Chapter Twelve

A guy came in and I saw the first maiden taken down and out of the room where we were kept and I was scared, we've been here for days but that was the first time one of us would be taken away. “What should I do?” I thought to myself, “What are they going to do with her? It was unusual they called themselves werewolf hunters, that means they are not one of us, if they aren't then who would they be?” I thought far and wide but I was unable to come to a conclusion.

My fear increased after I heard a loud noise from the maiden that was taken away. Something was going on but none of us knew what it was and we knew whatever it was it was going to be our turn next.

I closed my eyes and thought of everything why did I have to be in this situation, what would happen? The curse has followed me up until this point and its work is still showing. Was I going to be the first who disobeyed the tradition? Why is my life upside down like this? A Lot of wild thoughts and feelings clouded my mind. I need to be strong, I have to be, that was the only solution to my predicament at the moment.

LUTHER'S POV

Marcus had planted his trusted men in my pack ready to find Blair and I was shocked as to why he would do such a thing. Are they lovers? Do they really have something for each other? At that point, I felt jealous but I didn't know why I would be jealous of someone I rejected to be my mate. I had Olivia who's been a source of strength to me all my life so why all these unnecessary feelings? “Where are we going?" I asked who are these people?”

“From the reports I've gotten they are rogue men capturing werewolves but we don't know what they are or what they want, they have visited two or three packs and captured more than enough, maiden werewolves,” Marcus said.

“But why maiden werewolves? Why only women, men would serve them more purpose.” I said,
“That's what we don't know yet, we don't know their aims so we have to find out before everything goes bitter, because at this point we'll lose all our maidens to this set if we're not careful,” he said, and we marched forward, we passed through valleys until we came to a stop. In Front of an odd-looking cave where people had suspected to be their hideout.

“Is it possible for people to be living here? This cave looks shallow and I wonder if there would even be many if they truly are living here?” I said.

“That's why we have to check it out, at this point every piece of information is vital and if we have to get our people back we have to do everything necessary to make sure we get them back.” He said as we marched into the cave. The front was full of cobwebs like people hadn't been there for weeks or even years.

“See I told you, it's not possible people are living here?” I said, but Marcus acted deaf to my words and we moved forward with our men, “My lord there's something odd here” one of the men said, and we both rushed to go check it out. It was a wooden part covered with sand and when we knocked it there seemed to be a void inside. “Let's try opening It” After a while we opened it and there were stairs underneath, “why are there stairs in here?” I thought as we proceeded down the stairs with caution.

At the end of the stairs was a very dark room and we could see nothing but my nose was picking up different scents everywhere, something was definitely there and as we got our lights on, the whole room was filled with people and we were in the center. “What in the world is happening here?” I said, and their sights were quite scary but not for me.

“Who are you people?” The old man sitting on a very big chair said, “You should tell me who you are first, that's what I came here to know.” I said, “You're in my territory, my own jurisdiction and you're talking that way? Who are you? Answer me or you would feel my wrath.” He said, and I looked at the haggard-looking man and I couldn't help but laugh.

“We're not here to fight, we only want to know if you guys have been the ones capturing our maidens, we got information about that and that's why we're here.” Marcus said, “You really think you can question me and I would give you an appropriate answer? But then I have no reason to lie to you, yes we've been kidnapping maidens for our own interest and there's nothing you guys can do about that.” He replied and my fury had already started to grow.

I was ready to fight but I didn't want to obstruct Marcus. “ Why would you people do that? And why are you guys hiding down here, what pack are you?” Marcus said, and the old man laughed.

“We have evolved from being werewolves, we're gods and we do whatever we want. That's the story behind what we did, and from now we will make your lives miserable by coming into our own den, he who does things no one has done, will surely face what no one has ever faced.

I would make you guys scapegoats and teach you guys how to treat gods with respect” he said, “What can you do? And gods? You don't look like one, you look like some haggard old bastard begging for scraps on the road.” I said, and the man started laughing wickedly, “I'll show you what makes a god, I'll make sure to deal with you, but since you want to see I'll show you what fear is.” He said.