Orphan Mate

Chapter 8

I got home and walked up to my room, throwing my bookbag onto my bed and I took my phone out from the inside.

I'm not even sure why I have a phone no one ever calls and definitely no one ever texts me. I took by wireless headphones from my nightstand and put them on. I needed to get out into the fresh air again. The walk home calmed me down but now that I was inside I was starting to get annoyed again.

I pressed play on one of my playlist and walked down the stairs. I decided to head out towards the backyard, I stayed on the tire swing a for a while until the rest of the girls came home from school. I didn't really want to be around anyone so I decided to walk towards the open woods that was in the backyard.

There was already a set hiking trail that passed through the trees but I didn't follow it. Instead I kept walking off the set path. Climbing over trees and moss staining my white converse.

I was so lost in thought listening to my music and walking I didn't notice how fast the sky was darkening.

I felt my phone vibrate, looking at the screen it gave a warning of 5% battery life left. A second later my phone had shut off .

The sudden silence made me realize my surroundings. Nothing looked familiar, lost. I shuddered the thought. I turned around in circles a couple of times trying to see what direction I should take off in but it all looked the same. My good eyesight let me see very clearly even with the lack of light around me.

I decided to walk towards my right, not really sure where I was going but I had to keep walking.

I only walked a few yards more when I heard something running towards me. I could hear their growling becoming louder. Wolves. I tried my best to stay absolutely still. I figured that if I showed them I wasn't a threat they'd leave me alone. That's what I hoped for anyway.

4 large wolves circled around me, they flashed their white canine teeth at me. Growling at me even more intensely now.

The voice in my head was scared she was starting to whimper, making me even more terrified. I could only stare at the ground, to scared to keep staring at the wolves around me.

"What are you doing hear?!!" Yelled a powerful voice. I looked up around me and saw a man standing completely naked. There wasn't 4 wolves anymore but 3. Where had the other one gone? How did this man get here?

I avoided looking at him.

"Answer me!" His loud voice boomed.

I could feel the voice in my head flinch at his words. I carefully looked up towards him, I couldn't look anywhere else but his face.

"I...I," my voice was shaking, I've never been so scared before in my entire life. The look on his face was terrifying.

"Get her." He said calmly. The wolves did what he said. They charged for me. The one behind me pushed me down hard, knocking the air out of my chest. I felt my mind fading, going blank, I'd been knocked out.

I woke up in a pitch black room. Adjusting my vision I looked around and saw that there was metal bars all around me, they had put me in a cage. There was other cages as well but all empty.

Who was that guy? A master of wolves? Where they his dogs? Am I going to be food for his dogs?

But the voice in my head was silent at all my questions.

I heard a creaking sound, then several pairs of footsteps walking down the stairs.

3 men came towards my cage. One I instantly recognized, he was the naked man from back in the woods but he was fully clothed this time.

As he was getting closer I scurried towards the back of the cage. I was truly terrified of him.

He stopped in front of the cage and glared down at me, "why have you come into my territory?" He said with a voice full of authority.

Territory? What's he talking about?

"I..I'm sorry I.. ddidnt mean.. to step onto.. your.. property." I was able to say with my voice completely shaking. But judging from his face he didn't like my answer.

"Don't play dumb." He banged his hand against the cage, "Did you come for revenge for those rouges who I killed?"

Rouges? Killed?

"I don't know what your talking about?" I said my voice coming out a lot more stronger this time.

"10 lashes. Maybe then she'll talk."

The 2 men who were standing behind him moved towards the cage. One opened the cage door while the other walked in and grabbed my wrists pulling me out.

They bound my wrists with chains. I was left hanging with my arms raised up into the air.

They tore my tee in half leaving my back completely exposed.

With each whip I received I screamed like never before. My body twisted with each strike, I just wanted to fall to the ground but because of the chains I couldnt.

After the 10th whip the man in charge stood in front of me. He held my face in one of his hands, he coldly said to me "Are you still gonna play dumb? Now talk."

But I couldn't. I wasn't able to form a single word.

"10 more lashes."

During the 3rd whip, I heard another creaking sound with another pair of footsteps coming down the stairs.

"Brother Im here..."

I didn't need to look up to see who it was. His smell alone was like no other,  Gavin. But what was he doing here, he even called this evil sadistic man his brother.