Captured by my Mate's Pack

Chapter 6

Ryan's POV

24th August

I woke up and felt lonely, I didn't regret the kiss Violet and I shared, but I still didn't want her to have been put in that cell. It was after all my fault.

I sat up and rubbed my eyes, then I pulled on some clothes out of the wooden drawers. The clock said '7:28am', it was quite early for me but I was restless because of the thought of Violet in a cell niggling at the back of my mind. The sight of her being dragged away screaming, while I sat and stared because I was afraid what my mother would do if I helped a mere servant (to her anyway).

As I walked down the stairs in the hall, my mother appeared at the bottom from coming from the dining room. "Goodmorning son." She said bluntly. "Goodmorning, mother, please can Violet be released from her cell. I kissed her, it wasn't her fault. I'm sorry, it won't happen again but, she is my mate.."

"And you only cared to tell me this now? No she isn't coming out of the cell for a few days." her tone was cold and uncaring. As usual. I slid around her quickly and pretended to head for the kitchen. I diverted to the door next to it when I was out of sight. I slowly descended down the steep, grey stairs to the prison cells.

When I reached them I walked along, looking inside each one for my soulmate. Six cells away from the door and there she was, the sight before me made me feel guilty and stressed. Her hair was matted and she had a red mark on her face which looked like a hard slap off a guard. Her eyelashes were damp, she had been crying, and the skin around her eyes was swollen. I longed to unlock the door and free her or make her feel better. She was sleeping so I went back upstairs.. I didn't want to disturb the small amount of sleep she had managed to have while in that dirty cell.

Violet's POV

When my eyes opened, I felt my body aching and I wanted to just run away from this hell hole. Thoughts of Ryan not wanting me were driving me literally insane. Thats what the thought of a bond that could potentially be so much stronger being destroyed did to your mind.

A guard walked down the stairs with some stale bread in his dirty hands and thrust a slice through the iron bars of my cell. I picked it up and it felt like I was holding a chunk of slate it was that hard. I bit into it and my teeth hurt. A tear rolled down my cheek as I remembered eating stale bread the first day I got here. Why has my life got so bad? Am I that bad of a person to deserve such a fate? A mate that didn't really love me? A life in captivity? No family?

~ 3 days later ~

The iron door of my cell clunked open and the Queen stood over me holding her nose, "Get out, serve my son, be his servant not his mistress."

I got on all fours and grabbed the edge of the rails to pull myself up, my legs were weak after not eating much and lying on a cold stone floor for days on end. Come to think of it, how long had I been there? My mind felt foggy like there was a cloud wedged into a gap in my brain stopping me from thinking properly.

I walked slowly, and carefully to the stairs and took my time climbing them. A while later when I got to Ryan's room I found the door to be open, he was expecting me. I walked in with a blank expression and he quickly stood up and pulled me into a strong embrace. I pulled away and he looked devastated, "Sorry, I just missed you."

"Why didn't you come get me out then? Its your freaking castle too is it not?" I spat.

"I tried reasoning.."

"Well you let me lie on a cold, hard floor for days without at some point, forcing someone to let me out."

With that, I walked away from him. I walked down the stairs, I didn't exactly know where I was planning to go yet, he walked behind me, keeping up easily, but not stopping me. "Please Violet, it won't happen again!" He said quickly.