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“Hello Sis,” he sneers at me. “Looks like you are going for round two?” My heart races, and I feel Nova trying to come forward, trying to take my place. Fear of what is to come seizes my already broken body as the keys rattle and he undoes the padlocks. We’ve tried and failed to breach those padlocks of the too-small cage. Too small to even shift.
“Fine, Fine. I’ll go!” Shadow yells.
Satish pauses, and the slightest silver glint of the keys he holds shines back at me.
“You’ll behave Shadow? No tricks like last time?” he asks her. I wonder what he means, did she try to escape?
“I promise Alpha!” she answers. My brother’s teeth glint back at me as he smiles cruelly at her.
“Your lucky day Sis, you have a volunteer,” he chuckles. Not realizing I always do. Nova always volunteers and takes my place, she pretends to be me.
“Only if you give us food,” she snarls. Just the mention of food makes my belly growl. I cringe wondering what he will do now that she demanded something of him. He huffs standing.
“You dare complain and ask for things, after what you did?” he snarls. I wonder what she did last time.
“Feed the girl at least, she is far too weak, can’t you see she’s not healing!” Her voice is merely a snarl.
He huffs, but Shadow is braver than me to speak to him in such a way. I would never dare. I can’t even remember the taste of food, though I know he must feed us. Nova told me he grants us the bare scraps, but I am yet to see them. I suppose it is when he takes her out of the cage while I am buried in the deepest parts of my mind.
Footsteps sound a few minutes later as someone comes into the basement. A scent I know because I can still smell it lingering on my skin. “Thank you, Trent,” my brother tells the man I cannot see.
I see his figure crouch down in front of my cage. His teeth gleam in the darkness, canines that are far too sharp. I try to press away, but I have nowhere to go when my nose picks up something tantalizing. Enticing. He pushes something through mesh, and before I can think of my actions my hands snatch it. It appears to be some sort of bone, small but still enticing.
“That is it?” Shadow growls.
“You behave and I will grant her another,” my brother snarls back at her. But I am hyper focused on the prize in my hand she gifted me. My mouth salivating as my teeth tear into it. It’s…it’s… it reminds me of…
“It’s a chicken leg,” Nova tells me, her voice barely reaching me she is so consumed by exhaustion.
“It's delicious,” I tell her, and she sobs in my head, thinking otherwise. My taste buds explode and all too soon, it is gone. I chew on the bone, my blunt teeth trying to gnaw it down.
“Don’t eat the bone!” Nova yells at me, but it tastes too good.
“I have something you can wrap your lips around sweets, do you want my bone?” this Trent man speaks into the darkness. I flinch and pull my legs close to my chest, protecting my bone.
“That is all, Trent, you need to go pick up our guests.” My brother dismisses him.
“Now Shadow, I have a very special guest coming that I need you to entertain, and when his guards are down I need you to kill him, but don’t be reckless I need his blood. So preferably leave him in one piece.”
“What for?” she questions.
“Never mind that, you do as you're told and I shall reward you,” he continues, and I retreat having chewed the piece of bone apart, my throat hurts, the bone scraping all the way to my stomach.
“I told you not to eat the bone,” Nova scolds.
“But I…” I sigh as my belly cramps. I can taste the blood in my mouth from my bleeding gums and now aching teeth. Cringing as I listen to my brother. I wonder why he offers her a reward this time and what it will be? Would he set her free? Is her time here up for her crimes? He never offers us a reward, no we get threats, either comply or die.
ChapterFour
Eziah
22 years old
“Temperance!” I scream, panic and fear enveloping me. I can hear my heart thundering in my ears, when suddenly my hands grip my arms. I am shaken violently, ripping me out of the nightmare I am suffering from my mate. There is nothing worse than feeling what she feels and being helpless to save her. All I can do is sit here and watch it all. I hate feeling so useless. I don’t know how she has survived this long in complete darkness. It is enough to send someone mad. Though I know she already is, my mother told me this much when she let me spy into the fountains of fates all those years ago in the Moon Goddess realm.
My eyes fly open to see Casen hovering above me. His dreary gaze tells me I once again woke him. Seeing me, he exhales in relief. “You alright bro?” Casen sighs, hanging his head while looking as exhausted as I feel. He lets me go, moving away while I try to catch my breath, trying to remove the remnants of the dream that settle over me like a dark cloud, suffocatingly strong.
“That one was worse than last night, you were screaming her name,” Casen informs me and I groan, scrubbing a hand down my face, not realizing the sound left my lips and wasn’t just in my head. I can’t keep living like this, yet Malachi urges me to find her, he wants to help her, craves his mate. Yet what state she will be in when we do is what I fear most. But even then, I can't just leave her in the state she is, it's my duty to protect her, but to do that, I need to find her first.
