Chapter 6

Adelia's Point of View

The last thing I remembered was being hauled across Siya's shoulder. Being dragged into the middle of the fucking battlefield with zero care in the world. 

Then a lancing pain in my side, for the second time in the last two days, and everything went black.

Until now. 

I could make out the whirr of an engine. People spoke in hushed tones. None of them close to me. None of them could be identified.

My eyelids felt like a ton of bricks were lying on them. Body was stiff and refused to obey me.

"You need to take it easy. Your body isn't coping well with being shot twice." Someone said above me. 

My eyelids fluttered but they refused to lift.

"Water..." I barely stammered out. My throat felt like the desert. 

There was a shuffling beside me. Someone moving. The voices around me stopped the moment the person moved.

Where was I? 

"Here. Drink." The voice commanded and I felt something touch my parched lips. 

A straw. 

I sucked it into my mouth and gulped the contents down.

When I was done, I let it go and the person set the cup down somewhere beside me.

"Try opening your eyes again. Don't move, it will use up too much energy. Just open your eyes." The voice became clearer in my head. 

Had a deep vibrating tone to it. 

Recognition clicked into place and my heart dropped into my shoes. 

Siya. This was Siya's voice. The man who wanted to kidnap me. 

This gave my eyes renewed strength to open. 

The light was dim but enough that I could make out my surroundings. We were on a plane. Several other people lay on gurneys inside it. Medical professionals wrote down stuff on their little charts close by.

But I didn't miss the way their eyes darted towards me. Towards Siya.

Holy. Fucking. Hell. 

He kidnapped me. 

All my muscles tensed at the same time. I recoiled backward, away from him, and into the hull of the plane. 

Irritation flashed across his face.

"If I wanted to kill you, I could have done it whilst you were passed out." He snapped and stood up.

Growling, I tightened my body into a ball. Drew everything in.

"Where the fuck are we?" I asked.

Dark eyes narrowed. "A thank you would have sufficed. A bit of cordial banter, even. But no. Start with the hard shit first." He looked more pissed off now.

"Thank you for what? Kidnapping me? Keeping me against my fucking will? Setting your deranged sister loose on an innocent pack? The list of things I could thank you for would be fucking endless then." I hissed. 

The pairs of eyes that still remained on us slid away with menacing scowls. 

As if I was the fucking wrong one. 

Siya pinched the bridge of his nose. Sighed. "We are on our way to my pack. I told you that my sister wanted you to make Felix cough up the uranium he owes us. Be thankful that she didn't send your dead body to him instead." 

I gawked at him for a solid second. Noted the IV plugged into my fucking arm. Ripped it out without so much as wincing, even as a droplet of blood dribbled down. "Oh thank you so much, Your Royal Highness, for sparing me. How can I ever repay you for such kindness?" I mocked but kept my face flat.

A muscle ticked in his jaw.

"Are you always this argumentative?" 

"Only when someone breaks into my fucking house, attacks my pack and fucking kidnaps me! Sorry if all of my anger is pointed at you because of it. Please, if someone else is responsible, shove me in their direction," I growled. Scooted an inch closer and got into his face. "Or shove me out of this fucking plane because I'm not going with you. I'd rather die." 

"Girl got some balls, I'll give her that," Someone muttered a bit down from us. 

Siya stifled a smile at the comment. The corner of his lips twitched but his eyes remained hard.

"We are still a good three hours out. Get some sleep in the meantime. Phaedra is back in Makatza so she won't bother coming to see you until she gets back in another two days." 

Anger flamed my insides. Spurred me to move before my mind could tell me to stop.

My elbow rammed into his nose. Blood spurted across the floor and I was up. I ran nowhere but kept moving.

Siya didn't give chase. Or I couldn't hear him behind me.

Instead, one of the doctors swung out towards me. I dodged but was caught with something in the arm. Pausing long enough, I noticed the needle and syringe, now empty, stuck in my arm.

"Thank you, Nessa. I didn't think keeping a tranquilizer close would have been necessary. But as always, you were right." Siya said from his position still beside my bed. 

My head snapped towards the doctor I thought I had evaded. Glared at the petite woman who stared back at me with a rueful smile.

"What the fuck did you just inject..." My lips refused to finish the sentence. Refused to move at all. 

The rest of my body followed closely. Going numb from my toes up.

Siya was beside me in seconds, holding his arms out and around me. Gripped my stomach and hip, pulling me in close to him.

Just his presence suffocated me. Launched an assault on my senses. Every inch we touched felt like flames crawling up my skin. 

"How much did you give her?" He asked the woman, menacing growl in tow.

"Enough to keep her body busy until she is settled into the cells." She replied, perky voice matching her exterior perfectly.

Another growl ripped out of Siya's throat. Vibrated through me as my eyes dipped and opened in long intervals. 

"She is going to my quarters. If anyone has a problem with that, send them my way, but don't expect them back anytime soon." 

***

The next time I woke up, my head was on fire. But I was in a warm bed with a lot of pillows behind me. I could smell a cup of tea beside the bed. Could also smell the lingering scent of Siya.

It was all around me. Consumed me.

Which only sparked more anger.

"You need to calm down. Your heart is working overtime as is and spiking it now won't help you." A lilting voice came from the bottom of the bed. One I could vaguely remember.

Sitting up a fraction, I came face to face with the woman who had driven the needle into me. Her petite brown face now had a smattering of glitter on it. Her slender frame was draped in soft blue silk.

"Don't take it personally but I tend not to take advice from people who stab me in the arm." 

The corner of her lip twitched up. "Now I get why he took a liking to you. You're a feisty one, aren't you?" 

"And by taking a liking to me do you mean being my mate? Or don't you guys believe in that kind of crap around here? Because I doubt he's going to be very happy that you are here in the first place." I snapped back, unable to help myself from claiming him.

It came as easily as breathing, despite my better judgment.

The woman's eyes grew wide as saucers. The pleased expression on her face fell away. Replaced by something else. Something darker.

Like fear.

"You're his-"

"Nessa, what the fuck did I tell you about going into my fucking room! You know it's off limits, especially with Adelia in such a fragile state." Siya seethed and burst through the doors. 

Nessa jumped off of the bed. Recoiled away from me. "She's your mate, brother? Why didn't you tell me! You can't give her to Phaedra now! You know what she'll do-" 

My mind skipped a few words. Drew up a blank.

Then it bit down on the word.

Brother.

"Wait, you have another sister?"