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Chapter 13
Dušan
“Get the fuck up!” The growl rips me abruptly from my sleep.
I jerk upright in seconds, my heart jolting into a race, only to find there’s no one in my cell barking orders at me.
Movement from my right draws my attention to the farthest cell, where the other prisoner lays. Alen, a guard I recognize with a scar down the side of his neck, stands above the prisoner, kicking him in the leg. Two more guards wait outside the cell.
I tried talking to the prisoner earlier when we were alone in here, but he was knocked out, which I can only assume came in the form of the same injection Mad jammed into me. Though I didn’t need to speak to him to identify his Alpha scent. With it came the acknowledgement that I don’t recognize him. A rogue? Maybe. Or even someone from a nearby pack surrounding Shadowlands Sector. There are many I haven’t had the chance to meet yet, but then again, I’m selective when it comes to whom I’ll consider working with.
“Did you hear me?” Alen bellows.
The stranger groans awake, the side of his face red from where he was sleeping on the stone floor.
Leaning over him, Alen snatches him by the hair and yanks him upward. I hear the low rumbling threat rolling through the stranger’s chest.
“Leave him the fuck alone,” I command.
Alen’s head twists in my direction, his lips warping into a wry grin. “Don’t fret. Your time is coming.”
“Andyouhave forgotten your place. Something I will be certain to remind you of when I claim back my pack.”
He barks a laugh, though I hear the unease threading through the sound. Yeah, hebetterbe scared. Sitting here alone has given me a lot of time to think about how I will run my pack from now on. At first, I accepted that these traitors were frightened and that meant they were doing anything to save their own hides. And while that is still true, there’s a vast difference between those who bow down to Mad to show allegiance out of fear and those who happily carry out his dirty work. The latter is whom I will never forgive for their betrayal.
I refocus on the newcomer, who’s on his feet, and a lot taller and broader than I first realized. Dark hair sits cropped short around the edges and back, while longer along the front.
Alen reaches for him, but this man is fast and snatches his arm, twisting it around his back in seconds. He shoves the guard face-first into the metal bars.
I can’t stop laughing. “Make it hurt,” I sneer.
The other guards rush in just as the Alpha slams his foot into the back of the open door, which goes swinging into their faces.
I’m howling with laughter at the incompetence of these men Mad entrusts. I know each of these Ash Wolves and there is a reason they never gained a high position in my team of warriors.
When it comes to this stranger, he is something else and might make a good addition to my team.
He cuts me a look, a slight nod of acknowledgement that we aren’t enemies here.
The other guards finally make their way back into the prison as the Alpha pulls back, hands in the air. They lay into him, punching him until his knees hit the ground and he curls in on himself.
“Fuck him up.” Alen wrenches away from the bars, his nose bleeding. He wipes the mess with the back of his hand, dragging a line of blood across his cheek.
I curl my hands into fists. “He’s had enough!” I yell.
The other two stand over the prisoner as Alen shoves past and delivers a fist right to that prisoner’s face, sending him flat on his back.
“Take him. Looks like today’s apparently his lucky day after all.”
I stiffen, unsure what’s going on, suddenly taken aback as they grab the prisoner’s legs and drag him out of the dungeon.
I pace up and down my prison cell for movement to stretch my legs. Annoyance burns through me at the thought that I’m still stuck in here and have no damn clue what’s going on outside.
I don’t remember how long I wear a path into the floor when the main door opens with a creak.
My head jerks up and settles on Meira stumbling into the dungeon, Alen shoving a hand into her back.
Devastation sinks through me to see they caught her. Bile swirls in my gut.
