Alpha Pierce is Mine

Chapter 27: Scream Queen

Diana's POV

The next day in the dirty truck isn't any different. And quickly I start to feel my sanity leave me. I don't sleep at all as I lay on the dirty ground all night. I do nothing but plan how to get out of here and find Pierce so we can free all these people who are being taken as slaves.

I don't know how my body can feel that it's morning when it comes, but it does.

I'm not the only one in the truck cargo who doesn't sleep at night. In fact, I don't think that there's one person that does. It just gets really quiet, but you can almost feel the other people's thoughts. Everyone knows that no one sleeps, but they don't speak. The silence just takes over and you wonder if you are ever going to talk again.

My body is the most tired it has ever been when people start to sit up. Even though I haven't stood up for 48 straight hours, my energy is completely drained.

The girl next to me is still holding my hand and her tears are streaks in the dirt that covers her face.

I finally sit up and cough. The first cough tickles something in the back of my throat so I cough again and again until I finally cough up blood and stop. 

There is no water, there is no food. It's like they're trying to kill us before we even get there. 

Then I start to think to myself...

If we were traveling to Rick's pack house, we should have gotten there within an hour yesterday. Maybe two.

Why is it taking this long? Where are we going?

Just as I think that the truck stops for the first time in the two days I've been here and the large door opens revealing a bright light. I almost begin crying due to the amount of light that comes in at one time. 

There is a short, stout man with a dirty, unshaven face and a truckers hat on. 

"Get out." He says in a thick accent that makes me think he's from the East Coast.

No one moves, the people just rub their eyes and try to get them to adjust.

"I said GET OUT you lazy slugs!" He pulls out a whip and my friend's eyes go wide as she quickly stands up but falls over immediately afterward.

"I guess I'll have to force you out then." He runs his hand along the whip and slaps it on the ground.

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Pierce's POV

"Pierce please. The pack is falling apart without you!"

"Mom, I said no. And do not call me by my name, I am your Alpha!"

"Just consider it. I mean, if you get some work done than you might feel more determined to find her."

I growl lowly.

"Excuse me?"

"I said you might feel...." My mother cowers against the wall as I walk toward her, eyes dead black.

"Don't you ever assume that I love my mate less than I always do. I will never stop looking for her until I die." 

"Pierce.." I don't realize that I'm holding her by her shirt collar until I look and see the tears on her cheeks.

"Mom, I am so sorry." I release her, then run my hands through my hair.

"What in the name of the Lord is going on here?!" My dad walks into the room and picks my mom up.