Chapter 146 Gullible
As I began to walk toward the cabins, something sinister caught my eye. Suddenly, I stopped in my
tracks as I realized where the smell of blood had beening from. I felt my heart sink when I saw it: a
fresh blood trail. It was leading in the opposite direction of the cabins; had something happened to the
group before they made it?
I decided to follow the trail. It didn’t go far — ten, twenty yards at the most — and eventually ended
behind a small grouping of trees. When I saw whatid at the end of the trail, however, I wished that I
hadn’t.
It was Tiffany.
Her body was bloody and mangled. Something had cut through her neck; something sharp, like teeth. I
could smell the musky scent of another male wolf all over her, and I instantly knew that it was no mere
rogue who did this to her, but rather another werewolf.
I fell to my knees. A guttural sound escaped my lips, something that I’d never hearde out of my
own mouth before. Pure, unbridled grief. I mmed my fists on the forest floor, gritting my teeth and
seething. Whoever had done this to Tiffany would pay… I could feel my eyes beginning to glow as I
thought about how I would rip whoever did this to shreds when I found them.
But I couldn’t stay for long. I had to find Nina and the others; something equally as sinister may have
happened to them, and I couldn’t live with myself if they were all dead as well… Especially Nina.
I stood, curling my hands into fists, prepared to fight and kill whoever did this when I found them.
It seemed, however, that someone was waiting for me already. I felt a sharp blow to the back of my
neck, and then everything went dark.
…
I woke up some timeter in a dark ce that smelled oddly like damp dirt and rusted metal. As soon
as my eyes opened, I jerked my head up and looked around frantically. It seemed that I was in some
sort of run-down barn, and through the huge sliding doors at the back, I could just barely see a sliver of
light. I was sitting on a chair, but my wrists were tied behind it and my ankles were tied to the legs so I
couldn’t move. No matter how hard I struggled, the ties wouldn’te loose.
Suddenly, a lightbulb flickered to life overhead. It swung slightly from the ceiling, creating eerie, moving
shadows across the room, until it finally illuminated none other than Ronan and Lisa standing in front of
me. Between them was a camera on a tripod.
“What the fuck are you two doing?” I snarled as I struggled against the ropes.
Lisa let out a deep, irritated sigh, but didn’t respond. I watched as she sauntered haughtily up to me;
even now, in the midst of a campus-wide battle and freezing cold weather, she was wearing a short
skirt and a skimpy jacket, just as she always did. Frankly, I wasn’t surprised. She hiked the skirt up
even further, exposing the bottom of her panties, as she walked up to me, then sat down on myp and
straddled me. With a flick of her hair, she wrapped her arms around my neck and nted a wet kiss on
my lips. I jerked my head back, but she blocked me from getting away with her hands, and only kissed
me harder.
Finally, she pulled away. I spit on the ground at her feet as she climbed off of myp.
“Don’t mind me,” she said, twirling a bit of hair around her finger as she turned on her heel and
sauntered back over to the camera. “Just a little farewell kiss.”
“Farewell? What are you talking about?” I asked. “Where’s Nina?”
Ronan chuckled. “It’s always about Nina, isn’t it?” he asked. “She’s been taken care of; don’t worry.
Besides, it won’t matter anymore because you’re not walking out of here alive.” As he spoke, he walked
over to a nearby table and grabbed a pistol. I watched in horror as he meticulously loaded it, then
cocked it. Meanwhile, Lisa angled the camera, squinting as though she was trying to get the perfect
shot of what was about to be my murder.
“You’re seriously gonna kill me on camera?” I asked, letting out a wry, disbelieving scoff at the situation.
Were the Crescents really going so far as to kill the Fullmoon Alpha’s son on camera?
Ronan simply shrugged and spun around to face me with the gun in his hand. “If it were up to me, I’d
do it with a little more pizzazz,” he said, walking up to me. “But… My dad wants it his way. Quick and
clean, but a clear message nheless.”
I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t die in here — not like this, and especially not when Nina was still out
there somewhere, and she needed me.
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“Since I’m a dead man anyway,” I said, stalling for time as I covertly looked around for some sort of
advantage to help me get out of here, “tell me… What sort of message are you referring to?”
“Isn’t it obvious?” Ronan said, gesturing with the gun as though he wasn’t holding a lethal weapon in
his hand. “The tournament was never meant to be anything except for a distraction, and distract you it
did. You see, you and your dad think you’re so different, but you’re still cut from the same cloth. You’re
both gullible losers who can’t see a loaded gun in your face, even when the barrel is still hot.”
“Gullible, huh?” I asked, cocking my head.
It almost made meugh — because, while Ronan was talking and Lisa was focusing on the camera,
the door behind them cracked open. Luke’s head popped in, and I shot him the briefest nce that told
him all he needed to know. The door opened just a tiny bit wider. Luke squeezed in, scampering into
the shadows behind a run-down car that seemed to have been sitting there for decades. Behind him,
the rest of my team filed in and did the same. I found itughable that, while Ronan was standing here
and calling me gullible, my entire team wasing to my rescue right under his nose.
“Yeah,” Ronan continued, raising the gun to my head. “Gullible.”
“Talk about gullible, jackass,” Luke’s voice said from the shadows. Ronan whipped around, and in that
moment, Luke leaped out and walloped him on the head with a baseball bat, knocking him out instantly
before he had so much as a chance to react. The gun went sliding across the floor, thankfully without
going off. Lisa shrieked and lunged for it, but it was toote; Matt and Bryce had her restrained,
struggling and screaming obscenities beneath their grip.
While Matt and Bryce held Lisa, Luke ran over to me and began to untie me.
“Do you know where Nina is?” I asked frantically, jumping up out of my chair as soon as my restraints
were undone.
Luke frowned and shook his head. “No… I thought she was with you.