About That #17
I gave Xander a kiss then we walked down into the dungeons with the group. They split off to go to the viewing area. Freya snickered, “That you totally knew about before mate told you.” Which he didn’t catch because he was on information overload. I sighed, took out my phone and texted Lux.
Me: So, you and your brothers need to be ready to console your dad… actually you and Gerard should probably get to Black Mountain… like… quickly…but like warn your brothers about your dad’s emotional state. So… yeah….bringing Harrison would be good too.
Xander linked me, “The cameras and microphones are on for us to hear, but they aren’t recording.” I grabbed a chair, dragged it across the ground, and sat in front of Ezra’s cell. I told him, “Well, you’ve looked better.” Ezra growled at me.
I said, “The man you refused to raise to be a good man… who turned out to be so much better than you ever dreamed of being, sent me some interesting files of yours.” Ezra snorted, ‘You couldn’t get in them.” I scoffed, “You’ve got to be kidding.”
Ezra sneered, “You’re not the only genius around.
” I laughed, “I know… my dad is one… there is a solid case for my mother in law…but she’s never been tested to officially know that…
but you’re not one.. or close really. I cracked your files within an hour.
Had I done more than run it through a program of mine…
well, I’d have cracked it a hell of a lot faster. ”
“I was busy being pulled into the Ribbon and fixing mine and Xander’s life… again. I actually went to the night your great nephew tried to mark me.” Ezra gave me a sharp look. I said, “Oh yeah, I know that Booker is the Alpha Ducant’s son. That’s not what I want to talk about though.”
Ezra laughed, “You don’t want to talk about how I used an organization for a vendetta against your family?
” I said, “If you actually think that; you are nowhere near as smart as you think you are. An organization like the Ring… does not care about your vendetta. They used you and your vendetta to further their cause… which went over about as well as lead in a balloon… again not the point.”
Ezra snorted, “Fine, we can get to your point then I’ll point out why you are wrong.” I hummed, “I’m not wrong, but I’ll agree to those terms. You answer me and I’ll point out why you think you’re smart, but in fact you're Bobo the Clown. That works for me.”
Ezra sighed, “What’s your question?” I asked, “What did Alpha Theo’s brother do to you?” Ezra stiffened. I said, “Even before you completely sold out to the Ring, you knew about them. You offered them the perfect way to start to fracture the allies that they so DESPERATELY wanted to break apart.”
“You were paid quite a bit of money for supplying Alpha Theo’s brother’s name as an Alpha for the Ring to spell. Alpha Aaron did nothing to you… yet you watched as they made him go crazy. He wasn’t in control of his own actions.”
“The poor man was probably glad Lucas killed him. You essentially let the Ring destroy another Alpha. You gave them the dang blueprint to attack other people like you and have the actual audacity to believe it would never happen to you.”
“You let Alpha Aaron go so insane… he raped a woman he’d known most of his life. A friend of their family. You tore apart a friendship that had been there since they were pups. You broke the alliance, but it didn’t completely work, did it?”
“You separated Alpha Theo and Alpha Lucas, but not the rest of the allies. They remained allies with everyone else except each other. So, it wasn’t a complete success, but I’m sure the Ring felt it was a small victory.
I know why the Ring gladly accepted your name of an Alpha to spell to cause chaos.
What I don’t know is why you would give up Alpha Theo’s brother. What did he ever do to you?”
Ezra sat back clarifying, “After I answer this, you’ll let me tell me how you were the perfect tool?” I sighed, “Yeah, no I wasn’t….however, I will listen to your opinion…then tell you how dead wrong you are.” Ezra smirked, “You missed the first Alpha spelled.”
I snorted, “I know Alpha Max was spelled. He found out about Haley and was going to tell his allies. They erased his memory and locked him in his mind. Answer my question and stop stalling.” Ezra chuckled, “I wanted Aaron’s territory, but he wouldn’t negotiate part of the land with me. So, I taught him a lesson.”
I gasped, “But you didn’t even get the land after he died! Alpha Theo took over Aaron’s pack.” Ezra shrugged. I lamented, “That’s the worst lesson ever! No one knows it was a lesson except your psycho self. It literally accomplished nothing.”
Ezra shrugged, “It’s not like I liked Alpha Theo or Alpha Lucas. It bothered Alpha Lucas that Alpha Theo hated him with a passion. It bothers Alpha Theo to hate Alpha Lucas. What no one but me understood was Alpha Theo hated that he understood why Alpha Lucas did what he did.”
“It made him feel like a bad brother. I was hoping it would make him sloppy so I could kill him and take the area, but it didn’t.
Then he didn’t break with Alpha Eric in the alliance.
I tried to have the Ring spell Alpha Theo too, but they thought that Alpha Eric would catch on, since he was closer to Alpha Theo than Alpha Aaron.
Alpha Eric would never have believed two members of the same family went crazy. ”
I frowned, “So your why for essentially driving another Alpha into madness that led to his death is because you’re a jerk.
Seriously? You took Alpha Aaron’s whole life from him because he was a better man than you.
That’s, just… god, you suck.” Ezra shrugged, “Now, let me tell you why you were the perfect revenge.”
Freya scoffed, “I hate him.” I replied, “Same.” I rolled my eyes at Ezra saying, “I was literally the worst revenge of all time, but please…regale me with your tale… and I’ll probably interject where you are wrong… but let’s just humor you.”
Ezra smiled, “You’ve killed a lot of people.” I blinked but he didn’t continue. I said, “Oh my lord. How does anyone let you plan anything? That’s how I’m the perfect revenge? I’ve killed people. That will certainly make waves… nowhere.”
Freya said, “All Supernatural’s kill. Even passive ones that don’t like fighting.” Ezra snorted, “You think your precious Xander will love you when he hears about all the innocent Omega’s you killed?” I raised an eyebrow at him while Freya laughed outright in my head.
Ezra continued, “You think it won’t kill your father to hear about how you worked WITH Hunters?
It already kills him that you were hurt.
This will torture him.” Would now be the time to drop that I knew the Hunters real purpose?
Freya advised, “Probably not. The group in the back room is in chaos over this information.” Fair enough.
I stared at Ezra then asked, “That’s it? That’s all you’ve got?” Ezra frowned, “That’s plenty.” I said, “Ok, wow. Just… wow. No, I’m not your perfect revenge plan. I’m your linchpin. That you callously, and naively, threw into the mix of evil and expected me to be your perfect puppet.”
“I have bad news…for you… not me… or anyone else. Just you and your constituents. I’m not a puppet.
I’m a person with strong opinions whose intelligence is SO far above yours it’s crazy.
All of you should’ve known from the MOMENT I refused to back down, when you hurt people in Black Path, that I was the wrong person.
I knew how things were supposed to be. I was the literal worst choice you could have made. ”
Ezra repeated, “You worked with Hunters.” Did he not know I was forced to join?
Because he hadn’t called me a Huntress yet.
Freya snorted, “I bet he didn’t know.” Or it was a trivial detail to him.
I mocked him to his face, “Did I? Or did I give intel to the Hackura to bust the drugs the Ring is running?”
Ezra’s eyes grew wide with horror. He growled, “You wouldn’t dare.
” I snorted, “You don’t believe that.” Ezra growled, “You killed innocent Omega’s because you were told to.
” I asked, “But did I? Or did I kill the Hunter groups, take their phones and laptops… pretend to be them to give updates back to the larger group, and send the Omega’s somewhere you’d never look for them… Here, for example.”
Ezra was turning red with anger. I said, “By the way… you might have been in too much pain to notice… but Tao and Talia are REALLY cute together. He took over your pack, with his fated Luna at his side… which you should know… because you were just paralyzed, but I doubt you noticed.”
“Talia was here… in Black Mountain….by the way….she was all along, but well… you didn’t bother to look.
Your son trusted me to come up with a plan to save her…
because I trained him… in secret. He watched every training video Xander put out…
and I simulated an Alpha training another Alpha with them. ”
“That’s how Tao got so strong… and you never knew. It’s really unbecoming… of an Alpha… just saying. They know things like that. None of my father in law’s pups would’ve been doing something like that without him knowing. Because he’s a true Alpha blood… unlike you.”
Ezra had a vein bulging out of his neck as he snarled, “How dare you! That girl doesn't deserve my blood!” I retorted, “That girl is a woman who is fated to your son. Tao is a much better man than you ever were. He doesn’t need to rape she wolves to feel superior.”
“He doesn’t need to coerce and corrupt young men to do his bidding. He’s a real man and Alpha. I know that’s a hard concept for you to grasp because you are not one, but I never killed anyone who was innocent.”
Ezra studied me. Eventually he asked, “Are you in the Resistance?” I rolled my eyes admitting, “That’s a popular question these days. If you weren’t so in your head about how smart you were, it would’ve occurred to you a LONG time ago to ask that question.”