Chapter 139 CHAPTER 139
Evelyn’s POV
My phone buzzed in my pocket and I tried to find it, to turn it off before he noticed it.
“What’s that?”
I pressed the side button and the ringing stopped. But it was too late.
“Nothing,” I said. He turned and looked at me.
I was hoping it was Alpha Michael and somehow he would be able to understand that something was wrong. He stepped on the brake and the car screeched to a stop.
“The phone,” he said, stretching his hand towards me.
My fingers trembled as I stretched the phone towards him. He glanced at the screen briefly and threw it on the road before crushing it with his tire.
“Who are you and where are you taking me to?” I asked. “Please, I didn't do anything wrong.” I cried.
“Please let me go” I kept begging but this man wouldn't listen me.
He did not say a word to me. He just stepped on the gas and sped along the road.
We travelled for almost half an hour before we stopped at a house. It was on a lonely street. I had no idea where I was or who this man who had taken me at gunpoint was, or what he wanted.
“Please, let me go,” I cried as he turned around and opened the car door. He pulled me out and pushed me towards the house. “Let me go,” I begged again.
He tapped on the door and we waited in front of it. Seconds later, we heard the sound of the door clicking and it was opened. Xavier stood in the doorway.
“Xavier?” I said with little bit of fear in my voice.
The man pushed me in. “I brought her as I promised,” he said, locking the door behind us.
He looked surprised to see me. “I…”
“Thank you would do,” the strange man said.
I was trembling. Seeing Xavier was bad news. He was dangerous and irrational. And I had shut down his offshore accounts. But his eyes were different. I saw fear in them. It looked like he was unsure.
“I don't know what is going on here, but you have to let me go. Please,” I said.
“I never thought we’d see again, Evelyn,” he said. “I swore that the next time i laid eyes on you would be the last. You deserve to die by my hands for what you did to me.”
My heart raced. I closed my eyes and tried to reach Alpha Michael through the matelink.
‘Help.’ I called out. ‘I’m in danger.’
I decided to stall for as long as I could.
“You did many wrong things to us, Xavier. You stole from my father and you kidnapped me,” i said.
‘Where are you?’ he called out.
I had no idea.
‘Stay with me,’ he said.
‘Hurry. Xavier is here. Find my phone and drive straight until you find a resort. It’s lonely.’
“Open your eyes when I'm talking!” he said.
I opened my eyes. “You do not deserve my sympathy. My father misunderstood the situation. I do not love you anymore.”
“Father?” I trembled. I hadn’t heard much about Xavier’s father, but I now understood why the man looked familiar.
“Yes. Ignatio,” he said.
The name. It rang a bell.
Flora had mentioned that name. Or was it Alpha Dover? That was the name of Rosaleen’s assassin. Xavier’s father was an assassin.
‘He’s an assassin. Xavier’s father.’
I opened my eyes. “I didn’t mean for any of those things to happen, Xavier. I loved you as a brother and I told you that all the time. You went too far. Kidnapping me and keeping me against my will.”
He struck me on the face and I felt my head go dizzy. When the next slap landed on my head, I passed out.
I woke up a few minutes later to the sound of something loud and crashing. When i opened my eyes, I saw a fully shifted wolf, tearing the house apart. I pulled myself up and tried to make sense of what was happening. I remembered being kidnapped and then the slaps. I looked at the wolf again - large, with black furs and streaks of silver. I recognized him. It was Alpha Michael.
Xavier was lying on the floor in no time, wounded. Beside him was the man who had taken me. The man who I recognised as Ignatio. Rosaleen’s henchman. He was the man John Dover was in search of.
“Michael,” i called out. I was trying to tell him that the man on the floor was the man whom we needed to get Rosaleen to jail. Then I noticed another man. He was standing at the door. He had a gun, pointed at Alpha Michael.
I yelled out. “Watch out.”
Alpha Micahel spun around, narrowly dodging the bullet. There were more of them. I counted five in total. They weren’t armed with guns but they had silver belts. I knew that those belts would make Michael weak.
The first lunged forward and struck him with it. A wound tore on his hand and it bled. He roared in pain. Before he could attack any of them, multiple silver belts struck his body until he grew weaker and weaker.
I had never shifted before. But I knew nine tailed foxes were not weakened by silver. I called on my wolf and I felt my bones snap and my wolf emerged. A greyish white fox that was about half the size of Alpha michael’s wolf emerged.
I leapt forward, snarling at the men and protecting Alpha Michael from more hits. I flashed my claws and tore at the men, until a few of them ran away. Alpha Michael was stirring beside me. He was still weak but he was getting on his feet. He reached for one of the two men left and twisted his arm until the bones snapped. Broken.
The last man lunged towards me. I spun around too late. He struck me on the side, piercing me with something sharp. I cried out in pain as I dropped to my side. Before alpha Michael could react, he struck me on the head. I was shifted to my human form already and I passed out.