All Chapters of FERAL : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

*She hung from a braided silver rope from the ceiling, the silver cutting and burning into her wrists. Her weight twirled the rope around so that she turned slowly like a meat on display. The tips of her toes barely touched the ground. She was bleeding from several strikes of a silver whip on her skin. In some places, the whip cut through more than once or twice and the skin hung in tatters, burning and sizzling from residue silver. The whole room smelled like blood, metal, and human barbecue.**The door to the basement/torture chamber opened and the same guard that shoved her in here a week ago trudged in, carrying a bucket of ice cold water, and behind him, her torturer followed, a sick look of anticipation on his face.**The guard upended the pail of ice water on her head and slowly she came to as she broke out in massive shivers, her lips turned blue. She slowly raised her head, showing bloodshot eyes and stared at the alpha. The water had helped a lot in washing some of the residu

*Adrienne.*I lay awake, staring at the intricate artwork on Lucas's ceiling, while he slept beside me, behind a mound of pillows that made some kind of wall separating both our sides of the bed.I hadn't been able to sleep the night before and I took to counting sheep in my head to pass time. I was tempted to go downstairs into Lucas's library, but each time I insomuch as stirred, Lucas stirred too. It was like he was internally tuned to me so if I lay on my, he did too, and if I lay on my left, somehow, he also managed to mirror my actions. I stared at the analog clock with the glowing face right above the bed. It was just a few minutes past 3am in the morning. I wondered how I would pass another four or three hours doing nothing. Finally, I got up my nerve and rolled off the bed and on to my feet in the plush carpet. Lucas didn't moved.I turned and walked towards the door, hoping to high heaven that it wouldn't creak as I pulled it open. It didn't, thankfully. Not wanting to push m

Meg and Alexis fawned over me as they applied make up to my face and did up my hair in the mirror of the vanity Lucas had installed in his room, courtesy of me. Today was the day I was meeting the pack officially after weeks of dragging my feet.I'd asked Lucas if he'd not rather know my back story before introducing me to the pack as his mate and future Luna but he'd said he'd hear it whenever I was comfortable telling him. For now, he just wanted to enjoy this and go with the flow. I'd readily agreed. No matter that I'd stopped walking out of my therapy sessions, it was one thing to talk to someone from an impersonal approach about it, and it was another to reveal that part of yourself to your mate.The past few weeks of our relationship had remained great, even after the incident with Quinn, or perhaps, even more so because of it. I hardly ventured out of the house except to the gym with Lucas where thankfully, I no longer wheezed like an injured walrus after twenty minutes of exer

With a dissatisfied grunt, she turned to glare at me, eyes blazing. Her eyes seemed to say "Fight me, you fool!"I gave her an innocent smile and obliged. Faster than the eyes could blink, I lunged towards her, my fist clenching and landed a glancing blow to her cheek. The force was not enough to fracture her jaw, though it would have, if I had wanted it to. It was just enough to knock her back a few steps and make her bite the inside of her cheek. She spat out blood.If I had thought the pack was silent before, it couldn't compare to the way it was now. A strand of hair escaped from her tightly bound ponytail. I stood still again, waiting for her to make the first attack. She didn't disappoint.This time, instead of waiting to check where I was weakest, she lunged at me, blinded with rage. This time, instead of preparing to duck, I met her attack head on, and at the last minute, I slid under her arm that was already poised to return the blow I'd given her earlier, grabbed it, using h

Finally, the light showed green and the car stopped as the doors slid open. The pack members behind me looked like they couldn't have been more glad. Lucas and I stepped out and I had to actively work to stop my jaw from clattering to the floor. Large was an understatement. Huge, fucking awesomely ginormous was more like it. The whole hall was like a large cafeteria, with the standard long benches and tables lining the walls and smaller circular tables in the middle that sat four. Then at the very middle stood two buffet tables so piled up with food that it gave the impression that they were leaning from the weight. Endless platters of steaming sausages, bowls of eggs, stacks of mile high pancakes, loaves of bread, bowls of fruits, a coffee dispenser, some jars of maple syrup, peanut butter, honey, marmalade, butter, you name it.The hall was rowdy and noisy as people moved around, helping themselves to breakfast, telling jokes and in some cases, yelling playful profanities. The longe