Chapter 219
Darius pov
They were dead.
All of them, except one and it hadn’t even been thirty minutes.
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Everything blurred as I attacked. I was no longer aware of myself, no longer aware of anything but the act of tearing humans apart, blood spraying across the forest floor. My fangs and claws tore through flesh without hesitation as I moved from one body to the next. Eventually I stood tall, my white fur stained a deep, dark red as I stared at the slaughtered corpses. I growled; drops of blood dripped from my snout. I didn’t care. Instead, I turned to the only man still breathing.
“Ahh, my hand! You ripped my hand apart! How dare you! I will kill you, I will kill you. I won’t go down like this!”
His pathetic screams echoed the air. His mangled hand lay useless, blood soaking the ground. Clutching his shoulder, he spat at me, voice full of pain and fury.
“Do you know who I am? I am Kieran. I’m going to be Alpha of the Emberfang pack. How dare you do this to me. I will kill you, cursed bastard!”
I took several slow steps toward Kieran, eyes locked on him. Fear washed across his face as I closed the distance. In a desperate, gesture he grabbed the nearest thing, his severed hand and hurled it at me. I did not dodge. The severed hand struck me and fell to the ground; I stepped over it, crushing the bones beneath my boots, then continued forward. Horror crossed his face as he screamed.
“Get away from me, you monster! You cursed beast! This is why the goddess cursed you because you’re a monster, because you killed the elders and so many people!”
His voice trembled with terror as he tried to back away, but there was nowhere to go. An amused chuckle slipped out of me, echoing in his head through the mindlink.
“So you know my story?” I asked, stopping just inches from him as his back hit the tree. He clutched his soaked shirt, his face grew paler by the second, yet he still had breath to shout.
“Of course I know of your story, cursed beast. In a fit of rage you slaughtered those innocents, and now you do it again. Aren’t you afraid of the consequences from the goddess?”
The corner of my mouth twitched into an amused smirk at his words.
“Did you call those elders innocent? I’ll agree their families were innocent, but they were not. And yet you lot are worse, you kill, you rape, you loot. Your hands are stained with so much innocent blood. Tell me, do you think the goddess will punish me for taking your lives?” I asked, watching the colour drain from his face as his breathing slowed and he glared up at me.
Even though he looked closer to death, he was actually healing, he had a wolf, after all, so he could survive the
loss of an arm. I continued.
“And if you know the story, then why did you come here to die? Didn’t you realize those elders, hundreds of
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them fought back? I killed them just as easily before the curse fell on me. Haven’t you guessed already that you were sent here as bait, to act as a decoy and die?”
“W–what?” he stammered, clearly startled by my words. But then his eyes widened in realization, and a breathless, disbelieving scoff escaped him. I didn’t stop.
“Zayn seemed like a smart man. He had you and everyone else here acting as decoys to keep me busy for what reason, I do not know. So why don’t you tell me where he is, and I’ll spare you. I doubt you’d really want to die here,” I said evenly.
His gaze narrowed into a sharp glare as he watched me for a moment, then he cleared his throat and spoke.
“How do I trust that you won’t kill me if I tell you the truth? I shouldn’t have trusted that fool from the beginning, why should I trust you?” he snarled, puffing his chest out before continuing.
“If you give me your word that you won’t kill me, then I’ll tell you where he is and everything you want to know. Oh and also give me your mate, Nyssa. I want those two things. If I have them, I’ll tell you.”
As soon as he said that, my aura pushed forward, suffocating the space, and his eyes widened as he realised how furious I was. He swallowed hard, staring at me fearfully before stammering again.
“I–I mean, what am I saying. You don’t have to give me your mate. Just let me go alive and I will tell you everything. Promise me, take an oath you won’t kill me.”
I narrowed my eyes at him for a long heartbeat, then a slow smile spread across my face and I said through the mindlink,
“You don’t know where he is, right?”
His body froze, eyes widening as if caught, but before he could react I lifted my claws and slashed his throat, ending him.
He couldn’t even scream as his blood splattered over me before he went limp, and I snorted, my expression unnervingly calm.
He was useless. At first, I had thought of bringing him alive to my mate so she could get even for what he did to her but that would have been a waste of time. He didn’t deserve Nyssa being the last person he saw.
I clicked my tongue and turned, scanning the bodies one last time before preparing to pick up Zayn’s scent again. But a voice, tinged with amusement echoed inside my head.
“Hey, little Darius, are you looking for me?”
I froze mid–step at the sound. He was nowhere to be seen, but that one phrase stopped me cold.
Little Darius,
That was what Dalton used to call me.
It
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couldn’t be. It couldn’t be him.
AD
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