“Theo, how do you know him?” I ask once Walden walks out
“This is not my first time running into hunters.”
“Are you the one who gave him the scar on his face?” I ask to confirm my earlier suspicion.
“Yes, and I think I should have ripped his whole face out,” Theo snarls.
“Do you know what he was talking about when he said ‘for what is about to come”
“No, I don’t, but knowing Walden, it can never be something good for werewolves.”
“I hope it’s something we will be able to face even with your condition.”
“Once the silver is out of my system, we will have nothing to worry about. I will be able to get us out of here, so don’t worry. Everything is going to be fine,” Theo says, easing my worries away.
“Okay, if you say so,” I say, leaning my back against the wall close to Theo.
Theo wraps his arms around my waist and tries to pull me close to him, but I stop him.
“Theo, you are injured. You don’t need my weight on you right now.”
“Did I tell you that?” He says, pulling me close to him
“You don’t have to,” I say, moving away from him
“Do you also know you close to me will help me heal faster?” He says, pulling me close again.
Werewolves have fast healing abilities. Your mate close to you can help you heal faster. The only wounds that don’t heal fast are wound made by a fellow werewolf in wolf form or silver. Theo has wounds made by silver; if we had completed the mating process, I would have shared some of my energy with him. I can only stay close to him and hope some of my energy gets passed into him.
“You are right, but I don’t think I should lean on you. Why don’t you lean on me instead” I say, opening my arms wide.
“You want to cuddle me,” Theo says, giggling. This is the first time I have ever seen him show a joyful expression towards me, and it’s beautiful. The way his eyes light up as he finds the fact that I want to cuddle him funny makes him look really cute. I like it because Theo never looks cute. He always has on a stern or emotionless look. Cute really looks good on him.
“Yes,” I say, gesturing my hands from him to come closer.
“Have you seen my size? My shoulders will crush you before you can wrap your arms around me,” He says, laughing.
“Why are you laughing? I am not that small,” I say, pouting. I love the sound of his laughter, but he is still hurting my ego a little by laughing at the fact that I wanted to cuddle him even though he is twice my size.
“You are, mate, and don’t worry. Just you sitting close to me is making me feel better already.”
“That’s good to hear,” I say, smiling for two reasons.
These days Theo accepts me as his mate. I don’t know what changed for him to suddenly see me as his mate. It makes me happy he does, and now that I think about it. Things between us haven’t been so horrible these past few weeks. Maybe there is actually hope for Theo and I after all.
I fall asleep on Theo’s body. I don’t think that was a good idea because now I am covered in some of his blood. I woke up because I heard someone entering the cell. I am rubbing my eyes to see the person who is walking in clearly when something lands on my lap.
“Eat up, you animals,” The person says and spits on the floor before walking out.
I look at my lap; bottles of water and pieces of bread were thrown on my thighs. Food, finally. My stomach has been growling for hours. I tear open the nylon protecting the bread and quickly eat it. I have never been this hungry in my life. I rushed to eat the bread, and this made me suddenly start choking.
“Eat slowly,” Theo says, rubbing my back and hands me a bottle of water.
“Thank you,” I say and drink the water. “Why are you not eating?” I say once I am done drinking. I noticed he had not touched his food.
“I will never eat food given to me by humans.”
“I understand you hate them, but your stomach does not care who you hate. It will benefit from the food you give it regardless of who it came from. Eat,” I say, handing him the bread that he threw away.
“No,” He says, pushing the food back to me.
“Your body needs food more than anything right now. It will help you heal faster. Please forget you hate them and eat the food,” I plead with him.
“As I said, I will never eat food given to me by humans,” He says with disgust.
“Okay,” I say, giving up, but I shouldn’t.
Theo is the only one who can get us out of here, and if he does not heal fast, there is no way that will happen. I need to find a way to force him to eat, but how. How do you force the werewolf king to eat?
I finish eating my food, and while drinking water, a thought comes to mind about how I can force him to eat. I pick up his bread and place it in my mouth. I move closer to him so that it will work better, and once I am close enough, I tap on his shoulder.
“Do you need………” He does not get to finish his statement because I stuff the bread into his mouth. If looks could kill, I will be already dead for what I did to Theo.
I am moving my mouth away but stop once I see him about to spit it out. I quickly place my mouth back on his and push the bread down his throat. Theo’s eyes don’t leave mine, and he glares at me as the food goes down his throat.
I am happy my plan worked, but I didn’t think of something in my plan. My lips are touching his with the food gone between our mouths. I don’t even know if I should consider this our first kiss. His lips feel very soft against mine, just like I imagined they would. I expect Theo to pull away first, but he does not. I don’t know if I should really kiss him or not. I don’t want to try and make it a real kiss and have him reject me. That would be very humiliating. To play it safe, I move my lips away from his.
I feel a little shy to face him, so I turn away from him with my fingers on my lips. I miss his lips against mine already. They are full and soft. I am sure it would have been amazing to kiss him. I don’t know if I will ever experience what it feels like to kiss Theo because our relationship might have improved, but Theo still refuses to mark me. Earlier in the pond is enough evidence of that.
There are no windows around, so I can’t tell if it’s morning or night. I don’t know how long we have been here, but we have been given food twice, so I will say two days. I have been waiting for what Walden stated we have to prepare for to come. I am just hoping whatever it is, Theo and I can overcome it. I am brought back from my thoughts when I hear the cell doors opening. The cell is made out of silver, and that’s why we didn’t try breaking it down.
“It’s time,” The man who brings our food says, walking towards me
“Time for what,” I ask as he unlocks the chains around my legs. The chains around our hands and legs are connected to the floor, but they are long enough to move around the cells comfortably
“Who told you, you can speak, you animal,” He says, slapping me across the face. My face forcefully turns to the other side due to how hard he hits me.
“Don’t you dare touch her,” Theo growls as he stands to his feet. He is about to punch the man when suddenly he falls to the ground, and his body starts shaking at an uncontrollable speed. They are electrocuting him.
“Stop, please stop,” I say, running towards Theo, but the man pulls me back using the chains on my hands to drag me. He also shows me the remote in his hand to threaten me if I move. He will make it worse. I am sure that is the remote he is using to control the electrocuting.
“Let me see how you can growl at me now, you beast,” The man says, increasing the voltage.
“I am begging you, please stop it. You are hurting him,” I say with tears streaming down my face as I watch Theo’s veins almost pop out of his body due to the amount of voltage going through it. I kneel before the man begging him to stop harming my mate.
“Do you know you are actually a beautiful woman?” The man says, grabbing a hand full of my hair. He looks at me from head to toe, eyeing my body as lust pools in his eyes. He spends extra time staring at my breast. He licks his lips before he continues talking. “If you suck my cock, I will let him go,” He says, moving my head back and forth, testing out what he wants me to do.
“Please, let him go” I try to see if my begging will work because I can’t suck this man’s cock, but if I don’t, Theo will die. He is barely surviving with all the silver in his body. What am I going to do?