Withered Love

Darkness

Pain shot through the back of my head as I reached up feeling a lump that formed at the back of my head. Son of a bitch someone must have hit me. I looked up to find I was no longer in the woods. I am in a pitch-black room with no windows considering no light was shining in. The damp musty smell of the room was repulsive as it irritated my lungs.

 I felt the rage building within me. Do these people not know who they are messing with? I will burn this place down around me then torture every single one of them who thought they would get away with this! I began wondering if it could have been someone the Alpha sent to grab me, would they actually be that stupid?

Why does this Alpha want me so bad anyways, just for my abilities? It confused me as to the purpose, but I do understand some are power crazed bastards who don't care about a single sole outside of themselves. Feeling the baby move I gently rubbed my stomach in a soothing manner trying to calm him or her down knowing all of this had to be stressful on my pup also. 

As the comprehension and sheer magnitude of the actions this person has gone to so they could grab me especially knowing I am pregnant infuriates me further. I am guessing they don't care about my pup or if they harmed it. They will all die by my hand if my pup is harmed in the slightest! 

I could hear noises from outside of the room along with a few muffled voices. Were they whispering? I growled knowing they were this cold hearted and it is time I let my cold queen side show them a thing or two. I stood up feeling around the room in the darkness until I came to what felt to be a wooden door. 

I grinned widely as I let the feelings build within me as I set the door aflame. It began to smolder then flickers of flames began lighting the room around me, along with filling it with smoke. I covered my nose and mouth with my shirt not wanting to breathe the smoke in as it quickly fell apart. I kicked the remains out of my path as I walked into the hallway to find more doors lining the hallway. There must be more cells I thought.

As I walked down the hallway, I looked inside each one to see if there were other werewolves trapped within them due to this Alpha or whomever. Surprisingly they were all empty at the moment or so I thought when I reached the last door on the left side of the hallway, I heard a soft whimper. Thankfully the hallway had some light coming from tiny lanterns that hung on the walls. The light shimmered brightly easing my eyes from the darkness. As I pulled on the door, I found it was locked but the sobs increased within the room behind it.

"Just hold on I will get you out. Cover your face with your shirt or something there will be some smoke." I told the stranger in the room.

"Uh huh." The tiny voice replied.

Is it a child thrown into a cell like this? I would skin them alive if they dared to harm a child! I let the feeling take hold once more as the door did the same, smoldering then bursting into flames. Within moments the whole door was consumed in bright orange, red flames as small pieces of ash flew into the air as the wood seemed to crumble under the flames. I grinned widely knowing if it was wood, I could easily burn it. Realizing the door was burnt sufficiently I kicked hard against it as it flew open.

"You can come out now." I told her.

"Oh, thank you so much, thank you!" She called from between sobs.

I could tell by the variations of the darkness where she was seeing her move closer to the doorway when I was shocked to find a young woman perhaps around twenty years old with bright blue eyes and golden blonde hair which was messy and frazzled.

"How can I ever thank you?" She all but whispered.

"No need, I am sure you didn't deserve to be in there any more than I did." I replied.

"I am the mate of the monster that put me in here. He says I am not the one he wants. Once I remember him telling me about meeting a girl when he was young, and he was determined on having her as his mate. I am guessing she made quite an impression on him since no one else ever compares to her in his eyes. He is cruel and vicious; he beat me and threw me in here because I climbed into his bed wanting to be with my mate. He growled at me and slapped me then something else seemed to emerge it was as if he had lost his mind. He began beating on me and when he was finished, he had his warriors drag me here and throw me into a cell. I have been here ever since." She informed me.

What kind of monster could do such a thing to someone, all because she wanted to be with her mate, in normal cases the mate would plead for such actions? I felt my anger grow further as I gently pushed her behind me as I walked to the door at the end of the hallway. I pulled it open noticing several warriors sitting around within the room. Letting my natural instincts flow and allowing Crystal to have her ounce of fun I let her push me back as she began working her magic on them.

"Oh boys!" She called out seductively.

All their eyes shot to us seeing I was out of my cell as a few snarled, charged at us. Crystal set them ablaze as their screams filled the room. The tiny woman behind me gasped in shock at what had just occurred. I turned and looked back taking control once more.

"You are perfectly safe with me. What is your name?" I asked.

"I am Amelia Lacey Grant; I am also the mate of that bastard Alpha Trenton Claxton. He is a crazed madman, and I am not sure why he is so crazy. I overheard him one day speaking to a warrior telling him that he would have his mate soon and then all things would fall into place and our pack would be the strongest within the world with you at his side as his Luna." She told me.

So, she is the mate of the Alpha who is after me. Confusion washed over me...did he honestly think I would be his mate and Luna? No way in hell, but the more confusing part is she mentioned he told her about meeting a girl and that is who he wanted as his mate. Could I have met him in the past and don't remember? I ran over memories of when other packs would visit but I don't recall any young boy coming with any of the packs who visited. Either way this Alpha is going to pay with his life for what he has done to my pack and to all of the other packs he used as pawns in his plans.

I walked through the small room where the warriors were smoldering as their lifeless bodies lay on the cold stone floor. I growled knowing I would rather not harm others, but it seems it is the only way I will make my way back to my mates. My mind went to them knowing they would be freaking out this very moment hunting for me. They will slaughter every pack in the pursuit of finding me. Shit! I closed my eyes knowing Johnathan could communicate with me like this. His eyes looked furious and filled with worry.

"Where are you?" He demanded in my head.

"I am not sure; I got out of the cell and killed several warriors already. The mate of the Alpha was locked in the cells as well, I released her. I am making my way out of here now and I will burn this place to the ground and skin that bastard myself!" I growled out to him.

"Little mate we are coming. See if you can grab someone to get information about your location and relay it. We have the warriors assembled and we were about to start slaughtering everyone in our path. Damien is beginning to lose it; his thirst is becoming overwhelming and with you going missing his rage is exponential and I know him. When he gets like this, he will wipe thousands out without even blinking an eye." He replied once more.

As I stepped out of the underground cell area, I had my eyes closed for a moment and apparently a warrior rushed me as he grabbed ahold of me aggressively, not realizing I cried out through the link. Oh, shit they are going to kill everyone! I thought. My rage turned to the male werewolf who had ahold of my arm as he began trying to drag me behind him.

"Who do you think you are trying to drag?" I growled out at him.

"A stupid she-wolf who my Alpha wants to see!" He growled.

"Wrong, I am the Lycan Queen and your toast!" I growled out as I set him on fire.