46 His Inner Beas

Marco lit a cigarette and walked to the balcony. At his penthouse in one of the most prestigious buildings in New York. Looking down at the big city, a city that never sleeps.

He changed. At times he cannot even recognize himself anymore. He took a puff and blew a smoke.

'I've taken care of you. You belong to me.'

The inner beast inside him raged wanting to come out. He still wasn't able to pacify it even with the two lady wolves inside.

"Marco."

It was his mother. So the only person that can come inside uninvited came.

"Yes mother?" He answered, not turning back.

"When had you become so rude you won't even greet me properly?" Lady Anne Morteza reprimand her son. She raised him a gentleman.

But that man he raised has lost to the beast in him. The person in front of her is no longer the smiling boy who would ask apple pie for his beloved. Lady Anne sighed. If only she didn't run away.

"I'm sorry, mom." He turned and held his mother's right hand and kissed the back of it. "Any news?"

Lady Anne knew he was asking about Franchesca. But still she needed to point some things out first.

"Marco, the girls, do you need to do it like that?" He left them still chained and unconscious on the floor. By now the bruises and bites would have turned purple. And Lady Anne, being a she wolf herself is repugnant with the sight of it.

While it is a norm for them to take a mistress or several of them at a time, she condone anything related to sadism.

"If you had informed me you were coming you wouldn't see something like that."

"Me not seeing it doesn't make it right, Marco." She said wearily. Her son holds a lot of anger inside him and she understands. But what will happen if he is to hold the Wolf Master's power then? Will he destroy the whole city on a whim?

The King of Faeries almost turned a whole island into powder, and he was still controlling his rage then. She doesn't understand the faeries why they pass the power in their family early. Most of the families wait until the eldest is at the brink of their death before passing it on.

Karl had it in him when he turned eighteen. While the wolves power still resides with the Elder Wolf who still chairs The Order currently.

"Believe me mother. I tried." I tried to hold it in. But the mere thought of her drives him insane.

"If you stop getting brunettes maybe you might have a chance." She knew about this fetish of his, and the reason behind it.

"What did you really came here for, Mother?" His patience is losing grip. He wanted to know, did they find her?

"The mermaids seemed to be suspicious of a certain cruise line that was acquired two years ago. It is registered under a commoner, however, a large part of VIP cabins are always fullybooked whole year round.

"At first they didn't mind it, until they discovered that the whole floor is inaccessible to the enhanted ones." She explained.

"How did they found out?" He inquired.

"On that itinerary, a mermaid was fooling around with a rich commoner. He wanted to take her back to his suite. But the guards didn't let him and instead talked to him privately. That very moment he was provided with an executive class cabin which is a deck lower so he can continue his business with the mermaid."

"Are you sure about this? It's not that there is only something illegal happening there?" His eyes flamed.

"The mermaid confirmed that commoners weren't stopped by the guards. It was only her. As if they can smell her. When she realized this, she quickly jump in the water and reported to the Seiōn."

Seiōn is the kingdom of the merpeople. The God of the Ocean is another wizard king, he is an old man, living for over a century. But aside from his silver white hair, nothing else about him looks old. Though they seldom call him in the past years as there weren't as much pressing matters that needs The Order to convene.

"I presume that this ship is already under surveillance." Marco then said coldly.

"Ofcourse, my son. They'll dock in Alaska in two days time. Our people would be waiting. While at sea, the mermaids had been instructed to keep watch as well. And we also have them on satellite." Lady Anne informed him.

After a few more minor details, his mother had taken her leave. However this piece of information had him more agitated than before he banged those two.

Stubbing the last cigarette, he went into his bathroom and showered. Not long after, he went to a room a floor lower to where his bedroom was.

The room he opened is dark saved for a light in the middle that glows red, and a woman whose arms are chained high up. Her eyes opened and glowed a soft yellow upon seeing him, then she whispered,

"Master..."