Page 13 of His Curse
"But we love you anyway,” Cora and Frankie say in unison.
Yeah, I may not be part of a true pack, no longer running with my born-of pack—the one I was supposed to lead in my father’s place—but I still have that pack mentality thanks to the clan that has given a little meaning back to my life.
If it wasn't for Kai and the Dragovihk Clan as a whole, I'd be pretty goddamn miserable.
More than normal anyway, because after rejecting my mate... without her, this existence is just fucking crushing.
Chapter2
Prey
LARK
Jackson, Wyoming. Same Day.
The sound of metal sliding against metal, the quick scrape and loud slam of a heavy door have my eyes struggling to open.
"Get to your feet,wolf. Face the wall, hands behind your back."
Get to my feet?
I can barely open my goddamn eyes let alone get to my feet, something this barbarian should know better than I do.
"I said, get to your fucking feet,” Dick, my appropriately named guard, barks through the little window. "I know you're awake, wolf, so you better do what I say because if you don't and I have to come in there before you're in position..."
Slowly and with more energy than I’ve had to use in a long time, my eyelids flutter, sticking and stretching before they nearly tear open.
The skinny beam of light that shines through the little slat in the door is enough to have them slamming shut again but I force them to stay open, to only blink and try to adjust to anything other than total darkness.
I drag my arms to my sides, lay my palms flat against the cement floor, push up on shaky hands and fall twice before I can stay that way. Everything aches: every muscle, every bone, every inch of my skin. Even my hair fucking hurts but if I don't get up, don't get into position, Dick will come in here and force me to do it, and he won't be nice about it. I’m actually pretty sure this man has no idea what the word even means.
"Now there's a good little wolf,” he mocks from behind the closed door. "Who's a good little wolf? You are. Yes, you are. Such an obedient littlebitch."
My eyes dart to his smiling ones and I grit my teeth, pushing up to sitting while reminding myself I can't kill him, not yet. No, I have too much else to do first and until I do it,Dicklives to see another day.
Once I'm in position—forehead pressed to the cold brick wall, body flat against it, hands folded behind my back—I wait.
Wait for the slam of the window, the creak and whine of the door, the loud scrape of metal on concrete.
Then his hands are on me.
A disgusted shiver races up my spine, shooting out to my fingers and toes, tingling its way to the pit of my stomach that rolls and lurches in terrified anticipation. I don’t like to be touched, not by anyone that works here, and this asshole is the worst of the bunch.
"Don't worry,” Dick sneers. "Your face is what keeps you untouched. That shredded pork keeps me from doing all those things to you, the things you hear me doing to the others.” He squeezes the handcuffs around my wrists so tight my skin immediately tears. "I could never dream of touching you like that. That mangled mess is a huge turn off."
I clench my jaw so hard it pops.
I hate this place but I hate Dick even more.
He's the most sadistic of the guards, the most cruel and perverse one among them, and that's saying something since they're all criminally insane.
"If there weren't so many others to choose from then I'd probably have to consider it.” He chuckles, the sound hollow and terrifying. "I'm sure if I absolutely had to, I could get it up for you, but then again, it would have to be my last resort."
Dick laughs as I tense further, laughs as he runs the chain through the center of my cuffs and connects it to the back of my collar, the one that ensures I can't shift.
And that damn collar is the only reason I haven't killed him yet; that and the fact I'm on a self-appointed mission.
"What, no snide remarks? No sharp comeback?" He feigns disappointment as he crouches and puts the shackles around my ankles then connects that to my wrists as well. "I was looking forward to our banter,wolf. It's been so long since we've gone at it."
