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“Not really.”
“I was passing through town and wanted to stop for a bit. I guess I’m pretty lucky to have found a friendly face.”
She glanced at him as she took another drink, and decided she could talk to him. What harm had ever come from having a conversation? And this was what she’d wanted anyway – a distraction. If her distraction came in the form of a good-looking human on his way out of town, then that was okay with her.
They eventually moved to a booth to talk when the bar got a little more crowded. He was on his way to a new job as a construction manager, taking his whole life with him in his truck.
“I don’t know if I could just pack up everything and go to a new job like that,” Mia said. “But then again I’ve lived here my whole life.”
“That would be nice. I moved around a lot as a kid, so I don’t really have a place that I think of as being ‘home.’”
She glanced at her watch and realized that they’d been talking for over two hours.
“Do you have to leave?” he asked.
“Yeah. I have an early thing tomorrow, and I’d only planned to get a drink and go home.”
“Let me walk you out. I should get on the way too, or the hotel will give my room away.”
She waved at Luke as she walked out with Dario. The air was crisp, and she inhaled, looking up to the sky. It was cloudy, so only a few stars were visible. She reached into her pocket for her keys as she neared her car.
“It was nice to meet you,” she said, as she put her hand on the door handle. “I wish you a lot of luck with your job.”
He didn’t say anything, and she looked up at him. She was surprised to see his eyes were no longer brown, but a pale bronze that glowed eerily. Her keys slipped from her hand as he reached for her.
Then everything went black.
CHAPTERFOUR
Mia woke slowly. She wasn’t sure when she’d gone to bed. In fact, she couldn’t remember getting into her car after leaving Poke’s. Her eyes flew open, and she faced an unfamiliar room. Everything was white; from the ceiling to the walls to the tile floor. There was a long, rectangular mirror against one wall, next to a painted door.
She looked down at herself and realized she was strapped to some kind of hospital bed, her arms and legs spread wide and secured with leather straps. She jerked on the bindings, but they were tight, the thick leather biting into her flesh. She was naked, kept tight to the thin mattress with the same type of leather straps under her arms, across her hips, and on her thighs.
Dread spiked through her. She reached for her wolf, but could only feel a faint echo of her beast.
A deadbolt slid back in the door, the sound terribly loud in the utter quiet of the room. Dario walked in, along with two other males and a female with silver-streaked black hair.
“Let me go!”
Dario chuckled. “That’s always the first thing they say.”
The female stopped next to the bed, looking down at her with curiosity. She touched her chin. Mia tried to jerk it free, but the female gripped it harder until Mia squeaked in pain and stopped moving.
“She’s pretty enough, I suppose,” the female said. “You’re certain she’s the one the human cares for?”
“What human?” Mia asked. “What are you talking about?”
“She’s the one. He’ll set Antonio free for her.”
The female hummed. “For her sake, he better.”
A male walked into the room wearing a lab coat, pushing a silver tray on wheels. He stopped on the other side of the bed and snapped on plastic gloves. “Do you want to get a video of the first injection, or wait until it takes effect?”
“We’re not going to send a video, we’re going to do this live,” Dario said.
Mia’s eyes stung with tears. “What’s going on? Please, tell me!”
The female released her grip on Mia’s chin and leaned over. Her eyes changed from brown to bronze as Dario’s had.
