The Alpha’s Desire 5(34)

 

 

 

“She doesn’t appear to be hurt,” I said to Nira and Lex who were standing right behind me but looking around them as I should have done first. “But who could sleep so soundly with their arms half pulled out of their sockets like that? I know she is sitting, but her body weight still will damage the tendons or muscles or something. It has to at least ache even if she is a skinny little thing.”

 

 

 

“She appears to just be sleeping,” Nira said. “Maybe they drugged her. At least she isn’t hurt, hanging here suffering and afraid. She’s alive. Her heart beats. There are many completely harmless drugs that can cause such a state, make a person oblivious to everything around them. It is a blessing.”

 

 

 

“Then maybe she doesn’t know there are werewolves at all,” I muttered with the deep sigh of relief. “Maybe they took her in human form, just drugged her and then tied her up. I can only hope, for her sake. She doesn’t deserve this.”

 

 

 

I didn’t want to have to explain my life, everything about it to Chloe, even though until a few months back, I had shared almost everything with her. Not that I wanted to keep it from her. In fact, it would be a relief to tell her the whole unbelievable truth, but I was nervous about the way Chloe might react to me after. Even more, I feared that Chloe might not believe me, would think me insane.

 

 

 

She’d probably think that Lex had made me join some sort of cult that relied heavily on drugs. Or worse, she might just disregard it all and walk away from me forever. Not that we had been close these few months, but somewhere in the back of my mind, right or wrong, I’d always had the comfort that Chloe was there, would be there for me if I needed her. At this moment, it struck me in a profound way how selfish that was, how selfish I’d been. I’d wanted a new life, and I’d wanted the comfort of knowing my old one waited for me if I needed her.

 

 

 

“I’m a horrible friend,” I whispered to my sleeping one, hoping that was all it was. “I’m so sorry. For everything. For lying. For leaving. For getting you into this mess.”

 

 

 

“Shh, Christina,” Lex soothed me. “She knows you are sorry.”

 

 

 

Chloe didn’t have little memories with wolves from being a child, not like I had, and it still had taken me some time to adjust to the fact that werewolves existed even when they were transforming and fighting right in my own living room. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like for Chloe to try to grasp onto this whole new world that was my life, to try to figure it out with no magic of her own.

 

 

 

“They could’ve taken her in human form,” I repeated, not sure if I had said it out loud or to myself. It didn’t really matter. I said it more to reassure myself than anything else, though anyone agreeing would be more than welcome. “Although it still would have been traumatizing to be taken by a group of men regardless.”

 

 

 

“Maybe they snuck up on her,” Lex offered. “They could’ve put something over her mouth to breathe in and put her to sleep almost immediately. Or, they could have injected her with something. Maybe she had no idea she was being taken or attacked other than that brief second. It looks like they just wanted her as bait to lure us here, not to hurt her or they would have already. It wouldn’t be Daniel’s way, to leave her unharmed, but Daniel’s dead, so we can’t know what’s going to be next. We can’t truly know what they want.”

 

 

 

“Let’s get her unhooked and take her back to the vehicle. When she wakes up her arms are going to be sore, or she may have a headache if drugged, but at least she will be alive and hopefully not traumatized from whatever came before this,” Nira said as I stood back up, giving my back a few good rubs as I had done so.

 

 

 

It took some time for a couple of the vampires to struggle with the chains. They had to literally break the metal piping that the chain had been strung around. After, one of the vampires picked her up, leaving the chains to hang around his neck to take the pressure from her arms, as the cuffs were still around her wrists.

 

 

 

“Don’t worry, Christina,” the vampires holding Chloe said as I followed closely behind him. “We have something in the SUV to cut off these handcuffs. It will not be the first time we’ve had to do that sort of thing.” He followed his words with an eye roll followed by a friendly wink.