Chapter 3

chapter 3 Poppy

there was only darkness even though i could feel someone touching me, warmth and sparks across my skin. it wasn't aziel that carried me so it must be Silas or the other one, the man who stood on the platform.

I could hear people talking around me, mostly arguing about me and something about auras. I drifted further into the darkness and hoped that Holly wouldn't find me this time.

The next time I woke I could feel that I was surrounded by softness but not too warm and I didn't feel any tingles so none of my mates were touching me, but I could feel something cold and solid around one of my ankles.

I tried to open my eyes but I didn't want to yet, and they were so heavy, all I wanted to do was to snuggle back and sleep a bit longer. forget about everything that has happened the last day. Instead I moved my fingers, the softness I touched told me I had a blanket under me, cozy, I began to stretch my limbs and when I moved my legs I could hear the faintest sound of rattling like a chain.

wait, what chains?

I sat up abruptly and looked down to my legs and noticed a cuff on my left ankle and a chain attached to it but I sat up way too fast that I got a little dizzy. That's when I noticed that I wasn't alone in my room and I also noticed that I was very much naked.

I grabbed the red blanket and wrapped it around my body before I looked for the other presence that I felt. I didn't need to search for long when I noticed Aziel leaning against a wall, studying me. I look down to the cuff around my ankle again and notice that the chain leads to a bar, no multiple bars.

I look around and that is when I notice I'm on a large round bed but what makes me sick to my stomach is that I'm inside a freaking cage. What do they think I am, a bird?

“ Do you like your new place Poppy?” Aziel asked me. “ i think it's perfect for you”

i look at him like hes crazy, i have been doing a lot o stupid thing and with all of hollys stupid pranks but no one has ever but me in a birdcage before. 

“sleeping hybrid is awake now i see” a voice says.

I looked around to find him, it's the hot guy with dark red hair. its like he came out from the shadows because i can't see a door. 

“ orion come on man” aziel sighs and i look at him

“ what? i didn't say she was a beauty” he shrugs.

“ Of course, she's a beauty, are you blind or something? '' Silas says behind me, making me jump and turn my head to glare at him.

“just look at her”

All three men are staring at me with an intense stare that makes me want to hide under the covers, when I realize that the blanket has slid down and my breasts are exposed. with a shriek I pull up the blanket over me once again and I almost cry under it.

“ no use crying poppy, who do you think it was that undressed you?” Aziel asks me with a laugh. 

I just glare at him 

“ well, you do have a nice body but we wouldn't want to touch you in that way when you were unconscious. we want some response when we touch and fuck you senseless” orion explains and i can see that his bloodred eyes darkens a bit.

“orion” aziel says and points at him

“he's a vampire as you probably have guessed already and Silas whos behind you are a werewolf, an alpha actually and you know what i am already”

I nodded my head, yes I knew what he was, a lying piece of shit and of course my sister's ex-boyfriend. 

Silas moved so I could see him better and I flinched when he sat down next to me on the bed.

“ you said to your cousin that I was with Aziel and Holly that night but you were wrong you know, that wasn't me”

i scrunch my face in confusion and say

“ no I saw a black wolf with silver eyes and only high ranking wolves have darker fur, an alpha has black fur, but wasn't it you?”

he shakes his head, he then points at orion

“ it was Orion you saw”

“no Orion is a vampire not a werewolf” I tell them in confusion, I’m getting a headache.

“ yep i'm a vampire but even I have a familiar I can summon '' orion explains to me.

Familiars, wasn't that just a myth, i think i have read about that in a book sometime and I think I saw a movie with vampires that glitters in the sunlight and even turned into bats. 

“ arent that just a myth?” I ask him.

“ isn't one of your dads a vampire? haven't you seen his familiar?”

I think back, there have been many animals at home since i was little but nothing like a wolf unless it was my other dad but my mom actually has one animal that follows her around.

“ can they take any shape” I ask

Orion nods

“Yes, it will take the form that the vampire thinks will fit him or her, it's like a piece of their soul, in my case it was a dog or a wolf. It took the form of a black wolf with silver eyes”

I nod and think back of the hawk that my mom loves. I wonder if she knows that it belongs to father.

“ Anyway Poppy,” aziels says, drawing my attention back to him.

“where we are right now, well we can't exactly say where but you will need to come to training everyday beginning tomorrow” 

I stare at him, okay, I can do training but why can't they say where we are. what if holly finds me here even though they say she cant find me but what if.

“ our pack resides here, mostly wolves but also vampires and a few mages, and perhaps a few other creatures” silas informs me

“ Will they hurt me?” I ask him, trying to hide the worry that has been eating me since I saw all the men yesterday. 

“ well you will train with them and you might get hurt but they arent allowed to touch you in a sexual way” silas says smirking, I stare at him in horror.

“ Poppy, you have been running from me for three years now. I marked you so you can't hide from me ever again but I don't think I will treat you nicely because of that.

'' you made these three years a living hell for us so we will do the same for you” aziel walks through the bars and puts his hands on my covers and lean in against me with a cruel smile he says

“ welcome to your personal hell”