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Chapter 54 - Maniac.

It's been three days..three long days since the trackers have been set, but there hasnt been any news since then, making Ray and his wolf uneasy, restless and on edge.

"How long-" Ray started.

"Please, please, I'm pleading. Stop asking, okay? The tracking spells I used is one of the strongest in light magic and it has always been effective. Just give it time, unless you suggest I use dark magic. I may have lived really long, but trust me, I doubt I want to die just yet." She said dismissively turning back to the ocean before her.

" This is hard, Lily. Why did Artemis do this -" He was interrupted by the strike on his arm. "Ow! What was that for?!" He growled at her, Ritchie flashing in his eye for a moment.

"You will not call her, Artemis. She is one of the higher gods and I would not have her insulted before me. Your situation is already bad as it is, mentioning her without respect is many steps too forward. I'd advise you refrain from calling her that. For the sake of your mate."

Raymond sighed sinking deeper into the sand as he looked out to the ocean before him.

He had wanted to bring her here after the conference. Just the both of them, on the beach watching the sunset together and the sunrise the next morning. Hell, he had tons of plans. Plans he ruined, with his bare hands.

Ritchie has been quiet and distant since her disappearance, sitting in his mind all rounded up and licking his paws, ears perking whenever she or anything she- related is mentioned. He really misses her wolf, but I can sense his impatience. I worry for when he runs out of patience.

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"You are back already." A man said the man that walked into his office.

"Yes, sir." The other man replied.

"Please have a seat" The superior said motioning to the seat opposite him. "I believe you have news for me." He sat forward, intertwining his fingers.

"Yes, sir. I do."

""Let's have it then".

"The Alpha met with the Elders, they've found out, we are using a veil. They found him an old witch, who has currently set trackers across the city."

"Including around here?" The superior asked, anger lacing his voice.

"Yes, sir." The minor said bowing his head, feeling the dangerous aura emitting from the man seated before him.

"No!! Why do I have him as a son?!!." The superior screamed, getting up from his seat and gripping his hair in frustration. The minor looked at the man confused as to why his former alpha king would go to such lengths just to frustrate his son. He wanted to ask questions but shrunk further into his seat in fear of what the mad superior might do.

" Go get me Grey" His superior instructed turning to face him. He nodded and was out of the room in a millisecond.

"You called for me, Sir." Grey said closing the door behind shortly after the minor had left.

"Have you gotten the news?" Adam asked looking at his forsaken son.

"Yes, Sir. I have." Grey said not flinching despite the horrific aura the man or someone some other people would call his father was emitting.

"And what are you doing about it?" The older man said peering hard at him.

"Nothing, Sir."

"Nothing?!?! Are you out of your fucking mind?" Adams said gripping his seat so tight, Grey noticed how white his knuckles turned. "Are you sick or are you just stupid, you idiot!" He exclaimed banging his hands on the table, breaking it in pieces.

"I'm going to ask again, Bastard. What are you doing about it?" Said a boiling Adam, who looked like he could burst at any moment, with the way his veins popped up on his forehead.

"Nothing Sir-" Grey had barely finished the sentence when he felt a very hard palm strike across his left cheek. In seconds he was held against a wall by a wrist on his neck, nearly sucking out all traces of oxygen in him.

"How dare you?! Huh?!. I feed you, cloth you, pay you, I even let you live and this is how you repay me?!! You ungrateful bastard!!!!" Adam growled banging Greys head on the wall, as his son scrambled for any trace of oxygen he could grasp, scratching on his father's hand trying to loosen the fingers that threatened tighten more around his neck.

"Now, you will listen to me; you would go out there and seek for any witch who can to decrypt the tracker spell and break it, do you understand?" Grey tried to respond but couldn't as more oxygen left his body, his eyeballs threatening to roll back any second.

Adam released his grip on his son's neck flinging him to the wall behind him without any hint of remorse.

"You have forty eight hours" He banged the door closed forcefully as he stormed away, seething.

Grey laughed maniacally as his father banged the door. Blood and saliva dripping from his mouth and the huge cut behind his head.

"Coward" he growled.

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Anna sat up on her bed as she heard footsteps approaching. She didn't want to get beaten again for laying on the bed. The approaching footsteps didn't sound familiar to her.

Throughout her stay, she had mastered the footsteps of everyone that came to her dungeon, but this set of steps and aura made her want to shrink and hide under the bed for safety. She fought against the feeling, keeping her head low and taking deep breaths. Her lungs and chest screaming in protest.

The sound of keys rattling against the lock of her dungeon made her heart sink further, as her fear kept rising.

"Hello, Annabeth. We meet again. Not in the best way, or reason of course."

Anna froze.

He was here.. finally. He hadn't come since she was kidnapped. He kept sending other people and sending his greetings but never for once did he bother setting his disgusting eyes on her.

Quickly recovering, she looked up to see his face, giving him a deadly smile.

"Oh look, it's the Devil himself." Adam frowned at her response. He expected her to be weak, not bitchy.

"Finally decided to grace me with your presence, I see." She continued. "Sadly, it's not welcome so you can leave." She said dismissively, looking down to her laps.

Adam took few steps towards her only stopping when he was safely away from the chains, just in case she decides to fling it at him.

"I see my presence doesn't surprise you at all, that's good. I can get down to business then. He said lifting a lever that pulled her to the center of the room. Her hand chains pulled up, lifting her off her bed, letting her hang by the chains.

She winced at the shocking painful sensations she felt at her back and shoulders but she didn't let it show. But being a wolf with supernatural hearing, he heard her wince in pains.

"Ahh, you haven't healed yet?" He said, feigning shock. "I'm so sorry, I didn't know." He came closer to her, touching her waist lightly, feeling her injury. She winced, moving away instinctively from his touch, causing her shoulders and back to wail in protest, making her wince even more.

"Tsk tsk tsk, weak thing. I don't know what he sees in you, I don't care either; but I'm going to make you so ugly and sorry you'd wish you never crossed my path." He growled under his breath making shudder.

He touched the wound by her side alittle before punching directly into it, shattering that rib bone. Anna screamed in pains as her body ached, tears falling from her eyes without resistance.

"Oh no, little one. I'm just getting started." Adam growled throwing more punches to her side.

Feel free to take me now, God.