The Biker Alpha Who Became My Second Chance Mate Chapter 108

Tristan's POV

I played the video again and then a third time because my mind refused to accept what my eyes were seeing.

Seraphine was there on the screen, her face a mask of pure fury as she shoved her way into Athena's apartment and then moments later she and someone was carrying her out, while my mate was clearly unconscious or too weak to fight back.

I couldn't see the other person's face, but I knew it was a guy. Who was he? He looked familiar but I couldn't place his face.

But I saw Seraphine's face clearly. She was working for Daxon. She was his accomplice.

For how long now?

My wolf surged inside me and I felt my vision blur with the kind of rage that could level buildings.

The phone creaked in my grip as I watched my pack member betray everything we stood for and everything I believed about her.

“Tristan.”

Orion's voice came from behind me, low and strained. I didn't need to look at him to feel his rage. It was a living thing in the room, a heat that matched the fire in my own blood.

I turned my head and saw his eyes fixed on the phone screen, his jaw clenched so tight I could hear the grind of his teeth.

I turned slowly to face Marcus who was still bleeding from the silver wounds Orion had given him.

His face had gone completely white and I could smell his fear mixing with the metallic scent of his blood. A new kind of coldness settled over me.

“I gave you a chance to tell me the truth,” I said, and my voice was too calm, too quiet for the storm inside me. “I gave you every opportunity and you looked me in the eye and you lied.”

Marcus flinched but didn't speak.

“Seraphine never tried to kill herself, did she?” I asked him and I felt my voice starting to rise with each word.

"Alpha I can explain..."

“Answer me!” The command ripped out of me with the full force of my Alpha voice. It wasn't a request. It was a compulsion, and his head bowed automatically as his wolf submitted to mine.

He was shaking. “Alpha…”

I took another step, closing the distance between us. “Why would you do this? Why would you protect her and betray me?”

Marcus swallowed hard and I could see his hands shaking as he tried to find words. "I did it to protect Seraphine," he finally whispered. "She's a pack member Alpha. She's family. Athena isn't."

The words were a spark to the tinder of my control, I saw red. My wolf screamed for blood and violence and I wanted nothing more than to rip Marcus apart with my bare hands.

A roar built in my chest and I moved to lunge for him, to tear the lie from his throat with my teeth, but Orion's hand shot out and locked around my arm, holding me back.

"Easy," he said quietly but I could see the rage flickering in his own eyes. "We need the whole truth first."

His grip was iron, his own anger a palpable force, but his eyes were clear. He was stopping me because we still needed answers.

He was right, saving Athena was what's important for now.

Bringing her back safely, so I need to control my emotions.

“Tell me everything,” I growled, forcing the words out. "Every single detail of what happened and what you know."

Marcus shook his head, his lips pressed together in a weak attempt at defiance.

“Speak,” I commanded again, layering my voice with more power, enough to make his bones vibrate with the need to obey.

Orion moved in closer, his presence looming over Marcus and his tone turned sharp and dangerous.

"Marcus you and I don't have a relationship and you're not under my command but don't think that means I can't make you talk. Your Alpha is asking nicely right now. Don't make us drag the answers out of you. Don't make this more painful than it has to be.”

Marcus looked terrified as his eyes darted between all of us. He glanced at Derek like he was hoping for help but Derek stepped forward with his voice like ice.

“Don't look at me,” Derek said, his voice cold and flat. “I'm not as patient as they are. The only reason I haven't caved your skull in for lying to our faces, is because this is his fight. But my patience is gone. So if you know what's good for you, you will start talking.”

"Speak now," Derek added with a bark that made Marcus jump. "If you know what's good for you."

Marcus trembled and his knees buckled slightly under the combined pressure from all of us. I could smell his terror and his wolf's submission but I didn't care about his fear anymore.

I know he was trying to protect Seraphine because he likes her and that was why she could easily use him.

“Speak now!” I roared, and the command was so forceful it triggered his shift. His body contorted, fur sprouting, then receded just as quickly, leaving him naked and gasping on the floor.

“Yes!” he screamed, the word tearing from him.

“Yes, Seraphine came to me! She begged me for help. She said Daxon was going to kill her because she had helped him before and now he was threatening her. She said if she didn't help him kidnap Athena, he would kill her!”

So they'd worked together? Interesting. Now I can kill her not caring she's a lady.

Even I already knew she'd die from my hands the moment I watched the video.

I leaned down, getting right in his face. “What did she do for Daxon? What did she do before?”

He hesitated, his eyes wide with fear.

“What did she do?” I snarled, the Alpha voice crashing down on him like a physical blow.

“She poisoned your Luna!” he cried out, the confession bursting from him. “She inserted a wolfsbane in her drink making her go into labour.”

The words hit me like a silver blade straight to the heart. I staggered backward and felt my breath tear out of my lungs in a ragged gasp.

Jess? He killed her? They both had a hand in her death.

And I've been helping her all these while, I've been helping her murderer.

No. No. No.

Something broke inside me and a scream tore out of my throat that was raw and animalistic and shook the walls of the conference room.

I lunged toward Marcus with every intention of killing him right there but something stopped me halfway.

I turned to Orion instead because I suddenly felt something that made my chest tight.

A sensation, faint but unmistakable, flickered in the back of my mind. It was a thread, a connection I thought I'd lost.

“I can feel her," I said and my voice came out hoarse and strained.

Orion's eyes widened and I saw recognition flash across his face. "I can feel her too."

We stood there for a moment just breathing hard and both of us were connected to the same invisible thread that seemed to be pulling us in a specific direction.

“It feels like…” I started, trying to grasp the strange sensation. “Like she's...”

“Above the ocean,” Orion finished, his voice low and urgent. “She's far, but not too far. It's like she's standing right on top of it.”

That wasn't possible, never ever.

A cold dread twisted in my gut. “How is that possible?”

Orion's face had lost all its color. His usual calm was shattered, replaced by a frantic, desperate energy. “Because she's touching the one thing she was never supposed to touch.”

He grabbed my arm, his fingers digging into my flesh. “Tristan, we have to go. Right now. We have to get to her immediately.”

I had never seen Orion like this before. He was frantic and desperate and there was real terror in his voice.

"She's going to kill them," he said suddenly, messing his hair with his hands in frustration.

I blinked because I was confused by his reaction. "Isn't that good? At least they won't kill her first."

"No!" Orion cut me off and his voice actually broke with a fear I had never heard from him before.

“You don't understand what's happening Tristan. She's going to kill them with her powers, and if she does... if she unleashes it like that, she'll go wild. Completely wild. We need to save her”

He grabbed my arm again, his grip tight and desperate. "She's touching the one thing our parents spent their entire lives protecting her from. If we don't get to her right now and stop this from happening..."

His voice cracked with something that sounded like pure fear. "We're going to lose her Tristan. Don't you understand what I'm telling you? We are going to lose Athena forever."

His words, the sheer terror in them, shattered the last of my control. Nothing else mattered. Not Marcus, not revenge, not anything but getting to her.