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“Don’t look at me like that. I got through this once; I’ll do it again,” I promised, not sure if it was true, but I had just given her my word, so now it had to be.
“Will you? I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have gone out there,” she said, tears falling, but I shook my head, piercing her with my eyes.
“No, mate. You do not show them that. No tears, no fear, do you understand? They are going to use everything against us in here, and I need you strong. Can you do that for me, Little Luna?” I soothed, and she swallowed back her tears, steeling her gaze on mine before nodding.
“I will.”
“Good, because they are going to hurt us, use us against each other, and I need your word that you are not going to give in to save me. You are my mate, and it is going to kill me to see them hurt you, but it’ll be worse for you–Silas will make sure of it.
He wants you to give in, and you can’t let that happen. Do you get what I’m telling you? Can you do this?” I asked.
I needed to hear her say it, to see the fire in her eyes that drew her to me in the first place. I was a moth to a flame when it came to her, and I had to keep that flame burning. No matter what.
She nodded quickly and looked toward the door, then back at me.
“I can’t get to my magic or my shadows. They’re locked inside me.”
“And they’ll stay that way until those cuffs are off,” I grimaced, but she just looked scared.
“Kai, without my magic…the wolves…” She breathed, and my eyes went wide. I had been focused on her; I hadn’t considered what it would mean for the wolves back in the city.
Derik would have, but not me. I was obsessed, and this was one of the few times I’d ever felt guilty for that.
“There’s nothing we can do about it, Little Luna. We just have to survive, then we can figure out what to do when we get back.” I swallowed, hating that option as much as she did.
“I just got my family back,” she said, her face crumpling, and it made the anger so visceral, I almost roared, but that would invite that sadistic fuck back, so I had to get a hold of it. And so did Lorelai.
“And they will still be there when we get back, safe. But we have to get through this first.”
“I know,” she said before clenching her eyes shut and letting the mask fall over her features, hiding every emotion except rage. That was my mate.
“Good girl,” I breathed and smirked.
“So how do we play this? Weak and tired–make him think we’re giving in, or feisty and bitchy so he knows we’re not going down without a fight?” she asked, and I grinned.
“We’re werewolves, Little Luna. We’re not going down easy,” I winked, and she smirked.
“I was hoping you’d say that,” she said, then looked toward the door with a determined look. “What are his weaknesses? What gets on his nerves the most?”
I laughed. “You. Me. Any defiance. But mate, you have to be careful. He may look calm most of the time, but he can snap–don’t push it that far. And don’t listen to anything he says. Even if it sounds like the truth, don’t believe it. He’s saying it to get under your skin,” I warned.
She nodded a second before the door opened to Silas’s smug face.
“Here we go,” she muttered, and we both turned to him, ready for whatever he was willing to do to us.
We didn’t break. No matter how hard he pushed, what he did to us, we didn’t break.
It came close, and I didn’t remember what it felt like to not be in pain, but every second that my Little Luna didn’t give in was another second that I refused. We fed off each other’s determination, and we survived.
It was the hardest thing I’d ever done in my life.
But we survived. Together.
Silas tried everything, but his favorite game was using us against each other, trying to see how far he could push me before I begged him not to hurt her anymore. He pushed to see how far he could hurt me before she cried out for him to stop, to focus on her.
And we did. I swore I would gut him every damn day he made her endure the pain of seeing her mate in the state I was in, and every day he pushed her into the same state.
I wasn’t sure how long it had been; the days didn’t really matter anymore, but I knew we were getting weaker, and if we didn’t break soon, we were going to die.
“Lorelai,” I breathed. “Little Luna.”
She lifted her head lazily, letting it fall back against the wall with her eyes closed, her body sagging in the cuffs.
“I’m still here,” she huffed, blood dried over her mouth and face from the multiple contusions. That whip of Silas’s showed no mercy, and when it came to giving that smug prick a taste of his own medicine, I was going to make damn sure it showed him none.
“Don’t go to sleep,” I forced out of a hoarse throat.
“I can’t stay awake,” she muttered, her voice fading.
“If he sees you sleep, he’ll bring in the blades again,” I urged, and she gave me a weak nod.
“I know.” Her eyes fluttered open to see me. They were swollen from lack of sleep, but she held on, and the way she did made me so proud of her. She was a luna.
“Distract me,” she whispered.
I racked my brain for something that would keep her awake enough.
“You want me to tell you what I’m going to do to you when we get out of here?” I smirked, and her lips tugged to the side.
“Sex? That’s where your mind went?”
I shrugged, ignoring the pain in my shoulders from it.
We were allowed down for the bucket and for an hour each on the cot in the corner, but always shackled and always separate.
Other than that, we were chained to the wall, and my arms ached, my body throbbed, but I endured it just like my Little Luna did because we had no choice.
The only other option they gave us was kneeling to their rule, and that wasn’t going to happen.
I wasn’t going to give him permission to my pack, and Lorelai wasn’t going to accept his marriage offer. It was a stalemate, and we all knew it, even Silas.
Which is why he kept us alive, so he could keep having fun, tormenting and torturing until we were nothing, not strong enough to fight him. And maybe we couldn’t right now, but he didn’t understand enough about the pack and how it worked.
The second he let my mate out of those cuffs, her magic would fuel the pack with strength, and they would send it straight back to us. We would heal, we would survive. Then it would be Silas’s turn. That thought was the only thing keeping me as strong as I had been.
“I want you whether we’re tied to a wall or back home. I always will, Little Luna, you should know that by now,” I responded before I could get too lost in my rage and revenge plans.
“I do.” She gave a half-hearted smile, then turned her head to me, leaning against the wall as her eyelids dropped a little. I grabbed her hand where it was shackled next to mine and held it.
“We’re going to get out of here,” I promised, and she locked her gaze on me.
“I thought that was true, but now, I’m not so sure,” she whispered, and I licked my dry lips before reassuring her.
“We will,” I said, planning on giving her a speech about Zale and Enzi, Derik and Brax. I wanted to remind her why she was fighting so she kept going, but before I could, Silas came in.
He wore a smug smirk as he looked over us. He put his little pouch of torture blades on the small table by the door, then stood with his hands behind his back.
“You won’t get what you came for, Silas, give up,” I snarled.
He grinned. “You and I both know I will not do that. Whether you give me what I want or not. Especially when I have decided on a new tactic.”
“Go to hell, Silas,” Lorelai bit through a tired breath, closing her eyes as she kept her head against the wall, not even bothering to look at him. It was clever, showing him the disrespect of not giving him the attention he wanted.
It did piss him off the fastest, though, and his smirk went from smug to malicious in a second.
“Oh, I run hell, winter born, and you just walked through the gates,” he taunted.
She didn’t even flinch.
I hated the way he looked at her. Like he was a second away from sinking his fangs into her, and maybe he was. My blood boiled when he had his attention on her, so I rattled my chains, earning his attention instead, giving him the reaction he wanted.
“You are nothing but a pest. We will rip you apart with our teeth the second we get the chance.”
He laughed, that crazy look in his red eyes.
“I won’t give you that chance, Savage. But what I am going to do? Keep you here, suffering so your pack grows weaker and weaker. Every day that passes is another one they descend into mindless morons. They succumb to their base instincts and leave openings. Not to mention the humans. Did I mention them? They are scared, hiding but guess what?” He grinned, waiting for us to give him the audience he wanted for his show.
“What about the humans?” Lorelai bit out, her body shaking as her eyes tried to glow, but weakness kept her from pushing her wolf out.
“Oh, they are going to be a tasty snack to make my vampires strong before we take the city and the wolves. With the way they’re going, it won’t be long before they can’t form a sentence, let alone a defensive plan. I wonder which human I will start with? Maybe the pretty one with the matching navy eyes as you, Lorelai? I bet she tastes delicious.”
Silas grinned, his fangs baring, looking salivated as he got the reaction he wanted.
“Stay away from her!” Lorelai screamed at him, her voice raspy and broken as he lit that fire in her.
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