Wolfsbane

Chapter 39

Jamie

I had no clue as to how long I been in this building. My wrists ached from the straps rubbing at my bare wrists, digging into the skin and causing blood to drip onto the gray concreat floors. Little puddles of my bright red blood was no doubt getting bigger as the days went on. I found myself dreading the night that was coming my way. The only reason why I knew when it was night and day was the little skylight window that was caked with dust and leaves. I watched the sun rise and fall for weeks on end, after the first two weeks I had lost track of it all. The nights were bitterly cold and the days were exaustingly hot. Watching the sun slowly set made my stomach flip and my heart pound in my chest. The night sky taking over the window and the stars twinkling through the dust and leaves.

The door in front of me slid open and I knew what came next. Two men with black eyes walked in looking at me with sick twisted smiles on their faces. "Please, just let me go. I don't know anything, I can't help you." I begged for what felt like the thousandth time. They said nothing at all and the smiles never left their faces. My shirt was ripped off the minute I was put in this little room, locked away from the world around me. There was so many things my mind thought of, Connor and Sapphire being the main thing. Were they okay, did they miss me, were they looking for me, did they know I loved them more than anything in the world? Thinking of them was the only thing that really gave me any hope at all. I loved them so much, all I wanted to do was be found so I could tell them. The men came over to me and pulled out a knife opened it and pointed the tip of it towards me. "Either you tell him what he wants to know or I'll cut you open and play jump rope with your intestines while you drown in your own blood." The man with the knife said stepping a tad bit closer to me. "Let's get started shall we?" Asked the second man with a british accent.

"What happens if I kill Connor Slaughter?" He asked and my blood boiled. "I don't know." I told him but I knew the real answer. It was well known that if someone kills the alpha of a pack that pack would either die out or fall under the killers command. "How do you not know anything yet? You were found in his house looking quite comfortable?" He asked, I found myself growing quite caught in a trap. "Your lying to me." He spoke loudly but not yelling yet. He turned to look at the man with the knife and nodded. Within a split second I felt a sharp sizzling pain on my skin. Blood trickling down the skin of my stomach, soaking into my dirt covered bedshorts. "You see, bad things happen to those who lie." The man asking all the questions said with a simle. "Please, I don't know anything. Connor told me nothing so I can't give you the information your looking for." I spoke with tears rolling down my dirt dusted face leaving streaks. "Oh this lying of yours isn't helping anyone, not even yourself at this point. If I were you, I would tell me everything I need to know now. I mean, if you don't I will let him kill you slowly." That made my heart beat pick up it's rythem.

Looking at the knife made me want to cry harder. Seeing my blood drip from the tip of it and fall to the floor making another little puddle. It was like time ticked by at an irregular pace. "How do I make Connor Slaughter bow to my every word?" He asked with an impatent tone that radiated around the room. "I can't tell you." I told him with a look of dread. "Can't or won't?" He said more than questioned. "I actually can't tell you because again I don't know!" I yelled. The knife dug into my flesh like a white hot brand. The pain was almost unbarrible to me.

Connor

My stomach burned like never before. Pain was all I could feel throughout the nights that she was gone. My wolf was anything but calm. I missed her more than life itself. Sapphire was anything but happy. She cried most nights and begged to sleep on Jamie's side of the bed. It was hard work taking care of Sapphire, leading the pack, finding Jamie, and maintaining my wolf. My hands were tied and I couldn't just drop one thing to focus on the other things. Juggling so many things at once put a mental strain on me like never before. All I wanted to do was split myself into fours. One of me to handle each thing. I felt so many things at night, mostly pain. Other than pain I felt anger, sadness, frustration, and fear. Wherever she was, I knew she was suffering. Tonight the pain felt worse than ever before.

"Are they ever going to find her?" Sapphire asked me as she laid beside me wrapped in Jamie's favorite sweater. "We can only hope for the best little one. I know you miss her just as much as I do but, I think that if we look hard enough she will show up." I tried to keep the smile on my face and remain strong for her but it was so hard. Looking into this little girls eyes made me want to find Jamie just as much. This little girl who depended on me more than anyone else did, including my pack. She was just a child, five years old with no family of blood to take care of her. I grew close to her, I looked at her as my own daughter. She no doubt looked at Jamie like her mother. Now here she was, her new mother pulled away from her just like her real mother.