The Alpha and The Vigilante novel Chapter 11

"Do you understand me, Ares?" Alpha Cain asked, jerking my head up by my chin that was still covered by the mask to force me to look into his eyes again. I didn't answer, and just continued to glare at him with all of the hatred I was feeling.

He squeezed my chin harder, to the point where I was certain he would break it. "Stop!" Delta Omar cried out.

"What the fuck did you just say to me?" The Blood Alpha asked venomously, shoving me off of his lap and on to the floor. He stalked towards Delta Omar, and grabbed him by the throat.

"She... Can't... Talk..." Omar wheezed out as Alpha Cain continued to choke him. Upon his words, he released Omar.

"What do you mean 'can't talk'?" He questioned, looking at my Alpha. Or I suppose, my former Alpha unless I could help it.

Alpha Wilson looked at me with pity, then back at Alpha Cain. "Her tongue was ripped out by a rogue when she was 14. She physically is unable to talk. We communicate with her via pack mindlink."

Alpha Cain turned around, looking at me with a sinister look on his face. "Well then, looks like I'll have to mark her in order to communicate with her." He began walking towards me, and I immediately jumped off of the floor, and summoned another dagger. Alpha Cain was shirtless, and I wondered if it was because I destroyed his other shirt by throwing knives into it. His skin looked brand new, but that wouldn't surprise me due to his Alpha healing.

Rather than looking afraid that I summoned a dagger, he looked amused, and even chuckled. His laugh wasn't one of humor, but one that put chills down my spine. He truly sounded evil.

"You think a knife could stop me from marking my mate? I'm the Blood Alpha. Nothing could stop me." The sinister glint in his eye told me he would mark me.

I repositioned the knife so instead of pointing it at him, it was against my own neck.

I mindlinked Alpha Wilson, tell him I will slit my throat unless he promises on the Moon Goddess that he won't mark me for another week.

Promises on the Moon Goddess' name were binding oaths. To not follow through would be to curse yourself, and it would be punishable by death.

Alpha Wilson told him what I mindlinked him, and he chuckled again. Why the fuck was he laughing? I meant it.

"Let's go home, pup." I snarled at him. I am not a pup, and I know he was calling me that to be disrespectful.

The pack leaders of Red Crescent mindlinked their goodbyes to me, and I did the same. I told Omar that I would be in touch with him to help him with his new Gamma duties. As Delta, he would immediately become the Gamma, and a new Delta would be inducted after a new challenge for it.

Alpha Cain walked with me in his arms out of the pack house, and his men met up with us outside. He must have mindlinked them what was going on, because they didn't even question the struggling girl in his arms. Then again, maybe no one ever questioned the Blood Alpha.

We reached his cars that were parked on the outskirts of the territory. The 10 of them brought 3 black SUVS.

Alpha Cain shoved me into the back seat of one of them, certainly not being gentle to his loving mate, and got in next to me.

Driving the car was one of his pack members, not the one I remember as being the Beta, so it must have been his Gamma or Delta. He probably didn't want the Beta and Alpha in the same car in case of an ambush, so I also would not have advised the Beta to be driving.