Betrothed

Chapter 20: A Cell and a Gate

 Willow

The footsteps were growing louder until suddenly a man was standing in front of my cell staring at me with intent, he stood about six feet tall at least with a slender build and his wild curly short brunette hair with his bangs laying barely below his eyebrows. His eyes, a beautiful dark brown with a chin line, were sharp. He stood there just staring at my gray silver coated wolf form as I kept myself far enough back from the bars. Why was this beautiful looking young man around my age just standing there looking at me in shock? It was like he was possessed. A loud growl came from the end of the hall where the man just came from.

I looked in that direction and then heard claws tapping the cement floor as a black wolf came flying down the hall right at the man that was standing in front of my cell. I turned to look at the man and saw that he had shifted into this golden-brown wolf that mesmerized me. The golden-brown wolf turned and looked at me and his look made me melt. I do not know why he is so intrigued by me but the way his wolf looked at me it was like he was looking into my soul. The black wolf ran up to the golden-brown wolf and started snarling at him. I could sense the tension high as per usual when it comes to two male werewolves fighting over a female, but I do not know why they are fighting over me because neither of them is Brayden, so why do they care. I thought for a second after looking back on the prior events that had happened since I have been here that maybe the black wolf was Warner, and the golden-brown wolf was the Ash that Romellow had mentioned earlier when he was upset.

The two wolves started circling each other right outside my cell and then the golden-brown wolf leapt at Warner jumping over top of him and ran down the hallway and Warner immediately chased after him, receding down the hallway leaving me by myself yet again. I finally decided that the silence and the loneliness was enough to convince me to reach out to Brayden through the mind link. "Brayden, are you alive? Please be alright. Romellow has me trapped in a cell somewhere. I haven't seen the surroundings outside of where I am being held though as I was unconscious when they transported me." I waited in anticipation for Brayden to respond to my mind link when a loud crash happened with a yelp from one of the wolves fighting and the black wolf got thrown down the hallway in sight of where I was standing in my cell. I heard scraping as the golden-brown wolf drug the black wolf down into a cell diagonal from me.

Then the golden-brown wolf grabbed clothes that were placed in the corner of the cell and placed them in his mouth and then slowly walked backwards out of the cell carrying the clothes in his mouth still. Ash then shifted back into his human form and slammed the cell shut and it locked automatically. Ash stood there with his naked body facing the cell he just placed the black wolf in and grabbed the clothes from his mouth that he had carried out from the cell only moments before. He grabbed the clothes and started putting them on. After Ash was dressed in the baggy t-shirt and a pair of joggers he glanced down at the black wolf within the cell as the black wolf shifted back into his human form crouched close to the ground as he pulled a pair of basketball shorts from the pile of clothes next to him within the cell.

Warner stood around five feet ten in height from my estimate from this far away with light brown hair that was kept short with blue eyes and some facial hair. "Ash, why can't you just listen to your Alpha and submit when he tells you to? It would save us all the trouble of having to fight our own packmates. Optimus is a pack that is for everyone that is why Romellow took charge as alpha, so no one was left out. All he asked was that when it comes to his twin sister that no one messes with her even if they have a strong urge that she is their mate. Which you failed to comply with, Ash!" Warner told Ash as he stood up to face Ash who was still standing there in front of the cell gate. "Warner, I did not want to do this to you. You know that because you are my family. I cannot control this urge, but I have not been able to stop thinking about her as soon as I laid eyes on her and then her lavender and honey scent got to my nose which made her irresistible to me. I am sorry if it makes Romellow uncomfortable, but fate is fate. You of all people Warner should understand that." Ash said while he talked with his hands to Warner still facing his cell gate.