My limbs are floppy and I stumble as I try to walk. Damien’s arm around my waist is the only thing keeping me upright. He walks me into our room. Pulling me against him as he sits me on his lap on the edge of the bath.
I hear the water run and using his arm that isn’t around my waist; he pours something that smells like lavender into the water. I feel my head pull down as I lose the strength to hold it up. Damien stands and I am embarrassingly floppy like a rag doll. I feel tears run down my cheeks in embarrassment at my helpless state. This was so degrading. I try to talk, but my tongue has no feeling.
I can hear Layla whimper in my head and I feel her open the mind link to him.
“Just take us back Damien, you are humiliating her” Damien freezes his hands going to my face as he grips my chin making me look at him.
“Don’t be embarrassed” He says, kissing my face.
“Yeah, and what happens when she needs to use the bathroom, Damien. Are you going to embarrass her further” Layla snaps at him. “Just take us back it isn’t worth this torture, can’t you feel you are hurting her” Layla says. Damien growls and my heart rate quickens before I feel him stand lifting me and carrying me back to the padded room.
He lays us down before securing the cuffs and I close my eyes, not being able to look him in the eye. I suddenly missed my dad. He would have gone ballistic if he saw how helpless I was, how helpless Damien made me feel. Damien brushed my hair back, making my eyes snap open before turning away. I watch as he walks away then hesitates, clenching his fists tightly, his entire body going tense before shaking his head and walking out.
“Darian is furious with him,” Layla says.
“It’s okay Lily, Natalia will help us and at least we can mind link now, so we won’t be lonely. We can talk to Callie” Layla tells me but I am not in the mood, and nothing she says will make me feel better.
Lily POV
Hours ticked by slowly and I lost all sense of time, I gave up any hope of ever getting out of this room. Damien didn’t allow anyone in the room after that night. Damien would come in and try to get me to eat, but I would refuse. I could feel his sadness through the bond, which only angered me more.
He put me in this situation and he can take me out of it, yet he hasn’t and probably won’t. Natalia has kept me company, even Callie talking to me through the mind-link. I never really paid much attention, too lost in my thoughts about how everything turned horribly wrong.
How he could accuse us of doing something Layla had no memory of. She didn’t even know what his mother looked like. I could feel her thoughts plaguing her as well, as she tried to remember anything, tried to recall every little detail of that night in question, but she only remembers seeing Ryker and hearing a noise outside. Nothing other than that.
Hearing the door locks turning, I look to the door expecting to find Damien entering. My face not even hiding my shock when I see Tabitha rush in with Natalia.
“We have to be quick before he gets back” Tabitha says, rushing to my side and undoing the restraints while Natalia does the same on her side.
My muscles aching from barely being used as I stand up. Tabitha wraps an arm around my waist pulling me against her and I feel Natalia pulling jeans over my bare legs before she undoes the ties that hold the hospital gown together. Pulling it down my arms and I am standing topless in front of them. Tabitha helps her lift the shirt over my head while letting me lean on her.
“Quick, we need to hurry” Natalia says, going over and opening the door and I suddenly feel the mind-Link open up. Callie’s voice running through my head.
“I’m on my way” I hear her say before Tabitha tell’s her to hurry. Getting to the stairs, I looked down at them, worried about how they were going to help me walk down them, without all of us falling down.
“Why are you helping me?” I ask, looking at Tabitha.
“Because you’re my Luna and I owe you for saving my daughter’s life and my mates. And I won’t let Damien ruin the best thing that has ever happened to him. Especially for that cunt he calls a mother” She says and I wonder what she knows of Damien’s past that would cause the anger I could hear in her voice. Tabitha and Natalia help me step down the first three steps. Suddenly the door opens and we all freeze, our eyes snapping to the door and I feel my heart rate spike. Max and Callie walk in and I feel relief flood me.
Max rushes up the steps toward us, “Sorry Luna, but we need to be quick” He says scooping me up and walking down the stairs with me before placing me down on the ground. Natalia races up, closing my prison door, while Callie and Tabitha help me walk towards the door.
Max opens it wide so we can step outside. The sun is blasting my face and I can smell fresh air for the first time in days. I squint at the bright light heating my skin.
“Where are we going?” I ask.
“We haven’t quite thought that far ahead yet, it was the first time Damien left the pack house. We saw an opportunity, so we took it” Tabitha explains.
“Head to my place” She says looking over at Callie. We make our way down the driveway towards the park when I hear the familiar sound of Damien’s car driving up the street. He clearly wasn’t expecting to find me escaping as the car skids to a stop, barely missing us.
The look of pure anger on his face makes Callie whimper beside me, but Tabitha has a look of pure determination on her face and so does Natalia. Max places himself between Callie and I as Damien steps out of the car. His fists clenched tightly by his sides and I see the muscles in his jaw clench. A look I realised meant he was furious. He slams his car door before stalking toward us. Max puts himself between us and I see him flinch, waiting for Damien to do something.