His Plump Mate (by Buchanan) novel Chapter 196

Chapter 196

Austin POV

The moment I saw the bruises, I felt vindicated. My suspicions were confirmed and indeed Liora was the fake Rebel. This bitch tried to seduce me and take advantage of me.

“WHAT DID YOU DO YOU BITCH?!” Liora screamed at Rebel, ready to lunge at her. I stepped in front of my mate and grabbed Liora by the neck.

“Do not think of touching my mate.” My voice terrifyingly calm, “You tried to seduce me while I was under the influence of an aphrodisiac that Morgana gave me. You are not just a two-faced bitch, but you are a shameless whore as well.”

While she is gasping for air, Stefan interrupts by calling the guards to bring in the iron shackles. Liora’s eyes widened and she screamed, “NO! YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO ME!”

Stefan growled, “We can and we will. The central council has tried to maintain this alliance with you and all the while you were playing us. You will be sent to the iron cells. You will cooperate with us, or you will be tortured until you do. This can be easy or hard. The choice will be yours.”

Then my mate steps forward, “Austin, her face is turning purple. Let her go. She can’t go anywhere.”

Because I know she is right, I drop her on the floor unceremoniously. While she is gasping for air, the guards come in. “Put the iron shackles and manacles on her. Take her to the iron cells and make sure she is restrained.” Stefan ordered.

The guards move swiftly, while Liora tries to break free. Her voice is hoarse between me choking her and her screaming profanities at the four of us.

After she was taken away, Reid and Stefan looked at us. Stefan speaks, “What did you do?”

Rebel simply smiled. “I shook her hand. I have the potion on it, and I was trying to keep her talking while it had time to suppress her magic. Now that it has, we can interrogate her about Morgana.”

“Well done, my child.” Reid said hugging Rebel. “You are definitely a strategist. This was brilliantly played on your part.”

“Thank you, grandpa.” Rebel said, “Now we need to take out Morgana. Without additional help from Liora, I think we just weakened her plans. We have to make sure we strike before she finds another witch to work with her.”

“Agreed.” Stefan answered, “Let’s go to lunch and discuss how we will interrogate Liora. It will take some planning.”

“Lunch sounds good. What are you in the mood for Rebel?” I asked my mate. She is pregnant, which I will tell Stefan and Reid it just a minute.

“Chicken and shrimp tacos. Oh, and hot chocolate.” She says excitedly. Both Stefan and Reid look at each other horrified at the combination. Time to drop the bombshell.

I pull my mate close to me, “Anything for the woman carrying my pup.”

1/3

Chapter 126

+25 Bonus

“WHAT?!” Both Reid and Stefan say at the same time.

Rebel and I both smiled and nodded our heads. Reid hugs Rebel and kisses her forehead. “My dear, congratulations to you both. How far along are you?”

Stefan asks, “Congratulations Alpha and Luna! Do you know the gender yet?”

Rebel is glowing now. She is stunning all the time, but especially when she is carrying my pups. “Thank you, grandpa and Stefan. We are a little over four weeks along. Hopefully, over the next couple of weeks we will know the gender.”

“That’s wonderful!” Reid said. “I’m so happy and proud of you both!”

“Well, let’s not keep a pregnant and hungry woman waiting. I know just the place to take you for the tacos and also for the hot chocolate.” Stefan said happily.

We make our way to a Mexican restaurant that is two blocks away from the council. Our guards are following closely. Everyone is circling Rebel and protecting her. It pleases me to see our guards keep watch over their Luna. They have grown to love her. In the time she came to Blackstone, she has made sure that monthly, there is a cookout. The omegas and her discuss menus. The warriors will spar with her when she isn’t pregnant, and they all laugh at her humor. The other women like to talk to her and invite her to their gatherings. It doesn’t surprise me that she is so well loved in the pack.

We arrive at the restaurant, and the staff go wide eyed as the guards surrounding Rebel. She doesn’t notice though. She starts laughing with the hostess and then the waitress and makes them feel at ease immediately. Then she turns to the guards, “Everyone, sit for lunch. You can’t starve yourself on my account. I will cover your meals.” She says smiling.

All at once, “Thank you Luna!”

Every last one of them takes a seat. It’s not a huge gathering but there are six of them plus the four of us. It’s a party of ten and the waitress looked at everyone and then looked over to the manager for another waitress. After everyone ordered and we all got comfortable, Stefan started asking, “So, how do we want to start the interrogation?”

I make a suggestion, “Perhaps, we need to see where she lives and find out if there is anything we can leverage to make her start talking?”

“Could there be something in her office?” Rebel asked, “We don’t know what we are walking into if we try to find out where she lives. Morgana could be living there with her, and we are not ready for that yet.”

“I agree with Rebel. Let’s start with her office. I can have the IT department access her computer and see if there are any personal files that could help as well.” Stefan added as he took out his phone and sent a message to his IT department.

“Now, if we can find leverage, then it should help us break Liora. She is going to be pissed, so perhaps, we need to spin this like we are going to let her go, but only if she cooperates with us. We use the leverage in that plan as well. Either help us, or we keep you in here and then her weakness suffers the price.” Rebel says, “But, what she doesn’t know, is I will know if she is lying or not.”

Stefan looks at her confused, “How will you know?”

2/3

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify