The Alpha's Chase

Chapter 28. Live or let die?

~Kate~

The pain was tormenting and even though Grace assured me that the wounds would heal rapidly I couldn’t help to shake the thought that I was scarred for life. And I truly was, the demonic cruel things the black eyed man had done to me had done damage to my very core. He was a dark and evil man who took joy out of my cries of agony. He tortured me to get information but the more the asshole asked me the more I gritted my teeth and refused to talk or answer any of his questions, questions that all involved Mila. I wouldn’t betray my best friend no matter what and especially not to someone who was causing me more pain then I had ever felt in my life. I know she would do the same for me.

To even think about the treatment he gave me was just terrible and I couldn’t stop shaking because I was cold and then hot again.

Ava, who was in the cell opposite me, kept reassuring me when I fell short of breath and started hyperventilating. ‘Stay with us Kate, you can’t break under these circumstances, your pack members and your mate need you to lead your pack. You have people who care about you and will make sure to find you.’ She whispered desperately.

The other woman in the cellblock were no different. They also whispered words of encouragement; they must have seen me being hauled back into the prison. I couldn’t recall anything that happened after I felt a numbing glow overcome me and I passed out. I didn’t know how long I had been out but the cuts and bruises inflicted on me were substantial enough because they hadn’t healed when I woke up in a puddle of my own blood. Blood was still softly oozing out of certain areas and my clothing was completely drenched. The bastard didn’t leave one bit of my body unharmed.

When he started working on me I thought that the pain he was inflicting couldn’t be more unbearable, but he proved me wrong with every excruciating minute that passed. Right now even breathing hurt me.

One good thing came out of it though. When he first started mauling my body I sensed Carmine’s spirit. I knew it was because of our mate bond that he would feel the pain inflicted on me but his presence was reassuring me that everything would be alright. And when I got out I would gladly kill this man who had hurt me and my mate without any sign of remorse.

The darkness grew and at a certain point someone came walking in. I heard all the she wolves scurried to the back of their cells and confident strides walked up to my cell followed by several others.

‘Take her out.’ A man ordered but the guard refused. ‘We can’t sir. We have orders. Banes had ordered us to leave the girl alone while she heals.’

‘Well, I’m changing those plans; she shouldn’t be allowed to live. I’m the rightful heir!’ The man bellowed angrily and I didn’t even take the time to look at the men because that would mean that I would have to move and that just hurt too much. But judging from his words this would probably be my half brother who had tried to kill the lovely man I had gotten to know as my father in the days that followed when Mila and Asher had uncovered my true identity.

The next person who spoke turned my blood cold and I tried not to panic. He was here, the black eyed man. ‘Banes, this sorry excuse of a woman is my half sister, you said you would take care of her so that our plan could be executed.’ Harding whined.

I heard him laugh and remembered that laugh from when he tried a new place of torture and discovered this hurt me even more than before, it was a warning.

‘I made a new plan.’ He said and I heard a bone crunching sound. I spite of the pain I wanted to know what happened and I looked at the place where I heard the men.

I saw a guard looking petrified at the sight before him. The man called Banes had his hand around the throat he held in his hand and I saw that he had snapped the neck of my half brother. He was absolutely dead, when I looked at him I felt absolutely nothing shock. This man who threatened to kill me was a stranger to me.

How had he been able to snap a werewolfs neck with just one hand?

Banes looked at me and without hesitation flung the body across the hallway of the prison. The terrified screams of the woman who saw the dead body flying by made his menacing smile wider.

He stepped into the cell with me and I involuntary started to shiver. He squatted next to me and touched my cheek, stroking it gently. I resented every second of it and remembered the way these now calm hands used a knife on my and cut into my flesh with a surgical precision but I didn’t speak because I knew that would only add to his amusement. ‘You can thank me later my resilient little pet.’ He grinned and stood up again.

‘Clean this mess up and give the girl clean clothes when she’s healed. Make sure she’s presentable again.’ He barked at the guard who was frozen in place by that forceful display of power. Thankfully he didn’t linger but he just left.

I felt confused, it was obvious my half brother had wanted me dead but the guy who made sure I was but an inch from death had prevented him from doing exactly the thing I thought he would do to me a couple of hours ago.

The strange thing about thinking you are about to die is that you look at your life and start thinking about how things would have been. Would I have lived to this moment if I wasn’t abducted when I was just a baby? Would I have known my real parents and be the same person that I am right now. But then I realized that thinking about how things could have been was futile. I love who I am and the friend that I found in Mila. I found the one that made my life whole and that was more than most find in a lifetime of searching. I had been blessed without even knowing it.  

When I was on that table feeling like I was being dissected alive and after that would be left to die my only regret was that I didn’t get enough time with Carmine, I would never see our children been born and grow old with him. I mourned the life I wanted to have in the future but didn’t regret what had happened because every bit of it made me the person that I am today.  

Now that I heard that Banes has a plan with me I felt that flicker of hope become a raging fire and I smiled at the darkness. I would survive this and no amount of pain or dread would keep me from fulfilling my dreams.