The Lycan Kingpin's Captive: A Baby For The Beast

“Kneel, dog.”

Two words spoken in my mother’s voice and the dormant memories come hurtling toward me at full speed. I can clearly feel the lick of the whip on my back, the cigarettes put out on my skin, the way her dagger separated my flesh…

And the guilt coursing through me when one of her clients brought my body to climax.

/“Get to your feet, Nikolaos! You cannot let her win!”/ Knox urges me, but his voice becomes fainter and fainter until I can see his mouth moving with no sound coming out.

Shameful thoughts keep me prisoner even as I hear Mia call to me, begging me to get to my feet. But how do I tell her these thoughts are like silver chains holding me down and forcing my submission? How do I explain that I can clearly remember - no I FEEL everything I went through at her hands?

I thought I was over the fear; I thought Mia’s love had pulled me out of the depths, but I was so, so wrong. My soul is still ruined and my mind is still trapped in the past. Right now, I am not the Alpha with the second-largest territory… Now, I am nothing but a slave to my mother’s commands.

The scent of blood is like a cigarette burn to my memories and I feel someone pulling me to my feet. “Come back to me, Alpha. I’m getting the revenge you should have gotten a long time ago.”

Her soft voice makes me blink, and when the last of my past images fade away, I am looking into the wide, determined eyes of the one person who loved me even through my shameful past.

“M-Mia?”

Her smile is like a sliver of sunlight forcing the darkness out of my mind, but then she lets go of me and turns me around. The sight I am greeted with is a bloody trail leading to the crawling figure of my mother.

I suck in an unsteady breath, not used to seeing my abuser weak and on her knees. That’s where she put me, that’s where she loved seeing me….so what’s going on?

“This ends tonight,” Mia says, then she walks over to my mother and grabs her by the hair before pulling her over to where I am standing and forcing her head down.

“Apologize to him and mean it,” Mia growls. I glance at Mia and see nothing but steely determination in her eyes as she threatens my abuser. This won’t work, though…I know her well enough.

My mother laughs unsteadily, then she peers up at me and grins. “I will not apologize for what I did,” she starts and I feel Knox stir. “Why lie about something I so thoroughly enjoyed taking part in-”

Knox takes over my consciousness and I allow our combined anger and hurt to make the decision I couldn’t make so long ago. My fist slams into the center of her chest, and I grip her heart tightly in my hand.

Her eyes are wide as she looks up at me with horror, her nails clawing at my forearm. “Nik-”

I won’t let her say my name or she’ll taint it too, so I rip out her heart from her chest and sink my claws into her neck to behead her. Seeing her in the position she has constantly put me in does nothing to quell the fury building up inside of me.

She took my son; both Lilah and my aunt need to suffer this fate.

“Nikolaos,” a soft voice akin to a summer breeze, caresses the fringes of my anger, and Knox’s snarls become low. “I am so proud of you, my love.”

of me? This voice…it’s familiar, it’s warm…it’s my Mia. I blink and the anger fades away; when I glance down, I see what I have done and I suck in a

while my heart beats painfully in my chest and I place a hand over it, trying to level my breathing at

me and I can feel the pride emanating from her. “You’re an Alpha; don’t you dare kneel to anyone again,” she scolds me, but somehow I know it’s meant out of love.

sound of an infant’s piercing cry stopped me short. Mia’s smile drops from her face and she rushes behind me;

core; both Lilah and my aunt are dead. There’s blood and gore everywhere and when I look at Mia again, I see the blood

Did she rampage while

kill them,”/ I order over the mind link before I walk to where Mia is sitting

with a look of utter shock on her face. I get down on my haunches and touch her cheek, causing

I say with nothing but pride swelling in my chest. “You protected us when I couldn’t.”

slips down her cheek. “I

shock because she’s holding Ares again, but because she killed two pieces of

people, Mia. If you didn’t act when I failed you both, we

and she turns her head to

your family and pack when I was unable to. There is no reason for you to feel guilty for killing these

bottom lip trembles and it pisses me off that she feels guilty for killing them. But then again, this is my Mia we’re talking about - she’ll feel bad for stepping on a bug by mistake. I get to my feet and

eyes widen when he sees all

warriors and something else you need to see,” he says. “We’ll talk about it later, for now, we’ve killed the warriors and the Gammas are

no remorse and Maxim gives me a nod of his head before walking inside the container. I think of nothing else as I place Mia and Ares

way, but I know she is drained from all of this. She lost a lot of blood through giving birth, had less than an hour’s sleep after, and still fought to get rid of our enemies. The adrenaline rush has passed, so dead on her feet doesn’t even come close to how she must

to watch her, and after she burps Ares, I can see her eyes threatening to close. Luckily we’re a

mou. I’ll watch over Ares,” I tell her when we walk up the stairs to our bedroom. “I promise I’m not going anywhere, okay?”

“Thank you,” she says and walks towards the bathroom while I tend to Ares.

with clean ones, then I check his little diaper, clean him up, and put him back into his bassinet

that this is actually my son. He didn’t

goes to the closet, I see the scars on her back have healed completely. I grit my teeth thinking

bitch tried to shame my Luna while I did nothing but fall head-first into

I run over to her and wrap my arms tightly around

That wretched woman used the trauma she inflicted against you; and since you haven’t truly dealt with it, it came back.

I left you to fend for yourself.

you fall, I have to be

the Goddess blessed me with someone like her.

lips with a