The SUVs pulled to a halt in front of the pack house. I see my brother and Jacob… and his whore. Alpha Taylor stands to the side. My dad is nowhere to be seen. I yank a black skullcap on my hair and wait for the five elite warriors to open my door. As soon as they’ve cleared it.. I am off like a shot! Straight to my dad’s house with Blake on my heels. Meeting a locked door, I kicked it open.. straight to the living room and it’s a shambles… I turn and run through the house.. screaming DAD at the top of my lungs..

I slam myself into Blake “He’s not here. He isn’t dead.. I can still feel him. My bond is there. But it’s weak!” He nods at me “Then let’s find him!” I haul ass back to the pack house and straight to my brother “Where’s my daddy, Tyler?” He smirks at me. Motherfucker smirks! I say “Do not make me repeat myself, MotherFucker! Where. Is. My. Father?”

Jacob spins me to him telling me “You need to calm the fuck down Jolene! You don’t come in here and demand anything.. got it!?” I drew my foot back and kicked him square in the nuts with my steel toed boots. And every man there groaned! His whore tried to punch me and I grabbed her arm.. twisting it up and behind her, as I spun halfway around yanking down and out, at the same time. Dislocating her elbow and shoulder simultaneously. One elite whispered “I wanna learn that move! Fuck!”

Turning back to Tyler “Ten seconds.. you Fuck! Ten seconds to tell me where my father is and you might survive! Keep silent and trust and believe.. you will die! Where’s my dad?” Jacob says.. all cocky “We will trade! My son for your father.” And I kicked him in the face with the same boot. I said “Did your whore misplace your kid? I fail to see what you not finding your kid has to do with my father!” And he growled “The son you deprived me of.. the one you took from me after we made love!” And I started laughing… really laughing “You mean.. the night you ruffied me and raped me? Made love?? I would remember that. What you did.. with the help of My Brother.. is RAPE me.. then the next night.. you fucked your whore all night nearly killing me! Didn’t your buttbuddy here tell you how he found me.. two weeks later? Alone.. in a pool of blood on my bedroom floor.. from my insides being ripped in two every night while you fucked a slut?? I hemorrhaged.. Jacob! I nearly died you fuck! All because you knew your wolf would leave you if you rejected me! That’s right everyone! This is your Alpha! This FINE upstanding individual who threw his true mate away… after raping her… For A Whore! And his big brave daddy not only condoned it.. he encouraged it! The King and Queen are here for answers, Taylor! Hope you have some good ones!”

I jumped on the hood of the front SUV. I yelled out

“

I AM HERE FOR ONE THING ONLY! I HAVE COME TO BRING MY FATHER HOME! I DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THIS PACK ANYMORE! NOT ONE OF YOU EVER HELPED ME WHEN YOU KNEW WHAT JACOB WAS DOING! I ONLY WANT MY DAD! AND THIS GOES ONE OF TWO WAYS…SOMEONE TELLS ME WHERE HE IS… OR I TEAR THIS PLACE APART.. BRICK BY BRICK, UNTIL I FIND HIM. KILLING ANYONE WHO TRIES TO STOP ME! WHAT’S IT GOING TO BE?”

Nobody answered. I looked over at the King and Queen.. he nodded and Lynette yelled “We got you, love! Do what you do!” I leaped in the air.. doing a double somersault, I pulled my katanas as I landed. And beheading two of Taylor’s guards. I ran for the cells.. with Blake to my right and the Royal Elites flanking us. We approached and four guards dropped into fighting stance.. I threw a dagger from each hand. One lodging in a man’s forehead and the other slicing through the jugular of another. Blake snapped the neck of a third one and a guard nearly ripped the last one in half.. saying “Oops.. I always forget normals are fragile” and we laughed. I yanked the door of the cells open.. Blake killed the two guards at the entrance.. and I grabbed a ring of keys off the one. I stopped and unlocked every door.. letting everyone in there go free. I don’t care if they’re rogues or what!

I found my daddy. In the next to last cell. Nearly every bone in his body is broken. He is bleeding everywhere. His back is flayed open to bare muscle and bone.. I kneel beside him.. healing what I can.. I look at Blake and he yells at a guard to get a gurney.. he will bring him out.

He lifts him into his arms.. as gently as possible.. and we walk out.. Blake lays him on his side on the gurney and we strap him as loosely as possible. We walk as slowly as we can to not jostle him anymore than is happening.. and then Blake and three guards stop.. Lifting the gurney off the ground and balancing it on their shoulders.. they begin a light jog to the infirmary. As we pass my brother.. I say “Say your goodbyes to whoever matters to you.. I will meet you in the ring out back.. I will, at least, give you a chance.. before I kill you!” Damien asks “You good, lil sis? You need Lyn?” I nod.. asking “If she can help me with his pain, while I get him travel ready.. that’d be great.. I know she can’t heal, when she’s pregnant.” He nods… “I will send her your way, as soon as she gets back.. She’s dragging the Luna down here!”

Blake is laying my dad in a warm bath.. the filth.. the infection.. the muscle on his back.. shredded by silver.. that is where I have to start.. I work.. warming my hands and calling Angel forward. I feel my eyes start to burn as they glow. I can feel the silver leaving his veins.. the black lines that had been traveling down his legs and up his arms were lightening up.. the smaller wounds had begun to knit… I finally had the bleeding under control.. Lyn had come in and had both her hands on my shoulders… lending me her strength… then she saw his back.. and lost her shit!

She growled “We are not leaving until we know why.. and who!”

And I looked up at her.. I sighed “ This is about Matthew. Somehow they found out about him.. I don’t know… either his whore can’t have kids.. or his wolf is demanding his true mate’s child.. but this… the shit they have done to my father.. is because he wouldn’t give us up to them! They found out he knew where we are.. and he knows for sure that Matthew is Jacob’s biological son.. and they tortured him.. beat him with silver tipped whips.. cut him with silver weapons… starved him.. dehydrated him.. his own son, Lynnie! His own son helped them do this! All because my daddy wanted to protect his daughter and grandson!”

We hear a husky gruff voice “Joey? My Joey? You have to go.. you can’t be here!”