Chapter 48: Chapter Fouty Eight
Lily POV
Smacking into each other with so much force we burst from the darkness and I felt her fur brush against my hand as we both looked out the eyes of our human vessel. I move closer, debating whether I should take the reins back.
“You can do this Lily, I am here with you” Layla says, her fur brushing against me in encouragement.
“I don’t want to feel the pain”
“Then don’t, focus on something else, focus on our mate” She says, nudging me forward.
I go to run back when Layla gets in my way, blocking my way back to the void of darkness.
“I can’t Layla”
“You can, I am right here. Right here, Lily. Where I have always been,” She says her Sapphire and amber eyes burning into me.
"We are one. I won’t let you fall, not again. You can trust me"
That’s when I felt it, the overwhelming feeling of every emotion I ever felt rush into me, but that wasn’t all I felt as I felt hers rushing over me to making me gasp and I realized she was giving it to me, showing me she would always be there, that she has always been there. Watching from the shadows, but she was there watching and feeling everything with me.
So I let go, let go of everything and I felt stronger and more in tune to her.
Layla always thought we needed a mate to fix us, and I always thought I needed a different wolf, but what we really needed was each other. To let the walls we built up between us come crashing down. Brick by brick they fell, and I snapped back to reality, snapping out of my head and into the present.
Opening my eyes, I felt heavy, like I haven’t moved in weeks. I try to sit up, but even that is a task in itself, as I prop myself up on the headboard. Looking around the room, I try to figure out where I am. I don’t recognise this room. The walls padded with white padding;
I try to reach up and rub my eyes only to find cuffs holding my wrists to the bed, my ankles also shackled to the bed. I yank them, trying to free myself, when that doesn’t work. I feel Layla press against my skin.
“Layla, can we shift?” I ask and I feel her force the shift, I scream from the snapping of bones and I can tell wherever we are, we have been here awhile, because shifting isn’t usually this painful. I feel the cuffs slide off our paws and the hospital gown is shredded on the bed. Jumping off the bed we land on our paws on the floor, which is also padded.
Shifting back, I am left in a coat of sweat as pain wracked every muscle and bone in my body. There are no windows to let us know if it is day or night, turning I see a door. When it hits me, the room upstairs. I recognise the steel door. The prison Damien made for us. The one I thought I would never see the inside of.
“What did you do, Layla, that we would get locked in here?”
“I do not know, I just remember being stabbed by a needle then I went looking for you” Walking to the door, I pressed my hand against the cold steel before knocking on it. I hear no movement outside the door, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the place was sound proof.
“The mind link Lily,”
I nod in agreement with Layla before feeling for the bond.
“Damien?” I ask, and I feel his shock through the bond.
“Lily?”
“Can you let me out?”
“I can’t do that Lily”
“What, why? It is me Damien”
“I’m sorry Lily, it’s not safe”
“What do you mean it’s not safe”
“You’re not safe Lily, I won’t allow you to hurt anyone else”
“What are you talking about, let me out, this isn’t funny Damien?”
“I will come see you when I get home” He says before cutting the mind link.
“I don’t understand Layla, why won’t he let us out?”
“I..I don’t know, I swear I didn’t do anything else. I can only remember what I told you” Layla says and I can feel her disappointment and sadness rush over me. Sitting on the ground, I hug my knees to my chest, suddenly feeling cold.
“I just want it to stop, I want it to stop. I didn't understand, so I came back. I came back. Why doesn’t he want us now? Is it because of the baby?” I ask, scared that Damien tossed us aside for Tabitha.
“Shit, I forgot to tell you, that place really messes with your mind. It isn’t Damien's; she had her blood tested at the human facility and the results were wrong.
Damien isn’t the father, Tatum is,” Layla says, making my head snap up.
“What?”
“He isn’t the father of Lily, the results were wrong” I feel relieved at her words but that doesn’t explain why he has us locked away.
Why he doesn’t want us anymore”
We waited for Damien to arrive; I wasn’t sure how long it took but it did take a while before I heard the locks on the door twisting and groaning. His scent wafted throughout the room as he stepped in making my heart flutter, Layla purring in my head with excitement.
Hopping off the bed, I walk over and wrap my arms around his waist as he shuts the door. I feel him freeze and the muscles in his back tense at my actions, but I ignore his reaction just enjoying him being this close.
He turns around in my arms and I rest my head on his chest; I feel him brush my hair off my head before kissing the top of my head. The mate bond was a lot stronger now, and I felt tingles everywhere his skin was pressed against mine, maybe absence really does make the heart grow fonder.
His heartbeat thumped in his chest softly as I pressed my ear against his chest. I feel him fiddling with his back pocket and step away so he can retrieve what I assumed must have been his phone.
I walk over to the door, tugging on its handle only to find it locked. Turning around, I glare at him.
“Let me out Damien, I want to leave” I tell him. He shakes his head and I feel Layla suddenly become wary as we both look at our mate.
“I can’t do that, Layla” Layla? Confused, I feel my eyebrows furrow trying to remember anything, I could feel Layla doing the same and she couldn’t figure out why he was acting this way.
“No, it’s me Lily,” I tell him, yanking on the handle. I feel Damien step closer, making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Spinning around to face him, I go to demand he let me out when I see the syringe in his hand making my heart rate quicken.