Chapter 31 Ryan.
Creeds pov.
The whip comes down again, what feels like the millionth time. My stomach and legs are coated in my blood, my wounds not healing the way they’re supposed to, without Hunters' presence they’ll never heal properly.
The only thing I can do is not give him the satisfaction of hearing my pain.
Everytime he hits me and I don’t cry out, his eyes get darker, and darker. His hits are becoming more brutal than his last. Until he finally snaps.
“Pathetic! I know something else that’ll get you talking..” he mutters while walking towards the wall, where the pliers are.
I feel my hands becoming a little sweaty, not because I’m scared but because I hate the fact I’m strapped down, unable to defend myself.
My anger is starting to consume me but I won’t let him have the satisfaction of knowing he’s making me suffer.
Walking towards me like a predator would to his prey, he grabs my foot with his hand, bringing the pliers down, gripping my toenail, and then… splat. He rips my toenail clean off, blood spraying him and the wall behind him.
The urge to scream, yell, fuck, anything! The pain I feel is like nothing else. All I want to do is yell at this mother fucker, scream at the top of my lungs about how much this hurts. But I don’t. I clench my jaw and grit my teeth. Ball it up and swallow it down. No noises can be heard but the harsh sound of my heartbeat and rapid breathing.
Did that ever make Gareth angry, for the rest of the day he tortured me, trying to make me break. When he finally realized nothing was working he sighed and took his bloodied gloves off.
“I guess this is the last resort then,” he says calmly. Walking towards the wall he grabs what seems like a remote off it. Walking back over towards me he smirks and waves it around, “do you want to know what this does, Creed?” He begins to say, “it’ll reveal what’s on the other side of that wall,” he points to my right. I turn my head slowly just as he clicks the button, revealing what I feared most. Lily.
Lily's pov.
God my fucking head hurts. I go to sit up but realize I’m chained to a wall, my hands bound with enchanted chains.
The whole room smells like piss and blood, adding to the disgust I feel right now. My own flesh and blood. A half brother. He did this to me.
‘Sapphire..?’ I whisper in my mind.
‘I’m here, Lily,’ she responds immediately. I physically relax from hearing her voice.
‘Oh Sapphire, you have no idea how happy I am to hear your voice, I thought maybe you wouldn’t be there when I woke up,‘ say to her.
‘We are the most powerful after all, no matter what, I’ll never leave you. No amount of poison would take me away,’ she speaks softly.
I look around now, really take in my surroundings. I’m in a dirt room, the walls are concrete except the one is black. I stiffen when I realize it’s where I’m being watched from.
My hands are bound by chains, my feet are the only exception. They have a small bottle of water and a piece of bread a few feet away from me.
I scoff but reach for the water bottle, smelling it for anything they could’ve put in it, when I don’t find anything wrong with it I start chugging it down.
Wiping my mouth I throw the bottle away, I wouldn’t even touch that soggy piece of bread if I was starving.
I start thinking about what I should do next and how I should go about escaping from here when all of a sudden I hear a noise coming from the black wall, it slowly starts to reveal what’s on the other side and I gasp at the sight.
Creed is strapped down to a bed in what looks like a torture chamber, Gareth standing there with a sinister grin on his face and Creeds blood all over him.
I gasp and cry out, “Creed!”
Gareth laughs and claps his hands excitedly, “yes! The real fun starts.”
All of a sudden a secret door is being opened from the other side of this room. In walks the last person I wanted to see. My father.
“Daughter,” he says with a huge smile on his face, “did you really think you could stay hidden forever? I’ve been searching, waiting and watching you and your mother. It was only a matter of time until you came home, I’ve always told Gareth you’d return home, didn’t I son?”
I look towards Gareth and he has a dark gleam in his eyes, “yes, father,” he says, his jaw clenched. I can tell from here that Gareth has a lot of won’t up anger and resentment.
“Leave me alone, I want nothing to do with you,” I say emotionlessly to my father.
He looks angry but talks back anyways, “I see I’ll need to beat obedience into you.. so be it then.”
Ryan’s pov:
It’s been three days. Creed said if he didn’t contact us in three days to prepare an army to come find him, I get up from the desk I’m working at in my suit and start walking to Creeds office where Jason is currently working.
Getting there quickly I push open the door with no hesitation, clearly I should’ve knocked as a woman gasps and frantically covers her massive tits.
Jason pulls out of her with an audible noise pulling his pants up quickly, “what the fuck man?” He says to me, “ever heard of knocking?”
I can’t even believe this is something he can do right now, Creeds out there being tortured or even killed right now, he trusted us with the tribe and he’s using Creeds office to fuck some chick?
“Have some decency, ‘man’, our alpha has been gone for three days and we haven’t heard anything, or have you forgotten?” I snapped at him. He had the nerve to look guilty.
“Fuck! Lesandra, leave,” he curses, rushing the chick out of the office door. “I didn’t realize the date, fuck! We need to get an army ready so you can lead them into battle,” he says quickly.
I narrow my eyes at him and cross my arms on my chest. Ryan hasn’t been acting like himself these last few days, as if stepping up into Creed's position has started to make him power hungry.
“What’s gotten into you? You haven’t been acting like yourself, that chick? Lesandra? You know how much she wants to become Creed's queen! She comes in here unannounced trying to worm her way into his bed! She’d even go as far as saying she slipped and ‘accidentally’ fell on his dick!” I say exasperated.
Ryan rolls his eyes and runs a hand through his hair anxiously.
“Fuck, man! I don’t know! I was doing paperwork when she just walked in here, I looked up and there she was, she started stripping and walked towards me and the next thing I know… things happened. It’s not my proudest moment but I have needs,” he says, grasping for an excuse.
“Whatever, man. We need to get our heads in the game now, our king is in danger. I’m going outside to talk to the warriors,” I mutter, barely finishing before I close the office door.
Making my way outside I can’t stop thinking about Creed, even his mate, Lily. He’s doing all of this for her. Our queen. I hope one day I’ll find my mate. Clearly the bond between mates is incredible, the way they looked at each other as if they were each other's whole world. I’ll do anything in my power to save them.
As I’m finishing my explanation to the warriors, I hear something coming from the woods, “warriors! Get ready, something's coming!”
Everyone gets in their fighting stances, preparing for an attack, the sounds of branches breaking and growls reverberates through my mind. The next thing I know the most amazing smell makes it’s way to my nose… my dragon Olli perks up at the smell
‘Mate? Mine?’ He asks.
‘I don’t know Olli, we’re about to find out,’ I answer him.
Not even a minute later a big brown wolf with a woman on their back comes barreling through the tree line. They make eye contact with me and my whole world changes.
“Mine!” I yell out. I start running towards the brown wolf, needing to be closer, to touch her.