The Failed Rejection
Chapter 65

Seth pov

The situation at the hotel was getting harder the longer the group of alpha’s stayed in one room together. They were currently fighting about which side of the compound was best to approach from. Seth just rolled his eyes as their opinion didn’t matter. Brad was the one with actual knowledge of the council headquarters and where any vulnerabilities may lie. Killian stayed quite and let the alphas argue as he had for the past hour. While some may believed it made him look weak, Seth knew Killian was wise beyond his years. The time away from Liliana and Killian had aged and matured him.

His wolf was on edge and had been constantly pacing since the everyone had arrived at the hotel. Seth finally couldn’t take it any longer and decided to go look for a vending machine. He needed a sugar buzz. Seth walked down the hallway and looked at the woman selling themselves who were trying to catch his attention. Seth wondered if what Brad had said was the truth. They didn’t seem dangerous, just looked like girls who needed to provide for themselves that only way they knew how. This world was a tough one and had very strict rules and didn’t bode well for those who didn’t fit in with their pack. That didn’t mean the woman should be selling their bodies and men shouldn’t be conned out of their money either. Seth passed a woman who seemed harmless.

Then Seth thought of the Homer tale of that had sirens and remembered the sailors didn’t think those women were harmless either. He let out a long sigh.

Seth found the vending machine and pulled out a couple of dollar bills when he heard his wolf going crazing in his mind when he picked up the scent of salt air and honey.

“Mate! Mate!” He turned around and saw this tiny little girl who couldn’t have been older than eighteen years old. She was absolutely gorgeous, long blonde hair that hung around her h**s, with skin that had been kissed by the sun. She was wearing a flowing skirt and had a bright smile with white straight teeth. Her eyes are what Seth had been enchanted by as they were a deep ocean blue and he couldn’t look away from them.

“Mate,” he whispered and she echoed the sentiment. They smiled at each other and started walking toward each other. It was definitely a Kodak moment.

“Beta!” Killian yelled out from behind her coming in from nowhere and pushing his aura over him. His alpha’s aura was so strong it was making him submit, Seth didn’t realize that it had little affect on his mate. She was only scared of the alpha.

Seth was confused, Killian had never in their entire life’s made him submit to him. The alpha ceremony being the exception of course. His wolf was furious growled furiously at being interrupted from claiming his mate and Killian just pushed him to submit. Seth bared his neck and submitted to his alpha as he had no choice. Seth saw his mate submit as well.

“Why?” He asked a little hurt.

“That woman isn’t your mate, she’s a siren.” Seth was shocked by his alpha’s words and looked to the young woman his wolf was calling mate for confirmation. The young woman’s name who he didn’t know stood tall, defying his alpha.

“I am a siren, but I am also your mate. I haven’t done anything to you,” the girl stated firmly which irritated him.

“Not to me, but others?” He asked and the girl shook her head.

“No! I haven’t.”

“Seth, we don’t have time for this, Brad has returned.” Seth nodded and pushed past the young woman.

“Wait! You are my mate! Please don’t leave me here! To do this!” That made Seth pause and Killian nodded so he told her without turning around.

“When we are done here we can offer you sanctuary if you stop tricking men into giving you all of your money. We can help set you up, you just have to stop mocking the mate bond,” Seth stated getting angry for tricking him.

“I’m not doing anything! You are my mate!” The woman stated firmly and Seth was angry at her refusal so he left. He didn’t look back despite his wolf whining at him to do so.

Penelope pov

The pain for the last two days was constant and the last several hours had been odd to say the least. Penelope felt lightheaded as well as the urge to tell everyone around her every secret for the last couple of hours. She was confused at first until Koko whined at her,

“Mate drugged.” Penelope was horrified and unable to guess what would elicit that type of response from her mate. Penelope felt like she had taken opiates, or some other d**g.

“Dash they are being drugged when are we going in?” Penelope asked desperately. Dash looked at her in pity. Dash held her hand for the last twenty-four hours while she felt every pain through the mate bond. She felt every lash of the whip, every punch to the face, the worst was the feet. Hitting the soles of the feet was a common form of t*****e in Asia. It hurt so bad Penelope felt like her feet were breaking. She held her feet to her chest and simply sobbed. Dash had asked her if there was anything he could give her. Penelope was going to ask for some medicine to make her loose consciousness, but her wolf stopped her.

“Why is it taking so long? Why aren’t they being rescued?” Penelope asked Dash. Dash looked at the warriors who were from the pack just sitting on their phone.

“Beta Heath has the intel, he came back with a map yesterday.” Dash spoke in a whisper and though Penelope felt her anger rise she responded in kind.

“Then why are we still waiting?”

“I’m not sure, but word is he’s been desperately trying to get ahold of his Alpha.” Penelope felt rage wash over her as relaxation set in. Axel, this was all cause Axel was on a bender.

“Do you know the intel?” Penelope asked and was surprised her voice wasn’t shaking. Dash nodded,

“I wasn’t supposed to see, but I managed to get a good look at it.”

“Do you know where they are being held?” Dash nodded,

“I can get us in.”

“Good cause we are leaving,” her voice brooked no argument and she looked Dash in the eye who held up his hands In surrender.

“It will be an honor to follow my Luna.” Penelope shook her head, but Dash was firm,

“You are my brothers mate. You are his Luna.” Penelope couldn’t argue cause a voice interrupted,

“Where are we going?” Penelope looked at the young warrior who didn’t have a care in the world, she really should learn his name.

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Braxton pov (directly after last chapter)

“You want my secrets?” He asked looking around at the room. “All right, well when I was eighteen I broke my mothers priceless vase and blamed it on my brother in there.” Braxton waved a hand around which caused the guards that were surrounding him to back up.

“Hey I was grounded for a month for that!” Denali cried out from across the hall and he heard a few chuckles from the guards around him.

“Silence! That’s not what I mean!” The hybrid shouted, he was clearly frustrated though he kept his mask in place. Braxton felt his head clearing and he pretended to think and struggle to talk. He even slurred his speech a little.

“I cut class and stole my dads new Ferrari and crashed it deliberately as it was a waste of pack funds, I was in the infirmary for three days so my father doesn’t know it was deliberate.” Braxton paused thinking of a different secret he could tell. Though before anything came to him he received a punch to his face.

“That’s not what I meant, tell me everything about your pack! Tell me about the Midnight Howlers Pack! Tell me everything about the Luna! The boy!” The alpha hybrid screamed in his face as his mask finally slipped. Braxton could smell the jealously coming from him. Braxton laughed and shook his head,

“What boy?”

“The boy!”

“Oh, you mean my king?” Braxton taunted the hybrid alpha with a smile and this is when he saw rage overcame his face.

“I will be the next king! Not that little brat!”

“Isn’t that what your father said?”

“Enough! You will tell me everything I want to know, you have no choice,” the hybrid smirked at him and Braxton laughed back in his face. His head was finally clear.

“You truly think that dru.g had any effect on me? It’s already out of my system, I’m a white bear!” Braxton’s bear growled coming back to him. The silver had stayed in his system the longest and he was just stalling until he felt his beast stirring within him. Braxton’s strength was returning and he also saw Denali’s was returning as well. Denali had given him the signal the brothers had developed when they were kids.

Brax let out a menacing growl to keep the attention on him and then pulled at the chains until they finally snapped from the ceiling above him. There was clamoring around him, Brax’s bear was enjoying the smell of fear. He could practically taste it as Brax partially shifted and allowed one of his massive white paws to take swipes at the guards coming toward him. They were frightened of him as only the strongest of alphas and Lycan’s could partially shift.

Braxton continued to swipe and bat at the guards keeping them at bay.

The guards were so focused on him that they ignored his brother who was an alpha as well. Denali had long slipped his chains and gotten Alanna out of hers as well. A powerful roar came from behind the guards and Braxton smiled as both Denali and Alanna shifted.

“We need to replace an exit,” Braxton stated before fully shifting. The hybrid alpha was long gone as he was ushered out by several guards the second Brax got free. They needed to replace a way out before the guards regrouped.

Braxton watched as Alanna and Denali headed down the hallway ploughing through guards left and right. Brax felt it, something hit his fur but didn’t penetrate it. He looked down and saw the darts filled with Goddess knows what concoction. Braxton stood up on his hind legs and with one single swipe of his paw took out the guard that tried to put him back in chains.

Brax got back on all fours and turned to see a hallway full of guards with guns drawn on him. His bear let out a massive roar and

When he caught up to his brother and Alanna they were bashing their bodies against the steel door trying to get it undone. Brax shook his giant head in disappointment, this is where the stereotype of bears being dumb comes from. His brother.

Brax quickly shifts back to his human form and quickly replaces a guard with a g*n. He has no idea if this will work as Brax has only seen it in movies.

“Move!” He shouts at his companions in his alphas voice. They quickly assess the situation and see guards starting to come in behind them. Denali pushes past him and charges while Alanna moves out of the way. Brax fires two quick shots at close range to the steel lock on the door. Alanna tried the door again and is surprised when the steel door gives way and falls through the door way. Faint daylight spills out into the dungeon.

“Denali let’s move!” Braxton shouts and quickly shifts back into his bear as their darts can’t penetrate his thick skin. Silver bullets are a different story.

The stairway to the top is a very tight fit for him, but he refuses to shift. Finally he reaches freedom from the dungeon as he pushes out behind Alanna. Brax doesn’t breathe easy though even when his brother makes it behind them, as they are still on enemy territory. The sounds of guns c.ocking freezes his b***d. Braxton looks up to see at least fifteen guards on top of them getting ready to fire.

Then it was like a scene from an action movie. The guards turned when the sound of cars revving reached them. Brax saw two cars driving like madman toward the guards.

“Shoot them!!”

“They are only tranqs in here!” The guards were screaming and Brax used the distraction and panic to roar and start tearing through the guards and the more coming. This hybrid really did have an army.

The new set of guards had bullets in their guns and pointed at the three of them. Brax watched as the group of guards raised their guns to fire. Then out of nowhere a third SUV came and out of nowhere and ran them over. The window was rolled down and Brax was able to see it was his mate driving. He was in a state of shock, he bear c****d his head up in confusion.

“Get in! Hurry up while Dash and the others has them distracted!” The authority in her voice got everyone moving and three of them shifted as fast as possible and piled into the SUV before his mate stepped on the gas. Braxton didn’t care if it was safe or not, he had to k**s his mate. He grabbed her face and planted a searing k**s on her lips. She quickly pulled away as she was still driving the get away vehicle.