Page 69 of Losing My Siren Luna (Hidden Cove #1)

Lachlan POV

“Did you do it?” I asked Nilo as the sun began to rise.

“Yes, Alpha. The warriors are stationed around the visitor dorms, ready to capture the men as they begin filtering out.” He yawns, tired from the full night of preparations we had. I'm tired too, but my adrenaline is pumping, keeping me awake and on edge.

“Good,” I told him, waiting by the armory to witness the first men being taken down.

When I left Lira last night, I came out and actually witnessed some of the men harassing one of my omegas to come with them to bed. I quickly interfered and sent her back home, telling them to leave my staff alone. Witnessing their antics just hardened my resolve to take these men out.

I sent a mass mind link out to everyone in my pack to protect their women and children until this threat is neutralized, making sure that Cherum knew to keep Lira in our room today.

As my men capture Alpha Wayne's, we will be incapacitating them with wolfsbane and sending them to the dungeons to hold them until we can organize for the ship they came in on to be taken out to sea. I plan on killing every last one of these men if they don’t give me the information I want about what they did to my wife’s mother and what Alpha Wayne really wants from this marriage alliance.

After that, I will sink them and their boat to the bottom of the ocean.

I will never give up my wife, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that Alpha Wayne really did have ulterior motives for agreeing to this alliance the way he did.

I have been thinking more about the attacks from the north that will happen, and something isn’t adding up.

The threat was neutralized almost as soon as Alpha Wayne’s forces came to our aid.

And that man, Isaac…..

He is going to die. No matter what he tells me or what information he offers, I could tell by Lira’s response that he hurt her in some way, and I will not stand for his life to extend past today.

“Alpha, I just got a mind link from the docks. Our men that were sent to get information on the Luna’s previous pack and her life there just got back. They want to meet with you.”

“Not now,” I said, moving to peer out the window as one of the men exited the dorms and started pissing on the side of the building. “Tell the commander that I’ll meet with him later tonight or tomorrow. We need to take care of this first.”

Alpha Wayne’s man who is groggily peeing on the side of my building is taken down quickly and quietly with a blow to the back of the head, falling face first against the building, sliding down and covering his front with his own urine.

My men inject wolfsbane in his neck then slide him away to toss him into the dungeons before another man can come out.

“The commander said he would see you tomorrow. He said they needed to take a trip to the orphanage anyway."

The orphanage? What for?

I don’t have time to ask as another man exits the building, stretching and yawning as he looks around, calling someone’s name. He may have come out to look for his friend, the one my men just hauled off.

Jeremy, one of my best in battle, sneaks up behind him and stabs him in the neck with a new syringe, then covers his mouth with his hand, putting him into a headlock and dragging him away before he can yell.

My men are good. Trained in battle, they are unmatched compared to these men.

If it came to an all-out brawl, we would have the advantage for sure.

I’m trying to avoid that if I can. They shouldn’t be able to mind link at this distance, but I want to take every precaution necessary to protect my pack and my wife from her uncle if he chooses to retaliate.

If he is unaware of these events happening today, it would be weeks, maybe even months before he starts snooping around, demanding answers.

Within an hour, we had most of the men in the dungeons. Just Isaac and one other guard are left.

“Let’s go,” I told Nilo, moving from the arms room to make my way over to the dorms.

“You going to handle the big guy you couldn’t quit glaring at yesterday?” Nilo asked.

I’m tempted to slit the man’s throat in his sleep. “ Save the wolfsbane and just do it,” Killian urges me.

I might. If he puts up a fight or says anything I do not like, I just might kill him instead of taking him alive. I want to rid the world of such vermin, and avenge my wife’s mother.

“Just deal with the other guy. I got him," I told my Beta.

Nilo chuckles darkly. “Don’t torment him too much, Alpha. Leave him with the ability to talk.”

“No promises,” I muttered.

Moving into the dorms, all was quiet. Too quiet. No snoring and moving around.

“ They are up and know something is wrong,” I mind link Nilo. He nods at me, two warriors moving to flank us if we need their assistance.

I won’t. Killian is pushing forward and ready, wanting to take control and handle this in the way he handles all threats. He wants to expire them with his claws and teeth, spraying their blood and tearing them to shreds until their lives are no more.

We move silently, listening closely for the men's hearts accelerating on the other side of their bedroom doors. In seconds, we both kick down the doors and have the last two men on the ground. I’m almost disappointed at how easy Isaac was to take down.

“I knew some shit was wrong,” he sneers, my warrior sliding the needle into his neck, preventing his beast from taking form as fur begins to sprout on his skin.

“Is this because of that whore you took as your wife? Did she lie and say I tried to take her for myself? It’s a lie! She was only 14 and-”

I pounded my fist into his stomach after rolling him over, then planted my other into the side of his face. He groans, spitting out a tooth and blood.

“SHE TOLD ME NOTHING!” I snarled, Killian’s fury bleeding into mine. “You just said it all yourself.”

14? He tried to force himself on my wife when she was just 14? He is dead. He will not live past today. After I get all the information from him I can, I personally will deal with his death. I will be letting Killian free to torture and torment him in ways that will have him begging me for death.

“Take him away with the others,” I told my men, feeling the burning urge to shift now. Not yet. I still need information.

“What do you want to do with them now, Alpha? Start the interrogations, or let them stew for a bit?” Nilo asks.

“Find Percy,” I told him. “Have him identify any of the men that hurt his mate and we will start with them. Let him lead.”

“You got it, sir,” Nilo smirks, a glint in his eye.

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It turns out that 3 of the men were there when Yasmin was raped and tortured. Percy took his time with each of them, turning them into an example for the others. He peeled the skin off one, slowly, coating his raw flesh with silver to prevent regrowth if the wolfsbane wore off.

The other two experienced far worse. He castrated one, then gagged him with his filthy, bloody member, and cut his fingers and toes off one by one, then forced the last man to do to him what they did to Yasmin.

He bled to death in the middle of the act, but Percy forced the last man to finish.

When he was unable to, Percy started cutting pieces of him off, not letting him pull away from his dead friend.

It was gruesome and lasted hours, but no one thought any less of Percy for torturing them the way he did. His mate suffered greatly because of their hands. Any one of us would likely do the same for our mates.

I ordered the three men to be burned and their ashes be buried in the pig pen. They lived like pigs. I see no reason for them to spend their deaths in any other way.

Alpha Wayne’s other men were more than willing to talk after that.

They answered all our questions, but they didn’t seem to know much.

Just that Alpha Wayne had his eye on our pack for some time and wanted a way to acquire our resources.

They were under the impression that the marriage was meant to bridge our packs, but Isaac’s reaction to the questioning had me thinking differently.

“We will finish this tonight,” I told Nilo, needing time to think and process everything that happened. My anger was getting the better of me again, hearing how Alpha Wayne expected his niece to become little more than my breeder, so he had a blood claim to the rights of my pack.

“Where are you going?” He asked.

“To think. Keep injecting them with the drug. I don’t want their beasts breaking free, I will be in my office if you need me.”

As I pass by the bloody Isaac, he mutters, “Does she know this side of you?”

“Who?” I asked in a level voice.

“Who else?” he spits a clot of blood from his mouth. “Elelira. Does she know what kind of monster you are?”

“I’m the monster?” I snarled, my lip curling above my canines. “Says the man who used to rape her mother?”

A maddened laugh leaves him. “Rape? That woman asked for it. I was promised her daughter, and she decided on her own to take her place until her daughter came of age.”

Killian pushes forward, extending my claws as they sink into his neck, choking him. “The fact you don’t see how monstrous that is gives me all the more reason to kill you.”

“Do it,” he chokes, spitting in my face. “It won’t stop anything.”

Not yet, I tell myself. He obviously knows more than the others. I need to regroup and come back when I’m sure my temper is under control enough that I won’t kill him before I get the answers I want.

That doesn’t mean I can’t let him suffer some more while he waits for his fate.

“This one looks a little weary from his travels,” I told Nilo, releasing my claws from his neck. “I think he could use help getting over his sea legs. Prepare him a basin of our finest wolfsbane to soak his feet in for a few hours. That should help.”

Nilo smirks darkly. “His hands are looking a little dry too, Alpha. Can I give them a good soak too?”