Filed To Story: Their Bullied and Broken Mate by Teri Petry
“Me? A traitor? I didn’t know protecting an innocent girl, who happened to be my sister, would make me a traitor, big brother. You think you can intimidate me, but you forget, I know the truth,” he replied. Eric clicked his tongue and asked Jason if he really knew the whole truth, or just some of it, and Jason dared him to tell him his side to see if it matched up to Mels. I would be damned if the idiot didn’t take the bait. Great job Jason.
It was hard to stand outside in the hall and listen to him recant everything they did to her that night. Thankfully, Loki was recording the conversation. When he got to the part where he violently and maliciously raped her, I couldn’t take it any longer. Especially since he was laughing about it. I stormed through the door and started to beat him senseless.
Loki was right behind me and he had grabbed a silver knife from the cart and stabbed Eric in the ribs. Jason grabbed Loki, and screamed “NO! We can’t kill him! The Council will punish you, and that will destroy Mel.” Loki removed the knife from his ribs, and then stabbed Eric in the penis before turning away and walking out the door. I kept pounding on his face listening to his nose crunch with every hit. His face looked like a pummeled piece of meat by the time I was done with him.
I looked up at Jason and told him and Rico to take him back to his cell and have Nick call Dr. Flores and Roxy to the cell house. They were going to have to patch him up before the council got here. I rushed outside to catch up with Loki and he wasn’t there. I turned around and went back down to the hall David was in and I found Loki there beating Todd into oblivion. “LOKI!” I screamed at him. He turned to look at me and I told him no more. Not tonight. He was pissed and stomped out of the cell. I knew he was going to Mel, but he needed to shower first. She did not need to see him covered in blood.
Calm Down
*Loki POV*
I lost control. I wasn’t ashamed of it either. If we didn’t have to wait for that damn Royal Council, they would be dead. I know I promised my girl that we would make them suffer until she said it was enough, but dammit hearing Eric speak about what he did to her went straight through me. Zeus begged me to rip them apart, and I wanted to, but I knew that I couldn’t. I hate being restricted in this situation. I started walking quickly towards the hospital when I heard Liam call my name.
I stopped in my tracks and turned around. “WHAT!?!” I said, raising my voice. He ran up to me and replied, “Calm down, I’m not the enemy here. I just wanted to make sure you were alright, and to mention we might want to get showers before seeing Melian.” I exhaled and closed my eyes. I nodded my head and put my hand on his shoulder, and we walked to the pack house. Neither of us said a word. When we got inside, we each went to our respective rooms. I immediately went into my bathroom and turned on the shower. I stepped in and let the hot water run over my body. I needed to calm down, but the thoughts of going back to the cell house and ending them all kept running through my mind.
Between thoughts of wanting to end them and the replay of his description of how he raped my mate running over and over in my mind, I found myself leaning against the shower wall, crying. I slid down the wall until I was sitting on the shower floor, and leaned my head against the wall. Goddess, why did you allow this to happen to her? I started to punch the shower floor, and I have no clue how long it lasted. When I stopped, my knuckles were bloody and raw. Shit! I stood up and finished my shower. The tears were still streaming, and I knew I had to calm down. I quickly got dressed and wrapped my hand with a towel.
I linked Liam and told him I was ready, and that I would meet him downstairs. When I got to the porch, I noticed that our aunt, Roxy, was sitting on the swing. “Hey. How are you?” I asked her. It looked as if she had been crying and she motioned for me to join her by patting the spot next to her. Sitting next to her, she linked her arm in mine, and laid her head on my shoulder. “Loki, you know I don’t interfere with pack business unless you boys ask me to, but I need to know what you are going to do with Nadine. She has done wrong, I know that, but she is still my sister and your aunt. She is still family, and has children and grandchildren of her own,” she stated.
I felt bad enough already about her being in the cells, but she had tried to kill our mate, her Luna. It was now out of our hands, and in the hands of the Royal Council. I believe Nadine was acting on impulse, and being manipulated by Lisa. I just hoped that the council saw that way too. I told Roxy that Liam and I were going to recommend her to be put in the psych hospital to be observed and treated because she wasn’t in her right mind. How long she would be there would be up to her and how much she cooperates and how well she responds to treatment. I told her that we understood the mental anguish Nadine had been going through since our father, her brother, passed away, and then when her oldest son, David, was killed she hadn’t been the same since. The screen door opened and I had never been so happy to see Liam. We said goodbye to our aunt and made our way to the hospital.
“Liam, what happens if we kill them before the council gets here?” I asked. He shook his head and ran his hand through his beard before answering, “Loki, we die. The council doesn’t put up with tit for tat when it comes to matters like that. Especially if it happens after they are called in to investigate.” I let out a grumble and tried to calm my mind before getting to Melian. Liam stopped and put his hands on his hips. He shook his head and I knew he was still pissed. “Look, I am just as pissed as you are.
Hell, Rocko is making it hard for me to focus because of his ranting. Everyone needs to take a step back and focus really hard on what is important right now. Justice for Mel, and her healing is what’s important. They will die, you can bank on it, but going at them half cocked isn’t going to help us. We know what they did, it’s hard to fucking hear it out of their mouths, but we already know. So, let’s go see our mate, and take care of her right now like we should be doing.
First, I need to go get my hands wrapped.” he stated. He held out his hands and showed me the rawness from where the skin split on them as he was hitting Eric and David. I let out a laugh, showed him my hands, and said, “Yeah, me too. A couple of faces and a shower floor attacked my fists.” he started to laugh and we walked into the hospital and went to triage. The nurse on duty cleaned our wounds and wrapped our knuckles. As we started towards Mel’s room, we ran into Rebecca, who informed us that Dr. Flores had taken her for a face scan to check on the fractures of her jaw and orbital bone.
He was hoping that they were healing themselves since they were just hairline fractures. She asked what we wanted to eat from Jolly’s, a mom and pop diner in the pack’s territory. We gave her our order, and told her to bring extra orange juice for Mel. As she walked away, Liam yelled down the hall, “Get her a double order of scrambled eggs with spinach and tomatoes. OH! and lots of Ketchup.” She turned and gave him an odd look and threw her hand up as she turned and walked away. Once we got to Melian’s room, the technician was just bringing her back. Her eyes lit up as she saw us and she smiled the best she could. Everyone had tried to deter her from talking, but I am learning real quick that our mate is finding her stubborn side. I can’t say that I don’t love it, because I do.
The Council as arrived
*Melian POV*
I wish my mates were here to go to this scan with me, but what they are doing is important. I remind myself it’s just a scan to check my face, but being afraid of small spaces is getting the best of my nerves. Something feels wrong, not physically, but like something is about to happen. I just don’t know what it is or if it’s going to be something bad.
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