Chapter 92: You Fucking Snake.

Viola dashed through the thickness of the forest, the wind blowing through her hair and the cold evening breeze fanning her milky skin.

She didn’t have to run but she was pissed and frustrated and feeling that adrenaline took off the edge.

Her mind flashed again with the look her own mate had given her- hatred, pure hatred and she wondered what she could have done to deserve such a terrible look from him.

He did not even know her! She had done nothing wrong but be his mate- was that even considered as wrong?

She heaved a sigh and came to a halt in the middle of a clearing, “Come out, I know you’re here”, even though she was caught completely in her thoughts, here senses were still on high alert- tears of training could do that to anyone.

She heard footsteps and turned in the direction they were coming from, “It took you long enough”, the voice said before coming into view with a smug smile laced on her face,

Viola snarled, “You fucking snake! You double crossed me!”, she growled, marching over to her, only to be blocked by tow large men. Viola was taken aback and surprised, What the hell is this?”,

“Oh, you mean them? They are my fairly new friends”, she said evilly, “You see…”, she trailed off, “I found them a few years ago…”, suddenly, more men started to fill the space, all looking menacing and dirty, “Without a leader. Well, sadly, they did have a leader, once upon a time but then she was brutally murdered by Jaxon Montero”,

“So? How is this Imogen’s problem?”,

Addilyn halted in her pacing steps and threw daggers at the younger woman, “You don’t get it, do you?”, Viola still looked oblivious, “I do not know how they say we are alike- I’m clearly smarter than you in many ways”, she scoffed, “The entire Montero and Villain family are going to suffer for the injustice they kept me through. You all think it’s okay to accuse me of something I didn’t do, stigmatize me and act like everything is okay?”.

The issue with the entire back story was that Viola was going through the exact same thing at the moment- she had been accused, maybe not unfairly of taking her own sister, “So, this was your plan all along?”,

“Oh no, dear niece, far from it. I actually did see potential in you at first but moving on, I saw that you were just fueled by anger and not hatred- you are as weak as they are. That was when I decided to use you”, she stated proudly.

Viola scanned the space, looking at the large men of almost fifty surrounding her, “So, you are their leader?”, she asked, trying to come up with an escape plan in her mind because she knew for a fact that they were not letting her go with a friendly farewell,

“Yes”, the men growled and she rolled her eyes, “Well, not yet. I have to prove myself by taking those stupid packs down!”,

“Packs?”, Viola tilted her head in inquisition,

“Oh, you think that little pack of yours is safe? Once we are able to take down the bigger pack, we take down the smaller one with it”, while Addilyn spoke, Viola was mentally calculating the possibilities of getting caught if she decided to run and it was not looking pretty for her.

“Why are you telling me this?”, Viola asked, “I could blab”,

Addilyn rolled her eyes, “Like I’ll let you live that long”, on cue, the men started closing in on her, leaving no room for escape. Viola swore in her mind before allowing her primal instincts take over.

She took a few down, but at the end, they were too many. One was able to knock her to the ground and kick her square in the ribs- it hurt so much, she coughed up blood. They started piling up on her, practically suffocating her. She could feel the air leaving her lungs and her body stiffen under the weight of forty men.

Until, a loud growl shook the ground and quickly, the unbearable weight was removed. She was able to sit up and with foggy eyes saw an even larger male tossing the men around and killing a large number of them while the rest took to their feet.

Once they were alone, minus the dead bodies littered all over the floor, the large male walked over to her and it was only then that she was able to see and smell him, “Asher?”, she whispered before passing out from pain and exhaustion.

He sighed and tusked, “After saving your butt, now, I have to carry you?”, he breathed out. He reached out for her but stopped himself before he could touch her. He didn’t want this- he didn’t want any kind of connection with her but if he left her like this, she would die and there would’ve been no point of saving her in the face place.

He groaned and reluctantly touched her skin, the sparks of a million fireworks spreading through his body and causing him to gasp, “Fuck”, he swore and retracted his hand.

He looked at her passed out form for a minute and thought to himself; what on earth am I going to do?

A few seconds later, he stood to his feet and pulled off his shirt, covering his entire arms before bending down and scooping her up gently in his arms, adjusting her uncomfortably before leaving the clearing.

He began his walk towards the pack, ignoring the faint but still there tingles that seeped through the protection on his arms and he couldn’t wait to drop her down.

He just couldn’t handle this feeling or the fact that she somehow fit perfectly in his arms, like she was made from him…

No!

He needed to focus on getting her back to the pack so he could continue his search for Imogen. After all, it was his search for her that lead him to follow Viola into the woods in the first place.

He could recall that after the twins left his room, he went over to his window and saw her heading in the direction of the forest. Something nudged him and told him to follow her out there- was it possible that she had been hiding Imogen in the forest?

He had scoffed and had gone back to starring at the mirror until that feeling nudged him again. It was then he decided to follow her and although she was long gone, he could still trace her by her scent- but he was too late.

He had missed the face off between she and Addilyn and the men were already attacking her. For a second, he saw red and that was it- that was all he could remember before he started pulling men off her and tossing them to the side.

He actually felt care for her and he hated himself for it- a lot.

He looked forward, narrowing his eyes so he could see further. Relief washed over him when he saw his two brothers, Beta and two other men waiting at the border line.

Darian rushed over to them, “What the hell happened?”,

“It was an ambush”, Asher stated before handing her over to her older brother,

“What?”, his eyes widened in surprise, guilt finding it’s way to his chest.

“They ambushed her”, he was about to rewear his shirt when the strong scent hit is nostrils, he breathed it in for a second but shrugged it off and threw it on the ground- it was bloody anyways.

“Who is ‘they’?”,

“Rogues”, he answered, walking away and heading towards his brothers who were surprised by the state their Beta was in- they thought she had gone for fresh air!

“B-“,

“We’ll talk about this later, with her. She has a lot of explaining to do. I want to know why she was caught up with the people who took Imogen”, with that, the conversation was over, “Take her to the doctor and tell him to make sure she wakes up- Alpha’s order”.

Darian nodded his head and walked away with his sister in his arms and the twins behind him, leaving Asher with the two men, “Alpha”, they both bowed,

“Ease off, get back to work. Remember, danger is lurking everywhere and we need to at high alert”, he told them, seeing as he already knew what was going to happen soon- a war between his pack and rogues was going to break out soon and the people needed to be ready. “I will join you once I’m done”, he had to protect his pack at all costs and this time, without any external alliances- all those ships had sailed a long time ago.

He didn’t know how he was going to win this but he knew he had to- they had bitten first by taking Imogen, they had toyed with his feelings and he was going to make sure to get them back for it.