Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I looked at the star and moon on my shackles, the same pretty design that had locked Adrenna in. They kept the magic in, they stopped Kai from turning, me from using, and were a damn nuisance, but I knew they only worked from the inside.
They locked the magic inside me, but outside magic could work on them as long as it wasn’t mine. Just like I could manipulate Adrenna’s.
As I was thinking through every possible option on how to get that blade and how to get out, the door opened.
“Break time, winter born,” one of the vamps said, coming in. His tall, lithe body appeared in front of me as he unlocked my cuffs from the wall, keeping them on my wrists. Then he stepped back and let me drop to the ground with a smirk.
They always found it amusing that I was weak after standing for so long. My legs shook as I held the wall and stood, refusing to let him see me wince. My arms ached, and my chest was so fucking sore as it tried to sit in the right place after being spread for so long. But I clenched my jaw and handled it, heading over to the bucket to do my business. They only gave us one break a day and one at night for it.
Last time I had refused, Silas had played on it.
He said I must not need as many breaks and took one away, laughing when I had pissed myself because of it. Then he’d poured water over me, boiling hot then iced cold, until I had passed out and my skin had peeled. So I learned to just use the bucket.
And eat the food. I didn’t care how disgusting it was; I needed the strength.
The guard vamp dumped food in front of me, and I scoffed it down, not letting the mush touch my tongue so I didn’t have to taste it. I couldn’t afford to vomit.
He grimaced at my lack of finesse, so I grinned at him, letting the mush pour through my teeth, giving him a reason to be disgusted. Then I laughed like a crazy fucker and ate my food. I sculled the water he gave, then stood up.
He was much taller than me, with a frail frame and translucent skin. He had dark eyes, dark hair, and his nails were long on thin fingers. It was creepy, and even just his aura was cold, exactly like every other vamp that came to us.
They were never the same because Silas was an expert and knew we could bribe, threaten, or possibly turn one of his pretty vampires if we got the chance. He never gave that to us.
“Bed, winter born. You’ve got one hour,” he said, and I nodded, climbing onto the cot that was metal with some hay and blankets that actually felt amazing after being against the wall for so long. But I never slept.
I lay there, thinking of a way out. I had a plan, a half-assed one that could make things worse, but I had to try. I couldn’t win by strength anymore–I was too weak.
The pain in my broken body made it harder to move than I’d ever admit to the vampires, but I had to try and talk my way out or at least get this guard out of the way.
I gripped a piece of metal from the cot, one of the legs, and urged it to bend more.
I’d been manipulating it for days and kept doing it until it finally did what I wanted.
It snapped.
I cursed as the bed went down, one corner crashing to the floor as I leaned on it and tumbled from the bed. The vamp came over, frowning as he took a second to look at what had happened. I only needed a second.
I jumped up, shoving the metal into his neck.
It went through his flesh as his mouth fell open, blood pouring down his front, soaking his fancy shirts as he stared wide-eyed at me. I watched before ripping the metal from his neck and shoved him back to Kai, who I had seen twitch.
He was fast, and I had no doubt he would catch on quickly. He did.
Kai wrapped his legs around the vamp as he tried to heal the neck wound, then I hobbled to the wall, ripped the blade out of it, and slipped it across the screeching vamp’s neck. I sliced right through, a second before Kai ripped his head clean off.
The vamp’s body crumbled to the ground, turning to dust as I grinned. Kai did too, blood dripping down his chin as his eyes flashed, the fight feeding the need in him.
“That felt good,” I breathed, not even guilty for what I had done. Instead, I was empowered.
“Get me out of these, Little Luna,” Kai said then, and I rushed forward with the blade, using it to pry the stupid shackles from the wall. We were still bound in them, but at least we weren’t on the wall and had access to the weapons.
I grabbed them and handed some back to Kai before we got our ankles free.
“Let’s get out of here,” Kai said, and I nodded, rushing for the door.
Just as I reached it, a searing pain blew through my head, and I screamed, the entire room melting away, the freedom disappearing before me. I cried out as Kai dissolved into nothing, the weapons melted into pools on the concrete floor.
And then I was back in the cell, still shackled to the wall.
Still in pain, much harsher than I remembered, and Kai was still passed out.
Tears streaked my cheeks as my eyes adjusted in the dim light of the torch on the wall, the cell quiet as Silas stood there, spinning a dagger in his hand, a grin on his face.
I realized I had never actually gotten out, killed his guard, or done anything but pass out and make up a reality far better than the one Silas gave me.
“And you’re back. Thought we lost you there for a second. Poor Nikolai here about had a heart attack. Then he passed out,” Silas taunted. I gritted my jaw, refusing to let another tear fall.
“I was just imagining beating you.”
“You’ll never beat me, winter born. I’m too strong for you.” He chuckled, but I grinned darkly.
“I don’t need to be strong, Silas. I’m not going to beat you by killing you; I’m going to beat you by always being the one you could never get, the one you could never tame, the one thing you always wanted but could never have. Whether you kill me or whether I get out, I will never give you what you want.” I smirked, and his eyes turned just as dark.
His teeth descended from his gums, but it wasn’t scary. It had been the first time; now, it was just an empty threat.
“We’ll see, winter born. But you have a lot of weaknesses, and maybe your mate here isn’t enough to get you changing your mind. But I’ll find the right pressure point eventually, and you’ll give me everything I want. I bet even your mates will if I give them the right motivation.” Silas grinned, stepping forward with his long talon going down the front of my body.
I only had the protection of what used to be the white underwear I had worn, but it wasn’t enough to stop the shiver that racked through me at his cold touch. I glared at him, but I wasn’t scared.
“You think I am scared of your touch? I’m not. If that’s what you want to do, then go ahead, but I will still not give you what you want.”
“Oh? And you think your mates can handle my scent all over you? Taste it on you when I give you back? How do you think they’ll react when they know I have been inside you?”
“It’s just a body. Sex. It means nothing, and they are not with me because I am untouched by others; they are with me because our souls are linked. So you destroy me, so you touch and taste what isn’t yours, it will only make them more determined to kill you. And I’ll be right there with them because our mating bond will survive you,” I spat.
He snarled, spinning away, feeling the vehemence in my voice. I made sure it was there so he knew exactly how serious I was.
We both knew he had no interest in me like he was implying, and doing anything about it just to get a reaction from the alphas was a dumb move. It would make them feral, not amicable. He wouldn’t get anywhere near the area of what he wanted if he did; there would be no going back, and he wanted his power over them more.
“Then I guess we really are at an impasse. And that means it is time for phase three.” He grinned, and I narrowed my eyes on him.
“Phase three? You let us go, give up on your power-hungry dreams, and let us all live in peace?”
He laughed, then glared at me, going to the door.
“No. Phase three is where I go find your mother, use her as leverage, or kill her for your insubordination. Either way, I think you will understand the severity of your situation once I return. Enjoy your night, winter born.”
“Wait!” I screamed, my mind breaking at the idea he would attack my mom. I trusted my alphas to keep her safe, but I couldn’t guarantee her survival if I wasn’t there, and I needed that.
He turned to me before he left.
“Something to add, winter born?” he asked smugly, and I snarled at him.
“Don’t hurt her.”
“Unless you have an agreeable statement in there, I don’t believe I have a choice.”
I screamed out as he slammed the door shut. I yanked on the chains, desperate to get out as I called for him, but he never came back in.
“He won’t kill her, Little Luna,” Kai breathed, groaning as he stood up from where he had been hanging, passed out. He leaned against the wall, his body bruised again.
“Not if I can get out of here,” I bit, and forced my magic and shadows against my skin again.
I pushed and pushed until the pain was all I could feel, my skin about to burst as I tried and tried to get the power out of me. But instead, I screamed. My head exploded in searing, blinding pain that had me collapsing, jarring my already aching bones in the shackles.
I tried again anyway.
“Stop. You’ll make it worse,” Kai snapped, breaking through my desperation, and I almost cried. I was almost broken, almost at that point that Silas wanted me at.
Desperate enough to say something dumb like Yes.
“I can’t lose her, Kai.”
“I know, Little Luna, and you won’t. Brax and Derik won’t let her go, and neither will Galen. Trust me, if she is with him, she is safe. He has something inside him, some adaptation of the wolf that makes him different. It’s like he has alpha blood in him, but it’s impossible. But I do know Silas won’t get near her. Be sure of that, trust the pack,” Kai breathed, his eyes fluttering closed.
“Kai?” I asked, feeling him through the link, letting him in before gritting my teeth against the pain it let in. “Your heart is racing.”
“I’m good,” he said, but I didn’t believe him.
“Your heart is too.” He smirked, and I took a minute. It was.
“Because my shadows and magic tried to get out. Why is yours?” I demanded, his chest aching in mine.
“Because I am trying to keep my shit together, Little Luna, and am close to doing a terrible job at it. My wolf is angry, desperate, and wants to get you out of here, but we are trapped, and I can’t. It doesn’t feel good, especially when I can feel how much pain you’re in,” he said through gritted teeth, trying to slow his breathing.
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