My Weaknesses

Chapter 3

When I catch up with Marcus I am horrified at the sight. Tons of wolves are scattered across the ground. Others are wounded but the rogues keep coming. I attack the first rogue I see and snap his neck easily with a swift movement.

Suddenly I am jumped on from behind by another wolf. I position my dark paws so I can keep from getting my face chewed off. I am losing strength and then the wolf is tackled by one of the silent moon members.

I tackle another unsuspecting wolf and try to snap his neck but then suddenly a thought emerges in my mind, "Don't kill me Luna! It's me! Blake!" He smells just like them.

I move away and begin to scope out the area for other when I hear a howl of pain. Charlie. I run as fast as I can back to the pack house.

When I reach, I see that Blake has followed me. "Why did you follow me? You're supposed to be fighting!" I yell at him after I change back into human form and I start looking for my secret place where I keep a change of clothes.

"I need to make sure you're safe!" I sigh and I walk ahead. My mate needs me now, I have no time to argue.

Another howl of pain comes from the house and I sharp pain slices through my side. I double over in pain, before I can recover there is a blow to the side of my head.

I fall down completely. I reach for my head and I see blood. I was actually hit. I feel Blake's presence over me. He kicks me hard in my side and I let out a howl of pain. He hits my head again and I blackout.

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When I wake up, I'm tied to a chair. My hands are bound behind my back and my head is throbbing. I wiggle my eyebrows and I feel the dried blood on the side of my head.

"Good to see that you're alive." A voice says from in front of me. I look up and see Charlie who is severely bruised in front of me.

He has a black eye, there is a cut on his lip that is bleeding slightly. There is a gash above his eyebrow that is caked with dried blood.

I winced, "I look that bad don't I?" He tries to laugh but just ends up coughing up blood.

"Where are we?" I ask.

"We are in the basement of the pack house."

"How were they able to take you?"

"Marcus was right about rogues being among us because when all of this started they attacked me just as I was getting the messages about the attack."

A hopelessness washes over me as the door flies open. They're going to kill us. "Good to see that you guys are awake." Blake bursts into the room with two other guys behind him. I recognize them as the guys who I once trained with.

"Blake, why are you doing this?" I plead

"Just a little revenge." He says with an evil smirk. "Mr. Alpha here killed my alpha's mate."

"I don't use discretion when people come onto my territory." Charlie says coolly.

"She wasn't too happy when she found out her mate was killed."

"So her idea of revenge is taking my land?"

"She wants the land where he was killed." That's weird.

"No. You can't have it."

"How about we make a deal?"

"There will be no deals or compromises you can all-"

"What's the deal?" I interject before he says something stupid.

Blake turns and smiles at me. "You give us the western border and we stop attacking. You don't and we take over the entire land."

"As I said before, I don't make deals or compromise over my land." Charlie presses, his eyes burning into me from behind Blake.

He turns back to Charlie and punches him right in the face. The cut on his lip reopens. "I tried reasoning with you earlier but..." Blake slaps the gash on his head causing Charlie to start bleeding again.

"This will be your darling mate's decision." Blake turns back to me and kneels down so we are eye to eye. "So, what's it going to be?"

Charlie would kill me if I said yes. "No."

Blake isn't surprised. "Oh, I was afraid you'd say that." He gets up and claps his hands together. "How about we raise the stakes then?"

He looks at me again and has a familiar glint of mischief in his eye. "Either you agree to give us the land that we are demanding, or we kill Alpha Charlie right here. And I'll make it slow and painful."

Fear surges through me, clouding my thoughts. Everything is frantic now. Either I concede and look like a wimp, or I let my mate be tortured until he dies. I have to make this decision but I can't. I'm too weak.

Charlie speaks to me through mind link. "Don't do it. It's a trick."
"You do realize I can hear everything you guys are saying. I'm still in the link." Blake turns back to Charlie and punches him again. And again. My wolf cries out to him. I am feeling his pain and I just want him to stop hurting him.

"You can end this all, Karina." He nods to one of his buddies and he tosses him a knife. Blake pulls his head back and presses the blade against his neck, hard. A thin line of blood appears and I see Charlie wince.

"Stop! Please stop!" I start to cry. "You can have it, just stop hurting him!" I plead. Blake's smile widens and he pockets the knife.

"Good doing business with you." I get knocked out by a blow to the back of my head.

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