I watch as he sits the syringe on the bed beside me in warning to behave. Horrified that my own mate would subject me to this.
“Now are you going to eat or am I putting you back to sleep?” He asks and I press my lips together. Suddenly the door opens and Natalia walks in.
“Let me try, please. You don’t need to drug her” Natalia says, and I hear her voice in my head and I almost gasp when I realise I can hear her and that the mind link is working.
“I will help get you out of here” She says, and I almost burst out crying at her words. She was going to help me, help me escape. Damien watches her enter before nodding his head and getting up.
“I will wait outside the door, make sure you sedate her, I will check” I watch as he walks out shutting the door behind him. As soon as he was gone, I burst into tears and Natalia hugged me.
“I don’t know what I did?” I tell her, confused.
“I know sweetie, I know. Now eat for me please” She says, and I shake my head wondering why she isn’t helping me out of the cuffs. Her voice came through the mind link.
“He is outside the door, we can’t speak out loud” I nod and open my mouth as she spoons a mouthful in and I moan loudly at the taste, and the moisture, my mouth was so dry.
“Good?” She asks out loud for Damien’s benefit.
“Yes, very” I tell her, opening my mouth as she spoons more in. I feel the mind link open before I hear her voice in my head.
“Damien’s mother came back. Estella said you attacked her and killed the warriors that worked at the front gate.” I shake my head, but she holds up a hand.
“I know you didn’t do it, but when Damien was called to the front gate with an intruder alert, he found you standing over his mother with your teeth on her throat,” I feel Layla trying to remember but she said she couldn’t remember anything.
“That’s not all, all the warriors were drained of blood, and you were covered in it” I stare wide eyed, shocked by what she said.
“Where is his mother now?” I ask through the link. Natalia shrugged. “Damien had her sent off pack territory a few hours ago”
I nod, “Why can’t I remember meeting her then, Layla has no memory of her at all?”
“I’m not sure, but Ryker said when you woke up after they sedated you, that you were groggy, he said you came downstairs and said you heard a noise and told him to stay inside. I think the sedative that they injected you with might have something to do with it. I honestly don’t know because you seem fine now. We will figure it out though”
“I do remember seeing Ryker. He was asleep on the lounge when I went to get a drink, and I heard a noise outside. I went to check but I.. I am not sure what happened after that” Layla says and I nod to her acknowledging what she said.
“How do I get out of here, you have to help me? I know we didn’t do what she said. I don’t understand what I did to her, but I know my wolf, she wouldn’t just attack his mother for no reason”
“That’s what I said, I told him this even Darian agreed. Darian tried to take over when Damien locked you in here. Made quite the mess before Damien got control back”
“Then why doesn’t Damien believe him?”
“Because she is his mother and for some reason, Damien has always sought his mother’s love, her approval. Can’t stand the woman. Estella was just as bad as her mate. Both of them are sick in the head for what they did to him” Natalia says and for the first time I actually see her wolf try to come through. Natalia was always so calm, so motherly that I often forgot she was a werewolf. But whatever memories she just thought of angered her.
“You knew them?” I ask. She nods.
“Yes, I was Damien’s nanny. After he got rid of them, he let me remain working with him. Said I was the closest thing he had to a real mother. The entire pack knew what was happening here, but we were all powerless to stop him. He killed everyone who tried, including my mate” Her voice was sad. I knew she had children, but I didn’t know her mate was dead.
Damien pops his head in and Natalia looks at him. “Almost done Alpha,” Natalia says.
“Good when she is done, sing out, I might take her to have a bath” He says and I look at him in panic. Natalia was supposed to help me escape. Natalia, seeing the panic in my eyes, rubbed my cheek.
“At least you get out of this room, maybe try to convince him to let you sleep in your bed?” She says. I can feel Damien’s longing through the bond, his need to touch me and have me close. Or maybe it was Darian annoying him, but I knew it changed nothing that he still intended to keep me locked away.
“Maybe if we behave, he will see we aren’t capable of doing the things his mother accused us of” Layla says, but I can also feel she is wary of him and she just really wants out of this room.
Natalia smiles before hopping up. Damien walks in and before grabbing the syringe, he injects half the contents into my shoulder while I try to get away from him.
“You said I could bathe”
“You can but I am not stupid enough to leave you unsedated, you will stay awake I didn’t give you enough to knock you out just enough to stop you running” He says and I feel him undo the cuffs. Natalia’s voice is ringing in my head.
“Behave, I have a plan. I will get you out, Lily. I promise” I look at her and she nods before walking out the door. Damien undoes the thing around my neck and helps me sit up. I frown when I realise he put a dog collar on me, my eyes burning with tears of embarrassment.