His Estranged Mate

Chapter 40: Experiment?

CATRINA

The first thing that registers in my mind when I am awake, is that I don't have any underwear on. The realisation leaves me panicking and I immediately rub my thighs together to assess if I am alright down there.

Not feeling any kind of pain, I let out a breath of relief because I was not assaulted and continue to assess myself. I have the dress on me but my underwear has been removed. I shiver in disgust at the thought of someone's hands on my body when I was unconscious.

The next thing I realise is that I am blindfolded! It's surprising that I feel the blindfold now and not before I realised about the lack of panties. I try to move my hand so that I can pull off this piece of cloth from my eyes but I can't.

That's when I realize that I've been tied down to a bed like a thing. My legs have been chained to the opposite poles of the footboard of the bed whereas my hands have been spread open and tied to the headboard. The chains of my hands are much tighter than the ones in my legs, granting me someplace to move my legs but I can't move my hands at all.

I can just twist them and move them up and down on the bed. The chains' short length doesn't allow me to lift my hands. I pull at the chains but they dig into my skin, making me gasp in pain.

Not knowing what else to do when my sight is hindered, I just wait. I focus on my hearing to gauge if there's someone in this room but I am not so sure. The room or whatever this place is it's quiet. Nothing but just a whirr is heard.

From the sound, I think it's a machine's sound, an indication that there's some machine around me but, I can't see.

A few minutes pass by when suddenly a beep like noise is heard and I startle.

The sound isn't heard again so I relax a little bit at the next instant, the sound of heavy footsteps is heard and then the voice of my half-brother reaches my ears.

"She's awake," he mutters and I assume that there's someone else with him whom he's talking to. Maybe Lance?

"Yes," whispers someone else and from the voice, I know that it's Lance.

"Tell me your plan for her," asks Xanthos and I wait with bated breath to hear the answer.

"Well. I am curious about her wolf. I want her wolf to come out but at the same time I want to check if she's really barren," answers Lance which leaves me both confused and shaken up.

"I think you should just finish her off. There's no point in wasting time to get useless information," Xanthos snaps the last word and for the first time, I find myself agreeing with him. At least the latter part of his words, I agree. I am not sure of dying, right now. Not when I don't know how Cayden is.

"She's useless to you but for me, she's the golden egg. I can get lots of information about her."

"You need to focus on inducing heat into the virgin unmated females as had been decided," Xanthos whisper-yells, I don't know why because I can hear him clearly.

"That work is in progress with the other females. It takes time for the serum to work on unmated and young females. We'll just have to wait," whispers Lance. Again, I can hear what he's saying.

"What about your mate?" asks Xanthos but his voice has an underlying hint of something else. Lance laughs at first but then it's silent. I can't hear anything but then a very faint reply.

"She escaped but she won't survive," says Lance, a bit defensively. This new information about Lance having a mate and not caring about her disgusts me and somehow relieves me. I can't imagine a woman living with Lance, knowing about his atrocities.