Damon’s POV
“Calm the fuck down, Tunde”
I growled at Tunde after I’d successfully dragged him into my study room.
After he found out that Pearl was his mate, he almost pounced on the girl and marked her right at that moment. I had to pull him out of the room by force as both girls looked on in surprise.
“I can’t calm down. My mate is up there, all alone without me. I can’t calm the fuck down, Damon. It’s almost impossible” he bellowed.
Tunde started pacing my study room, destroying everything that came his way. I wanted to scream at him, yell at him to stop or find a way to tie him down before he does anything stupid.
“Let me out of here, Damon”
“Over my dead body” I hissed.
“If you do not let me out, I’ll kill you” His eyes were red and it was obvious that the poor guy was fighting with his wolf.
“Don’t make me chain you down, Tunde. It wouldn’t be funny at that point”
He moved closer to me and glared at me before moving back to kick my new mahogany desk.
“I will kill you if you don’t move away from that door in this instance. Get the hell away from the door Damon, I’m warning you”
I backed into the door properly, folded my hands and waited for what he’d do.
“Go ahead with your threat and I’ll be sure to use a golden casket to bury you after I kill you”
“Move Damon” he spat.
“Make me”
He ran towards me, growling loudly. I had actually expected him to transform the moment I dragged him here but Tunde still being in his full human form showed how much he could restrain himself.
As he got closer to me, I hit him on his chest before he could attack me, sending him to the floor at the centre of the room.
He hissed in pain before getting up to attack me again. This time, I attacked him first and locked his head under my arm, trying to restrain him, weaken him so he can be approachable at the least.
He kept on struggling underneath my arm, hitting my left side repeatedly. The hit was hard but it wasn’t something I couldn’t endure.
I even had to go through vigorous training with my father that included tying me up and hitting me for hours till I lose consciousness. He said it was for getting used to pain.
Damn, was he right?
“Stop, Damon” he yelled at some point.
“Please”
At that point, I knew he was finally fully in control of himself. It wasn’t his wolf controlling him anymore. So, I dropped his energy drained body to the floor and watched as he rolled before hitting the marble floor angrily not once.
“We have a lot at stake here, Tunde. The more focused you are, the better for us” I advised.
I stretched out my hand so he could take it and stand up from the floor but he slapped my hand away and stood up by himself to sit on one of the couches.
“You’re heartless, Damon. I always thought you were my friend but now I know you’re just a selfish human being”
I scratched my ear before smirking, “Point of correction, I’m not human. You’re even more human than I am”
I sat opposite him, observed him for some minutes. We were both silent and at a point, I saw a lone tear fall from Tunde’s eyes, he quickly cleaned it off before I could call his attention to it.
“Do you need water?” I asked as nicely as possible.
“I’d rather prefer your blood,” he spat back. I smiled.
“Damn! If anyone had told me this day would ever come. I never imagined I’ll see you lose your temper like this”
“Since when did you start throwing jokes?”
“That was mockery, not a joke. I don’t do jokes” I replied. “Now, do you need water? Because what I’m about to tell you can make you want to tear my face off or even kill me. Water will help you regain your energy”
He frowned at my words.
“Say whatever you want, Damon. I don’t need water”
He was angry, broken and confused. It was the first time I’ll be trying to read through someone’s emotions. I know I don’t have a heart but still I could feel the intensity of his anger.
He needed his mate but still lots are at stake.
“Do you know that wild ch__?” I quickly closed my mouth to stop myself from using that word for his mate. “That pretty girl?”
“What sort of stupid question is that? She’s my mate. Nothing else matters”
“Then you’re stupid if you think nothing else matters. That’s Lucas’s girl up there. The same girl that was kidnapped with Lyla. The same girl, the same reason that Lucas would be coming back to town soon” I yelled at him.
Out of frustration, I stood up and kicked something. It doesn’t matter what, I just had to do it.
Tunde was dumbfounded after that.
“It’s not possible, Damon”
“Hell Tunde. There’s no possibility factor here. This is reality. She’s Lucas’s girl. The same Lucas you worship more than the goddess. The man you love like a brother. That same Lucas. The fucking same Lucas Anderson you’ll be sneaking into the pack in three days time” I screamed.
My anger was not directed towards anybody except the goddess.
“I told y’all that the goddess is fucked up but none of you believed the cursed child. Now, she’s about to start a game with your fucking fate and destiny”
Helplessly, he asked, “What do I do?”
“I do not know” I replied
“Damon” He suddenly called my name. “I do not have the heart to do this to Lucas and I also do not have the heart to let her go, not after finding her after so many years” he confessed.
After thinking for several minutes, I replied.
“The only solution here’s to never let Lucas get back here no matter what”
“But the information you need,,,” he asked. “No! We can’t kill Lucas”
I frowned at his words.
“We’re not killing Lucas but somebody will have to die” I replied.
“Who?”
“My father”
I said with disgust.
“Damon, no. I will not kill the Alpha and moreover what does he have to do with Lucas not getting back here?”
I sat back so as to give him a clear explanation.
“The main reason why we needed Lucas back in the first place was to get those evidence of my father’s involvement in drug and especially women trafficking so as to use it against me whenever I need to heed the summons of the elders, right?”
He nodded.
“If I kill my father, there’ll be no reason for Lucas to come back to town and that way, the council of elders will have to drop the case”
I explained and Tunde’s eyes went wide in understanding what I just said.
“When and how? There’s no way you’ll kill him and the pack won’t turn against you” he whispered.
“At the arena tomorrow. He called the fight, not me”
“And you think that will work?. Victor is a strong alpha as well, Damon. You can’t kill him just like that. It wouldn’t be easy”
“Not if I do it right”
“Your plan is stupid, Damon and we can’t keep those girls against their will. Your plan is dangerous Damon. This thing might backfire and ruin us” he yelled
“For now, they’ll stay and later, we’ll let the girls make their own opinion. Keeping them against their will is not my plan, it’s just not easy to let go”
Tunde rubbed his face with his palm, still not in agreement with my plan.
“I still can’t believe you’re doing this for me”
“Don’t flatter yourself, Tunde. I’m doing this for myself”
And Lyla and my mother. I thought
“Killing your own father is a bit too much, Damon”
“But selling those girls isn’t, right? Raping those human women, isn’t too much, is it? Beating up my woman like that, isn’t too much? Or it wasn’t too much when he ripped my…mo… heart …..” I stopped not having the emotional capability to complete it.
“I’ve waited all my life for the right reason, the right opportunity to get rid of this man and I won’t take chances this time. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll seal your lips or else I’ll be forced to kill you myself”
I threatened before walking out of the study room angrily.