The Hunter Becomes The Hunted - Chapter 172

[KYLE POV]

After the others told me to go, I took off running. There were wolves in the immediate vicinity that were trying to stop me, but I managed to get past them. And before any of them could follow after me, the gathered team were able to stop them.

There were several members of the group that broke off and followed me just in case there were more enemies that I met along the way.

“If they get in your way, we will stop them, Alpha Kyle. There is no reason for you to stop along the way. You just hurry up and get to where you’re needed the most.” Cristina’s lightly accented voice came from just behind me and to the left. She was following me closely and ready to attack anyone who might get in my way.

“Yeah, that’s right Simba, you just leave them all to us.” Maria added from my other side with a slight laugh in her voice.. If I wasn’t so pissed and focused, I would have joked back with her telling her that I was a panther and not a lion. I wasn’t Simba, I was Bagheera. But I wasn’t capable of telling her that at all. All I could do was try my best to get to my mate as fast as I could.

When our group had reached the second floor, there were six people waiting there for us. They hadn’t been expecting us, but they had been alerted to our presence by the thundering sounds of our footsteps.

It was true that I, and many of the others running with me, could have silenced our footsteps almost entirely, but that would have taken too much time. I was in a hurry and didn’t want to worry about that at all.

“You will not disrupt my Alpha’s honeymoon.” A woman was standing in the front of the enemy group and holding a long wooden pole in her hand that she planned to use as a weapon.

“Leave them to us, boss man.” Maria shouted as she leapt past me and tackled the woman to the floor before she could even use her makeshift weapon against her.

“Go find your mate.” Cristina leapt at another of the enemies, a man twice her size but apparently half as strong since she overpowered him easily. The others behind me started to attack the rest of the group and I jumped over all the fighting bodies so that I could continue my run up the stairs.

This place only had four floors which meant that I had to be getting closer to where they were keeping Jacy. I was searching the floors by following the trail left behind by her scent as well as the pull from the beast marks that we shared as I searched for her.

There was a room on the third floor that had a strong trace of Jacy’s scent. In the room there was an old, unused bedroom that was covered in dust. However, I could tell that it had been used recently. There were footprints and scuff marks in all that dust. There were chains all over the bed, and a pile of blood soaked clothes that I knew were my wife’s.

She had been kept in this room, but she wasn’t here now. They had moved her, so I, once again, had to follow her trail. That trail led up the stairs and to the door that was the furthest from the stairs.

I could hear their muffled voices but they were either talking too softly or my heart was thumping too loudly for me to be able to hear them. I didn’t recognize the voice that was talking though. That must be Victor, the man that had orchestrated this whole thing. The man that I was going to kill.

“What do you say, Jacy?” I could finally make out something that the man said just moments before the sound of tearing fabric had me seeing the deepest shade of red that I never thought was possible. I just knew that the fucking asshole that had just spoken had done something that was going to royally piss me off.

When I finally flung the door open and saw that the man had his hand on my wife’s nearly naked chest, I was barely able to stop myself from leaping straight at him. He had clearly thought whoever the person was that had been coming to the room was an ally of his, so he had set up a show for them.

“What in the fucking hell?!” He was shocked and taken aback at the moment he saw me standing in the opened door.

“Get your fucking hands off of my wife!” I snarled at him, stepping into the room. The moment that Jacy saw me I could tell that there was an intense sense of relief washing over her.

“Oh, you must be the fake mate of hers that I have heard about.” He smirked at me. “You really should have just accepted the gift that I was giving you. I left the baby alive only because Jacy asked me to. You were supposed to stay there and raise her on your own. However, you came here so that she would end up being orphaned. Why would you make such a stupid choice?”

The fucking asshole that was still touching my wife was acting all arrogant as he spoke.

“I told you to get your hands off of her.” I snapped at him again as I took another step forward.

As I walked further into the room, I took a work assessment out of my peripheral vision. There was blood everywhere, even all over Jacy. There was a man that was laying on the floor and sobbing as he held his bleeding crotch. Aside from that man, the place looked like any other bedroom that you might expect. It was way more normal looking than I would have expected for this sick perverted freak. That was actually shocking.

“You know, I am kind of glad that you are here, pussy cat. I wanted to see how you reacted when you heard something about my girl here.”

“Oh yeah, and what is that? How are you willing to die because you refuse to take your hands off of her?”

“Haha. No, it’s not that.” He was grinning at me. “How does it make you feel to know that she is returning to her first?”

“Her first what?” I growled at him, humoring him for a moment as I thought up a plan of action.

“Her first lover, of course.”

“You were never my lover.” Jacy snapped at him, defiance returning to her eyes even as I watched.

“Oh, I was, that was for sure. You just weren’t as willing as I would have liked.” The asshole laughed as he just admitted to having raped my wife. “How does that make you feel, lover boy? To know that I was the first one to plow these fields?” He ran a hand down Jacy’s body and I saw that it made her shudder in disgust and fear.

“That just makes me want to kill you even more than I already do. Only now, I think I am going to make your death even more painful than I had already been planning for it to be.”

“HA! HA HA HA! That is so fucking funny. What do you think that you will be able to do to me?” He gave me a look that clearly said he thought he was better than me.

“Oh, I think there is a lot of fun to be had. What do you think, Jacy? Should we get to work now?” I asked my wife and saw a little bit of a smile spread across her face.

“I would love nothing more than to kill him with you, Kyle.” I was proud of her, not letting her fear stop her from being herself, despite the situation that she was in. My Jacy was a strong woman and I have always known it.

“That’s my girl.” I started to walk toward her when I saw that the man that was on the floor forced himself to his knees.

“No! I am going to kill my brother and then that fucking bitch.” The man was pale, and it was clear that he had lost a lot of blood. He was most likely going to die already.

“Did I just hear you threaten my wife?” I asked the asshole with mock surprise filling my voice, not actually needing the clarification from him at all.

“You’re damn right I did. I am going to kill her, you, and my brother. You all deserve to di-.”

I didn’t give that asshole the chance to finish what he was saying. He had threatened to kill my wife on more than one occasion right in front of me. He didn’t deserve to finish his sentence.

I made his death quick and painless at least. I could tell that he had already been given enough pain by Jacy. All I had needed to do to kill him was to swipe across his neck with my partially changed hand. The lethally long and sharp claws severed his arteries and spinal cord in one go. He was dead long before his limp body had even fallen to the floor.

“Y..you just killed my brother.” I saw the shock on Victor’s face. It was as if he didn’t think that I was capable of what I had just done.

“That’s right, asshole. And you’re next.”