Scarred Alphas by Norisha May
Chapter 75

EZRA'S POV

Pay! She will pay!

Those blank eyes stare at me as they have been staring for the last few hours. Not a single blink...not one. But what kind of blinks could a severed head in the middle of a table give?

No one in the room eats.

They all just stare at me as if I was crazy.

"I am getting tired of losing."

I mutter. "WHAT?! What am I to do?!" I scream. "Why does she always have the upper hand?!"

Glass cups, ceramic plates, and all sorts of things that you can replace on a dining table are thrown across the room by me. Some paragraphs are incomplete if you are not reading this novel on Narugi.com. Visit Narugi.com to read the complete chapters for free."She was right there! I had her right in front of me so many times!" I shout.

There is only silence by everyone who watches. Even Kaecy, especially Kaecy.

"You!" I point to a newly recruited general. I figured that the enemy has generals so why shouldn't I? "Give me an idea! What should our next move be?!"

No answer. He nervously opens his mouth but no words come out.

"USELESS! Sienna is more useful to me even when dead!" I point at her detached head in the middle of the table.

It was sent to me and arrived this morning. Courtesy of my demon ex-mate!

The man continues with his silence.

"You don't wish to speak?

Fine!"

I grab him by the throat and pin him to the table.

"Hold him!" I say to the guards and they do not hesitate.

I force him to open his mouth and with the meat knife on the table, I cut his tongue out.

He shakes and screams until I am done and let him go. he falls to his knees whimpering.

"Speak when I tell you to speak! Or deal with the consequences." I throw the bloody tongue on the table.

"Alpha, I know that you are angry but taking it out on us will not give you the results you want." One of them speaks. "And you speak too much!

Are you a traitor?"

"No, Alpha."

"Hold him down!" I shout.

My personal guards make quick-to-follow orders. They hold the defiant bastard down on the table.

"Don't talk when I tell you to and lose your tongue. Talk too much when it is not your place and also lose your tongue!" "Brother!" Kacey protests as I hold the knife up.

He rarely ever interjects anymore.

I point the knife at him.

"You'd betray me too, wouldn't you?"

"No."

I walk closer to him. "Maybe I should pluck your other eye out."

Kaecy quickly looks down.

My attention goes to everyone in the room now.

"You all sacks of withered balls! Pieces of shit, good for nothing! Not one of you can do what I ask you to do!" None of the assassins I sent ever came back.

The only one who ever did anything useful around here was Sienna and now there she lies...part of her anyway. Sienna was not new to me.

She was someone I indulged in back when I was doing my training away from the pack. She is one I cause pain with to Casseope many times. I knew she had a bit of an infatuation with me and when I blinded myself and killed my father, I called her to help. I knew she delved into magic but I never knew how useful she could be. She also was the one who kept me calm and in check. She kept me focused on the end goal. Now there is no one to stop me. I'll take this whole damn pack down with me but I am okay with that as long as I get to have...kill... Cass. Kill...

I am sitting back on my chair now feeling a bit calmer. "She is starting to look unlike herself." I mutter, looking at Sienna.

"Yeah... being dead does that." Kaecy mutters.

Not to mention the smell is starting to get to me.

"Take it." I swat my hand at my guards. Bury it where I can't smell it anymore.

I yawn. "Do any of you know any other witch?"

They all shake their heads.

"Witches are hard to come by." Kaecy says.

This I know.

F**king Cass had to kill her!

I never knew she had it in her to kill like that. Not just Sienna but also in the arena.

I watched the masked woman kill a man and thought nothing of it but now, knowing that it was her all along...I never knew she had it in her.

I slam my fists on the table.

Who the hell am I kidding!? I say I want to kill her but I don't! I want to f**k her!

Even after breaking our mate bond I still want her like this!

I want to take her and make her mine! Put her on a leash and make her do my every bidding! Display her as the little slut she is but no one gets to touch her except me.

When I get her that is what I'll do. I'll have her n*ked chained to my bed so I can do whatever the hell I want with her. As for my brother, I'll peal the skin of his b*dy and keep him alive long enough to see me break MY MATE... Kaecy's POV

Mad...my brother has gotten mad, crazy. I don't recognize him at all anymore.

What he has done to this pack is unforgivable. He has ruined us. Everyone is scared. He has no limit to the things that he does.

That witch used to keep him in check but now I don't know what is going to happen. The only time he has some semblance of normalcy is when he deals with others who are not part of our pack. Maybe it is just to keep face. Alpha Oliver suddenly walks in.

Ezra lifts himself up. "So?!"

I stay quiet listening to the conversation, making myself invisible along with everyone else.

"I told you I had a way with words. They will hear you."

"Yes! Finally some good news!"

This Oliver got the other packs to meet up? He must be good. All these other packs never wanted to get involved with our feud all these years. So to get them to meet with us is a rare thing.

But I'm sure that if these other packs knew how crazy Ezra was, they would not give him the time of day.

"We need them to join us."

"Well, I got you the meeting but getting them to join us will be a bit more tricky. No one wants to go against the Dark-'

"Don't f**king mention their name!" Ezra shouts.

Oliver holds a hand up.

Unlike us, he has no fear of talking to Ezra.

"If we had had Zao right now as an ally, this would all be much easier but alas, he is dead."

"Don't remind me...and she was there! How did he not know that he had her!"

"Maybe he did?"

"Then he was a traitor all this time!"

"Even so, he would have still been useful. You need to learn to not give in to your emotions so much. Learn to use people to your advantage even if they piss you off." Oliver says.

Ezra pays him no mind and continues to speak. "And how the f**k did she end up with him? I couldn't even get to her and I was trying."

"No idea but now we have to focus on the task at hand."

"Yeah...getting all these packs to join us." Ezra says.

"Yes but..."

"But?"

"All these years they have stayed away. They won't be easily persuaded in fact......I really doubt they will join us."

"So then what?"

"Do not fret. There is always a way. There is no way that we will be able to defeat the Dark Fang Pack without their help. They will help whether they know it or not."

Ezra growls at the mention of the enemy pack. "Maybe seeing that you and I have an alliance will help with that and they will follow suit."

"I don't even have a pack right now." Oliver says.

"But you have all these rogues with you? So that might be enough. How did you end up with so many rogues anyway?"

"I paid for them. Dipped into the family fortune. But that is not what we should use as a focus. We need to put emphasis on the river packs they attacked and took control of." "Yeah... you are right. That will be what undoes them."

"Then leave it to me. I am a good talker and if I can't get you these alliances, I have plan B already good to go." Oliver says.

The way he says this makes me think that this man is very smart. He has been playing games maybe even playing both sides. I don't like him one bit.

"And what do you want?"

Ezra asks. "You are doing all of this but never told me what you want in return?"

"I want my pack back." He replies.

"The pack that you left?" Ezra asks.

"If I would have stayed, they would have killed me. I knew my pack members would be safe because these people like to recycle and reuse their prisoners of war. It would have been a waste for them to have killed all of my men." "I see. So you have given thought to all of this."

"Yes."

There is much more to this man than he leads on. I have a bad feeling about him.

As their talk leaves the room, we all feel like we can suddenly breathe once again with my brother out of the room. We all look at each other but do not say a single thing.

As the day progresses, the night finally arrives. I leave my room and head to the game room, just as I do almost every night.

There are only three more people here. The poor man who got his tongue cut out today sits in a corner with his brother who protested and almost got his tongue chopped off too.

Christoph, the man who was my father's beta, sits here as well, drinking. He learned to play the game quickly when Ezra took over. He did not once protest when he got removed as beta or interfered with any of Ezra's decisions. He has kept himself invisible from Ezra's radar.

Suddenly, someone who does not belong here walks in. Matilda, the old cook. She walks in with the pretense of handing out pastries that were left over at dinner.

Something she tends to do and did even before Ezra took over. She would walk around the pack house handing them away but this time, there is an ulterior motive to it.

"Here you go, young Alpha."

"Thank you. Did the grain you use come from the outside of the pack?" I ask.

"No, but I will be using it tomorrow morning for the morning pastries."

I nod. "I see."

"Then you should probably tell your cooks to use blueberries. It seems they are in bloom this season."

Cristoph mentions.

"They have not been in season here.” She says.

"But they will be...and our pack will benefit from it, especially with so many."

"I see." She says, pensive.

"Also..." The guard that soothes his brother starts speaking. "...make sure to throw the rotten apples away. There is one in particular that is at the root of it and seems to help all the other apples rot."

"Is this apple newly arrived?"

She asks.

"Yes."

"I see. Very well. Thank you for

your suggestions."

Sugestions...code talk. Only those who are not being watched can deliver messages so she fits the bill perfectly.

We all almost got caught meeting once so now our meetings are like this. We don't talk to each other unless it is by hiding what we are trying to say in a normal chitchat. It is still a risk but no way we are all going to sit back and let Ezra do what he wants. We contemplated killing him with poison in his food once but Ezra has a taster. It was the witch's idea.

She was a smart one. It's a good thing she is gone but she was the one who kept

Ezra on a leash.

Now Ezra is out of control and I am not sure anyone will be able to hold his crazy back.