Heart Held Captive

Chapter 12

I woke with a groggy head and a stiff body, flashes of yesterday were hitting me just as harsh as the punches that were dolled out. It's been two days since I had been taken by Roman's rival's the Bellatorum Pack, yesterday I woke to a fierce looking man staring at me whilst I had been sleeping, his name was Zack and he was the beta of the Bellatorum pack. He had given me the lay down of all the rules that I had to abide by in the time I was their prisoner, well I cant say that I was very happy with all the terms and conditions and as Roman had said I didn't have the best track record for staying around. The first chance I had I tried escaping through the window, wasn't as easy as the time I tried this with Roman because the window was considerably smaller and a chair wouldn't be able to break it open, lucky for me it wasn't locked shut and I was able to slide it open and manoeuvre my way through it. Unlucky for me, whilst I was sliding my way through the window Zack had decided to come to check on me and that's when I found out what happens when you disobey his orders.

I looked at my body trying to asses how bad I was, besides some large bruising on my legs from the kicking and swollen lip from his right hook I wasn't too bad. I decided to clean myself up in the bathroom when suddenly I felt something tight and cold pull at my neck, I placed my hands on my neck and felt something very similar to a collar. I looked behind myself and found a chain that was trailing behind me connecting to the wall behind the bed. I rushed over to the full length mirror that was next to the bed so I could see it for myself and there it was about an inch of metal going all around my neck and it was all held together by a large padlock. 'I cant believe this!' I tried pulling at it but ended up just bruising my neck, I sighed in frustration and plopped myself onto the bed, physically not being able to do anything else.

Only a few short minuets later there was a quite knock at the door. 'Well I know that it isn't Zack' I thought to myself, he sort of just barges in. The door opened slowly and I could just make out that there was a girl with blonde, almost white hair on the other side of the door.

"Excuse me for the intrusion, may I come in?" She asked very politely. I was shocked a little that I forgot to answer her right away.

"Ah yes--sure. Come in"

She came in carrying a large tray, she placed it on my bed and smiled. I finally got a proper look at her and I was amazed she was able to carry such a large tray, she had long blonde hair and stunning blue eyes but she looked so frail and petite that even a hug may break her in two.

"I--I brought you some lunch, I-I thought you may be hungry" She kept her head down the whole time she spoke, her hair covering most of her face. Either she was scared of me or she wasn't suppose to be in here and needed to get out of here quickly. She lifted the lid from the tray and there was an assortment of foods; apples, sandwich's that looked to have different spreads in each of them, a box of juice and a couple of packets of crackers.

"I know it isn't much, but I figured it was better than nothing"  She lifted her head a little and I saw scar running down from her right ear to her jawline, did she really belong to this pack or was she just as much as prisoner as me?

"No, this is great. Thank you so much" I said with a genuine smile. She looked a little a stunned when I smiled but none the less smiled back. She gathered the tray and left the food on my bed she had almost reached the door when she turned back around and quietly said "Make sure you hide your food when anybody else comes by, you'll get in trouble if they see it"

She had almost opened the door when I called out to her "Wait, what's your name?"

"Chloe, my names Chloe"

"I'm Tera and thank you Chloe I really appreciate all this"

She looked at me and I could see her eyes glistening "Your Welcome and Tera, I'm truly sorry for my pack is doing to you" And she dashed out of the room without another word, locking the door behind her.

I looked at the food she had left and decided to eat one of the sandwiches, who knows how long I'll be here and I want my food to last, so I'll keep my apples and crackers as long as possible. I hid the rest of my food behind the bedside draws. I didn't even consider the food might be poisoned before I started eating the ham and cheese sandwich, the fact that Chloe had brought it to me and not someone like Zack made me trust it, I trusted her.

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It was a long time before anyone else had come by to see me but as I was just drifting off to sleep for the umpteenth time that day Zack had burst into the room with a big smile on his face. 'Well this cant be good' I thought to myself.

"Dear Tera, how are you today?" He said as he slowly paced back and forth in front of my bed still with his smile plastered on his face.

"Fine, although I would be a lot happier without this large collar around my neck" I said bitterly.

"Well you brought upon yourself didn't you now?" I glared at him viciously.

"Is there something I can do for you Zack!?"

"I'm glad you asked Tera, your dear mate isn't doing exactly as my alpha asks and well we think he needs a bit of incentive"

He pulled out a large knife from his back pocket and his mobile phone "Where the hell are you leading with this?!"

"Oh I'm sure you will catch on soon Tera" His features had become more define and dark, he pounced at me. I tried leaping out of his reach but he pulled back at my chains and brought me back down on to the bed. He started slicing at my arms, across my chest and down my legs never pushing to hard just enough to make me bleed. Struggling only made it worse and my screams only gave me a headache so after a while I just laid there trying to keep my screams in. Zach had finally finished cutting me and looked at me happily nodding at my body as if I was an art project he had just finished. He roughly grabbed my arms and bound my hands above my head with the remaining chain, I winced a little in pain but nothing more came out. He took out his phone and begun taking pictures of me, I could stop the struggling and I could stop the screaming but I couldn't stop the tears that begun once he started taking pictures of my body.

After he finished he came right up to my face and said "Thank you for making this so easy Tera, hopefully we can spend more time like this together" He licked my cheek and I nearly puked in disgust and he left me, still hands bound, sprawled on the bed, crying and bleeding. It didn't take long before I pasted out in exhaustion.

I never thought that I would ever think this but I wish I was with Roman right now, in his tight embrace making me feel all warm and fuzzy like he usually does.

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A/N Bellatorum means warrior in Latin