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Stepping closer to the cage, I hold the blade. “Where is your pack?”
She simply watches me.
Cracking my neck, I head to the door. “Vale,” Lucien snaps, but I ignore him.
Unlocking the chains, I swing the door open, stepping inside the cage with her. She turns to face me, and I ignore Lucien’s curse as I step deeper into the cage, backing her into the corner. I make sure to keep my back to the exit to make a quick getaway. I’m not a fucking idiot. She’s been calm, but I remember the sharpness of her claws.
She is a monster, an animal, so she will attack.
They all do.
Flicking my knife, I watch her gaze follow the movement as her tail straightens behind her and she snarls in warning. “I told you we could have done it the easy way.” I flick the knife again as I move closer, and her snarl gets louder. The vibration makes the hair on my arms stand up. My instincts scream at me to run, sensing the predator, but I ignore them. I keep flicking as I move closer, and then I slice. She darts to the left, just narrowly missing the blade’s edge, but she snaps her jaws shut, and I yank my hand away, missing being bitten myself.
She’s faster than any wolf I’ve encountered before, and smarter too. When I feint right, she doesn’t take the bait. I step back, twirling the knife as she watches my eyes, not the blade.
Smart little she-wolf.
“You’ll eventually slow or sleep, and I’ll catch you, little wolf, then you’ll be in trouble.” Her eyes narrow, and the next time I lunge, she lunges into my attack, ducking under the knife and slashing her claws across my leg.
I stumble back with a shout, feeling my blood drip down my leg. Her claws sliced through my trousers and skin. It’s not deep, so it’s a warning shot, telling me she can get to me and offering her own threats without words.
I grind my teeth, ignoring the pain and Lucien’s worried cursing. I don’t look down like she wants me to, knowing she’ll go for my throat. Instead, I place my foot firmly down, ignoring the flare of pain that causes.
She’s landed far more blows than any other before her. I’ll give her that.
Still, I slice out, stopping my blade an inch before her eye, proving I might be human but I’m also a hunter. “Last warning,” I tell her before pulling the blade back, then I walk backwards to the cage as the pain takes hold. I feel blood dripping a steady trail on the floor as I escape the cage.
Slamming the door, I pant as Lucien quickly chains it, leaping back as the wolf slams into the gate, and then with a knowing grin, she turns her back on us and paces around the cage.
“Fucking hell, Vale,” Lucien snaps, leading me to a chair and pushing me down. He rips my trousers, further exposing the wound. I keep my eyes on the wolf, refusing to give her the pleasure of acknowledging the wound as Lucien cleans it and covers it as best as he can.
Just then, Jai walks in through the doors, covered in sweat, his shaggy hair pushed back.
“Get the prods. I want answers,” I tell him.
Glee fills his eyes as he looks at the wolf. He’ll get his wish—her pain.
She jerks her head back to me and bares her teeth, as if to tell me to bring it.
Oh, the little she-wolf has no idea what’s coming her way.
She should have taken the easy way out.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Ichallenged their leader, and from the dirty look he’s giving me, he’s mad, and now he’s unleashed Jai on me. He’s covered in sweat, and I inhale the aroma, noting the wild tint to it. Yes, Jai isn’t completely human, but I have no idea what he is.
I glance at Vale to see him glaring at me as Lucien dresses and bandages his leg before shooting me a narrow-eyed, almost betrayed look. He’s acting like they aren’t actively keeping me prisoner and threatening to put my head above their mantle.
I look at Jai as he opens a trunk, the scent of his glee filling the air. Under that all is Vale’s blood. It practically rings the dinner bell as it pools on the floor of my cage.
I took first blood, but he came for me, and he should have known better than to threaten an animal. I know there will be pain now, so I prepare by hardening myself to it.
Jai pulls out three long prods, the electric ones. Turning to me, he palms one as a wicked grin tugs at his lips, forcing his scar up. Despite the brutal, raw look of him, something inside me is drawn by the madness I see in that gaze.
Animal to animal.
When he sticks the prod through the bars, there is nowhere for me to escape. It slams into my side, and I jerk with the force,a whine leaving my lips before I force them shut. He pulls back, and I hurry to the other side of the cage to avoid it again. He laughs as he chases me. I hurry around, trying to avoid it, but there is only so far I can run, and the rod eventually slams into me again.
