A Rouge with Powers

Chapter 13

There was so much blood, the body was covered in so much blood that no one could recognize who's body it was. The smell was overwhelming it was starting to make me lightheaded, I covered my nose the closer I got. Once Jax and I reached the body, the first thing I noticed was the several stab wounds that covered this wolf.

"Shit." I muttered out, this wolf was definitely tortured before they died. I glanced over to Jax who had a cold expression, looking only at the body. I had no doubt this was a rouge's way of torture, definitely something parents would do or have a wolf do. An uncomfortable shiver ran down my spine just thinking about it. 

"Do you know this wolf?" I whispered to him, he nods slowly. I look back at the body, I went to take a closer look, kneeling down right next to it. I examine his torso, trying not to grimace at the amount of wounds he had only on his chest. I also don't miss the mean glares and hushed comments targeted at me from the pack wolves surrounding us. 

"He was a wolf in this pack, I didn't know him personally but he was a family member of my third." His third? I've never heard him mention his gamma before, I wonder what the story is there. He comes up right behind, hovering over me, I don't take my eyes off the body, I notice something lodged in one of the stab wounds. Before I reach my hand inside to grab the item I start to hear shouting coming from the far side of us.

"Shit, it's him. Impeccably bad timing." Jax inhales deeply.

"Hold him back! He doesn't need to see this!" Jax orders as I see a bunch of wolves running to hold back another wolf from about a hundred or so feet away from us. 

"Who's that?" I ask temporally distracted from the dead body in front of me.

"My third, He wasn't scheduled to come back for at least another day." He breathes out, I look back down to the dead wolf, and then to the wolf being dragged away. The gamma seems to be putting up a good fight. His screams echoing in my head, reminding me whose fault this is. I frown looking back at the item lodged in his body seeing a some type of light reflecting off of it.

"What the?" I reach into the hole to grab the item, ignoring the fact that I had my hand inside a dead body. Ignoring the blood and tissue rubbing against my hand, I look away in disgust, Jax watches me puzzled as to why I'd put my hand in a dead body. 

"Oakley?" Jax questions. I finally reach the item, I take a hold of it and pull out as fast as I could. I look at the item, it's a round metal coin with an engraved image of a Segen. 

"What is it?" Jax looks over my shoulder to get a closer look, after realizing what it was I dropped it on the floor, shocked and scared. I scramble away from the item and the body, my back hitting Jax's legs. Stepping around me, Jax picks up the item wiping off the rest of the blood on it. He looks at it and then back to me, still confused. Never taking my eyes off the metal coin, my mind explodes with thoughts about just how far my parents will go for the power they crave. Bringing in dark magic as powerful and dangerous as this is a whole other level of insane. The rumors I'd hear from other rouges when I was a child were brief and limited but it always scared the shit out of me. 

"Oakley what is this?" The fear paralyzing me further as I watch my mate turn this coin in his hand. All I can think about is that he shouldn't be holding it so carelessly, In snap out of my state when Jax pulls me up on my feet.

"Get this body to the morgue, clean up the blood, I will call for a meeting shortly so standby." Jax orders to his soldiers, the second he finishes all the wolves start moving. I look up at him fear etched on my face, glancing back down to the Segen in his hands. 

"Let's go somewhere more private." He suggests, I follow close behind. My thoughts frantic and all over the place. Once we reach his office, he closes the door and places the item on his desk. I take a few feet away from the thing, wanting to be as far away as I can from it.