Love And Hatred (GXG)

Twenty

If the words are written in italic/cursive it means they are speaking in the mind link and not actually saying the words out loud or when the words a written in a letter or paper for example. 

Eleanor.

I had never been so unoriented or afraid as the day I woke up after being tortured. I wanted to scream for help but nothing came out. I rolled over and fell off the bed I did not know I was laying on. I found it hard to breathe, something was wrong. "Oh no, you need to get back in bed." I looked up at Dione. I was so glad to see her face. She helped me up in bed again and put me under the covers.

She checked my body temperature with her hand, her skin felt cold against my forehead. "I will notify Reagan." I nodded. She walked out and minutes later came Reagan running into my room. She sat on her knees in front of me and kissed me multiple times on the cheek. "Thank goddess, I thought I had lost you that day, y-you were covered in your own blood. Your mouth-" I wanted to comfort her, but when I attempted to talk not a single word came out, not even a sound.

"Why can I not talk?" I asked in our mind-link. My throat was sore, very sore, and my mouth too. I remember being forced to swallow something that burned my insides. "You cannot talk?" I shook my head.

"My throat hurts," I admitted. She nodded. I noticed tears in her eyes. I wanted to wipe them and saw both my hands had been bandaged. I remember the pain of having nails hammered into my palms, crushing my bones or veins, I was not sure. Most likely both. "Why are you crying?" I spoke in our mind-link. My throat felt so dry, and it also hurt. 

She brought a cup of water to my lips and I drank up the entire thing plus some more. "Because I thought you were dead when I first saw you in a pool of your own blood. The sight-" She stopped herself from saying anything else, it seemed like she was about to vomit. 

I wiped her tears away and put her cheek in my hand. She looked at me and I gave her a reassuring smile. "I am alive"

"You have been unconscious for three days, Lilith wishes to find out who did this to you. Do you remember?" I nodded. I wanted to tell her, but I was afraid of what would happen if I told her. They might try it again. Reagan stroked my arm the way I liked it to calm me down because I knew she felt the anxiety that rose when I thought of them and the situation I had been put in.

"I know who did it, I will tell Lilith," I admitted. Reagan nodded and lay in bed next to me to comfort me and herself. She fell asleep after half an hour of silence. I hoped she had not lost sleep because of me, seeing how I was unconscious for 3 days I assume she was very concerned. I would be too if something similar happened to her.

An hour later I too had fallen asleep, I suppose 3 days was not enough sleep for my body.

I stirred awake much later that day, Reagan had left my side and now someone else was standing by my side stroking my cheek and hair. I finally opened my eyes and looked into the different colored eyes of my mate. Her eyebrows were furrowed, face filled with worry. I grabbed her hand and smiled at her to make sure she understood I was doing well.

She began bombarding me with questions. "How are you feeling? does it hurt? Who did this?" And of course, I had no way of communicating with her.

"My sweetheart, I will make sure every single person who hurt you will pay for it in blood." She walked over to her drawer and got a roll of paper and a quill. She handed them to me.

"Write their names." I began writing every person I saw in that basement, the werewolf and another one that was not there were excluded from my small list. She told me she was sorry, so I assumed it meant they had forced her to bait me down there. I needed to ask her about that.

"The women you shared room with?" I nodded. I saw her jaw flex as she clenched it in anger. Her eyes were dark, not from lust or desire like usual, but anger, hatred. She was going after them, probably to kill each and every one of them. "Let them be for now. I want to see what they have to say." I wrote. I gave her the paper, her brows furrowed as she read it all.

She sighed and stared at me for a while. "If that is what you wish, but they will all be dead by the end of the week." Reasonable.

"I have called for the doctor, she will help with the wounds."

An hour later a familiar face entered my room, it was the same werewolf doctor that had helped me understand the heat. She sat on a chair beside me, began examining me, and asked me questions. I wrote them down. She looked at my wounds which would have been fully healed if not for the silver.

"Your lung was punctured, that explains your breathing. But you are healing, it will take 3 to 5 more days. Your throat, however..." She stopped, I was afraid I would have lost my voice forever, I did not want to be mute, I was an alpha! I needed to speak to my people, to express my emotions and authority through my voice.

"I am uncertain if your voice will come back, your mouth, throat, and stomach was burned by this material. I have never encountered anything like it. Drink water and wait to see if it heals." I nodded. I wanted to cry, I needed my voice. This doctor was excellent. "What pack were you in before all this started?" I wrote on the paper. She looked at it and a slight frown was seen on her face.

"Highclaw, we had 29 people in our pack." It was much smaller than mine which had around 90 people. We were the biggest of the land. I had heard of them but never met anyone from them. "Where are they now? Do you work for someone?" I wrote.

"They are spread around the country, some were killed under the attack." She showed me the symbol on her collar. Not one I had seen. "I work for a man in the council, he sends me out to help wolves like you, he earns money from that, in return I am left alone and I have my own room." I nodded.

"I must take my leave now unless you have other concerns?" I shook my head. She got up and left. So Lilith paid her to come and she had to pay her "owner" what she earned. She lived well compared to other wolves. 

My mates both came in when the doctor had left. Reagan had a tray of food with her which she gave to me. I tried to eat, but my whole mouth was hurting from whatever they had put in me. I drank some water which did help ease the pain a bit. "Do you need something else?" Reagan asked. I shook my head.

Reagan got in the bed and cuddled close to me, she stroked my hair just the way I liked it. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the comfort I was receiving. I felt the bed dip on my left side too to see Lilith laying in bed next to me. I smiled. She began brushing over my arm with her fingers as well. I felt as if I was being petted and I enjoyed it a lot. "I love you both," I spoke in the mind-link, I knew Lilith would not hear, but I still felt the urge to say it.

"Lilith and I love you too." She replied in the mind-link. I closed my eyes again and fell asleep shortly after. 

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Posted: 04.29.23