Chapter 19
Jade
We hadn’t gone back to themain housewhere I had been kept before with Lucas. My new home was with Bee, Sheeva, and two guards that I didn’t recognize. We didn’t speak and anytime I tried to, I got shut down. My only duty was to wear a bunch of different outfits during the day so the guards could take them off somewhere. I had a feeling it was to get my scent everywhere around this unfamiliar pack but I didn’t ask questions. I just stared at the light gray walls around me. Dinner had been cooked at the main house but we weren’t permitted to dine with the rest of the pack, though I knew that would really set Rafe off. He knew I needed a community, right? He would see through all of this.
I squeezed my eyes closed and rolled over. The lights had been turned off for me but I had a little bit of night vision now. The pack here didn’t cook their food in wolfsbane.
All that mattered was how long we had to put on this show. If I was here for a week, I knew I would get Nalia back. Would it be enough for me to escape, though? I pressed my palms into my eyes and thought of Rafe.
His hair was longer now. It was almost to his shoulders. He had pulled it back into a half bun on the top of his head. He wore black stud earrings and a plain long-sleeved shirt. He looked so casual and at ease, especially with his wolf tamed. What had happened while I was gone? Was it because I was gone? The Guardians had looked stronger than ever, I knew it was probably from overtime drills to prepare for whatever this mess was.
I sighed. Thinking of my friends would do me no good. Then I stopped and sat up. My hair fanned out around my face in a massive arc.Friends? When had all of them become that? The night of karaoke or before? I didn’t know how this realization made me feel. I laid back down and pulled the blankets up to my neck. I cared for them, all of them. Even Rafe, just alittlebit. I pressed my face into the pillow and let out a small sound of frustration. All I could do was hope. Hope that Rafe saw through all this mess or at least Tracey did.
“Get up,” A voice whispered above me. I sat up abruptly and immediately regretted it as my head knocked into the one above me. He swore and I fell backward as pain unraveled in my forehead. I rubbed the tender spot as my eyes adjusted to the darkness. I must have fallen asleep pondering on everything that was going on with my pack. I blinked a few times before I attempted to sit up again. The pain was only getting worse. I pressed my palms into my eyes.
“What the hell is wrong with you?” I said wincing.
The man across from me, that I quickly recognized as my guard, held his bleeding nose. I would have smirked if we were in different circumstances.
“I was trying to be quiet but you ruined all of that.” He swore again.
I exhaled hard before I scowled at him. “You were the one above me. It wasn’t the other way around.”
He leaned against the wall and pulled his hand away from his nose. It was no longer bleeding. “I see your wolf is coming back.”
I pressed my lips together.
“I came in here to help you,”
I couldn’t have kept the laugh in even if I had tried. “Help?”
It was then that I noticed his icy stare. He was the guard that had been posted outside of my prison cell since the beginning. “Damian is getting antsy. You’re going to have to be convincing to get your friends out of here.”
My eyebrows scrunched together. “What does that mean?”
“Damian has been waiting for the moment that they would come sniffing around. He wants to kill them and this will give him the opportunity to do so.” The guard’s eyes watched the bedroom door. He wasn’t supposed to be in here or telling me this. “So I need you to fight me.”
My eyebrows shot up on my forehead. “Excuse me?”
“There are guards here thatwantyou. They can smell your strength and potential as a mate, even if you smell of another. You need to fight me.”
I still wasn’t getting it. What did other guards have to do with this? Then before I could formulate any other thoughts or plans, he was on top of me. His teeth elongated and fear rushed through me. Before I knew what was happening his hands had mine pinned down. He pressed his nose to my throat and nausea hit me. “Scream.”
I gritted my teeth together. “I will kill you.”
He chuckled. “Good.”
His teeth slid along my neck and Nalia perked up in my mind.Hell no.I kicked out and he flew across the room. Shock flashed across his face before he growled low in his throat. His feet skidded across the floor before he bumped into the wall. I shoved off of the bed and got into a crouching position. He wasn’t going to take me so easily. Not again. Not ever. No one would ever take me again. I would kill them all. My teeth poked my bottom lip and fear washed over the room in a thick cloud.
The bedroom door banged open. Sheeva stood in the doorway with her hair a messy halo around her head and her skin pale. “What is going on in here?”
The guard straightened up and touched his nose, like I had just hit it. The blood still looked fresh, smelled fresh. But not to a witch’s nose. She wouldn’t know whether it happened now or an hour ago.
“The bitch hit me,” The guard’s eyes were bright yellow now.
Sheeva’s eyes went between the both of us before they landed on me at last. “Are you okay?”
I shrugged my shoulders as I straightened up from my defensive stance.
