Chapter 34: Kidnappers
Chasity’s POV
Please, this could not be real. I woke up on a hard cold metal floor. I was inside of a van. I could not scream. I had been gagged and bound. I struggled against my restraints. I tried to shift. I could not. There was a pain in my neck. I had a silver choker on, I realised. Tears welled up in my eyes. It burned! The silver! The ropes cut into me.
Felix! FELIX! I tried over mind-link since I could not get any words out with my mouth stuffed with a
cloth and tape placed over it.
ALEX! CALIX! HELP ME! I screamed over mind-link. Who knows how far away they were. The marks on
my neck were painful. I knew their marks hurt too. We were bonded deeply that way.
Please don’t think I ran away. Please don’t think I ran away. Please don’t think I ran away. I chanted this over mind link over and over like a mantra. They had to know that I did not run away. I loved them so
much.
The van came to a sudden halt. The door to the back opened. A tall figure loomed over me. A voice. Distinctly male. So deep and gruff. He was barking orders in a different language. I spotted a tattoo on the man’s ankle, a snake curled around a full moon. Had this man been the huge wolf or the one that grabbed me?
“You sure this is her?” Said a voice.
“Yeah the triplet’s mate,” said a higher pitched voice.
“Boss will be so pleased,” said the voice.
“I want the full amount before I hand her over,” said the higher pitched voice.
“No, half now, half later,” said the deeper voice.
“Are you out of your mind? Do you know what I risked to get her?” Said the high-pitched voice. “I want my money now!”
After!” Bellowed the deeper voice.
Snarls and growls.
“The other guy before me got his neck snapped by lover boy, the crazy one, her middle alpha. Felix
killed him in a matter of seconds. He died trying to bring her to you!” Said the higher pitched voice.
Hearing Felix’s name thrown around like that made my heart ache. I suddenly felt nauseated. I felt awful. I needed help. I wished I were draped over Felix’s chest with Alex and Calix on either side of me. I couldn’t stop picturing Calix’s dimples, Alex’s baby blue eyes and Felix’s devilish grin. My heart soared a little even if I was only with them in my imagination.
Heavy footsteps resounded in my ears. I was hoisted upwards. I tried to kick and scream but to no avail. I was bound too tightly. Everything was a blur. Someone slung me over his shoulder like I was a sack of potatoes. I was carried out of the van and into a building. I squirmed in the person’s arms until he barked at me, “If you don’t hold still i’ll have to knock you out.” I went limp in the person’s arms. He swung me off his shoulder and onto a cold hard surface that was higher off the ground than I had expected. I was on a table. A wooden dining room table. I glanced around. I was in a high-ceilinged room with stone walls. I could hear the crackling of a fire nearby and felt b]us warmth. I heard the scraping of knifes and forks against ceramic. Someone was eating dinner. I could hear them gulping mouthfuls of liquid, probably wine, and eating food. I smelt steak, medium rare, tinged pink in the middle.The smell upset me. The nausea. I began to thrash about.
“What’s wrong with her?” Asked the deep voice.
“She’s suffocating!” Said the higher one.
“Do something!” Commanded the deeper voice.
The duct tape was ripped off my lips and my gag was removed. My mouth felt grainy and dry. I coughed. The cough sounded hoarse. I was surprised how little power I had in my voice.
“What do you want?” I asked, my voice barely a whisper.
Someone was loosening the ties on me. I was able to sit up. My wrists were still bound behind my back and my ankles were tied. I felt a small amount of relief. I looked at my kidnappers.
The higher pitched voice belonged to a skinny man with a gaunt pointy face, straggly greasy hair and beady eyes. He was human. What was he doing with werewolves? He must have been the one with the chloroform. The other was clearly a werewolf. He was tall, broad shouldered and heavily muscled. He had a sleeve of tattoos on his left arm and a few tattoos on his right. His ankle bore the snake with the full moon tattoo. He had hazel eyes from what I could tell, maybe green, tanned skin and brown cropped hair. His jaw was strong. Something about his demeanour reminded me of Felix, making me think he was tough and even violet yet good-hearted deep down. Deep deep down. He was a criminal. I fixed them with a blank stare. There was no need to antagonise them. I had seen tons of movies where the kidnapped person threatens the kidnappers. I didn’t think that was smart.
“Hey, I just want to know what you want?” I asked again, still a whisper but clearer. “Money?”
The Felix-like one smirked. He was less cute. I frowned. My heart hurt. Maybe my mind had made up
their resemblance as a coping mechanism.
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