Alpha Ryker's Little Witch

Ryker's POV:

"It will take more than a weak alpha to stop a powerful wizard." I pushed the words to the very back of my mind. I stood on the wooden raised podium at the pack meeting ground. Normal activities went on as my eyes scanned around the place. Every damn second Theo didn't show up, my wolf and I got enraged even more. I had mind-linked him the minute I had stepped foot out of Jayson's place.

"Alpha!" His overly sweet pretentious voice dripped with spite, but I remained unfazed by it.

"You're late." My upper lip curved upwards.

"I'm sorry, Alpha. My back still has problems. Ever since I came back, I ha...."

"Shut up!" I couldn't stand his cock and bull story. I was the Alpha, and Theo and his acquaintances would serve as an example to the rest of the pack.

"A-Alpha," he pleaded, his form beginning to shake as the pheromones flowed into the air. I watched him closely as the force brought him down on his knees. His head tilted to the side, exposing his neck. Even though alpha blood ran in his veins, his wolf wasn't a match to mine. I was traditionally handed the Alpha title; that clearly gave me dominance over his blood.

"Where were you when I mind-linked you?" My hands were now inside my pockets and so were the wooden darts. I circled him, my lips curving downwards in nothing but pure, unadulterated rancor. His relaxed demeanor made me realize he had no clue that I had seen him earlier.

"On the pack burial grounds." He answered with no fear whatsoever, but his heartbeat betrayed his tranquil comportment.

"I can hear your pulse, Theo. You're lying." Cool as a cucumber, my voice gave away nothing as I stopped circling him. "I swear, Ryk-"

"I dare you to finish that statement." I grasped his chin with my thumb and index finger. The pressure was enough to hold the big man in place, and my beast relished in it all. I was his cousin but the Alpha above all. He was to address me as such; otherwise, there would be hell to pay.

I smelled my mate's scent even before I saw her. There wasn't a single soul around. They had fled the moment I collectively ordered them through the pack's mind-link to desert the place. I didn't look at her as she approached and stood beside me. I could feel her raw emotions calling to my wolf and me.

I refused to let her distract me. Her words had awoken a beast, an animal they had no choice but to embrace.

"I was at the pack burial grounds. Alone." My mate dragged the word "alone" in between her teeth, and I swore I saw the corner of his mouth twitch in malignance.

"Y-You must have missed me when the Alpha summoned me." His eyes remained cast on the ground as he attempted to fabricate another lie.

"Oh, that's interesting because I was at Jayson's place before I came here." I paused to listen to his pulse as it skyrocketed to the point that I thought he would have a heart attack. My admission seemed to sink deep because he fidgeted on his knees.

"Guess who I saw there peeking at the living room window?" I let go of his chin and let out a loud laugh that left my upper abdomen hurting. His eyes widened a fraction; his reflection was indeed that of a guilty person. It was downright what I had expected from him once I had brought up my beta's place.

"I will ask one more time, Theo. Where the fuck were you?" Low, minacious, and demanding, we were done playing games.

"I told you I was at the burial grounds visiting my mother!" He clenched his teeth, his nostrils flaring as I pushed him to his limit.

"How dare you lie to your alpha!" I backhanded him, the force as my hand came into contact with his cheek making Tamara flinch. He closed his eyes briefly, then opened them, his mouth set in a grim line. His hands remained behind his back and his heartbeat refused to slow down. With every millisecond that went by, the palpitations soared.

I could see Tamara's eyesight fixed on him from my peripheral view. Her presence alone reminded me of the words she had spewed at me earlier. Weak. The one person that was entirely supposed to be my anchor had blatantly insulted me. My wolf whined, feeling the pain our mate had forced us to go through.

"Theo, what time do you say you were at your mother's grave?" She snapped me out of my miserable thoughts. She was a wise woman, and she knew if I continued questioning Theo, I would end up beating him up into submission, or worse, death.

"Before the Alpha summoned me here, I swear I was at my mother's grave." He spoke low, a twitch on his upper lip showing just how much he wanted to tear us apart.

By now, Tamara knew that he was at Jayson's place. Unlike me, she kept her cool observing him. "Do you swear, Theo, that you were really where you claim to be?" she asked in a sickly, sweet voice, playing him for a fool.

"I swear on my life." He was a fucking dolt if he thought for one second that she would really believe in his stupid hoax.

"Oh, if I do recall, that grave you speak of is beside my parents. Is there any reason I didn't see you beside me?" She tsk-tsked, smiling as a cold sweat began forming on Theo's forehead.

He gulped his saliva loudly. "You might have missed me when you went to Jayson's place."

"And how did you know I was at Jayson's place?" She raised her eyebrows, waiting for him to make another lie. I was still hurt by her words earlier, but I was enjoying the sarcastic questions she was frustrating my cousin with. He opened then closed his mouth repeatedly, nothing passing between his lips.

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"Mmhmm, Theo, Theo, Theo. Now don't tell me you can't speak." I curled my mouth, faking sadness as my cousin's mouth finally closed without uttering any word.

"You were at Jayson's place listening in on our conversation for reasons unknown to me." I circled him, enjoying how his back tensed in fear.

I expected him to talk back at me, but he remained quiet, his pulse almost deafening to my beast and my mate.

"You swore on your life, Theo. Do you know I could kill you now? But no, I won't. Instead, I want you to do something for me." He raised his eyes briefly, a little hope forming in those orbs. He gave me two nods, his eyes briefly looking at Tamara. "Mind-link your father and tell him I order him to come here." I couldn't get through to him no matter what; the link always felt like a wall whenever I mind-linked him.

"I-I can't. My mind-link doesn't get to him." He stammered the first part.

"Where is he?"

"I don't know," he mumbled after a sigh.

"Okay, I'll find him myself. Now onto the next part." I rubbed my hands together in anticipation. Tamara kept on looking at me, pleading through her glossy eyes for me to just do something. She was sorry, but I wouldn't forgive her easily. "I want to know right now where you were when your father claimed you had been kidnapped."

"But al..."

"No buts. We both know you were not taken by force by anyone, and I want to know right now what exactly happened." I really didn't want to force the words out of him, but if he refused to comply, then he left me no choice. I knew for a fact that he was working with his dad and possibly Addanc. Why else would he listen in on our conversation? The kidnap story didn't make sense either, and it happened to the exact time we had subdued Addanc. That was no coincidence. I knew better.

"It is the truth. When I passed out, I awoke in a cabin."

"You said there were masked men and a woman? Exactly how many men were there?" I pressed, my wolf alert to capture any signs of deception.

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"Two men. I didn't recognize their voices at all, but the woman... I still think to this date that it is someone I know." He sighed, running his hands up and down on his face.

"She was clad in black cargo pants, but the left side pocket was torn and there was bandage on her right thumb. She had no scent on her, just like the men, except the smell of dirt. I could tell she hadn't taken a bath for days," he added, drawing interest from me concerning this woman. Could she have been a member of my pack?

"Mm-hmm, and how exactly did you escape?" Tamara moved forward with her tiny arms crossed over on the upper part of her abdomen.

"This one morning, after dishing out torture like they had been for days, one man and the woman left. My wolf and I, in our frail state, knew it was a chance we couldn't afford to lose. He was quite muscular, and even though I could take him, he had an advantage over me because of my state. All in all, when I begged him to release me for a long call, like the fool he was, he released me." He paused, and his eyes fixed on one spot in space.

"I'm assuming you used the chains to your advantage?" I knew my warriors. Lethal; it was the only word that described them.

"Oh, you know me, Alpha. I drained his life there and dragged myself back, careful not to get spotted by the other two." He seemed relaxed, contrary to how tense he had been when I first summoned him here.

"You did well. By the way, you can arise." I evened my tone.

"What are you doing?" Tamara pushed her words into my mind, face scrunched up in confusion. I ignored her question entirely and focused on the traitor in front of my eyes.

"Cousin, now that that issue is known to me, I will give you one more opportunity to come clean about what you were doing peeking and listening on our conversation back at your beta's place." Once again, he visibly tensed. "But, Alpha, I alrea-"

"Make no mistake, Theodore. The torture those kidnappers dished to you will be nothing compared to what I will do to you. Now talk..." My wolf was back to the surface, my hand in my pocket grasping the darts with strength enough to snap them into two.

"Ryker, you can't be possibly planning to do that to your own cousin... You..."

"Shut up, Tamara. Weren't you the one who called me weak? Now stay back and let me show you that I am a capable alpha."

She visibly flinched and recoiled back. "If he is working with the enemy, you are giving them what they want right now. He wouldn't hesitate on updating them about our state now. Then they would use that as an advantage and strike. Think about it, Ryker, please. I know I did wrong lashing out like that earlier, but I was scared of what would happen to our baby if Addanc found out." This time she pushed the words into my mind, but I was having none of that.

"Theo, either you tell me what you were doing spying on us and who sent you, or..." I fished out the darts and held them out in front of his face. "I will lodge one of these near your spine. Now don't you worry, I will make sure the silver doesn't kill you. I will use just enough to kill your wolf. Imagine a werewolf without a wolf... Tsk-tsk, Theo, you do not want that at all." The color drained from his face, and fear set in.

"So, what is it going to be? The truth or your wolf?"