~ISSA
I did not need to guess who was behind this to know that it was Pete and his father. I could taste their disgusting scent on my tongue.
“I guess Albus was right,” Jamal said. “The killings were just a distraction.”
“So, Pete was in on it from the start?” Yulia asked, her voice tinged with rage. “That means his whole reason for befriending me back then was so he could deliver me to whoever wants me dead.”
I felt vindicated. “I knew the son of the Swine was a piece of shit the moment I laid eyes on him.”
“The Swine?” Jamal asked as he looked at me. He was probably pissed that I knew one more thing that he did not know.
“A drug dealing werewolf mob,” I said with a shrug. “Pete is the son of their leader, Thaddeus.”
People were already coming into the house to pack up the bodies into the ambulances.
“Care to explain why a drug dealing werewolf mob just dumped ten dead bodies in your house?”
“It is kind of complicated to explain,” I replied as I looked around the house. I knew that Yulia and I could no longer stay here. Everyone already knew this place.
“Why don’t you explain in simpler terms?” Jamal asked with a stern expression on his face. I was not making his job any easier and he knew that.
“I forced Thaddeus to break his son’s arm with a small sledge hammer.”
Jamal looked at me with a dead expression and shook his head in disapproval. “Why did I even ask?” He muttered and sighed. “Do you have anywhere else you can stay?” He asked.
“Why?” Yulia asked.
“This place is currently under investigation due to the bodies, we will need to dust everywhere for fingerprints or any evidence they might have left behind,” Jamal said. “Oh, and your room was ransacked, you should check it out.” Jamal said that last part with a bit of smugness.
Yulia and I went up to our room and true to Jamal’s words everything was in disarray. My clothes were torn to pieces, all of them. The windows were shattered and I knew that knives had been used to shred the bed. Yulia’s clothes were also scattered all around the floor with her perfume bottles broken to pieces.
I studied the destruction of my property and all I saw was that Pete used pain and vengeance as his muses for all these things he did to my house.
“He really took his time,” Yulia muttered as she looked around. She entered the bathroom. “You have got to be kidding me,” she said.
I followed her into the bathroom and on the mirror read: WHORE OF THE LYCAN.
Pete knew that Yulia and I were together but I was not sure if he had any idea that we were mated. Yulia looked at me with a worried expression.
“What if he tells the wrong people?” Yulia asked.
Before I could answer, Miles entered the room. He looked really pissed off.
“Look what they’ve done to the place.”
He shook his head and closed his eyes. I could feel his rage simmering underneath his skin.
“No more,” he said and turned to me. “We are done hiding, Issa.”
I understood what he meant. I had been playing the puppet master, working from behind the scenes while keeping my status as Alpha and Lycan a secret. But after what has happened this night, it was time to make it known that I was not to be fucked with.
“Gather the pack,” I said. “It is time they know who I am.” Miles nodded and left the room. I turned to Yulia. “Pete will not tell anyone yet,” I told her.
“What makes you so sure?”
“He needs the leverage,” I replied and went on to check the closet.
The silver memory box was missing. I checked my phone and accessed the camera feed I had installed.
The son of bitch did not even cover his face with a mask. None of his twelve men did. Big mistake.
“What does he need the leverage for?” Yulia asked.
“Revenge, I humiliated him, he wants to do the same to me,” I replied.
“So, what do we do now?” Yulia asked worriedly.
“We wait for him to call.” The moment I said it, Yulia’s phone rang. I knew it was Pete.
Yulia answered and put it on loud speaker.
“So, the reason you left me is because you were fucking your own uncle?” Pete asked with disgust in his voice.
I shook my head at Yulia. ‘Let him keep talking,’ I mentally said to her.
“I cannot wait to tell everyone after school resumes, I thought of sending it online but telling everyone myself seems so much better,” he rambled on.
If he was talking about school then that means his father had no idea, he had invaded the house of a Lycan.
“Does your father know what you have done?” I asked.
“Oh, Issa, I did not know that you were there, no, my father does not know anything and he does not need to.”
He was stupid. Well, emotion makes people do stupid things, so I could not really blame him.
“I am assuming you want something from all these silly things you are doing,” I said.
“Yes, Yulia comes to me alone, then maybe I will not tell anyone about your dirty little secret,” Pete replied.
“And the box?” I asked.
“I knew that it was important, so here is the deal, you send me a picture of your broken arms then I give up the box, but that is after you give Yulia to me.” He said.
Yulia scoffed.
“And if you do not mind me asking, what do you want from me?” Yulia asked.
“Everything.” I heard the promise of pain and torture in voice. “Ever since your uncle did what he did to me, I have been the laughing stock of my clan. I have become nothing but a joke to everyone. But you are going to change that by the time I am done with you.” He hung up.