Harvest Moon Part 3
1944 Words
Warning- Detailed Violence
Sean’s POV
After eating breakfast the next morning with everyone in the dining hall, we all went into Jack’s office. I took a seat on the couch with Orson and Pearl to see what was going on. Jack, Orson and Stella had stayed up all night and looked tired.
“I’m going to call Jamie and see if she is available to come check me,” Stella said.
“If she is, I can portal there and get her,” Carmen offered.
“Ok,” Stella said with a nod.
Stella called Jamie and I sat there listening to the one-sided conversation. When she was done on the phone, I watched as Carmen opened a portal to Hunter’s Moon to get Jamie. Portaling everywhere would make travel so much easier. I needed a witch as a best friend. It would save me so much money.
Moments later the portal reopened and Carmen came through holding Jamie’s hand. Jamie smiled widely when she saw us. She ran up and hugged Stella tightly. When she’s done hugging Stella, she notices me sitting on the couch and we share a look that says I’ll talk with you later. I stood up to give her a hug.
“Having fun?” Jamie asked as she wrapped her arms around me.
“Yeah,” I answered.
Jamie turns her attention back to Stella and says, “Alright now to see if this hex is gone.”
She placed her hand on Stella’s belly and her eyes lit up as always. Her face stayed void of emotions while she inspected Stella. I love watching her use her Goddess powers to help others. It’s something she was good at and something she was meant to do. Jamie backed out of her magic and let her hand drop from Stella’s belly. Her smile was soft which could mean anything.
“The hex is gone. You’re clear,” Jamie said while looking into Stella’s eyes.
Jamie and Stella shared another hug of relief and Jack joined them. When he was done hugging them he wrapped Pearl in a hug and thanked her. He even thanked Carmen before she took Jamie back to Hunter’s Moon. Carmen came back to be served her sentence for her part in all of this.
“I know that you had no part in what Adria did but it was your book that gave her the ability to do harm to us. For that, I am permanently banishing you for Harvest Moon, Carmen,” Jack said.
“Understood Alpha. All of this has taught me to keep my book under lock and key. I am sorry for the trouble that we have caused and I wish you the best in the future,” Carmen said as she bowed her head.
She gathered her things and opened a portal to leave. Jack looked at his watch then motioned for the rest of us to follow him. We went down to the basement once more to the interrogation rooms. Pearl, Orson and Stella stepped into the observation room while I followed Jack into the room with Adria.
She looked up at us and begged, “Please just get this over with. No more, please.”
She had cuts all over her and a stab wound in each leg. He was dragging out the torture on her which I felt was fair after all the suffering they went through. She kept her secret hidden for six months and then was on the run for a year. She needed to suffer.
I walked over to the table to see two silver daggers on it. I picked one up and handed it to Jack. I watched as he made three cuts to her right shoulder then moved to her left. Once he was done, he handed me the dagger back and I cleaned it before placing it back with the other.
“Some Alphas you two are,” she spat as we went to leave.
We ignored her and left the room. We went and sat in the observation room with the others. I learned that they had sentenced her to death by three hundred cuts. They were going in every hour to cut her six times. We sat there and talked to pass the time.
When it was time to go back in, I asked Jack, “May I?”
He nodded and we both walked into the room. Jack went over to the daggers and I stood in front of Adria. Jack handed me a dagger and I looked down at the she-wolf in front of me.
“I didn’t do s**t to you. f**k off you stupid rogue Alpha,” Adria snapped.
Oh, this b***h. If there’s one way to piss me off it’s calling me a f*****g rogue Alpha. I’m nothing like those murderers. I kept my cool but I wanted to kill her.
“I told you before I’m not a rogue. You might not have done anything to me but I told Jack I was here to help.”
“You don’t have the balls to take someone's life, little Alpha,” she growled at me
I shrugged my shoulders while looking at the dagger. I leaned on the chair that was bolted to the floor of the interrogation room.
“I might not be able to kill you but I can surely help in some way. I would love for you to shut up.” I looked up at Jack and said, “she can live without her tongue.”
I watched his expression closely. His eyes went wide in shock at what I said. Would he deny what I wanted? If he did I would follow his word since this was his pack and his territory. When his expression sobered, he nodded his head for me to go ahead.
Adria screamed and cried as I moved into position in front of her to cut her tongue out so she could no longer talk. She clamped her mouth shut in order to stop me. I smirked and chuckled at her pathetic efforts. I knew how to make someone do what I wanted in an interrogation room when it came to torture.
I made three cuts to her arms and she ended up crying out in pain from the silver. I took advantage of the opportunity and stuck my fingers in her mouth, grabbed her tongue and took it off with one swift move of the dagger. Blood poured out of her mouth as she cried and then tilted her head back trying to drown herself in her own blood. I grabbed a fist full of her dirty blonde hair and made sure to keep her head forward over her lap so the blood would spill from her mouth.
I handed the dagger back over to Jack so he could clean it and set it back with the other. I stood there still with my fist full of Adria’s hair as she couched the blood out of her mouth and gasped in pain. When the bleeding stopped, I let go of her hair. She looked up at me with tears in her eyes and blood all over her face. I looked at her with no emotion before we turned and left the room. We walked into the observation room and sat back down.
“Where the hell did you learn that?” Orson asked.
“You forget that I hang out with Duncan and his Beta constantly. I have learned a lot,” I told them.
“Where did the anger come from?” Pearl asked.
“You stay mad once you watch your oldest brother kill your parents then come after your sister who kept you safe that night.”
I didn’t want them to know all of the truth. Calvin haunted my dreams for years after that and I hated him with a passion most wouldn’t understand. I hold onto that pain and anger and let it out when I fight or when I have to be cruel. Her calling me a rogue is what tipped that anger towards her.
“Just use that for good and not evil like he did,” Jack told me.
“Oh, I know. I was just tired of listening to her,” I said.
We stayed there and enacted the punishment until lunchtime. After eating, I went up to my room and got my things together. I told Jack, Stella, Orson and Pearl goodbye before loading up in my car to head to Gray Moon. I got Orson’s number so I could stay in contact with him.
I had spent six days here and I had learned a few things about the pack and Alpha. This pack was on its way to have the best medical care thanks to Stella, but they have the best spies. Most importantly I learned something about myself. My pain would come out in deadly ways if it was prodded just right and calling me a rogue was the quickest way to see me explode.
While driving, I texted Alpha Ryan to let him know I was on my way and put the location in my GPS so I could get there. I called Jamie this time instead of texting her. I would call Meredith later on. I didn’t want her to know about this incident and worry that I wasn’t alright.
Jamie picked her phone up on the third ring, “Hey.”
“Hey. I’m headed to Gray Moon. What do I need to know about Alpha Ryan and his pack?”
“Ryan is my age and just took over his pack. He doesn’t have a Luna yet and his dad Brian still helps him. I don’t know of any issues they are facing at the moment.”
“Ok.”
“How did things go after I left today?”
“I cut Adria’s tongue out of her head.”
“Damn, Sean. Why?”
“She called me a f*****g rogue Alpha. It just hit me in a way I didn’t want it to.”
“Ah. I can see why that would be touchy with you. Are you ok?”
“Yeah. I’ll be good. Why aren’t you judging me for this though?”
“Because you haven't seen what I’ve done to rogues with trees, vines and stakes. Death and violence are a part of the life we live as werewolves. To think that someone will live this life and be unscathed from its brutality is absurd.”
“I guess you have a point.”
“Besides after what he did to our family, Duncan made sure the two of us could be ruthless but hide it from others. I’ve done well with that and I make sure not to feed into Cameron’s anger or ruthlessness. That could be bad.”
“I’ll try and hide mine again.”
“Maybe you shouldn’t always hide it. You are Alpha Sean after all.”
“I guess I will just have to use it wisely.”
“That would be good.”
“I’ll let you know if I need anything while I’m at Gray Moon.
“Ok.”
“I love you, Jamie.”
“I love you too.”
We hung up and I kept driving towards the next pack. What Jamie said made me feel a little better about myself. I needed to own who and what I was and the pain and anger that resided in me. Maybe it would help me to be the person I’m supposed to be.
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