Chapter 56
Killian:
“Anything from her?” I asked, entering the basement.
Eleanor has finally managed to get some shuteye, and though I didn’t want to leave her, I knew that I had to check on whatever they might have found out from Daria.
“A few curse words here and there, but it stayed there. The woman is tough as hell,” Inna said, and I nodded before taking a deep breath. I didn’t want to be the one to harm her. If anything, I knew that I would be affecting her most if I did, and I wasn’t one who liked to show my strength to someone who I knew would be physically weaker than I was. But then again, the woman did kill my men…
“I take it that you’re letting go of your morals?” Daria asked, taking sight of me as I ran my finger over one of the daggers. It was a present from her years ago, and though she cheated, and we broke up, I never really had the heart to get rid of it. I knew that it was a valuable present from her, and that was why I was sure to keep it safe with everything that I had.
“Or it seems to me that you let go of yours a long time ago.” I whispered, picking up the dagger. Her eyes met mine and she frowned, knowing just how sharp this knife was. It was one that she chose for me specifically because of how sharp it was. The blade was designed to cut off a bone, and that was something that she knew very well. “The two of us know the drill, and please note that I will not be lenient because I think that Inna was.”
I ran the tip of the knife on her thigh, cutting it toward her knee, making her cry out in pain. “And this cut is to show you that I am not fooling around, nor am I aiming to be gentle.”
“You fucking bastard…”
“What are you doing here?”
“This does not concern…”I closed my eyes, turning my humanity off completely as I kept in mind that she was a threat not only to me and my pack, but to my mate. If she easily managed to get in, then she could easily be of harm to us, and that wasn’t something that I wanted to allow.
I dug the blade in her knee, tearing it before pulling the knife out as I kept my eyes on hers. The woman froze for a second, processing the pain before wailing out as she saw the hole on her leg. A pool of blood formed around us, her blood, but I didn’t care, at this moment, I was focused on my target.
“Again,” I said, glaring at her. “What are you doing here?”
“I came to fucking see you,” she said, and I scoffed, raising the knife to dig it again. She cried out and shook her head, and I raised an eyebrow as I kept my eyes on hers. “I needed your help, my family has assigned an assassin to kill me and that assassin killed Joseph.”
“You said that you were rejected.” I said, and she shook her head.
“I lied.” She said, and I frowned. I kept my eyes on hers for a second, studying her expression before walking toward the alcohol bottle. I knew that this was going to burn like hell, but if I was going to get answers from her, then I was going to do a lot more than just that. “Killian, don’t.”
“What makes me believe that you’re not lying?” I asked, opening the bottle. She shook her head and tried moving on the chair. However, she was literally chained to it. She wouldn’t be able to move if she tried.
“Check the records of the Delgada. It is all listed there and you would be finding the numbers too.” She said, and I shook my head in question.
“What did you do to deserve it?” I asked, and she looked down at her lap for a second, avoiding my eyes. “And don’t tell me nothing, because for an elder to come up with a Delgada decision needs a sin that deserves an execution. The two of us know that these are not easily profound…”
“I slept with one of the Delgada chairmen before poisoning him in his sleep.” She said, making me frown. “He took away my chances of having a child with my mate, and I took away his life. He deserved it.”
“You fucked a Delgada chairman?” I asked, processing her words. “Skipping the fact that you fucking killed him, that is expected from you, to some extend. But spreading your legs to a mated or married man…”
“I had no other choice, Killian.” She said, and I frowned at her words. “They snipped my mate, they broke him and I chose to return the favor to the man that broke…”
“What good does that do to me?” I asked, and she looked down at her lap.
“If you want your mate to be safe, then you are going to fucking help me.” She said, and I frowned. A low growl escaped my chest, and she smiled, knowing that she ticked a nerve. “I heard the two of you talk, and if I die, then many, many others would know that she is…”
I grabbed her by her neck, taking her by surprise. Her eyes widened in surprise and her heart raced, and I growled, keeping my eyes on hers.
“If you are fucking smart, I am going to recommend that whatever bullshit that you tried doing, you are going to order against it. Otherwise, the Delgada would be the last thing that you and your fucking pack would be worried about. And believe me, I will do it for free, will send your heads to the Delgada, and will watch as they praise me for drying your bloodline and pack.” I said, and her hand shook. I let her neck go and glared at her before pulling my phone out to call Nikolai.
“Killian, stop.”
“Boss?”
“Nikolai…”
“The information is on a USB with Torino.” She said, stopping me. “He has no authority to see it unless he doesn’t hear from me.”
“What does it contain?” I asked, and she shook her head. “I am not going to repeat myself twice.”
“It contains the recording of her admitting who she is at the infirmary.” She said, and I raised an eyebrow. “I was in the ventilation that day. I was trying to get to you only to find out that you had a woman in your life. I masked my scent and used the cloak that Rey, a dark witch that owed me a favor before, gave me.”
“And what makes me believe what you’re saying…”
“My family’s life is on the line, Killian.” She said, stopping me. “The man is at the port, waiting for the clock to hit three in the morning. I suggest that you get to him before then, and I swear on my life that the USB is the only thing that contains the recording…”
“We’ll see,” I said, glaring daggers at the woman. “Otherwise, Torino will not be the only one thrown off the port as a sacrifice to the sharks tonight…”