Chapter Forty-Five
Alpha Alessandro furrowed his eyebrows. "The truth?"
"Yes." I whispered as I tamed down the fear that was building up inside me. "The truth."
"Go on." Alpha Alessandro motioned with his hand for me to continue.
"I..I...We-" I knew what I wanted to say but the words weren't leaving my mouth.
Frustration and annoyance filled the Alpha's face. "I do not care to hear the details of that night."
I shook my head. "It's.. it's not the details. It's what actually happened."
"And what actually happened?"
Words refused to escape my lips again and I knew the Alpha's patience was wearing thin.
"Go back to your room human."
He couldn't dismiss me like this, I had to tell him the truth. "Wait!"
"I have been waiting and all you have been doing is stuttering like a scared child."
"Just give me a minute, please." I begged him. "It's important."
The Alpha let out a sigh as if I had asked him to do something incredibly tiresome. Having a quick glance at his phone he walked over to his desk and sat on the chair behind it. "You have five minutes."
Five minutes. I had five minutes to get the horrible words out of my mouth. Maybe this was a mistake? That's why the words weren't escaping me, maybe this was my body's way of saying shut the hell up?
No. I had to tell him the truth. Every though I didn't deserve it both him and Teresa were going to defend me and the least I could do was tell them the truth.
What if they don't believe it?
I shook the thought away from my head. They would believe it, why would I lie now? It wasn't like the truth was very different from what the Alpha believed. The rapist did assault someone and that same someone killed him, only different is that it wasn't me it happened to it was Cami.
That was actually worse, Cami's underage, she's a child. If they were willing to keep my secret and sort of protect me they should be willing to do the same for Cami.
"Two minutes." The Alpha loud and deep voice cut through my thoughts and I turned to look at him.
He was looking at me and though his face showed he was bored his eyes told a different story. He wanted to know what I had to say, he wanted to know exactly what happened that night.
As I stared at him a realisation came into my head, I trusted him. I trusted that he would not only keep me alive but keep Cami alive too. It was a strange realisation and my heart believed it completely, it wanted me to see that I could trust him and he would keep me safe.
"You have to understand that I didn't actually lie to you." I began to say quietly. I didn't, I started to say the truth and he made his own conclusions.
Alpha Alessandro didn't respond or even move an inch and I had no idea if that was a good sign or not. Nevertheless I knew I had to continue and I took in a couple of deep breaths to calm myself down and draw in the courage to do this.
"I was at university when I received a call from Cami, she was distraught, crying so loudly and hysterically that it was hard to make out what happened. I knew something was wrong and that I had to go home."
I paused to look at the Alpha who was staring back at me with no expression on his face.
"When I got home Cami was in the kitchen and she was scared, crying and her clothes were torn apart." The Alpha stood up as soon as I finished the sentence causing me to take a step back instinctively.
"She looked so small, so frightened, she was a child." I quickly began to say as I walked backwards as the Alpha slowly stalked towards me.
I opened my mouth to continue but stopped when Alpha Alessandro raised his hand. After a few agonising seconds he spoke. "He raped your sister, he didn't rape you?"
The Alpha's eyes were burning into mine as if he had to know the answer to that question and I felt compelled to answer him.
"Yes." I nodded. "He raped Cami, it wasn't me."
For a split second I thought I saw relief flash through his eyes before it became cold again.
Relief? Why would he be relieved that it was Cami and not me?
It must have been my imagination because his face and eyes were cold, extremely cold.
"I..." I tried to continue but the words got stuck in my throat.
What was wrong with me today? Why couldn't I speak properly?
"So you got revenge. You avenged your sister who had been assaulted by a Werewolf." He didn't ask a question, he said it as a statement as if that was the truth.
"Well...not exactly." I muttered quietly, looking away from him.
He took a few step closer to me while I took the same amount backwards. My back hit the wall and there was nowhere else for me to go. "What do you mean not exactly?"
He didn't even give me a second to speak before he demanded I answer the question. "Answer the question human. Answer it!"
"He was already dead when I got there." I blurted out, I had nowhere to look but at him.
"Tell me everything, if you lie again it will not end well for you." His words promised violence and yet again I questioned whether or not this was a mistake.
"When I got to the kitchen Cami was huddled in the corner, her clothes were torn apart, he had ripped her clothes pretty much off her body and she was crying. She was absolutely petrified and she was only defending herself." I tried to explain Cami's action, she didn't go looking to cause anyone harm like his rapist cousin did, she was only acting in self-defence.
"She was holding a knife and there was a body on the floor. It was a man, he had blood on his torso and he wasn't moving."
"She stabbed him with the knife." Alpha Alessandro announced to no one in particular.
"Yes she did but only because he raped her and she wanted him to stop. She didn't plan on killing him, it was an accident, she just wanted him to stop." He had to understand that she was only defending herself and that she had no choice.
"She's a child, she wa-"
"What did you do next?" The Alpha's voice was low and deep.
"You have to understand we-"
"What did you do next?" Alpha Alessandro repeated the question again and said it slowly this time.
"I helped Cami to clean herself up and then once we realised who he was we quickly got rid of...him. I turned his phone off and we put his car in the boot and took him to Saddleworth Moors." It was the short version of what happened, I didn't tell him the emotional turmoil both Cami and I went to and I didn't tell him how shit scared I was once I realised that he was the Alpha's cousin.
Neither of us spoke for a minute or so, we just stared at each other as we processed what I had just said. He was probably trying to make sense of what I had said and I was trying to figure out what that meant for me and Cami.
"She was lying." He finally said after a minute of silence.
"W-what?" I spluttered out.
"How do you know she was telling the truth?"
I stared at the Alpha like he was crazy and he definitely was. Of course she was telling the truth, why would she lie?
"She wasn't lying!"
"And you know that for a fact?" His voice had a mocking tone to it which infuriated me.
"Yes I do! You didn't see her, you didn't see what she looked like!" Tears began to blur my vision as I remember how she looked once she got into the bathroom. "Her clothes were torn apart, she had bruises everywhere and bite marks too!"
"I don't believe you."
Once again I found myself spluttering at his words. "W-what? What do you mean you don't believe me?"
"You're lying."
"Why would I lie about that?" I angrily wiped the tears that had streamed down my face.
The Alpha grasped my chin roughly forcing my face to tilt upwards. "You've been lying ever since you got here."
Before I could defend or explain my actions there was a knock on the door. The Alpha immediately let go of my chin and moved away to get the door. I felt as though all the energy I had was drained from my body and I found myself holding onto the wall for support. My legs felt weak as if they were unable to support my body anymore.
"Alpha, your parents are requesting your presence." A male voice came from the open door. Alpha Alessandro replied back to the man but I was unable to catch what he said due to the loud pounding in my head.
I looked up as the Alpha slammed the door and looked down at me, his face filled with unfiltered anger.
"I'm sorry." I whispered hoping he would understand why we lied. "I've told you the truth now. Please help me. What should I say to your parents?"
Alpha Alessandro let out a humourless laugh. "Help you?"
He came closer to me and stopped when his face was only inches away from mine.
"I'm not helping you, you lying bitch."
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