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She is missing. She is missing. Ismena is missing.

My woman is missing.

Over and over again, these words rang in Wolfaraine's head. It sounded unreal. It seems like a dream.

His head thrown back, he let out an ear-splitting roar. As he roared, his beasts roared too. Tension corded his whole body, and his eyes were a whirlwind of colors. Amber. Blue. Green. Green and amber. Green, blue, and amber.

"Alpha King, Alpha King, you have to calm down, Alpha King, please." It was Alphose's desperate voice, but Wolfaraine could barely hear him.

The Alpha King took off in a dead run into the tower. Alphose, Adanel, and Degar ran after him, worried about their Alpha King.

He practically flew up the stairs, throwing the doors open one after the other, shouting Ismena's name.

Alphose has never seen him this angry, this desperate, this afraid.

His mate never answered back, but the Alpha King did not stop shouting her name until he had thrown open all the doors at the east wing of the Tower.

Ismena is not here. Ismena is really missing!

"You have to get him to calm down, Alphose. She is no longer in this place, he needs to pull himself together so we can work together on finding her." Adanel said to him, looking just as worried as the rest of them. His cheeks were swollen, and the bruise had turned purple too.

Alphose knows he owes the Werewolf Alpha an apology, but this is not the time for it. He nodded to the male before he hastened his steps to reach the Alpha King.

When he did, Alphose took his arm to halt him, but Wolfaraine whirled around so fast he caught Alphose off-guard.

"Let go of me." His voice was filled with venom, his face blackened by rage, and his three-colored eyes reflected how close his beasts are to the surface.

Alphose tried again, desperately. "We can't find her this way, Alpha King. Please you have to calm down so that we can look for her level-headedly."

"That monster HAS MY WOMAN!" He roared, his claws unsheathed, "That cold-blooded murderer has my woman, and I don't know what he is doing to her!"

The Alphas took three steps back in the face of such rage from him, including Alphose.

"I do not know if she is still alive. I do not know the condition she is currently in. I cannot smell her." He was no longer roaring, but his voice was still raised, his tone acerbated.

In two steps, he was close to his Alphas, standing toe-to-toe with Alphose, "I will kill him. I will rip him apart limb by limb until there is nothing left of him. I will eat his bones, and I will drink his blood like wine for days to come. He did wrong this time around, touching my woman."

Alphose swallowed hard, looking into Wolfaraine's bloodshot eyes. At that moment, he almost pitied Onaries Vio. Almost.

Wolfaraine turned to walk away, stopped, and threw them a deadly glance, "If he has killed her, I will wipe out his generation until nothing remains...not even a child will remain in the Vio family."

Degar winced, "Alpha King—"

"Go to the Elephant Clan and gather his lineage for me. Every single person who is bloodly related to the Vio family, even a distant cousin. Capture all of them and bring them here. That is an order." He walked away, the sentinels following closely behind him.

When it was just the three Alphas remaining, Degar faced Alphose, "I've never seen such a look in his eyes before.

I will go off now to do his command, but let's hope that we find the Rahinna soon.

Let's hope we find her alive because he will really wipe out an entire lineage. Take care of him, Cougar Alpha."

Alphose nodded vigorously. "I will do that. Adanel and I will be with him. Once he's calm enough, we will begin the search for her."

"I hope we find her alive." Adanel cut in.

They both turned to him. The male, that barely talks and never projects emotion, has an expression dripping with worry as he looks at the empty space Wolfaraine vacated.

"You are a Werewolf, his clan, and also a strong alpha. What is he feeling at the moment?" Alphose asked .

"The feelings he is projecting..." Adanel's face contorted, "You can only get that combination from a feral changeling. Let's hope we find her alive, Cougar. If not we will lose him completely."

LABORATORY: UNKNOWN LOCATION .

"Just how much of the damn drug did you inject in the woman? She has been unconscious for hours." Cronus grumbled begrudgingly at Onaries.

They stood atop the stairs, staring down at the human female lying down behind the large confiding space which has a floor to ceiling heavy metal bars separating her from the rest of them.

The bars were made of heavy irons coated in rhodium, specifically installed to hold a male like the Alpha King captive.

"I could not risk her waking up during the journey. Besides, she was not supposed to be asleep this long." Onaries stated.

Cronus glared at him, "I hope you did not give her a dosage meant for a changeling?"

"Do not be ridiculous. She would already be dead."

"Where are the damn humans anyway?" Cronus asked, looking around for them.

"The doctor is aboveground in one of his lab-rooms getting the things he needs for his experiments ready. The wolf-hunter general left already, but he will be back. They are both excited that the plan is working."

"I still cannot believe that you are the Wild Psychopath, neither can I believe that you are Anaconda." Cronus huffed .

Onaries turned, piercing him with his cold, lifeless gray eyes.

"I do not care what you believe, Werewolf.

I went by the name Anaconda when I worked in the military.

That's the name humans know me for. You all decided to call me the Wild Psychopath.

I did not choose that name. I am just Onaries, the Alpha Leader of the Elephant Clan.

And when all this is over, I will go back to my people. "

"Your people? You slaughtered a whole family from your own clan. A family of six." Cronus reminded him through gritted teeth. It was all he could do to suppress his anger.

Onaries shrugged nonchalantly, "Wolfaraine was on my tail. I had to throw him off my scent. If I killed from my own clan, he would never suspect the killer to be me. That was what I thought." He shrugged again, "It worked too. They were just sacrifices. I actually enjoyed killing them."

The man talked about killing as if he was discussing the weather, Cronus thought with disgust. Cronus knows he is messed up, but compared to the man beside him, he was a saint.

Okay, not a saint but still.

"Let's go to the surveillance room and keep a close watch on her. When she wakes up, we inform the doctor." Onaries said, changing the subject.

Cronus's attention came back to the woman. The Alpha King's mate.

"She is very beautiful." He uttered, still in awe at the beauty of the human. "I've heard about her, but I've never seen her before. After hearing stories of her legendary braveness, her stature wasn't what I expected. How can someone as small as that tame someone as strong-headed as Alpha King?"

Onaries nodded, "It's shocking, I know. But it happened.

Do not be deceived. He is still so powerful, so frighteningly fearless and strong, but he has a very soft spot for her.

I never believed it before when Rodarh, my Head Sentinel, raves and rants about it until the day we were in court, and I saw it with my own eyes.

He was raving mad at the council, but immediately she walked through the doors, his claws retracted, and the angry lines on his face smoothened out faster than a shift.

It was almost comical. He loves her, I think.

" Onaries frowned, "Whatever that word means. "

"I want to fuck her." Cronus blurted out, licking his lips in excitement.

Onaries paused. Turned to look at him fully, "Are you out of your mind, werewolf?"

"Think about it. It's the best way to get back to the Alpha King. It will drive him mad knowing we took turns with his mate. I mean, look at the woman... So damn beautiful. I want her badly."

"I know you do, I can scent your disgusting arousal, but I think you should keep it in your pants, werewolf.

She is a mate—his mate. Even without a mating ritual yet, she is his in every sense of the word.

Hell, she practically stinks of him. The slightest touch from you with the intention of taking carnal pleasures from her body will bring her excruciating pain. "

"Since when did you develop a conscience, Elephant? What do you care, you psychopath?" Cronus spat angrily.

"I don't," Onaries responded simply, "I am just saying that it's more of a hassle than it's worth. You aren’t the slightest compatible with her, so you can't get her pregnant. That's why touching her is also a waste of our time."

"No, it means we'll put our time to good use instead of wasting it. What about you? Don't you want to have her too? Ain't you curious what the woman of the Alpha King will taste like? Don't you want to feel the rush of power that comes from eating from the same plate he dines with? "

"I am not interested in his woman in a sexual way, but I am curious to know what she will look like when she's lifeless..." A bright glint crossed Onaries's eyes, "Bet she'll look more beautiful than she does now."

Cronus pursed his lips, displeased. "You're a twisted son-of-a-bitch, Elephant."

"Keep it in your pants, Werewolf."

"Isn't it time to start working on the next plan?" Cronus changed the subject by asking.

The next plan was simple; make a call and threaten Wolfaraine that his mate will be killed if he does not come alone to a certain location they will give him and surrender himself without a fight.

An easy way for the humans to capture him, really since they will be the ones running the show.

That way, he will never know that he and Onaries were involved.