Chapter Fifteen

     I was startled out of my sleep by the sound of my cell opening. I was so groggy I couldn't even turn towards the door to see what was going on. About an hour or so after Elstan had left last night one of the guards, whom I didn't even recognize, had brought me some clean clothes that were way too big on me and some food. It had felt so good to eat again. A part of me believed my grogginess was due to finally having a full stomach after a week but even Zariah was quiet which was unusual. That alone made me believe that there may have been something in the food.

     It wasn't unusual to put stuff in prisoners food, mostly to suppress their wolf or make them weaker so that they couldn't escape. My father had used this tactic and pretty much every alpha before him as far as we had known had done it as well. I had been against it at first but after a break out incident shortly after I became alpha I had changed my mind. I tried not to think abou