I cameto with a splitting headache, pain throbbing behind my eyelids so strongly that I whimpered.
‘Demi! Fucking answer me!’Sawyer’s angry voice screamed in my head and I grabbed my temples in agony.
My eyes snapped open as the memory of everything came crashing down on me. I kissed that other guy… thinking it was Sawyer… and then he announced he was taking Meredith as his new wife!
He didn’t believe me… and then the vampires kidnapped me.
Oh God.
The necklace. He’d been wearing some kind of ugly-ass necklace that was no doubt magically affecting him.
I peered around the room to find that I was lying on a cold concrete floor. There was a water bowl, like you would set out for a dog… and that was it. The room was tiny, more like a jail cell, but with a normal door and handle. The walls were plaster and I wondered if I could somehow peel at the plaster and break through into the next room or the outside. My eyes flicked down to the cuffs at my wrists and I whimpered again.
‘Demi! Enough with this shit. Where are you?’Sawyer thundered again in my head and tears filled my eyes.
‘Fuck you,’I managed to send before the cuffs sent an electrical jolt up my arms, causing me to cry out in pain.
Talking to Sawyer mentally must use magic, and that triggered the cuffs to hurt me.
Great.
‘Demi!’Sawyer’s voice threaded with annoyance at hearing my reply.‘Where are you? I’ve got half the damn campus looking for you. Eugene says he lost you and—’
‘Fuck you,’I said again, and the pain shot up my arms for a second time, but this time I clenched my teeth and pushed through the discomfort. My current anger at Sawyer was making this pain bearable. It was nothing compared to the ache in my heart.
I felt him bristle; we were tied together emotionally through the imprint, and it was hard to tease his emotions from my own.
‘Demi. Why do I feel pain from you? Where. Are. You?’
What the hell did he care? He chose Meredith. Magical necklace or not.
That motherfucker.
I sighed, realizing he was my only link to the outside world.‘Vampire City, I think. Kidnapped. Can’t talk much. Cuffed. Electric,’I sent back as shock after shock ripped through me and into him.
‘No!’he screamed, before I felt a possessive surge overcome me. My wolf bristled as Sawyer’s alpha presence overwhelmed us both. It was as if he was trying to jump through our imprint and join me here.
‘I thought you were lying about the vampires…’he said, his voice devoid of emotion. His actual emotions were something else completely.
Something wasn’t right with him. He felt off, as if anytime he had a normal emotion it was tamped down. I had nothing to say to that so I stayed silent, deciding to sit up and have a look around. How long was I out? Were there drugs in the water? I didn’t want to drink from the bowl like a dog; it seemed like an interrogation tactic to make me feel less human. But Iwasthirsty. I scanned the ceiling and then the air vent, zeroing in on a tiny red blinking light.
Camera.
I peered right at it and gave whoever was watching the middle finger.
‘I’m coming for you,’Sawyer said, but I ignored him.
Fuck him. Fuck everyone right now.
The clickity clack of footsteps echoed down the hall and I bristled. Maybe the middle finger was a bad idea. Before I had time to prepare, the door burst open and two men in lab coats entered with Queen Drake.
I froze upon seeing Vicon’s mother. After what he did to me, and knowing she was trying to get Sawyer arrested for his murder, it made fresh hot rage surge inside of me. Her black hair was pulled into a tight high bun, and she wore a white silk blouse that nearly matched the color of her skin.
“What do we know?” she asked the man in the white lab coat, ignoring me as I stood, fisting my hands together and preparing to fight them. I might only be a useless human with these cuffs on, but I was a decent fighter and I wouldn’t die without at least breaking her nose.
“Lay back down!” the second vampire in a lab coat said to me, producing a long stick with two blue glowing wires at the end.
Hmm, that looked a lot like—
