The snow was falling again, ending on the bare skin of Nebraska shaking her. By now their footprints must have been hidden by the dense white layer. Around them the landscape was irregular, there were areas where there were no signs of life and from one side to the other you could find shrubs or stone formations. Behind her, one of the wolves was pushing her when they slowed down.
She had tried to use some of her tricks trying to get into their minds, but she did not understand why it did not work. The gaze of those wolves was lost and no matter how much she tried to reassure them, nothing worked.
Rudoc led the group with Catalina wrapped around his arm with a huge smile. Liam trailed behind them, stepping calmly and confidently. Nebraska glared at him. She didn't understand how he could control them. She had broken his head trying to found out how; but it was something that she could´nt catch.
She knew that ability. Even if she increased her efforts in a few years she could reach the level of partially or totally controlling someone, but that was because her genetics were omega. But with Liam there was no sign that he was too; His wolf scent was ordinary, no standout genes like Hades, Siran, or herself.
Thinking about this made him feel dizzier than she already was. She had given Caesar too much blood and his body was still restoring it.
They stopped again and she sighed in relief. Her legs were numb as were his tied hands. She watched as Rudoc shook Catalina from his arm and turned to her looking at him. She knew those eyes. They were the same as when he went down to the cell and raped her. A chill ran through her body and she tensed.
The wolf behind her, held her by the shoulders, burying his fingers in the skin, keeping her still. As if she wanted to escape at that moment. She would not leave without the antidote for his loved ones.
The alpha walked in her direction. Liam intercepted him but a coming growl made him come to the side again and lower his head. Catalina ran towards her father with a reply coming from her lips that was silenced when she received a blow to the cheek that left her lying next to Liam.
-Don't let her follow me, be obedient,- he ordered the former beta with an authoritative voice.
Nebraska's breath caught in her lungs as Rudoc's face appeared in her angle of view. She swallowed hard. Even so, she kept her brow furrowed without showing fear. She was not specifically afraid of him, but of what he was capable of doing to her.
Rudoc smiled slightly admiring the face of the wolf, which he had to recognize, it drove him mad.
She was beautiful, even more than all the lovers he had ever had before. So many times that he had gone to see her after not being satisfied; and with her he could come as many times as he wanted. And now he had her just to himself again. He would mark her and they would be a couple as they should be. Even if he had to kept her chained to his bed all the time. He licked his lips, just thinking about it made him more aroused than he already was.
Nebraska took a deep breath detecting the state of the wolf and thousands of unpleasant images flashed through her mind. But she could not focus her thoughts any more when a strong pain stamped in her stomach, traveling through her body, weakening her. She looked down and saw Rudoc's fist against his abdomen, the most unfortunate.
His knees went weak and she fell forward gasping. The alpha grabbed it and put it on his shoulder as if it weighed nothing. In that position, her head hung upside down and she nauseated.
She could hear Catalina's complaints behind him as he walked to a place not so far from the group but reserved. Her body was taken by the waist and thrown again against the snow falling on her back. Her arms hurt even more under her own weight.
-Well, my wolf, it's been a while and I don't think I can wait long. My body is very demanding and you know it- he put his hand to his erection that was beginning to mark- Don't worry, nobody will interrupt us. I hope you missed me- he began to unbutton his clothes licking his lips.
Nebraska raised her head and with her feet began to back up as best as she could. The blow to her abdomen had done more damage than she had thought and had paralyzed several muscles in his torso.
-Where do you think you're going?- He grabbed her ankle and pulled her back to her feet, putting a hand on her neck and smashing her violently to the ground.
-That's better. I like it when you give me war but I don't have that much time to play with you-
He leaned down to kiss her. He licked her lips and squeezing her throat forced her to open her mouth by inserting her tongue.
Nebraska flailed her feet, trying to free herself in vain. It wouldn't give in so easy. Frowning, she clenched her teeth into his mouth, grabbing one of Rudoc's lips until it broke. The blood soon reached his palate and she could tell it tasted disgusting. It's that nothing tasted better than the blood of her current husband.
-Bitch,- the wolf slammed his palm painfully against her cheek, making her face turn, tugging at her neck.
The wolf felt her mouth fill with her own blood as the flesh inside broke. His cheek throbbed, he hadn't held back by hitting it. It was not the first time that it had happened and this type of pain was not a novelty by which to be impressed.
-Then you want him rude, and I was going to be nice this time- he laughed bitterly to turn her face down.
The snow against his barely covered chest was an unpleasant sensation, at least his wounded cheek appreciated the low temperature. She tried to fight to free herself but the back of her neck was tightened again, slamming her to the ground. Rudoc's body was straddling her and ran his other hand along her spine.
Nebraska wishes her ability would work on those with alpha genetics, but try as she might, it was useless, and she was left with only using that. Suppressing all the pain and weakness in his body, he let his eyes change until his iris was lost within them.
-Let go of me,- she ordered through clenched teeth praying it would work.
After she had taken the blood from both Hades and Layan her body had grown considerably stronger. Maybe now she could do it.
To her surprise, the hand on the back of her neck lightened its grip but she did not release it.
-Sh ... Shut up- Rudoc grunted and hit her against the ground again as if he wanted to bury her leaving her dizzy from the impact- Don't use your tricks on me Nebraska, they won't work for you-
The wolf's hands this time more roughly went to the top of the clothing and tore it showing its back. She gasped at being so helpless and for the first time in years her eyes filled with tears.
Before, this was all I knew. Now that she had been with Hades and experienced how soft and delicious a lover can treat her body. Being exposed like that was so repulsive that she disgusted herself, especially for being so weak. If she were at all her faculties, she wouldn't give in so easily.
Rudoc licked the curve of her back, savoring her feminine skin.
-Delicious. No one should touch this meat besides me, I have always said it, you are perfect, the very idea of others looking at you drove me crazy-
His tongue continued its journey until it stopped on something present on the now uncovered nape. A growl made her shiver.
-Nebraska what the hell is this?- She pressed the area where Hades's deep mark was visible making her scream -Why are you marked?-
Despite her state she snorted in pleasure. The very fool had not been notified that she had joined body and soul to his greatest enemy and by means of the brand he belonged only to him.
-No wonder Catalina calls you a whore, you open your legs to anyone- his words came out of her mouth like acid.
He got up from her giving her a breath to grab her by the hair and lead her back to where the others were. Liam and Catalina got up when they saw them arrive. The wolf threw her roughly to the ground as if she were a rag doll.
Rudoc walked over to Liam and grabbed him by the clothes. He slammed his fist into the middle of her face, breaking his nose.
-You can't even do something right- he growled at the wolf who was lying on the floor holding his bleeding face- You didn't tell me that she had been marked, you idiot, good for nothing- he hit his stomach with his foot making him let out a groan and doubled over the pain.
Catalina recoiled, not being used to seeing her father neither so upset, nor so violent. He had never behaved that way in front of anyone.
-Grab her, don't let her escape,- the alpha roared at the soldier who was in charge of controlling Nebraska and he took her by the shoulders, straightening her up. The she-wolf did not even make an effort to fight, she was too weak to fight.
-I see how things are, so you betray me- her former husband told her- But don't worry my beautiful wife, that you are marked does not mean that you cannot belong to me- he laughed and all color left Nebraska's face anticipating the worst- There is a method to disappear the mark you have, when I´ll bites you-
-Dad- Catalina refrained from throwing a tantrum and was just standing on one side trembling slightly- Didn't you say that you would kill her and make me a queen-
Glassy eyes turned to her, running up and down her. His smile completely paralyzed his daughter.
-I wanted to wait for you to turn your first 100 years, that way you would be more useful to me, but at least you will serve me for the moment- he approached touching her cheek with the tips of his fingers.
-What do you mean dad?- His voice shook.
-You don't know my beautiful daughter. If you devour the bodies of your children with a necessary age, you will absorb their energy and you will become stronger- he saw how she opened her eyes more- Why do you think I had so many children? They were all preparing to be delicious morsels and a source of energy and power- he showed all his teeth especially his fangs.
Terrified, Catherine turned and started to run but that only encouraged Rudoc's inner beast to come to light. Turning into a beast he hunted him down on his small body and tore her little by little without compassion. It was so fast that no one had time to react.
-Mom, save me,- the puppy cried asking Nebraska for help, before her eyes became completely lifeless. But her mother, no matter how much she shook, could not get out of the grip of that wolf. Her relationship with her was the worst you could have, even so, seeing your daughter being eaten in that way left all those aspects aside.
Only when Rudoc raised the all bloody muzzle, leaving a sea of blood under it and barely a trace of the bones in the clothes could Nebraska feel a devastating emptiness. One so deep that it made her fall forward with silent tears falling from her eyes in shock. Her daughter was dead and with her a part of her soul had also been consumed.