Urquia

Chapter 22: Regina George

*Author's POV*

It was past midnight. Her dad was going through a dirt road, the gravel crunching under the tires, a familiar tense knot tightening in his stomach. Next to him was Andy's suitcase. He knew what it meant.

She caught someone else following her, and apparently, they'd even gotten into Nathan's territory.

Obviously, as a dad, he was worried. His first child was in a difficult situation, and even when he tried to take charge, he knew this was her war and her choice. A cold clench in his jaw was the only outward sign of the fear he pushed down.

He knew her dark side. It was actually her dark side that saved Cristina from her abusive father. -"Dark side my ass," he said proudly. Heck, he'd done worse. All of them did something that wouldn't be considered morally correct, so she was alright in his eyes.

He also thought it had to do with her mother's side. She was a fierce chieftain warrior, her lineage descended from the original shifters, and she had their abilities, though she never shifted. He actually thought if she practiced, she could shift as well.

Andrea had it in her blood. He had seen her enhanced senses, her speed, and strength. They thought they were protecting her and Cris when they didn't involve them in the supernatural matter of their work.

Now Nathan was in the picture. He knew about the mate bond, so he definitely would have to have "The talk." He didn't give it to her husband because it was so sudden, and she was so determined. Maybe if he had, he would have seen the red flags; maybe another story would have been written.

He was stopped at an entrance to a residential fenced area. Soft, warm glows from the dim lights on each side of the streets cast long, dancing shadows from the surrounding trees. The houses, made of wood and designed around the ancient trunks, made the place feel like a hidden, enchanted village. The air was filled with the clean, damp scent of pine and distant, peaceful animal calls. His military habit of looking at all his surroundings, memorizing everything with his hawk eyes, made the two big men look at each other.

Guard: -"Sir, you can park over there. Barry will escort you."

He did as he was told. He had his famous don't-f**k-with-me-I'll-kill-you-without-blinking face. He only had that demeanor on when he was handling a delicate situation where he had to act violently, or when Urimare was giving birth.

After walking past the residency, they crossed two open fields. They went into the woods. About 25 minutes since he came into the pack's territory, he was led to a one-floor building in the middle of the forest. It was well hidden. He didn't see it on the satellite photos Cris showed him earlier.

When he was about to open the door, he heard someone approaching him from the trees behind. He turned around, and his face immediately softened when he saw his big baby girl walking towards him, smiling.

He scanned her quickly, his eyes darting over her for any sign of injury, noting her steady gait and clear face. She shook her head, telling him she wasn't harmed in any way. A deep, shaky breath he hadn't realized he was holding escaped him as he nodded and held his gaze with her.

A minute later, he looked at Nathan, who was looking at the silent exchange of information, amused. If he didn't know any better, he'd think they were mind-linking.

-"Sorry to wake you up, daddy. I need your gut feeling tonight. I wanted to do this at my place, but Mr. Alpha here doesn't want me to take him." She rolled her eyes, sounding annoyed and pouting.

-"Well, it's because he's protecting their kind, Mija. They wouldn't want you to experiment on him or something," her dad explained simply.

-"No, that's not w—" Nathan tried to rebuke, but Andy held her hands up.

-"Don't worry, Alpha, we understand. Shall we? It's getting late, and I need to pump, or my boobs will explode," she said, already going into the building.

-"We better hurry. She has her mother's temper when she doesn't pump," he said, gulping.

Alpha Nathan chuckled when he saw this tall old man scared of his tiny daughter. But then again, all his men were a bit scared of her.

They went stairs down, through a hall filled with cells. They got to the last room where they kept Chad, barely standing, chained to the walls. She saw his nose bleed, and she turned with a raised brow. The guards looked everywhere but her direction. With a sigh, she turned.

-"I didn't know werewolves tortured with an audience," she said to her dad, laughing.

There were at least three guards with Leo and Alpha Nathan.

-"Alpha Nathan, am I allowed to do whatever I want with him, or are there any restrictions?" she said without blinking, looking for something in her suitcase.

-"Well, what do you have in mind?" he said, amused. This whole situation was so bizarre he found it hilarious.

-"Well, I haven't tortured a werewolf before, so I don't know how much it's going to take him to speak... (looking at Chad) I guess it depends on how much pain he can handle," she said, slightly nodding and biting her lip.

He got distracted by that action, and he nodded as well until Leo elbowed him.

-"Uhmmh yeah... be my guest, you're in charge. We could learn some new interrogation techniques," he said, smiling at her.

One of the guards scoffed. She knew who it was; he had disrespectful eyes but didn't say a word.

-"YOU (she pointed at him), I could use an assistant!" she said, excited. He stepped forward with a sly smirk.

-"You need me to warm him up for ya?" he asked condescendingly.

-"Umm noo?" she furrowed her brows.

-"I would like some mint tea, and if you have chocolate chip cookies, bring some with a warm glass of milk, for my dad. Please?"

She said, smiling widely and begging with her eyes. The other guards snickered at him. He took a deep breath, pursed his lips, and turned around to exit the cell. She looked at Alpha Nathan.

-"Alpha Nathan, If I make this man feel pain, will his wolf feel it too? Would I be hurting him too?" she asked, worried.

-"Yes."

-"Will he be able to heal if I... separate them?" She said, already looking in her suitcase again and preparing the wolfsbane.

-"No."

She went to Chad, and he was already on his feet with his nose already healed.

-"Ahh, too bad. Tsk, I wanted to see if you could grow bone from scratch." She shook her head while trying to insert a needle in his arm. He shook his chains, and all the men jumped forward, trying to stop him from grabbing or kicking her. But she was fast enough to avoid him like it was nothing new.

-"Papi, did you heat my needles?" She turned to see her dad; he nodded.

-"Well, class, let's get started," she said, clapping twice, looking all innocent but with a teaching tone, like a Kawaii teacher.

"¿Can you tell me which part of the body hurts the most?"

Guard 1: "The face."

Guard 2: "The guts."

Leo: "The balls."

They all nodded at that, some even covered their manly parts.

She giggled.

-"Close, but no." She looked at her needles.

-"There are 5 parts of the body that hurt the most. I'll go from the least painful to the most ones," she said, smiling. She approached Chad, who was sweating profusely, trembling visibly, hyperventilating with ragged, choked breaths. His eyes were almost out of their sockets, and the stale, metallic scent of his fear hung heavy in the air.

-"Now Chad, this all can stop whenever you want to share anything with us, okay?" She said, reassuring him, smiling. He swallowed, hard.

-"Guards, hold his leg up for me, please," She said while taking a big needle from the suitcase. They did as she told. His foot was exposed.

-"Here, look, you see how his foot reacts to my finger when I touch it here in the arch of the foot?" She said with her teaching voice.

His foot moved automatically when she touched it. -"The arch of the feet have thinner skin, so the nerves underneath are closer to the surface. So when I do this..." She inserted the needle hard but not too deep. A sickening small pop sounded as the needle broke skin.

They all grimaced with a bit of bile in their mouths. He shook and screamed in a high-pitched, guttural shriek of agony, real tears streaming from his eyes. They let go of the leg and stepped aside.

-"Ok, ok, ok, I'll tell you everything, just take it out." He begged her.

-"Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you the question!" she said, giggling, hiding her face in her hands, embarrassed. The guards' eyes widened, speechless.

-"Who called you?" She asked slowly.

-"A...a...w-woman," he said, shaking with the pain going up his leg.

-"Her name?"

-"I-I...I do-don't know," he said. She knew when he didn't look at her that he was lying. She turned to her dad, who shook his head.

-"Guards, you want to see how many needles it takes to make him pee on himself?" She said with a wicked smile.

-"Nononono, ok, ok! Her name is B-Brianna," he said, pleading her not to continue.

Now all the werewolves gasped. Nathan started to growl. Andy turned to see his face. She knew he recognized her name, so maybe she was from his pack. Leo was mind-linking someone.

-"Tell me everything from the beginning, and I'll take the needle out," Andy said calmly.

-"I-I met her at a pub we usually hang out three years ago. She was half d-drunk, mad about y-you rejecting her." He looked at Alpha Nathan.

-"W-we hook up-p someti-imes. She gives me s-small jobs, l-like scaring omegas-s or stuff like that. We don't h-harm them much, just sh-shake them a little bit, that's all, I s-swear," he said, stuttering. The pain on his leg was getting worse to bear.

-"Have you ever contacted any of these men?" She showed him all the men involved in her operation, and he shook his head.

-"Do you sell drugs or women?" She asked him sternly. Nathan was puzzled by that question, but he remained silent.

-"No, I d-don't. Look, we weren't g-going to hurt you-u much. We just w-wanted to scare the sh-s**t out of you, that's a-all. Pleasee, just take it-t off, the p-pain is unb-bearable. I can't t-take it any moreee..." he started to cry. Like real tears.

She turned around and looked at her dad.

After a few seconds of a silent conversation, he nodded, and she nodded too. She took the needle out, and after disinfecting it, she put it back and closed her suitcase.

They all were disappointed. The guards even said "aww," annoyed that the interrogation was over.

Just then, the third guard came with a tray and an annoyed face.

-"Oh, my tea is here!" She said, beaming at him.

-"Thank you very much!" she said, patting his shoulder.

-"When are we starting?" he asked, looking at her.

They all laughed. One of the guards smacked him behind his head.

-"She already did, she touched him once, and he spilled all the beans," Guard 1 said.

-"Yeah! So awesome! I want to be in her next class!" Guard 2 said.

-"That was the weirdest torture I've ever seen in my life. You have to show me the rest," Leo said, getting closer to her. All of them were looking at her admiringly. Well, except for the assistant guard; he was annoyed.

-"Can I see your suitcase?" Leo asked her, excited.

-"Not a chance," her dad said while biting a cookie.

She took a sip of her tea. Nathan was quiet again, looking at her. She looked at him back, trying not to laugh. He knew that she knew, and that she was amused by all this.

She was relaxed now that she knew her husband didn't have anything to do with this; she could be herself again.

When she finished her tea, still burning hot, she approached Alpha and stood in front of him.

-"Do I kill him now, or do we wait for this Regina George?" She asked him with a raised brow.

-"¿Who?" He asked, confused.

-"Oh, that's that chick from the movie bad girls! No, wait, mean girls!" one of the guards said happily. Another guard smacked his head; Andy tried to muffle a laugh.

-"Ten minutes. I have to go home soon," she said, looking at her breasts. They were full and probably would start to hurt soon.