Chapter 47: Adrenaline Third Person
“By the time you get to Chasity, it’ll be too late anyway!” Snarled Dante.
Felix growled impatiently. Calix regarded Dante with black eyes. Alex bared his canines. At that moment, Danny the P. I. And Chance descended to the cellar.
“Do we know anything?” Asked Chance anxiously. “We will soon,” said Felix, taking a pair of pliers out of his tool bag. “You don’t scare me!” Growled Dante. “We’ll see about that,” said Felix, shrugging. “I have nothing to live for anyway!” Retorted Dante.
“Are you seriously trying to make me feel sorry for you? You have something to do with my mate being missing?” Hissed Felix, his eyes black and his face contorted with rage. “There’s no worse pain than that for a wolf!”
Dante chuckled humourlessly. “Think I don’t know that? My mate is dead!”
“Then you should know better than anyone how painful that is! Why would you ever want anyone else to suffer like that? When you already know it’s the greatest suffering?” Snarled Felix.
Dante took a deep breath. There was a bruise on his forehead where Felix had knocked him out. He slumped against the side of the cell.
“I just want my mate back,” muttered Dante.
“What does that have to do with Chasity?” Asked Calix, exasperated with this whole exchange.
“She looks just like her!” Insisted Dante.
In a flash, Alex had entered the cell and was holding Dante by the throat so that his feet dangled in midair.
“You took Chasity to replace your dead mate because they look alike?” Roared Alex, tightening his grip on Dante’s throat.
“DON’T KILL HIM!” Bellowed Calix. “We’ll never find Chasity in time if you do!”
Alex listened to the youngest alpha, dropping the kidnapper onto the floor where he spluttered and gasped.
“They’re not gonna kill her! You heard him! She’s replacing his mate,” snarled Alex. Dante caught his breath and began to chuckle to himself. “If you’ve touched Chasity, I will carve you like a roast!” Said Felix slowly. “I haven’t,” insisted Dante. “I want her willing.” “SHE’LL NEVER BE WILLING!” Roared Felix. “She won’t but Deidre will,” said Dante.
“What do you mean?” Asked Calix quickly. Dante said nothing. He just lay on the floor as if asleep. “You…you just want her body, don’t you?” Whispered Calix.
His two elder brothers were making expressions that showed they did not believe in the bodysnatchers. Dante was fidgeting a little.
“We’re not gonna kill her! She’ll be fine. Her consciousness will be transferred to something else in the meanwhile!” Said Dante defensively.
Felix gasped. Alex was incredulous. “So it’s true?!” Asked the eldest alpha. “You’re stealing people’s bodies? Bodysnatching?”
Dante sighed. “Are Chasity’s parents dead? Is Deidre dead?” Demand Calix. Dante shook his head slowly. “Where are they?” Asked Chance eagerly.
“In the bodies of three moon snakes that Deidre keeps in a tank in her room,” whispered Dante, cackling madly.
“You’ve kept them sentient and locked up as snakes for nine years?” Asked Calix, horrified.
The volume of Dante’s laughter increased. “Snakes only live about nine years. That’s their natural lifespan so I don’t know if they’re still there. Maybe. They might live a little longer with werewolf consciousness in them,” muttered Dante.
A chill crept through Calix. They needed to hurry not just for Chasity but for her parents and the real Deidre Binx.
Chance was shaking and black eyed. “I’ll kill you!” He bellowed at Dante and rushed forwards. Alex grabbed him and Calix closed and secured the cell.
“There’s no time, Grandpa!” Yelled Calix pulling Chance away from the cell. “And where are there?! In LA?” Asked Felix, panicked.
“Deidre has a branch of her spiritual model retreat nonsense in LA but she’s housing everyone at the branch closer to home,” said Dante tauntingly.
Felix lit a blowtorch. Dante actually recoiled looking nervous. He walked towards Dante. “Where are they?” Asked Felix slowly, taking a step with each word. “You’ve been there already!” Yelped Dante accusingly. “WHAT?!” Exclaimed Alex. Calix gasped.
“The abandoned castle we smelled Chasity in with all the fox paintings isn’t abandoned,” said Calix
Dante laughed. He pointed his index finger downwards. Third Person (Dexter)
At the risk of upsetting or potentially even enraging the alphas, Dexter was driving his somewhat unreliable car over to the pack house. He was almost there. None but the youngest had taken him seriously. He sighed as he raced forwards pushing the old car as fast as it could
He grabbed his coat and hastily donned it, abandoning the vehicle for now. He ran through the snow. This would take forever. He hadn’t shifted in years. He sighed. This was for Chasity, Chase’s only child. He ripped his coat off and threw it back onto the hood of the car. He couldn’t afford to rip that one. Hopefully no one came by and “sprang” it. He chuckled remembering the old slang words Chase and him would make up. He pictured his wolf form and he felt the old familiar white hot pain of his bones rearranging.
Chasity’s POV
Chasity shifted a lot more quickly than she ever had before almost as fast as her alpha triplets. Perhaps, it was the adrenaline or the pup. She was on all fours, covered in sandy fur. She was a little bigger than she remembered. She had not been a marked Luna the last times she’d shifted. Maybe she was faster and stronger too. She didn’t have much time to ponder it as Deidre was twisting and turning into a form before her eyes. Chasity gasped inwardly.
The Deidre imposter became a fox, a snow white fox with two tails. She was beautiful, truly breathtaking, with coal black eyes that contrasted perfectly with her blindingly white fur.
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