Brady's POV

Someone patted my cheek and I could hear the sad sound of sobbing leave the person's mouth. I blinked as soon as the moonlight hit my eyes.

"Brady, p-please wake up. I don't know what to do! I am all alone and I can't do this. Please don't be dead. You can't leave me here Brady." She choked out.

I gasped loudly and my chest rose up and down with countless efforts of getting oxygen to my brain. Mia was the first thing I saw and my heart broke when she sniffled harshly. She shivered while letting out a breath of relief, which was visible in the air.

Her eyes were bloodshot from crying so much and her nose was as red as a firetruck. Her arms wrapped around me, tears still leaving her frail body. Mia climbed into my lap and tightened her grip on me like I would have disappeared the moment she would have let go.

My nude body also shuddered when she touched me with her icy skin. I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her cheek.

"Shh, I'm okay. I'm here." I comforted her.

She pulled away from my grasp but keeping hers on me still.

"I didn't know what to do! You were throwing up something black and I tried my best to wake you up, but you never did. It's been six hours of me trying to wake you up, I really thought you were gone. Please don't do that again. Uncle Luca and Aunt Diana were taken and he was vomiting as well. The same thing! I had to drag you away from the smoke and f-flames on the dead bodies!" She ranted.

"It's okay, It's okay. We are going to find them. I am going to kill every one of those bastards who took them. I will make sure of it."

Mia nodded slowly trying to stop herself from crying more than she already had. She gave me another strong hug and I inhaled deeply catching a whiff of her alluring scent. Mia rested her hands on my cheeks, our foreheads resting against one another. She brought her left thumb up to the corner of my lip and wiped off the excess tar that stained the corner of my lip.

"Wolfsbane."

Mia squinted at me, a look of confusion resting on her beautiful features. I had explained to her about what that deadly inhalant was.

"What?" She asked me.

"It was wolfsbane. It is some sort of flower that is poisonous to werewolves, deadly. It causes this black substance to leave our bodies: tar."

"But there weren't any flowers near the creek. There was nothing but those bodies and water."

She was right there was no flower there what so ever. I tried to think of what could have caused the wolfsbane to release into the air which caused Luca and I distress. I wondered who the f*ck those dickheads were that took him and Luna Queen. I had never seen them before.

"No. There wasn't." I answered her.

"W-was it like the flower Aunt Diana used on you the night they made you go into the cell?" She asked.

I gulped and nodded slowly. Mia scooted closer to me and rested her head in the crook of my jaw and shoulder. I cradled her while thinking of a plan.

"I am so glad you are okay. I did my best to wake you up but tar just kept leaving your nose and mouth. S-some even came out of your eyes," she whispered the last part then she continued, "I dragged you away from there and just laid with you."

Her eyes couldn't release any more tears yet I still wiped the bottom of her eyes giving her lips a slow yet very meaningful kiss.

"You did good, baby. You did well." I reassured her.

My arms were holding her so close, it was nearly impossible to get any closer to one another. All I could think about was those assholes that made my mate feel emotional and physical pain. In one word, I was INFURIATED. I was going to slaughter every single one of them and I would breathe my last breath trying if I had too.

"I love you," Mia whispered.

My lips twitched upward and my heart almost stopped. Those three words had such an effect on me that nobody but her could have achieved.

"I love you more," My lips met her neck, "We need to go back to the Pack. It will be much safer there for you and we can let the betas and gammas know what happened. I promise you that I will find them and bring them back. I promise."

"Okay," She muttered.

"Okay," I said back.

My eyes stared at the dark sky and I knew that there was no way in hell we were able to move yet. It was too dangerous to head to the Wood's Pack at this time.

"Don't you think it's a bit too dark to leave right now? Should we wait until the sun comes up."

I nodded in agreement.

"Yes. Why don't you rest up? I will keep watch, get some sleep."

She shook her head and frowned when I requested her to get some rest.

"No, I am not leaving you awake on your own. I want to stay with you," Mia began panicking.

"Hey, don't worry. I am not going anywhere. Just close your eyes and get some sleep. I will be here while you sleep and as soon as you wake up."

She hesitated for a moment but agreed nonetheless. Mia snuggled into my body to pack some heat as she laid in my arms. After what seemed like seconds, her breathing had slowed down to a steady pace indicating she was passed out.

I exhaled deeply from my nose making sure my grip on my mate wasn't too tight or too loose. It absolutely crushed me to think she had already been through so much and in all honesty, I wasn't able to do anything but stay by her side through all of it. She didn't deserve it. Any of it.

Luca's POV

A roar thundered out of my chest when two men laid their hands on Diana. I was tied in a wooden chair with metal chains wrapped tightly against my wrists and ankles. Diana was in the same position sitting across from me.

"DON'T TOUCH HER!"

One of their rough hands harshly grabbed Diana's jaw, opening it with such force. She let out a whimper of pain and I could see her eyes squeeze shut.

"Nothing. There are no canines growing." One man had spoken.

What?

I made fists trying to contain my anger to avoid Diana from getting hurt anymore than they already had. I could feel my claws dig so deep into my palms there was blood dripping down my fingertips and onto the rusty floor. I tried to calm down.

"Please. Don't hurt her." I said as calmly as possible.

It didn't seem to do anything but irritate them. One man had long hair pulled into a messy man bun as he pulled a gun out of the back of his pants and pointed it right at me. I glared at him, praying that my looks could murder him millions of times. The other male dragged his fingers gently across my love's face bringing them lower...and lower.

"L-Luca," She breathed out with fear.

My eyes darkened and my canines had soon exposed themselves I roared so loud his hand quickly snapped back to cover his ears. The man with the gun dropped it doing the same until letting out a breathless laugh.

"It's true. They do exist."

I knew that they were human the moment we were put in this place and the pieces started to put themselves together. I pulled violently against the chains trying to break them. The wooden chair was slowly cracking at the force I was putting towards it.

"Touch her again, I will make sure that both of you have a slow and painful death that even Lucifer himself will fear me." My teeth were grinding together as I slowly spat those words out like venom.

They didn't listen. Instead, they chuckled a bit and continued to examine Diana as if she was a worse danger than I was.

"Luca? Is it? Why don't you tell your old friend here to shift as well?" Man bun spoke.

"She isn't one," I answered truthfully.

"What do you think, Lot?" Man bun asked the other.

"I think we should test it out." Lot said with a smirk.

He pulled out a silver knife that glistened under the small light bulb in the middle of the room. Diana gulped down her spit slowly and I could hear her heartbeat getting faster and faster. Lot grazed her cheek with the knife bringing it down slowly once again. He stopped right where her left breast was, digging it a little too deep.

Diana screamed in pain as he cut her deep to see if she was a 'monster' like me. I couldn't bear to see her being harmed by another man. It was my tipping point and I felt the wooden chair break beneath me. I clawed my way out of the chains until finally, my hands wrapped around Lot's neck throwing him across the room. The other man clicked his gun shooting me in the shoulder. I grunted in pain before turning around.

I walked towards him and tossed him to the ground punching him until he passed out. Diana was bleeding excessively and I quickly kneeled down in front of her, letting her free.

I pushed my hand onto her deep cut trying the slow down the bleeding as much as possible.

"I'm here baby, I'm here."

I took off her shirt and ripped it in seconds to cover the wound she had received. I tied the ripped shirt over her left boob until I heard a creak from behind me. My head snapped to behind us only to see Lot dragging himself towards the gun Man bun had dropped.

F*ck no.

My feet wandered to the chains that were near the completely broken chair I had disassembled. The chains were soon wrapped around not only Lots neck, but his partner's as well. There was no way in hell I was going to let them get away this easy.

I threw them both in the corner of the disgusting room until finally, Diana called out for me weakly.

"Luca. It hurts." She moaned.

Within seconds I was right back to her side trying to take away her pain with my touch. It seemed to help a bit as she sighed in relief when my hand rested on her thigh. She held onto my bicep trying to ease the pain even more.

"We are going to get you out of here and back home. Just stay with me okay? We are going to go home soon."

She nodded with her eyes closed.

"I just need to do something first. I have to get answers from them. They are human and seemed to know of our existence. It isn't possible. I need to know what they intended to do."

"It's okay. I will be okay. Please, just hurry." Diana begged me.

My gaze burned into the weak souls that laid in the corner. Man bun started to wake up.

"Who are you?" My voice thundered.

They stayed silent and I snarled angrily before growing my claws and digging them deep into Lot's stomach, twisting them.

"I won't ask again, WHO ARE YOU?!?"

"Please! W-We were just following orders from someone."

"Orders?" I questioned the idiot in front of me.

"Yes! Yes! T-those bodies you saw by the creek? They were all werewolves we had found dead, buried, or alive."

"Why are you after us?"

He stayed quiet testing my patience. I saw the shine from the knife he used on my love next to me. I grabbed it in my other hand while my claws were still in his stomach. The knife was soon jammed into his knee causing him to scream in pure agony.

"To KILL! To kill EVERY damn monster until there are none left."