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He’s a sociopath, my wolf said.You need to be careful. I don’t think getting answers is going to be as easy as we’d hoped.
Why do you say that?
Just a feeling, she replied.Plus, it’s weird that he’s not using you as a trophy to keep at his side, showing whoever he can what he’s taken from his brother. It doesn’t make sense. Knox hiding all this time, then keeping you hidden just the same. What’s the point of it all?
That’s what we’re hopefully going to find out.
Though, if my wolf was right, I wouldn’t focus as much on answers as I would an escape route.
Knox had said he was the only one that could open the door from the outside. He didn’t say anything about getting out.
Knowing that, I carefully continued to track our steps and turns. We were another sixty-three steps from the room we’d entered earlier before Knox turned left and the temperatures suddenly dropped significantly.
Chills raced over my skin, but I couldn’t focus on getting warm for long. Short doors with small windows covered by bars began appearing every ten or so feet.
I tried to peek inside, but the rooms were quiet and dark. Nothing to be heard or seen.
He stopped at the third door on the right and opened it up. “Get in.”
“No please?” I deadpanned.
Within a blink of an eye, he was in my face, his nose just an inch from mine. “I brought you here, but let’s get one thing straight, Little Wolf. I don’t need you. You’ve served your purpose. I’m only keeping you now for… Well, that’s not for you to know until you need to. So, don’t fucking tempt me to kill you, because it wouldn’t be a hardship for me. Being my mate doesn’t mean your life is safe.”
He paused, seeming to wait for my response, but I wasn’t an idiot. I knew to stay silent.
“Now, get in the cell and be fucking happy about it,” he snarled.
Well, I could do one of those things. For now.
I stepped forward, my spine tensing from the cooler temperature. I turned to ask him if I would get dinner or anything down there, but before I could open my mouth, the door was slammed in my face and all outside sound was cut off.
The only thing I could hear was the rapid beating of my heart and the heavy breaths coursing through my chest.
I closed my eyes and called on the strength of my wolf.Maybe we should have fought harder to get away from him while we still could.
Our fight is far from over, she vowed.We’ll get out of here. One way or another.
Anotherwas what I worried about, but I did my best to only grasp on to her confidence as I searched my way around the darkened room.
There was a mattress I felt first with my shins, a single bed held off the ground by a metal frame and no blankets. On the wall next to that was a metal bucket that was thankfully empty and beyond that…nothing.
Shift and we’ll be warmer, my wolf said, and I nodded dejectedly.
This was going to be a hellish imprisonment, but I wasn’t giving up yet. It was only day one, and even if hope could be a fickle bitch, I was still going to hold out that things would begin looking up.
They had to, because dying in this dungeon wasn’t an option.
ChapterFive
CILLIAN
It had taken me two hours to bury my uncles. Two hours of moving from their house to the burial grounds of my clan twice. In all that time, I didn’t see one person. Not in town or near the trees.
Being alone and having more time to think while I’d dug their graves had made me wonder about several things I hadn’t allowed myself to dwell on before. How had Dawsyn gotten here?
I wanted to believe that one of the elders lifted the restriction for other supernaturals to come into our realm, but deep in my heart, where our bond no longer beat inside me, I knew differently.
Dawsyn was mated to another dragon shifter.
