Page 29 of Alpha's Forbidden Fate
As we enter the warehouse, I’m surprised to find another vampire waiting for us. He’s tall, with fiery ginger hair and piercing eyes. They share a passionate kiss, and I feel like I’m intruding on something intimate.
“This is Thomas,” Katya says. “He’s been helping me track you down.”
“Took you long enough,” he says in an annoyed thick Irish accent.
Katya rolls her eyes, clearly unfazed by Thomas’s grumbling. “We had to come on foot,” she explains. “But we’re here now. What’s the plan?”
Thomas’s expression turns serious as he leads us further into the warehouse. “We have an interrogation to perform.” His tone sends shivers down my spine.
Confused and more than a little apprehensive, I follow Katya and Thomas into a small room at the back of the warehouse. Inside, I’m met with a chilling sight.
There’s a woman there, dressed in a nurse’s uniform with the name tag “Andrea” stitched onto it. She’s bleeding from puncture wounds in her neck. Thomas has obviously been feeding on her.
“Katya, what is going on? Who is this?” I ask.
Katya’s voice cuts sharply through the tense air. “Andrea,” she says, her tone low and dangerous, “you’ve been a naughty little nurse, haven’t you?”
Andrea’s eyes dart around the room, fear evident in every twitch of her muscles. She tries to speak, but all that comes out is a choked sob.
Katya steps closer, surveying her intensely. “We know what you’ve been up to,” she continues coldly. "You’re the snitch who's been feeding information to someone every time blood goes missing, and we want to know who.”
Andrea’s eyes widen in terror, her breath coming in short, ragged gasps. She opens her mouth to protest, but Katya cuts her off with a slap in the face.
“Don’t bother lying. We already know it’s true. Now tell us who you’ve been working with, or things are going to get very messy.”
Andrea’s lower lip trembles as she struggles to form words. Finally, she manages to whisper, “I can’t...”
Katya’s eyes narrow dangerously. “Can’t or won’t?”
Andrea shakes her head frantically, tears streaming down her cheeks. “Please,” she pleads in barely a whisper. “I can’t...”
Katya’s expression hardens and without another word, she turns to Thomas, a silent agreement passing between them.
And that’s when the real interrogation begins.
They keep asking questions as they taunt and harass her, but Andrea won’t tell them anything.
She looks so scared. I get flashbacks of all the humans I saw in our basement. They were helpless.
They all died.
Much like she is going to.
I feel a knot form in my stomach as I realize the gravity of the situation.
My family must have finally tracked me down, and now I’m caught in the middle of their twisted games.
Katya wraps a hand around the woman’s neck.
I freeze. “She is cooperating. You don’t have to hurt her.”
“Oh, we plan on doing more than hurt her,” Thomas replies.
I have to do something, but I know the odds. They are not in my favor.
These are two vampires who have been feeding on nothing but human blood. They are stronger than me, faster than me.
Anything I try will have me killed along with the human.