The next time I gained consciousness, the space around me felt very different. Although my body still burned as badly as I remembered before I blacked out. I finally realized why it all felt different when I could feel a cold surface beneath me, one that felt like pure bliss against my burning back. There was someone else in the room, but they weren’t hurting me. Instead, it felt like they were helping me. I could feel a cloth pressed on top my head and although the water was too cold, I felt too weak to try to protest. I only shivered in effect. I tried to force my eyes open but the pain in my head stopped me from completely trying to open it. Instead I hissed weakly, trying to warn whoever was messing with me to back up but it wasn’t working as well as I had hoped for because they only continued to do it. “Stupid girl, can’t get her mouth to shut up.” I finally heard someone whisper and I recognized the voice immediately. This was the mean girl from the first time that I had co
Gwaine’s POV: My eyes flipped open and I was met with complete darkness but it wasn’t anything I didn’t expect. I was used to turning off all my lights before going to bed, so the darkness wasn’t anything new or weird, but something felt weird. I squinted in the darkness, my super human vision allowed me to be able to see every detail in the room, in black and grey because of the darkness in the room, but it felt like I was missing something, like I still had to see something that was lurking in the darkness. I perked my ears, hoping to hear something out of the ordinary, something different but everything was really still. Then what had woken me up from the almost peaceful sleep I had been having? I was sure there was something in the darkness that had troubled my sleep, I could even feel the presence somewhere around the room. Sitting up in bed, I squinted when I noticed something else. Everything was too quiet, but not only around my environment, even my mind was way too quie
I couldn’t even explain how much I missed looking at a clock and being able to keep track of time, but being locked up in this room not only took that luxury from me, now time felt more like a concept and less of a reality. I knew that the rude maid girl had come to me at some point, cleaned and changed my clothes, given me some pills and food, I could remember all of that but I wasn’t sure how long ago it had happened. I had slept, woken up, drank some more water, cussed the stupid Alpha out loud before sleeping some more again. The isolation that I had been subjected to in the last couple of days locked up in this dungeon, was starting to slowly drive me crazy. I wasn’t accustomed to not seeing the sunlight at the very least, the walls were starting to close in on me and every time I gained consciousness, I fought to go back to the somewhat blissful sleep where there was no pain or any sort of stimuli at all. But something felt different this time when I woke up. I was used to
I pushed open the door at the end of the hallway and my brain struggled to make the best decision, but Regan was not far from me and so I knew that I couldn’t waste any time. I didn’t go in direction that we had come in from on the first day because I just knew that it would be locked, instead I went through a smaller passage, trying the first door there and gasping in surprise when it opened to reveal a kitchen. There was another door at the end of that kitchen and I headed straight for that one, it was locked but the lock was just below the handle and I only had to turn it once for the door to pull open. The door led to some sort of garden but beyond that I could see the tree line that led into straight into the woods and I moved in that direction as fast as my legs could carry. In that moment, I couldn’t help but thank Nicole in my mind for the food and water that she had given me, my entire body was screaming in pain but my bones had strength in them. For a long moment, I hea
Gwaine’s POV: I flew mindlessly down the stairs in hot pursuit of my escaping prisoner, but then I bumped into the last person I expected to see, especially so late into the night. “Regan, what the hell are you doing here?” I asked frowning in genuine confusion, but when I caught the look on my Beta’s face, realization hit me. “Don’t even tell me. You? You were the one who let her out? Why? How did you even know about her?” I asked all four questions in one breath not bothering to hide my aggression and growing anger.“I didn’t want to. I was just tryi-“ He began, but just hearing him speak was causing both myself and my wolf to go crazy. I could see the blood dripping from his nose and the part looked cracked, it was obvious that my Beta had made a mistake around the girl and he had suffered for it, but that didn’t make up for the fact that he had let my prisoner escape. “You know what? Close your mouth and just fucking save it. I’ll be back for you and pray to the Goddess she d
The light seemed too bright even from my closed lids and I groaned before turning around to bury myself deeper inside the blanket. Wait? Blanket?I flipped open my eyes immediately, hissing when the bright sunlight streaming in from the large windows momentarily blinded me. I sat up on the bed but realized I couldn’t go further because my legs had been chained to the bed. I didn’t bother struggling, for one, I was still too tired to do so, I could feel every bone in my body threatening to come out and my entire muscles felt sore, two, I knew it would be a complete waste of time trying to fight against the chains and I really didn’t have the strength to, three, the events of the previous night, or rather early that morning came back flooding my mind.I leaned against the head of the bed and took a deep breath, closing my eyes as I went back into those woods running. I had never felt so scared in my life and it had truly seemed like everything was about to crash in on me. And when t
Regan!He was still alive!I couldn’t describe the happiness that surged through me or why it surged through me but I suddenly lunged out of the bed not minding the heavy chain that automatically tried to pull me back and into the man’s arms wrapping him in a big hug. “You’re alive!” I said happily, causing the man to chuckle. The sound sent a shiver down my back and the sensation forced me to release the man immediately.“Yes I am, thankfully. Good to see you alive too.” He said, with a smile painting his lips. “I’m sorry I ran away. I didn’t mean to get you into trouble with the Alpha. I just wasn’t thinking about anything when I did it, I saw an opportunity and I thought it wise to seize it not bothering to consider the consequences.” I said, my voice full of remorse. Regan patted my head gently, as if I were a child. An action that would usually have bothered me and even upset me, but maybe I was more excited to see the man than I had assumed because I didn’t seem to mind it t
Gwaine’s POV:The first thing I recognized as my body and mind eased into consciousness was the ache in my muscles. I slowly turned on my back wincing when my sore muscles protested at the movement.Sighing heavily, I stared at the beautiful chandelier above my bed for a while longer. I had forgotten to turn off the light when I had gone back to sleep and I was surprised that the bright lights hadn’t disturbed me. I couldn’t remember the last time I had such a peaceful sleep, one that wasn’t plagued by nightmares or just disturbed in some way or another. Sighing heavily, I moved out of the bed and into the bathroom, first stopping by the sink to stare at myself in the mirror there. Vilkus had been silent since the previous night and even as I stared into the mirror, I was surprised to find my own almost chocolate eyes staring back at me through the mirror. ‘Vilkus?’ I tried. Not like I wanted to wake the beast, it just felt really weird for my wolf to hand over control so easily a