*Loki POV*
The more Melian questioned us about what happened to Lisa, the more frustrated I got. Not because she was asking, but because no one was giving her straight and honest answers. Liam had asked Jason and I to let him handle telling her, but with him pussy footing around, I wasn't going to let that happen.
"Melian, babe, Liam is trying to spare your feelings. I don't want to hurt them, but I think you have the right to know. It was one of your tormentors after all," I started to explain. The look Liam shot me said he wasn't pleased with what I was doing, but I felt deep down that our mate was stronger than what he wanted to believe.
Jason looked at me and said, "Finish telling her Loki. She deserves to know." Liam stood up and walked out of the room. I knew he was pissed and I would deal with that later. I took a deep sigh and continued. " Lisa is just as sick in the head as your family. Maybe worse. We had to use some force to get her to talk, and for her to be honest. She has every intention of running back to your brother, Thomas, and telling him where you, Jason and Rebecca are.
We need to make a decision on how to proceed, and I want you in on that decision. Liam thinks it will be too much for you, but your brother and I think you will be just fine." Her face went stone cold, and she sat up as straight as she could. "So Liam thinks I am weak, that my wolf is weak. That's good to know, because if I were weak I would never have made it out of my previous situation alive. I would have died before Jason made it to me in that warehouse, and I sure as hell wouldn't have made it through my first shift in the condition I am in. So, Liam can fuck the hell straight off with all of that nonsense. I will tell him that when he gets back too," she said. She was disappointed and pissed that Liam had underestimated her.
Just as she finished, he walked back into the room. "Where did you run off to?" I asked. He just shook his head and walked over to Melian. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have tried to keep things from you. I just don't want you to have to deal with all of that anymore. That is what we are for. To protect you from anything that would ever hurt you. Please forgive me." He said as he kissed her hand.
She nodded her head and pulled away from him. "I do forgive you, I forgive you all. However, don't do it ever again. I may not be strong in body strength, but I am beyond strong-mind wise. You all need to remember that. I survived horrors that people could only imagine." she explained. Jason shrank in his seat, the guilt all over his face.
She immediately called him out on it, "Jason, stop it! You have been forgiven completely. You shouldn't feel any sort of shame or guilt. You were just as much a victim as I was. You may not have been abused physically, but you were mentally abused. Dad mentally brainwashed all of you boys. You broke the cycle and I am proud of you. So this will be the last time I have to remind you of that." Tears flowed from both of their eyes and Jason moved to her and hugged her tight.
As the siblings sat there comforting one another, Dr. Flores and his surgical crew came in to go over the procedure with Melian and us. The four of us surrounded her to show her she wasn't alone, and listened intently to what the doctor was saying. He then asked if he could speak freely with everyone in the room, and Melian agreed that it was OK. She didn't want secrets from her family. He proceeded to speak, "As you know, Ms. Carter, the breaks aren't the only things we need to repair. The ripping from your vagina to your anus needs repair as well as the anus itself. So that brings me to the question of whether to do all of the repairs together, or do the breaks first and then the other repairs. Melian thought for a moment and looked at me as if asking for guidance. I kissed her forehead and told her that if it were me, I would do it all at once. She then looked at Liam and Jason and they agreed with me.
Rebecca put her arm around her and said, "Let's just get this over with so you can start to fully heal and now that you have Ruby, you will heal faster." Melian sat and thought about what we said and then told Dr. Flores to go ahead and do it all. He patted her on the leg and said that his team would be in shortly to prep her and take her down. After explaining everything, he took his leave. Mel laid down on her pillow and closed her eyes. We started to get up and move away so she could rest, and she asked us not to go. I laid on the bed behind her and pulled her into me. Liam sat next to her and rubbed her leg. She lay there for a moment before opening her eyes again.
"Before I go in for this, we need to decide something about Lisa. She was MY tormentor, and I want a say about what will happen to her, please." She stated. All of us sighed and agreed. "Fine, what do you have in mind? Babe, we can't release her to go back to your old pack. Not right now at least. It's too risky," I told her.
She agreed and thought for a moment and said, "Well, we can't kill her. People will start asking questions. I say we put her in a cell and hold her until I am at 100%. Then we start to prepare ourselves for what will happen once she makes her way back to the pack. I want her to go back and tell them they didn't succeed in ending me that day. Blood moon is stronger and better equipped to handle Mystic Shadows and whatever bullshit they think they will bring." I gave her a big smile and so did Liam.
We agreed to her plan and Liam linked me and said that we had an amazing mate. I nodded to him and then focused my attention on our mate. I couldn't wait to make her ours officially.