Chapter 137 Getting Information
Coban's POV
The dungeon is cold. The stone is slick with age. Iron rings sunk deep into the walls. The air reeks of blood and fear that never fully fades. Four men are chained to the stone. Their arms spread apart and their ankles are locked with silver restraints, tight enough to cut through their skin. They were all given wolfsbane as well as a precaution.
Benjamin steps in beside me, fury coiled beneath discipline. Caden stands to my other side, calm in the way that means violence is already decided. Kevan and Mark spread out without even speaking. Dante shuts the door. The echo final.
One prisoner scoffs. "You think chains are..." he was saying before Kevan walks up to him without any warning and punches him in the ribs. The scream tears out of him and then he curses under his breath. "That" Kevan says evenly "Was free." he chuckled evilly.
Silence came again. Benjamin's voice cut through it. "You attacked my borders. My pack." There was no answer. "Hell these assholes aren't going to break easily are they?" I nod once.
Mark crouches in front of the second man, draws a dagger and presses the flat of the blade against his thigh. "This blade is clean." Mark says conversationally. "It won't stay that way."
Still nothing. They still won't talk. Mark presses the blade into the guy's thigh. Controlled and precise, missing all major arteries. The man howls in pain as his body jerks against the chains. "Next one goes deeper." Mark says with a raised brow. I stepped forward letting them see my face.
"Your not Martyrs." I tell them quietly. "Your tools and tools get discarded." I said, as I flickered my eyes between the four jackasses.
The third man spits blood at my boots. "Go to hell you stupid bastard." he said as his nostrils flared and he was breathing hard.
Caden steps up right in front of him. He stares at him just for a brief moment, and then he punches him hard, breaking his nose in one punch. His bone cracks and blood pours from his nose. Caden looks at him and laughs in his face. "Not so tough now are you big boy?" he shakes his head in disgust.
"Answer the fucking question." Caden says calmly. "Or we remove something you need."
Our eyes all snapped to the fourth man. He coughs to get our attention. So the fourth man breaks.
"Clarence was only after Benjamin. That's it. He wanted Brandi." he blurted it out. "Clarence and the Dark Sea Pack. They are together though." he says with a shaky voice.
"We know that much." I say, as I roll my eyes. "Who else?" He hesitates. Dante steps forward with a silver edged spike in his hand. He presses it slowly to the man's collarbone. "Talk" Dante says. "Or this goes in 1 inch at a time." he said as he applied pressure to it to prove his point.
"Dark Forest" the man screams. "and Dark Star."
Caden's jaw tightens. "Alpha Norman."
"Yes" he sobs. "Alpha Norman has always been against you. He has only played you in the past." he cries out as tears are now flowing from his eyes.
Benjamin steps closer to him. "Why"
Dante presses onto the spike harder.
"Because of the queen." the man gasps. "The white wolf. She can bring you back if one of you dies." he whimpered.
The room goes silent.
Fuck!!! Double Fuck!!!
My Trixie. My love. Fuck that shit. Ain't no one gonna touch my girl and my pups.
"They want her first." he rushes on afraid of the spike going deeper. "Kill her, then you two will stay dead." he is breathing hard now.
Mark mutters a string of curse words. He's throwing his hands in the air the entire time.
I lean in until he has no choice but to meet my eyes. "Who ordered that." I say through gritted teeth. "Norman." he whispers. "and his daughter Sandi." he says the last part a little louder.
Kevan's eyes narrow. "Explain." he seethes.
"She was a lady's waiting. When you found your fated mate, she was pissed. She told everyone you two was going to choose her. That she was going to be queen. When you sent the ladies waiting home and dismissed them, she was humiliated because she lied to everyone already." he said as he was breathing hard at this point. Like saying that wore him out.
"She was never going to be chosen. We made that perfectly clear to them all. We were waiting for our fated mate." Caden said as he exhaled sharply.
"Of course." the man agrees frantically. "She lied to everyone. She wants her dead for her taking what she wanted." he said, as he was still nodding his head at a very fast pace.
"And Alpha Norman." I ask as I arched my brow.
"He backed her. That's his princess. He also wanted her as queen. It gave him more control. That way he would have more access to you both. It would make it easier for him to take you both out." he said as he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"So he was planning to take the kings out and making his daughter a widow." Benjamin says as he curses softly. "She would still be queen. Plus, she is still with her fated mate anyway." he said, with his eyes still closed.
Kevan crosses his arms over his chest. "How many packs total?" he asked with clenched teeth.
"The two that was took out already." the man said, and then paused. "Dark Star, Dark Sea." he said, and then paused again. He swallowed hard. "Dark Fang and River Pack." he said as he's stalling.
"Black Moon, Raging Rapids and Dark Forest." he said, and finally opened his eyes.
Silence crashes down around us. So a total of seven packs are against the crown. Yes, a couple of them we taken most of their army's out, but damn that's a lot.
"They plan to strike the palace." I say, as I shrug my shoulders. "Yes" he whispers. "Queen first, then kings. And then everyone else that gets in their way." he continued.
I turned to Caden. "They want her dead." Caden's voice is cold. "Then they die first." he says with finality.
Benjamin steps forward, his gaze is lethal.
"They have declared war."
I looked back at the prisoners. They are broken, bleeding and terrified.
"You chose the wrong targets." I tell them. "And the wrong Queen."