My Wolf-man

Chapter 40 ~ Dread

I sat still for so long that my limbs finally went numb, and my face stung every time I sniffed from the tears which had long dried on my face and left a salty residue in their wake. I don't think I could physically cry anymore. I'm emotionally exhausted.

Every waking minute I was filled with fear. I couldn't imagine how much it was wreaking havoc on my insides. Thinking about what was going to happen made me want to vomit.

I couldn't believe my own blood would want to do something like this. He isn't my mate. Why would he think he could forcefully make someone just be his mate. It makes me sick.

Ever since Gramps left, locking and bolting the door behind him, I'd searched and searched the room endlessly for something, anything, that I could use to get out. The thing is, the only two rooms I'd been in is one etched vividly into my mind which I wish to forget, and this one. I had no clue how big this facility is, how many rooms, or where the hell I actually was.

A sudden whisper, almost too soft to hear it, woke me from my state of despair. It was a caress against my mind, and my wolf stirred. Mate. If it wasn't for her, I would have dismissed it for my imagination and the intense longing I felt for him. That and the fact that I'd finally gone insane.

I sucked in a breath.

"Sang," his whispered. I pushed with all my might to bring the connection back, even groaning in the process.

I'd begun to realise after hours of trying to reach him that when I was unconscious they'd given me an injection which prevented us from communicating through our mate bond. That's why I couldn't feel his presence the whole time.

Tears welled up in my eyes. It was starting to wear off, and I nearly leaped with joy. I made sure my face remained indifferent so I wouldn't alert the security camera.

"Aiden!" I cried out.

"Sang baby, I'm here. I'm here." I felt his raw and vulnerable emotions pour through our bond, and I couldn't help the tears which leaked once again from my eyes. So much for physically not being able to cry anymore.

"I miss you so much," I cried out, my heart threatening to squeeze out of my chest. I felt my throat constrict and I couldn't help but let a sob rack through me as I shook from head to toe.

"Sang, I'm going to find you baby. I promise! You have to give me a clue, something, anything!" I could feel his worry and anger mixed together. He was barely holding on.

"I don't know," I sobbed. "I don't know. The only thing he said was that he was in the middle of nowhere. Aiden, Aiden help me. I've tried to escape but I don't know where I am. He's here. He's here."

"Who's here? Sang who hurt you!?"

"Gramps," I ground out the word I'd grown to detest over the last couple of days. "He's here. He.." I couldn't even finish the sentence as another sob racked through me. I didn't want to say it.

"I know baby. I felt it. I'm going to find you, I promise."

The door burst open, and my spike in fear made Aiden growl through our bond.

"Sang!"

My heart leapt into my throat, as my kidnapper advanced with a syringe filled with a sloshing deep yellow liquid in hand.

I screamed, backing away. He slapped me across the face, his protruding brown inhuman nails drawing blood from my forearm as he forcefully pulled me towards him and plunged the needle into my neck.

"SANG!"

I felt our mate bond weaken, until I couldn't feel him anymore.

"Only one more shot of this sweetheart until that bond is officially gone for good," he snickered.

I collapsed onto the bed. The one thing keeping me from breaking down was knowing I'd at least had a moment with him. He's looking for me. If I know him at all, he'll do nothing until he finds me.

That gave me enough hope to hold on.

I didn't even pay attention to him leaving the room and another who entered until I felt a cool, gentle hand rest on my arm.

I jolted, ready to pounce at the intruder until I realised it was the girl who visited me before.

Her small smile faltered as she looked at me, and could almost see right through me.

Once again she turned her back to the camera, quietly whispering.

"Did you get in contact with him?"

My eyes widened. How did she know?

"I stalled them," she responded answering my question. "The injections have to be administered regularly until the bond can be broken. I guessed they weren't as strict to their schedule as they originally planned because they thought you haven't completed the mate bond yet."

A slight shake of my head made her eyes widened.

"You haven't? That's..."

Her confusion made me stop and think. Was that not what was supposed to happen?

I stood up and walked to the imaginary window so I could respond without being caught. She told me the camera was visual only. They hadn't had the chance to replace it for a dual audio and visual before I came.

"I remember he told me I was in the middle of nowhere. That's my only lead."

She stood up, and refolded the clothes she'd placed their yesterday when I woke up.

"I hope he finds me before tomorrow," I whispered to myself quietly. "I'm sorry I forgot to ask for your name."

"Emily."

"How did you get here?"

"I'm not sure," she whispered. "I've been here for as long as I remember. I don't even remember if I came from a pack."

"You're a wolf?"

"No, well yes.. I don't know. I've never felt anything, or shifted, or done anything. I don't even know if I'm human."

I grimaced. Here I was complaining and sobbing my eyes out, when this girl has been here for potentially her whole entire life and has basically forgotten what it is to live.

"I'm sorry," I whispered.

"Don't be. That's why I'm fighting for you. You don't deserve what's happening to you."

"Neither do you."

We both sighed. There was nothing left to say. We could only wait.