Damon’s POV
“A vampire” I replied.
“I thought they were extinct” Devante replied and I shook my head.
“I thought so too but I guess they still exist as day and night” I replied. I held Lyla in my hands as she was still shaken by the events of things.
She pointed towards something in the room and when I looked in the direction to which she had pointed, I saw Ashley lying on the floor, stiff as aboard.
“Get Dean,” I yelled at Devante. I quickly moved towards the girl lying on the floor. The first thing I did was touch her neck to see if she was still breathing and hopefully she was still breathing, even though her heartbeat was slow.
“What happened to her?” Tunde asked as he ran into the room, towards his sister.
“I don’t know. I woke up just to find her like that” Lyla replied, tears rolling down her eyes.
“She’ll be fine, Lyla” I assured her after which I kissed her forehead.
“Why am I always attracting trouble?” She cried out.
“I was about to ask you the same question, Luna” Tunde teased as he checked his sister’s pulse.
“Stop,” I commanded angrily. “She’s not in the right state of mind and you want her to actually think what you’re saying is supposed to be a joke”
“Where the hell is Dean?” He demanded, ignoring my comment.
“On his way,” Devante answered as he walked into the room.
“Maybe I should take Luna out for a walk” Devante requested when he saw the state she was in.
As I studied her closer, I realized that she looked as if she would drop dead the next minute. I could tell that she was blaming herself for what had happened.
I pulled her close to my body and kissed her hair.
“She’ll be fine, Lyla” I whispered into her hair.
“I’ll hate myself forever if anything happens to her” she cried.
“Damon, should I take her out for a walk?” Devante repeated.
“When you realized that I didn’t give you a fucking reply, you would’ve guessed that I didn’t want you to” I growled back.
“She’s not in the right state of mind and she’s not even supposed to stay here, Damon” he yelled back.
I launched towards him, ready to teach him a lesson for yelling at me when Dean suddenly entered, his white lab coat stained with blood.
“There was an attack on the southern part of the pack. It was a lone rogue wolf, it wounded three pups. We had to restrain the wolf by injecting it. The pups are in the hospital and the wolf is in the basement” He informed me.
“What happened here?’ he asked, as curiosity showed on his face.
“A vampire attack” I replied to him. Turning to Lyla, I instructed, “Stay here. I’ll soon be back”
She nodded.
Hurriedly, I made way for the hospital to check on the pups that were attacked and see the state they were in. When I walked into the room that they were being kept, I noticed two of them were already sleeping.
“Alpha,” Their parents stood up to greet me as soon as they noticed my presence.
Their looks were sad and for a moment, my heart started beating rapidly. I wanted to assure them that everything will be fine but I couldn’t find the right words.
“I’ll get to the root of the matter, they’ll pay for hurting your children like this”
“Thanks, Alpha” The bowed.
“Where are his parents?” I pointed to the other sleeping boy.
“He’s an orphan, Alpha”
I nodded and walked out of the hospital. The warrior’s leader, Konrad, met me on my way to the basement.
“Has he said anything yet?” I asked.
“No, Alpha. No matter how hard we try, he isn’t shifting”
I smirked.
As we approached the basement, the dirty smell coming from the rouge hit me like a wave and I had to stop breathing for a minute to adjust to its smell.
“That rogue stinks” I barked
“What stinks, Alpha?” Konrad asked and I was forced to wonder how the hell didn’t he smell this.
“What are we going to do Alpha?” Konrad asked about the shifting as we moved closer to the basement he was being kept in.
“He’ll shift soon”
The gate leading to the room that he was being held in was opened by two other warriors and I stepped in.
As soon as I did, the wolf bared his teeth out at me before moving back towards the walls of the room.
“Shift,” I commanded.
It whimpered.
“Don’t make me repeat myself wolf, fucking SHIFT THIS INSTANCE” It only cowered in fear but didn’t shift.
“When I was a child, my father used to punish me a lot even when I did nothing. So, after I get my wolf, I’ll shift for hours and refuse to shift back to my human form. You know what he did one day,”
The wolf was watching me intensely as I walked towards the tormenting table.
We called it the tormenting table because it had several instruments used for tormenting souls. We had brought it from Base nine after closing it down following my father’s disappearance.
I took an electronic silver rod and walked towards the wolf.
“He drove this down my throat,” I finished my story. “I’ll ask you to shift like a normal human that I should be and if you don’t, like the animal that I am, I’ll do the same as my father did and for three fucking days after you forcefully shift, you’ll beg for death,” I yelled.
After waiting for minutes and realized that the wolf wasn’t shifting, I instructed Konrad to lock the gate while I lurked towards the wolf.
It began growling and howling as I moved towards it. It was nothing big enough to fight me off. Before it could move again, I threw a silver chain bait at its legs, and at that point, I dragged it with the chain towards me. It was whimpering from the pain caused by the silver.
I can’t feel the effect of silver as other wolves did because my father practically turned it into my thing while growing up.
I dropped the electronic silver rod down before tying the hands of the wolf to its legs.
“You can still shift now, Rogue,” I asked before I turned to plug the rod.
“It’s crying”
“What?” I asked Konrad. He pointed to the wolf.
I wasn’t bothered by the tears of the wolf but by how shaken Konrad was with the tears. This is the first time I’ll see the ruthless leader and commander of the warriors be this vulnerable.
Konrad suddenly bent down to the level of the wolf.
“You need to shift. If you think for a minute about the pain of those little pups that you hurt, then I think it’s better you shift because they need to hear your apology”
Almost immediately, I could hear bones cracking and before I could blink, it shifted into a naked, fragile girl.
“It’s a girl,” I exclaimed.
I looked over at Konrad who was busy staring at the girl as if she was a star that fell from the sky.
“Mate”
Konrad growled loudly.