Samantha’s POV
The ride went on but I was quite disturbed, the fact that Lauren had shown up so suddenly and the fact that she knew what road we going through was just too strange.
“You are disturbed, what are you thinking about?” Kay asked.
“You don’t think it is a bit too strange that Lauren found us?” I asked him.
“I found that to be quite fishy too, who could have contacted her to tell her that we were on this path and out of the town….” He pondered too.
“Do you think she was trying to delay us and waste our time?” I asked him.
“I don’t think so, I know Lauren quite well, she has no idea about this issue of slavery.”
“But then it was quite evident she was trying to waste our time, do you think someone is using her?” I asked him.
“That might be the case but for now, let’s still shoot at our best shot,” he replied.
“Go faster,” he said to the driver and the speed increased.
“I really do hope that we get over this,” I said to Cara for like the hundredth time that very day.
“I don’t know why but I have a quite weird feeling,” she replied.
“I kind of do too, I don’t think getting them would be easy at all,” I said to Cara.
“It is not going to be easy but with you, I know very well that I can do it.” Kay interrupted me and I smiled at him, nodding my head.
The car moved through the dark streets as the night grew even darker and darker. I stared out of the window into the dark roads that were only illuminated by the light from the cars.
“We are in lock heart’s pack now.” the driver announced and I gulped.
I stared at the town, this was the town where I had been enslaved, I felt goosebumps grow all over my body, it was a creepy feeling knowing that I was now close to where I had been enslaved.
“Don’t be nervous… I am here with you.” Kay said to me and I nodded slightly.
“What do you think would happen after we release them all?” I asked him, trying to be optimistic.
“We are going to have their wolves capacity freed and then I would make sure that each of them goes back to whatever pack they were in before,” he replied.
“That’s nice of you,” I said to him and he caressed my face, as he tucked my hair behind my ears.
He raised my head and kissed my lips softly for a moment. I reciprocated immediately, the kiss was a way to get out of my nervousness.
He slowly broke the kiss.
“You need to point the way,” he said to me and I nodded, sitting up properly.
“Stop here,” he said to the driver and the car came to a halt.
“This is the spot where we had met,” he said to me and I nodded to confirm his words.
“It was truly around here, I had emerged from the woods just there, so we need to go after the woods,” I replied him.
“We just need to get to the road that is behind the woods. Move,” he said the last word to the driver and the driver swiftly moved and began to find his way behind the woods.
As we journeyed through the dark and lonely night, a big bus passed by us.
“Stop please,” I said to the driver and the car stopped.
“Is this the place?” Kayden asked me and I shook my head to indicate the opposite.
“But it is very close to this place, I am just going to try to figure it out exactly,” I said and looked around the environs.
“Can you recollect anything?” I asked Cara.
“Not much,” she replied and I shut my eyes trying to figure out which way I had come from the day I was running away from the slave masters.
“This way.” I pointed to the right and the car moved towards the right.
The car moved into the street and almost immediately I identified the huge and old house, the old and rusting, the heavy door I had pushed on that night came to my brain.
“We are here!” I said and the car stopped.
“Thank you so much for taking me here,” Kay said to me and kissed my forehead.
I helped myself out of the car Kay did the same.
“Would you like to stay here in the car instead of going in?” He asked.
“I would go in and see for myself,” I replied to him and he held my hands tightly.
He pushed the old door and we all stepped in along with the others, the only one not with us was Beta Davis, I would have asked about him but this was not the moment to do so.
A step into the old house and I felt a painful past coming back to me naturally.
I gripped Kayden’s hands tighter.
“Anything wrong?” He asked and I shook my head to tell him that there was nothing wrong even though everything seemed to be wrong with my body system.
We all streamed into the strangely noiseless place, this was not how it used to be, wails and screams were very common.
The place was quite deserted too. I led the rest and took a turn into the prisons where we were kept.
“There’s no one here!” I gasped, staring at the widely open iron doors.
“The fire here is warm Alpha Kayden, whoever was here just left.” a soldier said from the back but Kayden said no words.
“The… They used to be here, I was kept in there…..”
“Is this what Lauren delayed us for? To allow them to escape?” I heard him mumble and I found absolute sense in it.
A familiar ring caught my attention, it lay on the farther end, it was the ring that belonged to Granny.
I rushed to where the ring was and picked it up, just opposite where the ring lay was a corpse on the floor.
I stood frozen for a moment and began praying violently, hoping the corpse would not belong to Granny.
I took slow steps towards the dried corpse and tears dropped off my eyes, there was the bracelet that Granny had always worn in her hands.
“Granny!!” I screamed out, yelling out in tears.
“Mantha.” I heard Kayden’s voice as he wrapped his arms around me.
“Granny….. They killed her!” I cried even harder.
“I’m sorry…..” He mumbled to me.
“Granny!” I cried even harder.
I heard Cara whimpering too, Granny had been the only family I had, the only one who loved me apart from Kayden.
“I am sorry Granny!”
“I am sorry that you can’t see me now.” I apologized to her corpse.
“I swear Granny, I swear that I would make sure that they pay for what they did to you, their blood will be spilt!” I swore and tried wiping my tears that would not just stop falling.
“Kayden,” I called, my eyes getting clear as something came to my mind.
“Mantha,” he called softly.
“The bus…..”
“What bus?” He asked curiously.
“The bus we saw on our way here, it’s familiar….. It has to be the bus used to take the slaves away!”