“Are you always such a big flirt?”
I glanced sideways at Reika.
The question itself didn’t surprise me.
The irritated tone did.
I raised an eyebrow.
“No.”
She looked at me.
“Well, yeah, but I do it when I feel put in an awkward spot or because I know it will cheer the ladies up, I’m really not a pervert, I swear.”
She gave a nod looking at the floor and I asked, “why? Do you want me to ease up with the flirting? I thought they liked it but if it’s upsetting anyone I’ll stop.”
“No, not at all, I was just curious that’s all.”
I frowned at her but she wouldn’t look at me so I left it alone.
“So, uh, did you want to shift to the wolf?” I asked.
She shook her head no which was strange seeing as she had come to ask me last night, she seemed in a solemn mood and I asked, “are you ok?”
Finally she looked at me and nodded. “Yes, I’m fine.”
“Hmm, If you say so.” I wasn’t convinced, but pushing Reika wasn’t a good idea.
We carried on through the forest mostly in silence, I tried to strike up conversation with her once or twice but she was really quiet today.
We were almost out when I tripped over a large stick, I stumbled and threw my hand against the tree in front of me. “f***k me!”
Reika giggled, she actually f.ucking giggled and it was so cute.
“Are you always this clumsy?” She asked.
“Yeah, sorry, super tough bad a.ss werewolf here, I know.”
She giggled at that too, what the f***k was up with her today.
Reika didn’t giggle. Ever. Or so I’d thought.
We reached the city. Hartling was already awake and busy.
Cars drove along roads while people filled the sidewalks. The smell of coffee drifted from cafes and people hurried between shops carrying bags and briefcases.
Apparently our target lived just on the edge of the city. I would wonder why a r.apist would want to live so close to the one area you had to behave the most, but I suppose it gave him endless choice and opportunity of victims.
We walked along the edge of the busy road and about fifteen minutes later we were in front of a tower block of apartments.
“Uh, which floor does he live on?” I asked.
She checked her phone. “The tenth.”
“Great.”
“What’s wrong? You don’t like heights?” She asked.
“Not a great fan, no.”
“You’ll be fine, come on.” She led us inside with a key the council had given her to the main building.
She pressed the button for the lift and I tried to stay cool. I f.ucking hated lifts, werewolves were tough and we could survive a lot maybe even survive a drop in the lift but not from the tenth f.ucking floor.
I’d been ok in the councils lift because I’d been distracted by the weretiger couple and it was so smooth and fancy I hadn’t felt it move.
We stepped inside and she pressed the buttons for the floor and it went up. Calm breaths Adam, calm f.ucking breaths. We reached the fifth floor when the lights suddenly flickered and I grabbed Reika’s hand out of fear.
“S.hit, I’m sorry,” I mumbled and dropped her hand.
She looked at me and quietly slid her hand back in mine squeezing my hand reassuringly. When we reached the top and stepped out she didn’t let go of my hand so I didn’t say anything, I quite liked her holding it.
She tugged me down the hallway and stopped outside door sixty one. She knocked still holding my hand but I figured she’d want to appear professional so I whispered, “did you want to keep holding my hand?”
Flustered she quickly dropped it. “Sorry,” she whispered back and then the door opened.
“Who are you?” He asked us.
He was a good looking guy actually, I was surprised, well, us wereanimals were usually attractive, probably for breeding reasons too. Honestly, us wereanimals weren’t built for anything other than to eat, fight and f***k.
He was six foot two, muscular like me and he had dark brown hair and golden flecked dark green eyes.
As soon as he caught Reika’s werewolf scent his gaze travelled slowly over her.
“Mm, you’re a female werewolf.”
“Yes, we hear you like the females.”
He shrugged, smirking. “Of course, though it’s rare finding any female werewolves, haven’t f.ucked one in over a year.”
“Hmm, was it consensual?” She asked, her tone both cold and sarcastic.
He only smirked at her.
“We’re here to bring you in to the council,” she said.
“You going to cuff me?” He asked.
She brought out some handcuffs and smiled.
“Funny you should say that.”
“I think they’d look better on you,” he grinned.
“Just hold your hands out for me,” she sighed.
He did as she asked, and pushing him in front of us she led him to the lift. I stayed silent which made her look over at me every so often, but I couldn’t look at her or speak right now. I had my hands balled in to fists to control my rage.
For the most part being a w.hore hadn’t affected me, well, it had actually, but being male I hid it, I was an omega and I didn’t want to appear anymore weak than the dominant males thought I already was.
I suffered with this terrible dark rage inside of me, remembering the lack of choice, the lack of control, being pawed at and touched when I didn’t want to be touched, being helpless to stop it. It had f.ucked me up a lot, especially with some of the s.hit some of those females had wanted, like Zelma.
I had anger for Amy too, I couldn’t stand what males did her, hearing how rough they got when she didn’t want it. I’d hated being so powerless and I still felt it all now. I hid behind my smiles and jokes and my flirty ways, but honestly I was quite wrathful underneath it all.
This guy who was called Donan apparently, was p.issing me off, I didn’t like how he kept leering at Reika or throwing s****l comments at her, especially knowing the things he’d done to women. It wasn’t until we were outside that he really got to me.
We were walking along when he leered at Reika, “you should let me handcuff you, I’ll f***k your p*****. so good you’ll be begging me to give you my pups, I bet you love it rough don’t you sweetheart.”
She ignored him so he carried on, “come on, how many fingers do you use? Or do you prefer your big thick toys, I’m big baby, I bet you’re tight and I’d tear you apart with my—”
He didn’t get to finish, she was happy to ignore him, I wasn’t. I don’t know what happened, I just lost my s.hit completely.
I grabbed him by his neck and threw him to the floor, “shut the f***k up!” I yelled.
I kicked him in the stomach and he growled, “such an omega p*****., beating a wolf while he’s bound.”
I grabbed the key off Reika and uncuffed him.
“Adam, stop, calm down, he isn’t worth it,” she said.
I ignored her, I knew my eyes would have bled to my full moon gold color, it only happened when we were highly emotional, extreme anger or lust for example.
He got to his feet and tried to punch me but I dodged it and punched him square in the face making him stumble back.
He tried hitting me a few more times but I blocked each one and hit back until he was covered in blood.
He finally looked at me like I was a danger to him and he tried to run. I chased him and threw him to the floor.
“You disgusting, vile piece of s.hit!” I yelled, kicking and punching him as hard as I could, I heard his ribs c.rack and I knew I’d broken his arm, I didn’t care and I didn’t care when he stopped moving and was unconscious. I kept beating him until my fists were bloody and Reika had to grab me forcefully and pull me away.
“Adam, stop!”
I wasn’t listening and tried pulling away from her so she grabbed my face between her hands forcing me to meet her eyes.
“Adam, honey, please listen to me and calm down, your heart is racing. I’m right here, your Luna is here, ok?” I tried to look at Donan on the floor but she kept a firm grip on my face and wouldn’t let me break eye contact until slowly I calmed down and was breathing normally again.
“Are you ok?” She asked softly.
I was still angry, my breathing was ragged and the rage was still there but I nodded and she let me go.
She went over and checked his pulse and I pulled her away from him.
“Don’t touch that disgusting f.ucker.”
Her gaze travelled over me like she’d never seen me before and I don’t know what she was thinking because she became unreadable.
“He’s still alive, but he’s going to need some urgent care,” she said.
I glanced down at the unconscious werewolf. Honestly? I didn’t feel particularly guilty.
“Sorry if it puts you in trouble with the council.”
“Don’t worry, let’s just get him there.”
I grabbed him and hauled him over my shoulder and carried him there. No one took much notice, in the supernatural world violence was pretty common so it wasn’t shocking to see a werewolf covered in blood carrying another werewolf also covered in blood and unconscious.
The receptionists reaction was a different story.
We entered the councils building and the receptionists eyes grew wide when she saw us.
“Oh.”
She quickly pressed a button beneath her desk.
“You can go straight through.”
I walked over to the council members and dropped Donans body in the middle of the floor.
All four council members looked down at him.
One of the male vampires folded his hands together.
“Why is he in such a state?”
I shrugged. “he p.issed me off?”
Beside me, Reika closed her eyes.
The female one smiled slightly, suddenly looking intrigued.
“You are an omega wolf, yes?”
I nodded.
“So rare to see a male omega, but I’ve met one or two, I quite like you omegas, it’s refreshing to have a male wolf who isn’t trying to constantly dominate everything, but this? Why did you hurt him?”
“I didn’t like the things he was saying to Reika.”
“What things?”
“Vulgar things, talking about what he wanted to do to her s.exually and, yeah.” I shrugged.
All of them looked intrigued now and I asked, “what?”
Reika stomped my foot again. “f***k!” I hissed.
“It’s ok Reika, Adam may ask his questions,” the male vampire said.
The female one said, “it’s rare for a male werewolf to care about a female in such a way, out of all the wereanimals, you wolves seem to be the most s.exually violent towards your females.”
“Are we?” I asked.
She gave a nod and asked, “you were not always part of Reika’s pack were you?”
“No, I was with Zack matthews pack first.”
“Why did you leave? He had quite a lot of females in that pack.”
I shrugged and looked at Reika.
The female vampire looked at her too and said, “give us a private moment with Adam.”
She nodded and stepped outside.
“Now you may talk to us freely,” she said to me.
“Well, uh, he made me and my mate at the time the w.hores for his pack, we were both omegas so we didn’t have a choice, we tried to run but he killed her.”
I wondered if they would help and figured it was worth a shot.
“I’d like to see my old boss Ellie, but I’m not sure if I’d be safe if Zack or any of his pack members saw me, is there anything you could do to help with that? Only if you want to of course,” I quickly added at the end and bowed, were you supposed to bow? Don’t know but it made them smile at me like I was some child and the male said, “yes, his actions were most violent and uncalled for, this was in his own territory though, so we can’t kill him for being what he is by nature, but we can give you a tattoo as a symbol of our protection, to touch you will mean his death or any of his packs death who try to harm you. Fair?”
I nodded grinning. “Yes! Totally fair. Thank you so much guys, I’d hug you all but I’m guessing you’re not really the hugging type?”
They looked to one another smirking and one said to me, “come here, we shall give you the tattoo.”
I went over to them and the male used his clawed finger to trace over my skin, it was painless and he must have been using magic because when he was done it ran all along my forearm, it was a pattern of strange symbols and a tattoo of a snake face in the middle which was the councils symbol, it glowed a soft red too. Cool.
“Thanks,” I grinned.
“You may go now.”
“What about the unconscious dude?”
“We will deal with it.”
They ignored me after that so I left and found Reika outside waiting.