Convalesce (Book 2 in the Wolfen Brethren Series)

Shit Storm

Jana stumbled down the short ladder, her eyes blurry as she made her way back down into the sewer like a scared little rat and she was scared. She was scared because it had finally dawned on her where she was. The fear that had struck Octavius a couple hours ago had finally struck her and it was paralysing because those twins, they were sick.

"What did you see" his hands digging into her shoulders as he tried to bring her mind back to the present but she couldn't because those noises.

Her imagination had worked furiously until what was happening above her became a reality. She knew what they were doing up there, doing to Sonja because that wasn't Carina. Carina wasn't a traitor and she wasn't stupid, she wasn't part of the Resentiam and she was not a pet dove to any human. She had a mate and the pack meant something to her.

That hadn't been her but there was this voice screeching loudly in her ears asking what if it was.

"They are torturing her, I think... I think they raped her" she sobbed, her hand covering her mouth as she tried to muffle those sounds.

"Who? Are they- do you mean Carina?" He asked hesitantly fearful of the answer he would receive but Jana merely shook her head, words too hard for her to form.

"Then who? Jana"

"Sonja," she croaked her eyes sore and her heart full of bitterness. She hated Sonja with a passion, that woman had betrayed the pack and had hurt Zosia. She hadn't physically but one of those two followers had hurt the little girl under her command. Even so, rape, that was... it was unfathomable.

One could say it was the will of the gods, Karma and retribution. She was betrayed by those she had betrayed for but still, being raped and by an inanimate object. Her head felt light at the imagery, at the burning that Sonja must feel in her womb.

It was an eye for an eye but the gods always took more. Sonja had taken children from Jana and now the gods would take her life, retribution was never evenly played out.

"Fuck, what do we do now," his hair gripped in his hands as he stomped through the water, waste flying up in the air.

"We need to find Carina" before she faced the fate of Sonja if she hadn't already.

"Let's head back this way and see if we can find another way up," her knife pointing back in the direction they came as she began walking in that direction. Boots splashing through the sewage water but Octavius wasn't following, he stood tall with arms folded and a glare in his eyes, "And do what," he spat.

"Just run around their base in hope that we find her before we are brutally butchered to death? No thanks"

It definitely wasn't one of her smartest ideas but they need to get to Carina before they began her torture if they hadn't already and they needed to get out. The longer they stood around twiddling their thumbs the more likely they would be caught.

Her teeth ground in annoyance as she spun around to face him"Listen here you lit-" her words stumbled to a hasty halt as her ears perked up, her head shooting up as she looked toward the ceiling.

"What is that noise"

There was a shrill ringing in the air that vibrated on such a high frequency as red light flashed through the grater. Her boots splashed in the water as she ran back to the ladder, peering through the grate as she looked out into the room. Metal clanged on the floor and then black boots were running over the grate and stomping out of the room, voices hushed and mumbling to each other. A tinge of panic and excitement in their words.