XANDER'S POV:

I see all of my army lined up. I ordered Soul and Noah to go around and give them a drip of the potion Carrow gave me. It has no serious side effects at all which is a real benefit for us. Apparently you just get a dry mouth after a while, 

I turn around and look at the forest line. I take deep breaths to try calm my storm of anger. I clench my fist wanting to punch something. I swear on everything I hold dear if there is a hair on her head that has been harmed.  I will leave none alive.

I turn back around to my men, "Listen up." I yell with my Alpha voice.

All of their attentions turns to me, "These Rogues has stolen something from us. They stole our prize jewel! They stole OUR LUNA!" I shout. Growls and Snarls echo through the men. I feel their anger towards the Rogues. "Through this they sent us a message that they can take whatever they want...BUT we will send them a message! We are the largest pack. People, creatures, demons and probably the devil himself fears us. So let's show these sons of a bitches what real fear is like! They will regret ever taking her from us AGAIN!" I yell.

I look to my left and see Eddie. I nod towards him, "Lead the way." He bows his head and turns around towards the woods and runs in. We follow him into the darkness.

IZZY'S POV:

"You will be happy to know that your mate is on his way."

I turn from my belly to glare at the monster, "How do you know?"

All he does is smile, "I have my ways my darling." He makes his way towards me slowly as if he was stalking his prey. I stiffen as he sits next to me on the bed. His hand touches my knee and slowly  moves up my leg. I swipe his hand way, "Get away from me, filth." I snarl.

I see his eyes goes black. He struggles to keep his smile in place as I know that he is furious with me. He moves to sit closer to me. He grabs my hand rubs it. "Lizzy-"

"It's Elizabeth to you." I growl.

He nods, "Yes, Elizabeth...you have to understand that you are mine. I will do what I please with you."

I felt a sharp anger buzz inside of me. I hated that he says such bold statements so casually. As if it wasn't a big deal at all! I growled deeply, "I don't belong to anyone. No man owns me. Not even Xander. I belong beside him, there's a difference."

He laughs, "You will have to come to terms with your fate, my love. You will learn to accept it and accept the fact that you will be mine and you will bare our children."

I spit in his face and growl, "I will not. I'll kill myself."

"You will do not such thing! You cannot leave me! You are my mate now!" He snarls at me. His fangs elongate as his pupils dilate. his wolfish side was surfacing. 

I growled lowly at him, "You're just a sad middle aged man that's gone completely and utterly insane."

Matheseus grabs my face and smashes his lips to mine. I snarl and bite down on his bottom lip, hard, causing his skin to break and bleed. 

He leans back and snarls in fright. I raise my hand and slap him across the face.

He chuckles without humor and wipes the spit on his face, "Oh my darling. You push beyond my limit."

Matheseus practically lunges on me. I snarl and tried kicking him off, but he pressed down upon me with his body weight, trapping me under him.

He grabs my face harshly and yanks my lips onto his. He tries to push my mouth open, but I refuse. He uses his one arm to keep my head against his. With his other arm, his touch roams my body, touching everywhere. EVERYTHING. When he cups my core, I gasp.

 When I open my mouth in shock his tongue enters my mouth. I struggle against his hold, but he was incredibly strong. I bite down onto his lip hard. He shouts and backs away. He is breathing heavily as he touches his lips and looks down at his hand. Blood. He instantly slaps me hard on the face. I collapse onto the bed. I taste something metallic in my mouth. I see the Rogue Alpha stand up and straightening his suit. He chuckles and smiles, "Well...we can't get too excited now can we my darling. Have to save that to show Xander."

Dread tingles my whole body.

He bows his head and leaves. I rush towards to bathroom and throw up. His touch triggered my morning sickness. With shaky legs I stand up and strip. I go into the shower and let the  hot water beat against my back. A sob escapes my lips. I sag against the wall and slowly slip down to the floor, holding my knees. I rock back and forth, sobbing and mumbling my thoughts.

I scrub my body, I try to get his touch, this dirtiness off of me. My skin starts to look slightly raw from scrubbing it so hard. I end up throwing the cloth hard across the room. I sob and sob. I hate that so many little boys have gone through stuff even worse than me. I hate that I'm here and not with Xander. I hate that I may not live to see my baby boy grow up.

"It's okay little guy, daddy's coming soon." I sob.

I dry myself and wear Xander's big white shirt. His scent surrounds me, giving me comfort.

I look at the mirror when I notice something different about me. I see a little bump. My lips tip up into a slight smile. I touch my belly and whisper, "Even at my worst you know how to make Mummy smile."

I walk out of the bathroom and collapse onto the bed. I grab the blanket and pull it right up to my neck, wanting to cover every bit of skin. I release a shaking sigh. I close my eyes and try to smile, but we both know that no one can sleep when you're at a place like this.

It's been three hours and I still haven't had a wink of sleep. I sigh and get up out of bed. I walk to the bathroom to splash my face with some cold water. I tense up though when I hear the door to the room. I close my eyes. No! Please please NO NO!

"Ummm...miss?" I high voice. I frown. who is that?

I walk out of the bathroom only for my eyes to meet a little boy that looks like no smaller than possibly 8 years old. I smile at him and say, "Hello there."

"Hello there madam. I have come to bring you food." I notice he is holding a trey that had a meal on it.

"Thank you so much." I grab the trey off of him and sit it on the coffee table. He just stands there and looks at me, "I'm sorry," he says, "Master said I had to stay here until I see that you've eaten everything on your plate."

I smile at him, "That's okay. Do you want to sit down next to me? Standing looks exhausting."

He gives me a slight smile. He sits next to me.

"So what is your name?" I ask.

"My name is Alex." I notice he has a slight Italian accent.

"That's an awesome name! My name is Elizabeth. But you can call me Lizzy."

He smiles at me slightly then looks back to his feet. I look at him and see all of the fading bruises. Hes also under weight.

I look at the chicken on my plate. I hand it to him. He looks at me with big round eyes and shakes his head, "No! no. You must eat for your baby." He pushes my hand away. His kindness bring tears to my eyes, but I blink them away before he could see.

"No, my baby is fine. come Alex. Eat please." I plead with him. I hand the chicken back to me. He takes it hesitantly. I nod towards him, encouraging him to eat it. He takes a bite. As he chews, the smile on his face brightens. He keeps eating and eating. Once there was nothing but bone left, he sits it on my trey. "Thank you Lizzy."

I smile at him and scruffle his hair. "You're welcome...ummm Alex?"

"Yes Miss?"

"How long have you been here?"

His goes sad which broke my heart, "since I was 7 years old."

I nod my head, "Can you please tell me what you do here."

"I am usually in my cell unless Master calls upon."

I nod, "And...and what does master do to you?"

Alex's face turns angry as his reddens and his eyes fill with tears, "He keep pulling my pants down and it makes me angry. I try to pull it back up, but all he does is smile and laughs like it's a game."

Fury boils inside of me at the thought of him being hurt. I hold Alex in my arms as he cries. I can't even imagine what I'd do if my child was in a place like this. I would go insane. I wonder where his parents are, "Where are your parents?" I ask.

He wipes his eyes and nose, "Master said that fire took them."

I snarl. Matheseus burnt his pack to the ground.

Alex suddenly stands and rushes to put everything on the trey, "I am past my curfew!" He says in a panic. I help him clean and put everything on the tray. "Please you have to drink this."

He holds out a vile to me. I frown, "What is it?"

"Don't worry, it's not poison and it won't hurt your baby. All it does is dull your scent! Please! I will be in trouble if you don't drink it!"

I nod my head and throw my head back and swallow it.

I give it back to him and rushes out of their.

"Please let him be safe."

XANDER'S POV:

"We're close," Eddie whispers

I nod towards him. Up ahead I see a little old Cabin like house. I frown. I don't remember it being like this.

"Are you sure?" I ask.

He nods his head. "This is where I ran away from."

"But this isn't-"

Before I could finish, a man's screams inside my army. I turn around to see what's going on.

What's happening? I mind link Noah.

One of the men were stabbed.

By who?

By one of the other soldiers.

WHAT?

I make my way towards the wounded man. He is on the ground with Soul trying to get him up. I look to the attacker. Something about him was out of place. His eyes were black with dark vanes that looks like tears streaming out of his eyes.

I cock my head and frown, "You're not in my army." I state. I wasn't questioning it, it was a fact. I didn't know him nor have I ever seen him.

I look around the crowd. I look at everyone's eyes. Almost all of the men had crazy eyes. I've been tricked. Someone meddled with my army.

Suddenly the man in front of me lunges. I grab him around the neck and break it. His lifeless body flops onto the ground.

I mind link MY army and say
Kill the black eyed wolves.

All of my men growl and lunge towards the rogues. I attack everything in my path.

I grab one of the wolves that was on my little brother. I rip him in half. His blood spraying on me.

A wolf lands on my back and bit into my shoulder. Yell out. I grab it and threw it to a tree, breaking it's back.

I turn around to fight more, but all of the rogues had run away. I had no casualties.

Noah went up to me growling, "What is going on?"

"The potion didn't work. They must have tracked us. Go get the wounded. We have to go home."

I step forward when Noah grabs my shoulder, "And where are you going?"

"Those rogues don't get the luxury of having a successful mission." I shift into my wolf and run deeper into the forest. I sniff the air and growled, their scent wasn't there. They must have had some of the same potion. 

I heard growls on either side of me as I ran. I felt myself smile. Time to let off some steam. One of the rogues lunged on my back and bites into my shoulder. I roll over and smash the wolf into the ground. My teeth grab a hold of it's neck and rips it's throat out. Blood seeping into my mouth only makes my hunger to kill skyrocket. 

Another wold lunges at me, I jump into the air to meet it. I tackle it into the ground. It's claws extend and slashes my side. I snarl in anger. I bare my teeth and bite down hard on it's leg, I drag the wolf and swing it into the tree. I hear it whimper on impact. It drops to the ground and my wolf goes in for the kill. 

In total, I killed four rogues. The others would have sprinted away. Pussies. 

I ran back to the group. They all went silent as I emerged from the trees covered in blood. I shift into my human an approach the men. My skin stained in red.

I thought I was going to be holding my mate this night. Have her in my arms. I growl, but no. I'm not going to. Because someone has betrayed me. Carrow's potions are a guarantee. It'd be impossible to tamper with them. Which leads me to think that someone is working with the rogues. Someone in my pack. 

I'm going to find them. I'm going to make them go through so much pain.

I shout, "No!" As I punch a tree.

"Everyone is ready Xander." Soul says. Unfazed by the blood

I nod my head and turn around...heading back home.

8 Hours Later...

We finally get home. It's the early morning and the sun was about to rise. All the women and children run out to their mates crying.

I growl in envy. They have mates to come home to. My mate is trapped in a dirty cell.

I growl loud so than everyone pays attention. "I want to interview every adult in this pack. There will be three rooms in the pack house. Each room will have Noah, Soul and myself. We will be interrogating you. There is a traitor among us. I will find this traitor...and I will kill him. I also officially announce a Pack Lockdown. No one gets in. No one gets out. Now please make three neat lines at the three doors in the pack house. We will have lists of your names. If any of you do not arrive...you will be punished accordingly."

I don't have time for bullshit. I want to lay everything out on the table and corner this mole until he or she starts to panic.

I go to Noah and Soul  to explain what we're gonna do for interrogation.

For the rest of the day we were having meetings with almost every single pack member. After going through everyone there was still no hope. I lean against my office chair and release a big sigh. I pinch the bridge of my nose and frown deeply. There has to be another way.

I look up to the sky, "Please help me." I whisper.

Soul and Noah walk into my office, "We got something Xander." Noah says.

"Which is?" I question.

"Actually it was Soul who thought of it." Noah looks at Soul and nods.

My little brother sighs as he steps forward.

"We haven't investigated one last person."

"Who?"

"Eddie."

I frown in confusion, "That doesn't make sense. Why would Eddie betray his own sister? The sister he protected for years?"

"We don't know, but what we do know is that he was squeaky clean after the battle. He wasn't even touched. Zapora has been complaining to me about how he seems distant. She says she can't feel him the way she should. She keeps reaching out to him through the mate bond, which should be easy. But she says she has to try and intentionally search for it. This is enough reason to investigate. And if we find nothing...then no harm done."

I think on it. Why would he do this to his own sister? The one he protected and loved. But then again, who knows what happened to him at that place. He could be messed up? Or was manipulated somehow?

I nod my head, "Okay, bring him in here."

Noah bows his head and leaves to retrieve him.

I turn back to my little brother, "So how do you want to go about this?"

"You go first with the questioning. I have an idea to see if this is the Eddie we know."

"How?"

"I told him something personal about my mate one time. I'm gonna see if he remembers it."

"You mean about-"

Noah bursts through the door, shoving Eddie in while hold a protesting Zapora out. He shuts the door after leaving with my willing little sister.

My eyes how straight to Eddie. His eyes are filled with fear.

"Hello Eddie."

"H-hi. Xander? What am I doing here?"

"I need to ask you some question."

He gulps, but slowly nods his head hesitantly.

"Good. Sit."

He obeys my command immediately. I get up of my chair, walk around the table in front of him and cross my arms over my chest.

"So, how were you taken?"

"I-I was on my shift at patrolling. I heard something deeper into the forest. So I ran to check it out. Then suddenly someone comes out of no where and hits me at the back of the head."

"Really?"

He nods confidently. I walk around him, I grab a hold of his hair and yank his head forward. He whimpers.

"Usually a hit to the head as hard as that leaves a scar...I don't see a scar Eddie?"

He looks around the room. Not giving me any eye contact. "Ummm they had a witch there trapped. They forced her to make some healing cream you put on the wound."

I nod unconvincingly, "Okay."

I take a knife out of my drawer and play with it around my fingers, "What were you doing during the battle Eddie?"

"I was fighting."

I grab his wrist tightly, "Tell me the truth." I growled.

He looked at me straight in the eye suddenly holding arrogance, "I was fighting."

His pulse quickened against my hand. He's lying.

I nod at my brother for him to confirm it.

Soul stepped up to Eddie and smiled, "Well now that we know you're innocent, I should probably tell you the news."

"What news?"

"I found my mate." Soul says slowly.

Eddie is instantly on his feet and pulling Soul into a hug, "Whoa! Congratulations man! I'm happy for you."

Soul doesn't hug him back. He looks at me with confirmation.

I grab the back of Eddie's shirt and yank him back. I punch him right across the face. His body drops, knocked out cold.

I growl in fury. Traitor. Actually no...intruder.

Me and Soul both stomp out of the room.

Zapora looks at me then at Eddie. "What's wrong with you???" She yells.

I roll my eyes and keep walking, but she follows and shouts, "Why'd you do that to my mate? He's already been hurt enough you son of a bitch! Eddie is INNOCENT!" She screams.

I stop walking and grab her by her shoulder and yank her closer, "That's not Eddie!!!" I growl.

She frowns, "What?"

"It's Eddie's twin brother...Vince."