Filed to story: The Alpha’s Pen Pal Book
I brought the hammer down again almost immediately. I went to do it a third time when Lennox yelled out, “Okay, okay, I’ll talk! I’ll tell you whatever you want to know. Whatever I am able to!”
Sebastian shook his head in disappointment and let go of Lennox’s arms as he stood up straight.
“I was so looking forward to getting a turn with you,” he sighed. “Although I suppose there’s always later.”
I held in my laugh and my eyeroll. His bloodlust was something else.
“What do you mean, what you are able to?” I asked him, crossing my arms and spreading my legs.
“My dad is an alpha,” he answered, his voice breathless as he worked through his pain. The wolfsbane must have finally kicked in because he wasn’t healing at all. “He has a command on me.”
That also explained how he was a lycan. But it just raised more questions. And the only person who could override the alpha command was the king, and we didn’t have time to wait for him to get here. “From what pack?”
His throat tightened, and his mouth flopped open as he tried to say what he’d been ordered not to.
“How’d you escape the registry and the council all this time?” Sebastian asked, stalking back and forth behind the chair.
“Fake last names. Concealment spells.”
“What’s your real last name?” I asked.
His mouth flopped again, and a vein pulsed in his forehead. Another question he couldn’t answer.
“What about her parents? The Wainwrights. Are they wolves? Or something else supernatural?” I asked.
“Wolves, yes.”
“From the same pack as your parents?” Sebastian asked him, and he shook his head. “And I’m guessing you don’t know or can’t tell us what pack or what their real last name is?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “I don’t know what pack they came from. Or their real last names.”
Sebastian moved in front of the chair and crouched to Lennox’s eye level. “How’d you know she’d be at the club? And how did we not detect you that night?”
“I’d been following her in secret. That blonde ballet dancer and her were talking about it when they were shopping, and I knew it would be the best time to get her and take her away. I’d been using scent blockers, but I used my last one that night while I enacted my plan.”
Sebastian smiled and patted his right hand, hitting just hard enough to move the bones around. Lennox winced and grunted, but Seb kept his hand there as he said, “And why’d you attack her?”
Lennox’s face grew angry, and his lip curled in a silent snarl. “Because she should have been mine. I knew all week she wasn’t, but it didn’t fully sink in until I had my hands on her. And then she had the gall to tell me I didn’t own her, and my lycan couldn’t take it anymore. He took control, and I couldn’t stop him.”
I gritted my teeth in frustration. That was why packs were so important. So lycans and werewolves were trained to keep their beasts from taking full control. And pack wolves had a better respect for the mate bond than lone wolves and rogues.
“So you know when her actual birthday is?” Seb asked, catching more in his words than I did.
I stood up straighter, waiting to hear his answer. It was one thing that had been on my mind because I needed to know the moon phase she was born under so I could mark her.
“I can’t tell you,” he gritted out, rolling his head around to push past the pain from our torture and him trying to speak through the command on him.
Disappointment rippled through me, but I didn’t let it show on my face. I wouldn’t let him see any emotions on my face.
“Why did you want to be with Haven so badly? Why did your parents and her parents push you two to be together?” I asked as Seb stood up and leaned against the wall.
“My parents told me if I could take her as my mate and mark her, I could lead my own pack as an alpha,” he explained.
I furrowed my brow at his words. “Why though? Why would that matter or make you able to be an alpha? She’s a human.”
He laughed. Tilted his head back and looked at the ceiling, and just laughed. Sebastian and I exchanged glances and waited until he was ready to talk, listening as his maniacal laughter rang through the room and bounced off the walls.
“You don’t even realize how lucky you are, don’t even understand how important she is. That you’ve been given a gift, a treasure, something truly special,” he said as he caught his breath and shook his head. “And you say I don’t deserve her,” he added under his breath. “At least I know what she is.”
I pounced on him, grabbing his neck and staring him down. My heart raced in my chest, and my brain went a mile a minute as I tried to understand what he meant.
“What do you mean? How is she so special?”
It made little sense. The doctor had confirmed she was human. That there was no trace of supernatural DNA in her blood.
He choked and sputtered, and his eyes bulged, red veins appearing in the whites. I loosened my grip on his neck, but the choking and sputtering continued.
“TELL ME!” I roared, shaking him as hard as I could.
“He’s been alpha commanded, Wes, remember? You’re going to kill him, and then we won’t learn what we need to know,” Sebastian reminded me.
I dropped my hands from his neck and stepped back. I cracked my neck as I inhaled and exhaled, focusing on the remnants of Haven’s scent on my body to settle the fire in my veins.
“There must be something you can tell me? Something I can work with? A clue or a hint?” I asked him.
He coughed and took his time to breathe. His face returned to its sickly pale hue from the purple it had turned while I had my hands on him, and he fought the alpha command.
His eyes moved between Sebastian and me, a calculating look on his face even though he was the one chained up and bloody. “If I give you what you want, what do I get out of it?” he asked.
My first reaction was to laugh. He wanted to bargain? But the truth was more important. And I knew what to offer him and how to word it.
“If you tell me, I won’t touch you anymore.”
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