Chapter 29

Pov will be shifting between Kyle and Anders, so keep an eye out for that. And some torture in this one as well.

Kyles pov

I hear the whoosh and the snapping sound, then the whip hits the exposed skin on my back, I manage to keep myself from screaming as excruciating pain slices through me. The whip tears right through my skin and I feel the blood trickle down my back, but the man is not done. Again and again, he puls his arm back and lets the whip hit my skin, cold sweats break out all over my body and I shake trying to keep myself up and not let the bindings on my hands slice me, I'm starting to fear that they might take my hands clean off if I jerk my arms. I lose count at 20 and I know my back, ass, and thighs must look like minced meat. My capturer is panting from the excursion and finally stops, he steps in front of me and smiles at me. His face is covered in my blood and the whip hanging by his side has pieces of my flesh dangling off of it. "Well, that was fun, wasn't it honey?" Honey? Now, that's creepy.

"Think I need to give you a break, well from bleeding at least. How about we try this beauty?" He walks over to the table and grabs the car battery.

"Sir, there's someone here to see you," another hunter enters the room and my new friend throws a smile my way as he puts down the battery and leaves the room. The second hunter takes a look at me and smirks, "Having a good time monster? Kane is the best there is at prolonging death, I know he's gonna enjoy you before he lets you die, I'm just hoping he's gonna let the rest of us join in from time to time. I'm Seth by the way, I'm sure we are going to get to know each other very well." Then he leaves the room slamming the door shut with a loud bang. I hate to be negative but that doesn't sound like something I might enjoy.

I have no idea how long it takes before the hunter, whose name I now know is Kane, walks back into the room. "I'm sorry honey, I was sidetracked by the so-called leader of the rogues, he was starting to get a little too demanding, I just love killing rogues, it gives me an extra spring to my step." This man has the creepiest smile I have ever seen, "Now, I was told once, that for you freaks touching your mate feels like an electric current, so this little exercise should bring fond memories to you." He walks back to the table and picks up the battery and cables, walking over to me he clips the cables onto my sides so they dig into my skin. Then he turns the battery on, and pain the hits me. The electricity paralyzes my entire body and I cant move at all, it makes my body go rigid and shake, my jaw clamps down so hard I feel like my teeth will shatter under the pressure. It lasts maybe 10 seconds before he turns it off, "I don't want to risk giving you permanent brain damage. But don't worry, I have practice doing this and I haven't accidentally killed anyone for years."

"What about that wolf cub we played with last week boss?" The same guy from earlier walks into the room, "Don't mind me, I'm just here to watch."

"That wasn't an accident, that kid was way too loud, it just got annoying after a while," the bastard actually laughs.

And his buddy is equally sick, "Yeah, but those screams were kinda nice, I'm gonna be jerking off for weeks thinking about them." Okay, scratch that, this guy isn't sick, he's a complete psychopath.

Kane snickers, "Man, you're so fucking weird."

Then he turns the battery back on with a huge smile. Lucky for me the man has a short attention span and seem to get bored with one activity, so after maybe 15 shocks he pulls the cables from my body and declares he's done with that for now.

"Hey Kane, I've been thinking, doesn't it seem like a bit of a waste to have this guy here and not take the opportunity to fuck with the big bad Alphas mind?" What is this guy talking about? What are they going to do to Anders?

"Oh yeah? What are you suggesting?"

Seth walks up to the table and picks up the pliers, "How about we send him a little gift?"

"I like the way your sick mind works Seth, you are truly fucked up." Kane seems to understand what the man wants to do, and they both move towards me. Seth reaches up and clips the wire around my wrists, then they both work together mostly carrying me over to a metal chair on the floor. They shove me into the chair and I'm secured to it with more wire, with my hands behind my back.

"Do you mind if I have the honors?" Seth holds up the pliers.

"Go for it, that way I get to see the look on his face." Kane folds his arms across his chest and leans on the wall in front of me.

As Seth moves behind me I start to understand what going to happen, and I try to mentally prepare myself. I feel him pick up my hand, then the cold steel of the pliers touches my right middle finger, then I feel a pressure start to form. He does it slowly, I feel the pliers dig into my skin, moving down into the flesh, then it hits the hard bone and he adds a little more pressure, the sickening sound of bone breaking is heard and I feel the finger fall away from my hand. The hot searing pain makes me break out into another cold sweat and I feel like puking, but I'll be damned if I let these psychos hear me scream or see just how much pain I'm in.

"Fuck, that's such a turn on," Seth stands up straight and grinds himself into my back, I can feel a prominent bulge proving that he really does find pain to be a turn on. He moves to my front and grabs my head and shoves my face into his groin with a moan.

"Cut it out Seth, it's not the time for that just yet, lets head up and gift wrap our little surprise and get it sent off to his booooyfriend." He says 'boyfriend' in a cooing voice as they both leave the room laughing and talking. Leaving me on the chair giving me some much needed time to rest and heal up, it's not the most comfortable position but I fall asleep right there on the chair.

Anders pov

Two days, he's been gone two days and I have no idea where he is. The rogues aren't talking and no one seems to know a fucking thing!

I know they're torturing him every day, I feel it. He's been electrocuted, cut and whipped, and every time I get one step closer to losing control completely. I want to hurt someone for hurting him, I want to rip someone limb by limb for laying hands on my mate. And Mads is not helping, he's growling and thrashing in my head. Yesterday I snapped and lashed out at one of my warriors who came back reporting no new leads. I didn't hurt him badly, but that was really just pure luck.

Leila came back yesterday and she is proving the idea of tigers being dangerous and short tempered. If it hadn't been for Axel being there to rein here in I'm sure she would have killed both of our prisoners by now, she went postal on them both and had to be removed from the room as they were left barely able to heal from the injuries they sustained.

"Alpha, we found a parcel just inside our territory, it has your name on it. It smells like the Luna..." I can sense that the warrior is holding something back.

"What? What else does it smell like?"

"It smells like blood, sir, like the Lunas blood."

"What have those monsters done to my mate?!" Mads roars inside my head and pushes hard to be released but I fight him back, he's not in a state of mind to be in charge now. I start running to the borders as fast as I can. When I arrive I see three of my wolves surrounding something on the ground in a clearing maybe three feet inside the border.

As I move closer the smell of Kyles blood hits me and makes me flinch back, but I have to find out what this is. I get down on my knees next to it and one of the men hands me a knife to cut the tape on the cardboard box. As I cut into the box there's a disturbance and Leila, closely followed by Axel enters the clearing. Shes snarling and pacing but says nothing as I open the box with shaky hands, laying on top of some newspapers is a note, I pick it up and read it out loud,

Dear Alpha Anders, I am so enjoying little Kyles visit, he is an impeccable guest and I can not see myself parting with him in the imminent future. Give my love to his sister, and tell her that she will be my next source of entertainment.

That last part has Axel snarling as well, he is not happy about someone threatening his mate. I hand over the note to a warrior, I know it will be checked for any clues as to where it came from.

Then I turn back to the box, I slowly move aside the paper, and inside, laying on piece of red silk paper, is a bloodsoaked finger. I see red, I hear a beeping in my ears and I feel myself slip. I barely register one of the men next to me stumbling away and emptying the contents of his stomach. Mads seizes my body and I shift so fast that clothes are scattered in all directions, the roar that tears from my chest is so powerful it has my warriors whimpering and bowing down in fright. I have no idea what is happening to my body right now, neither I or Mads have a plan of action, and it can turn out very ugly. As we turn to the border and are about to cross it in a fit of fury someone latches on to my hind leg, I turn around with a furious snarl only to be met by Axel's wolf holding me back. In the back of my mind, I know that if I cross the border it can be seen as an act of aggression by the neighboring packs, but I can't care about that now. So I lunge at Axel, I want him to release me and I don't give a shit if I hurt him in the process. Apparently, Leila does care if I hurt him, and she leaps on my back, using her size and strength against me she pulls me to the ground and manages to grab hold my neck. Mads is pissed at her blatant sign of disrespect, no one takes hold of an Alphas neck like that.

"I mean you no disrespect Alpha, but you are not in control and thinking logically right now, you need to calm down and think this through. Kyle would not want you to risk yourself or the pack on a whim. As soon as you have a concrete lead we are all with you and will kill anyone or start whatever conflict needed to save him, but right now you, Anders, need to take back control. This is not the way!" Leila's voice rings through my mind, and she is right. So with a lot of effort, I manage to take back control and let my body relax in her grip. It feels humiliating to be manhandled by her like that, but sometimes even I have to back down to a greater strength. She lets me up and I stand, shaking out my fur.

I shift back and is handed a pair of sweats, "There is no excuse for me losing my control like that, I apologize to you all, I will do my best to make sure it won't happen again."

One warrior speaks up though, "We all have complete understanding for your reaction, if I had been in your place I doubt I would have been able to come back." The others nod and I see from their faces that I have not lost their respect even though I was just wrangled to the ground and sat on by a tiger.

"Thank you, that..." it feels like my throat is closed, I can't seem to get air into my lungs, dark spots start to cloud my vision.

Kyles pov

My head is dunked into a big vat of water, two men hold me down as I trash about fighting to get free, fighting to breathe. As I'm pulled out I can hear Kane laughing, "Are you enjoying your bath tiger? I know you guys like the water, so I figured I should let you play a little," he is taking far to much pleasure in this. But I do what I have done all this time, I say nothing and don't let him know how fucking scared and freaked out I am, there is no way in hell I'm letting this bastard break me.

"Dunk him again," the men shoves me back down and I hold my breath for as long as I can, I feel my lungs burn, my brain is screaming for oxygen, the dark spots are replaced by bright stars, I start to feel lighter and see vivid images of Anders swimming before my eyes. My lungs are blazing, and I can't hold it anymore I open my mouth and suck in a large gulp of water, feeling it flood my lungs. Then the pain dissipates, in its place is...floating, I'm floating on a warm breeze and feel safe, as if I'm in Anders' arms. I see his smile, I see his loving eyes...Then darkness.

Anders pov

Something inside me snaps, my connection to Kyle is severed. My mate, my reason for living is gone. My heart is ripped from my chest, Mads howls in agony and I fall to the ground clutching my chest, heaving for breath as the air rush from my lungs. I can hear a distant agonizing howl, I vaguely realize it's coming from me as I topple down and everything is black.

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So, yeah.... I just killed Kyle.... Sorry!!

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