ADAIRA
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When I woke up after who knows how long, I was lying on my stomach in human form, and I was clean. Someone had bathed me, washed my hair and put a gown on me. I felt so violated and I growled as I tried to stand. How dare they touch me without consent?
My back bumped into the top of whatever I was in and it made me even more angry. I looked around and discovered that I was in a fucking cage, I couldn’t rise up more than this. I only had two options in the enclosed space, lie down the way I was before I woke up or maintain my current crouch on hands and knees. Lying down would leave me vulnerable to attack so I decided to remain on all fours, it wasn’t much of an advantage if I actually got attacked while I was in this enclosed space, but it was something at least.
My anger at being touched without my permission multiplied at the thought that I was locked up like a damn dog. I’m a shifter with an animal side, but it doesn’t mean I should be degraded this way, wolves deserve better respect than this. And I might have gone unconscious in wolf form but for them to have changed me, I had been in human form when they put me in here. Couldn’t they have put me in a cell, somewhere I could stand like the other members of the Brookstone pack? Someone was going to pay very dearly for treating me like this.
My wolf stirred inside me and I heaved a sigh of relief. I hadn’t felt her when I woke up. I knew she was still exhausted from the fight and needed to restore herself so I wasn’t worried. Now that she was awake, her anger matched my own. She did not take kindly to being treated like a common dog. Omega wolves were supposed to be calm and submissive, but my wolf had never been like that, she has always had the soul of an Alpha and a fiery temper to go with it. That’s what made her a great fighter even though normal Omega wolves avoided battle as much as they could. I didn’t know how strong she was till I started training at the Grenshaw pack.
Initially, I hadn’t been allowed to join the Grenshaw warriors to train because everyone knew my wolf was an Omega and that Omegas weren’t suited for battle. It took me almost a week and using my Grandparent’s influence to convince their Alpha that my wolf was different, she wanted to fight. He had agreed to give me one trial, I would join the new recruits to get through the beginners obstacle course. If I could come out on the other side without giving up and I also didn’t want to drop out, then I would be accepted. If not, I was to never bring up the topic of training again. They were all surprised when I beat every wolf present by a wide margin by coming out the other side first, before even the Alpha and Beta wolves present, the more athletic types of our species. I was honestly surprised too, I hadn’t known what my wolf was capable of back then but now I do, and right now, she wanted to show these assholes that we were not one to be trifled with.
I felt her anger, and her blood lust but now was not the time so I forced myself to calm down so she could feel it and cool off too. Unlike what a lot of human paranormal books said, we couldn’t actually speak to our wolves nor could they speak to us, we could only feel each other’s emotions and pass them one to another. Though some of the details they put in those fairytales of theirs are actually correct, like the mating and mindlink thing. Only members of a pack could mindlink themselves, leading pack Alphas could also mindlink Alphas of other packs. I also heard that a pack Alpha or anyone with enough mental strength could mindlink a wolf that isn’t part of their pack, but they don’t do it because it hurts badly since they don’t have a pack bond. Only a shifter could know all these, so whoever first wrote about it must have been a wolf shifter, probably a lone wolf or one that was exiled to the human world and then became a writer.
My wolf calmed down a little within me and no longer pushed me to shift but I could still feel anger simmering underneath my skin, just waiting for the right time to explode. I felt a foreign but familiar presence in my mind, someone from the Brookstone pack was trying to mindlink me. I had learnt to fortify my mind, so even though I could feel the strength of the person trying to communicate with me push on my mental shield, it held, whoever it is can only speak to me if I allow it. My wolf was against me listening to the person, but whoever it is may want to share valuable information with me, anything remotely useful would help me escape. I lowered my mental shields a little bit to grant the person access and immediately regretted it when I realised who I just allowed to speak to me.
“Ady, it’s been so long. Are you okay?” Tyler asked and the anger I just let go of returned in full force.
Ady? The nerve of this bastard.
“First of all, Tyler, you lost the right to call me Ady years ago. Secondly, don’t act like you suddenly care about me. You knew exactly where I was, you could have communicated with me since I left this pack if you were actually concerned about my well being.” I replied to him.
His veneer of civility and care dropped immediately and he snarled in my mind.
“I will call you whatever I damn well please, I am your Alpha and you will cease your insolence and speak to me with respect.”
“I don’t know what you’ve been smoking, Tyler, but you must have been high on something for you to think for even a second that I would fall for your pretentious concerned friend act. And I will speak to you however I damn well please.” I said to him.
“It seems that being away from here has made you forget who you belong to. I will deal with you later, for now, we have more pressing issues. The Rogue Alpha will return soon and we need to plan an ambush so he can be killed for invading my pack, but first, we need to get free. You’re the only one locked in a cage that isn’t reinforced with Silver. Break through the cage and then release me, after that, we’ll…”
“I do not take orders from you Tyler, I may still be a part of the Brookstone pack but you are not my Alpha. I do not belong to you.” I said and forced him out of my mind, my mental shields were back in the same instant.
I felt Tyler push against my mind, he was probably trying to use his Alpha command on me but it would not work. My wolf had disowned him as her Alpha so he had no hold on me. I don’t know how she was able to do that because normal wolves could not break the bond they have to their pack Alpha without consent, but I gave up being normal years ago. I felt a different presence in my mind, I knew it wasn’t Tyler, this one felt foreign in an unfamiliar way so it definitely wasn’t someone from the Brookstone pack. None of the rogues here would be strong enough to use a mindlink on me because we weren’t pack mates, so there was only one other person here that could be trying to talk to me, Raed.
I lowered my mental shield but not all the way, so just in case it actually wasn’t Raed, I could easily force the person out of my mind and rebuild my shield. The second I gave the person permission to speak to me, I was happy to discover that it was actually Raed. But before any of us could say a word, I felt excruciating pain.
ADAIRA~It felt like someone was trying to fry all my brain cells and I pressed my lips together so I wouldn’t scream. I couldn’t afford to alert the rogues that I was awake. The element of surprise may be the thing that lets me outsmart these rogues so I can make my escape. If it was someone else, I would have shut them out immediately, but I held on because it was Raed, and he may have something important to tell me. At least now I know that he’s alive.“Raed.” I tried to speak through the pain.“Ady.” His voice in my head was strained, that was how I knew that he was in pain too.He may even be in more pain than I was because he was the one that initiated the mind link. I knew why this was happening, we weren’t members of the same pack, and we weren’t mated yet. He could only have access to me because he’s an Alpha, but the price of trying to form a temporal bond to be able to mind link me was the pain.“Fuck! I didn’t think doing this would hurt so much.” Raed cursed.“We need to
ADAIRA~I made the mistake of trying to get up again, forgetting where I was for a moment. I snarled and cursed as my back collided with the top of the cage. I looked around, momentarily confused why I was still in a cage, I thought we had already escaped. My eyes widened as I finally realised what had happened… O dear goddess, I was just dreaming. We never escaped.“Who is Raed?” The man in front of me growled menacingly.He was crouched in front of my cage and in my position, I couldn’t see his full frame, just his face. But I didn’t need to see him completely to know who he was, I felt the power that seemed to seep from his pores. He could be no other person but the Rogue Alpha that was terrorising the other packs with his pack of miscreants. He was beautiful. Brown skinned with curly hair that was in a complicated knot on his head with some tendrils loose around his face, full sensuous lips, and those eyes that were now more golden but still had a little swirl of red in it.I had
ADAIRA~I waited patiently and listened carefully. The rogues were being rowdy, and from the sounds I could hear, it seemed like they were being gathered together for something, like they wanted to leave, maybe to invade another pack. The Rogue Alpha didn’t send any of his wolves to guard me, and I didn’t know whether to be elated or insulted. One one hand, I knew that it was a good thing because my escape would be easier without someone constantly watching me. On the other hand, if he didn’t send any guards here, then he didn’t consider me enough of a threat to do so. Even if this was a better option for my escape, my wolf was annoyed at being disregarded as a warrior, and I was annoyed at her for letting me down.Now I wish I could actually communicate with my wolf, the curse words I would have used on her have not been invented yet. Instead, I settled for just projecting my anger about her actions, making sure she would feel the full brunt of my disappointment. She tried to send f
ADAIRA ~ I dodged the other two and ran towards the third one. If Gavrael returned here, our chances of escaping would be less than five percent. Because she was distracted by the mind link, she didn’t notice me coming for her till it was too late, I snapped her neck just as one of the two males pounced on me. They had both shifted to their wolves. I had an advantage, I knew that their Alpha didn’t want me dead so they wouldn’t strike to kill but I will. I grabbed the wolf at my back and tossed him aside just as the other one prepared to jump on me. They were trying to pin me down, subdue me and recapture me… over my dead body. I crouched as the second wolf dove for me, and swiped my claws on his soft underbelly. He howled in pain as he landed on the floor hard. I turned and faced the other one. Even after seeing what I did to his team mate, he still jumped to pounce on me. I crouched and did the same thing to him. They laid on the floor, bleeding from the deep cut to that sensitive
ADAIRA~I whirled with the full force of my anger, screaming with all the pain in my heart as my claws slashed across his face. But he stepped back a second before I could actually connect with his skin so my claws slashed uselessly in the space in front of his face instead of its intended target. How on earth was he so damn fast? I didn’t stop though, only an untrained warrior would do that, slowing down would just give your enemy an advantage. I let my body keep moving with the momentum of my first strike and used the force of it to deliver a kick. The obvious choice would have been a high kick to his jaw, and I knew he would anticipate that so when his quick reflex moved his upper body backward, I smirked. Unpredictability was a big advantage in a fight, especially one where I was so outmatched.I changed the direction of my kick at the very last minute and he howled with pain as my foot moved lower and connected with his knee. Despite the force of that blow, he only staggered. A
GAVRAEL ~ When I was informed that the white wolf had finally been captured, I was filled with so much longing. I gave strict instructions for no harm to come to her, and I immediately abandoned the pack of wolves I was leading to overtake another pack. I returned and found her asleep in one of the low cages, and though I hated the barrier between us, I knew that it was necessary for now until she agreed to be mine willingly. I have waited for her for so long, she was born to be mine, and I couldn’t wait to claim her. Just the thought of it made me ache so badly. I crouched outside her cage and reached through the bars to stroke her hair. I was pleased to see that she had been cleaned and clothed. The bars of the cage had no silver because I didn’t want her hurt in any way. She stirred and made a soft moaning noise that filled me with fierce arousal that quickly turned to anger when she moaned another man’s name and opened her eyes. She gasped, shocked to see me, and smacked her ba
GAVRAEL~She was about to attack me again but I caught her wrists and spun her around so her back was now facing my chest. I pulled her closer, unable to help myself, I needed to feel her against me. For a second, she relaxed against me, her body going limp as my breath touched her skin. Then she began to twist and move, trying to free herself from my grip. I don’t know why she was fighting so hard when it was useless in the end, she will be mine whether she likes it or not. Her body knows that it belongs to me, but her mind refuses to accept it. Maybe I need to explain this to her in a way she would understand, she seemed to not have realised that she was my mate.I felt her stiffen when she felt my erection pressed against her backside. I didn’t get the chance to enjoy the feeling before she moved her head backwards and smashed her skull against my face. I let her go, not because what she did hurt me, but because I wanted to see what she would do. Her antics were amusing my wolf an
ADAIRA ~ Gavrael made a guttural groan of pure pleasure as I bared myself to him. I understood why, my posture was one of submission, and it was enough to drive the predator in him crazy, that was what I was counting on. I didn’t expect to be affected as well, but his groan reverberated through my body and I had to bite my lip to stop myself from moaning. His chest rumbled with satisfaction as I put one hand around his neck to anchor myself, and caressed his chest with the other hand. His lust was so potent, and the scent of his arousal nearly overwhelmed me. I had to force the memory of how he killed Raed into my head to get some semblance of my control back and remember that this was just a way to distract him, and that I had only one chance at this. I felt him stiffen as he felt my claws sink into his chest, his surprised gaze met mine as he realised the vulnerable position he was in. I felt my lips stretch as I smirked at him. To my surprise, he smirked back at me. Was this male