Therewas silence for a moment.‘Sadie, they are coming to take another girl forimplantation in the morning. We need to get out tonight. Stay awake.’
Ifelt Sadie’s apprehension at my news.‘Okay, we’ll be ready.’
Werewolvesslept at night like normal people. We would be a weak and tired bunch by thetime we got out of here, but it was the only way. Now, I just needed to get outof this cage. Once I had word that Tara was free of the torture chamber, Icould go to work on getting us out of here.
‘Sadie,tell Tara that Max loves her. He wanted to tell her but didn’t get the chance,’I added.
Ifelt fear roll through Sadie.‘You don’t think we will get out of here.’
‘No,I just want her to know. To give her hope.’Right? I looked down at my arm, which was slowly dripping blood into thebag. How much blood could I afford to lose? Would it start to weaken my power?Blood. Blood! A light bulb went off. I was an Alpha now and Alpha blood was themost powerful for spell casting. I grinned.
‘Ihave a crazy idea,’I told Sadie.
‘Good,I’m down for crazy right now,’she replied.
‘TakeChelsea hostage. Make a weapon and threaten to bash her belly in with it. Anythingto create a distraction.’
‘Wow,you really weren’t kidding when you said crazy. What if they hurt Kylee?’she replied.
Myinner wolf didn’t like her challenging my order. But an Alpha did what was goodfor the whole of a pack, not just one, and Chelsea more than anyone, wouldunderstand. She wouldn’t want any other girls to get pregnant.‘Then youhurt Chelsea. Just enough to get their attention.’
‘Shit,’Sadie said.
Shitwas right. It was risky but needed to be done. We couldn’t cower anymore andlet them play us against each other.
‘Chelsea,I promise I wouldn’t do something if it weren’t for the good of the pack,’I told her.
Ifelt her nerves run through the pack bond. She had just been taken back to theroom of girls and seeing the freaky baby again had affected her. She wanted itout. Now.
‘What’sgoing on?’Chelsea asked.
‘Iam alone in the room now and I have a way out of the cage. I need a distractionso I can free Kylee and get us all out of here. I ordered Sadie to use you as ahostage. To hurt you to send them a message.’
Atfirst I got nothing from her. Blank. No feelings. Then Acceptance. Pride.Trust.
‘It’sa good idea. Let’s do it,’she said.
Somethingsettled inside of me. These girls, though I barely knew them, were my pack now.Family. I had to get us all out of here. Using my free left hand, I pulled afew hairs from my head. Wincing, I detached the blood bag from my IV cuff,dropping it to the floor. Then I let the tubing drip blood into my open lefthand and saturate the hairs there. Next, I closed the clamp, pinching the IVshut.
Makinga fist with my left hand, I squeezed the blood and hair together.
Itook a few deep breaths, centering myself and closing my eyes, calling on mymagic. “Blood of an Alpha, I give thee. Remove all obstacles that would blockmy path. I am not lost, I am not hidden. Let this blood and hair be a beacon inthe night! All who seek shall find me now!” I called out and opened my eyes. Itdidn’t rhyme but mist saturated the entire room and my skin tingled in responseto the spell. I smiled and knew without a doubt that Kai and Sylvia could findme now.
I stuck my blood and hair covered hand out ofthe small access panel that Layla left open and began to inspect the lock. Itwas a keyed lock and I hadn’t even noticed the doctor locking it before, so whoknew where the key was. I should have paid better attention! I yanked at ithard and produced nothing but a broken nail. The U-shaped loop that the lockwas threaded through looked more fragile than the lock itself. Slowly, I beganto twist hard to the left and right and saw that the loop was bending. Yes! Ibegan to chant a spell for physical strength, and I felt the Devi rise insideof me, finally ready to end this all. “Blood and Hairs, Strength over fears.Blood and hairs, strength over fears!” Mist covered the lock.
Painshot through the pack bond. Sadie!
‘What’sgoing on?’I had been sofocused on the spell casting, I hadn’t paid attention to the diversion. All of asudden the monitor flared to life and Kylee screamed.
‘Thesebastards shot me!’Sadie told me,panting.
‘HurtChelsea!’I ordered. It felt wrong butit was our only hand to play.
Ifelt Chelsea’s pain shoot through the pack bond as my order was carried out.
ThenI yanked the lock, hard. Snap! The lock popped off and I threw it to the groundwith a satisfying thunk.
Afteropening the large cage door confining me, I reached down and began to undo thebindings holding me, just as I heard the door to my room begin to scrape open. No!Releasing the last binding holding my leg and ripping off the arm cuff, I threwmyself at the person entering the room with vampire speed. It was the doctorand she had a big, thick metal syringe on her tray. I grabbed it and shoved thepoint in her chest. Then I spun and kicked it hard with my foot, sending itthrough her chest as she puffed to ash.
