The Wolf Came on Christmas (Johanna and Alexander) novel Chapter 104

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“…you sick bastard, what the hell is wrong with you!? You killed the mother of my children!”

“NO! Mon Dieu, no, I did not kill her.” The lion’s face tightened harshly, in a grimace of annoyance and spite. “That was Álvaro’s doing. It wasn’t supposed to happen. You were the prey, not her.”

I think the bluntness and carelessness with which he said that struck the three of us equally. Alexander went rigid in his place, just like me, and Nika stopped straining against the wires biting into her hands.

I was not prepared for the furious roar with which Alexander answered him, opening his jaws brutally:

“Now you’re going to say she was murdered by mistake!?” he spat, struggling hard against the chains. The fragile radiator on the wall screeched and shifted from its place, punished by his superhuman strength. “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?”

“No, no…” the lion clicked his tongue, capricious. “The thing is, I can’t be everywhere and control Álvaro when he’s working. He’s very impulsive. He did it in a fit, surely. He’s a dangerous psychotic-he’s medicated and everything-but I think the medicine doesn’t work anymore… and he has this ‘thing’ with beautiful women.”

But what the hell was wrong with that guy?

He was talking about Anya’s brutal murder as if he were telling how they killed the neighbor’s dog, and that filled me with rage and fear in equal parts. What kind of monster lived inside the mind of that bloodthirsty animal? How could he talk about all that without even flinching? The idea would not fit in my head. I had no way to understand it!

The horror filled me so much, so much, that maybe they all smelled it on me.

“I’m sorry,” the lion continued, with a slight shrug.

“You’re sorry!?” Alexander cut in, between growls and furious jerks. The radiator pulled farther from its screws with every blow, and the fur on his wrists began to stain with fresh blood. “You’re sorry!? Your son of a bitch partner killed her in cold blood, and you tell me you’re sorry! What the fuck do you think they did, you damned idiot!? Step on an ant in the street!? YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A MONSTER!”

The lion’s gaze hardened, and the calm in his eyes disappeared.

“I said I’m sorry. And I mean it.”

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“You don’t mean it,” the wolf howled furiously. “I doubt you actually FEEL anything!”

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“…It’s true. I regret it. Especially your beautiful wife. She was a sweetheart, a precious creature.” He let out a whistle full of appreciation. “How did a guy like you get a woman like

her?”

Alexander completely snapped. All his posture shifted again; his fur bristled and his entire body seemed to grow considerably in size. His tail stood stiff and bristling like a spike. It almost hurt my chest to see the expression-hard, devastated, furious, desperate-that took over his canine features. It was all evident in the way he flattened his ears and wrinkled his muzzle. Rage mixed with pain. I had felt enough of that conflicting, disastrous emotion in the last five minutes to recognize it.

“… What did you do to my wife?” he asked, in a period of

rage.

“Me? I think the correct question is WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?” The lion shook his head with a distressed expression. “Man, that poor woman was so scared… we were only together two-no, three times-but I could feel her terror in every fiber of my body. I didn’t have to do anything, in fact it was so easy I got bored.”

My mouth fell open, my fingers digging into Nika’s shoulders.

“… What do you mean you ‘were together’?” Alexander asked, breathless.

The question seemed to please the enemy, because he replied:

“Easy, puppy,” he said playfully. “I’m not interested in females already taken by others, and even less in those tainted by dogs. We only talked, just like you and I did at the beginning. That was my strategy. As I told you before, if you had been with a pack I wouldn’t have had to work so hard, so I had to devise a way to learn everything about you before attacking. I realized you were dangerous. I watched you for days-every movement. And then I met your charming wife. Approaching her in a public place wasn’t difficult; she was a very kind woman. We started talking about this and that until, patiently, I earned her trust to speak about you. It’s strange-it only took two coffee meetings at the roadside café for her to loosen her tongue… it seems she desperately needed someone to protect her. I was good to her. I told her a few things, helped her with her fear. She was so afraid of you that she had to resort to a guy like me to feel better. I didn’t want her to die. I liked her. That’s why I buried her myself-l felt very sorry.”

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Alexander first spat a string of words in Russian that sounded very harsh, and then-

“You fucking son of a bitch!” he shouted furiously. “WHAT DID YOU TELL HER?”

“That I could make her stop being afraid,” the other answered bluntly. “It was what she wanted to hear and what no one could tell her. I told her I was a specialist. That I could get rid of you-and of that little spawn you forced her to give birth to.”

The words burst from my throat like an unstoppable torrent:

“No, no… that’s not true. That can’t be true!” I said like an automaton. “IT’S NOT TRUE! Alexander, don’t listen to him-he’s lying! You and Anya were together for many years! Think,

Alexander! THINK!”

The lion’s very pale eyes turned toward me almost immediately-but not startled or angry, just perplexed. Maybe he didn’t expect me to interfere in his conversation.

Alexander looked at me too, shattered. He had stopped struggling against his restraints some time ago. Would he have freed himself by then if the lion hadn’t dropped his most effective bomb on him? I thought so-the radiator was barely hanging from a few screws.

Seeing his blue eyes glassy with tears hurt me, but it didn’t stop me:

“Alexander, you knew Anya better than anyone! Do you really believe this is true?”

The white wolf opened his jaws but couldn’t speak.

Instead, the feline said to me:

“That poor woman went mad because of him. And he knows it. Why would I lie to him?”

“To hurt him! You miserable bastard! Sheriff McCord warned us about this-he told us what you’re capable of!” I said, trying to sound fearless. It helped a little that the lion made no move to use the pistol or approach Nika and me, and I grew bolder. “You’re nothing but a fraud! All you have is a big mouth! Alexander is not stupid, and what you’re saying isn’t true.

You’re a liar. A LIAR!”

“Oh, the good sheriff. I should have gotten rid of him too-I always knew he would expose

me.”

“That doesn’t change the fact that you’re lying,” I pointed out, shaking my head.

“I don’t need to lie when that dog knows perfectly well that I spoke with his wife.”

He looked at the wolf-and so did I.

Yes, it was true.

Yes, Alexander had already said it. He knew-and Rex had confirmed-that his wife had met