\[Rosco’s POV\]
My head pounds, and my body feels like I’ve been hit by a mac truck. Groaning, I pry my eyes open and find Nadia’s smiling face hovering over me.
“Good morning, sweetie,” she beams, reaching out and brushing my cheek. “I was beginning to wonder when you were going to wake up.”
“You!” I growl, attempting to grab her, only to find I’ve been cuffed again. “I’m going to..."
“Ah, ah,” she counters, giving me a look of triumph. “You aren’t going to do anything except do exactly what I say and want.”
“Like hell, I am!” I snarl, fighting against my cuffs. “You should know that no matter what you try, I will..."
“Do what I want to keep your precious wife’s reputation from being destroyed,” she finishes for me.
Denali’s reputation destroyed. What the hell was she talking about? What happened while I was out?
“Do you want to see?” She asks, holding her phone over my face so I can see the video on the screen. “Look.”
With wide eyes, I stare at the screen, taking in Denali and Alexander as they go at it like rabbits. However, that isn’t the worst of what has happened. Instead, the thing that makes my stomach sick and makes my need to kill rise is the three other men that walk in and join them.
“You,” I hiss, wanting to slit Nadia’s throat right here and now. “WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE TO DENALI?"
“I didn’t do anything,” she shrugs, continuing to keep her phone in my eye. “Look at her,” she continues. “Look how happy she looks to be getting fucked by so many men. Do you see now? This is the woman she always was.”
The woman she always was. I wasn’t stupid and knew that wasn’t the case, but if Nadia had a video like this, then the rest of the world would believe this was Denali’s true color. She would never live down a blow like this, and neither would my family.
“What do you want?” I ask as Fabian snarls and begs to be let loose. “This is your whole purpose, no?”
“Of course it is,” Nadia agrees. “It’s simple. I want you to divorce your wife and marry me. Once that happens, we can fix the tension between the two packs and continue on with our lives as they were meant to be before that bitch came into the picture.”
Remaining silent, I fight with the rage boiling in me. That simple. She really thought it was that simple? Did she truly believe that she would be happy and things were normal? Was she out of her fucking mind? Yes. The answer was yes. She was out of her fucking mind after everything she did for us to even get to this point.
“And if I don’t go along with what you want and I stop that video from spreading?”
“Won’t happen,” she smiles. “All the news outlets already have this video in their possession, and they’re just waiting for my signal to release it. Along with that, they have another video.”
Another? What other fucking video could they possibly have?
“You should take a look at yourself,” she laughs as I continue to stare at her in confusion.
For a moment, I don’t move as I try to consider what exactly it is that she is speaking of, but when my eyes begin to travel down my body, I find that it is covered in hickeys and claw marks.
Looking over, I also take in Nadia, who is completely naked with marks on her skin as well, and resting on her neck is something I can’t believe she managed to get on her body.
“How?” I snap. “How the fuck did you manage this?”
“I simply gave you something to ease your tension, and then you attacked me,” she giggles, climbing on top of me and digging her claws into my chest. “You were like an animal, fucking me in every position and attacking every inch of my body. It was like you couldn’t get enough of me, and I enjoyed every minute of it.”
With each of her words, I feel myself growing sick as I realize just how much I have truly betrayed Denali. Not only did I allow her to fall into all of this from the very beginning, but now I had even touched another woman while she was goddess knew where.
“Where is she?” I ask when this thought hits. “Where is Denali?”
“Probably somewhere with Alexander,” Nadia shrugs. “You saw how much fun she was having with him. I’m sure they’re probably rushing back to Emerald Moon to announce their engagement to her family.”
Rushing back. Like hell, that would happen, especially after everything that happened. So if that was the case, then what wasn’t Nadia telling me?
“You’re lying,” I counter.
“Is her whereabouts truly any of your business anymore?” She smirks. “You’ve marked me and even fucked me when I was ovulating, so you are now mine. The best thing you can do is forget that bitch and focus on our future together.”
Our future. We didn’t have a fucking future. Once I got all this settled, I would find Denali even if I had to go to the ends of the earth, and Nadia was a fucking idiot to think otherwise.
“Careful of what you plan,” she warns, seeming to read my thoughts. “Do you really think that my father and his pack will take kindly to you marking and impregnating me, then just dumping me like a ton of bricks?”
“Does it look like I give two shits what he or your pack thinks?” I counter.
“Maybe not you, but your family and my family will fall into a war; do you really want that?”
A war… A fucking war. Weren’t they already in a war after everything that she did? Our packs relationship was already fucked.
“Your family will die, and so will your wife.”
Her words hit me like a bucket of ice as I began to understand exactly what it was that she was saying. She intended to slowly but surely destroy everything that I actually cared about, and that included my family.
“You’re sick,” I hiss, narrowing my gaze. “How someone can be so fucked up.”
“Thank you,” she beams. “Now, why don’t we get dressed and go on our way?"
“Not until you prove to me that Denali is okay,” I counter, understanding that for now I needed to go along with this so that I could clean up the mess I had created while only thinking about myself and what I wanted. “If you can’t do that, then I won’t fucking go anywhere with you.”
“You want to see that she is okay?” Nadia asks, giving me a look of annoyance. “Fine, here.”
As she speaks, she flips through her phone until she finds another video, this one of Alexander and Denali boarding a plane.”
“Happy?” She asks as I continue to take it in. “I told you that they were probably heading back to Emerald Moon. Now do you believe me?”
Frowning, I continue to take in the video as I try not to show my distrust. Even if Nadia thought that her logic was completely correct, there was one thing that she wasn’t aware of, and that was the fact that Denali was currently being falsely accused of killing Anastasia’s child.
However, this would work in my favor if I pretended to believe her words, and if I went along with what she wanted for now, it wouldn’t take long for me to figure out exactly what it was she did with Denali.
For now, I would have to play along, but the minute I got the information I wanted, I would destroy her.