Cara
The cabin felt suffocating, its walls closing in on me. Brian’s Alpha presence was a force that dominated the room, as though he could crush the very air with his silence. He stepped in, his eyes locking onto mine before they flicked down to the iron chains binding my wrists to the bed. His gaze lingered there, and for a brief moment, something flickered in his expression. Regret? Or was it just a cold calculation?
“Brian,” I whispered, my voice trembling, a lump forming in my throat. “Why are you doing this to me? Why am I chained like this? I thought you were protecting me from the kidnappers. ”
He didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he moved slowly toward the bed, his fingers brushing against the bruises left by the chains. His face was hard, unreadable, but I didn’t miss the way his hand trembled, just for a moment, before he looked away.
“This is for your own good, Cara, and the good of everyone,” he finally said, his voice low, almost… tired.
“For my own good?” My voice cracked as disbelief bubbled inside me. “How is this for my own good? After everything we’ve been through, everything you said, you’re just going to lock me up?”
“You don’t dare talk to me like that” he suddenly shouted, his aura suffocating as I shut up my mouth in obedience. His alpha aura threatened to suffocate me as I struggled to breathe.
Emm, master you are choking her…. The tiny voice of Debby snapped him out of his anger
“You don’t understand,” he sighed, his tone softly now. “You don’t know what you are, Cara. What you’re capable of.”
“What am I?” I repeated, my head spinning. “What are you talking about?”
Brian exchanged a glance with Debby, who stood at the door. Her eyes were downcast, and without a word, avoiding eye contact with me, she slipped out of the room, leaving us alone.
My heart pounded in my chest, with my fear mixing with the sting of betrayal from Debby leaving me alone with this monster despite my silent please for her not to go.
“You’re dangerous and suspicious,” Brian said after a long pause, his voice rough. “And not just to yourself. You’re dangerous to everyone around you. You endangered my pack, and i won’t let that happen again.”
His words hit me like a punch to the gut. Dangerous? How could I be dangerous?
“The unexplained things that happened to you, and the unexpected attack by the red knife pack,” he continued, his eyes intense and burning with something I couldn’t quite place, “is more than you realise. More than any of us realised.”
“Dangerous?” I felt a cold chill run down my spine. “But I…”
“You broke silver chains,” he interrupted, his gaze piercing through me. “Like they were nothing. Do you know how many wolves can do that?”
I blinked, trying to process his words. I hadn’t even thought about it at the time. It had just happened, like instinct, like survival. “I didn’t mean to… I was just trying to escape.”
“I know,” he said softly, and for a moment, there was a flicker of something in his voice, something almost kind. But just as quickly, it was gone, his face a mask of cold detachment again. “But that doesn’t change what happened. You unleashed something, Cara. A mystery that is unexplainable”
I shook my head, feeling the weight of his words crash down on me. “So you chain me? That’s your solution? Lock me up because you’re afraid of what I might do?”
“It’s not fear, Cara,” he said, his tone hardening once more. “It’s control. You don’t understand the danger you’re in or what you are. There are people, dangerous people, who know about you and will come for you. You were the reason they launched an attack at my pack in the first place. They were attracted to you!!”
” me?” My heart stuttered,
Brian’s face darkened, his jaw tightening. “You’re not just some ordinary Omega. You have lied to everyone about who you really are. And I don’t take those that lie lightly. You have few seconds to tell me who you really are, else…”
“Please believe me, I swear I don’t know about any mysterious origin I might be from, or any dangerous people that are looking for me” I desperately pleaded with him to see reason.
What he was saying didn’t make any sense to me, I am just a nobody, an orphaned weak Omega.
“you will be chained up like this until your indentity is verified, You are lucky that you are not in the dungeons, you have debby to thank for that,” he made his way to the door. This terrified me the more, as he was leaving me in this cabin alone and chained like a murderer.
I swallowed, my throat dry as sand. “But why chain me, Brian?” I asked, my voice quieter now, tinged with disbelief. “I thought …, i… we are mates.”
For a fleeting second, I saw something crack in his cold mask. Regret. Guilt. But, just like before, it vanished, leaving his face hard and unreadable once again.
“Whatever that happened that night was a mistake, and it is done and gone, don’t deceive yourself that we can be together” his cold words struck a cord in my already weeping heart, further shredding my hearts to pieces.
“Until I can figure out who you are and what you truly want from my pack, you’re a prisoner , and a slave, and that is what you will ever be. He said, his voice dropping low containing malice that sent chills down my back
My breath caught in my throat. I could feel something inside me shift, something unfamiliar. The words Brian said kept on repeating in my mind. The room seemed to grow colder, the air thickening as my emotions went wild, it surged through me, fear, anger, heartbreak, and something else, something darker.
Suddenly, a strange warmth bubbled up from within me, pulsing like a second heartbeat. It was the same feeling I felt when we were surrounded that night by Ryder’s pack. The chains rattled against the bedposts, and the metal that had felt cold and solid moments ago began to tremble. My pulse quickened, the feeling of raw energy building inside me.
I stared down at my wrists, my heart racing as the chains shifted. Could I… break them? Again?
The air around me seemed to hum, and for a split second, the room trembled.
Brian stepped forward, his eyes narrowing. “Cara!!,” he warned, his voice tense. “Don’t.”
I froze, his commanding word echoed through my mind, the feeling from his hands touching me blazed like fire, chasing away the rising surge of power as it receded as quickly as it had come, leaving me breathless and trembling. My wrists ached where the chains had bitten into my skin, but the cold steel was solid once again.
“I…” I began, but my voice cracked.
Brian’s expression hardened again “That’s why you’re chained,” he said quietly with an unreadable expression, as if the answer should have been obvious. “Until you learn to control it… you’re a danger to everyone”
My mouth opened, but no words came. There was nothing left to say, nothing that could undo the chains around my wrists or the hurt in my chest.
He turned away, walking toward the door with that same cold detachment he had walked in with. “You’ll stay here until it’s safe for all of us,” he said over his shoulder. “Don’t even think about trying to escape.”
“Brian, wait!” I called, desperation clawing at my throat, but he didn’t stop. He didn’t even look back.
The door clicked shut behind him, leaving me alone in the dim room. The weight of the chains felt heavier now, but the chains on my heart weighed even more.