Chapter 16

"Oh, Elma. You're back," Dani said when she heard the door click shut, her eyes never leaving the captive she had tied up on the floor. She crouched on the ground holding a dagger completely naked. Not that the nakedness was the unusual part about this scene before me. Werewolves aren't uncomfortable around nudety. 

"Dani. What's happening here?" I asked staring at the man squirming on the floor.

"I'm questioning one of the employees, like we talked about. It was quite easy to lure him in here, he wanted me so bad," she turned to the man and pressed the blade against the dark stuble of his throat. He moaned against the gag in his mouth. 

"Not like this," I exclaimed, "I meant in a normal casual friendly way!" 

"Oh I've been friendlier to him than he deserves," Dani replied and she pulled the gag from his mouth with the tip of her knife.

"I don't know the prophecy," he gasped through heavy breaths. Dani clicked her tongue.

"Yes you do, honey. Tell me what you know about it." 

"I don't!" he panted and threw himself forward, but his restraints caused him just to fall onto his shoulder on the floor. We both watched him for a moment as the his biceps strained to get free and the veins in his neck and forearms bulged. 

Dani pushed him over onto his back with her foot and he looked up at her with wide honey colored eyes full of fear...and something else. Dani stepped over his helpless body and lowered herself onto his lap. He squeezed his eyes closed and sighed. 

"I do know something. I heard about the prophecy" he said in a low voice full of desperation. 

"Oh and what's that," Dani coaxed settling herself comfortably on his hips. 

"The-the witch she gave us the prophecy and it's why-why the vampires are here," he whimpered his eyes following Dani's dagger as she slowly trailed it down his chest following the line of hair to below his bellybutton. 

"and?" 

"and I don't know exactly what it is but BUT it's why the Alpha demanded all of the female wolves with mixed fur should attend. The prophecy claims that one of them will be the vampire queen." He bucked his hips.

"Good boy," Dani encouraged and he moaned, "and all the wolves that the vampires don't want?"

"I don't know I don't know," he said his eyes filling with tears. I worried how we could possibly end this interaction. We couldn't let him go. He was like a caged predator with all the strength to overpower us if we dated to give him the chance. His hands flexed in there position tied behind his back. I'm sure he was imagining having his hands free and around Dani's waist. How good and soft her skin would feel beneath his finger tips. 

"shh shhh It's ok, You're ok," Dani soothed running a hand through his hair and then pulling his head up by his hard so she could look him in his sad brown eyes.

Dani turned to look at me where I stood frozen to the floor. 

"You heard what he said about the prophecy. Now if you could step out I can handle this from here. You know how it is, being in heat." I nodded still stunned and I heard the man on the ground moan as stepped out into the cool night air. I had managed to walk half way to the pavilion in a daze before I occurred to me. At any point he could have shifted into a werewolf and broken his bonds. I turned back for a moment thinking to warn Dani of the impending danger but the comforting glow in the windows calmed me. They were both exactly where they wanted to be.