The Alpha Wants Everything Book 1 The King's Queen

Kane woke around one the next morning on his stomach, she was sprawled across his back sleeping soundly. He hated to disturb her while she slept, but her cast was digging into his ribs.

“Baby!” He croaked out, nothing,

“Baby!” He croaked louder, she stirred slightly but didn’t reply.

“Baby!” He called her louder, she groaned and snuggled in more to the warmth of his back.

“No baby, don’t make yourself more comfortable. Your cast is digging into my ribs, it’s uncomfortable.” He said, trying not to chuckle, she mumbled something about try wearing it.

“I know baby, I’m sorry.” he said as she slid off his back onto the couch beside him. He cuddled her in closer to him and she happily snuggled into the warmth he offered.

“You probably wouldn’t be so cold in the morning if you didn’t kick all the covers off us at night,” he said, grinning.

“If I did that then I wouldn’t need to sleep on top of you” she mumbled into his chest,

“Oh you could still sleep on top of me with the covers on” he replied, enjoying the feeling of her naked body pressed against his. Visions of last night danced through his head, one round, one long drawn out round. They teased and tortured each other all night. Hands caressing, lips tasting. She chased the demons dancing in his head, from taking up a permanent residence, until all that was left was her. He wished he could chase them from her mind as well, but they had a strong hold. Even without the books, the statues, she still had the scars. Permanent reminders carved on her body that she can never get rid of.

“Stay with me!” her soft voice pulling him from his thoughts.

“I’m not going anywhere baby,” he said, holding her closer, kissing her head.

He woke a little later around two in the morning, she was on his chest this time cuddled in a little ball and sure enough the covers were kicked off both of them. He tried to control his laughter, but failed to do so and woke her up again. Lifting her head she scowled at him for having disturbed her for the second time.

“Sorry baby, but it’s time to get up now” he said grinning. The doctor wanted to do the brain scan as early as possible

“Nooo!” She groaned, reaching for the covers to pull back over herself and hide under.

“You kicked them off again!” he said, still grinning. She wrapped his arms around her instead and snuggled in deeper to his chest and the warmth of his embrace.

“I am not a blanket” he protested, but didn’t move his arms from around her.

“Yes you are!” She argued, her own grin pulling at the corners of her mouth,

“How so?” He asked,

“You’re warm like one” she simply stated,

“Am I now?” He asked,

“Yes!” She replied, he ran his hand up and down following the curves of her body over and over again.

“I don’t think blankets are handsy though” she added, as she felt his fingers graze her bottom.

“This blanket is, but we’ll have to take it to the shower, the doctor will be here soon, to make your beautiful brain glow” He said, kissing her head.

“That’ll be fun too!” She replied still not getting up

“Which part?” He asked, he knows which part he’ll find fun

“Both, maybe I’ll glow in the dark after this” she said,

“That would be fun!” He laughed.

Fresh out of the shower, they were sitting in her room waiting for the doctor to show up so she could get the tracer done. A knock came to the door, but it wasn’t the doctor when Kane opened it. He started laughing and stepped to the side. Damon came in holding a little jingle bell on a red ribbon, Kenneth had a pair of bunny ears and Johnny was twirling the tail on his fingers. Dax’s mouth dropped open when she saw them.

“Took us a bit to track this stuff down, had to wake a few people up” Johnny said,

“You didn’t think we would miss dressing you like a bunny did you?” Damon laughed,

“We made a special trip into town just for the ears and tail, there were some very grumpy werewolves that did not want to get up” Kenneth added,

“You’re not seriously going to let them put a bell on me are you?” She asked him,

“A deals a deal” Kane repeated his statement from last night.

“I said it last night, I said it a few weeks ago and I am saying it again now, you should have already been wearing a bell” Damon said,

“I didn’t get a full week of wolf wear, I shouldn’t have to wear the bell” she argued,

“You should have said something sooner” Kane replied,

“Next time I’m dressing you up like a fairy” she threatened.

“Promises! Let’s get your tail on” Kane took the tail from Johnny and fastened it around her waist. The ears from Kenneth he gently placed on her head pulling her hair from her face.

“Oh I want to put the bell on” Damon begged,

“I will kick you!” She replied,

“Now, now little mouse, don’t be like that” Kane held out his hand for the bell. Damon huffed, but placed it in his hands and they waited for him to fasten it to her right ankle.

When he stepped back he smiled at her.

“Don’t you look adorable?” He said, “Turn around let’s see the tail” begrudgingly she started to turn around every step she took with her right foot the little bell jingled. Dax could hear Johnny and Kenneth starting to lose their battle at containing their laughter. When she turned all the way back around, she could see the merriment dancing in his eyes.

“Such a good little bunny” he said, Damon’s shoulders were shaking he was trying so hard to contain himself.

“Did you forget something?” Kane asked and raised his eyebrow,

“Do I have to?” She asked,

“Yes!” He simply replied, Dax looked at the men in the room and stood tall and started wiggling her nose.

“Holy Fuck! She really can wiggle her nose like a bunny. Make her do it again.” Damon howled out, Johnny and Kenneth lost their battle and just erupted into fits of laughter. They were still laughing when a second knock came to the door, Kane moved to answer it and stepped aside to allow the doctor to come in. He took one look at her.

“You can’t wear that in the scan” was all he said and started checking over her medical file. Causing them all to break out laughing again, almost all, she stood there shaking her head.

“Don’t be such a grumpy bunny” Kane said and she wiggled her nose again.

“Ok let’s take you to get the tracer put in and then we’ll do a quick check up and then take the stitches out.” The doctor said, she just nodded her head and moved towards the door.

“Are you jingling?” The doctor asked her, Damon, Johnny and Kenneth all had to turn away to hide the shaking of their shoulders.

“They put a bell on me” she said as she continued towards the door.

“I’m surprised it took them this long, but you can’t wear that in the scan either” her jaw dropped as she just looked at the doctor and the room erupted into laughter one more time. Dax could still hear them laughing as she jingled down the hall.

Kane stood leaning against the wall waiting for her to exit the room where she was getting the tracer put in. When the door opened a grin crossed his face as he heard some of the technicians trying to stifle their laughter.

“There’s my grumpy bunny” Kane said as he pulled her into his arms,

“I’m tired, I’m radioactive and you’re fucking with me right now” she huffed, but she did give her nose a little wiggle.

“I’d rather be fucking you right now” he whispered low in her ear,

“The bell has to come off, the doctor said so, it’ll interfere with the machine and the scan” she said,

“I’ll take it off when the time comes,” Kane replied, brushing a few stray strands of hair out of her face. “Where to now baby?”

“To do a check up, and then to have the stitches in my cheek removed and then to radiology” she replied,

“The boys are already there waiting for us,” Kane said, running his hands up and down her back. Dax murmured something he didn’t quite hear.

“Oh no, no. You need to stay awake. Come on let’s go get you checked out” he kissed her head and then forced her to walk so she would wake up. They met up with the doctor in one of the exam rooms where he looked at the laceration on her back, and checked to see how her side was doing. He looked over her hand and her face. She had fresh stitches put in her forehead after she was hit by the car. She had a few good size bruises and some large abrasions on her body that he wanted to keep an eye on, but other than that she seemed fine. He removed the stitches from her cheek and then it was time for the scan. Kane removed the bell from her ankle and took the ears and tail off of her. They walked towards radiology where the others were waiting.

Upon entering the room, Dax’s anxiety started to spike a little, she hated these rooms. The machines were creepy. Kane helped her onto the table and she laid back.

“Remember to remain as still as possible and this will be over soon” the doctor said to her. He had already explained to her what he was going to do, she was going to see pictures and hear things. He just wanted to gauge the emotional responses, but if at any point she wanted out all she had to do was say the word.

“Ok are you ready?” The doctor asked, what she replied and what she was thinking were two totally different things. No she wasn’t ready for the machine to eat her. No she wasn’t ready to see whatever pictures they were going to show her. No she wasn’t ready to hear whatever they wanted her to hear. No she wasn’t fucking ready. Dax’s hand grasped the side of the table tightly and she clenched her eyes shut. Her heart rate was erratic and her breathing became laboured.

“She is starting to panic and if we don’t get her to calm down this scan is done and we made her radioactive for nothing” the doctor said,

“Uh, how radioactive is she?” Damon asked,

“What the hell kinda question is that?” Johnny asked, Damon looked at him then shifted in his seat, they all understood now why he was asking and looked towards the doctor.

“Relax, not enough to cause any harm, and it will be out of her system in about 12 hours” the doctor assured them, “But she needs to relax!”

“Can she hear us?” Kenneth asked,

“Just have to push this button” the doctor said, none of them made the move to push the button, they didn’t know what to say to her to get her to relax so the scan could be performed. Kane reached over and pressed the button for the intercom, but before he could say anything Johnny spoke instead.

“My 21st birthday sucked, at least the first half of it did” he started, not sure why he said it, it just popped out. They all looked at him, Damon reached over and turned the intercom off.

“This is not therapy time with Dax in the tube” he said looking at him,

“I don’t know why I said that” Johnny shrugged,

“Why?” Dax asked, Kane turned the intercom back on and told Johnny to tell the story.

“Do you know what it’s like to own a bar, but not be able to step foot in it? How dumb is that? At 18 I could own a bar, but had to wait three years before I could even step foot in it?” Johnny asked, when they heard a small giggle he continued.

“So I had a plan, turn 21 and see the inside of the bar for the first time and drink legally. Everyone knew the plan, everyone was on board with the plan, Damon was waiting for me at the bar and I was getting ready to go. Lacey decided she wanted to go to Luigi’s for dinner, I told her to have fun and I was about to walk out the door. She said, no we’re going to Luigi’s for dinner, I told her I was supposed to be meeting up with Damon at the bar. She said too bad, I don’t want to do that so we’re going to dinner. I messaged Damon saying I would meet up later, that I was going to dinner first.” Johnny was saying,

“Which was fucking bullshit by the way, we talked about it for months. Harassed the shit outta Kane because he still had to wait a year.” Damon added, they heard her giggle again. She could imagine how happy he was about that.

“Right, but whatever went for dinner, Luigi’s has good food so no big, we get back to the house and I’m getting ready go meet up with Damon, Lacey asks me where I’m going and I tell her, going to meet Damon for a few drinks and I won’t be out for very long. She says no, we’re going to watch movies. I didn’t want to watch movies. I wanted to step foot in my bar for the first time in three years and we had it planned out. She didn’t care about my plans, I wasn’t going and we were going to watch movies. I messaged Damon telling him I would meet up with him tomorrow and I watched movies. The stupidest fucking movies might I add, I didn’t even get to watch what I wanted, we watched what she wanted and then we went to bed.” Johnny continued his story of his 21st birthday.

“What happened in the second half?” She asked, hearing Kane, Damon and Johnny laughing she knew it got better.

“Well this is where it gets more entertaining, it didn’t sit right that Johnny couldn’t do what he wanted on his birthday, so I might have taken two cases of whiskey from the bar and went back to the pack house” Damon explained,

“Not sure why we needed 2 cases, each case holds 12 bottles” Johnny said,

“Made sense at the time, and my math wasn’t exactly sound” Damon replied,

“Anyway, I woke up to something hitting the window and kinda worried whatever it was, was going to wake Lacey up, so I got out of bed and went to the window to shut it down. There’s Kane and Damon standing on the lawn and Damon starts yelling to get my ass down there. I’m trying to tell him to shut up or he’ll wake Lacey up and he just yells louder, saying get your fucking pants on and let’s go you’re driving.” Johnny continues

“We might have been two bottles deep in the whiskey by then” Damon said, they heard her giggle again.

“We end up at the lake and he tells me I need to catch up, cause they’re winning. The night goes on and now we’re about four bottles in….each and Damon is standing on the dock, not sure why he’s standing on the dock but he is. Kane’s watching him and I turned away for a second when I looked back Damon was gone. He vanished, I asked Kane where he went and he’s just staring at the dock where Damon was, five minutes go by and he finally says man down. I start freaking out, what the fuck do you mean man down? Where the fuck is Damon?”

“I run to the dock and I’m yelling for him, I tell Kane to get his drunk ass up and help me look for him. Next thing we hear is Damon telling us he’s trapped under a duck. Kane looks at me and asks what the fucks a duck? I tell him it’s the chicken with the kazoo, so we’re looking around for a duck. Damon’s yelling no, the duck, the duck. Kane’s stomps on the dock and yells there’s no fucking duck Damon where the hell are you? Damon tells him to take it easy or he’s gonna come through the duck. Kane lies belly down and looks under the dock and he sees Damon, and then tells me he’s under the dog, so I’m looking around for a dog now and not a duck, Damon says he’s stuck. Kane tells him he’s stupid and to just fucking walk out. So Damon walks out from under the dock and gets back on it and stands in front of Kane who’s now standing at the edge. He asks him what the fuck is wrong with him and why he let him drown for 5 mins. He wasn’t drowning, the water was even waist deep, but anyways Damon proceeds to push Kane in the lake and yells man down, that’s how you fucking do it.” She can hear them all laughing in the booth as Johnny is telling his story of his 21st birthday.

“Back on dry land we’re staying the fuck away from the duck, the dock, and the dog and we’re about 6-7 bottles in and only getting louder. We were working on the last of our bottles and a deputy showed up. Damon says he’ll take care of this, he can barely stand at this point and I’m not too sure he’s seeing straight either. ‘Howdy os...surfer, nice day we’s having’ he says, Kane and I start laughing, we don’t know why we’re laughing but something was funny. The deputy looks at him and says it’s night, and Damon looks at the sky and asks how the fuck that happened? He asks us if we’ve been drinking, there’s bottles everywhere and fucking Kane is holding one, but Damon goes ‘No’ so then he asks where the bottles came from and Damon says we found them.” Johnny was saying,

“This is where it gets confusing for us, the deputy asked, ‘Did you have any?’ Kane heard ‘Did you want any?’ Because his reply was ‘Yes I do, thank you very much’ and he downs the rest of his bottle then hits the ground and yells man down and starts laughing cause he got it right that time. I asked if this is the part where he calls my dad, and he says ‘No, this is the part where we get in the back of the car and go to the drunk tank.’ I heard dunk tank and asked if I could throw balls at Kane, and he said yes. I get in the back of the car telling Damon lets go, we’re going to a dunk tank. Damon smacked his head off the car and Kane is still laughing on the ground. The deputy asked if we’re going to pick our friend up and Damon replied ‘No, fucker let me drown for 5 mins’ I pushed Damon out of the car, he smacked his head off it again when he crawled back in. I picked Kane up and he’s still laughing about fuck knows what and I push him into the back seat with Damon who starts laughing, saying I get to ride in the front this time. I asked the deputy if we could turn the siren on and he said no people are sleeping. I said I didn’t care that people were sleeping. I wanna hear the siren, again he said no. Probably for the best. In Damon’s state Titan would have ripped the car apart….with us in it” Damon just nodded in agreement.

“We got to the station saying hello to everybody we passed and they put us in this back cell. We were standing in the middle of it and Damon says this is not a dunk tank, it’s the jrunk tank, yous was lied to. I turned to the deputy and said yous said I could throw balls at him. He disappeared and came back with a bag of tennis balls and told us to go crazy. We spent an hour throwing tennis balls at each other and we were hitting everything but each other, then we started singing, Show Me the Way to go Home, but only the first three lines of the chorus, because we couldn’t remember the rest. They did call my dad, and it’s been 5 years since he got a phone call like that, and apparently the front was howling at us, but he showed up and bailed our drunk asses out. We get back to the pack house and my dad says maybe we should sleep it off there, Damon was already passed out in the box of the truck, my dad left him there. Kane stumbled into the house don’t know what happened to him, and I was going home. I get to the room and Lacey is fucking pissed off, she starts screaming at me. I have no idea what the fuck she’s even saying, but I looked at her and said ‘You used to be more fun’” the booth exploded with laughter.

“Are you fucking serious?” Kane asked,

“Lacey never was fun, unless it was doing something she wanted, and she still sucked the fun out of it” Damon added,

“I am serious, but I didn’t stop there. No, no, no my drunk ass went even farther and told her that I had more fun tonight without her, than I ever had with her and then I passed out in the middle of the bed and didn’t move. She might have tried to move me, but I’m pretty sure I told her to fuck off. I think she slept on the couch, truthfully I don’t know where she ended up. I woke up the next morning and she wasn’t there. My skin itched like crazy and Diego was pissed and neither of us knew why. She was still fucking pissed and I slept on the couch for four days after that.” Johnny finished telling his story. The only one not laughing in the booth was Damon, he stopped laughing when Johnny said his skin itched and Diego was pissed but couldn’t figure out why.

“Lacey cheated on Johnny!” Damon was in Kane’s head,

“What? When?” Kane asked, his posture turned rigid

“His 21st birthday” Damon replied,

“How do you know?” Kane didn’t want to look at Damon, he had to force himself to appear calm and relaxed, but his mind was swirling with this information.

“Kimberly banged anything so I drank to dull the pain, when I drank too much my skin would itch like crazy and Titan was pissed but didn’t know why.” He knew that feeling all to well,

“Fuck!” That stupid bitch! He thought.

“Do I tell him?” Damon asked,

“No! Do not tell him, not right now. He’ll tear her apart.” Kane replied.

That stupid, stupid bitch, what the fuck was wrong with her? Johnny gave everything to her. Johnny hated wolves that rejected their mates, Kane hated the ones that cheated on them, it broke pack law.

“Ok Luna, we’re going to begin the scan now. Remember at any time you can stop” the doctor said, he waited for her reply before he started up the machine. It clicked and whirred to life around her and they all watched as the bed she was lying on began to move and the machine swallowed her up. He waited a few minutes allowing her to adjust to being inside the machine.

“Remember, stay calm, and stay as still as possible,” the doctor reminded her.

“Right! Calm and still, easy for you to say. Lets shove you in a stupid tube and tell you to stay calm and still as it makes freaky fucking noises around you” she mumbled,

“She knows we can hear her right?” Johnny asked, trying not to laugh.

“Yeah!” The doctor nodded.

“You must be so proud?” Johnny asked, looking at Kane

“Super proud!” Came his reply

The initial images of her brain started to come through, they saw blotches of red and yellow outlined in green.

“What’s that?” Damon asked, pointing at the lit up area of her brain.

“Fear! It’s quite common in extreme abuse cases. They process everything initially with fear first, keeping their fight or flight response on high alert until it can be processed properly and the brain tells her how to actually feel about it. We’re going to start with sounds.” The doctor played a bunch of different sounds, and recorded the reaction of her brain telling them what was happening as the different areas of her brain responded. They weren’t surprised, when dishes crashing, screaming, or stomping caused fear. Growling caused surprise then anger, but when the doctor played the sound of laughing children, they saw sadness.

“Why would that cause sadness?” Johnny asked,

“Because she didn’t have a childhood” Kenneth responded.

“You’re doing good Luna, I’m going to show you some pictures now” the doctor said and turned the sounds off. This is the part she didn’t want to do. Hearing things was one thing but seeing them before her eyes was something different.

“This is where we should see increased readings. Sounds can be associated with many different things, they make it easy for the brain to lie and down play the emotion we feel. But when it’s right in front of your eyes there’s no lying about what it is.” The doctor explained.

“Fantastic, so this could be a real light show?” Damon asked,

“Essentially yes” the doctor replied, Kane handed him a handful of pictures and he placed them face down on the table next to a scanner.

He started with simple pictures to get her used to the idea of seeing images, some happy, some not so happy and some in between and he recorded her response to them. Next he used one of the pictures from the pile, they didn’t know which one it was, until he showed them.

“Amusement, happy, love” he held up the picture of Damon, the same reactions for Johnny, Kenneth, Marco and Carter.

“Anger!” the doctor said ….grrrrrr…. They all stared at her.

“Luna do not growl at the pictures!” The doctor told her and Johnny and Kenneth had to bite back their laughter.

“I’m sorry, it slipped out” she said, he held up the picture of Lacey

“Can’t really blame that one!” Damon mumbled, causing Johnny to laugh. None of them could fault her for that reaction.

He placed the next photo and her scan lit up more.

“Who’s that one?” Damon asked,

“That one has to be Kane” Johnny said, when the doctor turned the photo they were shocked, it was the sketch she drew of Ky.

“Ky got a better reaction than we did?” Johnny asked surprised,

“Some of these responses might not becoming just from her” the doctor replied, the next picture had her scan lighting up more.

“That one has to be Kane” Damon said, sure enough when the doctor showed the picture it was him.

“Aww, you make her brain light up” Johnny teased, Kane’s cheeks flushed slightly.

“Oooo, call her bunny while she’s in there, see if you can still make her brain light up like a christmas tree” Damon said, the others just laughed. The next picture had no reaction.

“Neutral!” The doctor showed a picture of Carl, the next showed confusion followed by fear. It was a picture of an angel.

“You’re doing great Luna a few more and you’ll be done” the doctor said,

“Why would the angel confuse her?” Damon asked,

“Something registered, but she doesn’t know what it is, which caused the fear,” Kenneth replied.

“But she created all those angel statues for Looney toons?” Johnny inquired,

“Maybe something from when she was little?” Kenneth hazard a guess. The next picture he put on the scanner for her to see, got the biggest response. Kane felt her fear, spread through him rapidly and only intensified. Whatever picture he showed her was causing her to panic.

“Whoa! What the fuck is that?” Johnny asked,

“A fear based panic attack!” The doctor shut the scan down immediately and Kane was on his feet out the door, followed by the doctor.

Johnny grabbed the picture off the scanner and they came face to face with her monster.

“Why the fuck would he put that in there?” Damon asked,

“I don’t think he did” Kenneth returned,

“Then who the fuck did?” Damon asked. They watched as the door to the room broke open and Kane didn’t wait for the table to be out before he ripped it out and pulled her into his arms. They could see her body shaking from where they stood in the booth, but it was her muffled cries that enraged them. Someone fucked with their Luna, used her monster against her and now they wanted blood.

“Get Carter in Kane’s office and tell him to put his nose to work, and find the son of a bitch that did this” Johnny ordered, his eyes glowing yellow.

“He’s on his way right now, and he’s pissed off” Damon responded releasing the growl he was suppressing.

The second that door broke open Kane ripped the bed from the machine and pulled her into his arms, she released a startled scream at the sudden movement and her body tensed at his touch. But he held her to him, her body shook violently against him, her heart beating erratically and breathing coming in quick gasps. Johnny held the sketch up so Kane could see what it was that set her off.

“I’m sorry baby, I didn’t know that was in there. I would never do that to you” he whispered in her ear. Her sobs raked through her body and she clutched his shirt as she felt an all too familiar pinch in her arm.

“I’m so sorry baby” she heard him repeat over and over again, as her world started to fade, trying to keep hold of his shirt but losing the battle she gave into the darkness that surrounded her.

“I want whoever did this found” Kane growled through the link as she slumped against his body.

“We’re already on it, Carter’s in the office now putting his nose to work” Johnny replied,

Scooping her into his arms he held her close to him. The doctor said she was discharged and free to go back to their room. He would make a quick trip back to the medical room and gather her belongings. Stepping into the room he saw her bag already packed up and ready to go for him.

“I had Lydia pack her bag, so you could get her out of here faster,” Damon said, coming into the room behind him.

“Thank you!” He grabbed the bag and moved out of the room.

“I want whoever did this” Damon said following him,

“I know, we all do” Kane replied, not looking over his shoulder

“No Kane! I want them” Damon grabbed his shoulder so he would look at him, his eyes glowing green. Damon wasn’t making a statement, he wasn’t even asking Kane to let him have the son of a bitch that did this to his sister, he was telling Kane he wanted the son of a bitch that did this to his sister.

“Make sure they suffer!” Kane’s eyes glowing azure blue as he agreed to let Damon take care of this. He could have said no, he could have denied the request, he wanted the son of bitch just as much, but he also had a mate in a fragile state, whom he just had to have sedated again, she was more important than his need for vengeance. On top of that he also wanted to talk to Lacey, he had questions and he demanded answers. Moving quickly to their floor, he was thankful for the early morning and the quietness of the house. He wouldn’t have brought her through the house if others were awake. They didn’t need to see her like this. Getting her settled into their bed, the doctor said the sedative should wear off in a few hours, but she would be tired for most of the day, as her mind recovered from the assault. Poor mate! Ky whimpered in his head. How much more does she have to go through? He thought as he stood there watching her. How much more can she go through? How much more does she have left? She keeps fighting! And we will fight by her side! Yes we will! Pressing his lips to her forehead, he left the room to get his answers.

“Carter” Damon called through the link,

’Yeah!” came his reply

“Have anything yet!” Damon asked,

“Hunting!” Carter had a scent he was tracking, he wasn’t much of a talker at the best of times, but when he was tracking something or someone, if you weren’t his Alpha you were lucky if you got an answer, his sole focus was to find the owner of the scent.

“Let me know immediately when you find them” Damon said, as he moved towards the office, he could hear Kenneth and Johnny talking in the room.

“They broke the box!” Johnny commented when Damon entered the room.

“Guess they couldn’t figure out how to open it either” Damon said,

“How’s Carter doing?” Johnny asked,

“Hunting!” Damon replied,

“Already? That was quick” Johnny was impressed,

“He caught a scent” Damon said,

“Impressive!” Kenneth commented,

“He’s relentless as well, he won’t stop till he finds who owns it” Damon responded.

“Found him!” Damon’s eyes flashed green and he bolted from the room as soon as he heard Carter’s voice in his head.

“Damon what the fu…..Fuck!” Johnny exclaimed, running after him

“Fuck what?” Kenneth asked, running behind him.

“Carter found him and Damon’s gonna kill him” Johnny said yelling over his shoulder.

“And this is upsetting because?” Kenneth asked, not understanding.

“The killing part is not upsetting, Damon has no impulse control and we need information first before he kills him.” Johnny replied.

“What the fuck Carter?”

“Don’t you what the fuck Carter me, you son of a bitch. You were in Alpha’s office” Carter hissed,

“No I wasn’t!”

“Bullshit Brighton, I could smell you in there” Milo’s ice blue eyes glowed in the darkness of the morning. Carter had tracked down the scent to one of the cottages close to the treeline to the south.

“I think your nose is broken Carter, I wasn’t in Alpha Kane’s office this morning” Brighton hissed back,

“I never said it was this morning” Carter snarled,

“I….I….I wasn’t in Alpha Kane’s office!” Brighton repeated,

“You’re lying, I can smell your fear Brighton” Carter snarled again, grabbing him by the front of his shirt and throwing him outside.

“I can smell it as well” Damon’s glowing green eyes shone through the darkness as he made his way towards the men.

“Damon, tell this little freak to back the fuck off” Brighton said scrambling to his feet.

“For someone who has bright in their name, you really aren’t” Damon growled,

“His scent was all over the box” Carter said, Brighton looked between Carter and Damon.

“What the fuck Brighton?” Damon growled again louder this time.

“I didn’t do anything!” He growled back, as soon as the words were out of his mouth he received a hit to his left cheek from Carter.

“I think Carter has some anger to vent, Brighton. I suggest you stop lying” Damon said,

“I’m not lying I wasn’t in Alpha’s office, I didn’t break the box and I don’t know anything about a stupid picture.” Brighton snapped back,

“Did you say anything about a broken box or a picture, Carter?” Damon asked him,

“No!” Carter hit him again and again and again. He didn’t let up until Damon told him to stop.

“Ready to tell the truth?” Damon asked, looking at Brighton. He was stumbling back and when he didn’t answer, Damon let Carter go again. He dislocated Brighton’s shoulder, elbow and wrist and broke four of his ribs before Damon stopped him again.

“How about now?” Damon asked, Brighton fell to the ground with a thud and he was breathing hard.

“That little bitch isn’t fit to be Luna and you know it.” He gasped out. “She can’t even keep herself out of the medical ward” he added, Carter growled,

“Not yet Carter!” Damon said,

“That is your Luna” Carter growled again,

“She might be the mate of an Alpha, but she’s not a wolf, just a pathetic human. She’s not a Luna.” Brighton coughed and groaned, he tried to get up but Carter kicked him in the ribs to keep him down.

“Do tell, who you think is a Luna, Brighton?” Damon asked, he remained silent and Damon released Carter again.

“Looking a little rough there Brighton. Sure you don’t want to talk. Carter’s not even tired yet, he’s just getting warmed up” Damon said, after he called Carter off.

“No, you still don’t want to talk, that’s ok, we’ll try a different tactic. Carter, find some rope. I’m feeling inspired.” Damon said. Carter took off in search of a rope.

“What are you gonna do?” Brighton groaned,

“We’re gonna hang you, just not sure by what part.” Damon said grinning.

“You’re fucking sick!” Brighton choked as Damon stepped on his throat cutting his air supply.

“You fucked with my sister” Damon replied stepping harder, Brighton struggled to remove Damon’s foot from his throat clawing at his leg.

“Damon!” Johnny yelled,

“What?” Damon yelled back,

“What the fuck are you doing?” Johnny asked,

“Back off Johnny, he’s mine. Kane said” Damon growled,

“Don’t you fucking make me pull rank Damon” Johnny growled back. Damon took his foot off his neck and Brighton started choking as he gasped to fill his lungs full of air. But before Johnny could stop him he kicked him in the side of the head knocking him unconscious.

“The fuck Damon?” Johnny snarled,

“It slipped!” He stated, shrugging his shoulders.

“You can’t kill him, we need information first” Johnny said,

“You don’t think I know that, do you seriously think I’m that fucking stupid?” Damon yelled, turning towards him

“No, but your fucking impulsive. And it’s worse when Titan’s fucking pissed” Johnny snapped,

“I am well aware of how impulsive I can be. That was the first time I touched him, the rest of that was Carter.” Damon snapped back,

“Carter did that?” Johnny asked, looking at Brighton.

“Oh yeah! Boy has some anger, asshat fucked with his little sister” Damon replied,

“Where’s Carter now?” Kenneth asked,

“Finding some rope” Damon answered,

“Rope?” Kenneth raised an eyebrow in question,

“We’re gonna hang him, just not sure by which body part. By the neck and beat him till it snaps. By the ankles and see if we can liquify his ribs and let the rest of his organs crush his lungs, or by body parts until they fall off.” Damon answered, looking at him.

“Got a little inspiration did you?” Johnny asked,

“Kane said, make him suffer, I’m gonna make him suffer. This is one of ours. One of ours betrayed us, he doesn’t deserve a simple neck breaking. We’re Howlers, an example needs to be made. She’s a Howler too, she deserves the same fucking respect as the rest of us. That’s my sister, my family!” The more Damon thought about it the more angry he became, before he could do anything, Johnny pushed him away from Brighton.

“Hey, she’s our sister too! She might be your blood, but she’s our sister too, our family.” Johnny said, pushing him further away.

“We vote!” Johnny added,

“Vote?” Damon looked at him questioning

“Vote!” Johnny repeated,

“I kinda like the ankles” Kenneth voted,

“Me too!” Damon agreed,

“I don’t know by the neck and beating him till it snaps sounded good” Johnny voted.

“We’ll see what Carter says, he gets a vote to, she’s his sister as well” Damon said,

“If you hang him by the wrists just right for a long enough time frame, he’ll suffocate, very painfully” Carter was standing behind them with a rope.

“Brandon and his true crime shows?” Johnny asked,

“I pick up things” Carter said nodding,

“Maybe he should just let you watch Scooby Doo” Damon commented,

“What’s wrong with Scooby Doo?” Carter asked,

“Nothing, who doesn’t like a talking dog that eats a lot, with an equally hungry human counterpart. He’s very relatable. I switch my vote to the wrists” Damon said,

“Me too!” Kenneth agreed,

“Tie his wrists Carter, I’m curious!” Johnny said.

Carter was tying the rope around his wrists, when Brighton came to. He gurgled something inaudible, Carter strained to hear what he was saying. His eyes widened as he looked at Johnny. Kenneth and Johnny went to hang him from a tree and Carter went to talk to Damon, his eyes widened as well when he heard what Carter said.

“Are you serious?” He asked Carter, he only nodded.

“Fuck!” Carter just nodded again and they both looked at Johnny.

“Where are you?” Damon asked Kane through the link

“On my way to talk to Lacey” came his reply

“Ask her how long she’s been fucking Brighton” Damon said,

“WHAT?” Kane growled,

“Brighton says the baby’s his. He was the one that broke the box and put that picture in the pile. Said Lacey would make a better Luna, and he’s in love with her” he explained,

“Is he still breathing?” Kane asked,

“We’re doing a science experiment, Carter says if you hang by the wrists long enough you’ll suffocate painfully” Kane could hear the note of humour in his voice.

“Where’s Johnny?” Kane inquired, this was bad,

“With us, so is Kenneth” Damon replied,

“Don’t tell him, we’ll do that in the office” if they told him now, their experiment would be over when Johnny took his head.