The Alpha and The Vigilante novel Chapter 79

Jax flinched slightly, but otherwise showed no signs of fear. "I am being protected. The Blood Alpha won't touch me."

Protected by who? I asked him, my curiosity piqued.

"I'm under his orders not to tell you his identity until he can be here to tell you himself," Jax responded.

Was Gwen in on this too? I snarled at him, sounding feral.

His eyes widened slightly in surprise, but also softened at the mention of his mate. "No. Much to my dismay, she has been quite enamored with you since your arrival."

You killed Carter, I accused him.

Jax's expression was overwhelmed with guilt and sorrow. "I didn't kill him. It was the rogues."

You were involved. Whoever is ordering you around like a little bitch sent the rogues too, making you responsible for his death, my tone was disgusted.

"I didn't know they would kill him," Jax whispered, not making eye contact with me. "They were only supposed to take you. Only you were supposed to get hurt. Not Carter. He was like a brother to me."

I will torture and punish you so violently and painfully you will beg me to end your life, I promised him. It's the vengeance Carter deserved.

"Don't you get it, Ares? You will never leave here alive. Cain thinks you and I are dead. He's not looking for us," Jax growled at me, not appreciating my threats.

I rolled my eyes. He does not think I'm dead, you moron.

"Oh no? Did you wonder why you can't feel the mate bond you have with him?" Jax asked wickedly.

I frowned. The wolfsbane is just temporarily blocking it, I informed him.

"Oh, no, Luna," Jax said the title mockingly. "Do you know what my Gift is?"

I didn't. It was considered rude to ask people what their Gifts are, and I had never spent much time with Jax before.

Jax continued talking when I didn't respond. "I have the power to break bonds."

I gasped. You didn't.

The evil grin on his face told me that he did in fact break the mate bond between Cain and I.

"He was the only family I had left," Jax's voice was angry, but I could see the hurt in his eyes.

He was a disgrace. Being from a Beta bloodline and challenging a Gamma is weak. His death was more merciful than he deserved. I have a feeling I will be able to say the same about you, I flashed my canines at him wickedly, despite the pain I felt. The wolfsbane was making me heal far too slowly.

Jax just smiled in response. "Oh, Ares. You and Cain both suffer from the same fatal flaw. You're both driven by arrogance and violence. A deadly combination."

I rolled my eyes, You haven't seen violence yet, pup. I taunted him, knowing it would piss him off that a younger female was calling him a pup.

Unfortunately, he ignored me and continued. "It's really a shame that you both couldn't reconcile your differences while you were alive and together. I'm sure he's suffering thinking that you're dead. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll kill himself before we kill him."

I was annoyed, wanting to know who "we" is.

Cain is stronger than you think. Thinking I'm dead won't make him weaken in the slightest, I smirked at him in victory. Cain wouldn't let my death derail him.

Jax looked at me almost sympathetically. "You really are disconnected from your wolf, aren't you? You don't understand mates at all. Cain has never cared about something as much as you. You brightened his life. You weren't in Blood Lake to see how vicious he used to be. You softened him, even though you may not believe it."

I didn't say anything, after all, what does one say to that?