Fated To Roman: The Almighty Alpha
Thirty-Six

Cleo's POV

As Daphne became distracted by Eric, Roman took the opportunity to restrain her. I knew she thought I had mind linked Roman but in truth I was communicating with Eric. Who else better to distract someone than their mate? It may have been a desperate move, but it worked.

"Why didn't you tell me the moment you knew she was here? Do you have any idea what could have happened?" Roman gripped my folded arms as I watched my sister lay still on the ground. I had half expected for her to kick and scream but she didn't. She remained quiet her eyes closed. She wasn't unconscious, she was listening.

"You were busy, so I called Eric. Besides their taking her to the dungeon so you would have known shortly anyway." I tried to keep the sarcasm from my voice, but I was just so pissed off with him that any trying was futile.

"And you think that Eric would have been able to protect you had a fight broke out with the other wolves?" I knew he wouldn't, he wasn't half as strong as my mate, but I had a feeling that with Daphne no longer in control, they would back away.

It was a gamble but luckily it had paid off. As Roman placed silver cuffs around Hazel's paws they wasted no time in retreating. Hazel whimpered as the silver burned her flesh forcing her to shift back into Daphne's human form. I may hate my sister for what she has done and the suffering she has caused but I couldn't stand back and watch as everyone stood obliviously by watching as she silently suffered. Taking off my cardigan I placed it over her naked shivering form. The winter was drawing closer and as wolves we didn't feel the cold like a human would and as a plus my unborn pup made me a walking talking radiator. Daphne being forced to wear silver however kept her from revelling in anything her wolf had to offer meaning she would most likely freeze and become seriously ill. Though I knew with complete certainty Roman would want to know how she became able to shift after the surgery she had prevented that from happening.

"I'm not getting into this Roman, not here. Not now." Standing back up I turned my back to Roman.

"Fine. Go to our room and please wait there. Once I know she is locked away, I will come up and we will be talking this out. I'm not going to drop it Cleo and ignoring it will only make matters worse."

"I'm not going anywhere until I've seen with my own eyes that she is ok." Even through all that was going on Roman couldn't help but smile at my defiance. "What?"

"Even after everything you still care about her. The fact you don't hold grudges is something I love about you."

"With what she did to your mum I'm honestly surprised you didn't end her life the moment you saw her."

"I'm not heartless Cleo. Cruel and ruthless yes but never heartless. I need answers and if she's dead how am I going to get them?"

"Answers?"

"Yes. I may not know her as well as you do but even I know what she did was out of character. If magic bought Layla back from the dead, I need to be sure before any punishment is handed out that Daphne wasn't under the influence of a spell."

Those words automatically eased some of the anger I held towards my mate. I knew he wasn't a heartless man, but it made me feel guilty that deep down I thought he would have ended her life no questions asked. Taking his hand in my own I squeezed it. Roman bringing it to his lips and placing a delicate kiss to my skin. The sparks of his lips brushing against my skin had me feeling aroused. And there went the rest of the anger I had been holding on to as all I wanted to do there and then was to rip his trousers from his legs and ride the fuck out of him.

Forcing each lust filled thought from my mine together we walked hand in hand as we followed Eric towards the dungeons. I didn't like Eric but at this moment I felt nothing but sympathy for him. Every wolf grows up learning how each and every one of us has someone out there. A true love. It may sound corny, but even the guys back in my old back couldn't wait for that day. Sure guys were quick to through their junk around using the moto 'Any holes a goal' but deep down they couldn't wait to settle down. Eric would be no different. The only trouble was his mate didn't want him, well claimed not to anyway.

"Take her to the very end cell." My eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Todd was at the end on the left so why would he place her there? "I know you don't agree with what happens down here Cleo but she needs to learn." "You mean your going to do to her what you did to Todd?"

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"Cleo if I confirm she isn't under any form of control and that her actions were a result of her own doing I will do what ever it takes to replace out everything she knows. For now, I want her scared and if watching me torture Todd is what it will take then so be it. She wasn't just my mum, she was a Luna, the next in line to be Queen. Even if she was under control understand this, she will not be let off lightly."

"How can that make sense? If she wasn't in control of her own actions, she can't possibly be held accountable!"

"There is so much you will learn being with me love such as there are channels we have to go down. You don't know what the council did to my mother, you didn't see the damage they caused her wolf. Goddess the day my mother died was the first time in years that she shifted. Had she followed the rules with her own sister it wouldn't have happened. I'm all for going against the rules, but I will not go against theirs. Not when it puts you me or our pup at risk." I understood Romans fears. I may not have seen the scars Athenas wolf held but I had heard about them through snippets of conversation omegas still continued to have.

Daphne was calm the entire time her eyes glued to the ground until she heard Todd's pleas for help. The horror on her face as she took in his deformed body would forever plague my dreams. Almost instantly she thrashed in Erics arms as another guard tried to hang her chains from the ceiling. They wanted her held up in the same manner as Todd to fill her fear knowing she would end up like him. My lungs restricted as did my heart when Daphne burst into tears. Trying to grip Eric with what freedom she had she begged him to help her. Erics face morphed into one of pure agony as he ignored his mate's screams. She begged him to mate her, that she would spill every little secret she knew if her life could be spared. I turned to look at Roman whose gorgeous miss matched eyes were glued on me. He shook his head knowing I wanted them to give her the chance. Tears burning my eyes I rushed into her cell.

"Please Daphne just tell us. Who is behind everything? Is it Hades? Lucille? Who? They won't help you do you understand me, Daphne. They won't help you." Gripping onto her chain I pulled her towards me. Shaking her until she looked at me only when she did, I instantly backed away. Her eyes turned black as night before turning back to their usual brown. Her wolf was fighting to come forwards something that shouldn't have been able to happen. Not whilst restrained with silver. "Your all fucking idiots if you think I will tell any of you anything. Do what the fuck you want to me now, because once I'm free from here I will rip that demon spawn from you."