29. I will kill you all
Matt
The relief of knowing that Lucy was simply missing and not dead had taken what little strength I had left. Tony practically carried me back down stairs and put me in a chair to be tended. I sat at the edge of the room as Tony growled and demanded answers, but none of them told a different story. The person who had made her lunch wasn’t here. They hadn’t seen her and several others in the house since several hours before our beta’s daughter had gone to check on Lucy. Of the thirty-five people that lived on the Estate and were a part of the pack, only twenty-three were here. Five of them were on patrol meaning that there were seven people missing total.
Seven traitors.
“No answer?” Tony asked our beta.
He shook his head. “I’ve called all of their families too, but all of them are gone. All of their stuff is gone too.”
I grit my teeth and hissed as our nanny applied some silver anecdote to the wound on my back and pressed a bandage to my side. It smelled like tar and motor oil, but the ache in my back was easing and I could feel myself healing a little faster. Her eyes were full of tears and she smelled like regret and worry.
“We’ll find her,” I said. She looked up and met my gaze before looking down at the bandage.
“… It’s not her I’m worried about.”
I frowned, anger roiling in me. “What does that mean?”
Her jaw trembled. “You both are… getting to be that age… the signs are already here.”
I looked over at Tony and winced as I realized what she was talking about. He looked bigger than he had been before we left the hotel. His face was fixed in a permanent growl and his eyes were glowing red. Every muscle of his body looked tense as if he was seconds away from shifting and killing everyone in the room.
Worse than that, his voice was taking on a wolfish growl.
He was losing himself to the anger just like our father would.
“Let it be known that they’re all considered traitors and are to be killed on sight,” he snarled. “And when they pop up in another pack, they will either be turned over, or they’ll be killed.”
I set my jaw and looked back at our nanny. Her eyes were full of pleading. I nodded. I wouldn’t let tony lose his mind, and we’d find Lucy somehow.
Tony turned with a snarl. “Find out who attacked us on the road. Where they managed to employ humans to do their dirty work and send the word to the other packs.”
“Wait,” I said. Tony turned on me, glaring at me. “Not yet.”
“Why the hell not?” Tony roared.
“If we send out word now, they’ll just go into hiding,” I said. “We have to give them time to show up under another pack first. We need to find how they left the estate and when. What about the cameras? This wasn’t a quick job, Tony.”
He panted, growling and turned at the rest of the group. “Where’s the doctor? Doesn’t she know what kind of poison it is? Where is the fucking surveillance footage?”
A member of the security force came down the hall with a grim look. “The cameras… were all destroyed.”
“What?”
He shook his head. “One of the people missing is a part of the surveillance team. Based on the footage that’s there, they’d been corrupting the footage for a while and filling the archives with old footage.”
“Tell me something!” Tony roared at the pack members who had gathered. They all flinched as his voice shook the air. “The poison? A scent! A trace of her! The room only has one door! The only other way she could have gotten out was the window!”
“Maybe she left on her own?” I whirled on the woman, glaring at her.
“Our mate wouldn’t leave us,” I growled. “You’re sounding more suspicious by the second.”
“She’s only a half breed,” the woman said. “And she grew up in the human world. What do you actually know about her?”
“Shut your mouth, or I’ll kill you myself,” I growled.
She went pale, but she shut her mouth, eyeing Tony warily as he flexed his hand and fur seemed to ripple over his skin.
“Who was the last person to see her?” Tony asked.
“The person that took her food…” The man frowned and looked around.
“Before that!” Tony snapped.
“There’s only one group of people assigned to serve her food,” the lead of the kitchen said. “They’re the only ones that volunteered, and they’re all gone.”
I grit my teeth. “All of them?”
She paled. “They weren’t all part of the same family. I didn’t think anything of it—”
“Why the fuck not? They’re not the same people who serve us when—” I broke off as the though struck me cold.
They had been treating her differently every time we were gone. How differently? Why?
She’s only a half breed. I grit my teeth at the woman’s words. I wanted to leap across the room and murder her.
Tony roared. The air shook and I felt the surge of power threatening to wash over me. The windows shook and the entire pack drew back, cowering. Our nanny drew back from me as I shuddered, fighting off the shift. Tony sprouted vicious looking claws. The blood that was still smeared all over him from fighting looked even more gruesome as his muscles rippled and fur started to grow out of his hands and across his chest. Everyone shuffled as far away from him as they could, shocked and terrified.
It made me think of our father, and I knew Tony didn’t want to be anything like him. If this went on, I couldn’t be sure if Tony would be able to stop.
“If she dies, I will kill you all!” Tony bared his teeth as they started to growl sharp and wolfish. “Tell me something of use! No strange cars? What’s happened on patrols? Someone had to have seen something the estate isn’t that big!”
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