Chapter 77|Downfall.

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**Alexander's P O V.

Alpha Drake stood with his chest jutting forward in front of Martin. The man was too cowardly to speak as he stared at all three of us, all three prominent Alphas with the stink eye.

"You're too young to interrogate me, to think you have the guts to try it irks me, baffles me." Martin snarled. "And you," He nodded at Alpha Matt, "I'm most disappointed in you, I thought you a friend but you proved to be a stinking foe. Watch your back for you made yourself the worse enemy to ever exist." He ended the sentence with a sneer.

"I'm most honoured to be labeled as a foe to you. I'd rather be that than be a friend. Look around you Martin, you're cuffed and left at our disposal, how on earth do you think you have the right to warn me to watch my back. My back is safely protected, thank you. Sod off." He growled. "I'm fucking killing you for tainting my Pack's name you motherfucker!" He threw his fist over Martin's face, angered to the hilt.

Alpha Drake calmed him down while I took position in front of the fucking murderer.

"Martin."

"Alexander De Luca." He muttered through gritted teeth sizing me up.

We share a mutual hatred for each other.

"Respect! You address him with respect." Alpha Matt snarled from his end of the room, where he's being held back, "He's Alpha Alexander to your lot." He warned, his eyes were darkening to a shade darker than midnight blue and the veins on his head were on the verge of protruding. His wolf was near.

"Rein your dog in." Martin jeered.

I had no idea when my fist flew to his face, I threw punches until I couldn't count and his face had turned a mighty shade of red and purple. Alpha Drake held me back. "You can't let his harmless bark get to you, it'll rid us the information we need." he muttered against my ear.

His words got me pulling to a halt. I flexed my fingers impulsively, clenching hard on my jaw. They ached to slug repeatedly at the shitfaced ass.

"Bring it in." Alpha Drake ordered to the guard hovering by the door.

The man nodded, slipped out of the room only to return with a machine in his hand.

"Who are the rats that feed you with information from our Packs? Start from the De Luca Pack." Alpha Drake demanded, his tone was polite, it surprised me how he was able to pull a straight face interrogating this skunk. He was the reason why his own father was paralyzed.

I didn't want to go further by thinking of what he did to my own grandfather but now that the thought has crossed my mind I felt like skinning him fucking alive and putting what's left of him on display for the world to see how the end of whoever trifles with on of us is.

Annihilating him was the goal.

"You're a fool to think I fear you or anyone, or anything you could bring to hurt me. I've seen decades tripled of what you have, you're nothing..."

Alpha Drake didn't bother to give him a heads up, he attached the machine to his feet and turned it on. Martin's growl was loud enough for everyone to hear throughout the whole Pack. When Alpha Drake turned it off Martin's head hung limp to his side and his whole body trembled convulsively.

A foamy mixture oozed from between his clattering teeth and his fingers shrunk in size. I eyed the innocuous looking machine with vast satisfaction putting it at the back of my mind to make inquiries about it later. I need one.

"Who works with you?" Alpha Drake barked.

"Kill me... You're not getting.. a word past my lips..no matter...no matter what you do." His words came out in a wheeze.

Alpha Drake gestured at the lone guard with us, urging him closer. The man took hold of the device with a nod from his Alpha, placed it over Martin's head and turned it on.

Martin thrashed helplessly against the wall and Alpha Drake repeated his question. This time, Martin responded with several nods and the device quited to a halt.

"Skorr, Ives...the Mallorys and...and Dimitri.." He whispered, his eyes rolled back twice and he fainted right there and then.

My heart shifted at the names being called.

Victor Ives and Sylvester Skorr's betrayals were already known. The Mallorys were one of the largest families within the De Luca Pack, the family head, Boris Mallory was a soldier when Enzo De Luca was Alpha, his family comprised of six male children and two females. Three of his sons were soldiers, one was a police officer while the other two were hunters, his two daughters were both scouts and the thought of the whole family involved in Martin's betrayal sickened me. They brought shame upon their name.

What's worse though is Adrianno Dimitri's involvement. To think I trusted a man who hated my grandfather enough to work alongside the man who killed him with his bare hands had what's warm in my blood turning cold. I was fucking lining the whole lot and executing them in broad daylight.

It seems the De Luca Pack truly has major faults in their administration but with this confession things were going to change to rights.

The Elders in the Council of Leaders were supposed to be the most protective members of every Pack but in mine they prove to be the heinous ones.

An eye for an eye for every Pack member we lost due to their acts.

He jolted back to consciousness as the guard splashed water on his face "And Leah...bless her, that girl...that girl is wicked through and through...the worse part is.." He coughed out blood, "You brought out that...that side of her. Jealousy..she was jealous of Arabella, and that whore Isabelle."

I threw a punch reflexively on his jaw, it snapped his head up and more blood was spluttered from his mouth. The air reeked of the metallic smell of his blood.

"You didn't bother to..to give her attention anymore." He slurred, "You forgot 'bout her. She was lonely." His eyes were drooping by the time he concluded Leah's sob story.

Yeah right! The pathetic ingrate.

"She was ungrateful, and stupid."

His teeth pulled into a sardonic grin, "She was helpful..at least to me, thought she clever..." He spat more blood and a tooth followed. "You wanna know why I'm telling ya this?" He asked, slurring harder than he was at first, like he was on the brink of losing consciousness.

We all stared hard at him, our stares propelling him to speak, "I cant die alone...not my fault they trusted the wrong guy...I'm meeting my Vanessa, they had the world to explore...been there, done everything....I don't care anymore..kill me or not, either ways I'll die. Least I killed De Luca.." He wheezed.

It was ironic how he spoke of his advocates as though their lives weren't worth a dime in his life. But then it wasn't anyone's fault that they decided to support Martin, their greed would have them killed and Martin didn't give a rat's ass about it. He cared for none but himself, not even Arabella who if it wasn't for our interruption would have been killed at his hands. His own granddaughter.

He sicken me.

After he was done calling out the names of the men working alongside him within all of our Packs Alpha Drake subjected him to the device's torture once more, this time in gratitude for being helpful before myself and Alpha Matt walked out of the cell room leaving Knight behind. We couldn't trust anyone but ourselves with the duty of guarding a man like Martin. His thoughtless slurs told us as much that none could be trusted anymore.

Although gloomily, each and every one of us just couldn't wait to put our hands around the traitor's necks.

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Alpha Matt returned to his Pack that very day. He was livid and from the short time I'd spent in his presence I have understood the sort of man he was. He reminded me of Damon.

Speaking of which, by the time I returned to the Bane Pack manor almost half of the De Luca Pack members were there. I might be exaggerating though.

I placed a kiss to the top of Old Seer's head and she returned the gesture, making me bow to her level.

"It's good to see you Alpha, how is Lucas faring?" She asked worriedly, the shock she must have went through at how the tables turned from Lucas being eager to mark his mate as his to him protecting her with his life and suffering the consequences of his actions unconscious in the hospital must've brought forth the impromptu decision to follow our trail.

"His mate is with him as we speak, he'll be fine before you know it. Don't fret, he's a strong one, one bullet can't kill him."

"Alpha." Francis acknowledged me with a nod, I patted his shoulder as was the norm for us and nodded at Damon who was staring hard at me with the bland note in his eyes. His calm didn't fool me though, underneath he was brimming with so much anger it baffled me how no one else could decipher it but me. Or at the very least a few among us.

"Who's with Martin?" Damon asked, his hands closing into a fist.

"Knight. You up for the task?" I asked, knowing he was the perfect candidate to guard the man. A black eye and visible wounds on the man wouldn't surprise me though.

Damon needs his anger unleashed and being assigned to a woman didn't make it any better. He never hurts a woman, that's law.

I do not too, but in Leah's case, punishment is vital. She's not the epitome of a good Pack member, she has rogue spelt all over her but trust caused us mightily but once bitten, twice shy.

Letting down our defenses might be something we once did but now it'll all be in the past. We're changed, for the best.

"I was born for it." He muttered.

Francis shook his head once at the Delta, "Don't kill him though, he needs his death elongated, we can't give him that favor."

"Ay Ay Captain." This was the closest to a joke that Damon has said ever since chaos erupted in the De Luca Pack.

"We have a lot to discuss." I muttered at my Beta who nodded grimly and made way for me as I headed to where the former Alpha Christopher Knight was lying on his bed with my mate by his side fussing over him.

With a quick detour to her side I caught her eyes and hooked them into mine, without acknowledging her grandfather or the other people around I bent for a kiss and only released her when a startling cough was released by my Beta who stared at me incredulously from afar.

I caught his lips muttering "Unbelievable" but who was I to ring sense into a mateless man's head? Let's wait until he finds his girl and see if he'll keep away his attraction to her from the world.

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