Chapter 29 - Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People? - Part 1.

"Are you ok, baby?"

"I'm fine, this place is just...it's disgusting"

Cole chuckled through our mate link.

"It's my dungeons baby, not the Ritz Carlton"

"I know but still"

"Hmm, I thought I smelled the sweet scent of sex on a plate, how are you doing, sexy?"

"Watch it, rogue"

Cole had a murderous look in his eyes and wanted to kill the rogue, I gripped his hand to not only calm him down but to keep him near me, nobody's killing this fool until I've gotten all of the answers that I need.

"Calm down, Cole"

"I can't calm down, babe not whilst this asshole is gawking over what's mine and talking to you like that"

"Don't worry, he won't get away with it"

Cole looked down at me with narrowed eyes looking confused, f**k he looks so sexy right now.

"What do you mean?"

"f**k, if I knew you were this sexy and voluptuous, I wouldn't have stalled in killing your mate over here, that way I could've had you all to myself, how is your wound doing, darling?"

The rogue asked whilst gawking at my chest.

"Knife"

A knife appears in my hand and I wasted no time in throwing it in the bastard's stomach.

"AAAHHHHHHHH!!", YOU f*****g BITCH!!"

"Actually asshole, it's queen bitch, now why don't you be a good little boy and tell us everything you know about the faux king"

He laughs maniacally.

"And why would I do that?"

"Because if you don't, then I'll have your d**k and balls in my hand and not in a way that any man desires"

The rogues face paled as all of the guys around me chuckled even Cole laughed which surprised me seeing as I expected him to growl or show some anger at the mention of me handling another man's junk.

"Speak rogue, NOW!!"

The room vibrated from the power in my growl, I guess being a royal has it's perks, just my growl alone can make a grown man piss their pants.

"Aww look guys, the little boys wet himself"

Angelo mocked the rogue whose face was turning bright red but it wasn't from embarrassment, I'd say it was from anger if the look in his eyes is anything to go by.

"If I was you rogue, I'd answer my mate before she does some serious damage to you"

"Pfft, mate...I thought you rejected her"

"How do you know about that?"

"Word spreads fast, sweetheart especially when a strong and well-known alpha rejects his mate"

"Gossip spreads throughout packs and from what I can tell you're not part of a pack so....how did you find out this information?"

"I have my ways, sweetheart...besides, didn't you both know that once a rejection takes place, your bond is forever broken?"

"Only if she accepts the rejection which she hasn't, now answer my mate's questions or a dagger in the gut is gonna be the least of your problems"

I narrowed my eyes at Cole who looked pissed off but his eyes held two very different emotions in them, I couldn't make them out at first but when he looked at me, I saw the two emotions shining bright like two stars at night, his eyes are filled with worry and fear.

"He's afraid that you're gonna accept the rejection now that you know how a rejection works"

"But I didn't even know, I just assumed that once a wolf was rejected, the bond was broken"

"That's why he never told you Nattie pie, he loves you and he wants you back but he knows that if you knew what would happen if you accept his rejection then he'd lose you forever"

"But I wouldn't..."

I couldn't even finish the sentence because I honestly didn't know what I would or could do, I probably would've happily accepted the rejection after hearing this new information a few months ago but then again I can't be too sure, I'm not an evil person and to disrespect my moon goddess and the destiny she's picked out for me is similar to a Christian disrespecting their god, Muslims with their Allah or Buddhists with their Buddha.

I may not have faith in much in my life but my faith in my moon goddess has always remained strong and I would never disrespect her by rejecting my destined mate or accepting his rejection no matter how much hurt and pain he's caused me.

"What do you wanna know about him?"

The rogue asks in a bored tone bringing me out of my thoughts.

"A name would be a start"

"I don't know his name, I always referred to him as Scar"

"Scar?....why's that?"

"Because of his plans...the idiot thinks that he's gonna be the next king of all supernaturals, why do you think he's called the faux king?"

"Faux means fake"

"Smart and beautiful, what a lovely combination"

He said with a smirk whilst lustfully looking me up and down, I rolled my eyes at his attempt to flirt with me.

"Thanks for the compliment but you don't have to be smart to know that faux means fake, moron, you're living proof of that"

The guys chuckled whilst I glared at the rogue.

"What are his plans?"

"Pfft, I'm not telling you"

"Oh and why not?"

"Because I'm not a snitch"

"Really?...I could kill you right now, you'll lose your life, your chance to find your mate and live a happy life and for what?....some guy you barely know who wouldn't even bat an eyelid at your death....is he really worth it?"

The rogue was silent as he looked down at the ground, I noticed that his jaw kept clenching and unclenching as his nostrils flared.

"Tell me what his plans are"

The rogue looked up at me with a glare, he then snorted as a smirk started to creep up onto his face.

"You won't kill me"

"Oh really and what makes you so sure I won't?"

I asked whilst crossing my arms over my chest.

"Because you need me....I've got the answers to all of your questions and you won't get them if you kill me"

"Hmm, I guess you're right but that doesn't mean I can't torture you to get you to speak"

"You don't have the balls to torture me...you're just a weak little girl"

"Is that right?"

I mocked as he chuckled, I guess alpha Jay was right, all rogues really are morons.

"Machete"

The rogue's face went white as the machete landed in my hand.

"Still wanna protect your little friend?"

I asked whilst examining the machete and stroking my fingers up and down it.

"Y..you won't use th..that, y..you don't know h..how"

"Hmm...Brody, do you wanna tell this idiot what happened the last time a dumb rogue underestimated me?"

"My pleasure, sweetheart"

I smiled at Brody who was smirking with pride, Brody taught me everything I needed to know about weapons and he was like a proud papa when he saw what I did to a rogue with just one strike of my machete....on my first go might I add.

"She sliced the rogue in half with one clean cut to the waist"

I smirked as the rogue's face went whiter, if that's even possible.

"What's it gonna be, rogue? are you gonna be smart and answer my questions? or are you gonna continue being dumb and protect your precious friend?"

He didn't answer me but from his face, I could tell that he was thinking, he was wasting my time which I didn't appreciate so I decided to hurry his thinking up by placing the tip of my machete on his throat which worked because he started to panic and his heart started to race really fast.

"Ok, ok, I'll speak"

"Do it fast, I'm running out of patience"

"H..he plans on using you to get to the throne"

"What? how? I'm not even the next in line"

"I don't know"

I dug the machete into his neck, it wasn't enough to cause any serious damage but enough to have him bleeding a little.

"Ok, ok, I'll tell you just please don't kill me"

"Quit wasting my time and I'll consider it"

I take the pressure of the machete and he sighed in relief.

"I honestly don't know much about him because he's secretive like that, he fears that if people know too much about him then they can use it against him but what I do know is that he's in with the royal family, I don't know how or to what capacity but he knows them, in fact, he's in the inner circle of your parents and he told me one night when we were drinking that he's really close with your dad, which is how he was able to get the file on you and how he knows everything about you"

"What's in this file?"

"Everything about you, your grandparents, the people who left you with the Vasquez's, they always kept an eye on you and documented everything about your life from your birth to your eighteenth birthday"

I look at him intrigued as my anger started to rise, a part of me wanted to know what type of information he was talking about but the other part of me didn't, I guess in a way I was scared to know because the sweet escape I was hoping to find through my real family may just be tainted if they knew what was happening to me all along.

"What do you mean they documented everything about my life?...do you mean?....did they know about...erm..."

"If what you're trying to ask me is did your grandparents know that you were being used as a human boxing bag by your adopted family and pack? then yer...they knew"

Oh my god.

Why?...why didn't they help me? they knew I was being abused but instead of coming to my aid and saving me, they left me to f*****g suffer, what the hell is wrong with these people?.

Urgh!!, I honestly don't know who's worse, the people who were abusing me for years or those who knew about it and did sod all to help me except write it down in some stupid file that they left lying around for some stupid f*****g psycho to get hold off.

"Aww, is the little baby gonna cry?....I don't blame you though sweetheart, it can't be easy to hear that even your own blood family don't give a f**k about you...AAHHHHHH!!"

"It's not wise to piss off a woman when she's got a machete in her hand, moron"

I dug the blade even deeper into his stomach.

"And don't call me sweetheart ever again, do you understand me?...only one man is allowed to call me that and it certainly isn't you"

"AAHHHHH!!, f**k!!"

I backed up away from him leaving the machete lodged in his stomach.

"Are you sure I shouldn't be scared of you, babe?"

I turn to look at Cole and smirked.

"You're safe as long as you stay in my good books"

Cole winks at me and I looked away whilst trying not to blush.

The rogue groaned in pain as blood seeped out of his wound and his mouth, I had no sympathy for him and I wasn't prepared to help him either which I probably would have done if he didn't mouth off and show me disrespect which he continued to do even with a machete lodged in his stomach.

"It's not nice is it having a silver dagger stuck inside your body, having poison enter into your bloodstream and spread throughout your whole body causing you the worst pain imaginable until death finally comes for you, is that what you wanted when you attacked myself and Cole, huh? to cause my mate debilitating pain until he died or were you banking on me saving him so that I'd be the one who ended up in that position....FUCKING SPEAK!!"

The rogue started to laugh maniacally and I had to use everything in me not to rip his f*****g head off his shoulders.

"What's so f*****g funny?"

I was so angry and I wanted to kill him, my jaw was clenching and my fists were balled together so tight that they would've broken had Cole not gently grabbed hold of my right hand and caressed it.

"Calm down, babe, don't let him get to you"

I managed to calm myself down thanks to Cole, it's strange that just the sound of his voice and the touch of his skin on mine is able to calm me down this quick.

"Don't make me ask you again, rogue"

He was still laughing but not as wild and as crazy as he was before.

"You are....you really think I came there that day to kill you?....no, I came to kill him, I wanted to kill your true mate so that I could replace him, not just as the alpha of this pack but also as your mate"

"As if that would ever happen"

"It would've actually but I never expected for you to wanna play superwoman and save your man....that really threw a spanner in my plans"

"What plans?"

He smirked evilly at me as his eyes filled with lust.

"I was gonna kill your precious mate, I was gonna kill your brother, your family, all of your friends, well, not all of them....that Emily is pretty cute"

"Why you little..."

Angelo went to attack the rogue but he was stopped by Brody and Jason, the rogue chuckled as he looked between myself and Angelo before narrowing his eyes at me.

"I wanted to make you mine, Natalia, my own personal slut, I wanted to be the one to pop your cherry and make you my queen as well as the queen of my harem of whores but you ruined all of that by whoring yourself out to that asshole, tell me Nattie, was it worth it? was it worth giving up your pride, your dignity and your innocence to him just to get back at your mate?"

I glared at him as he threw his head back laughing.

"Oh goddess, it's no wonder nobody likes or respects you, Natalia, I mean how could they when you don't even respect yourself....as for your families, well, I don't blame them for abandoning you, for abusing you and treating you like the piece of shit that you are"

He groaned in pain before spitting out a bunch of blood.

"You're such a weak, pathetic bitch, Natalia, you deserve every ounce of pain and torture that you've suffered from and will suffer from in the future once Scar gets his hands on you and makes you his whore"

I couldn't hold back anymore and I unleashed my fury on him by violently attacking him and repeatedly stabbing him with the machete, I didn't care if I killed him and I didn't care that I was losing my chance to find out more information from him, all I cared about was hurting him and causing him excruciating pain.

The chair that the rogue was tied too broke and he fell to the floor, he looked like something out of a horror movie but I wasn't done yet, I straddled him and punched his face several times before calling for Coles silver laced dagger which was on the wall.

When the dagger appeared in my hand, I raised it to stab him in his chest but changed my mind when he said something which made me go crazy.

"You'll never be happy Natalia....if you think you'll live a happy life with your mate and be his Luna then you're wrong, he only wants you because you're a royal, his heart really lies with Aubrey and it always will"

He had a slight smirk on his face which I was determined to wipe off and I did by repeatedly stabbing him in the face even after it was obvious that he was dead, I continued to stab him until Cole pulled me off him and forced me to drop the dagger which had left a really bad burn mark on my hand.

"It's ok Nat, it's ok"

Cole wrapped his arms around me and tried to calm me down but I was too angry, actually, I was beyond angry, I was apoplectic.

"LET GO OF ME, COLE!!"

I pushed Cole away from me and stormed out of the dungeons.

"NAT!!....NATALIA, WAIT!!"

"What Cole?"

Cole was taken aback by how I was speaking to him but that didn't stop him from trying to calm me down and reassure me that the rogue was just playing on my weaknesses and my insecurities.

"Don't listen to that asshole, Nat, he's talking out of his ass"

"Is he?"

"Of course he is and you know he is, rogues always talk crap, I mean come on they're not the most honest of our kind"

"And alphas are, are they?"

"What?....what are you talking about?"

I take a deep breath as I look away trying to keep the tears that are burning my eyes from dropping.

"Everything he said is the same as what you and your parents have said to me over the years even....even what he said about Aubrey"

"No Nat, please...please don't believe any of that shit, I love you and only you and not because you're a royal either, as for Aubrey, I never once loved her, it was just lust, I know it sounds horrible but I was just using her for sex....please baby, please believe me, please"

He begged and pleaded whilst grabbing hold of my hand and kissing it repeatedly before holding it close to his chest.

"I know Cole...I know that whatever feelings you think you have for me aren't because of who my real family are..."

"Think? Natalia, my feelings for you are real"

I pull my hand away from him and back up putting some distance between us.

"I don't believe you"

I whispered causing Cole to gasp.

"Natalia, plea..."

"No don't...just don't, I...I can't do this...I can't accept you...I can't even think about accepting you as my mate or accepting your parent's apologies or my....my real fam...family because you've all hurt me in some way or another, you've all contributed to breaking me and ru...ruining me"

"Natalia"

Cole tried to reach for me but I backed up further away from him.

"Don't...just don't just...just stay away from me...forever"

I ran out of the dungeons completely ignoring Cole who was shouting my name, I ran out of the packhouse and into the woods, I needed to get away...I needed to be alone.

To be continued...