My Fated Alpha's Cruel Game (Elena and Marcus) novel Chapter 136

Chapter 136: Chapter 136 Weaponized Daughter

Elena’s POV

They dragged me inside the packhouse against my protests, my wounded arm screaming in pain as Damien’s grip tightened around my waist. Every instinct in my body was screaming at me to turn around and chase after her, to find my daughter before she disappeared again into whatever hell they were keeping her in.

"You need medical attention," Damien insisted, his jaw set in that stubborn way that usually made my heart flutter. Right now it just made me want to punch him.

"I need to find Briar," I shot back, struggling against his hold as Maya burst through the door with her medical kit already open.

The silver bullet lodged in my shoulder felt like liquid fire, but I barely registered the pain. Nothing could compare to the agony of seeing my baby girl pointing a gun at me with empty eyes that should have recognized her own mother.

Maya immediately started working to extract the bullet, her gentle hands surprisingly steady despite the chaos. "This is going to hurt," she warned.

"Everything already hurts," I muttered, my eyes never leaving Damien’s face. "How can you question what I saw out there?"

"Because you want to see her so badly that you might be imagining things," Damien said softly, crouching down to meet my eyes. The pain in his voice almost broke me. "Elena, she was just a baby when they took her."

"I carried that child through my entire pregnancy. I nursed her. I memorized every detail of her face before they ripped her from my arms." My voice cracked, but I pushed forward. "She has my eyes, Damien. My exact eyes. And your stubborn chin that you passed down to both our children."

"If it was really her, why didn’t she recognize you?" His question hung between us like a blade.

"She was trained to kill us," I whispered, the horrible truth settling over me like ice water. "They’ve had her all these years. They’ve probably convinced her we’re monsters."

The room fell silent except for Maya’s quiet work on my shoulder. I could see the moment Damien started to believe me, the way his shoulders tensed and his hands clenched into fists. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

Caleb suddenly burst through the door, his chest heaving like he’d run miles. His clothes were torn and he was only wearing a pair of ratty shorts, evidence that he’d shifted to chase our attackers.

"I followed them as far as I could," he panted, "but they knew what they were doing. Professional."

"Hunters," Damien said grimly.

The word hit me like a physical blow. Hunters had my daughter. They’d stolen my baby and turned her into a weapon against her own family. The thought made me want to tear the world apart with my bare hands.

I could see the same realization dawning on everyone else’s faces. The hunters weren’t just using random tactics anymore. They’d taken the one thing guaranteed to destroy me and molded her into their perfect soldier.

"They’re using her," I said, my voice barely above a whisper. "They know she’s the only thing that could distract me long enough to get what they want."

But what happened when they were done with her? When she was no longer useful? The hunters didn’t keep werewolves as pets. They eliminated threats.

My daughter was living on borrowed time.

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