Iglanced over at Sadie.‘Okay, now tell me how this place works.’
Shemet my eyes.‘Every couple of days they come grab one of us to torture. Theywill open the cage and take out Tara and then shove the new one in. There willbe about six vampires that do the switch. Tara will be too weak to fight.’
Shit.They really had this planned out. They were playing on our humanity, our packmentality and togetherness. An idea struck me and I grinned. Sadie gave me alook that said she thought I was crazy.
Ilooked at the blonde dominant one that was carrying Layla’s baby. Her name wasChelsea. If they wanted to hurt one of ours, I would hurt one of theirs.
Justthen, the door opened quickly and five vampires with silver bullet guns walkedin and surrounded me.
“Yourroom is ready,” one of them said to me, sneering.
Chelseaand Sadie stood and snarled at the vampires.
Icouldn’t fight or they would hurt Tara. Being in this position, having to actweak and let them take me was one of the hardest things I had ever done.
Thetwo vampires nearest me grabbed my upper biceps and Sadie growled again.
‘No!’I told her and let Alpha power ooze from mycommand.
Shelooked down at her feet.
Ilooked at my pack; they looked renewed with hope and ready for a fight.‘You’reall my pack now. I will take care of you and I will get us out of here. Sadieis in charge while I’m gone.’
Thegirls nodded. Then the vampires tightened their grip on my arms, completelyunaware that I could communicate to the girls without speaking, and forced meto walk out of the room. They reeked of heroin. The metallic scent hit the backof my throat and nearly made me gag. I wanted to let the Devi loose and rage onthese bloodsuckers so bad but I calmed myself. I loved Tara and Max andeveryone else who would be affected if Tara was killed. I had to be patient anddo this the right way.
Theywalked me down the cement hall as I tried to look for any indication of wherewe were. It looked like a few signs had been spray painted over. They had beenplanning this a while. I sighed. God, I missed Kai. Although I drew strengthfrom my newly formed pack, it felt wrong not to be in the same pack as yourmate. As we passed a door, a scent pulled at my attention. Tara? I inhaleddeeper. Yes, Tara! Two doors down from where I smelled her, the bloodsuckers stoppedand banged on another steel door.
Itslowly opened to reveal a tall female vampire who wore a starched white labcoat. Her hair was jet black and cropped short, and her face held no mercy. Shepinned me with her evil eyes and nodded her head to the vampires holding me. AsI was led inside, I glanced around the huge room and my eyes fell on a medieval-lookingstand-up steel cage with straps that bolted it to the wall. Oh, shit.Everything in me wanted to shift into my wolf form and run the hell away fromhere. Then my eyes flicked to a large medical examination table on the farwall. Resting on a side table, were some surgical instruments, an ultrasoundmachine and the monitor that showed Tara. I knew what this room was. It waswhere they implanted Chelsea, I was sure of it. I could smell her all over it.Oh God. I squinted at the monitor showing Tara. The black and white screenshowed her lying there limply, barely breathing. The feelings I was having werescaring me. I wanted to murder every single last one of these bastards for whatthey had done to her, to all of us. I wanted to burn this entire place to theground for the way they were playing us off of each other. I didn’t feel humanin that moment, I felt like a monster. A very powerful, pissed off monster hell-benton revenge.
Thedoctor strode across the room and unfastened some buckles, opening the cage.“Be a good girl,” she told me and gestured that I walk into the cage. I took afew deep breaths, fighting my instinct, pushing my wolf down, pushing the Devidown, and crossed the large room walking over to the cage. The two male vampiresstrapped me inside of the cage, leaving the door open. One of them grazed myboob as he strapped me down and then smiled, giving me a lusty look. I let agrowl rumble deep and long in my chest, glaring at him with yellow eyes. TheDevi’s deadly power was bubbling just beneath the surface of my skin, I couldbring this entire building down on us if I chose to. It was a scary thought andI was feeling less and less in control by the minute.
Theboob grazer looked at the doctor and gestured to me. “Queen Layla wants to knowif she can be used as an incubator as well?”
Myfood threatened to come up. No. No. No.
Thedoctor seemed to consider it, pressing one red manicured finger to her chin.
OhGod. If Gretchen was right, then I was pregnant. If the vampires found out,they would abort my baby. I tried not to whimper and suddenly felt Kai’senergy, far away, weak but frantic. I felt him. I needed him.
Thedoctor shook her head. “Too risky. What if getting her pregnant freezes thefertility powers of her blood? No. Tell Queen Layla to get more femalewerewolves.”
Thebreath I had been holding whooshed out of me. I could tell my new pack wasrestless worrying about me.
‘I’mfine,’I sent to them and theirenergy settled slowly.
Then,the doctor reached into her pocket and produced a thin silver chain, touchingit to my skin, I glared at her.
Shesmiled, flashing her pointed canines.
“Incredible,”she stated when she saw that I did not react to the silver.
Ididn’t smell heroin on her but her eyes were black as night and gave me thecreeps.
“Doyou know why silver harms werewolves?” she asked me as she fiddled with aplastic IV tube.
Whatthe hell, was this class time? I was about to get a lecture on werewolves andsilver? Jesus. I shook my head. I was pretty sure pissing this woman off was abad idea so I would play along.
“Inhuman studies, microscopic amounts of liquid silver are beneficial in killingviruses. So when used on a werewolf, it begins to kill the lycanthrope virus.Since the lycanthrope virus has already killed the human, once you kill thevirus, there is nothing left. Dead as a doornail,” she said, cheerily.
