Zade POV
Klaus pushes his way back to the forefront of my mind, and he is pissed.
"What the fuck Zade, you just let her go?"
I internally groaned. "Yes I fucking let her go, it was the hardest thing I have ever done, but I had to. For now."
He is pacing and snarling at me. I know he wanted to claim her now, but fuck I couldn't. I have to find out what is going on here first and if that stuck-up bitch from earlier was talking about my little mate. As soon as that thought is out, Klaus pounces, he racks his claws into my mind and takes control. fucking bastard.
I am forced to take the back seat while he shoves himself into the driver's seat of my body. The sick bastard lifts his head and scents the air. I can feel his need to claim her, feel the arousal that's straining painfully in my pants. Klaus makes quick work of following her scent. We made it out of the cemetery and down the path. We come to a section where she has stopped and just as we are about to head in the other direction, I hear shouting.
With the momentary distraction, Klaus has no choice but to give me back control of my body. I keep myself hidden and follow the commotion that seems to be happening in the pack house. It doesn't take me long to walk there, but what I find interesting is the fact that the Alpha is pulling at his hair and barking orders at everyone. I watch as he grabs a young girl around the neck and drags her closer to his face, spittle flying around as he yells.
"WHERE IS SHE?"
The poor girl whimpers trying hard to bear her neck in submission, but this prick won't allow it.
"ANSWER ME". He yelled in her face again.
I opened the link to the pack members I brought with me.
"It's show time". I move at inhuman speed and head to the meeting spot. I drop the glammer I have on myself and my pack and let the power radiate from us.
I step into the clearing with three of my best warriors, Axel, Hunt and Cut Throat. We walked a few meters and came to a halt. The Alpha is too caught up to notice us. A few gasps rang out around us. A few women take their pups and drag them away. The Alpha, though, shows us total disrespect when he saunters up to me. No apology, no welcome, no nothing. I can see him taking us in, sizing us up. I use this moment to let Klaus skim the surface.
I felt my eyes blaze red, which finally had the desired effect I was after.
"So, Alpha Derek, you requested our presence, for whatever reason we are here."
"You have come at a rather shit time, someone has gone missing, and I need her back. She is vital to the reason why. You're here."
Now this has caught my attention. I wonder if he is talking about the little blonde thing I was talking to earlier. Klaus is pushing me to question him further, but I need to play it cool. I can't let on that she is my mate. So I do what any gracious visitor would do and offer our services.
"Well, since we are here, let us help you find whoever it is that is missing. They clearly seem to be of importance."
I can see him thinking, calculating whether we are being genuine or not. My patience starts to run thin, and I give him no choice when I step closer and use my Alpha voice on him. I know he is an Alpha too but I am also a demon and that adds to my power. I let Klaus forward and push my demonic voice to combine with my aura.
"Let us help. The sooner we find whoever it is, the sooner we can leave, understand?"
I see him grit his teeth fighting to submit to me. It's almost laughable really how he thinks he could possibly fight me. Without showing weakness to his pack, he nods his head and that's all the confirmation I need.
"Bring us something that has the scent of who you seek. We will be much quicker tracking her than you."
I do not say that to be rude, it is just a basic fact that we are stronger and better trackers than normal wolves. I see disgust wash over his face at that, but he turns on his heel and storms into the pack house to retrieve the scent we need.
Ten minutes passed, and he came barging out the door. He looks crazed, unhinged. He throws a shirt at me and I feel my blood boil. It's her scent. The little one from the cemetery. She fucking ran. This has questions spiraling through my mind. Why did she run, where did she go and did she not feel the mate bond? Klaus growls and it rattles through my skull.
"We find her, and we take her. I am not leaving here without Zade."
Fuck, he is right. We are not leaving her here. "I agree" I replied to Klaus.
"We find her, we take her, and we hide her until this bulshit is dealt with."
"agreed."
I reluctantly hand the shirt to Axel and Cut Throat to have a sniff. I mind link them with instructions.
"If you find her first, make sure she is unharmed. You hide her if need be and keep her safe, understand?"
"Yes, Alpha" they responded in unison.
With that, we all undress and shift. I love the look that is plastered on Derek's face, the horror that has drained the blood from him, causing him to look pale. He takes a few steps back as do the rest of his pack. I feel their eyes rack over us, assessing our wolves. We are huge, bigger than a normal wolf, but what is different is that we radiate smoke and flames. We are, after all, Hellhounds. I faced Derek, and gave him a little nod. I let out a howl, it was time to hunt, and we ran.
*****
The stench out here is nothing like the air back home. Here all you smell is pollution and chemicals. The air isn't clean. It plays havoc with my nose and I know it does the same with the others too. Klaus is practically foaming at the mouth about finding the little one and so am I, but I can't come off as too eager. My men don't question me which they know not to do, but they also know who I am mated to. I don't want anyone telling Baxian before I have. I hear faint howls coming from the Black Widow Pack grounds, so I know they are on the move.
We have to move quickly. We make it to a river and Axel mind links me.
"Found the scent, it ends here."
I paced over to him and started to sniff around. I see small shoe prints that end right at the water's edge.
"She jumped, look at the way her shoe prints just disappeared."
We all ran back a meter or two, but just before we were about to take off, I walked back over and covered her tracks. I don't want these fuckers to get to her before we do. So I take my place in the middle of my men and take off. With the enhanced speed we have, we leap over the river.
We continue for a mile or two when I catch a whiff of her scent again. It's faint but I follow it. Luckily, my eyes could see in the dark because I noticed she was running in a zigzag motion to try and confuse whoever came looking for her. Klaus growls in approval. I know he wants to find her and make sure she is safe. What we both don't understand is why she is so important, and why she is the reason we were summoned here.
"Up there, the small cave." I raced towards the cave opening, fuck it's empty.
"Boss, there is blood up ahead." Cut Throat links.
I raced over to where he was and there was indeed blood. Not a lot though. Klaus bends down and licks the ground. The shudder that runs through my body isn't anything that I have felt before. That is power. Untapped power buzzing on my tongue, lighting my whole body up.
I was just about to give more orders to the others when an earth-shattering howl shook through the forest.
Fuck, I know that howl and that can only mean one thing.
Baxian is here.