Unwanted Mates (Black Moon Book One)

Chapter 35: "Birthright"

Hannah POV

Someone is repeating my name again and again and again. 

My head feels heavy, and so does the rest of my body. It's as if a ton of bricks were lying on me, and I have problems with moving. I have absolutely no energy in me, even to open my eyes. For a moment, I try to figure out where I am, what has just happened, why my head is so painful, and why I'm lying on something cold.

The celebration, Gideon's panic, Hank being poisoned, and afterward screams from the garden, and then someone hit me in the head. The realization of the recent events comes to me, and that's what makes me open my eyes despite the terrible pain I'm still in.

"Hannah! Oh, my Goddess, Hannah!" Hayden keeps saying.

So he was the one who has been calling me all this time.

 I sit slowly and slowly look around. We are in some kind of basement, at least that's how it looks like, judging from the dusty floor, no windows, and quite frowst air inside.

Hayden is chained to the wall with the silver; of course, I see burns on his wrists. He looks quite rough. There are many bruises and blood all over him. His wolf probably has problems with healing him because of the silver chains.

"Hannah, are you alright?" He keeps asking.

"My head is killing me, but I think that's it. Do you know what happened?" I ask him, letting my back rest on the cold wall.

When someone left me in here, he was considerate enough to put a blanket on me, and I'm using it to wrap myself because I feel cold.

"After we separated, Becca mindlinked me, saying she noticed Gideon talking with someone suspicious in the woods. But I was attacked when I was headed in that direction. I put up a fight, but they managed to drag me into the car."

"It's impossible. Gideon was in the packhouse with me. Something happened to Hank from the Full Moon Pack. Gideon said that he was poisoned and told me to lock myself in my room," I say; the realization hits me. "They must have waited for you, and Becca was in charge of the pack's security today; she was with us when we were attacked in the woods, and she was talking alone with Connie at the party."

"Hannah, there's no way Becca or anyone could communicate with the rogues; there's no mind link established between them," Hayden says.

That's when the door to our prison gets opened, and I'm not surprised when I see Becca entering, but I'm also not surprised when I see Connie right behind her.

"Hello, dear Hayden and Hannah," Connie says, smiling at me.

"I failed to realize that I didn't hear your car after you had left me in the packhouse's corridor," I say "you were waiting for me because you knew what would happen to Hank. You were the one who poisoned him."

"I didn't poison him; I poisoned everybody from my pack's delegation to your party, except my parents, of course," she says. 

Hayden growls but doesn't struggle. There's no point in it, he is helpless against the chains, and I am helpless against two werewolves standing in front of me, especially against Becca, who is a Head Warrior, after all.

"What did you poison Hank with?" I ask.

"With Red Venom"

Hayden takes a breath sharply and looks at Connie as if she was crazy.

"Have you lost your mind! Using the Red Venom is the death penalty for the one who uses it and mandatory disbandment of his whole pack!" he screams.

"Well, once the Council will come here to clean all this mess, I will sadly report that my father was the one who did it, of course, if he is still alive till then. And I don't care about disbanding Full Moon; I care about something else much more," she says.