Mated To My Brother ✔

Chapter 31 ✔

"I became the monster I never wanted to be."

"Why?"

"Because she made me."

~ Scarlet

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"So what made you hate this girl so much that you had the audacity to chain her up like an animal and watch her suffer?" Scarlet shrugged "she slept with Xavier when she knew we were mated" Cliona made a noise.

"Ahh! So that's what triggers your anger. You were pissed he still kept her around even after you'd told him you wanted to mate" Scarlet nodded, a sad look shining in her eyes "isn't that what you did with Samuel?" Scarlet growled.

"It wasn't like that! I loved both of them at once and I couldn't decided but my main focus was finding you. To figure out what I am and who I came from. I do regret sleeping with Samuel after I found out about Xavier, I knew he suffered and I get him sleeping with Ashley to make me jealous but I hate it and I still don't have trouble over my emotions" Cliona caressed Scarlets cheek "and your anger is what brought you back to me. Those fools don't know witchcraft" Cliona took a seat on the stool in front of the kitchen island, she ignored the groans of Ashley.

"Some, daughter, what's for dinner?"

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"Its abandoned"

"Damn it!" Xavier brushed a piece of hair from his forehead "Alpha if Scarlet really is our Luna, then why would she do this?" Xavier looked at his group of fighters each one of them had made it pack the hunt with scars telling the tale. He couldn't explain why, not yet at least. "I don't know, I believe Cliona is making her do this some way. We found out Cliona was poisoning your Luna and giving her regularly beatings but we don't know anything else that occurred over the last five years" turning away from the group Xavier waved his hand.

"Spread out. Look for any unfamiliar scent and follow it, I want reports by Monday and someone check the houses. Evacuations will be made according to the guidelines and all women and children will be held in the middle school. Any male that chooses to participate without training will be given a thousand dollars for helping their pack. We don't know anything about Cliona except that she might be into witchcraft and you guys know how that destroyed us centuries ago. With someone as angered as experienced as Cliona she could take us all down. Luckily she's hiding behind Scarlet, get Scarlet away and we weaken her. Got it?"

Xavier listened to the choir of men "got it"

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"The matel rod stuck in Scarlets back prevented her from any sudden movements. It was like insurance if she stepped out of place, we noticed a small black dot in the rod over the ex-rays and here are the results" Xavier looked over the stack of papers. His brows frowning in confusion.

"What does this mean" the doctor pointed with his pen to the wire-like string running up Scarlets spine, around her body and to her heart. "It means Cliona got carried away years ago and decided to put a shock system in Scarlets heart. If she goes out of place her heart will receive a shock. It'd painful but bareable"

"Do you know a way to stop it?" Dr. O'Neill shook his head, "without Scarlet in front of me then I can't do anything" Xavier left soon after, he made his way alone up to his pack house were no one awaited him. Ashley was unreachable, Scarlet had betrayed him, Mary stayed away and his parents kept to themselves. They heard about Scarlet coming back but neither of them seem effected in his eyes.

Xavier reached his office, silently sitting down in his chair. Stress written across his face like a never ending roller coaster. The door opened and his beta, Leo, walked in with his Gamma Delta. "Jenna, Noah, Russell and Liam are here to see you" they moved to the side so that the group could come in.

"Any word on Scarlet?" Xavier shook his head "do you have a trail" again he shook his head "is there at le-" Xavier cut her off with a growl of frustratjon. "Look Jenna I know your worried about Scarlet and that you want her back but I've got nothing! Nothing and I have no clue on what to do. Scarlet is gone, probably hidden out with her mother and we have no reason why. I think it's posion but who the fuck knows about more!" Xavier stood up, his eyes filled with rage. Body shaking with built up years of emotions.

Sadness, pain, anger, humiliation, fear any bad emotion you could think of seemed to work it's way out of him and Jenna was in the crossfire. Noah pulled her back.

"Take a seat Xavier" he did as told "now I'm going to ask you a series of questions and I want you to answer them" he nodded.

"We'll start off easy. When did you first learn Scarlet was your mate"

"July 23rd when I'd just turned sixteen but I had my doubts long before then and labeled her as mine. Even when she didn't know it" Xavier smiled, if little Scarlet knew his claim on her back then she'd be spitting curses at him.

"When did you leave her" Xavier looked to the side "when I turned seventeen I slowly started to distance myself but it wasn't until I was eighteen that I took week long to month long trips around to other packs. They welcomed me with open arms but they never felt like family" Noah sat in the leather chair across from Xavier's desk.

"And why did you leave?" Xavier growled.

"Scarlet was just starting to fall head over heels for Samuel and I couldn't take it. Granted I should have explained to her why I was leaving or at least warned her but I couldn't stand the smell of him on her lips, between her thighs" Shaking his head like an animal Xavier scratched at his nose. He could smell Samuel even to this day on Scarlet even when he hadn't seen Samuel alive since Scarlet left.

After she did he distanced himself. It was his way of coping.

"You loved her when you gave a random female your virginity? You thought that maybe the goddess was wrong and that you'd feel sparks for the other women instead of Scarlet"

Sparks. A voice whispered in Xavier's ears, he blinked once then twice before the whisper came back. Thinking over his memory he thought of the word sparks, what did it ha- Xavier stood up "sparks" he whispers to himself "how could I have been so stupid!" Opening his desk drawer he pulled out a familiar leather bank with a skull bone attached. His mark, his key.

"What are you going on about" Russell stepped forward. "When I was in the hospital a couple of hours before you came Dr. O'Neill was talking about Cliona using her as a pet. He found out Cliona had attached a wire to her heart so that when she stepped out of place. She could shock her, I gave Scarlet a collar only I could take off and she's still wearing it"

Liam stepped forward, his brows netted. "What do you mean?"

Holding the bracket out Xavier shrugged, "this may be a long shot but maybe we can zap Scarlet enough to get her to somehow reply."

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Author's Note:

What do you guys think? Is it to cliché or is it okay to keep this scene? I've got so many ending ideas for this book that I'm forgetting about the drama leading up to the ending so I had to think of this fast.

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