Werewolf Academy

Chapter Twenty

🐯Sophie's P.O.V.🐯

It's pitch black all around me, and not even my tigress can see. I try to sit up, but a sharp pain stabs the back of my head. My hand immediately goes to the place it hurts, and I groan.

A sliver of light comes into the room as a door opens, and there is that man. "Hullo." He has a huge smile on his face, he's probably a psycho. "Did you sleep well?" He grabs a chair from a wall and sets it about two feet away from me before sitting in it.

I look him over with a perplexed look. "I didn't sleep. Your lackey punched me in the face and knocked me out." He nods his head at me.

"I am truly sorry about that, but you were being a problem, and his orders were to get you here. You're here, so he is not in trouble." His face barely looks sad. If he's acting, it isn't good.

"Who are you? And why do you want me?" The man doesn't move, and his gaze seems to look through me. It's unnerving, and I begin to shift in my seat.

"My name isn't important." He waves a hand nonchalantly, but his gaze remains intense. "As for wanting you, I thought I made that obvious, tigress." I don't know what he's talking about, and his nostrils flare in irritation. "You're the tigress." I stare at him with a blank look and he growls. "You have the powers of the tigress. If a wolf mates with you, he will receive just as much power as you."

Fear runs through me and it's a foreign feeling. I could be raped here and Connor would be stripped of his mate, and I would be stripped of mine.

Connor!

"What did you do to my mate?" I feel my tigress's anger and let it show in my physical form. My teeth bare at him and I feel my nails turn to claws. "If you have hurt him, I swear I will tear you to shreds right here, right now."

The man, whom I'll call Hullo, looks down at his nails, not phased by my anger. "Your mate is perfectly fine. He'll wake up shortly if my math is right."

"Do you have him here?" A surge of hope rises in me, but only for a second.

"He isn't here." Hullo looks to me, that unnerving look still plastered on his face. "We left your mate to tell your father that you were taken. Your father will be furious and hunt you down, bringing him straight to us. By then, one of my men will have mated with you, and will tell him to bend a knee and to call me king." I look at him, disgusted by who he is. "Your mate and father will have no chance."

He stands from his chair as if to leave. "You won't win. You can't make me mate with whomever. I won't mark them, and you can't force me to."

"I won't be forcing you to." Hullo turns and walks out, leaving me in the darkness, alone.

🐺 Connor 🐺

"Damn." I sit up, rubbing a sore spot on the back of my head.

My memory snaps into place and I jump to my feet. "Sophie!" She isn't in her room, and I run down the stairs, trying to find her scent anywhere. "Baby! Where are you?"

I run into several of her pack members and yell back apologies. It isn't until I've checked every floor that I realize she isn't here in the building. I try to reach through the bond. Sophie, please say something. Anything. Nothing. Sophie, baby, I need to know you're okay. Again, nothing. I break into a sprint towards her father's scent. It leads me to a dining room where my parents are, along with hers. "She's gone."

Sophie's dad stands abruptly and looks at me. "What do you mean?"

"I went to walk her down for dinner and found maybe six guys in there. They took her and knocked me out." His eyes glaze over as he mind links someone. When he finishes, his eyes focus on me.