Epilogue
~*~ Zach ~*~
“We have our orders, and I don’t know about you, but I am going to follow through with them.” I looked at the raven-haired witch in front of me as she clutched her broken wrist in her hand. “Well?”
“Well, what, dog?” She snapped. “Our orders, as you call them, came from a man who had his throat ripped out. I am pretty sure it doesn’t matter anymore.”
“It does matter, because she’s supposed to be mine! Jessica was promised to me.”
The witch laughed at me then, a cackling villainous laugh. “You will never have Jessica St. Marks De’ Lune. She was lost to you the moment she met Mikael. From what I hear, she was lost to you long before that too, but he is her true mate, they have an unbreakable bond. They’ve exchanged souls boys. Do you understand how rare that kind of bond has been all these years?”
“I don’t care! She was promised to me, and if I can’t have her, I will see her destroyed. I will see her suffer as I kill off each and every person she ever loved or cared about, and I will save her precious Mikael for last. I will make her watch as he takes his last breath, and I will have you there, to keep her alive as her bond mate dies. Then, she will be ready to be mine.”
The witch stared at me with abject horror written clearly on her face. “You are a sick son of a bitch, you know that?”
“I may well be, but I will get what I want. She embarrassed me once before, and had me thrown out of the pack. I will prove to her I am no weakling. When she sees that I am the last one standing, she will have no choice, but to love me. I will be the ultimate alpha of our kind.”
Sophia bit back a snickering laugh as she turned her back on me. “You are nothing. You are a pest, and the only reason you’ve made it this far was because someone greater than you had an agenda. My agenda ended when the love of my life was killed.”
“The love of your…” I was puzzled momentarily. “No! Not you and Antoine?” When she didn’t move or deny it, I was the one to laugh. “Is that how he convinced you to break his first bond? He convinced you that he loved you.” It was my turn to laugh now. “You fell for that, and you’ve been clinging to the hope that the two of you would be together, all this time?” I moved closer, getting a sense of her mood that was quickly deteriorating. “How did it make you feel when he bound himself to Eleanna then? I bet that was a shocker!” I watched as Sophia flinched at my words as if I had physically slapped her. “That’s what you were hanging on for wasn’t it? Unrequited love with a werewolf… You’re a witch! You are not of our kind, what made you think you could love a wolf?” I was disgusted that she would think one of our kind would lower themselves to be with a witch. We could use them up all day long, feel them writhe beneath us, and send them on their way, but they were not to be loved. This witch thought I was mad, and she had lost her mind long ago.
She never answered me, and I decided to move on with the next part of my own personal agenda. Sophia was right, we no longer had a puppet master pulling our strings, and I had often wondered what the witch would do when she didn’t have someone to give her orders. Thankfully, I planned ahead. I walked over to the far wall in the cabin Antoine sent us to, and I threw the switch there. It triggered the lowering of a special cage, like the one I had rigged up in the pet rescue that Mikael had been building. The cage fell over top of the witch, standing a few inches taller than she was. At least I had been thoughtful enough to make sure she had plenty of room so that she could get comfortable.
“What is this?” She screamed at me from inside the cage.
“This,” I gestured at the cage, “is your new home.” I tossed a pillow through the bars. “Make yourself comfortable, you’re going to be here a while. I’ll have some spell work for you to do.”
“What makes you think I’ll run spells for you, little wolf?”
I didn’t like the way she spat out the words, ‘little wolf.’ She was insulting me. I was no omega wolf. I was an alpha and I was going to have to teach her what that meant. I would break her in every way, and then bend her to my will. “Well, you’re going to want to get out of that cage one day, and the only way that’s going to happen is for you to follow through with my plans.”
“You will regret this decision, boy.” She seethed in my general direction, as I laughed her threats off. “There may well be a way to break the soul share that Jessica has with Mikael.”
“And how is that?”
“Well, we’re going to have to be patient, wolf, but I can promise you this, if you keep me locked up in here, I will work against you, not for you. Do you understand?”
“I understand that if I don’t get the results I want, you won’t be alive to worry about it anymore.”
Sophia threw her head back and laughed then. It was a disturbing thing to hear, because it pierced the ears, and shattered all the glass that was in the small room of the cabin. When she was spent, she sat down on the wooden floor, folding her legs up underneath of her as a black mist rose out from around her, and then as the black mist began to sink down through the wood of the floor, Sophia was pulled along with it. One minute she was there, and the next she was just gone.
“Well, that puts a kink in the plans,” I muttered to myself.
“We’ll have to see to that,” a man’s voice called to me from the front door.
“It’s about time you showed up!” I turned then to see what he had brought with him. “We need to figure out what we’re going to do about that god damn brother of yours.
“And so we will,” came the answer.