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Chapter 11

I woke up later than I usually do and I began to get out of bed carefully as to not wake up Rose, but then I noticed that she was not there. There was a note where her head lay last night and it simply read 'Went to town, be back in a bit'. I rubbed my face and started getting dressed.

When I went out to the kitchen to start cooking, I noticed Rose there with most of the food already cooked. There was a sack on the counter next to her with what I assumed she wanted to get in town. When she noticed me she smiled and leaned forward to kiss me. I smiled and returned the favor. She handed me a cup of coffee as I sat down at the table.

"You didn't have to do any of this." I told her.

"I know, but I wanted to give you a break, besides I woke up early and wanted to let you sleep in for once."

"What did you get in town?" I asked to keep myself from choking up from her thoughtfulness.

"Just a little something for today. I figured this guy is going to be used to the kinds of things Clay usually does to your prisoners so I got something a little new, perhaps."

I looked inside the bag and found a bottle of sulfuric acid. "What do you plan on doing with this?"

"I don't know, maybe burn off his sense of touch or put a few drops in his eyes to blind him."

I was blown away by her ruthlessness. "Where did you learn this?"

"I have watched every episode of Criminal Minds and Dexter, so I know a thing or two."

I didn't know what those shows were but I just nodded and decided not to question her. "Do you plan on being with Clay during the 'interview'?"

"This man is after me, I need to show him that I will never be his trophy. I need to banish this idea of me that he has. And when I have, I'm going to pour the rest of that bottle down his throat and boil him from the inside out." Internally I had both eyebrows raised at her violent explanation. Maybe I have the wrong person doing my interrogations.

One by one everyone came down for breakfast and helped Rose set the table. She made a plate up for Marsten and then offered to take it upstairs to him. "If you would like." I told her. She smiled at me knowingly and kissed my cheek before she departed up to Marsten.

"I'm glad things worked out for you two." Nick said as he made his plate. He seemed genuine and I was glad for that; I had worried that their closeness would hinder our relationship but he seemed to be honestly happy for me and Rose.

"Thank you, Nick." I took the first bite of my pancakes which alerted the others to know that they were able to start eating. "Rose will be joining you downstairs, Clay." I told him. He raised his eyebrows in shock and the others were surprised as well. "She deserves her retribution."

"I agree, but, Jeremy, I don't know if this is wise."

"It may not be, but she needs closure. Besides, she has insisted rather strongly."

"I'll make sure she's okay." He told me, silently letting me know that he won't let Rose loose herself in a rage while confronting the man that bit her.

"Thank you."

Breakfast turned silent after our conversation and I listened in to what Rose was telling Marsten upstairs.

"Be careful, Rose, interrogating that man. Don't let him get inside your head." Marsten warned.

"I won't. He will not break me." Her voice was strong and confident. "Even before this life I never allowed a man to shift my judgement and control my emotions."

"But you're in a relationship with Jeremy now."

"I told him that I would be with Clay interrogating whatever-his-name-is downstairs. He understands that I need this." She was silent, and I could sense that she was trying to choke back tears. "I hate that he did this to you and he will pay accordingly."

"I didn't take you for the revenge type."

"Oh yes. I am a rather vengeful person. It's been something that I was working on in my life but it seems that has been blown out of the window." They were silent for a while, Marsten carefully eating. It seems that she was listening to us as well and understood that we were nearly finished eating. "I should head back downstairs now. Don't move too much and try to rest today."

"Of course, I wouldn't want to upset you." I could practically hear the smirk on his face which was typical, even when confined to a bed he would try to charm any woman near him. Especially Rose.

Rose came downstairs, her jacket off silently telling the rest of us that she was ready for whatever lay before her downstairs. Clay looked questioningly at her but she held his gaze. He sighed and stood from the table. She grabbed the bag containing the sulfuric acid and followed him downstairs.

"Everything is going to be okay, Jeremy." Elena said, rubbing my arm.

"Thank you, Elena." I gave her a soft smile and kissed her forehead before sitting back down and trying to finish eating.

. . .

Rose's back was straight as she walked down the stairs before me. I had no idea what she held in the sack but I doubted that it would be something that I would be familiar with. I heard her teeth clench together at the sight of the giant man that barely fit in our cage. He was still in his human form which was helpful but I had a sickening feeling that this would be more difficult than Jeremy thinks it will be.

"Hello, princess." He said, casting a smile towards Rose, his eyes never leaving her. "You make one hell of a wolf."

"No thanks to you." Her voice was soft and controlled, not letting any emotion into her voice that would allow this man to think that he had any sort of leverage over her. "What is your name?" She asked.

"Anzo."

Rose smiled and the giant, Anzo, clearly seemed dazzled by it. "Anzo. German etymology literally meaning 'giant'. Fitting."

"My height is not the only giant part about me either, babe." He winked at her and she returned the smile.

"Did you know I would survive the bite?"

"No, you smelled different than any of the other women I bit, but I didn't know exactly if you would survive."

"So you didn't single me out and bite me because of my loveliness?"

"No, I was running through the area when I smelled you. That's when I waited for you to break away from the others." He was giving her whatever she wanted to know. I haven't even hit him yet. "I can't believe that I am only one of two male werewolves to have their ladies survive the bite. The other being you, Clay, of course with Elena." The mention of Elena's name sent the hairs on the back of my neck standing. I hated that she was so special to the other wolves because that meant they wanted her for their sick experimentation like Santos had planned to do.

"Why did you come find me and attack one of my pack members?" Her voice was getting harder and he noticed the shift in her voice going from flirty to serious.

"I smelled your scent all over him and I knew he had been fooling around with you. It was my bite that changed you; you're mine."

"Why did you come find me? You said you didn't know if I survived but you had to have known if you followed my scent all the way here otherwise you would have followed my scent to my corpse." He was sweating.

"Some of the other girls got a rather good head start and were able to make it rather far before I found their body, I didn't know if your case would be the same. But then I smelled you all over Stonehaven and I knew that the Alpha, Jeremy, had taken you in to add you to the collection of female werewolves he has started. And then that slime of a wolf had your scent all over him and I knew he had forced himself on what was rightfully mine."

She stepped closer to the cage and I moved to defend her but she held her hand up to stop me. She was tall for a woman but her height was dwarfed by Anzo's. She angled her head so that she could look him in the eyes, her posture was tall and defiant, her legs apart ready to fight if it came to that and her hands were loose by her side ready to swipe or punch. She was the image of fury and control and with the morning light coming in through the windows it looked as if her auburn hair were alight with flames. I wish Jeremy was here to see her like this.

"I am not yours." She began, and I watched as Anzo's face started to harden in anger. "I am no one's property. What you did to me, no one can erase; you took my life from me and almost took the life of someone I care for very deeply so in return your life will be taken from you. You should have left me alone." She seemed pensive as she continued. "Actually, I am quite glad that you bit me even though I had to leave everything I knew and loved behind." His face lit up again. "I am happy here at Stonehaven with Jeremy and I am happy that I will be the last woman you will ever kill." He roared his anger and started shaking the cage but it was firmly bolted in place.

"You are mine!" He yelled so loud that it rattled the glass and I felt Jeremy stir upstairs.

"I am my own." Rose's voice was quiet after the roar Anzo had just released. The door opened and I smelled Jeremy enter the room. My Alpha's presence only irritated our captive more. I am always aware of Jeremy's Alpha-ness considering I was a part of his pack and did his torturing for him but it always amazed me how just by being in the room with someone who was not Pack, his aura put them on guard. Jeremy was one of the strongest and best warriors I had ever come across but his level-headedness surpassed anything I was capable of.

"What seems to be the problem?" He asked, his eyes barely masking the hatred he had for this wolf.

Anzo stood as tall as he could in the presence of Jeremy but said nothing so I spoke for him. "He believes his mate is in your possession but we have no single women in this house."

"Maybe he is here for Nick? I mean, Nick is rather handsome." Rose suggested. Anzo looked confused. Rose was right when she said his strength was overcompensating for his mental weakness.

"You are my rightful mate." Anzo chuffed gesturing towards Rose.

"How can I be when I am the mate of another?"

He chuckled as if the idea was funny to him. "And who might that be?"

Jeremy stepped forward, his hands behind his back, looking as calm and collected as ever. He got a few inches from the man's face before he whispered but one word, "Me."

Anzo's face twisted into something inhuman as he roared out unintelligibly at Jeremy who didn't even flinch. "Liar!"

"It's true." Rose said. For effect she walked over to Jeremy's side, took his hand and leaned in to kiss his neck.

"You have been threateningly close to revealing our secret by recklessly biting women who would be missed. For this alone you would be dealt with, but my Rose here has her own agenda and she deserves retribution. So I am giving it to her. As only I can provide her." He turned towards Rose and soundly kissed her on the mouth. In all my time I have spent with Jeremy I have never seen him express interest in anyone romantically, yet here he was kissing this woman so freely. I am happy for his newfound happiness, he has deserved it for so long.

When Jeremy pulled away, he kissed her once more before departing up the stairs, leaving us to deal with Anzo. When he was safely away, Rose asked if I could get our prisoner out of the cage and tied up on a chair. I had to Taser the guy a few times to get him exhausted enough to reach into the cage and administer a sedative. Usually this dosage would kill a man, but it only made him groggy and weak. I unlocked the cage and wrestled the man onto a chair. Meanwhile, Rose was unscrewing the lid to a jar of clear liquid. She had thick, gloves that looked like the kind welders use. She was readying several different devices, filling droppers full of the liquid as well as shallow glass containers filled to the brim.

I had just finished tying the giant down in such a way that he could not move when the sedative was beginning to wear off. Jesus. I had never seen a man have such a high tolerance to this stuff before. Rose tied up her hair as she faced the man and smiled bright and beautifully. Anzo began testing the strength of my ropes and was frustrated when he found them to be stronger than he could break through. Rose bent down so she could be eye level with the prisoner.

"You're going to wish you had just kept running when you smelt me." Her voice was calm and serious but her face was flirtatious as she smiled at Anzo.

"I did you a favor! Giving you this life is the best thing I could have ever done for you!"

"You had no idea I would survive! Your track record indicated that I would die a horrible and painful death so don't act like I should be grateful when it is an anomaly that I survived!" She yelled. His jaw was tight as he glared at her. "The fact that I survived when only one other woman in the entire history of werewolves has lived through the bite does make what you did any less heinous. You have killed countless women before me and I am going to make sure that I am the last woman your teeth touch."

"We could have had anything in the world if-"

She jerked towards him, her hands resting on his knees as her face was only inches from his. "If what? If I had collapsed in pain for you to find me so I could have been your bitch? Let me get one thing straight with you before we begin. I am not some commodity for you to claim just because it was your teeth that killed me. I am not lucky that I survived, the chances were stacked against me, it was simply an accident, a fluke, that I am still alive to kill you."

"Fuck you, bitch!" He spat in her face and I moved her back enough so that I could punch him.

"Isn't that what you were biting all those women for? So you could have someone that would finally fuck you?" He turned bright red and Rose smiled evilly as she realized that she hit a nerve. "Is that why you killed all those women? Because you couldn't get anyone to sleep with you?"

"I can take whatever you throw at me, bitch, so just go ahead and start throwing punches. Enough with this psychological shit."

"Is that why you were bragging about how big your penis was? Because you're overcompensating for how tiny it actually is. Men with average to large sized junk don't need to advertise its size because they're aware of its size and how much it will please women in bed, or men I don't judge. In fact, men with above average sized penises actually undercompensate, like driving tiny cars. But you are right; enough small talk." She jerked backwards from him and pulled the big wool gloves on before grabbing a container full of the liquid. "Grab his hand, Clay." I did so and Anzo fought against me, unsure of what was going to happen. She lowered the tub below his hand, looking straight at Anzo, gaging his fear, before all at once pulling the container upwards to encase his hand. I saw his skin start to bubble right before he started screaming. I was happy I was wearing gloves as well because some of the liquid splashed on myself, burning away at the leather. I kept glancing at Rose and her face was as calm and still as I had only ever seen Jeremy achieve but there was a fiery determination in her eyes that barely concealed her liquid rage.

When his left hand was completely burned of any feeling, she moved on to his right, his screaming starting anew. She let him scream for a while longer before pulling the container of liquid away from his hand. His cries turned to whimpers as he glanced at his charred hands. I couldn't quite make out what he was saying but I did hear the word "bitch" come out of his mouth and I landed a hit on his jaw, although I noticed that the hit didn't faze him as much as much as the acid did.

"I want you to vividly remember the feeling of me burning your sense of feeling away in your hands because before this is all over, I'm not only going to burn off your penis considering that was your main motivation in killing me and dozens of other women, but also your eyes for finding me pretty enough to slaughter, and then, and only then if I consider your punishment fulfilled, I'm going to pour the remaining sulfuric acid down your throat and watch as you gurgle on it as it burns you alive. I want you to fester in the knowledge of how painful your death is going to be. I'll be back." Rose's hands were shaking and I knew she was losing what composure she held. She ran up the stairs and I secured Anzo's ties one more time before running after her.

Thank you for reading!

For all my Criminal Minds fans out there, maybe you'll remember the episode "Proof" where sulfuric acid was used on a serial killer's victims. That bit of torture was my inspiration for our baddie Anzo.

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