Esme

Chapter 36

Esme's POV

It's been 13 days already, the terrible trio, as I like to call them, softened up a little. They kept sedating me with aconitum and kept me in silver shackles. My wrists we're all burnt from the silver. I was allowed to walk around the house only in my shackles, provided 5 guards were placed at both the front and back entrances.

It was a Mansion, fully furnished, Jefferson lived like a king. 'The Rogue King'. With Lara on my every move, it was hard to try and escape, but being in this house for 13 days, I already knew every nook and cranny. I knew when the guards took shifts, I knew exactly how many rogues guarded the Mansion. About 25 guard rogues were around the Mansion.

Jack beat me up every single day with the purpose of weakening me since the aconitum already weakened my wolf. Or so he thought. The only way I could gain my strength back was if I ate, and Jack made sure that I got nothing to eat, not even water. Rose, a rogue who took pity on me, kept sneaking food into my room. She was quite young, aged 14. Her older brother was one of the guards here, Benedict.

Without Rose, Kehlani and Giselle, I would never have gained my strength, but I had to keep acting weak, to lead Jack on. They helped me and I was going to help them. He was always very dumb and myopic minded, so he didn't notice a thing. Rose helped me to find out when the terrible trio would leave to attack my pack and I drafted my plan.

Day 14: The attack
I waited patiently in my shackles, my hair was everywhere and my wrists all burnt. I sat on the ground, my shackles were pinned to the wall above me. The terrible trio walked in.

"Today is the day, the day we attack your pack, the day your mate dies, the day you die" Jefferson started. "So it's a happy day" Lara said. "Although someone doesn't want you dead" she continued and drove her gaze to Jack. "I don't want her dead, at least not yet" the fucker said.

"I...I...[cough]...don't [cough]don't...kill him...please" I stuttered, feigning weakness. "Look at you, so weak, so dead, yet you think of him" he smacked me. "How pathetic can you be Esme?"

"We don't have time to waste on this Jack, my rogues are ready, let's go" Jefferson said, basically dragging Jack. "Bye you bitch" Lara said, and with that they left my room.

30 minutes later Rose entered my room. "Are you okay Esme?"

"Yes Rose, I'm fine, do you have the keys?"

"Only those to the doors and gates, I couldn't find the ones for the shackles"

"It's alright, are you with the oil?"

"Yes, here" she said as she handed me the bottle of coconut oil, I refused to collect it. "Where are Kehlani and Giselle?"

"They're out the back door"

"Open the oil, and pour it onto my hands" she did as I instructed and I was able to maneuver the shackles before they finally slipped off my hands, I did the same for the shackles on my leg.

"The energy bars I asked for, there's no time for me to eat" she gave them to me and I told her to have some herself, if we were going to run we needed all the strength we could get in order to run away from here.

I opened the door, according to the time, the Mansion guards were already on a their shift, so the next set were going to get here in the next 2 minutes. We had exactly two minutes to sneak out the back door. We snuck into the kitchen and opened the back door. "Hey Esme, we've been waiting for you", Kehlani said

"I'm sorry it took this long. Both of you need to shift"

Giselle and Kehlani shifted and I looked to where the guards were.

The rogues guarding the back gate were already there having lunch, luckily I told Rose to lace their drinks with aconitum which was easy since she was a kitchen maid. Not long after they all slumped and snored loudly, I looked at Rose in confusion

"I might have put sleeping tablets" she said. I wasted no time as I stripped myself of my clothes and shifted into my wolf. Rose was going to ride on my back, she folded our clothes and hopped on my back. Since we followed the back door we took a shorter route to the pack house.

I ran for miles before finally reaching the borderline separating my pack from the outlands. I stepped into the border and urged others to step in.

Guards came out of the bushes and stopped us. "Luna is that you?" Seth, one of the guards had asked.

"Yes it's me, is Luciano in the pack house?"

"Yes Luna"

"Thank you" I tried to walk further but he stopped me

"You can't move any further Luna, the rogues"

"They're with me, let us pass"

"But Luna they'r..."

"I demand you to let us pass, now"

With that we all ran towards the direction of the pack house. We got there and I shifted back and wore my clothes. I told the 3 girls to stay in the living room, as we walked in.

"Luna, welcome. We we're all so worried about you" Aurora said running towards me.

"I'm okay, where is Luciano"

"He's in his office, he hasn't been himself. He barely comes out, he barely eats. He just stays up there"

I was devastated to know how horribly my mate dealt with my kidnapping. I was hurt but I had to refrain from doing anything. "And Danny?"

"She's in her room, along with Alley and Fania"

Even in tough times my girls are still together, I just love them

"Please take them to the dungeon to see that rogue named Richard. The one we kept sedating"

"Ohh, the one that ate all the chicken?"

"Yes that one"

"Come with me, the kid has an appetite, he even took..." Aurora voice trailed off

I ran up the stairs and into Luciano's office. He was on the couch facing the window, looking all rough and frustrated. He looked up, probably at the whiff of my scent and looked at me with the white of his eyes so red and watery.

"Esme?" He asked in a croaky yet deep voice. "My Orchid? Is that really you?"

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