Rupert's POV
"The guard said they didn't see the woman's face but they said, he told them, it's an emergency, that the she-wolves got hurt and need medical attention?"
"That scumbag" I growled. How dare Russell, after hurting my mate, he dare to touch my mate and even bring her out of the pack, he should pray hard that I found no spot on my mate or I will skin him alive and feed his body to vultures. Vernon wasn't saying anything, he was going crazy, he was whining and growling, and I couldn't control him in my head.
"Alpha Rupert, can you smell her wolf, probably that could give us a lead?"
"I can't fucking smell her and all Vernon is doing in my head is whining and he is restless, I just fucking feel that, she is in danger."
"That is bad"
"Why not we shift into our wolf so we could..." Beta Drake said
"No way." Beta Mason yelled, we all moved our gaze to him. "I don't think, alpha Rupert will be able to control his wolf, he is going crazy and he might go rampage, you don't want him to curse more harm than good." I swallow hard, Beta Mason is right, I and my wolf are hurting and aggressive, feeling guilty for not being able to protect her, the combination is not a good one but a deadly combination and I am afraid, Russell might not live to see the next second if my wolf is the one that saw him, although I am not sure if I could control myself when I set eyes on Russell but I think it saver to be in my human form than in my wolf form, mother might get mad at me, if I hurt her supposed first fruit.
"Beta Mason, come with me, I know how to get what I want?" I said to Mason.
"I am coming with you, the pack will kill me, if they find out something happened to my alpha right under my watch." I understand beta Drake, he was supposed to be with Iris all the time but I have deprived him of that when I ask for his assistance, my gaze moves to gamma Lauren, who just joined us, he is feeling even more dejected than me whose mate is missing.
"Come on let's go." I said turning my gaze from him, It wasn't his fault, he is not that monster of a brother that is so desperate to want to become an alpha, and for all the she-wolves; mine very mate was all he could think of wanting, he got something coming.
Anger was visible in my eyes and Vernon's restlessness was what is driving me crazy, my eyes grew darker as I led the others, it was like going to war, yes, I am going to war, war against my brother and my Rejected mate, I am going hurt anyone that as much as put a finger on my mate, no matter, who he turns out to be, not even my brother could escape my rage.
The pack was a large one, it's like a city or town that humans called part of their country, so it took me twenty minutes to arrive at Celina's quarter, she didn't attend the ball, so I kicked the door of the room open, Celina just had her bath and she was about applying cream on her skin with the sound of the TV beeping.
"Who the fuck is..." She pinned her lips together, I know that face, it's one of guilt, Celina was once my mate, we grew up together and there is no way, I couldn't smell when she did something naughty, her facial expressions had given her away, she is a culprit.
"Alpha Rupert, are you here to claim me?"
My eyes were cold as ice, I was looking at her like some trash, how my love for this wolf grew to hate so fast that I don't think I have ever hated anyone as I did her.
"Where is Iris?"
I watch her hands clenched, that expression is one not expecting the question I just throw at her.
What else was she thinking that I would jump on her and claim her for conspiring with my brother to take my mate to where only the goddess known
"Alpha Rupert, you got the wrong person, you should know, I was only here through the ball, waiting for you to claim alpha Iris while you declare me, the mother of your pup."
My eyes narrow and the chill emitting from my eyes is enough to make any she-wolf cower and Celina is not an exception, she is no longer my mate and even if I hurt her while trying to get the information from her, Vernon wouldn't object to him, after all the pup isn't mine. Although she is scared, how she managed to mask her fear and put up an innocent face is not something I could understand. "Alpha Rupert, if you are looking for your mate, you should look for her elsewhere not here. It's getting late and I am tired, you should know pregnant wolf needs all the rest in this world." She was lying and I know and she as well know, I wish I could just dig into her head and get the fucking answer that I need, that is only possible with Iris.
"So you are going to protect that idiot called Russell?" She turned her face, ready to close her door, but probably she had forgotten I already damaged the door. But it was too late, Beta Mason, Gamma Lauren, and Beta Drake came up from behind me and pushed her into the room before she could even react.
She fell to the floor as her face hit the floor, she just lay there, she couldn't even move her hands. "It's hurt." She mouthed holding her tummy. I don't care about her or the pup that belonged to my brother, all I wanted was to know the whereabouts of my mate.
Delta Campbell and some other guards join the search of the room, from her restroom to other smaller spaces in her quarter, I know Iris is not there because o didn't smell her and it's taking too look, I am finding it difficult to breathe, I just feel with each passing seconds, my mate is exposed to more danger. "Alpha Rupert, they are not here?"
Russell is not stupid to remain in this territory with my mate. "You see, I told you, I do not have her in my room."
"I know." She ogled at me, I squatted to her level pulling her face with her chin. "I do not want to repeat this, tell me where Russell took Iris, this is your last chance."
I was so close, that she could feel my rage and my sight was enough to send shivers into her system, I really don't care about her or her pup. "Rupert, you are going to hurt your pup?" I lost my patient and I grabbed her by the neck, my claws protruded and my fangs followed, she could see that I was turning into a vampire and not my wolf. "What are you doing Rupert? You are turning into a vampire." Celina was scared and she was struggling to get out of my grip, my eyes were red and my claws were piecing her throat, lines of blood were coming out.
"Wait, I will tell you." She screamed knowing that, I might kill her, there was no way she could survive if I let my vampire possess me, I will kill her.
"Then speak, I do not have time." I growled, she was scared, if someone had told Celina that I would have grabbed her and hurt her the way, I am hurting her, she would have beat her chest and raised her head all high, saying I can never hurt her. "I will count up to three, If you do not tell me, don't blame me if I force that pup out of your tummy." She run her hand on her head, and I let go of her, I noticed that her blood is giving me discomfort, and to pierce my fangs on her and suck her blood is what I wanted right now.
"One" I counted, she bit her lips, I knew she was afraid of what Russell would do to her if she told on him. "I..."
"Two" she tried to explain my counting interrupted her and flashed her my fangs, they are overly long, longer than my wolf fangs.
“She is with Russell."
"I fucking know, I said where." I growled, this was loud, I didn't think I had let out this loud growl.
"In the dark wood pack, his biological mother's pack."