Chapter 94

Eleanor:

“Fight, Eleanor…” a girl’s voice filled my head, taking me off guard. It was my wolf. “You need to fight for him,”

“You choose to disappear for years…”

“I did it for our safety.” She said, taking me off guard. My chest ached, and I forced myself to sit up as I watched the door open, revealing Elton. His eyes met mine, and I took a deep breath, bracing myself for what was to come. “Do not submit. He is only aiming to break us while doing so. For him, for our mate, fight.

The number of times that he has taken advantage of me have been countless, only this time, to my surprise, a strong urge to fight coursed through my veins. And though I didn’t understand how or why, I knew to hold on to it. It was the only thing keeping me going…

And I wasn’t dumb; I could tell that even Elton noticed.

“Eat.” He said, throwing a bowl of soup in front of me. I looked at the liquid, knowing that I was going to need to nourish myself, but I also knew that with my cuffed hands, the only way that I could do that was by me bending down as a dog would to do so. 

“What did I do to you, Elton?” I asked, shaking my head in question. “One day you were that lover, and the next you were the…”

“I said eat, I did not allow you to ask questions.” He said, stopping me. My heart ached, and I knew that I was testing my waters with what I was doing. But if my wolf wanted me to fight, after all the agony that I have been through, I was going to pretend to know how to say a word or two. 

“Keep going.” She urged again. I looked the man in the eye, it was the first time that I have done so in years, and he frowned before walking toward me. He grabbed my chin, digging his nails in my skin before banging my head against the wall behind me. “Do not submit.”

I took a deep breath and shook my head in question. 

“Does it feed your urge to do what you are doing to me?” I asked, ignoring the throbbing pain that was in the back of my head. I knew that my head was bleeding, but I knew that IF I showed him any signs of weakness, that I was going to be paying more and more for defying him right now.

“What are you holding onto? Because if you think that he would come to save you…”

“I am not holding onto anything, but I am curious about what I did that was so bad that had you hating me so much.” I said, stopping the man. He raised an eyebrow at that, especially since he knew that he punished me time and time for doing so. Before, I would be beaten until I could barely get up for simply talking back to him. And right now, I was asking him a question, stopping him from completing a sentence.

“Good, keep them coming, and surround him with it. He might get aggressive, but you are going to stay put.” She said in my head.

“Of all the times that you choose to connect with me, you choose this one?” I asked, keeping my eyes on Elton as I waited for his response. He looked down at my cuffs before breaking one of them. 

“Eat, you need to nourish your body if you are to give birth to your child.” He said, glaring down at my growing stomach. I looked down at it for a second before looking up at him. 

“I doubt that you would allow me to keep my baby, why do you want me to give birth to it?” I asked, shaking my head as I looked down at my free hand. I looked at the bowl, its smell filling my nostrils, and though I knew that it was leftovers, I knew to be thankful for whatever was to enter my system right now.

“I won’t, but it would be far more beneficial to send him the body after you’ve given birth, wouldn’t it?” He asked, and I took a deep breath. My chest ached, and the fact that I knew that it wasn’t his was something that I was thankful for. His doctors have checked on me and I was quick to figure out that I was pregnant a while before the island. It wasn’t something that he was thrilled about, but the threats that I got afterwards were uncountable.

“As to answer your question, you are mine and I am to do whatever it is that I want with you.” He said, and I took a deep breath. “At times, I do wonder how you tend to forget that you are nothing but a slave’s daughter. And without me, you are nothing.”

“And yet, you still need me alive, need me to give you a child to become the official Alpha of this pack.” I said, taking a deep breath as I knew that I was crossing a line that I shouldn’t. 

“If I am allowing you to talk, it is because I want to know how far the Ivanov has let you grow. But that does not mean that I won’t force you into a submission that you will never get out of.” He said, glaring daggers at me. I took a deep breath, but I still kept my eyes on his as he sat in front of me. The smell of piss and vomit filled the air around me, and I couldn’t help but wonder how it was possible for him to get aroused in such a stench.

“You know, one thing that I am going to tell you about Killian,” I said, and he frowned at the fact that I chose to address my mate by his name. My wolf calmed down, forcing me into a strength and peace like no other. “He is not going to break over me being locked here. The picture that you took of me, and I believe that was sent to him as proof of me being alive would break him even more.”

“What are you doing?” My wolf asked, clearly surprised by my attitude. It was one that even I didn’t expect, but I wasn’t going to be able to run from a dungeon. 

“Is that so?” He asked, raising an eyebrow.

“If I am being tormented by him, he has to save me.” I said, and my wolf paced around, growing weary. I had to force myself to control her as I kept a straight face in front of Elton. His eyes were focused on mine, studying my expression. “If I choose to be with you, it would mean that I was willing to break our bond to be yours.”

“And you are telling me that you are willing?”

“Of course, I am not.” I said, and he chuckled. “But consider this as free ‘advice’. You don’t deserve it, I know, but I am sick and tired of the way that you have been treating me.”

“And yet, you are suggesting that you become my wife?”

“On my own terms,” I said, and he raised an eyebrow.

“My, my, the little Eleanor grew up and is now throwing in bargains.” He said, laughing at me. “What is your little bargain, Eleanor?”

“I marry you and you spare my child, consider him or her yours. You can claim the name of Alpha if I have a baby, and no one has to know that the baby is Killian’s.” I said, looking the man dead in the eye as I gulped.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”

“The call is yours, Elton.” I said, looking down at the bowl before nodding at it. “And if you may, I would like to drink the soup, and I wouldn’t be able to reach it with the left cuff in my hand.”

He kept his eyes on me for a second before getting up and patting my cheek twice with his right hand. His eyes were focused on mine before he nodded, pushing the soup toward me before he walked toward the door. 

“I have to admit, you have spared yourself a night of peace.” He said, walking out of the cell before locking the door. “I expect the soup to be done when I am back.”

He walked toward the door before my wolf snapped.

“You have lost your mind.” She said, and I kept my eyes on the bowl for a second.

“You told me to fight and resist, but you didn’t give me the methods, did you?” I asked, picking up the bowl. “Don’t worry, I have a plan.”

“A very bad one, I have to add.” She said, scolding me.

“It worked the first time.” I said, recalling how I escaped the Estate a few months back. “I just have to find the right time to do it…”