Undeniable passion

Lucifer's POV
The sudden urge to hold Ashlyn had overwhelmed me and I had succumbed to it. I could not stop myself from it. I held her close grateful to her finding Ruthless for me.
While racing earlier on before she came, I had felt something was not right with her and the feeling had eluded me almost clouding my senses.
But here she was alright in my arms and all I could do was whisper, "Thank you." Into her ears despite the thumping beats of my heart.
She pulled away, her eyes shimmering in what I could not understand.
She stared at her feet and I noticed she had fell in a muddy water. She made a turn to leave when Ruthless neighed rubbing his head on her shoulders. I was surprised. More surprised than when I saw her riding on him.
"And the almighty beast has fallen for his alpha's mate." Stealth said smiling as he came close. I watched him and Ashlyn in a scrutiny. What transpired between this two? How did she find him?
I was about to ask when she stroked Ruthless face and whispered. "I've got to go. I'll see you soon." She said.
"Ashlyn?" I called her name but she just stayed at me and in a swift she was gone.
"We tried finding Ruthless but she beat us to it." Stealth said.
"It's alright," I said waving it aside. "I just want to know how he went missing." I said and went to Ruthless.
"What happened Ruthless?" I said stroking his mane. "Tell me friend,did you go wandering off on your own?" I asked. It was a stupid thing to ask because he has never done such before.
He shook his head and snorted at me for thinking he'd ever leave me and I felt stupid for it.
I've known this horse almost all my life. I understood him more than anyone else. Why would I even think he wandered away?
"My bad for that. Tell me what happened." I said to him and he began narrating. Neighing out loud and snorting all the way.
Then at the sight of Alpha Lincoln,he charged towards him knocking him down to the ground and was about to stomp on him to death when I stopped him.
"Ruthless stop!" I yelled out and he moved aside flaring his nostrils and snorting out loud. From his previous narrations and what he just did,I understood that Lincoln had a hand in his disappearance.
Everyone was gathering around now in wonderment on why a horse would attack an alpha.
Lincoln was pulled up from the ground by one of his pack members.
"What the hell Lucifer,why would Ruthless do this!" He exclaimed as he wiped off the tiny blood that trickled down his nose with his finger.
"Should I not be asking you that? Ruthless would never be violent without a reason. So tell me Lincoln,what did you do to Ruthless before I send you back to the ground you just got off from." I said to him.
"Me? I did nothing to this bastard horse!" He cried out and as Ruthless neighed,I squared a punch on Lincoln's nose and he staggered back falling to the ground.
"My horse is not a bastard. You are the fucking bastard!" I said clenching my jaw. How dare he say that?!
"Hell." He muttered as he shook his head trying to shake off the delusion he went into after I hit him.
I picked him off the ground holding his shirt. "Tell me all I need to know." I said to him.
"I swear I did nothing." He kept denying.
Ruthless raised his hooves as he snorted in anger.
"Ruthless is quite angry now and I would not hesitate to have him run over you a hundred times till you cease from breathing." I said to him but he still refused to accept it.
"Rage!" I yelled out.
"Lucifer," Rage said behind me.
"My sword." I said to him. He went away and few minutes later he returned and handed it over to me.
"How about we engage in a duel, after all it's what next in the Games." I said to him with a bitter smile. "The winner gets to kill his opponent." I said to him and his face went pale.
'He stands no chance.' Steel said snickering and I curved a wicked smirk. I knew that.
"But,but, that's not in the rule book." He stuttered.
"I'm changing it for today. Between the both of us,the winner gets to kill his opponent and if you do not want that,I beseech thee for the last time to tell me what you know about Ruthless disappearance." I said to him.
"I know nothing. Kill me if you want to." He said with a reddened face.
"Well then,you asked for it." I said and with that I buried my sword deep into his stomach without waiting for a fight to do so. He stared at me in horror and I watch is face twist in surprise that I had actually done what he said. I let go of him as I drew my sword from his stomach and he stared at the blood that was beginning to spread rapidly on his shirt,his mouth dripping blood as he fell to the ground.
Everyone gasped but they knew I hated being challenged personally and Lincoln should have known otherwise too.
I hated my patience being tested and my authority being questioned and that was a fact every alpha,every beta and every omega from the Minor and Major clans know about.
I watched as Lincoln's face darkened as he gave up the ghost and I turned to his members.
"Find yourselves a new alpha for this one is gone." I said and walked away from them.
"You should have waited to know exactly what happened." Kill said falling beside me.
"You of all people know that I do not like to wait. The truth was right in front of me. Lincoln had a hand in Ruthless disappearance. He wanted me to lose the Games. Ruthless would never mislead me." I said to him.
He nodded. "Yes I believe so. The last games are about to take place. Would you not participate?" He asked me.
"To hell with it," I said suddenly not interested in it. I was the supreme Laird and I did not need some traditional Games to prove that. All I had in mind was the lady who had ran away from me minutes ago. "Let them do it. After all I'm over them with lots of points. Let them do it and get their annoying faces out of here." I said as I walked into the house. "And I do not want to be disturbed." I said to him and he nodded. All I wanted was Ashlyn right now.