Chapter Two Hundred and FortyOne
Chapter Two Hundred and Forty One
RILEY’S POV
I was alone in the empty containment room, chained to the chair I had been placed on. The footsteps approaching got my attention.
Bailey was back, again.
“Your mate is here. Just as I had said, feelings make us weak, and that was his downfall.”
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“Don’t you dare harm him.” I warned, struggling out of the chains.
“I guess you would want to see him, right?” She questioned me, and I gave her no answer; I wouldn’t let her see how desperately I wanted to go to him. She walked to me, taking off the chains, and I immediately bolted for the door. The moment I touched the handle, the silver burned my hand. “You may call it karma–you remember the silver dagger you used on me?” she asked.
“Let me out.”
“I’ll do that, but first, we need to make things clear. In whatever you do, you will not try to
this place. Got it?” She ordered, and I nodded, compelled. “Good, now come with me.”
escape
I followed her out of the room. The building seemned ancient, clearly an underground hideout. It made sense why Caleb and Nyaos were hard to trace.
She stopped before a huge door, and she pulled that open. We walked in.
“There is your mate.”
I ran to Thane, but I couldn’t get to him; it was like some invisible force stopped me from going through.
“That’s… enchanted; no one goes through this way without permission from the elders–in
this
case,
me.”
“Let me in.”
“No can do.”
“Thane! Thane, look at me!” I cried out, but just like me, he too had been chained to a chair; there were multiple pipes passing in some blackish–coloured fluid into his body.
“He can’t hear you from here; he can’t even see you; that’s how the enchantment works, darling. Though there is another way in… oops, I shouldn’t have told you that.”
“What did you do to him?” I asked, Thane looked very… pale.
“Me? No, this time it hadn’t been me behind this This is all Nyaos and Caleb’s doing. The boys have been busy, and they believe they’ve found something that could affect the Lycan–how wolf’s bane affects wolves, and from the looks of things, it worked.”
Chapter Two Hundred and FortyOne
“Please stop this; you could kill him.”
“I don’t want him dead either; I want a worse faith for him. I want to take away his wolf side and let him live the rest of his life as a human, but to convince the others to go with that choice, it would take some serious… effort.”
I once had a dream similar to this in the past; I remember waking up feeling so afraid; it had felt so real. What if it had been more of a revelation?
the In my dream Thane had been bound; just like he was now, an elder had threatened to use cursed weapon on him, the very same one he had used to destroy the other elders. That was exactly what Bailey was offering now.
“The weapon won’t kill him; it would only take away his wolf.” I repeated, and she nodded. ” What do I have to give in exchange?” I questioned, and she smiled wide.
“Now you seem to understand me better. You will give your life for his. To appease Nyaos and Caleb, I would have to grant them something in exchange for Thane’s life.”
“You don’t need my consent to kill me, Bailey, and we all know that, so tell me what exactly do you want.”
“Fine. I want you to go up to Thane and tell him everything. Tell him how you killed those. soldiers and the little girl; tell him how you hate him; and better make it real.”
“This is not about appeasing Nyaos and Caleb, is it? This is about you and appeasing your own selfish desires.”
“Well, once again, you’ve got me. You are the one person Thane loves with all his heart and soul; I want him broken, and I fear taking his wolf wouldn’t do that, but you… you are they key to making him miserable; I want him to hate you, even in your death, he would be filled with hate at your memory; but in exchange I’ll spare his life and he would get to live his days BUT as a human. This is my offer, so it’s up to you to make the choice.”
