desperate,” Ace says to her and wolf wild thrashing slows, her breathing still heavy.
I wiped blood off my face with the back of my hand, the movement catching her eye and she lost it again, I felt guilty. I could see how much my sister and I hurt her, I would probably be the same if our roles were reversed and Ace not letting her kill me must be a kick in the gut.
“Lucy enough,” Ace snaps at her, his aura rushing out and she quiets. The growl that leaves Tyson raises goosebumps on my arms as he stalks toward his brother, his fist connects with Ace’s face and I see Atticus come forward for a second.
Tyson reaches down as Lucy starts shifting back. He grabs her walking off toward the front of the house, her body drenched in cuts from the window and my blood. Ace watches them leave before pinning me with his glare. He stands covering himself with his hands not that I was looking, I had no interest in him.
“I swear if you just ruined things with Lucy for some selfish reason, I will make Ryker look like a pussy with what I will do to you,” He growls. He makes no move toward me. Just glares.
“I need help,” Ace scoffs, his canines slipping out and fur growing on his arms.
“Of course you do,” He growls.
“Not for me, for my mate, and Aliza all of them are trapped in Jamie’s cells”
“Aliza? She left Jamie, don’t come here and bullshit me,” he says taking a menacing step forward.
“I’m not, I swear. Please. Aliza, Nathaniel, Taylor, they are down there. Jamie chucked me in the cells when I refused to help Josie, I swear Ace. I would never come back here otherwise,” I tell him, begging for him to believe me.
“If you were in the cells how did you get out?”
“The air ducts, Jamie pushes wolfsbane through the ventilation shaft, I climbed through, they couldn’t because”
“Because they aren’t hybrid’s,” Ace finishes for me and I nod.
“I swear if you are lying to meI will skin you alive and tie you to an ants nest,” I swallow knowing he meant it and quickly nod.
“Tyson and Lucy come out this time fully dressed and Lucy hesitates looking at Ace standing a few meters away from me. He opens his arms to her but turns her head away from him. She seemed calmer, whatever Tyson did obviously calmed her enough to be rational.
“Why are you here, if it is to get your sister back. That isn’t happening. Hopefully my father strings her up,”
“He caught her?” I couldn’t help but ask. Ace growls and I hold my hands up.
“No, not like that. Did he catch her or not?”
“Yes she is in the cells,” I gasp. This was terrible.
“What?” Ace asks, recognizing my alarm and Lucy’s eyes flick to him.
“If Josie was caught, that means she let you catch her,”
“No, patrols found her,” Tyson says and I shake my head.
” What they found her wandering around, I am telling you if your brother has her, it’s because she wanted to be caught, you need to get hold of your brother and tell him to check wherever he is holding her. NOW!,” I tell them.