Chapter 190
Lake:
I could taste the bitterness at the tip of my tongue, like the bile that rested somewhere in my growling stomach. It traveled all the way to my throat and I swallowed hard to push it down to the pit of my belly where my anger boiled with a mixture of rage and thirst for blood. If Jojo or my son had been harmed in anyway, I was going to make sure he did not survive it.
I had given him so many chances to come to his right senses, I warned him so many times, even pleaded on few occasions. I tried to talk to him as a son would speak to his father. But if he did not care about my request as his son, then I would seize to act like he was my father.
I tried to assure Valerie she would be safe without me as she was starting to shiver violently. She was finally brave enough to hold onto my second phone while sitting in the living room. I let her know that Ashley would be with her soon, but if anything happened, she could call my emergency line and I would pick up in a heartbeat.
Once I was sure she was settled, I stomped out of my house and walked to my car. I pulled the door open with force and flung myself into it. I slammed the door shut, put my key in ignition and listened as the engine roared to life.
If Jojo had really gone to her mother from my father’s grasp, then I knew just where she was going to be.
The dungeon.
I drove there in speed. I naviagted through the traffic like I was insane – which I wasn’t so far from anymore – it was a miracle that I did not run my car into something, or someone. I kept my eyes fixed on the road, my sweaty palms gripped my steering wheel with full force. I took in heavy and deep breaths to calm myself, but nothing worked.
I was out for blood, and so was River, my wolf.
The gates of my father’s mansion – where the dungeon was located – were wide open. I drove with speed past the gates, and I pressed my feet on my accelator and revved up my engine. I turned my wheel sharply and slid my car by the side of the water fountain. I stopped the car there and turned the engine off. I pulled my key out and slipped it into my back pocket.
I jumped out of the car and shut my door behind me. I started to run towards the door. I was going to break into it and tear the whole building down if I had to.
My father stood in front of his door, clad in a red tuxedo and a stiff black turtleneck. He wore a grim smile on his face as he spoke. I wanted to punch that smile out of his face until his nose bled and his teeth scattered in his mouth.
I barely gave him the chance to speak when I stood in front of him. I clasped my right hand around his neck and squeezed roughly. His dark eyes remained adamant as he leered at me.
“What the fuck did you do?!” I screamed.
“Where is Jojo? Where the hell is my son?! Oh, you better speak, or I swear to the heavens that I’ll…”
“You’ll what?” He managed to mutter, even while I was almost choking him to death.
“I’ll fucking kill you!” I growled. I could feel my eyes threaten to jump out of my skull. My grip around his neck tightened and that was when his eyes rolled to the back of his head.
He was hopeless. I did not have the time to waste on him.
I pushed him to the ground and watched as he crumbled to the ground. The terror in his eyes was unlike anything I had ever seen. For the first time in over twenty years, I saw fear in my father’s eyes.
I tore my gaze away from his sorry frame and matched past the entrance door and walked into the dark corridor that housed the mighty door that led to the dungeon.
When I got to the door, I found two guards mounted in front of the eight feet tall wooden door. I stood still and glared at the both of them, the men stared back at me.
“Move.” I ordered.
“Forgive us alpha, but we were giving strict instructions not to…” His voice trailed off when the door opened behind them.
I watched with keen eyes as a guard stepped out of the door, he was followed behind by another huge guard who held a woman…RêAd lat𝙚St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only
Jojo!
He pushed her forward, out of the door. Horror flashed in front of my eyes as she fell to the ground, weak and exasparated.
I saw red. Adrenaline coursed through my veins, and River sought to take over. He wanted to transform and tear apart the men who had dared to touch her with his claws.
“I’ll fucking kill you!” I yelled. I took one step forward and caught the neck of the man who had pushed her. I lifted his feet from the ground and flung him towards the end of the room. His back collided with the hard wall.
I was going to end them, every single one of them.
Three of them screamed and charged towards me at once. I picked the first man up from the ground with his neck and drove my right fist into his nose. I threw him towards the rest of his colleagues. One of them was lucky enough to dogde the hit, but the other crumbled to the ground with a loud thud.
I had lost control, and I was enjoying every single moment of it. I drilled a hole into the third guard’s stomach with my fist. Blood splattered on the ground from his mouth, and he turned on his feet, before he fell face first on the ground.
They were all down.
I rushed to where Jojo knelt weakly, and I fell on my knees beside her. By the goddess, my heart was starting to skip a million beats at once. I had never thought I would be so scared of losing someone in my life. I did not know how terrified I was of losing her until she was almost gone.
Tears rushed down from my eyes as I cupped her cheeks. Her dim eyes seemed to brightened as she saw me.
“Lake,” she breathed out. Her right hand shook violently as she struggled to touch my face. Her eyes were swollen and red, as though she had been crying for ours.
“You came, you came.” She continued to speak.
I tried to sniff in my tears, but they only rushed out of my eyes with more force. I couldn’t believe I was shedding tears.
Of course, I came! How could I not? She, Lucian and my mother were the most important people in my life.
“My mom… my mother… she’s in there…”
“Lake!” Kenji’s voice called from behind us. I held Jojo and pulled her into my chest as I turned to him. He looked around the wide corridor and found all the men lying unconscious.
“Bro, I found your father outside, and he…”
“There’s no time to talk, Kenji. Hurry, help Jojo up. I need to get her mother out of the dungeon.” I spoke quickly, I was certain he could tell the urgency of the situation from my tone.
“I’ll go get her mom, you stay with her.”
I thanked him with a nod and held Jojo in my arms. She gently sobbed into my chest, and my heart tore apart more and more. I wished she never had to go through so much pain. I wished I was there to hold her.
When Kenji returned with her mother, I instructed him to take them to my condo.
“Lucian…” Jojo cried out. I squeezed both her hands gently and engraved a kiss into both of knuckles.
“I’ll bring him home to you, I promise.”
I gave Kenji a slight nod, allowing him to leave with Jojo and Doris Wyatt. I still had to teach my father a lesson he would never forget.
I took out a pistol from the belts of one of the guards and matched to the entrance with it. I was going to put a bullet in Cole Rush’s head if he did not tell me where my son was, I swore on my life.
He was leaning on the wall, blazing anger lit up in his eyes.
I cocked the pistol and pointed the barrel at his head. I placed my index finger barely millimeters away from the trigger, just so he understood I wasn’t fucking playing around.
“You would regret this, Lake.”
I chuckled bitterly. I tilted my neck to the side, then straighted my face.
“No, father. You are the one who is going to regret three things. Firstly, you’ll regret ever coming close to Jojo and my son. Secondly, you’ll regret it if you do not tell me where my son is. And lastly, I swear that I would drive a knife into your skull if you ever come close to my family again, and you’ll regret dying in the hands of your… son. Now…” I spat on the floor.
“Where is my boy?”
My father’s eyes moved to the gun in my hands. I turned the barrel barely meters away from him and shot a bullet into the wall beside his head. The sound caused him to jump. I watched as he fell on his knees and lowered his head.
All that talk, all that evil, yet he was scared of a freaking bullet.
“He is in the family mansion. I… I left him there to…” I didn’t wait for him to finish.
I rushed towards me car and flung myself into it. I was going to bring my son back home.