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Chapter 55

Jenna's POV

I regained my senses at the feeling of stabbing spasms stretching throughout my body. My eyelids were heavy and so I couldn't drag them open. But my other senses were working well.

I could hear and smell and feel my surroundings. The air was crackling with the chirping of thousands of crickets, meaning that I was most likely in a forest area; or where there were a lot of trees.

I dragged in a deep breath to catch scents, and realized that wood was burning somewhere. Then I heard the noise of fire crackling. A bonfire. I subtly rubbed my hand on the ground and sensed the coarse texture. Soil.

All the elements directed to one point, I was in a forest.

My eyes felt better now. I was about to open them when, "Hadn't she woken up yet?" A familiar voice asked.

"No, Alpha Chris. After she turned into her human form while fainting, she's been just like that." Someone said,

It wasn't Cleo's voice. Hmm. Perhaps Chris flew all the way to Silent Hills city with a small team secretly to seek revenge on me, and his Beta doesn't have any idea about this.

My stomach muscles clenched tight when footsteps near me. Along with it came Chris' sent— He was coming towards me.

"No wonder they say untrained wolves are suicidal." He scorned. "She's awake, idiots! Her heart rate is suspiciously slow. That can only happen if someone is forcing themselves down to remain calm. And to do that, you need to be highly focused. Aren't I right?"

"Aah!" A shooting pain exploded in my skull as Chris lifted my head by my hair. "You loser, let go."

"I didn't think I'd get my hands on you so easily when I left my pack after you this morning, Jenna. I thought you'll be under high security given your status. But not only were you alone in the woods, no one has come to look for you." His fingers tugged my hair ruthlessly, causing my head to arch.

"What happened? Did you have a fight with your husband for helping me?"

"Fûck you, mongrel. Not everyone is an egoistic bastård like you."

Chris pulled my hair tighter, raising my upper body from the ground. I hadn't realized it before, but I had iron manacles on my wrists. They chained me to a tree. The chains clinked with movements as tears welled in my eyes.

"We are going to have fun torturing you, whōre!" He hissed in my face.

Despite the pain, I asked, "We? Aren't you alone?"

"No, bìtch." A voice boomed behind him.

Chris let go and I fell down, on my belly, on the ground with a thud. My body urged me to relax a little to ease the pain. But my mind compelled me to see who it was.

"Brienne?" I forgot all the pain when my eyes settled on Doctor Henry's daughter.

Since we were in the forest in the dark, and a bonfire was crackling behind her, I couldn't see her face. I was also injected with some kind of drugs that made my body feel very weak; and my eyes extremely blurry.

She paused before me. I had to lift my head to look at her. Yet all I saw was a big silhouette. A big, scary, and overwhelming silhouette.

"Did you seriously think you would get my father killed and frame him as a râpist right in front of my eyes and I would stay quiet?"

"Aah!" I winced as she stepped on my left hand.

"I've been planning your death since that moment I saw you. You ruined my lovely plan, slůt." She put pressure on my hand with her shoe.

A bone cracked under the weight as I gnashed my teeth together to tame the pain.

"My father was helping me take care of that teenage slût. But you ruined it all!" She howled and my body went still.

"What? He was helping you?"

"Yes, bìtch. Dad was helping me. That little girl isn't as innocent as she seems. Ever since I got married to her father, she's made my life hell. She's Kalen's princess, and since she's his first mate's daughter with him, she had more control over him than I did."

"I used to get daily beatings because of her. Kalen would keep me hungry whenever she told him one of her fabricated stories. She almost pushed me to the edge... That was until dad stepped in to help me." She sat down before me and picked a few of my hair strands. "I thought my father would inject her with some deathly virus that would give her an incurable disease."

"He gave her his díck instead… And she liked it and she was so invested in it, she never raised any more problems for me. My life was good until you found out." She yanked on the strands she was holding like a rope.

A wrenching scream left my mouth as I held her wrist to stop her.

"My father was my only family left, whøre. His status as the Power Wolf Pack’s senior doctor terrified Kalen somewhat. But ever since he died, his beatings have gotten extremely cruel." She pulled harder. "I can't kill him. But I will kill you. And I'm going to take my time doing it."

"Let her go for now, Brienne. The wolfsbane is still in her veins. Its pain won't allow her to feel any other pain." Chris touched her shoulder. "We should wait until its effect wears out."

She let go and turned to Chris. I laid there with my cheek pressed on the warm soil. Its warmth was a kind of assuring caress on my skin.

'Gianna? Gia, can you hear me?'

There was a cry of agony before I heard her voice, 'It's hurting a lot, Jenna. The darts were filled with wolfsbane juice. As long as it is in our bodies, I can't shift or fight. I'm sorry, Jenna. Forgive me. I cannot protect you.'

'Hey, don't be sorry. I'm sure we can get out of here somehow.' I attempted to motivate her. 

'How? Who will come to save us, Jenna? Our mate and husband... He's left us. I believe he's in his mistress's arms right now, letting her take care of his heart.'

A stab of torment pained my heart as I heard those words. Although they sounded believable, there's something I just realized.

'It's... It's not true. Jace isn't sleeping with her. I would be feeling the pain of betrayal in my abdomen right now if he was.' I whispered.

Jace... He's not my fated mate, but he loved me more than that. He always respected me and gave me authority I didn't deserve. I truly believe whatever happened tonight... It was the outcome of both our faults. We both are equally to blame.

Tbc…