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“She did warn you, David. She told you three times that she wasn’t going to put up with you smart-mouthing her in her own home.” He reached over and punched his brother in the face. “That ain’t right. I was just telling you what you seem to forget every time you talk about making her pay. If you want my advice, I think—”
“I don’t want your advice, you fucking turd.” Carl just huffed at him and got up off the couch. The bloody lip that he’d given his brother was already healed. The mother fucker healed quickly every time he hit him. It wasn’t right, damn it. He looked down at his wrist.
He’d been sitting with it in a bowl so that the blood wouldn’t get all over the furniture. Every couple of hours, he’d shift to try and heal the wound that the cunt had given him, but all it did was open the wounds that he’d had sewn shut several times since his hand had been removed. Getting up and dumping the bowl on the couch, he was out the door before his mom could knock him around. That bitch needed to go too.
She’d agreed with the bitch about cutting his hand off. Mom told him that it wasn’t right that he had disrespected the alpha in her own home. Not to mention, him going into the house like he had owned it. Mom said that she’d knocked him three ways from Sunday for doing that in her house. Again, he’d not asked her for her advice, but she seemed to have a great deal of it to share. Bitches, all of them.
Making his way out to his car, he was in it and down the driveway in minutes. He’d had to get him a newer car because his truck had caused him trouble due to his inability to shift with his hand all bloodied up. That was something else the bitch was going to pay for, him a new car.
David was just about to pull into the parking lot of the bar he’d been going to since he’d been bigger when he spotted the bitch and her mate out walking around. They were holding hands like they were in love or something. Christ, he was never going to fall in love. It made you look about half-sappy.
Pulling up on the curb right in front of them, the man, he didn’t ever think that he’d call him his alpha shoved the bitch behind him. Like that was going to stop him from getting to her. He’d be taking him out, too. David puffed out his chest a little more when he realized that the fucker looked to be about twice his size. Then the bitch came out from behind the big man.
“You take it back.” She told him no. Just like that, no. Like she had every right to tell him no, like he wasn’t anything. “You heard me. I said to take it back. You had no right to do what you did to me.”
“Really? Would you like for me to recount that day’s events to remind you of your stupidity?” She was using words that he didn’t understand. “I wanted to know if you wanted me to tell you what happened that day. Remind you that I more than once told you to behave yourself.”
“I’m not a kid. You don’t get the right to tell me to behave like I’m a baby.” She just cocked her brow at him, and he looked at the fucker standing next to her when he laughed. “What the fuck do you find so funny? I’m standing here with no hand, and you’re making me pissed off.”
“First of all, I have a feeling that you’re always pissed off. Secondly, I was laughing when I thought of the look on your face when my wife, and you’d be wise to remember that, cut your hand off in one blow. That, if you think about it takes a great deal of power. And she did it in one blow. I’m pretty proud of her. You should be, too. I think it would have been harder on you if she’d taken more than one chop at your wrist to remove it.” He said she shouldn’t have hurt him in the first place. “Really? I guess, in your small mind, she wasn’t justified in making an example of you being an ass. In her own home, as she pointed out to you several times.”
“I’m going to kill you both.” The man seemed to just get bigger. Like he wasn’t already big enough. The bitch laughed, and he looked over at her. Christ, she looked like she’d grown a foot in those few seconds. His bravo was leaving him a little at a time—bravo. A new word he’d heard and was trying to use it all the time now. However the couple didn’t seem all that impressed with him. Then they went and turned their backs on him and started away. “Hey? I’m not done with you two yet. You get your asses back here. This ain’t done yet.”
“It was done the moment that my wife cut your hand off. You should learn your manners before someone teaches them to you.” Bitch asked him if his momma was proud of him. He smiled at her. “I would imagine that she’s sick of his whinnying, too. I know that I am, and I don’t have to live with the little cock sucker.”
He shifted and lunged at the couple. As soon as he landed on his sore paw, he knew a kind of pain that made him sick. Before he could touch either of them, the man slapped him in the nose. Nothing, not even getting your balls slapped hurt like having your nose smacked. Whimpering, he moved away from them so he’d not get hurt again as he growled at them.
“You’re the biggest dumbass I’ve ever seen. Do you have any idea who I am? What I am to you?” Snarling again, he lifted his leg and pissed in the direction of the two of them. He wouldn’t get close enough to be hurt again, but David prided himself on having a long-range piss. “I’m going to talk to your mother about you when you’re dead. Because the moment you shifted in front of me, that was the end of your life. You fucking little shit.”
“Shift.” He felt himself turn inside out when the bitch told him to shift. “Shift. Shift. Shift.” Each time she commanded him to do it, he could feel the pain coming off his wolf. When she finally stopped, he lay there as his wolf, with his body so abused that he couldn’t move. When she knelt down in front of him, David didn’t have the strength to swipe at her. Panting, his wolf curled around his body as if to say, shut the fuck up and go home, he snarled at her again.
“Would you like to feel that pain for the rest of your life, David? I don’t have to be near you to make you do what I want. In fact, I’m planning on staying as far away from you as I can for the next—how long do you suppose he can live after what we did to him, Lica?” He said it was getting closer to it only being minutes. “Yes, I’ll have to agree with you. He’s losing a great deal of blood right now.”
He was, too. Not just from his paw, but his nose was bleeding, too. And it would never stop bleeding until the man, the supposed alpha, forgave him. Christ, this was a nightmare. All he wanted to do was kill the two of them so that he’d have the alpha position.
This time, the man leaned down to speak to him. As much as he wanted to rip his throat out, David knew that he needed to rest a bit. His body was worn out. His heart seemed to be beating a tad too slow. Standing up, falling back over as soon as he did, he whimpered again before speaking to them.
“I’m going to allow the two of you to live for another day.” They both laughed. He didn’t blame them. He knew that he was a mess. “You won’t think it’s so funny when I slit your throats in the middle of the night soon. You’re going to be dead as dead can be.”
“Is there another form of dead that we don’t know about?” The man stood up. “I don’t have time for this bullshit. You apologize to my wife and myself, and I’ll heal you. Otherwise, and you can bank on this, David James, I’m going to kill you where you lay. I don’t want to have to keep looking over my shoulder for you. You’re just stupid enough that you’d keep trying until I bore of you, and that will be the end of your entire family, too.”
“Kill them all. Do you think that I care? My mother has been telling me that I’m stupid and dumb my entire life. I could care less if she took another breath.” The bitch asked him if he was serious. “Yes. Christ, she’s in my face about every little thing. I cannot wait to be able to piss on her grave for all the things that she’d done to me. Kill them all. I find that I would be better off without them.”
He wasn’t going to turn around and see what was behind him. Both the bitch and the man were looking over his shoulder like he was going to see. When he heard his mother telling the couple, there wasn’t any way that she’d be talking to him about that sort of shit, about how he’d made her life hell since he’d been a little boy. That she despaired of him ever amounting to anything.
“I doubt that he’d going to be any help to me in my golden years either.” She got down on her knees, and he thought for sure that this was going to be epic. His mother was going to beg for him to be alpha like he’d been planning and plotting for his entire life, but all she did was bare her throat to the couple. “I pledge myself to you, Alpha Lica Fraizer and Alpha Bitch, Brandy Fraizer. I will forever be a servant to you and my pack.”
The moment that the man, he’d not known that his name was Lica, touched his mother, he turned to him. While he wasn’t afraid of the man, he certainly made an impressive wolf. When the bitch shifted, something that she seemed to be happy about the way she was dancing around, she turned to look at him when she settled down. Lica smiled, his wolf making it look like he was all badassed or something.
“David Arthur James, I sentence you to death by pack.” He looked over his shoulder, and David was suddenly terrified. “Take him. Kill him.”
David felt his body lift up. Not like he was going to be able to stand picked up but like he was tossed into the air. And he was. Several times, from wolf to wolf, they tossed his body from one group to the next while working their way to the field behind the town. Each time he came down, he lost a bit more of himself. Fur was torn from his skin. His paws were torn away from him with no more than a snap of their teeth. But the time he was in the field, he didn’t have the strength to bed. His mouth had been ripped open, and his gut was hanging out of his belly like some kind of odd art project covered in blood.
He didn’t know one wolf from the next. While he could see enough to know where he was, there was something wrong with one of his eyes. Then it saw it hanging from the mouth of someone he thought was his brother. Christ, was no one going to take his side in anything? The alpha was watching the entire thing. And when David’s throat was ripped out, he knew that he was as good as dead when he realized that his mother had killed him like he was nothing to her.
~*~
Ayden had been working at this place for the last several weeks. Brandy told him all he had to do was observe what was going on, but it wasn’t easy to see much by just going into the place and having a meal. The food was all right, not great, and the service he was getting was a lot to be desired, but he couldn’t figure out for the life of him why they were losing money.
