Chapter 158: The Prisoner’s Return (Revised, please don’t but it repeatedly!)
Chapter 158: The Prisoner’s Return
(Vanessa’s POV)
My consciousness gradually returned like emerging from a deep, dark well. The world came back to me in fragments – cold metal beneath my body, the rumble of an engine, the sway of movement.
I turned my eyes to look around, blinking against the darkness. I found myself in a confined space, much like the cramped room on Frederick Warner’s vessel. The walls were metal, closing in on all sides.
Sensing the steady movement and vibration, I realized I was likely in a truck. This dark space must be the cargo compartment. My clothes were still damp from my near–drowning experience in the frigid ocean, but someone had given me a thick blanket.
They were probably afraid I would freeze to death before reaching their destination. Even mercenaries had their orders to keep me alive.
I huddled tightly in the blanket, wrapping my arms around myself. My shoulders trembled as quiet sobs escaped my lips. This journey had been incredibly difficult for me, the former Rivers pack foster daughter.
I no longer resembled a pampered heiress. Even without a mirror, I could imagine that I looked like a rogue omega wandering the pack territories without protection. My violet eyes were red–rimmed from crying and
exhaustion.
The thought made me sob harder. I had fallen so far from grace, from the elegant foster sister of Connor Rivers to this broken creature cowering in a truck.
Exhausted from crying, I leaned against the truck’s metal wall to rest. Despite the blanket, my damp clothes were still bone–chillingly cold. I shivered as if I were trapped in a freezing ice cave.
I figured the truck was heading towards Riverdale. Soon, in a few hours, I would see Connor Rivers. Though not under circumstances I had ever imagined in my wildest dreams.
Suddenly, a sharp slap landed across my face. “c***k-”
Victor Stone, the mercenary leader, struck me without hesitation. Blood immediately trickled from my mouth and a large red mark bloomed across my cheek.
“Shut up! If you make another sound, I’ll rip out your tongue!”
Although Victor’s voice wasn’t loud, it carried the dangerous authority of a seasoned killer. Every word dripped with cruelty and the promise of violence.
I was stunned by the slap, my cheek/burning with pain. Terrified by his words, I obediently fell silent. I no longer dared to struggle or make any sound.
These mercenaries hadn’t killed me, which meant Connor hadn’t yet decided to end my life. The likely just to capture me alive and deliver me to him.
The mercenaries had bound me with silve
sk was
Added to the library ed my wolf abilities. The metal burned
against my skin, making my wolf whimper in distress. They sealed my mouth with duct tape, then put a Black Hood of Captivity over my head.
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After that, they roughly tossed me into a pickup truck like a sack of grain. The vehicle bumped along the roa for what felt like hours. Every pothole sent jolts of pain through my already aching body.
Finally, the truck stopped. I felt myself being lifted up again, carried by rough hands. After walking for a while, 1 was once again violently thrown down.
The floor was metal, and the moment I landed, I felt as if every bone in my body was about to shatter. With my mouth taped shut, I couldn’t even cry out in pain. The fear within me caused me to tremble uncontrollably as my wolf whimpered in terror.
Footsteps approached with deliberate slowness. The sound of a zipper being pulled echoed above my head. The hood was yanked away, revealing my disheveled hair and terrified violet eyes.
I made muffled sounds through the tape, appearing extremely frightened. My hair was matted and dirty, my face pale and streaked with tears.
“The boss told me to let you out, afraid you’d suffocate to death and we wouldn’t be able to explain it to the Alpha,” Devin Hawkins said with a sly smile.
His eyes scanned me in a lecherous manner that made my skin crawl. “You do have some looks, too bad! can’t touch you right now. Otherwise, I’d really have to claim you!”
My face turned pale at his crude threat. I trembled with fear, pressing myself against the wall as far from him as possible.
After Devin left, I listened to the sound of waves crashing against the hull. Through a small ventilation window, I saw the endless expanse of sea. I realized I was still on Frederick’s vessel, The Crimson Vessel.
The ship rocked and swayed constantly, making me dizzy and nauseous. I had never been on a ship like this before. The seasickness was severe for my enhanced werewolf senses.
I vomited several times, my stomach heaving violently. No one came to clean up the mess. The stench of vomit lingered in the confined space, making me reek even worse than before.
“Connor, do you really hate me so much?” I whispered to myself, my voice breaking with despair. “Capturing me and throwing me on a ship like this. Do you really not have any old feelings for me?”
The words tasted bitter in my mouth. All those years of living as his foster sister, all those moments l thought we shared – had they meant nothing to him?
I huddled in the corner, hugging my knees tightly. The more I thought about it, the sadder I became. Tears streamed down my face uncontrollably, mixing with the grime and salt spray.
Later that night, the door opened with a harsh creak. Something was thrown at me, landing with a soft thud. “Cover yourself, don’t freeze to death!” The mercenary’s voice was gruff and uncaring.
After he threw the item, the door slammed shut again. I groped around in the darkness until my fingers found fabric. By the moonlight filtering through the ventilation opening, I made out that it was the Filthy Rancid Blanket.
It was covered with a thick layer of grime, so dark it was impossible to tell its original color. The blanket emitted a nauseating stench that made me gag. I felt disgusted and kicked it away, showing my revulsion. I used to live a life of luxury in the Rivers pack mansion. When had I ever suffered like this? Even when my birth mother was still alive, as the daughter of a servant, I had never experienced such degradation.
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The small sobs that escaped me were drowned out by the sound of the waves. Winter temperatures were already low, and on the sea, the nights were even colder. My enhanced werewolf sensitivity made every degree of cold feel like ice in my veins.
I was shivering uncontrollably, my lips turning a bluish–purple. It felt as if the blood in my veins was about to freeze solid. My teeth chattered so hard I thought they might c****.
Finally, I couldn’t bear it anymore. I picked up the dirty, smelly blanket with trembling hands. To survive, I had no choice but to wrap myself in that stinking covering. My pride as a former Rivers pack member crumbled with each passing hour.
The truck finally stopped after what felt like an eternity. I was violently dragged out of the vehicle by Connor’s security team. Their hands were rough and unforgiving as they hauled me to my feet.
I looked up and recognized the place immediately. It was Connor Rivers‘ secret facility, the Shadow Den: I had heard whispers about this place but had never been inside.
Without Connor’s approval, no one could enter this secure location. Not even Rivers pack elders were permitted here. Having arrived at Connor’s base, did it mean I would soon see him?
This day had finally come, though not as I had once dreamed in my foolish fantasies.
I was thrown into the basement detention area like a discarded doll. It was cold and damp, without heating or sunlight. This was a place designed to break the spirit of captured enemies.
The concrete walls seemed to press in on me, and the air was thick with the scent of fear and despair from previous prisoners.
Before long, Dominic Reeves walked in. Connor’s security chief whose failure to prevent my escape had earned him the Alpha’s wrath. His face was set in hard lines, his eyes cold as winter steel.
“Miss Reed, how have you been?” The man narrowed his eyes, his tone icy with professional detachment.” You were really hard to find.”
I trembled, my voice stuttering with fear. “What…, what do you want?”
Dominic grinned coldly, the expression never reaching his eyes. “What can I do? My mission was to capture you and bring you back. Now that the mission is complete, what to do with you is up to the Alpha.”
“Has… has he come?” I bit my lip, a glimmer of desperate hope appearing on my pale face despite everything I had done.
Even now, after all the betrayal and pain, part of me still hoped Connor might show mercy. That he might remember the girl who had once been his foster sister.
Seeing my pathetic state, Dominic couldn’t help but smile with dark amusement. “Miss Reed, don’t tell me you did all this for Alpha Connor? Do you have some delusional thoughts about the Alpha?”
I stubbornly retorted even though I was facing judgment. “What’s it to you?”
“Yes, it’s nothing to me. You should think about what you’re going to do next. The Alpha won’t show mercy.” “No, Connor won’t be so cruel to me!” My voice rose with desperate denial. “He used to care for me. Don’t scare me, Connor was so good to me, how could he bear to punish me?”
Dominic smiled strangely, his expression mixing pity with contempt. “Should I say you’re delusional or just
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plain stupid? The Alpha used to protect you because you were the Rivers family’s adopted daughter, his foster sister under pack law, but what about now?”
His words hit me like physical blows, each one stripping away another layer of my delusions.
“You helped Frederick Warner orchestrate attacks, with several lives on your hands. You’ve betrayed the Rivers pack. Do you think the Alpha will still be soft–hearted towards you now? You’re no longer pack–you’re
a rogue.”
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Hi dear readers, thanks for your reading! I have revised the storyline of this book. Original chapter 82 and chapter 84-88 have been adjusted to 157-161. Please don’t but it repeatedly! For those readers who have already bought them twice, please c*****t me through my sss. I will try my best to let Dreame give you some new chapters for free!
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