Warning: description of violence.
Gabriel’s POV
She was saying goodbye to us.
No.
No fucking way.
He was not taking her away from me! Not now, not ever.
My whole body was shaking. I wanted to do something, but I was terrified that the knife would cut her before my spell hit him.
I watched him lean in and kiss her cheek.
“You taste amazing,” he said. “I can’t wait to try more of you.”
That pushed Nick over the edge. Before I could blink, he shifted into his wolf. I had never seen him this angry. He terrified me.
But I couldn’t let him attack. Not yet. He will kill her.
I grabbed his fur with my hand and held him back.
He turned his head toward me and snapped his huge canines.
“Don’t you see a fucking knife under her throat?!” I whisper yelled at him. “Don’t fucking move, Nate! Not yet!”
His black eyes snapped back to that fucker.
“Minnie?” I heard Jacob’s trembling voice call out to her.
What the fuck was he doing? My eyes went from him to the fucker holding my sister. His eyes narrowed at Jacob.
“This is not goodbye,” he continued. “I need you to fight. I need you to use what you found out about yourself. I need you to use it so he will remove that knife and we can take you away.”
My eyes widened. He was right. She needed to use her power. She was the only one who could immobilize his body right now. I can project an image. But he could still use his hand to cut her throat. Even blindly. But if she could make him feel pain and he stumbles, we can jump in.
“He is right, Aria,” I said. “Use it. Use it for pain.”
Her eyes glanced between me and Jacob. She understood us, but I saw that she was afraid. She still couldn’t control it and she knew it would be really hard for her. I could see she was doubting herself. But I wanted her to try.
“What the fuck are you all talking about?” that fucker yelled. “She is not using anything against me. You are not using any of your powers because I will kill her. If I can’t have her, no one will.”
He pressed a knife closer to her throat and I could see a little drop of her blood sliding down the blade.
That bastard cut her! Fuck!
Nate’s growls were so loud I had to cover my ears.
“Aria, focus!” Jacob yelled at her.
The fucker gave Jacob a death stare and started backing away, dragging Aria with him.
“No!” all of us shouted at the same time.
We ran after them.
“Stop or she dies!” he screamed, his eyes narrowing. “You are not getting her back! Not now, not ever!”
He started pulling her away again, his eyes never leaving us.
My heart started beating painfully inside my chest. I looked at Aria.
She was staring at me, and I saw her trying to focus. Come on, please. I couldn’t lose her.
He dragged her pretty far away from us. I could still see her, but trees were getting in my way, making it harder and harder with each step they took. A few more feet and she will be out of our eyesight.
My heart was beating so fast that I thought it would jump out of my chest. I couldn’t hear anything around me except my blood pumping in my veins.
And then it hit me.
A shock wave of pain so strong that I stumbled down on my knees. I looked around me and saw that everyone was down as well. The girls were sitting on the ground, crying. Nate was whining next to me. Jacob and Blake were kneeling on the ground, clenching their fists.
I gathered myself quickly and looked up.
The fucker was on the ground as well. Aria was already backing away from him, and she started running back to us.
Everybody moved at the same time.
Nate jumped up and growled. He ran toward Aria, jumped over her, and pinned the fucker to the floor, baring his canines at him.
Aria ran into my arms, and I pressed her against me.
“I thought I lost you,” I muttered, my voice trembling.
She sobbed into my chest and held me tight.
I looked over her head and saw Jacob and Blake picking that fucker off the ground and twisting his arms behind him. Nate’s canines were close to his face.
I could tell he was a werewolf. We needed silver to stop him from shifting. I guessed that Aria’s spell had a huge effect on him and it was stopping him from shifting. At least for now. I bet the fucker was still in pain. I knew I still was. But the pain would stop soon and we needed to restrain him. I didn’t want to kill him yet. No. I would make him suffer. I would make him pay.
Kissing the top of Aria’s head, I pushed her back slightly and let Cassie and Annie take her.
They wrapped their arms around her, and she sobbed.
“We need something to stop him from shifting,” I said, walking toward them.
“Blake,” Jacob said and placed a knife under the fucker’s throat.
It was the same one he held Cassie and Aria with.
Blake nodded and ran toward the car.
I looked questionably at him.
“I have wolfsbane and silver handcuffs in my bag,” he explained.
I raised my eyebrows and he sighed.
“I like to be prepared,” he said and raised the fucker’s head so Nate could wrap his mouth around his throat.
Blake came back carrying a small box, handcuffs, and a pair of shorts.
He threw the shorts at Nate who ran behind the tree to shift and get dressed.
“Where are the girls?” I asked Blake.
“In your car,” he answered and gave the handcuffs to Jacob.
I nodded and helped Jacob handcuff the fucker around the tree. Blake opened the small box and took out a needle. He stabbed him in the arms, emptying its contents into him.
He screamed and trashed, and I had never been happier in my life.
Nick came back with a furious look on his face.
“It’s time we play, you sick son of a bitch,” he growled at the man.
Nick’s POV
I watched Gabriel grab him by the collar and pin him against the tree he was handcuffed to.
“I will kill you today,” he said coldly. “But before I do that you will tell me everything you know.”
“Why the fuck would I do that?” the fucker muttered.
He was having trouble talking because Gabriel’s grip was cutting his airway.
“Because if you don’t, I will cut your fucking balls off and feed them to you,” I growled.
I planned on doing that as is, but the bastard didn’t need to know that.
His eyes grew wider, and I smirked. He was afraid. Good.
Gabriel let go of him and stepped back. Blake handed him a knife.
“First question,” Jacob said, twirling a knife in his hands. “What is your name?”
“Calvin,” the fucker said and looked at Jacob.
“Nice start, Calvin,” Gabriel said sarcastically, spitting out his name like it was poison.
“Second question,” I said. “What the fuck do you and your fucking boss want with my mate?”
His eyes snapped toward me and widened. “Mate?”
“Yes,” I said. “She is my mate.”
He narrowed his eyes at me, and I could see jealousy burning in them.
Gabriel walked to him and stabbed his knife into Calvin’s upper arm.
He screamed and tried to get out of his handcuffs. Wolfsbane stopped him from shifting and healing quickly. His screams were music to my ears.
“Every time you don’t answer, I will stab my knife into you,” Gabriel said coldly.
A couple of stab wounds, pulled-out teeth, and chopped-off fingers later, the bastard decided to talk.
Gabriel was losing his patience and he pulled down his pants placing his knife next to Calvin’s balls.
I have never been happier to have such a sick, twisted bastard as my best friend. He enjoyed torturing the fucker as much as I did.
“I will talk!” he screamed and tried to get away from Gabriel’s knife.
His speech was slurred because of the teeth we pulled out.
“Was that so hard?” Jacob said sarcastically.
He wiped his bloody knife into his shirt and smirked.
All of us were covered in his blood.
“Blake,” I called, turning my head slightly to look at him. “Give him another one.”
We kept giving him wolfsbane injections to prevent him from shifting and to keep his wounds from healing.
Blake walked up to him and stabbed a needle into his arm. He tried to get away, but it was pointless. He was handcuffed and beaten.
“Talk,” I growled at him.
He took a deep breath before looking at me.
“My boss wants her because of her power,” he said. “He felt her power about four years ago and sent me after her. But she kept her power well hidden, and it was my job to follow her and take her to him the moment she showed her power again. I fucked up and we lost her. My boss found her in Moon City and sent me to follow her again.”
“Why does he need her power?” Gabriel asked.
We knew the answer, of course, but we needed to know how much they knew about her. And Gabriel.
“To take over the world,” Calvin said and smirked at Gabriel.
“So, is Aria that powerful?” Jacob asked him. “With her power, can he take over the world?”
He looked up at Jacob and laughed. Gabriel made a small cut on his thigh, next to his balls. Calvin screamed and looked down.
“What did I tell you?” Gabriel asked him. “Every time you don’t answer I will hurt you. Next time I will cut your balls.”
Calvin started shaking, his eyes flying from Gabriel to the knife.
“No, she is not that powerful,” he said, his voice trembling. “But the boss decided she would have to be enough because he couldn’t find the real thing.”
“What real thing?” I asked, knowing the answer.
“There is a prophecy,” he muttered. “It says there are powerful twins who will rule the world. The boss wanted to take their power, but he couldn’t find them. So, he settled with her.”
Gabriel looked up at me. They didn’t know about him.
“She should have been mine once he was done with her,” Calvin said, spitting blood down on the ground. “You fuckers messed that up!”
I growled and punched his face.
“She is mine!” I shouted at him. “I will make you pay for every time you thought about her, laid eyes on her, touched her, and smelled her!”
I started punching him. My fists were delivering blow after blow to his tortured body. I was enjoying this so much. I stopped a few times so the guys could cut and stab him some more.
He was screaming in pain and a huge, cold smile spread across my face. I grabbed the knife from Gabriel’s hands and kneeled in front of him.
“I know I promised not to cut off your balls if you told us everything, but I guess I am breaking that promise,” I said with a smirk.
His eyes grew wide. I lowered my hand and cut them off in one move.
His scream almost pierced my eardrums.
Blood started pooling from in between his legs. He started shaking uncontrollably. I smirked and turned to the guys.
“You want to finish the job, Gabe?” I asked and handed him the knife.
He took it from me and walked closer to Calvin.
He grabbed his face and made him look at him.
“I have one last piece of information for you,” Gabriel said. “I am Aria’s twin.”
Calvin’s eyes grew even wider than before.
“Too bad you won’t be able to inform your boss,” Gabriel said before jamming the knife right into his heart.
Calvin gasped and blood started spilling out of his mouth. His eyes roamed over Gabriel’s face before his body went limp and his eyes rolled back into his head.
The fucker was gone.
