Chapter 13

Holy motherfucking fuck balls. Of all the fucktards in the present and in history, I get the son of the biggest arsehole of all time, as my fucking mate.

Shock, disgust, repulse, nausea and anything else in the negative column overtook any feelings of fear as I reached these tosspots.

Before I stepped into the arms of the poisonous wolf, I wanted to throw my arms into the air as I ran, shouting, ‘Nope, not today, Satan! Not today!’ Or even, ‘Fuck that shit!’ But nope, there were too many wolves on guard at all the exits, I would never make it any further than I could spit or piss.

Instead, I had to settle with actual body contact with the most heinous and repulsive wolf that I have ever met.

As Corbin drew his arms around my significantly smaller frame than his, Reid stomped forward aggressively, ready to try stealing his mate away from a possible challenger but stopped just shy of his dad and me. My eyes shot to his, pleading with him to help me in some way. My arms were pinned to my sides; I was unable to do anything to get away from Alpha Corbin.

Just as I started to shake in fear, thinking of what this wolf was capable of, the unruly overweight Alpha unwrapped his arms from me and moved back, turning to face his son. I quickly took a couple of steps back to distance myself as much as possible without either of them thinking that I was trying to run away. I inspected my slightly trembling hands, looking at anything else to avoid the sight of the imposing and fear inducing-duo.

“There, she is all yours, son. Have fun and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.” I looked up in time to see Corbin wink to Reid and one last creepy observation of my body, then he moved from between us, no longer an obstacle.

I heaved, like, actually physically heaved. It made my mate look to me with a half-smile, but it was enough to make my legs weaken and threaten to give out on me. The hardness of his face temporarily softened, and oh my fucking goddess, when I had first seen Reid, I thought that the Goddess had matched me with the most attractive wolf ever, but the smile that he was giving me now had changed that. He was a handsome god, beautiful to look at. I could look at his smiling, full lips all day.

He shuffled the remaining distance to me, the ‘almost touch’ starting the wheels of desire for him.

I was completely lost in the mate bond already, fuck!

A groan from the ground echoed around the terrified and silent room, pulling me out of my stupid fantasies.

I looked to my dad, he was making small movements with his arms and legs, coming to after being unconscious for the small amount of time that it had taken for this tidbit of drama to unfold.

“Ah yes, that’s something that I had forgotten. Thanks for reminding me there, Brock.” Corbin had noticed dad, just like the rest of us. Only it was not relief that he had felt like the rest of us.

Alpha Corbin started walking slowly towards dad just as he started to move a little bit more. It looked like he was trying to turn over onto his stomach and stand, but Corbin had other plans. He was reaching into the breast pocket of suit jacket to pull something out. I could not see what it was at first, not until Corbin leaned down did I see a glint in his hand, and I realised that he was holding a needle.

“Just a little bit of wolfsbane, keep you in the land of nod for a bit whilst I conduct my business here.” Corbin spoke at a normal volume, but it was enough for everyone to hear him. It caused outcries of anger from all the wolves that were being unwillingly held here.

Dad continued to fight his way out of his unconscious state, fidgeting and attempting to get control of his body once again. But as he moved, I could see blood staining the hair on the crown of his head, giving me an explanation as to what had unfolded when he was giving his announcement that had rendered him out-cold.

As he roughly grabbed dads' elbow and lifted his arm, Corbin plunged the sharp needle hard through the fabric of his dress shirt and into the firm flesh of his bicep. Dad grunted as it penetrated his skin, feeling the slight sting of pain in his shitty state and tried to resist. But his resistance was pointless. He seemed to fidget as though he was having a fit before going limp onto the hard floor once more. Corbin gave him a couple of light slaps to his face before standing straight again, pleased that the wolfsbane had done its job.

“Shut it!” Corbin’s red and angry beetroot of a face faced the room as he bellowed at the protestors, instantly silencing them. But I could not stop staring at dad, tears silently running down my face.

Dads previously fighting frame was now terrifying all of those that loved him as he now looked to be dead. Knowing that he was injected with a lethal poison was alarming to say the least, anything could happen to him now that it was flowing through his veins.

I whined out-loud, Beaux’s concern for her Alpha forcing me to. Reid shuffled closer to me, his wolf forcing him to protect his mate.

I could hear Reid sniffing at me, leaning over as he gave into his wolfs urges to get closer to his mate.

“Otto! You piece of shit!” Mum furiously screamed out from the group of wolves that were slowly being huddled closer together to form a tighter group by those that had taken over the room, some of which had transformed back to their human forms.

I could see mums elegant frame trying to push through all the wolves that posed an obstacle so that she could get to the front. Her hand flew to her mouth as dad came into her view, her other hand desperately reaching out as if it could magically stretch the remaining distance and clutch at dad's giant and unmoving body, as she herself lowered to the ground in shock.

The other wolves in the crowd started to grow restless again and begin to speak out, quietly at first but quickly growing in volume until it was borderline uproar.

“I think that it is time we had a little bit of encouragement for co-operation from everyone here.” Corbin’s sly smile made me nervous to fuck, I did not like the idea of what his insinuation could possibly mean.

“No! Stop! Please, I didn’t do anything! I listened and stayed down quietly! No, please!” I could hear a womans muffled and pleading screams start up in the kitchen, but I could still understand what she was saying through her begging, sobbing and the thick wooden doors to the kitchen.

The kitchen doors swung open abruptly, crashing into the wall from the force that they were pushed at.

It was the people that fought their way through the doorway that had my legs finally buckle from all the stress that had happened tonight so far. It was Tony and Beth, but they were dragging a terrified and resistant Marthe with them.

I could not believe what I was seeing, both Tony and Beth were my close friends. I never thought that they would ever align themselves with such a despicable wolf like Alpha Corbin.

As the pair pulled the sobbing Marthe over to Corbin, the room once again delved into silence, curious but scared to see what was about to unfold. I was too, but I knew that something was about to change my mind and fast about watching.

Once the trio reached Corbin, Tony and Beth pushed Marthe forward stumbling to him, making her the focus of his attention. Out of fear, she dropped to her knees at Corbin’s feet, before beginning to beg and plead for her life yet again.

“Please, I didn’t do anything. I swear I didn’t do it. Please have mercy on me.”

It was hard to see such a fearful and well-respected wolf reduced to such a state and in a situation where she had to beg for her life from a slimy fucker such as Corbin.

“I know you didn’t, darling. But I'm afraid that I need a scapegoat. Someone must do this one little thing for me, but it can’t be just anyone. No, it needs to be someone of a well-respected position, but not too high up the food chain. Not yet anyway, that is for another time.” Corbin’s creepy smile and the way that he just so casually discussed doing something heinous to another wolf was vile.

“Please.” Marthe weakly begged in a last ditch-attempt to save herself from Corbin’s disgustingly decided fate. But there was no point, he had made his decision, and it looked like the dictator was not going to budge.

My stomach dropped and my heart stopped upon realising that whatever this dickhead had planned meant that Marthe was most likely going to suffer extensively.

Corbin took the last couple of small steps to be standing directly over Marthe, whilst looking down into her face as she looked up at his. Her eyes were tear-stained; red raw and puffy as hell from all her weeping throughout her ordeal. He gently placed his hands on either side of her face.

All I could do was watch on in a stunned and horrified silence as I saw the nails on both of his thumbs slowly transform and extend into his large wolf claws. The dark coloured claws looked like the tips were blood-stained, as if they had been dipped in the crimson substance so many times that it had caused the permanent discolouration.

I involuntarily took a step forward in my desire to stop him from continuing with what he was about to do, no-one deserved that, but Reid halted me with a grunt, and I was too late. Everyone else in the room was unable to do anything to help either, all they could do was look on in dread for one of their beloved pack members.

All that I could do was watch on as Marthe's agonising pain-filled screams echoed around the silent and still ballroom as Corbin slowly forced his sharp and deadly claws into Marthe's eyeballs. But he did not stop at just piercing them to blind her, he carried on pushing. His claws sank even further into them; they went so deep that even his thumbs disappeared in the flow of blood and yellow goo, right up to the part of his hands where the thumb connected and all the noises Marthe had been making stopped and she went limp in his grip.

The only thing that held her upright now was Corbin’s thumbs that were still embedded in her now bloody eye sockets. That was until he swiftly drew them out and Marthe’s now lifeless body slumped to the floor, never to be that fiery she-wolf again.

Bile burned at the back of my throat. Revulsion and hatred for Corbin at what he had done lit a spark somewhere deep inside of me.

“What the hell did you do that for? What has that achieved?” I whispered as I stepped towards the cunt, making him turn to me smirking, a smug and satisfied look glued in place.

Someone stepped forward to hand him a towel, which he gratefully accepted and started wiping the blood from Marthe's eyes, off his hands.

“Thanks. Well, my dear Olivia. That has achieved everything I needed it to. Everyone here now knows exactly what would happen, should they continue to resist me.”

I felt a warm, calloused hand tightly grab my elbow and start to pull me backwards. The sparks that erupted told me who it was without even looking. It was the first time that we had any kind of physical touch, and it was not disappointing. It was nothing like what other wolves had described to me, but so much better. It was all-consuming and I never wanted him to leg go, but he did.

Reid was trying to pull me away from his dad to protect me, knowing that he would not react well to someone questioning or challenging him. Maybe he will not be rejecting me?

What the fuck was I thinking? There was no way in fucking hell or on earth that I could be with him. Regardless of how much I wanted my mate, or how much I was being drawn to him by the mate bond, it could never happen.

“I can’t do this. What the hell did I do?” Beth’s voice was easily heard all around the room. When I looked to her, she was in full-blown panic mode and looking from one exit to the other. She was trying to figure out a way to go when Corbin stalked up to her, a predator cornering his prey.

“Having regrets, my dear?” His voice was light, but I was not fooled by it, this was leading somewhere, and Beth was blind to it in her frantic state.

“I need to get out of here; this isn’t what I wanted.” Beth really needed to be careful what she said now, there was no way that she was going to see what Corbin was up to.

“I suppose you better go then.” I still did not like how he spoke; I could not figure out what it was that he was going to do, but there was no way that he was going to just let her go. No-one was going to be leaving here with his permission.

“Really?” Beth sounded relieved, she was completely oblivious to his game. She looked for the nearest exit and started shuffling nervously to it.

“There’s just one thing that I want from you first though.” Beth turned back around to face Corbin as he spoke. He had turned away from her at this point, looking at the floor as he fiddled with his fingers.

“Anything. You’re letting me go, so I owe you anything that you ask for.” She stepped back towards Corbin, closing the distance between her and his back.

Beth had barely finished speaking when Corbin spun back around to face her in a blur. For a physically challenged and oversized wolf, he still moved inhumanly fast. His right arm extended as he swung around, barely missing Beth.

It was only when Corbin stood completely still that I let my eyes wonder down his arm resting back at his side. His fingers were straight, but I noticed something drip just out of view. I continued looking down the length of his fingers and that is when I noticed the crimson claw that was extended from his index finger. It dripped something red onto the floor, and that was when I realised that it was blood.

I looked back up to Beth’s shocked face and then to her neck, where there was a faint red line streaked across. Blood began to slowly trickle from the deep wound that Corbin had made with his claw yet again, Beth dropped to her knees. The wound suddenly started to bleed as if someone had turned a tap on from the inside of her flesh. It flowed with such a force that there was no way that it could ever be stopped.

Blood was running down the front of her once beautiful, light pink ball gown, highlighting the crimson colour before pooling on the floor around her knees.

I looked at Beth’s terror-filled eyes and watched as the life drained from them, before she slumped forward on the floor, dead.