A couple days passed sinced Ellie and William got captured by the Hermit Pack. In the time that passed, neither had seen nor heard of the other, for Ellie had been kept in Steve's room, with her only contact of the outside world being from the open window and the Beta himself. He who refused to say a word about the prisoner, who had been kept in the cell, still healing from his dagger wound. With the current lack of security around the pack, Ellie had already considered sneaking out of the house to search for William, only to then remind herself that a witch was also present in this pack. As if that mental reminder wasn't enough, at one point, she tested the window to see if there was any sort of witchcraft done to keep her here, tossing a piece of meat from her lunch delivered to her. Upon doing so, the instant the meat went through the window, it bursted into flames. This 'defense mechanism' combined with the fact that Steve not once even asked Ellie if she wanted to get some air du
William was still stuck in his cell. Rather than do nothing but wait as his injury heals up, like Ellie, William had been using his time to train himself however he could in his limited space. And as best as he could in his condition.Under normal cases, werewolves would be fully recovered from their injuries in a day or two at most. With a wound inflicted from their prime weakness, though? William may as well be a human with a stab wound. Maybe even worse, had the Hermit Pack's healer not have stitched the injury and come daily to check on him.Despite the injury, William endured the agony and do whatever training he could do that would not open the stitches. He already tried looking for a way out- especially when he does not know how this pack deals with prisoners and refused to want to know- only to then notice his cell was coated in silver. Perhaps not 'everywhere', but any possible exits or breakouts he could see were practically protected by it. Not to say that he would not be a
In Maddie's house, the Alpha was not feeling the least bit amused about what was happening while she was bedridden. It was annoying her enough that she had to stay isolated in her room on Albus's advice, locked up in her own home, enchanted by some spell to supposedly prevent her scent from getting sniffed out from the werewolves outside, out of fear of what was happening to her body. But learning that both Ellie and the Alpha who saved her are here?!"Albus! Do NOT make me say it again!" she shouted, banging her hands on the locked door."Miss Maddie, I implore you to please listen and see reason," Albus calmly spoke on the other side, unfazed by her shouting."Screw the reason! You're telling me both that stray and murderer are here, IN MY PACK! As Alpha, I demand you let me out so that I can personally deliver hell onto them both! Especially Ellie!""And risk your well-being in the process? You do remember what I told you about your condition, right? Should I do as you say in your
Steve was enraged. More than enraged; he was practically panicking, as he vented out his frustrations on a thick, sturdy tree in the woods not far from the pack.It has been three days since he made that bet with Albus. Three days... and he has made so little progress in convincing Ellie to even trust him. At this rate, once tomorrow comes and goes, he will lost his bet with the gypsy. Other than getting his pride damaged from being unable to do as he claim he would, who knows what Albus will do? He never did say what his condition would be in their bet, and Steve did not want to know what that would be.'Dammit... My pride as a werewolf is on the line here!' he thought. 'Come on, you stupid Beta, think! How do you win Ellie back to your side? Can't play the nice guy act, obviously. She's not stupid enough to fall for it again.'"You still haven't won her over?" came a voice, snapping him out of his thoughts.Steve turned to the source and saw it was none other than Aiden approaching
That night, Ellie has gotten herself another visit from Steve, as the Beta promised her."Huh. Took you long enough to get back here. And here I was, thinking you've forgotten your promise to your ex-mate," Ellie said in sarcasm. "Oh, but wait... You did lie to me about a bunch of things during our time together. I should actually be more surprised that you kept the promise to return."As much as her words irked Steve, he was actually quite happy to see the attitude. Especially with the effect it was having on him. "Oh, Ellie... I may have lied to you about our time together, how I have been feeling towards you in full, but you should know that I have been keeping all the promises I made with you. Sure, there were times when I was a little late to some of our meets, but I still arrived as I promised you, didn't I?"'Yeah. Because you were most likely with Maddie at those times,' Ellie thought in realization, while also noticing the tone her former mate used."Well, someone is suddenly
How long has it been since he started torturing Ellie? How long has she been enduring the beating he was giving her? How much longer… is Ellie going to keep silent and be so stubborn?!“Come on, already!” Steve shouted, landing a punch to her gut. “Why don’t you just yield so we can get this over with?!”Ellie, slightly bruised from the thrashing Steve had been giving her, with a bit of blood trailed down from the corner of her lips. Blood in which she spat at Steve’s face.“Maybe it’s because I value my pride so much. Unlike a mere mutt like you,” she insulted. “You who threw away your pride the moment you decided to make use of another werewolf. I’m amazed you’re still made into a Beta despite that. Then again, this whole thing was Aiden’s idea. With an Alpha as scummy as him, it’d be no wonder why the rest of the pack is the same. And you blame me for what’s become of the people here? Guess you’ve never heard of karma. Now that’s really sad.”Enraged and disgusted by the blood spat
If the Hermit Pack wanted anything to do with her- if they wanted her to take part in that Wolf Swap Rite again, and take away the rest of her wolf- Ellie would never let that happen. Not again. She didn’t care if they do anything to hurt her, or even how far they go about in doing it. Yes, she wanted to see her blood family again, question them why she was left in the middle of the woods for these Hermit mutts to pick up and use, but if the price of seeing them again is to lose every last bit of herself as a werewolf, she refused to let that happen. Rather, she’d sooner die than lose what was left of herself.That was what she had resolved herself for… But William? He who has nothing to do with their conflict? While she did consider the possibility that they may use his life to force her into doing their bidding, given how Steve was solely focused on her, she quickly toss the idea out of the window, thinking that the Beta still had some pride left to not resort to such a tactic. Howe
Earlier that day, before he spoke to Aiden about his lack of progress with Ellie, Steve actually made a small visit to William. Before, he had actually already considered using the guy to make Ellie change her mind about her stance. He was already weakened, anyway, and he wanted to make the Alpha spill a whole lot more blood, tear him limb from limb! And also bring his head to the Devorare Pack and make them all bow to him as their new Alpha.A werewolf who slays a pack's Alpha will become their new Alpha. With the state the Hermit Pack is in, they will need new members who will do all the hunting for them to bring them back in their proud state. What better pack than the Devorare Pack?As he walked in, since it had been a few days since Steve brought William in, only ordering the slightest bit of care to be given- as the Beta just wanted the enemy Alpha to be alive and well enough for him to enjoy torturing the life out of him- Steve had expected to see the guy on the ground, starvin