The Alpha's Toy(17)

“I don’t know. I need to talk to Jessica. Actually, I need to go and have a look at the pack’s hiding place. I’m starting to feel something went fucked up over there, and Mary is one of those wolves.”

She was the woman he’d bitten. Zeke was sure of it even though she didn’t smell like his woman. Everything she described of that night was true to what he remembered. The following day when he’d gone back to find her Mary hadn’t been anywhere in sight. He didn’t know her name or any way in which to find her. Fuck, something was going on, and he needed to find out.

“Fuck, Zeke. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Max said.

Jane was kneeling on the floor stroking her hair. Mary was shaking and muttering in her sleep.

“She mentioned something about injections. When I asked you last night to find out whatever you could about her, I don’t want that anymore. We’re going back to the pack’s house. I’m going to get to the bottom of this. Whatever Roger and Dani were planning, it wasn’t going to be pretty.” Holding Mary in his arms, Zeke felt his heart pounding. Glancing at all of his men, he stared at the sympathy in all of their eyes.

“For a half breed, she’s strong,” Jane said. “I’ve never known anyone to hold off the change.”

Zeke agreed. “I don’t think she’ll survive the next change unless we find out what happened to her in the other pack’s care.”

“You don’t think they were experimenting, do you?” Jane asked.

Frozen, Zeke looked at the other woman. “What?”

“I’ve heard rumors that some packs are using half breeds as experiments to try to strengthen their packs. If Mary was receiving injections, how do you know Roger and Dani weren’t trying something?” Jane asked.

Zeke looked at Max, who nodded.

“One of the packs close to us offered to pay money for Jane,” Max said. “I killed the man who tried to pay for my woman. There are packs out there experimenting, Zeke.”

Stroking her hair, Zeke wondered what the fuck had happened to her after he bit her. “I need to go and fucking find something out.” Looking at Jane, he saw the concern in the other woman’s eyes. “Can I leave her with you?”

“Yes.” Zeke picked Mary up in his arms helping her into the bed. “Zeke?”

He turned to Jane at her speaking his name.

“Her wolf responded to yours.”

“I know.” He tensed, looking at his men, waiting for them to speak up. None of them did as the sympathy for Mary overshadowed everything else.

“Is she the woman you’ve been searching for?” Jane asked.

Zeke didn’t answer her, walking out of his bedroom. One of the men handed him a pair of jeans. He was still too warm to wear anything more than a pair of jeans.

“Where’s Jessica?” he asked.

“Locked in her room,” Max said.

Going down to the bottom floor, he didn’t try the lock. Pressing his foot to the door, he slammed the wood open. Jessica jerked to her feet dropping the book she’d been reading to the floor.

Her blue eyes were wide and rounded as she looked at him. She was a full breed, Roger and Dani’s supposed oldest daughter. She didn’t even smell like the bastards of that pack.

“What were your parents involved in?” he asked, advancing into the room.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She stood up, holding her hands out trying to ward him off.

Zeke was tired of being placated. Going to her side, he grabbed her arm and hauled her out of the room. “Then let’s go and see what Mommy and Daddy had planned.” He didn’t release her. Grabbing a silver chain from the door, he wrapped it around her upper arm.

She screamed, crying out for help.

He didn’t give a shit. After what he’d just seen the little bitch was lucky not to be getting worse from him.

Max didn’t say a word as they headed out into the morning. The sun was shining down, and the warmth of the summer was already high. Zeke kept walking, ignoring the sizzle as the silver bit into his skin. He wouldn’t give Jessica the satisfaction of seeing him hurt. The bitch was still part of an enemy pack.

“Please, I haven’t done anything,” she said, crying out.

“No? Well, we’re going to find out what the rest of the pack knew.” They covered the distance to where he’d killed her pack. The bodies were still lying on the floor only this time they were black from burning. His men had returned to make sure they were all dead. Jessica sobbed as they passed.

Her tears meant nothing to him. Walking around the bodies, he headed straight for the large house. Zeke had visited the house several times. He’d never been interested in fighting between packs.