Mated To The Cold Hearted Alpha – Chapter 148
“I know,” he replied, “and I’m sorry to put you through this again, but I need to know…what her body went through.”
I studied his expression.
He explained softly, “I can’t help her if I don’t know.”
n from those in the room, I think only two penetrated her vaginally but her wounds indicate her bottom was also violated, probably with claws.”
nd?”
In my head, my Wolf snarled furiously at the memories. “Thankfully, it appeared Hycinth was unconscious, at least during the time those two b
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ple kicks due to the massive boot prints left behind on her back, but I suspect she had even more fractures to various parts of her body that we could not detect through touch alone.”
ed to die. Every last one of them.”
inded him.
he growled.
hroat, making it difficult for me to ask, “Have you ever killed a pup before?”
ltered. Brows pulling tight, conflict and pain refle
caught up in memories both of us would rather forget. “You don’t want that blood on your hands.”
to my old pack?” Luca asked quietly.
without elaborating further.
d not been your mate?”
h of you as well as the pack. The only thing that stopped me was finding out she was my mate.”
itting slowly, “It was a mistake, wasn’t it…letting them l
he bad ones, more crop up. And in the end, my lack of action costs this pack wolves. From a peripheral perspective, even Hycinth paid the price for my choice. Dagger wanted revenge on me and maybe he would have found enough muscle to carry it out without your old pack, but it was clear, they played the most prominent role in his scheme.”
termined about them?”
left this pack at risk by war mongering wolves. Alpha Cade seemed sincere. He said he didn’t know of the plans, and even swore fealty to me.”
nt up.
eeded more than just his word. His wolves came after me and hurt Hycinth in unimaginable ways. He bears responsibility for that, and if I’m to grant leniency and let
understanding and accepting my responses.
like. It was the reason I chose him over their Beta.”
s father.”
ss him by, but if he had given my Wolf even a small amount of the unease the Delta did, I would have taken both of their lives without even blinking.”
, his voice tight. “All…of them?”
ge.
. Half beasts.”
in age and then taking them. in instead, trying to nurture them out of the hate they came from?”
ave thought about it before,” I acknowledged, thinking back to conversations I’d had with Ever. “But the question isn’t only whether the pups have enough fortitude even with a loving environment, to go against their natures
female who caused so much pain or even ended the life of a mate,” Ever said. “Would you have it in you?”
You are part of this pack now. Would you be willing to take a pup on as your own?”
widened. “Be a fa
said, it will take the entire pac
task this difficult, what are the odds we will all be successful?”
Luca turned toward him
credibly unrealistic to think we will have a one hundred percent success rate,” he explained, “and if just one of us fails this impossible task, who will pay the price? I couldn’t bear to think I allowed another pup into my house…only to have him end the life of my own child o
en eyes swirling with determination. “But I can’t imagine myself doing the alternative. I don’t know i