Cassidy felt sick listening to the men, but was grateful for the voice of reason that backed the others down.
They got her into the elevator and went down to the lowest floor.
The same floor that James had taken her to.
It had been weeks, but she could still pick up his scent and like a lovesick pup, the she–wolf whimpered with the need to just be near the alpha again.
She would even take being tied up in the room at the end of the hall if the Alpha was there with her.
There was no such luck for her as the almost immediately out of the elevator into a tiled shower room.
guards turned She thought she was over the rejection and the man behind it.
She had embraced the anger and hatred for the wolf that made her feel half alive when she dwelled on it.
Sadness swept through her strong enough she didn’t fight when the catch poles came through the bars and the wire loops were slipped over her head and tightened.
The only thing she could focus on was that faint scent imprinted in her memories and the heart wrenching sadness that came with it.
The door to the kennel was opened and the guards walked her free–out of it, two holding the catch poles looking warily at the she–wolfs compliance when every time before she had fought tooth and nail.
The kennel was wheeled away by one of the guards to be cleaned and the third that remained with her and the two other guards had come back with a hose and did not waste another minute in delaying what their orders were.
Ice cold water hit her directly head on, she not expecting it to be so forceful and so frigid and it snapped her out of her melancholy state.
She struggled against the poles to get away from the water, growling and snapping, but all it did was get her backed against the wall, taking the ice cold water as the guard hosed her off.
When the kennel was cleaned, they turned the water off and put her right back into the kennel.
The men were laughing, joking over her misfortune of getting a cold bath and while they were laughing, while they had been holding her hostage with the poles and freezing her to the bone, Cassidy took in deep breaths of their scents and put them to her memory.
These three, the three who had been planning on the trip to this hose down… These three would be on her list of revenge as well.
By the time they were wheeling her back into the room, the Beta was standing just outside of the door with a frown on his face and she caught the scent of the alpha again.
Strong.
As if he had just been here and in the room as she was taken back inside.
She had no idea that James had felt her distress and panic nor that the fear he felt from her had him tearing through the forest with Alaric hot on his heels as James raced to the prison.
Or that Alaric had to talk the Alpha down from going downstairs and ripping the guards to shreds before he talked the wolf into leaving the prison and getting back home.
The she–wolf whimpered and whined, knowing her mate had been here.
He had come back hadn’t he?
He was going to accept her now?
“Give them both extra rations tonight.” The beta had ordered the guards by the time the door was closing after she was put back in her place.
It took her a minute to notice Jett was back already, chained with a busted up lip but a smirk on his face as if he had been the wolf that caught the hare.
Cassidy snorted, not finding anything amusing about anything that had happened through the day and she lay down with the intention to sleep.
There was silence in the cell as Jett did manage to fall into a light nap and with the silence her mind started to wander a little.
Jame’s scent in the room was almost torture for her and her mind and soul focused on him.
She remembered his voice and his touch.
How kind he had seemed before he rejected her and walked away.
She relived the pain of that moment and she and her wolf together began to howl, soft and low.
Cassidy had never howled before in her life, but at this moment with the memories flooding through her mind as if it were just minutes ago, it seemed like the right thing to do.
Jett had napped and when Cassidy began to howl, he had woken up and watched her from across the room with a knowing expression in his eyes.
The BlackStone Beta knew and could see what his Alpha stubbornly refused to see.
Jett could see what his own Alpha refused to see.
Both betas knew the alphas were mates.
The question was how good of a match were they for each other?
James did not want to even give Cassidy a chance and that alone could crush any normal wolfs soul.
Yet here his alpha was, caged by her own mate and singing for him to come to her.
“You know Cassi… your mother used to say when you sing from the heart, the heart listens.” He said quietly from where he said, a soft smile on his face as Cassidy ignored him and kept calling for her mate.
Jett’s words of what her mother would have said didn’t matter to Cass anymore.
Her heart wanted what her heart wanted and right now, that was the black haired and green eyed man that was her mate.
She continued to howl for him, her wolf doing her best to call the alpha to her.
She didn’t expect him to come.
She didn’t expect anyone to come at her calling really, but when the metallic latch clicked open and the door slowly opened, Cassidy was on her feet, happiness spreading through her and her wolf bouncing for joy that the Alpha had finally come back for her!
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