Chapter Thirty Nine
Chapter Thirty Nine
I woke up in a dark, unfamiliar room. The first thing I noticed was that I had been tied to a bed. The place smelled familiar, but I couldn’t place it all. I tried clearing off my foggy mind and. remembering all that had happened and why I was here, the harsh memories flooded in–the blood, the brutality, the danger. It all flooded back in.
Where was [?
There was a figure in the darkness; I could tell. The room was dark, but there was a dim light. illuminating the wide
space.
“Who is there?” I questioned, and the figure walked closer, close enough that I could see all his features and every single detail of his body. The blood wasn’t there anymore, but that didn’t make him any less scary. Thane stood before me, his eyes still those dark orbs they had been in the judgment room: Was he going to harm me? There was another figure seated on the couch, one I didn’t notice earlier. Axel.
“Where am I?”
“Where do you think?”
“Let me go.”
“No,” Thane responded.
“How could you do that to them?”
“They were traitors.”
“They were still your people!.”
“And that made it worse. The fact that they are traitors from my pack makes it all worse, Riley.”
I remembered Axel sedating me.
“Why did you do that?” I asked, and my question was directed at him.
“You wouldn’t stop struggling; that was an easy way out.”
“Why am I chained to the bed?” I asked Thane.
“Why else?” He questioned.
“Are you angry at me?, Is this some kind of punishment?”
“Yes”
“Why?”
“There are many reasons, Riley, but one is that you are not to have mercy on someone who
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almost killed you,” he says.
“And what are you going to do to me?”
“You’ll see”
“Will you hurt me?” I questioned the fear eating Into me; I couldn’t help but remember the brutality–all those people he had killed without a single thought. It shouldn’t surprise me, but oh, it did. The man who had touched me with those very same fingers had dug out another man’s heart.
“Yes, Riley”
“Where are my clothes? Why am I naked?” I asked. Beneath the bed cover, I was very much naked and I had remembered having some clothes on earlier.
“I helped you out of your clothes,” Axel answered, and despite myself, my face reddened. I was completely naked, and for the fact that I had been unclothed while asleep, I couldn’t help but wonder–what other things had happened? “You are always so shy,” Axel said, walking toward me, and I gasped when he took off the blanket, exposing my very bare skin now. The cool air brushed against, my skin, but inside I felt hot.
I struggled to cover myself, but Axel pulled the blanket far from my reach.
Thane was sitting beside the huge bed, watching
Axel’s hands went up my thigh, his eyes on me, his intense look burning into mine. “Give in,” he whispers. It doesn’t make sense what he is about to do or that Thane was letting this happen. My breaths came out more strangled as Axel parted my legs with his hands.
“You might as well imagine Thane in my place,” he says, but I couldn’t imagine Thane in his place; he was Axel, and Thane was sitting there. Watching.
Was this some kind of test?
I couldn’t help but remember Barbara’s fantasies; she had said something about this, but her experience wasn’t as similar to this, and I… I wasn’t fighting him off. Not when he kissed my lips. Slowly, I kissed him back. I felt his hands moving up my thighs, and then there. I reddened. Axel was supposed to be a friend, but I couldn’t stop him – I didn’t think he would stop if I did struggle. The fact that Thanie’s gaze was also on me was almost too much to bear.
How had things changed so quickly? I had been panicked just a short moment ago, and now… I couldn’t tell what was happening, but I had an idea.
