Avoiding Alpha

Chapter Twenty Four

                She was flung from him, her body jarring as it hit the hard cement floor. Only then did she look around and notice she was in a cage, or rather a room with bars from floor to ceiling sectioning off the part she was currently in. It wasn’t very small and she was surprised at just how big it was but then she noticed that from the middle of the cage ceiling was a rope and on the end of them were iron cuffs. She wondered at just why there was so much space, what exactly was it they intended to do to her that required so much space when she would be merely hanging from that point. Still she hadn’t worked up that fear and she turned her head back to her attacker. If anything he only got more angry at her defiance. Tough. She liked the stronger side of her.

                He began to walk over to her, she knew she was in for it. He pulled her up by her hair and attached her hands to the very cuffs she had just spotted. “James!” He yelled, his voice hurting her ears he was both that close to her and had shouted so loud. A burly man came in, as wide as he was tall. “Teach her respect.”

“With pleasure.” The brute said curling his hands into fists and walking over to her.

“Bring it on.” She mumbled. God knew she had had her fair share of beatings, this would be nothing new, and she knew full well she could survive a beating, and hell, she could take one without uttering a single sound. The product of needing to keep her younger brother as innocent as possible. She would annoy them as much as she could; let him beat her and she would take it stoically, not a sound, not a flinch but she would look him in the eye and she would stare him out. This time she had hope of being saved, so she would stand, preparing to walk out at a moment’s notice should Ray come…

Nightfall came, she was still chained to the ceiling, technically she could be called standing up, in reality her arms were tied and they were holding her up - her body was so beaten she was leaning forward too weak to take her weight on her legs. Her head was bowed but only because they had left her and she wanted to rest a little. Her hair was a mess, knotted from being grabbed too often and from flying around her when she was punched and the way she was chained had made her sway and twist with only the shackles on her hands keeping her from falling.

                Her stomach hurt as did her back, her arms and her face, but she was still standing and every second that passed she put more and more weight on her feet, slowly gaining back her ability to stand on her own and ease the weight of her arms that burned. Her eyes were not closed, she was watching her surroundings, her final moments would not be with closed eyes; that was after they had killed her. Instead she watched the door, waiting for them to return, in the mean time she waiting, biding her time… with a smile on her face…

Cold water was thrown all over her; it made her shiver and woke her up, though she hadn’t fallen asleep. Drowsiness had come over her throughout the night but they had come in early the next morning switching on the light and holding a bucket, filled with ice water, and it made her shiver but she took the advantage it brought her. Awareness.

                The cold brought her back to her exact setting and it made her look up at the one holding her, “Are you going to kill me?” She asked him. Better know his plan now and she could plan against it. Her hair was again taken hold of, her head pulled backwards and she looked into his face. The smell of rotten flesh got worse with every second he was there.

“Of course I’m going to kill you. I just want you to be with your precious father first.”

“I don’t see him, you telling me empty threats?” She taunted back. It earned her a blow to her stomach but she only grinned more.

“Oh I’ll get him. I’ll go right to your Alpha and take everything from him, then I will bring your mate and your father here with that brother of yours and I will kill your father, then your brother and the pain you’re in will hurt your mate. Then I’ll kill you and hurt him more, and then I’ll kill him.”

                She spat in his face, gathering the saliva in her mouth and making it a spit worth giving. There was a first for everything and never before had she been compelled to do such a dirty thing. He wrenched her head back further.

“It will be a slow death, I’ll make you scream.”

“I won’t scream. What has my mate ever done to you? Why do you try to make him suffer? I understand my father, he screwed you over, he didn’t complete his deals but Ray? What has he done?”

                The man holding her finally let loose a smile, but it was a smirk and it was clearly showing her who was superior. “He has land.”

“That’s it? Land!” She screamed it in his face.

“I want more land, he has it. He won’t have for much longer.”

“Who’s the mole, in our pack, who is betraying us?!” She had to shout her question for her had released her and was not just leaving her cage, but the room itself. He turned back and laughed at her.

“You don’t know? Isn’t it obvious?”

“Who has betrayed us?!”

“Do you know what happens when a wolf loses a mate?”

                The sudden change in topic stumped her for a second, she didn’t answer for a full minute and he stood there patiently.

“No, I was never part of a pack.”

“They get depressed. So much so they end up a recluse, no good to anyone, literally they can do nothing. Tell me Tendra, do you know anyone who is so depressed like that?”

“No.”

“Exactly.”

                Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock….Tick….

Tock.

“NO!” She screamed.

“Goodbye Tendra, see you later for your execution!”

“Let me out! I’ll kill you!...I’ll kill her. She’s with Tim!”

“Of course she’s with Tim, did you think she took a shine to him? Did you think her kind and warm hearted? Poor poor Ashton, his mate isn’t all she says she is. She isn’t depressed is she Tendra? She told us exactly when Ashton would be alone; a grieving mate always looks innocent.”

“She can’t be.”

“Oh yes Tendra, Nancy is the betrayer and now that she has the trust of Tim she’ll bring him straight to me.”

“Nooo!”

                The light went out.