Chapter 5 They'll Pay For This

• Leondre's POV
• I took my mate to the pack house hospital. I lay her on the bed, and the doctors asked me to leave the room, but I didn't do it. I'm not leaving her side, ever. My Beta comes to my side, putting a hand on my shoulder. I'm sure the people who were there informed him about the situation.
• "Is that the Luna?" he asks, looking at the girl on the bed. The doctors attending her look wary of me because my Alpha aura is going crazy, but I can't help it. They were torturing her.
• "My Ki-king, I think you should... um, leave. You won't want to see this," A tall nurse speaks in a stutter.
• "She's right, and already the doctors can't do their job well. Your aura is imposing," Dan says. I shake my head. I want to see what they did to her.
• "No,"
• The doctors turn her on her belly and tear her already torn shirt. My Beta gasps. I repress a growl and clutch my fist. Her back is red and bloody. They have been hitting her. Some cuts are so deep and unable to heal themselves. I move closer to her instinctively. There are dark scars as well, and my Lycan howls in anguish.
• "No doubt she was abused a lot. Some scars are old," Mumbles the doctor as he begins to clean her, even in her sleeping state, she flinches as the medicine touches her back. I hold her hand.
• "Sorry baby, they'll pay for this," I promise her silently. The Alpha family will bear ten times what they did to her. I let go of her hand and left the room. My Beta is calling my name, but I don't answer him. I need to be alone right now.
• I reach the woods in no time and shift into my fierce Lycan. With one loud howl, we take off into the forest to run. We have been running for a few hours now, the images of how I found my mate haunting my memories, questions bombarding my mind. What if I wasn't there? What if I was a minute late? What would have happened? Would she have seen the day again? I run harder and push forward.
• After hours of running, I thought my anger would have subsided, but it didn't. I go back to the pack house. It is quiet, and everyone is still sleeping, so I go to their minibar, drinking my favorite whiskey.
• Feeling fatigued, it takes over my body. I go to the room they prepared for me to rest, but I mind linking my Beta to tell him to stay with my mate. Once I hit the bed, I again think of my beautiful mate. I don't even know her name yet. I want to know everything about her, but mostly why she was in that terrible place. The dungeons only hold the most dangerous wolves, but can she be? She looks so frail and perfect like she wouldn't even hurt a fly.
• 'I can't sense her wolf,' Saga says. I did notice that. The tingles were there when our skin made contact, but they were not as strong.
• We will find out what happened.