The Dangerous Trio

Chapter 8

"Who the hell are you?" He asked, grabbing the shapeshifter by his collar.

"I'm Romeo." The shapeshifter replied as if stating the obvious.

"You aren't Romeo so shut the fuck up." Alpha Luca said, pulling him out of the driver's seat.

"I'm Romeo wolfie, don't you recognize me," The shapeshifter said, still pretending, which further infuriated Luca into punching his head against the dashboard of the car.

"Who the hell are you?" He screamed at the imposter.

"I'm Romeo." The shale shifter kept insisting.

"You aren't Romeo." Alpha Luca started and got a laugh in return.

"You're wiser than they say you are a big bad wolf." The shapeshifter commended realizing his cover had been blown off by the Alpha.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Alpha Luca asked, pissed at the fact that he was almost fooled.

"Pretending to be Romeo I presume." The shapeshifter teased wiping off the blood on his head which has now spilled over the dashboard of the car.

"What the hell." Alpha Luca growled, throwing a punch at his jaw.

He kept dealing blows and punches at him until he rendered him weak and threw him into the back seat.

He got into the driver's seat and drove back hurriedly to the store Romeo went into. He found a pissed Romeo pacing left and right in anger.

"Get in the car." Alpha Luca ordered.

"Where the hell did you go? I only wanted to get something from the store." Romeo complained.

"Can you suspend your whining and just get the hell into the car," Luca said.

Romeo picked hints of anger from Luca's tone and without wasting time, he got into the car and almost jumped back out immediately at the sight of the blood on the dashboard.

"What the hell!" He exclaimed.

"What have you done, damn wolf? Who did you kill this time?" He questioned.

Alpha Luca gave him a boring look before gesturing he looked at the back seat.

"Shit." Lord Romeo exclaimed.

"Why the hell does that have my face?" He questioned in shock.

"What kind of a question is that vamp, we are in the shape lifters realm, what do you expect?" Alpha Luca pointed out.

"He tricked you into believing he was me." Lord Romeo said suddenly understanding why he hadn't met Alpha Luca where he left him.

"Yes, he did and almost succeeded." Alpha Luca replied, starting up the car in the direction of his realm.

When they got back to Alpha Luca's mansion, the shapeshifter was immediately thrown into one of Alpha Luca's prison cells.

Alpha Luca and Romeo didn't waste time torturing the shapeshifter to get questions.

They poured hot water on him to revive him as he had fainted on the drive back, immediately he woke up, Alpha Luca started questioning him.

"Who sent you?" Alpha Luca asked with a dangerous scowl.

"That's none of your business big bad wolfie." The shapeshifter replied nonchalantly.

"Who the hell sent you?" Alpha Luca asked again, snapping the shape shifter's neck sideways.

The pain from his neck didn't deter him, he kept eluding Alpha Lucas questions much to Alpha Lucas's anger.

"I see you're one hell of an idiotic Loyal bastard." Lord Romeo who had kept quiet throughout Alpha Luca's questioning finally spoke up.

"And that Loyalty of yours wouldn't save you now, or would it?" He asked.

"You know you can just tell us who the mastermind of this game is and we'll let you go." Lord Romeo said with a devilish grin.

"I can't tell you who sent me." The shapeshifter spat and Lord Romeo burst into a bout of loud laughter.

"You know if I was your master, I'd be proud of you." He said making circular motions around the tied shapeshifter.

"Your loyalty is highly commendable but that won't help you right now so I'll advise you to start talking." He added.

"I wouldn't tell you who sent me." The shapeshifter yelled and Lord Romeo plunged at him in split seconds taking both the shapeshifter and Alpha Lucas by surprise.

Lord Romeo was on the verge of draining the shapeshifter dry when Beta Ryan barged into the cell.

"What the hell has come over you, Romeo?" She screamed, pulling him off the shapeshifter.

"His death wouldn't get you answers, idiot." She spat.

"And that's is non of your fucking business." Lord Romeo yelled heaving heavily.

"Why must you always be and act like a monster?" She asked irritatedly.

"And why must you always butt into my business?" Lord Romeo replied, getting riled up by her insults.

She never had anything good to say about him, she was always on his neck with negative words and insults every time and he was tired of it, he was only tolerating her because she was Alpha Luca Beta.

"This isn't about you alone, Nightwalker." She screamed.

"This is not just about one or two realms, it's about…" she was not done talking when a pissed Alpha Luca shut her up.

"That's enough Ryan." He growled, keeping her shut.

"Do you two even realize where you are? Can't you both just act like the sensible people you should be?" He spat angrily.

"Shouldn't he be the one you should warn?" Ryan started.

"He's the impulsive one here, he almost killed our source of information." She pointed out.

"That's enough Ryan, I think you should  just excuse us." He ordered much to her surprise.

"Fine, I will excuse you both." She said storming out in anger, her anger was transferred to the poor cell door which she almost broke.

A few minutes after Ryan left, Alpha Luca sprung up from his seat with a treacherous scowl on his face.

He walked up to the shapeshifter and stood menacingly before him.

His eyeballs were turning a bright red indicating just how angry he was, his nails were also getting longer than usual causing the shapeshifter to shiver in fear.

"I'm giving you yet another chance to keep your life, who sent you?" He growled.

"I can't tell." The shapeshifter replied, shivering in fear.

"That's progress, you won't tell or you can't tell." He asked moving behind him.

"Please, I can't tell." The shapeshifter who was already drenched in sweat begged.

"Now we are begging, aren't we?" Alpha Luca taunted.

"I'm going to count to three, and you better start spilling before I do my worst." He warned.

"Please I can't spare my life but I can't tell who sent me." The shapeshifter pleaded.

"One." Alpha Luca said, indicating he has started his count.

"Please Alpha, please I beg you, spare my life."

"Two…" he counted bending down to reach his ears.

"Three." He said before plunging his hands into the shape shifter's chest and making close contact with his heart.

"That's more like it." Lord Romeo commended laughing at the almost sheen face of the shapeshifter.

"That's just a tease." Alpha Luca smirked.

"Would you start talking now?" He asked not taking his hands away from the shape shifter's heart.

"I will, I will start talking." The shapeshifter pleaded amidst tears and groaning.

It was as if Alpha Lucas knew just the soot to get him to talk, the pain he was feeling at the moment was too much to even put loyalty into consideration. It was like life was almost snuffed out of him.

"I was the one who stole Cassie's coffin." He started catching lord Romeos' attention.

"I was sent by my boss to disguise as Lord Romeo and steal the coffin." He said amidst groaning.

"Who is this boss of yours?" A furious Romeo asked, hearing about Cassie's coffin got him tense.

"My boss…. My boss…. My boss… is.." The shapeshifter stammered.

"Who the hell is this boss?" He yelled.

"My boss is called Mario." The shapeshifter finally said.

"Who is Mario?" Lord Romeo and Alpha Luca asked immediately.

"I don't know, all I know is that he is Mario and he sent me to steal Cassie's coffin and also distract you from going further into our realm." The shapeshifter explained.

Alpha Luca and Lord Romeo shared a look as if asking each other questions with their eyes and digesting the information they just heard.

"Where can we find this Mario?" Lord Romeo asked after a few seconds of silence

"I swear, I do not know." The shapeshifter said with pleading eyes, he knew his life was at stake, he knew the Alpha could rip his heart out any moment in time, he knew he was hanging in just a thin line and so he closed his eyes expecting just the worst.

And just as he guessed, Alpha Luca immediately ripped out his heart from his chest.

"We haven't gotten answers." Lord Romeo said dejectedly.

"He is no longer of use." Alpha Luca states still holding onto the still-beating heart.

"He could have told us where he took Cassie's coffin to." Lord Romeo whined.

"He doesn't deserve to live after all he has done." Alpha Luca replied.