LOGINThe doors opened and I sat up, expecting more poisoned meat. It's probably been weeks or something, I had no way to count, I was usually asleep most times anyway. When meat wasn't thrown at me, I opened my eyes and then woke up completely when I saw Derrick standing there, grinning. I shifted into human form to speak to him. "You should come with a warning bell," I grunted, sitting up. "You know," he said, folding his arms, "I've never really noticed your body." I swallowed, coiling deeper into Caden's body. "You're fucking sick!" I snapped. "We've established that long before now." "What do you want Derrick?" "One day you'll call me the appropriate title and maybe I'll have my cock shoved so far up your ass you'll do anything I say." My wolf growled but I held her back, we're not supposed to let him know how much stronger we've gotten. "Is that what you came here to do? To rehash your sick fantasies? I thought you wanted to be King." "I already am. The ceremony was last n
Caden's hand was on my back, unmoving until we got to the dungeons. He moved me into the first one, my one time second home and I finally let that tear fall. "Tie her up!" Derrick yelled from outside. "Except you want me dead, Derrick, you better don't do that." "You won't tell me what to do with you!" "You don't understand," I let out a dry laugh, "but you see, you need me for your army, and you need me to keep Caden under your leash. All he knows is Maya and that pull you somehow have on him. It's not permanent either, but the mate bond is. Nothing is stronger than it. I've overexerted myself twice with barely enough time apart. Even speaking right now is more work. If you put that fucking silver chain around me, I'll die and we both know one thing, Derrick, you need. me. alive. Your dream empire depends on it!" "You are stupid if you think I need you! I have your son and if this brute misbehaves, I'll kill him!" I laughed, "you think you can kill Caden?" "I have enough soldi
I woke up the next morning and the consequences of ignoring my energy levels visited me.The suicidal thoughts were back and funny enough, the only thing stopping me was these silver chains.Guess they wanted to kill me in their own time.But the thoughts though, they were persistent.It was like I didn't own my own mind anymore.Nothing made sense, nothing was worth fighting for.My mate, my child, my Pack, nothing was worth this pain.My wolf was whining in my soul, her pain worse than mine, which was saying a lot because I felt like I was being slowly roasted.Silver had an uncanny way of making you weak.Not too fast and not too dramatic, you'll just be dissipating gradually and soon, drop down, depleted.And with nothing to take from except my life, I was already on the ground too, it hurt so bad I was sobbing.Add the emotional pain to it and you can guess it right, I was in the worst situation I've ever been in my life..But then, fate decided to make things worse.I'd heard ab
"I might not be able to make him hurt you, but I have hands. I'll do that myself," the Alpha called, venom in his tone.Anger and anxiety warred in my mind, this wasn't how this was supposed to go.The plan was horrible, I know but we were so fucking close.Maybe he'd actually known right from the beginning, which is why the whole Pack was silent. They were setting up here."Leave us alone, Derrick. You've gotten your rogue army. I just want to take my family back home.""I can't allow that," he said like he was talking about the weather and not about enslaving my mate and me, "you're still very much useful. I found another settlement of rogues deep in the Darlina mountains. Who's gonna cure them for me? Your son? I haven't seen Vera in a whole day and that's concerning. Can't lose my two weapons at once. And I do need the growling animal on your head to keep you in line. So you see, you have to stop doing stupid shit like trying to run away."He dragged me back to the Pack, I didn't
Panic is supposed to come and go but for ours, I was in place, my brain unable to do anything but give me alarm bells.My body shook with fear and I was so out of it when Sofie spoke, I jumped."Everywhere is too quiet," she whispered, "what's been happening?"Her voice was weak and distant, but no matter, we had to get out of here."Vera is with our baby, Sofie. She plans to kill him!""What do you... Oh. But that's hinging on if Caden is killed. Derrick won't do that, he needs him.""Or this poison kills him first and then she kills our baby and that makes her Alpha!""She might even use him to make herself a rogue army of her own," she sighed weakly."So you see? We need to get out of here!""But how? Everywhere is guarded, they have more guards than we can kill in this state, Maya. We should rest a little more.""Rest? Our child is in Vera's hands! You've seen that bitch, she's crazy!""But what about Caden? What are we going to do about him?""We'll take him with us. I'm not leav
We stayed that way for the rest of the day and every hour or so, I'd check on my wolf and every time I do, I'd get the same response.Silence.Maybe whatever poison was in Caden's body was affecting her as well.It was made with our blood after all.Isn't it strange?That the mate bond is weaker than some weird herbs they found.I really need to figure out how they're getting these herbs. I've been reading a lot over the last year and I haven't come across any of these.Not in literature, not in cooking books.Somehow, all the abilities landed on our side and the knowledge on how to manipulate it landed on theirs.And now we're being locked like wild animals in cages for sport.I don't remember the cage being this uncomfortable when I was kept in that cold, but maybe because there was absolutely no space to move.This one made me crave freedom more than anything and I hated it.Hated where my legs had to stop, hated that my body was digging into the iron bars behind me and I hated tha
MAYA'S POV I had thrown up three times inside the carriage and worse, I was put in with one of the prisoners who hadn't showered probably longer than me.Safe to say we reeked and for a pregnant wolf like me, it was hell.But what could I do? The journey was terrible, the roads unusual and even t
We rounded up and headed back immediately. It had taken us days to get here and from experience, I should let them rest. But not when Maya was somewhere, suffering. Every minute without her by my side increased my fear. To make shit worse, I could still feel her pain. It was insane that no one
My feet hurt from one of the traps I'd mistakenly jumped on but it was healing.Not as quickly because my body was running low on nutrients but it was enough.We were getting close to MoonPaw when Darren screamed.I turned to see he'd jumped into another one of those gnarly things. Immediately I tu
CADEN'S POV My walk back to the Pack after dealing with Tony was humiliating and sad.I didn't find her, I failed and it was all because I didn't move on time.If I hadn't sunk to my wolf's emotions and stayed still instead of chasing around for her, I might have gotten to them before they left.N







