The New World

Six

 When I wake up, I don't know where I am or how I got here, but you can bet your ass I remember the fist to the face.

My once gorgeous dress lays in ruins around my body or the concrete floor. Trying to pull myself up only to be stopped by the shackles around my ankles and wrists.

'I'm changed in a fucking basement, thanks to my mate?'

The door opens and the little amount of light that seeps in, confirms that I am in fact locked in their pack cells.

"Oh, good you're awake." A tall and curved in all the right places drop dead gorgeous red head, comes down the stairs. Definitely a shifter.

She stands above me running her emerald green eyes from my head to my toes. The smirk on her face informs me that she isn't here to help me. From the wicked gleam in her eye, I'd say she's here to end me.

"The silver attached to your body will stop the rapid healing his bite would have given you."

"Why?"

"You want to know why?" She laughs, like she is dealing with a disobedient child.

"Yes, I just don't understand why this is happening."

"Well of course a simple human doesn't understand." Her fist connects with my face. "Your kind comes and takes ours!" My ribs are met with her foot. " Do you really think my people want to breed with your's?"

I'm punched, kicked and slapped more times than I can count.

"Blake and I have been together for three years!" She grabs my face, her claws are tearing my skin. "And here you come thinking you are going to become Lunar of the Southern pack. You a weak, disgusting human?"

With each punch and kick' gets me closer to my end. Which I am desperately praying for.

' At least I'll get to see Dale again.'

The basement door opens and a soft voice drifts down the stairs.

" Kimbella the alpha is asking for you,"

Kimbella gets a feral smile on what I hate to say is still the most beautiful face I have even laid eyes on.

"I guess our playtime has come to an end, well yours has. Now I want you to know that while you're bleeding to death, I'll be upstairs with Blake's head between my thighs. Once you take your final breath and that sad little human heart of yours stops Blake will enter me right before marking me as his mate. Forever in not just this world but the moon's as well."

She plunges the knife into my stomach. She pulls it down effectively gutting me. Kimbella takes a step back admiring her handy work.

'I'm her master piece'

As fast as Kimbella left, another female comes down to take her now empty spot.

When she steps into my blurry view, I can see she has the same eyes as him.

The one who started my end.

"Oh my Gosh! Look at you."

"Please just get it over with. End my pain fast please!" If they are going to kill me the very least they can do is make the pain stop.

Her eyes go even softer at my pleas.

"I'm not here to kill you Raven. I'm here to get you off my brother's land. Alpha Kane is already on his way to the Eastern pack, he's going to bring you home."

Alpha Kane is coming for me? I don't know why, but I am relieved as fuck!

My savior releases my limbs faster than I've ever seen anyone move. She drops the bag I didn't even notice to the floor, pulling out towels and duck tape, for my wound I assume.

"This is to cover your cut, it's not perfect but it will have to do until we can get you to a real doctor."

"Why are you helping me? Your loyalty belongs to the Southern pack and Alpha doesn't it?"

"Yes it does, I will always put my pack first, but what my brother and Bella have done to you does NOT warrant my loyalty. Now come on we don't have much time."

She lifts me up as if I weigh nothing, I suppose to a shifter I don't. Every step she takes feels as though I am being stabbed all over again.

I am loaded into the passenger's seat of a very high for no good reason suv. In the blink of an eye she is in the driver's seat and peeling out the driveway.

I don't know how long we have been driving for but the darkness is calling to me. I try to fight it but for a millionth time tonight,

I lose.