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Sadie.

“What the f**k are you doing here?” I growl when my eyes land on Alec.

It was the next day, and I can’t really say that I’d slept much at night. I was p**d and irritable.

“You honestly didn’t think I’d allow you to interrogate him all by yourself, did you?” he asks as he pushes himself off the wall he was leaning on. “I want answers as much as you do”

It was early, and I had to miss breakfast with Aspen because I wanted to get this **t done. My mind kept going a thousand miles per second at night, making it impossible for me to get a good rest.

Beating the s**t out of that b**d hadn’t helped. It hadn’t calmed me down. It had done nothing to ease torment of what I went through because of what he did.

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After I’d given the order for him to be taken to the dungeon, I’d materialized in the forest. I’d cried and screamed my anger and bitterness, until there was nothing left and I was completely spent. I later went back home, had diner with my baby girl and then went to sleep.

I couldn’t imagine why someone would do something so despicable to someone else. Then again, people don’t always have a reason to be evil. There are some who vileness is just in their nature.

“I doubt you can allow me to do anything,” I say after remembering that Alec was still standing before me.

Without another word, I stomp to the dungeons. The sooner I can get the answers, the sooner they can all leave.

topping, I twist my head and look at Alec when realization hits me. “It’s funny, you know, that you labeled me a

traitor and then boom, your sister’s mate turns out to be the biggest traitor of all.”

Raven had filled me in during dinner. Imagine my shock when I found out that that b*d w**as Piper’s mate. When I heard him call her babe, I didn’t pay much attention.

Unlike what humans believe, werewolves don’t always wait for their mates. We are allowed to date as casually as we want, what we aren’t allowed is to mark someone who isn’t our mate. Well, unless your mate dies or cheats and you decide to take a chosen.

Alec growls. It gives me pleasure to antagonize him. After what he has done, he deserves that and more.

Not giving him a chance to say anything, I continue as I walk. “I wonder, are you going to torture him now that you’ve found him or are you going to hold back because he’s your darling sister’s mate? After all, I wasn’t given any consideration even though I’d been your sister’s best friend since we were little girls.”

I smile when I see the struggle in his eyes. It’s right f**g there, He’s caught between a rock and a hard place. He

knows what this guy did is unforgivable, especially because he targeted an alpha, but then he is his darling sister’s mate.

*Choices, choices” I taunt, just as we get to the dungeons. “I wonder what the almighty alpha Alec is going to do. Is. he going to punish the traitor or let him go for his sister’s sake?”

“Stop it, Sadie” he demands, an edge in his voice.

Instead, I just chuckle. “Oh, no Alec. I can’t stop. This is just the f**g start.”

With those words, I push open the door and enter.

The guard on duty bows. “Alpha”

“Where is the prisoner?” I ask, moving forward.

“Already in the torture room, Alpha”

“Perfect”

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I smile and start walking. Don’t you just love it when people are efficient? They already knew what I wanted. I didn’t have to tell them what I needed.

I ignore Alec’s footsteps behind me. My focus was on Piper’s mate and how much fun we were going to have.

When I push the door to the room, we find the man hanging from the ceiling. His hands tied up with silver chains.

The room didn’t have much. Just the chains, a chair, and a table with various torture devices. It wasn’t much, but then again did you really need much when you were torturing your victims?

“Good morning” I say cheerily.

He lifts his head, but doesn’t say anything. I doubt he can even see me clearly given his eyes are swollen shut.

“You have no idea how much I’ve waited for this day” I continue as I walk to the table. “It’s long overdue if you ask

me, what’s your name?”

“Calvin” he answers.

I feel Alec’s overwhelming presence, but I just ignore him. He didn’t matter at this point. No one mattered. Just me and the b**d that ruined my life.

“So Calvin, what would you like me to start with?” I stop and look at him. “Should we start small and work our way up? Maybe start with a small knife?”

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“I’ll talk” he rushes to say.

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Sighing, I turn to Alec and say casually, “I’m disappointed. I love it when they fight me. It gives me more of a thrill to break them and see their spirit die within them.”

Alec looks at me like I’ve lost my d**n mind. And maybe I did. He broke me in that dungeon three years ago. I doubt I’ve ever been able to mend myself back together. Yeah, take a look b**d, this is what you turned me into.

“Please, I’ll talk” Calvin whimpers like the little weak f**r he is. “I’ll tell you anything you need to know.”

Alec doesn’t waste time. “What did Sadie offer you to drug my drink?”

Goddess help me. Was Alec being real right now? It’s beyond me how he still thought that I was the mastermind behind everything.

“She didn’t offer me anything” Calvin answers. “She isn’t the one who paid me to drug your drink. Someone else

did. A different woman.”

Well, at least now I know to look for a woman.

There is a moment of silence as his words ricochet in the room. Finally, the truth comes out after years.

Alec pushes from the wall and starts towards Calvin. There was an edge to his movement. A certain danger that surrounded him.

“That’s not right, she gave me the drink.” Alec argues and I just roll my eyes. “Your eyes are swollen shut, you didn’t get a good look at her”

I see what’s happening. What’s going on. The truth was out and Alec was grasping to what he believed was the truth because accepting what Calvin said means admitting that he was wrong and I was innocent.

“I saw her when she attacked me just after I came to the pack” Calvin says. “And even if I hadn’t seen her face, her scent and voice would be clear proof that she isn’t the one that paid me.”

“What do you mean?” I ask as I step forward and stand next to Alec who, by the way, looked like he was having a mini-panic attack.

“I never saw her face. All through our dealings, when we first met and when she gave me instructions, she had her face covered with a veil. It was weird honestly, but what was even weirder was her scent. You smell like summer. Floral, fresh and warm. She smelled like death. Cold, dark and absolutely terrifying”

Werewolves can mask their scents and become untraceable. What we can’t do is alter it. Alec knows this.

“She was a rogue?” I push since Alec looks lost.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

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“No” Calvin answers. “But she was something else entirely. I’m not sure what she was, but I could sense her strong power and aura”

He tries to move, probably seeking a comfortable position. Too bad there isn’t. I’ve been here before, so I know that no matter what he tries he won’t find a comfortable position.

“Did she tell you why she wanted you to drug the alpha?”

He shakes his head. “No, but the alpha wasn’t my only target. She told me to make sure that both you and the alpha have the drinks.”

What the hell?

“Me? What did I have to do with her plans?”

“I don’t know. She just told me to wait until you two were together before giving you the drinks.”

All this time I thought that Alec was the target and I was the unfortunate victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, he’s telling me that I was target by this woman, but why?

What was her end game? What did she benefit paying someone to drug us?

“How did you meet her?” Alec asks, his voice distorted.

“She’s the one that found me. I’m alone wolf. I love my life but it isn’t easy trying to live as a human and making ends meet. So I started doing odd jobs when I almost exposed myself while working as a bartender in a human club. Trading information, spying, following cheating mates to get proof, that kind of thing. I didn’t go looking for her, she’s the one that found me.”

Even though lone wolves aren’t usually a danger, they aren’t allowed to work in werewolf establishments. Most werewolf businesses are owned by packs and, since lone wolves gave up pack life, they can’t work for them. It would beat the point.

“And why would you agree to work for her knowing you were going against an alpha?” I just didn’t get it honestly. Everyone knows never to cross an alpha. Especially someone like Alec.

“At first, I didn’t agree, but then she said she’d pay me really well and that she’d make sure I’m never caught.”

“How much was she offering?” this comes from Alec.

“A million dollars” Calvin’s answer makes me gasp in shock.

F**k, that was a lot of money. I can see why he risked going against Alec.

“I bet you didn’t count on your mate being the sister of the same alpha you betrayed,” I mock and smile in

satisfaction when he winces at my words.

“No, I didn’t. it was supposed to be easy and it was. She didn’t give me a lot of details. Just that I had to make sure both of you drunk. She’s the one that gave me the drug. She told me it doesn’t have a scent, so the alpha wouldn’t be able to smell it. All I had to do was show up at the party that was being held for his mate and do as was told. She paid me the next morning. I left and never saw her again.”

The fact that he knew the party was for Alec’s mate, and he still came, brings forth something dark inside me.

I was grateful for the truth but, there were still a lot of unanswered questions. I get if it were an alpha that had approached him. A lot of the alphas would benefit if Alec lost his mate and turned feral, but a woman? A strange woman that veiled her face, what would she benefit? Unless she was a witch and was working for an alpha.

There will be time think things through later, when I’m alone.

“Thank you” I face Calvin.

“For what?”

“For making this so much easy” I reply with a smile. “You’ve just proved to me how selfish you are. You accepted the job because of the money, not really caring that you’d be ruining three lives that day. Today is the day of your

reckoning.”

It was time for my fun.

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