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I clamp my lips shut to hold back my agonised screams as he hits me again and again. I feel bones break and skin rip.
When he steps back, I spit blood, but it dribbles down my own chin to my chest. My lungs ache as I cough. “Where are the hunters?”
I don’t speak, but I meet his eyes boldly, letting him see the truth in my gaze.
I will never betray my family, no matter what I am now.
I don’t know what he sees in my eyes, but he stops, narrowing his own. “You’re not human,” he murmurs. “Did one of us turn you?”
“A feral, years ago.” I finally speak, and he steps back, eyeing me.
“You’re a wolf who works with them,” he spits. “Traitor.”
I clamp my lips shut again, and it’s like that truth releases something inside the huge, hulking alpha wolf. It’s then I realise he was holding back so as not to kill my human body, but not anymore.
There’s so much strength behind his punch that I’m surprised his fist doesn’t slam through my body, leaving a massive hole. One even knocks me back into the wall. I feel nearly every bone ache or break, and then he steps back.
“Where are the hunters?”
I don’t answer, biting my tongue until I taste blood. This time, his fists hit my face, blinding me. I feel my eyes pop, and a scream rips loose as he grips my face.
All I see is darkness, and panic winds through me as I choke on my bile and blood. “Where are they?” he demands, his warm breath wafting over my face.
Next, he breaks my nose, and I choke, gasping like a fish through my mouth.
He’s good, but I won’t speak.
I won’t betray Lucien and Vale like that.
It goes on for hours, or at least it feels like it. I lose all sense of time. My eyes start to heal, but it’s blurry and wrong, and he takes great pleasure in inflicting the most pain possible. This is personal. This is hatred for what hunters did to his daughter and his friend.
I know because I have that same hatred inside my heart.
“Alpha, your mate is calling you,” someone shouts sometime later before the door bangs shut again.
Cutting the rope, he watches me fall to a heap on the floor, barely moving. “You’re strong, I’ll give you that. If you were a wolf, you would be one of the best, but you’re a hunter who’s stupid and bound to die. You will eventually talk, and when you do, I will kill every last one of your kind for laying a finger on my daughter’s head.” The cell door slams, and he stomps away.
I don’t know how long I lie there, my wolf moving inside me as if trying to heal me, for all the good that does. When my nose heals with a pop, I suck in a desperate breath of air. One of my lungs is still deflated, but it’s getting better.
He’s right. I’d be dead as a human, but there is one undeniable truth—I’ll die here and painfully. Either way, I won’t betray my brothers. They’ll realise that sooner or later. Lucienand Vale will blame themselves for my death. They’ll get reckless and stupid, attacking the pack and probably dying.
Still, there is nothing I can do.
I lie in my heap, knowing I won’t die yet but wanting to. Deep down, I won’t betray them, but that doesn’t mean I want to spend the next few days of my life in pain.
For some reason, though, Quinn comes to mind, and my resolve lessens. Wouldn’t the pain be worth it?
Fuck! It’s the wolf talking. It’s fucking with me, and I hate it.
It’s not me, right?
“Jai.” The soft whisper has me jerking my head up as my gaze locks on the crouched figure.
Even with healing eyes, I would know her anywhere.
“Quinn?” I query as I drag myself to the bars. “You shouldn’t be here.”
“No shit,” she mutters, and despite the agony in my body, I smile.
