The Huntress & Her Alpha

CHAPTER 17: Let's Play!

RHYDON

After she had blacked out, I quickly took her to the bed and laid her down. I was about to call the pack doctor but then she awoke and this time had only blacked out for half an hour.

Then as she awoke, she sat up abruptly in bed, sweating.

"Shh....It's okay baby." I try to comfort her as I hold her and start to rub her back.

She right away cuddled closer into me with her head on my chest as she put one of her arms around the back of my neck.

"I-I'm scared." She tells me and I can tell by the tone in her voice that she is by how shaky it sounds.

"Gemma..." I began before taking a moment to fight back the tears in my eyes because as her mate, I need to be strong for her. No matter how badly it hurts me to see or hear her hurting.

"Gemma, I don't know what you've been through or even what you're going through right now but, I promise that I will find out and fix this. I owe you that much after I trusted them to take you. This is all my fault, I should have gone with you." I began to feel tears fall from my eyes.

I her sniffling a little and then she sits up and looks at me confused.

"What are you talking about?" She asks me.

Shit! Why the hell did I tell her that and NOW out of all the better times I should have waited to mention that. Now that it's out there, I take in a breath and let it out before telling her. So I look into her eyes by gently tucking a few strands of hair behind her ear.

"You and are are mates. Months ago, we were in a huge fight with a big enemy. You ended up bring mostly dead, as one of your kinds had told me. They said they'd take care of you. So they took you back to their house and helped you recover and come back. When it came time to go and see you, we found them dead on the floor and you were gone. I couldn't track your scent and when we arrived, you were gone. Someone had taken you and I looked for you ever since." I finish with tears in my eyes.

It took me a moment to pull myself together enough to look up at her but when I did, she looked upset but not in a sad way. More of an angry way.

"Get out." She says to me through clenched teeth.

"What?" I asked.

"I said, get out." She repeats as she glares into my eyes.

"Gemma please. I know it's a lot to take in but...." I tried continuing to say but she stopped me.

"You have some nerve." She says while abruptly standing up.

"What are you talking about?" I asked feeling beyond confused.

"I'm talking about how stupid you think I am. Though you know what? Fuck it. I am stupid. I can't do this. I can't pretend anymore. Not if you're gonna feed me this kind of bullshit just to be able to stroke your ego." She says.

"Excuse me?!" I ask more assertively as I now stand up in front of her. "I just told you and poured my heart and soul to you. What's this bullshit with you claiming that's what I'm giving you and what the hell do you mean by pretending. Pretending what?!" I asked more furious.

"The bullshit, is you telling me that the man who found me and raised me as his daughter, you're trying to feed me some bullshit story about how I was your mate and how I was taken by the witch's council to be revived or whatever and the pretending part. That's what I've been doing this whole time. I've been pretending to play along as being your mate and remembering but the truth is that I don't remember seeing you. I have heard of you and sure the man who helped save me wanted for me to continue playing this charade of being your mate but, I can't." She says.

I don't believe what I'm hearing right now. Has she SERIOUSLY been playing me for these last few days? She really doesn't remember me or us?

My wolf and I both feel hurt but can see the seriousness in her eyes. The pain I started to feel is quickly replaced by anger. That's when I lose it.

"FINE! You wanna play games with me then let's play, but I promise you this, despite what the doctor said about taking it slow and easy on you until you remember, I'm not waiting. And you, just now lost your freedom around here." I tell her through a clenched jaw with tight fists at my sides.

She looked at me confused but as soon as I opened the door, I had called out for Corwin and a couple of others to take her to her new room, which was a cell down in our nice dungeon looking basement.

She wants to play games then lets play. And let the games begin.

Next chapter will be posted soon! :)