Impasse

10

Miguel

It had been almost five months since I last saw Maiya and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t taking a toll on me. I was thinning, bi-polar, depressed and worried sick about her and our pup. It was taking everything in my to not go with my initial plan and torture his brother to get information on where he would take Maiya, but I couldn’t, not without hurting his Luna emotionally; and something was telling me that she needed all the strength she could get.

I couldn’t bear to be awake during the day knowing that I had failed not only my pack, but my mate and unborn child as well. She had fought hard for her pack, and she had done what she set out to do, protect the pack. I couldn’t even, or more like wouldn’t even, remove myself from the room we shared. Her scent was on everything and I feared that if I left the room, or even if I had let another person in, I’d loose her scent forever and that scared me, causing me to forget all of my Alpha duties… Without Maiya I didn’t even want to be Alpha anymore.

Knowing how hard of a time I was having, Louis had taken up my responsibilities as Alpha; and I was truly thankful for him. Even though I didn’t want to admit it, I was being a bit too dramatic and for that the pack suffered. It wasn’t there fault and they needed a leader who could help them try and put the pieces back together of their everyday life. It was something that the Alpha and Luna were suppose to deal with. Slowly but surely I knew that some were beginning to think that we would never see her again; another thing that scared me.

At least she isn’t dead, my subconscious said always reassured me.

Even though I knew Noir had severe the bond between Maiya and I, it didn’t stop me from trying to call out to her from time to time. Something in me always hoped that he had forgotten to severe a part of the connection, but he had been very thorough. But sometimes I had flashes of being in an immense amount of pain, and I knew that had to be coming from Maiya because hell, who else’s pain could I be seeing?

In that small moment that I thought about that question there was a knock on my door, interrupting me.

“Who is it?” I asked. My voice was muffled from burying my face in Maiya’s pillow but I knew that whoever was bothering me had heard what I said.

Whoever it is better have a good reason for bothering me, I thought angrily.

“Louis Alpha. I have news on the whereabouts of the Luna,” he replied.

Before he could finish the entire sentence I was up and out of the bed, opening the door. There Louis stood with the newest member of the pack. Christian. I growled making him retreat back. Truthfully, it wasn’t him that I was mad at. It was his brother. I wanted to taste his blood as I ripped out his throat. I wanted his death to be on my hands and I wanted to remember his death.

“What is he doing here,” I growled.

“Alpha,” Christian called with his head down.

“I was not talking to you!”

“Alpha he knows where his brother took Maiya,” Louis added. My eyes whipped to Christian. I knew he could feel the heat from my gaze, but that didn’t stop me from burning a hole into the top of his head.

“Why have you just now come forward with the information,” I asked him.

“I-I-I well um, you see.” He stuttered. I looked at Louis who looked as if he was a cross between sad and angry; an emotion that I had never seen on him before.

Alpha. You must remain calm, he said to me through the link.

“What are you talking about Louis?”

“Alpha. I don’t think the why is necessary at this point… all that matters is that we get the Luna and your pup back in safe conditions,” Christian deflected.

“Louis, what is he talking about?”

“Miguel I-I-I…”

“You what,” I asked or more like shouted. Apparently the time I had spent in the room meant that I had missed something huge.

“What aren’t you telling me Louis?” I asked.

Louis produced a DVD case from his back pocket and handed it to me. He was hesitant to give it to me but I wasted no time snatching the case from him and walking towards the television in my room. The case said nothing but my name on it and I could tell that someone had already watched it because of the fingerprints.

“Call me when you calm down,” Louis called shutting the door.

I ignored his words and slid the DVD in the player. It was static on the screen at first, but as soon as the picture cleared my heart fell into my chest. There she was, my mate, in the middle of a cell completely naked with a small hump showing on her stomach. She was bloody and there were open burns all over her body.

My throat burned from the tears I refused to let fall. I could already feel my wolf clawing at the surface. He wanted to break the television, knowing that neither of us should be watching this but I wouldn’t let him. I wanted, no, I needed to know what he did to her so that way when I kill him it would be as pain as this is.

“If you are watching this Miguel, mi amor, then don’t,” she said.

“That’s not what it says Maiya. Read it right,” someone growled throwing liquid on her making her scream out in pain. I watched on as her skin sizzled and smoke. Whatever he had just thrown on her was acidic.

I am going to kill that bastard, I thought. I could feel my wolf agree.

I continued to watch as her skin became red and inflamed. I knew what it must be smelling like there, the smell of burning flesh was never a great smell but what were they burning her with? I rewound to the part where the liquid came in contact with her skin, looking for some indicator to what the liquid was but I found nothing.

Continuing on, Maiya writhed and twisted on the floor in pain; her screams making me hold on to the blanket that covered our bed. Apart of me wanted to fast-forward away from this part, but I knew I couldn’t. I needed to watch everything on this DVD. I wanted to know everything he did to her for he would get it all back tenfold. When the pain had subsided my mate strongly returned to the sitting position she was in before and continue as if nothing ever happened…

“Wolfsbayne mi amor,” she struggled through clenched teeth. I growled at her pain. My wolf and I were proud that she didn’t show them any tears. No weakness.

As slowly the small smile crept to my face it was wiped from my face with blinding speed when Noir walked on the screen. It took everything I had in me to not launch myself at the television. My wolf began pacing in the mental cage I had him. I knew if I was to let him out now things wouldn’t be a pretty site, for anyone.

“Maiya, my love, that isn’t what your script says. Would you like to take another shower,” he asked sweetly. I growled thinking about the s****l meaning behind his words.

“Go to hell Noir.”

“I guess to the showers it is then. Felix,” Noir called.

A big, burly man came into view and picked her up and began taking her somewhere out of view. I panicked and ran to the front of the television trying to move the camera on the other side, but to no avail. I screamed at them to turn the camera as if they could hear me but I doubt they would’ve done it even if they could hear me. I could feel fear pass through me as if it was my own making me jerk my head back towards the screen. I knew it wasn’t my own fear because all I felt was anger, but this fear was strong and crippling to me.

What the hell, I thought.

“Miguel,” Noir said as Maiya’s screams radiated throughout the cellars. “Give up on her. She IS MINE now.”

“She IS NOT YOURS!” I shouted at the television. The quicker he got that through his thick skull the faster Maiya, our pup and I could live in peace. I was growing tired of his presence and couldn’t wait to sink my canines in his neck and pull.

“She is a strong she-wolf, but I will break her and by the end she will scream my name in bed and cling to me in fear. Her heart will belong to me, and that pup will never know that he is not mind. You will be nothing, but a distant memory,” he said.

I couldn’t stop growling and laughing. Maiya was one of the, if not the strongest wolves I know. She could withstand twenty men and not even break a sweat. He would not be able to break her so easily, but his threats hadn’t fallen on deaf ears. Even the strongest wolves would break during the toughest torture…

“I will kill you,” I growled at him, wishing to the Fates that he somehow heard me.

“But just in case you don’t believe me, I added a little something extra to this for you. Enjoy.”

The screen went black for a moment, giving me small relief that the torture, at least for now, was over for Maiya. She could rest and regain her strength. I had to keep telling myself that they didn’t broadcast this to me live; thankfully. I stood to my feet, turning away from the television. I was about to link Louis and Christian, but I stopped as soon as I heard moaning.