Chapter 29: The torture

“ I know nothing about the Del Noirs.” Charles’s eyes flicked away from me.

I grabbed him by the neck and bashed his head against the wall.

“Don’t fucking lie to me Charles, I can tell when you’re lying.”

I walk back to the table, and gaze at all the knives, finally settling on my favorite, a medical scalpel. I slide the scalpel out of its sleeve, and walk back towards Charles, his face paling at the sight of it.

“ Now tell me what I want to know.” I smiled sadistically at Charles.

“I don’t know…”

I interrupted him throwing the scalpel at his foot, it pierced the top of his foot.

“Ahh” he screamed in anguish.

“Now Charles didn’t I tell you not to lie to me.” I walked over to him and grabbed the scalpel out of his foot, pulling in an upward motion so it flayed the skin from the top of his foot up to his ankle.

Charles groaned.

I walked towards Charles, and got down to his level, looking him straight in the eye.

“That was just a warning Charles, if you cannot listen, I might as well chop off your ear.” I brought my scalpel up against his ear, and added enough pressure to allow a trickle of blood to flow down.

“The Del Noirs are witches.” Charles croaked out.

“And” I glared at him starting to lose my patience. Leo was restless and wanted to comes out. It was taking all my strength to keep him at bay.

I remove my scalpel from Charles ear, and lower it down to his exposed chest. I move my hand from the top of his chest down to his navel leaving a small gash.

Charles hissed in pain.

“Mmm..mmy Ma ma mom, Madeline… wa wa wa was hired to ca ca create a potion to tra tra trick your fa fa father.” Charles whimpered out.

“Who hired her?” I ran the scalpel down past Charles navel onto his thigh, pushing it deeper into his leg.

“Puh puh please, da da don’t, ma ma make me ta ta tell you.” Charles cried. “Hh hh he’ll ka ka kill my family.”


“Charles, if you don’t fucking tell me what you know right now, I’ll fucking kill you and your family right here, right now. I’ll slaughter each and everyone of them in front of you. And then once your family is gone, I’ll take you out too, the last thing you’ll see is your families blood on the floor, and you’ll know that it’s all your fault.”

“Alex, grab Charles kids from school and bring them down here.”

Alex’s face paled but he knew not to argue with me.

“Yes Alpha.”

I turned away from Charles and towards my torturing table to grab another device, quickly mind linking Alex.

‘Grab the kids, but do not bring them down here. Take them to the pack kitchen, and grab them some ice cream. Ask them about their mom and see if they ever have contact with their Grandma Madeline.’

Alex let out a sigh of relief through our link, ‘will do Alpha.’

I grabbed the corkscrew before turning back to Charles.

“Your children will be down here within the hour. Tell me the information I want to hear or I will torture them mercilessly in front of you. I’ll start by clipping of each and every one of their fingers and then I’ll feed them to you. Then I’ll….”

Charles being to sob even harder. “Enough. Already i’ll tell you what you need to know.”

I snarled at him, jabbing the corkscrew into his left eye.

“Ahhh!” Charles screamed.

“I’ll tell you when you’ve had enough. Now tell me about Madeline.”

Charles continued to whimper in the corner.

I started to count down. “3…2…”

Charles quickly began to share his tale.


“My mother concocted a potion to trick your father. She was hired on by a warlock named Lazarus. My mother instantly fell in love with Lazarus. She called it love at first sight. My mother wasn’t a werewolf, so she said it wasn’t like our mate bond, but something else entirely. When Lazarus looked at her, my mother felt like she couldn’t live without him. Lazarus seduced her and tricked my mom into making this potion, stating that he would marry her. After the potion was made, Lazarus disappeared. Leaving my mom alone and broken hearted, my mother traveled to the Blue Moon pack, intent on revealing the truth about the potion. But there she met my father. And she felt the mate bond with him, and understood whatever she’d felt with Lazarus was trickery. My father, told my mother to keep what happened between her and Lazarus a secret, saying Alpha Sam would never Forgive her and that he’d kill my mom instantly.”

Charles went quiet.

I remember seeing something in the Journal that Fredrick had handed me about the Warlocks being banished from the werewolf packs due to a giant explosion that occurred killing a large number of wolves. I wonder if Guinevere had read that same entry.

“Where is Lazarus?”

“I don’t know, My mom hasn’t seen nor heard from him since she made that potion.”

‘Alpha,’ my gamma Cole mind linked me. ‘we have the librarian in custody. We will be at the dungeon in less than 5 minutes.’

“Ah,” I smiled maliciously at Charles, “it looks like your mate has come to play too.”

***Hey all, thanks for the continued patience as I find which direction Id like this story to take. Do you think Damien is going to find Lazarus in time? Let me know your thoughts. xoxo Marriah***