The Alpha Queens Broken Mate

VI

Lacuna: [ a blank space, a missing part ]

Dominique's POV 

Driving onto the Rainy Forest packs territory my wolf starts to get agitated, as if he can sense our mate, but something felt off, the people that were outside looked sad and gloomy, almost like they'd lost something of importance. Jay follows after me as I park the car and get out of it, as soon as I step out of my car the scent of rogue fills my nose, a ferrel smell which singes the hairs of your nose and makes you want to vomit but you don't, i dry reach at the smell before turning to Jay with a confused expression. 

I turn and watch as pack members roam around, most of their heads bowed, a young girl passes me and I turn to stop her. "Excuse me, sweetheart?" I say, gently placing my hand on her shoulder, the girl stops immediately before making eye contact and humming as a sign for me to continue. "Where shall I find your Alpha?" I ask, not wanting to be killed as soon as his warriors see me, nor do I want to walk around like a headless chicken not knowing where I'm going. 

"Um, he should be in the training centre with the other warriors, M-miss," she says her head bowed in a sign of respect for my authority. 

"Thank you, princess," I whisper before handing her a red heart lollipop Jay passes me as we always have lollipops handy, the girl thanks me before running off while I start to make my way to the large building I am guessing is the training hall. 

It didn't take long before we reached our destination and once we did I opened the doors to be met by the familiar, and oddly comforting, smell of sweat. As Jay and I stroll past people they pause what they're doing when to bow their heads in respect before staring at me as I walk the rest of the way to the back where I see the man i'm looking for. As I approach his square he and his opponent stop fighting, the alpha tells his warriors to leave before grabbing his shirt from the bench beside the square and pulling it over his sweaty head. 

"I was waiting for you to come to my pack, Dominique," he says as we start walking out the back door and into the grassy area outside of the training hall. 

"So you know why I am here," I say wanting to cut straight to the chase as my wolf was becoming more and more agitated by the second. 

"Yes, you're looking for your mate," he says as he continues to walk before a large house comes into view. "I will host a dinner this evening so you can hopefully sought out him or her." He says before we make it the the porch stairs of the large house. "Would you like a drink?" He asks as he walks up the stairs, his eyes still in front of him. 

"Yes, thank you," I say as he opens the front door and we enter before I stop at the sweetly intoxicating scent that enters my nose, Alpha Roman and Jay both stop as I do before I give Roman a look, one which asks permission to follow the scent I have found. He nods without me having to say a word before I follow the scent up the first flight of stairs and then the second before I'm stopped at a door which is locked, I knock but no one answers. 

"That's my daughters room," I hear a voice say from behind me, their tone sad. I slowly turn and am met with a woman, whom I assume is Romans mate, has that aura to her, I nod my head in respect before I feel my wolf start to take over. 

"Where is she?" I ask, my voice deeper than usual, showing my wolfs presence, I push it back down before asking again. "Where is she?" 

"We don't know," the woman says as her eyes filling with tears. 

"What do you mean 'you don't know'?" I ask, my wolf scratching to get to the surface. 

"She was taken by a pack of rogues three days ago and we don't know where they took her," she explains before bursting into tears, I go to comfort her but Roman is already up here and beats me to it. 

"Let's continue this conversation in my office, hm?" Roman says, comforting his mate, I nod in response before stepping away from the bedroom door and making my way back down stairs but not before listening to the words shared between the alpha and his mate. "We'll find her, M." He whispers before I hear a door open then close. 

I make the rest of my way downstairs and am met by Jay who stands where I left him with a confused expression on his face, "Where are they?" He asks, I shrug my shoulders as dread fills me. 

What is something happens to my mate?

What if they never find her?

I have to find her. 

"This way please," I hear Romans gruff voice, pulling me from my thoughts, I nod before following him to a large door. When we've all entered he closes the door before motion towards the padded seats in front of his large oak desk, I gently place myself in my seat and watch as Roman slumps into his before dragging his hands down his face. 

"Your daughter is my mate," I say already knowing even without physically seeing her. 

"Yes, I figured that," he responds tiredly before leaning his elbows on his desk and holding his head in his hands. "We don't know where she is, we've tried everything." 

"How can you not find her?" I ask, not understanding how he couldn't find his own daughter. 

"Rogues attacked us three days ago, there were around three hundred of them, not including the ones in the tree line surrounding the pack. They broke into our food supply and the houses bordering the territory while five others broke into this house and help my wife and my daughters best friend back while they took her out of the house and into the woods, there must have been a lot as they went forward as a group for a few miles before splitting in ten different directions, I've had pack members follow the scent or try to follow Reigns scent but it was masked by the scent of rogue." He starts to explain, his head still in his hands. 

"I'm guessing Reign is your daughters name." I say, earning a nod. 

"Yes, her name is Reign. All of the searches came back blank, nine out of the ten different groups were slaughtered by the packs surrounding us, all except one whose scent just stops by a river. Then, this morning I received a disk, a disk which had the words 'Day 1' written on the case, I, obviously, played the video but couldn't make it through the first five minutes without throwing up," he explains a shiver running through his body violently. 

"What was on the disk?" I ask but he just shakes his head. 

"When you become a parent you get protective, way way way too protective over your pup, and the last thing you want to see is something bad happen to them. Especially when you can't do anything to stop that thing from happening to them," he says, making a few things click in my brain. 

"Can I see the disk?" I ask, even though this might be the worst thing to do, but I was beyond curious. 

"Do you think you can hold your wolf back?" He asks as he makes eye contact for the first time since we entered the room, I slowly nod before he gets up and moves over to his bookcase where he removes a book and pulls the disk from the front page. He slowly puts the disk into the DVD player next to the book case and flicks on the television above it, the film is blurry to start with before I see a woman tied to a dirty bed, my eyes widen at the sight of her, a growl threatening to leave my lips, I push down my wolf before focussing back on the tv. 

"T-to," the woman goes to start but sobs. 

"Speak you w***e!" A male voice yells before she starts to speak again. 

To-to anyone who is watching," she breathes, her chest rising before falling quickly. "I am a-a w***e who deserves everything that has and will be d-d-done to me." Tears start to fall down her cheeks. "I am to be used as a woman should be which is to be used and not heard, to-to be tied up and used as my mate s-sees fit, to only eat when my mate allows and to bear his children before I d-die by his hands." She sobs harder, but doesn't continue, instead a grimy man approaches her, taking off his clothes before crawling on top of her with a needle. 

The man says some words but it's muffled so I didn't understand it but before I know it he's injected her with whatever it is and discarded it before forcefully entering her making her scream, it starts to become harder for me to control my wolf but I hold him in as I watch the man use her before twenty other follow, all doing the same thing until she's screamed herself almost unconscious and the video stops. 

I take deep breaths as I scan the room for something to fiddle with and get my mind off of what I just witnessed, on my search I find that I'm the only one in the room, I find a pencil left on the desk and I immediately pick it up and start spinning it in between my fingers. I do this for a few seconds before I place the pencil down and leave the office to find Jay and Roman standing in the hall, I walk straight past them as I make my way out side so I can shift and go for a run, nobody following me as I do so.