Chapter 40

Xavier’s POV

I had been ready to sacrifice myself when I had seen Blaine’s dad emerge for the newly opened door. She had been looking for him for so long and she thought so highly of him that I knew I just couldn’t bring myself to hurt him.

That was until the announcer had opened his mouth.

Upon learning that he had been involved in the attack that killed my whole family I just saw red. All those years I had been seeking revenge for them I had never truly known whether the rogue I was fighting had been directly involved in the attack or not, I had always just gone on the principal of a rogue is a rogue and needed to be dealt with. Thankfully Blaine had opened my eyes to how prejudice that had been and I had learned that not all rogues were evil, but at the moment that knowledge was tucked into the far corners of my brain.

I had one goal in mind, kill the man who had lent a hand in murdering my family.

It was an evenly matched fight, each of us giving as good as we got, but neither of us let up as we continued our battle in a blind rage.

I wasn’t sure what had woken me up from my haze, but suddenly I was all to aware of what I was doing as I pounced on Blaine’s dad’s back and rolled him over so that I could get to the underside of his belly. My wolf, who had taken control of my body throughout this entire fight, suddenly decided to retract his hold on me slightly so that I had enough sense to pull my claw away at the last second so that I didn’t catch my opponents sensitive flesh.

I jumped off his back and looked around, trying to find out what had drawn my attention enough for me to loose focus in the middle of a fight and was instantly surprised at the chaos that was going on around us. How had I not noticed this before?

There were people and wolves running around everywhere, some screaming in terror as they ran away whilst others letting out battle cries as they chased someone down. What the hell happened?

A growl suddenly sounded from behind me and I looked over to find Blaine, standing in the ring, with a wolf towering over her. She didn’t show fear when facing off with the wolf, but she didn’t exactly seem comfortable in his presence either, and that’s when I recognised who he was. He was the wolf who had been involved in the last fight as we’d walked in, the one who had killed his opponent.

I watched on in fear as I saw him crouch slightly, preparing himself to spring into action, and just when I was about to get in between them I clocked movement in the corner of my eye, Blaine’s dad.

He ran towards me at full speed, not taking his eyes off of what was going on behind me and just when I was about to tense, readying myself for impact, he sailed over me and knocked over the unknown wolf who had been staring Blaine down. I swiftly spun around and got in between Blaine and her father, wanting to protect her just in case he still wasn’t himself.

‘It’s alright Xavier’ Blaine linked me as she nudged me slightly from behind. ‘Look into his eyes, they’re clear like yours and mine, not frosted over slightly with the absence of his human form. He remembers me’ she linked as I suddenly felt a massive crash of relief through the mate link, hers not mine.

Blaine went to take a step around me but I growled a warning at her to say behind me. This man had been in captivity for over two years, being forced to do god knows what to other wolves and that isn’t even taking into consideration his past. I didn’t trust him at all and I’d be damned if I was going to let him anywhere near my last reason to be happy.

‘Xav what are you doing? He’s my father, he won’t hurt me’ she muttered as she tried to step around me again, but I just moved with her so she couldn’t find an opening, my eyes never leaving her father or the other wolf who was now slowly trying to stand up after the massive blow he’d just taken.

‘I don’t care who he is to you Blaine, he just tried to kill me and I’m not going to risk him doing that to you too’ I growled.

‘Don’t act all high and mighty Xavier, you just tried to kill him too and I’m not holding that against you am I?’

‘I had a reason to, he helped murder my family. Do you really think I’m going to just let him get away with that? After everything you know about me?’

‘And do you really think that I’m going to let you harm him in anyway after everything you’ve learnt about me?’ She replied as she once again tried to dodge out from behind me.

This time she was a bit more successful though and before I knew it she was standing in front of me and resting her head on her dad’s shoulder, the only form of hug we could do whilst in wolf form. I watched on closely as I took a note of every minute movement her dad made. I didn’t trust him, yes it may have something to do with his involvement in my family’s death but why shouldn’t it . It took a certain type of someone to invade a pack’s land and kill for the sake of killing.

I was just about to get in between them again, feeling uneasy with this person being so close to Blaine, when I spotted movement in my peripheral vision. The strange wolf had recovered enough to figure out that his attacker was standing right here and decided to seek some form of revenge for the blow. To bad he thought I was the wolf who had originally knocked him down.

I shifted so that I was in between him and Blaine but before the attacker even got close to us Blaine’s dad jumping in the way so that he took the full force of the blow.

I stood there for a second, shocked that he had put himself between me and the angry rogue, as I watched them circle each other in the fighting ring.

‘Xavier that’s my brother, Daniel’ Blaine sobbed as she watched her dad and brother leap towards each other.

That was her brother? ′hen why the hell is he attacking us if he’s your family?′

‘I don’t know, his human side probably hasn’t re-emerged after we had managed to remove the collars. To him this is probably just another random fight that he was being forced into by those monsters that took him’ she continued to say, her eyes fixated in front of her.

‘I have to help them in some way, make sure they don’t kill each other’ she stated as she started to take a few steps towards the brawling wolves.

I was just about to stop her when her dad managed to hold Daniel and pin him down so he couldn’t move, that took some serious strength to do and I hated to admit it but I was secretly impressed. What he next did though was something I don’t think I’d ever seen in my life.

Whilst her dad continued to pin Daniel down, using his body weight and paws to keep him imobile, he slowly started to shift back into his human form. I stared in amazement as I watched him partially shift without ever letting up his hold on his son.

“Blaine get... get out of here” he panted as he looked over at his daughter “I’ll deal with him, you get your mum and sister out of here-“.

I could tell he wanted to say more but before he could he lost his grip on Daniel and slipped back into his wolf form so that he could defend himself. I honestly wasn’t sure how he was still staying upright. Between the fight with me, the partial shift, restraining Daniel and being as malnourished as he was I’d be on the floor by now if I was him.

My dad had always told me that you’d found strength where you never thought possible when it was to save your family and the ones you loved. I guess that was what his drive was, the fight to save his wife and children from this life that they’d been forced to live for so long.

‘You heard the man Blaine, lets go before he can’t hold him any longer’ I told her as I nudged her slightly with my head towards the door.

‘Jax, any news on Blaine’s mum and sister?’ I linked him and I continued to nudge a reluctant Blaine out of the cage and back into the semi chaos of the people around us.

‘Annabelle has them hidden in the woods with a few pack members, she’s treating their wounds and giving them some food and water. How about you? You all good?’ he asked.

I nodded before realised he couldn’t see me and quickly responded to him ‘yep we’re both good, just trying to get Blaine out of here’ I informed him as I gave her another gentle nudge.

I could understand her hesitation, she didn’t want to leave her brother and father in the state that they were in after only just finding them, we had to get ourselves out of here though. Most of the wolves who had escaped were now gone, ran off into the forest so as not to be re-caught. It was amazing news, knowing that we had helped free countless wolves from the lifestyle of illegal fighting, but on the other hand it was bad news for us because the guys working for this fight club now had no one to shoot at, no one but us.

I spotted a guy trying to sneak up on us, gun in hand, as he aimed it straight at Blaine’s head but I shoved her out of the way before the bullet could reach its target. She spun on me, obviously not understanding why I had pushed her, but when she finally spotted the guy holding a gun she quickly changed targets and ran right up to him, knocking his gun out of his hand before hitting him over the head with her paw.

I smiled over at her as I watched her take that guy down before turning my back on her so that we could each watch the others six’s. The room had nearly emptied out by now and from what I could tell there were only three or four pack members in here with the odd human scattered about who hadn’t yet managed to find an escape route. The thing that did grab my attention though was the amount of biker gang style guys there were around us, all sporting guns and all of them getting pointed in our direction.

‘Umm Jax? I think we’re going to need a hand over here’ I stated through the pack link as I watched more and more guns getting pointed at us.

‘I’m here, I’ll watch on from my position and take them out one at a time whilst you draw their attention’ he informed me and it wasn’t till now that I spotted his wolf stalk around in the shadows, using the darkness as his camouflage as he took care of one biker guy after the other. Sometimes it paid to be the Alpha and have a jet black coat to conceal him in the shadows.

‘Blaine, Anna has your mum and sister safe outside, we just need to focus on getting out of here alive okay?’ I linked her as I walked backwards until I felt her tail touch mine. ‘Jax is taking them out one by one so we just need to stall them until then’.

‘And how do you suppose we do that?’ She asked ‘We’re both in wolf form so can’t exactly talk our way out’ she huffed.

“Well I have to give you credit where it’s due” a voice suddenly said as a figure appeared amongst the group of gun happy people. “It takes some serious skill to break up this type of organisation” the voice continued to say as the figure finally stepped out of the group and made himself known. “Oh the name is Benjamin by the way, Benny for short though” he shrugged as he ran his hand through his beard.

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