RAIN’S POV
‘Dammmn! My head hurts!’.
No Rays of the sun, no air, no singing birds, no crickets crying, not even distance howling. It was all just darkness and cold. slowly, I opened my eyes, I flickered my gaze around wondering where I was.
Wait a minute!
It smells like grass, just nature, and the awful smell of human and wolf remains.
Great!
Gently, I sat up on the floor where I was, but before I could properly get to my feet, I stopped. My head hit hard against the ceiling making me cuss and wondered who would build a house so short until I realized something. I am in a CAGE!
“CAGE?” I panicked.
I couldn’t remember a thing or how I got here, everywhere looked so strange and not just strange alone, I noticed that the cage was a bit spacious but short.
Laying in front of me is a naked rice-skinned woman with red curly long hair. With her back against me as she curled up in the ball, I had no idea when I began to feel pity for her until she suddenly turn in her sleep.
‘Caramel?!’ I thought.
Confused, with a frown on my face, the darkness around the cage made it impossible to see anything clearly aside from other cages and figures. Nothing else could be seen. No matter how hard I tried to blink my eyes just to wake me up in case I was drowning in a nightmare of my own, I got to realize that this is real, a pure reality that I couldn’t make any sense from.
“Where am I?” I asked myself while surveying around.
I noticed that Caramel seems to be breathing very faintly that her breasts barely raise or call.
“Is this a prank or an escape from shit?” I frowned as I went on both palms knees.
Deeply confused, I began to crawl around the cage to see other five more cages with three naked women inside. It was until I felt this chill breeze around my button that I realized that I am also made as well.
What’s happening?
Am I dead?
Rogues!!! The Rogues!!!
I have heard stories about how girls get kidnapped and for myself, I have seen their dead bodies. The meeting I eavesdropped on didn’t also say anything good about the girls that git kidnapped as well. Scared, I tried to call Ashina but nothing.
She felt dead, like totally dead!
I tried to mind link anyone, maybe Rex or Hawk but I just don’t know how come I am getting nothing.
To be sure that I am still living and breathing, I pinched myself and the pain I felt really alerted me, indeed, I am alive, not dead!
And my head still hurts.
The memory of how I had run from Sean and got, stabbed with a needle freaked me out. Raising my palm to my neck where I had been stabbed, I looked at it as of looking for blood but none!
Scared, I crawled to Caramel and slowly placed my palm on her face. She seems warm, maybe just pale looking but she definitely is alive.
“Hello?” I whispered with a frown on my face.
No point in still hating each other since we are both unfortunate. From the look of things, I feel like I am even on the safer side because I am claimed. Should I call it a tradition? It’s still more like a huge misery to me why the rogues go for unmated wolves.
Only that I am mated and for an Alpha, I know they would definitely hate.
Not getting a response from Caramel, I looked at the other cages around I am sure to see three feminine figures in each cage and nothing else. I can’t tell if they can see me, or are looking at me, or are even dead because they were all in a sleeping position.
“Anyone up?”.
I let out in a harsh whisper in case anyone was around me but I could not reply, instead, my words echoed in my empty and bounced back at me making me feel really miserable.
The scene in front of me was so frightening, without waiting for a second thought, I began to kick in the woods and began to scream but nothing happen. Instead, my feet hurt and I am sure to have bruises on them by daybreak.
“Hey!!!” I screamed!
Still yet nothing.
I was about to aim and kick the woods again until I heard a short ‘pssss’ sound. Looking around to get nothing, I sneaked to a corner of the woods far from Caramel and listened again.
“You better shut the fuck up and sleep or pretend or you get us all in trouble” the person whispered harshly.
Shocked by this, I blinked my eyes rapidly to make sure that I was hallucinating. The more I try to believe this is real, the more I tremble till I peed on myself. The nose made lots of sounds making me terrified for my life and that of others.
Where are we?
What is this place?
What am I here?
More fear gripped me as I thought about Rex. What if he does not come to look for me or just continues with the ball since he has said something about that?
Again, I tried to reach Ashina but nothing. She is just silent as if she was there and never there at the same time.
‘Ashina?’.
I called her in my mind just in case I am not reaching well. Maybe I have failed to reach deep or have neglected her for a long and it’s not working.
But she spoke to me at the park but what day was that again?
I need help!
I can’t stay here!
I can’t give my body parts littered in other parks’ borders for them to pick up.
Just as the voice has warned me to stay silent, I did stay very quiet as I began to feel around the cage blindly. I have just noticed what feel like a rusty paddock before I began to hear faint voices. Not far.
They held torches, electronic torches which soon become more bright as their voices. Accordingly, to their voices, they were male… wait a minute.
One voice seem so familiar, making me strain my ears to listen more until suddenly, the ray of the touch ran past my face. In a deep panic, I fall flat and pretend to sleep along with the others.
Immediately, I heard the sound of iron and chains, shocked. I was afraid to look back wondering where the sounds are coming from because I can see no gates or doors as we look like we are in the middle of nowhere.
My heart sank and I lay still unable to move, the chills all over my body were so vast that I trembled to my own thoughts of getting killed without my mate knowing what must have happened to me.
As I felt and heard the voices come closer, my heart began to pound heavily and for a moment, I fear they might hear it. Holding my breath, I shivered in fear and cold.
I did it!
I didn’t shake until they walk past me which I am sure they did because their torchlight flashed past my face before returning.
“Pick that one,” someone said “The one with the red hair”.
Pffffff! That was so close.
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Daybreak and the first thing I sighted immediately I opened my eyes is Caramel. She has this hard look on her face that for a moment I thought she would hit me but she didn’t. She just stared blankly at me before looking around.
Outside, one group of men has begun to open the cages with guns in their hands. Getting to our cage, I moved away from him as he tried to pull me out after unlocking the cage. It didn’t take much to get Caramel out of the cage because she just crawled out on her own.
Waiting for me to get back to the door position, I can see the level of impatient in the men’s eyes but I won’t let that get to me. Not when they are clothed and I am freaking naked! I am a Luna for crying out loud, even if my mate is acting a bit stupid.
Before I could have the time to think about Ashina. To smile at how she would have reminded me how useless I am, I felt pulled from my ankle.
‘What the heck!’.
I struggled. I screamed and I kicked but he didn’t let go. He just pulled hard, making my bare skin peel due to the harshness of the stone and sand. Without waiting to be told, I am sure to have an ugly peel on my back and it hurts like hell.
I want to scream.
I want to run my back on the wall or jump into a pool of cool fresh water but none was available.
Damn! I have suddenly grown lazy in tolerating pain.
Looking up to see the whole naked women in a straight line and the men with guns by their side, I wonder if I am trapped in another universe.
“Can I ask a question?”.
Maybe not!
The evil man that has pulled me out just snorted before walking away. I thought I would be allowed to maybe breathe for a few seconds before someone Yanked me from the back of my neck and pushed me towards the line. The push was so hard that I slammed my face at the back of the last naked girl.
Hearing her low growl, I quit rubbing my face to stare at Caramel.