Chapter 39

The fact that the woman had refused to obey his order should have made Dominic furious, but all he could think about was why the scent that was lingering in the room was so faint. It was as if Inez hadn’t slept in this bed last night. If she were not here, then where did she go?
“Like I said, her whereabouts are none of your business,” snarled Scarlet.
Dominic, on the other hand, ignored the confused expression of his head enforcer, tracker and beta as he focused all his attention on Scarlet and said to her, “She is my mate; she will always remain my business.”
That made the woman lunge for his throat. If not for the fact that Blake stopped her, that woman would have slit his throat if possible. “You goddamn motherfucking son of a bitch.”
“Calm down.” Blake pulled the woman back, and it was only then that Dominic noticed the tears that were swirling inside her eyes. For Scarlet to be so upset, it was clear that Inez didn’t just go on a walk around the territory.
“I will not calm down. You all took my sister away from me, you bastards. Why don’t you all fall into a ditch and die?”
And that confirmed it. Inez was gone.
“Gone? Where did she go?” Mrs. Sinclair questioned, realizing a tad bit too late that there was something more to the surface than others were letting on. She wheeled around and looked at Scarlet. She demanded, “Where did she go, Scar?”
“Somewhere far from here,” Scarlet told them. “Somewhere, you all will not be able to hurt her anymore.”
“Scarlet,” Dominic growled. His eyes flashed wolf’s, and for the first time in years, the two of them were finally on the same page, except Dominic couldn’t feel happy about it.
He wanted to see Inez break, just like he and his mother did when Abertha died. But now that he had seen it, he didn’t taste the victory that he had been craving.
Taking a step forward, he questioned Scarlet again, “Where is she?”
“I don’t know.” The woman held his stare, and if he was not panicking from within, he would have appreciated Scarlet a bit more. But he couldn’t. Not when the woman had helped Inez sneak out of the pack.
Alpha vibes started to ooze out of his skin as he stated, “You better tell me where she is or else —” Thıs text ıs hosted at.net
“Or else what?” Scarlet asked with a sneer. “You will drag me to hell? Well, newsflash, alpha. Watching my sister suffer under you and your minions was hell for me.”
“So even if you skin me alive, I will never tell you where Nessie went.”
The vibes in the room turned even stronger, but Scarlet held on. She didn’t lower her head, nor did she buckle under the weight of his gaze.
She was a powerful shifter, and Dominic knew that. But at that moment, all he held for Scarlet was annoyance and anger. He leaned forward, placing his face close to Scarlet and meeting her gaze full on. “I have no interest in skinning you alive, Scar— you are the sister of my mate, and I am willing to control my rage for this particular reason. But do not take my silence for granted. Do you hear me?”
Scarlet had the audacity to roll her eyes at him. She scoffed and said, “You mean your ex-mate? News flash, Alpha. You abandoned my sister, and you used the lingering remnants of your mating bond to hurt her in the worst way possible.”
“You have hurt her enough and it’s time for you to let her go.”
Dominic growled impatiently. He said to her, “You do not tell me what to do, Scar. It’s the other way around. I am your alpha, and I have the right to tell you what you need to do, and you don’t.”
“Well, you are too thick-headed to understand simple advice.”
“SCARLET!”
Scarlet turned quiet but Dominic had to hand it to her; the woman didn’t say a word throughout the intimidation. She was calmer than the many prisoners he had caught and confronted. And those bastards were trained.
“Take her to the prison,” realizing that Scarlet was really not going to give him any information related to Inez, he turned to look at his enforcers and commanded.
“Dom!” Blake tried to stop his alpha but when he noticed Dominic’s wolf pressed right against his surface, he swallowed his words back. He knew that this was not the time to push Dominic any further because that would only make him even more volatile.
Tao glanced at his two friends and sighed. He knew that this was going to happen; there was a time when he told Dominic to hold back but the man didn’t listen to a single word he said to him.
He glanced at Scarlet, who defiantly stared back at him.
“No hard feelings, Scar.” He held his hands up in the air as he reached out and caught Scarlet’s hands and tied them behind her back. The woman didn’t even struggle, as if she were prepared for such a thing to happen; it only proved that she knew and aided Inez in escaping.
When Mrs Sinclair saw Tao arresting Scarlet, her complexion turned pale. She stepped in front of Scarlet and said to her in a hurry, “Scarlet, what are you doing? Just tell them where Inez is… they will not do anything to you. It is not your fault, sweetie. It’s Inez who has always been a troublemaker—”
“Mom, can you stop?” Scarlet interrupted her mother’s diatribe. With a scowl on her face, she stated, “Do you really think that this is Inez’s fault? I am sorry to tell you, ma, but it’s not. This can be anyone’s fault but not Nessie’s.”
Mrs Sinclair’s mouth dropped open when she heard the words of her daughter; she hadn’t expected her daughter to stand up for Inez. She spluttered, “Scar—”