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“Yes sir, Mr. Gruff and Grumpy.” I move to get out of the car, trying not to stumble with my arms and legs bound. When I finally get out of the car, I stand up and….nothing.
“Hello? Did you want me to squat right here? I can’t see anything and I can barely move, idiot.” He snarls at me, grabbing my arm and yanking me close to his face. Even through the hood I can smell his rancid breath. It makes me gag. Shut the fuck up little girl or I’ll shut you up.”
A ferocious snarl sounds behind him and the next thing I know, he is ripped away from me. The Beta. I can smell him through the stench of rogue. “I apologize for my companion’s lack of manners.” He pulls the hood off my head. I squint at the light before my eyes adjust.
“Yeah. Kidnapping? No problem. Bad manners? Definitely worthy of a beatdown.” “Did anyone ever tell you that you have a smart mouth?”
“I might have heard that once or twice.” I give him a fake smile. “So, where are these top-notch facilities that I’ve heard so much about?”
He leans close to me. “I’m going to enjoy taming you.” He whispers.
“Not gonna happen, Beta.” I stress his title again.
“We’ll see.” He takes my arm gently and walks me past where another guy, I’m guessing the one that threatened me, lays unconscious on the ground. He walks me into the woods and points to an area away from everyone else. “You can go over there.”
He goes to turn his back to give me privacy. “How am I supposed to pee with my hands handcuffed behind my back and my feet shackled?” 1
He turns back to me and gives me an evil grin. “Very carefully.”
“Asshole” I mumble under my breath, knowing he can hear me. I find a spot near a tree that I can use to leverage myself into a squat without falling into my own pee. I really do have to go.
While I pee, I look around and there is absolutely nothing but forest. ‘Artemis, can you hear anything that could give us an idea of where we are?’
I feel her perk up a bit, the silver keeping her from full strength. Most wolves would be completely out, so I’m thankful I have her even at minimal strength.”” I’m weak but I can’t hear anything.’
“Damn, me either.’
“Hurry up over there.” Eli hollers at me. I do my best to shake dry before moving- back toward him. I’m looking everywhere but there is nothing. I sigh, it was a smart place to stop, I’ll give him credit for that.
“How much longer?” I ask.
“It’ll be a while yet. Hop back in and make yourself at home.” He states when we get back to the car. I notice the unconscious guy is still on the ground. Will they just leave him here? I don’t bother to ask, hoping they have forgotten that my hood isn’t on.
“It’s getting dark. If you think you can behave, I’ll leave the hood off for now.”
“I can behave.” I state with the smile of a perfect little angel.
He snorts then tells me to get in. I do as requested and he pulls the cargo cover back over me.
I listen as someone asks him what to do with the guy on the ground. “Leave him. If he can’t follow orders, he can’t be part of the pack.” Interesting.
I reach out to my father again via mindlink. “Dad?” I wait but hear nothing. Dad, can you hear me?” Still nothing. “Dad, if you can hear me. We just stopped in some woods. They let me pee, so my scent is out here. But there was nothing else around, no power lines, no buildings, no lakes or streams that I could hear. Just woods.” I pause for a moment to see if I’ll hear anything. “I hope you can hear me so you know that I’m ok.”
I lay my head down and close my eyes, resting while I have time.
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I slowly open my eyes and take in my surroundings. I’m in my bedroom, with an IV in my arm. Suddenly everything comes rushing back to me and I bolt upright in bed. “CARA!”
My mother rushes to my bed as I start to crawl out. “Honey, hold on. Everyone is here. They have trackers out looking for her. Let me call the doctor.” get up and rip the IV from my arm. “I don’t need a doctor mom; I need to find. her.” I shout at my mother, before pushing past her. I sniff the air and smell everyone in my father’s office. I barge in without knocking. “Where is she?” I bark at the room.
“Son. You need to calm down. We have trackers out looking for her right now.” My father stands from his chair, his hands up, arms outstretched in a ‘calm down gesture.
“You don’t understand! He wanted her. He never wanted me. I was the pawn to get to her!” I’m still shouting.
Mr. Nelson speaks up. “Alpha Rik. No one wants my daughter back more than I do. But right now, we need level heads and calm minds. Take a couple deep breaths, then have a seat and tell us what you know.”
He may be the only one that is able to get me to calm down right now. While I disagree that he wants her back more than I do, I believe he wants her home almost as much as I do. I take a couple deep breaths as I look around the room to see who is in on the planning.
My father and Mr. Nelson are leading the discussion. Liam is here with his Beta, Dustin. Dad’s Beta and Chase’s father, Charles, is here, as is Chase.
I sit down in front of my father’s desk and start at the beginning. I tell them how I followed the leader when I saw him on the hill and he took off. How I was ambushed and that once he had me, he wanted to wait for Cara.
“Son, do you know who he is?” Dad asks me.
“Cara called him the Banished Beta. It rang a bell to me but…” I stop abruptly and Liam jumps to his feet.
“Arey sure? That’s what she called him? The Banished Beta?” Liam looks half crazed as he asks.
“Yes, Eli Gunner, the Banished Beta.”
“Son of a Bitch!” Liam shouts as Dustin jumps up and puts a restraining hand on his shoulder.
“Liam. What do you know?” asks Mr. Nelson.
Liam walks over and punches the wall before leaning his head against it and banging his fist against the wall repeatedly but with less force. He turns around and looks at everyone, his eyes stopping at me. “The Banished Beta killed my mother.”
It feels as if the air is sucked out of the room. The man that killed Luna Estella now has my mate? Even though Kai isn’t at full strength, I can feel his anger. He is starting to wake up.
I turn to my father. “Then why are we just sitting here? We have to do something!”
“We wouldn’t have to do anything if you hadn’t run off half cocked like you did. And then, what? You just gave up your Guardian to save yourself?” Liam steps. towards me and I stand up to face him. He gets in my face and he’s lucky Kai isn’t fully back yet, or I’d have leveled him. As it was my hand went flying toward his face to punch him, only to be stopped with force.
I looked down to see Mr. Nelson holding my arm in one hand and Liam’s in the other.
“Stand down NOW Alphas.” His aura, while impressive, isn’t as strong as his daughters’. But, it has enough impact to make us stop, long enough for him to go on.
“If you aren’t in this room to help my daughter, get out now. If you are, then I expect you to work together. Am I understood?”
Liam and I continue to stare at each other.
“AM I UNDERSTOOD?” He barks at us. Both of us look at him. “Yes, sir.” in unison. we say