Their Wife

One

"Can't these bitches ever just leave us alone?"

"Shut up! What if she hears you and reports us. The council already wants to give us a public punishment to discourage others, don't give them a reason to actually go through with it!"

"I don't give a fuck! These ladies are getting on my nerves! Can't they understand that we aren't looking for wives? They already stalk us constantly whenever we set foot outside, even go as far as to bribe our servants to give us gifts and marriage proposals, now they're straight-up trespassing and stalking!"

"Why is she covered in blood?"

"Maybe she's a pervert who fell out of a tree while trying to look through our window in hopes of seeing some dick."

"Why can't I sense any power from her?"

"I can't either."

"Same."

"She also looks like and has the aura of an adult, so why is she so... small?"

As I came into consciousness my mind started to panic in a desperate need to get up when I heard the voices of several men talking around me. I tried to open my eyes or move, but all I could manage to do was twitch my fingers while pain coursed throughout my body. Everything ached and my head felt like it was hit by a boulder.

"Hey, did she just move?"

"Don't tell me she's pretending to be unconscious."

Whoever spoke followed their words with a nudge to my side with their foot. I moaned in pain from the action and finally mustered up the strength to open my dark brown eyes. My eyes rapidly fluttered open and closed, blinded by the bright, blue sky. Once they adjusted, I was finally able to take in my surroundings through the dirty cracked lenses of my glasses.

"Finally, she's awake!" Someone exclaimed, causing me to jump.

I sat up quickly while my body screamed at me to stay still. My eyes darted around looking at the five men in their late twenties to early thirties who surrounded me. The rise and fall of my chest quickened as my heartbeat spiked.

"What the hell are you doing on our property?" Demanded a man with blonde hair and gold-looking eyes.

"Jax!" The shortest of the five men with brown hair and green eyes scolded.

"What?" The blonde named Jax asked. "I'm just asking what we're all wondering."

I calmed down slightly as I realized he wasn't here, but I was still on high alert because of the unknown men surrounding me.

"S-sorry. I'll leave," I said, looking around not recognizing my surroundings that seem a bit... off.

I remember being in the abandoned building in the woods, so how exactly did I end up here? He was only a few meters away from me. The logical outcome of the situation would be that I would be back there where I couldn't escape from him again. He wouldn't simply let me slip through his grasp. He would do anything to keep me, he's already done so much.

The five men looked at me with confused and shocked faces.

"Am I hearing things, or did she just apologize?" A man with hair as white as snow with odd lavender eyes asked the others.

"No, Zev. I heard that too," the tallest, a black-haired man with cold blue eyes, answered.

"I know what this is!" Jax suddenly exclaimed with a snap. "It's a new tactic. Acting lost and just stumbling onto our property like a lost puppy," he said to the others before turning to me. "Did you really think we're stupid enough to fall for that? What did you think, that we would take pity based on your little act and let you stick around?" He said mockingly.