Pushing myself up from the lounge Reynolds and Theo shot me a look. "I'm just going to go for a walk to clear my head." "We'll come with you." Reynolds says as both he and Theo stand up. I shake my head at them and the both give a look to each other. "Unless it's in this suite we can't let you out of our sight." "Please," my hands where shaking as I pushed them into the pocket of the jumper. "I want to get out of this room and be by myself for a little bit." Reynolds inhales deeply and his eyes glaze over slightly. "Ryder says that you can only walk around the top two floors of the west wing of the castle. There are still guards around but they won't bother you. He also wants you to know that if you want to talk to him, he'll come up." He says to me after five minutes of waiting. Letting out a deep breathe I know that I don't have any more wiggle room after that. Ryder didn't want to see me get hurt but I still wanted a bit more of a freedom. Getting out of the room I nod at the other four guards that are stood by the doors. Locking my arms over my stomach I continue down the long corridor of the top floor of the castle. It was always quiet up here. It was only me, Ryder and his parents on the floor but there was always at least four guards around 24/7 as well. I didn't want to be on this floor anymore so I make my way down the stairs to the next floor. This floor had more warmth to it. My feet carried me towards the windows that look out on the woods. The sun was out today and the shadows that the trees casted were beautiful as they danced with the wind. Inhaling deeply I watch the guards pace around the castles perimeter. There was double the amount that I usually saw and half of them were already shifted into their wolves, ready to attack the imminent threat of the rebels. "Miss Charlotte," turning towards the guard I eye him up and down. He's breathing heavily, his black hair falling in front of his eyes. "I'm so sorry." Quickly his hand comes up over my mouth and I don't have time to react before he grabbed me around the waist and blocked my nose, forcing me to breathe in whatever he had in his hand. He continued to apologise to me as I squirmed in his arms trying to escape his hold. Eventually he removed his hand as I stopped struggling and my thoughts started to get fuzzy. It took less than thirty seconds for whatever drugs he gave me to kick in. Pulling my up into his arms he gives a quick look around to see if there are any other guards before he sneaks behind a secret door. "Don't try. You'll just make yourself nauseous." The guard says to me his voice tense. "Try what?" my voice is breathless as my head lolls back over his arm. "What are you doing to me?" "Don't try and contact your guards or the king." It's all he says as we finally enter back into another room that wasn't a dark and secret back corridor. We were in the car garage which I knew was in the basement of the castle but I had never been to before. Whatever was in the drugs that he had given me, made me so of out of it, I hadn't even felt that I had been carried down five floors. Slowly he placed me in the front seat of one of the large SUV's. My hands tried to push his away as he buckled up my seatbelt but my push was too weak. In my head I could see myself with the strength to remove his touch but somehow it just wouldn't connect to my limbs. Again he said sorry before he walked around and got into the driver's seat, quickly pulling out of the garage and up the drive way. I tried to push myself into Ryder's mind and tell him where I was but it wasn't working and it was making me feel sick. The further we got from the castle, the more worried I got because I couldn't feel him anymore. "What's your name?" I whisper my head twisting to look at him. His jaw clenches and his grip tightens on the steering wheel. He couldn't be any older than twenty five but he looked so much older in this moment just because of his tight facial expression. "Travis." His eyes quickly flick towards me before they concentrate back on the dirt road he was driving us down. Trees lined the road and got thicker the further we drove and I knew that we were headed deeper into the woods. "What are you doing?" I ask again, my hands shaking as I start to worry about what this guy is doing. He gulps and shakes his head. The muscles in his arms tightening as he tries to stop his wolf from taking over. "I'm taking you to the rebel's base camp." "Why," my voice shakes as I try to move but again my brain won't connect to my body and my movement is to slow to do me any good. "They want Ryder's throne, they want him and they'll kill me to get to him. You're part of his pack, why are you betraying him?" His wolf is on the surface, I can tell by how much he's shaking to hold him back. "They're going to get him the same way they got to me."