Chapter Four

I woke up to a weird feeling, my right leg was wet and was being lifted. I pushed my thoughts through the fog as my eyes slowly opened. I was still in the cabin,still naked and he was still there.

I reached for the wolf in my mind but she was barely conscious, and couldn't do much for me. I looked down, the blanket and sheet had been removed and Alex was giving me a sponge bath. He was sitting at the end of the bed with my legs over his. "Really? Do i smell that bad?"

He chuckles "Your smell is wonderful, it's just a bit strong right now. I thought you might feel better if i got you cleaned up a little, get the lake smell off you" he stroked the sponge down my calf. "And i dont mind taking care of you, it gives me an excuse to lay my scent on you later"

I huffed a little and laid back, still a little woozy from the drugs. "Can i get something to eat and drink am starving"

"That my dear depends on how much you cooperate" he set my right leg down and picked my left leg, starting to clean it from top to bottom. I considered asking him to stop, but this wasn't the battle for now. He had removed the leg chains and that was to my advantage. I had to wait for an opening. Am sure he felt i was too weak to fight him, and right now that was true. I don't know if i could have lifted my leg on my own.

I decided to play along, hoping to lure him into making a mistake that i could take advantage of. I started to lean into his touch, making soft moans when he caressed the sensitive parts of me. Thankfully he didn't push it by going for the boobs area or the delta,though am sure he thought of it. When he was done he released one of my hands, locking the handcuffs to the headboard, so i could roll enough to put fresh sheets on. I have to admit, i was glad he did. I would have preferred a hot shower but it was better than nothing.

I behaved and when he had put the stuff away, he returned with a glass of orange juice and a sandwich. He put some pillows behind me so i could sit up a little, then he helped me as i had the first meal since that barbecue. He was actually being pleasant to me, and i didn't want to be punished further. We had a decent conversation, as i learned about his life snd his family.

Our conversation was interrupted by a sound if a car. Alex jumped and looked out of the door, the doctor was back, Alex looked at me and then back at Doctor baker who was getting out of his car with his bag. "What's going on doc, i thought you didn't need to see her for a few days"

He walked past him and set the bag on the table. "i made some phone calls, and I need to examine her before i come to any conclusions" he opened up the bag and put on gloves "it will only take a few minutes"

"Fine" clearly Alex didn't appreciate the interruptions.

"Any reaction to the wolfsbane?"

"Yeah," i said "it hurts like a bitch, and i will rip the throat out of the next person who gives me one" they looked at me like I was kidding, i wasn't. I hated this stuff.

"Well if everything goes as anticipated you won't need one" the doctor peeled the bamdahe from my neck. "see I was right, it was her wolf fighting the claim. These have scabbed up nicely, i am going to put a dressing back over it but you can take it off in a few days once the scarring is complete. Has the bond started to form yet?"

Alex closed his eyes " i can't feel it"

"It is as i thought then. That bite won't take, you will have to give her another." he finished with the bandages and tore his gloves off tossing them into the trash can. "we need to talk"

He grabbed his bag and went outside and Alex followed closely, closing the door behind him. The move didn't keep me from listening in on what they said, though the wolfsbsne hadn't affected my hearing "so I contacted my colleagues and they were stamped, no one can recall this ever happening. So we went to the elders and asked them to search the pack histories, and we finally got our answer"

"And?" Alex wasn't the patient type

"First, describe to me the sequence of events that led to you marking her"

"She was already drugged when i got there, Valerie linked that she was furious when she found out what was happening. She must have linked her parents because that's when they tried to leave the conference room. Dad said that turned violent quickly, and he was killed. She screamed when he died, you know how it feels when the family bond is broken."

" What then?"

" me and the boys were still traveling across the island, and she was fighting the girls. She got some shots in, but the drugs were taking effect, i heard her scream again when her mom died. By the time i got there, she didn't have much fight left in her. She was in the water, she had tried to get to the boat but couldn't even sit anymore. I picked her up and carried her back to the beach."

"So both her parents died before you got to there?"

"Yes, my dad told me what had happened when I went to pick them up. Apparently it was a hell of a fight, even four on two we didn't get away unscathed. They fought well, they wouldn't submit, so they had to be killed"

"And then?"

"They held her up in a sitting position, i true to calm her down but it didn't work, she was fighting me right up to the point i bit her. She screamed, i expected that, but you know it was supposed to turn into pleasure almost immediately, well it didn't, she screamed untik she passed out. The wound was angry, snd wouldn't stop bleeding, i covered it with ny shirt and Valerie and i took the speedboat back to the dock. From there i drove here, and you know the rest of the story"

"I see, that explains it then"

I was on the edge of my seat now, well, not literally, i was still chained to the bed.

"The bite of a male initiates the claim on a normal female, even if the female is of higher rank, it still has that effect, however she was no normal female"

"What are you saying? She is a werewolf, both her parents were werewolves"

"This hasn't happened in a while, in the pack records we found a similar case, the alpha pair died in an attack leaving their only daughter, she became alpha at eighteen. The pack was vulnerable so the elders called an allied pack and asked for help. They sent an Alpha's son to take over, the daughter however didn't like him and didn't want him, but they didn't give her a choice. He bit her.

"And it didn't take?"

"It did not, you see, Alpha females aren't the same, if you want to defeat an Alpha what do you do?"

"Kill them, or cause them to submit. Therefore giving up their position to you"

"Exactly, her parents died first, making her the Alpha of her pack. Her wolf won't accept a bite as a claim any more, since whoever mates her also becomes Alpha. You have to make her submit to you before you bite her, she has to offer you her neck before the bite will take."

" So i have to fight her? "

" Not necessarily, she could submit in a fight or in the sack, as long as she submits before you bite then all will progress as normal. I would suggest mating with her firth though, she is in no shape to fight with all that wolfsbane in her system"

" And get her to submit how?"

He laughed, "Really Alex, in all your experience with women you don't know how to make them beg for more?" there was a pause "she had recovered enough now for mating, just don't get too rough with her to avoid injuring her shoulder, when it's done give me a call and i will come check her again. Fight, fuck just get her to show you her neck."

Alex came back inside, his eyes were starting to glow as his wolf came forward with the challenge." You heard?"

" Yes, you may as well kill me now, i will never be your mate or your Luna." my wolf, weak as she was agreed with me. We didn't care that we were tied, naked on a bed,or that he outweighed us by a hundred pounds or more and was much stronger. Their conversation had shifted their power over to me, i could determine my future again. I sure as hell wasn't going to be his submissive little mate after they haf killed my parents.