’Roo a word,’ Helena said through their link. ’And send soone to take Carl back to his cell. Make sure they check his injuries and he’s fed.’
’You know they are fed and checked,’ Roo grumbled.
"I’ll ask them to bring you back to your cell, but don’t worry, we don’t harm prisoners here," she told Carl with as much a reassuring smile as she could.
The door opened to the interrogation room, and Carl began to panic.
"It’s okay, they won’t hurt you," Helena said in a calm voice.
Carl thrashed against the warrior’s hold, panicking.
"You guys killed her," he sobbed.
"If my mate says you won’t be hard, I promise you you’ll be safe," Roo said in a dark tone as he entered the room.
Carl’s eyes went wide with fear.
Of course, he’d seen Roo fighting that day.
"Roo," Helena growled.
"You have my word," Roo told Carl.
Carl looked to Helena before visibly relaxing and allowing the warriors to take him away.
"I know what you’re thinking, Helena," Roo growled, clearly he was pissed about what he though was Helena’s plan.
’He’s probably right, you know,’ Hera teased.
’And my plan is most likely to correct one,’ Helena huffed.
"And what do you think I’m thinking, Roo?" Helena asked him.
Roo paced across the room as he ran his fingers through his hair. He sighed and shook his head.
"You want to find the rogue commune," he said as a matter of factly.
"I do," Helena didn’t even bother to deny or reason out.
"It’s not safe," Roo argued.
"I’m more than capable of protecting myself, and I don’t plan on going there alone," Helena hissed.
"And what if it’s a trap?" Roo asked her.
"For your information, I’m not as naive as you’d like to think," Helena argued back.
Roo let out an exasperated sigh.
"I don’t think you’re naive, Helena," he said in a much calr tone.
Helena reached out and held his hands in hers and looked him in the eyes.
She could see the worry and his fear. She knew that fear, it’s what ca before her mother lost her father, before Alpha Raul lost his wife.
It was the worry that the most precious thing in your life could be taken away from you in an instant.
It was the very control she refused to give over to the mate bond, the sa control she didn’t want Roo to be under.
He was an excellent Alpha, and having him constantly worry about her put his pack at risk.
Him worrying about her safety over the pack’s isn’t what his pack deserved.
"I think you’re forgetting about where I went after I left Blackmoon," Helena reminded him. "I trained with the most promising warriors of our generation just as you trained with other Alphas, give so credit, Roo."
Roo closed his eyes and let out a breath.
"I’m sorry, I just can’t help but worry about you," he said as he leaned forward and kissed the top of her head.
Helena nodded and gave his hand a squeeze.
She did understand his worry, but the sa worry made her fear that she was a distraction to him.
"Let’s continue the interrogations," Helena told Roo. "And I think you should stay out of it."
"What?!" Roo demanded. "The boy earlier was fine, but the rest they are full grown wolves. They can hurt you."
"Most of the ones we managed to round up were children, Roo," Helena hissed. "Plus I doubt they will be honest with you in the room."
"What makes you say that?" Roo asked Helena, challening her.
"Because they saw you kill their friends, they know you’re the Alpha." Helena sighed.
"You were there too," he pointed out.
"But I’m a she-wolf," she said with a smirk on her lips. "They co from packs that banished them for as little as females wanting to fight. They will ignore the fact that I was there simply because I’m female."
Roo balled his fists.
There was nothing he could do or say to argue with her logic.
"They’ll be bound," Helena reminded him. "And I am healed."
Roemo let out a sigh and shook his head.
"Fine, but I’ll put soone right outside that door," he said as he pointed at the only entrance to the interrogation room.
"Deal," Helena said, smiling.
Romoe gave her one final kisse before standing up and leaving to move to the other room where he could observe the interrogation.
Not long after, an older man was let into the room.
Just like Carl, he had a defeated expression. His shoulders sagged as if he had resigned himself to his fate.
And just like Carl, he told the sa story.
He and his family had been banished from their pack for unjust reasons. This ti, his daughter refused to be their Alpha’s mistress.
He’d accepted the offer to fight in the hopes that they would find a pack where his daughters and wife would be safe.
It was the sa story of a man introducing himself as the Beta of the Dark Ridge pack and offering them a ho.
Once again, Roo reacted to the na of the pack, and again, Helena wondered what history lay there.
The next five wolves told the sa story.
One of them was the daughter of a man who refused to hand her over.
Their Alpha killed her father, and they fled.
At the end of the interrogation, Helena’s heart felt heavy, and when Roo joined her, she collapsed in his arms.
"What’s wrong, love?" he asked as he gently caressed the top of her head.
"These wolves, if their stories are true, they’ve gone through so much only to be used as pawns," Helena sighed.
"Helena, I don’t think their stories are true," Roo finally said. "There’s one detail that they all keep ssing up."
Helena looked up at him and blinked.
"There is no Dark Ridge pack because I dismanteled that pack and killed its Alpha years ago."
Roo was lost in his thoughts while Helena was waiting for him to tell her more.
"It’s funny how the day I lost control was also the day I was branded our generation’s strongest Alpha," Roo laughed at the thought.
"You won," Helena said.
There was no way he had lost.
Had Roo lost she wouldn’t be in his arms right now.
An Alpha challenge was to the death or till submission, by the sound of it, the Alpha of Dark Ridge Pack was not the kind to accept submission.
"I won," Roo nodded. "The Alpha refused to submit, and I killed him. His Beta and Gamma and so of the ranked wolves attacked, and the Alphas I was with retaliated."
An Alpha Challenge was sacred.
Its results were honored by everyone, and to challenge it’s results was to spit on the Moon Goddess’ will.
"What happened to the pack?" Helena asked.
Roo’s aura lightened.
"A hundred thrity three mbers join Blackmoon that day," Roo said. "That’s one of the reason why there are so many pack mbers you don’t know."
"Yeah, like this pack wasn’t big when I left," Helena grumbled and Roo simply laughed in response.
"We have over two thousand mbers now," he told Helena.
"Two thousand?" Helena asked as he stepped back and looked at him.
"Stonehill has what, another thousand?" Roo asked her.
"One Thousand Three hundred more or less," Helena shrugged.
"We are the biggest threat to every pack in the world. Combined we are probably the biggest pack," Roo explained. "People either want to ally with us or they see us as a threat."
"That’s why you think they’re lying, cause you killed the Dark Ridge’s Alpha," Helena said. "What happened to his son?"
Roo shrugged in response.
"I have no idea," he admitted. "We were too young to care to tie up loose ends."
"If he survived, I bet he thinks he has the right to be called Alpha," Helena pointed out. "And he might be the one sending his Beta."
"He would be soone with motivation to attack, yes," Roo said, nodding.
"Do you think it could be him?" Helena asked.
"We have many enemies, Helena," Roo reminded her. "Those that know my history would use him to bring up the shadows of the past, to make us fear my mistakes."
"So it’s soone who at least knows about Dark Ridge," Helena said.
"We need to be vigilant, but we should also look into this," Roo said with a sigh.
"What was his na, the Alpha Heir?" Helena asked.
Roo closed his eyes as he tried to rember.
"It was Mark Darkridge," he said. "But I doubt that’s the na he would go by now."
"I’ll ask the friends I’ve made over the years, maybe they can help," Helena said as she thought of what she could do to make sure that a vengeful forr Alpha Heir wasn’t using innocent rogues.
"And will you still try to visit the commune?" Roo asked.
"You already know the answer to that question Roo," Helena said marching out of the interrogation room with Roo chasing after her.
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