Chapter 23

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Dom's POV

I'm forced awake at the sound of my phone buzzing against the wooden nightstand next to me.

The caller ID reads 'caller blocked'.

I don't know why but I unwrap myself from Stef to answer the 4 o'clock in the morning call.

"Who the hell..." The blocked caller, who I eventually figure out is Zek, cuts me off.

"Just listen, your first task begins in fifteen minutes. Meet me in the old shoe warehouse next to fosters market. Oh, and if you screw this up your friend max will pay the consequence, with his life." Without another word the line goes dead.

As quick as possible I get to my feet and throw on some clothes and shoes.

Before I turn the door knob I check to make sure I haven't woken Stef up. She lays peacefully in our bed, pink lips parted , and long wavy black hair cascaded over her pillow and onto the bed.

'I'll be back.' I whisper.

I twist the doorknob open and pad my way out of the room, closing the door gently behind me.

...

With less than a minute left I pull up to the old warehouse and rush inside.

"Cutting it a little close are we?" Zek says as I enter the cold and dreary building.

Looking around I take notice of the single metal chair placed in the center of the room. I also notice the dirty concrete ground and cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. This place is a shit hole.

"What do want me to do, clean this piece of shit building?" I ask as I walk over to him. Kicking around some dirt In the process.

He laughs at my joke.

"You might have to later but for now,"

He walks over to a door that is labeled storage unit, yanking the door open a body stumbles out and falls to the ground.

Judging by the size, hair, and lack of breasts I assume that this person is male. His shouting is muffled by duck tape covering his mouth, a blindfold blinds his vision, and rope holds his wrists and ankles together with tight knots.

"All I need you to do is get him to talk." Zek says bending down grabbing the him by the shoulders and dragging him to the chair.

"And how do you suppose I do that?" I ask stuffing my hands in my pockets.

"Use your alpha ability if course." He grins, evil clear in his eyes.

"So you want me to beat him to death?"

"Not to death just rough him up a bit, I'll ask the questions." He stands behind the male and removes the blindfold.

Just by looking at his eyes I can tell he's an omega.

"Well Colin this is a friend of mine, and he's here to speed this process along. So I'm going to ask you a couple of questions, if I don't get an answer or the answer I'm looking for my friend here will, give you some assistance." Zek stays behind the guy that looks like he could be the same age as me.

Colin try's to speak but the tape is to tight on his mouth.

I move forward and peel the tape off.

"You couldn't have done this somewhere else? This place is a shit hole." Is the first thing Colin says.

I laugh, remembering I said the exact same thing.

"Just remember Dom, lives are on the line." Zek says silencing my laughter.

"So if your the boss, what do you need him for?" Colin asks nodding towards me.

"Enough chat. First question, who was your alpha?"

Colin is silent.

Zek nods toward me.

Gathering enough strength, my fist forms a ball and collides with his right cheek.

"That hurt." Is all Colin says.

"Answer the question!" Zek has lost his patients.

...

I don't know how many hours have passed but my knuckles are busted and bloody. My injuries don't compare to Colin's though. Blood streams from his busted lips and nose.

He spits a mouthful of blood onto the already dirty floor before speaking.

"My poor white shirt, all red now." His voice is full of sarcasm.

This kid is though and I respect him for that. Not many people would still have the attitude that he has after being physically forced to talk.

"We're finished for today."

I'm happy to leave but on the other hand I feel bad for Colin. From what he told us he was just an innocent bystander to his alpha's twisted tricks.

My phone vibrates in my pocket.

There's a text message from max asking where I am. Stef is probably freaking out.

"I have to go." I say making my way towards the door.

"I'll be seeing you shortly Mr. Wright." Zek says before I push the door open and step into the bright rays of the sun.

...

The drive home is terrible due to the lack of sleep. But I'm able to make it home in one peace.

"Dude where have you been? We almost sent out a search team." Max asks as soon as I step into the kitchen.

Most of the pack are gathered together in the kitchen. But I don't see Stef.

I don't even know why they are all here.

"Oh Dom where were you? Oh my god your bleeding, what happened." My mom bombards me with questions.

I can't focus with all these people talking at ounce.

I push past a few people to try and find Stef. Still no sign of her.

"Dom let's get you to Mike so he can fix you up." Again with my mom.

It's really pissing me off that I can find my mate.

"Dom did you hear..."

I can't take it.

"I'm fine! Now if somebody could please tell me where the fuck my mate is?!" I don't mean to lose my shit in front of my pack or my mom for that matter, but Stef is and always will be at the top of my priorities list.

The room is dead silent as I wait for an reply.

"I think she's upstairs in your room." Danny answers.

Finally a god damn answer.

Angrily I stomp out if the kitchen and take the stairs by two.

I walk down the hallway and open the first door on the left.

I stand in the doorway looking around the room. No Stef.

As I'm about to turn around and walk away when I hear a small sniffle.

"Stef?" I call.

Stepping further into the room I noticed the cracked bathroom door.

When I push the bathroom door open my heart literally skips a beat.

She's sitting on the closed toilet seat with her knees pulled to her chest,her eyes are fixed on the white tile floor, and she's wearing one of my t-shirts.

"Stef baby I'm-" Her chocolate eyes light up at the sound of my voice.

Instantly her arms and legs are wrapped around me.

"Where were you? I thought..." Her voice breaks.

I can hear the tears flowing now.

"I know, I know Stef. I am so sorry, I didn't me to scare you." I carry her into the bedroom and sit down at the end of the bed so she's straddling me.

"Where were you? What happened?" She asks looking down at my bloody hands that have know stained the white shirt on her body.

"Zek called."

"W-what'd he say? What did he do to you?" Looking into her glossy eyes I can see the panic arise.

"He didn't do anything. He had me, assist him in getting some answers."

"I don't get it?"

"I had to beat up a guy to get answers, or else someone would get seriously hurt." I'm not happy about what I did to colin but I had no choice.

"Someone like who?"

"Max. He was going to kill Max if I didn't help him."

...

Stef's POV

"No Dom you just can't wrap it, you have to clean it first or else it'll get infected." I say trying to stop Dom from wrapping his bloody hands in bandages.

"Well I wanna clean you so I think we can compromise."

He pulls me to his chest and presses his lips to mine.

His tongue glides across my lips asking for entrance. I gladly allow him access.

"Let's take this off." He says referring to his shirt that I'm wearing.

I hold my arms up so he can pull the shirt over my head.

His intense stare at my chest reminds me that I'm not wearing a bra.

"Your turn." I say tugging at his hoodie.

I help him pull it over his head.

"You know like the hole pack is downstairs right?" I don't wanna do anything that will embarrass me in front of the whole pack.

"Yeah I know. Underwear, off." He demands as he starts a bath.

I do as told and take off the remainder of clothing on my body.

After adding bubble bath Dom stops the water and removes the rest of his clothes.

I can't stop looking at his...his male part. It's so big and pink, so pink.

"Are you just gonna stare at my dick or are you gonna join me?"

I can feel the heat rise to my face.

I just bite my lip and follow him into the bath.

...

"Stef stop. I'm warning you." Dom says as I play with his belly button.

"Why? Your belly button is so cute." I whine in a baby voice.

"It's not cute it's weird."

I hate the fact that Dom hates his outty so much when I think it's as cute as a button.

"It's not weird."

I place a kisses on his bare chest all the way down to the lining of his boxers. I was sure to place an extra kisses all over his stomach.

He watches every single one of my movements while biting his bottom lip.

When I think about it I've never sexually pleasured Dom like he has to me.

I wonder if he wants me to?

Does he feel like I should return the favor?

He hasn't mentioned it before.

Before I can process the thought anymore my fingers are shaking with the drawstring to his sweatpants in hand.

"What're you doing?"

I don't answer him.

"Stef babe, what're you trying to do?" His big hands are placed over mine.

"I you just do stuff for me all the time, and I just wanted to do something for you this time." All of the sudden my nails have become the most fascinating thing to look at.

"Hey," he lifts my chin so we're almost eye level.

"I'm not expecting anything from you. You never have to do something that you don't want to do just to please me."

"What if I want to?" The red rises to my cheeks once again.

"Well if you want to, I'm not going to stop you." He whispers.

His hands are removed from mine to push my hair behind my ear.

I take that as my cue to continue.

This time with the help of Dom I'm able to untie the drawstring but nothing more due to the loud knocks on the door interrupting us.

"Shit." Dom whispers.

I climb off of him knowing that he wouldn't let me answer the door in these shorts and tank top.

He stands to his feet and strides to the door.

Another loud knock is heard before Dom opens the door.

A young, pale faced male stands at the door looking almost nervous.

"Luna," the boy bows his head towards me. I don't know what else to do besides wave, so I do just that.

"Um alpha, Zek is downstairs and he...he looks really pissed."

My heart drops and my eyes go wide at the sound of his name.

I've never met Zek in person besides the time we had to rescue tommy but the stories I hear about him make me sick to my stomach. Although I hear many stories about him I'd like to better understand why he is the way he is.

"We'll be down in a second."

The boy nods then turns and walks away.

"Why is he here?"

"I don't know but we're about to find out." I can sense the anger radiating off of him as he pulls on a clean hoodie and waits for me to follow suite.

...

"What are you doing here? I thought you said I was done for today?" Dom says as he approaches Zek.

I step to the side with Danny and Mrs. Wright but focus my hearing towards Dom and Zek.

"Look I know what I said but one of Colin's friends from his old pack found out about our little meeting today and tipped off sitzmen about me and the whereabouts of our meeting this morning." None of the people he's talking about ring a bell.

"What does this have to do with me?"

"He also told sitzmen that I was working with someone, a very powerful alpha."

"How does he know all of this information?" Dom asks crossing his arms over his chest.

"When we went and got Colin, he already knew we were coming. I don't know how but he did. So he told one of his friends to keep an eye on us."

"So where is Colin now?"

"Sitzmen took him out for talking to us." I'm praying that when he says 'took him out' he doesn't mean killed him.

"What about the friend?" Dom rakes a hand through his hair.

"I took care of that."

I still don't see what all of this means.

"Do you think he'll look for us?" Why would someone be looking for them? Zek I could understand, but Dom not really.

Zek catches my gaze and holds it for way to long so I finally look away.

When I look back up I hear nothing but Zek's mumbling voice I guess he figured out that I was ease dropping and decided to whisper from here on out.

...

Dom's POV

"I know he'll look for us. That's why we need to leave for a couple days to get out of his radar."

He's shiting me.

"You really expect me to leave my pack, my family, my mate when a psychopathic alpha is on the hunt, for us." He must be crazy.

"Yes, I guarantee that if you stay here and sitzmen finds you he won't just try to kill you, he'll saluter your hole pack."

"You don't think I could take him?"

"I know you could take him it's just that sitzmen likes to play unfair, and on his own terms or no terms at all, kinda like me." I know he's right.

"Just give me a minute to get my shit together." I'm defiantly not trusting Zek but if someone gets hurt it'll be my fault.

He nods his head.

"Max, take Zek to my office, I'll meet you both there." Max leaves the room with Zek following behind.

"Dom what's going on?" For the second time today my mother's distinct voice is chipping away at my patients.

Choosing not to let my anger out on anyone I just grab Stef's hand and pull her up the stairs without a word to anyone.

As soon as the door is closed behind us I push Stef up against the door and smash my lips to her's releasing all of the anger that has been built in the last couple of minutes. My grip around her waist is tighter then intended but she doesn't complain. Instead she tangles her fingers in my hair and kisses me back.

I break the kiss and say "listen, I have to leave for a few days."

"Wait what? Where are you going?" Tears brim at her waterline.

"I don't know where yet but I have to go, it's the only way to keep everyone safe." I wish it wasn't the only way but as far as I know it is.

"Th...then I'll come with you."

"Stef I would kill myself before I put you in any type of danger. Do you understand that? I can't live without you, so I need you to trust me. Do you trust me?"

She nods.

...

Before walking down the stairs I take the moment to say my goodbye's with Stef.

"You know I love you right?"

"Yeah." She nods.

I can tell she holding herself together as best as possible.

It's kill me knowing that I'm doing this to her, she's freaking out because of me.

I just need to hear her say it. Just once.

I pull her close and stroke her silky hair.

"Do you love me?" I feel her brake. She's shaking now and I can feel warm tears through my shirt.

"Stef, I'm not going to leave until I hear you say it."

"Then I'm not gonna say it." She giggles.

I laugh as well.

"Let me rephrase that. I need to hear you say it."

She steps back from our embrace and whip's the moisture from her face.

"Yes Dom, I love you." She smiles.

That's all I needed, to hear her say that she loves me. Now that I know it's time to leave.

She walks with me hand In hand down the stairs then kisses me goodbye.

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Authors note

I know....I know this chapter kinda sucks, but I've been kinda having writers block lately. So this chapter is definitely not my favorite. Anyways as I said before I am giving everyone permission to curse me out in the comment for not uploading a chapter sooner so have fun with that. On a good note I'm starting to finalize some plans I have for this year, like At the end of march I'll be in West Virginia for spike fest. Then in July I'll be in Detroit. And hopefully I can get to Columbus, OH to see the neighbourhood perform soo yeah a lot of things are being said and done so far this year and I like it.

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