The sound of somebody buzzing penetrated the thick fog in my mind. I attempted to open my eyes, however they had been caught collectively. The smallest motion sparked agonizing ache, so I lay nonetheless for a couple of minutes and tried to get my bearings.

Every little thing felt muddled. The very last thing I remembered was strolling alongside the path. Did I fall? Had Cole discovered me and brought me again to the cabin?

It didn’t scent just like the cabin. As an alternative of pine, wooden smoke, citrus, and cinnamon, the rank scent of sweat and urine made my abdomen heave.

I reluctantly pressured my eyes open and tried to sit down up. It was semi-dark, however there was sufficient mild from a solitary bare bulb to indicate me I used to be in a concrete room with no window.

“Lastly,” noticed a female voice. “I figured you had been useless.”

A lady with matted black hair rested towards the alternative wall. She wore a pair of shorts and a strappy vest, however though it was chilly sufficient to make me shiver, she appeared snug.

“The place am I?” I croaked. My throat was sore. Each a part of me harm, not simply my head.

“No concept. They don’t inform us something, and after they take us to the fights, they knock us out first.”

“Fights?” Panic flared swift and vivid. What was taking place? Why couldn’t I keep in mind!

“Yeah. They’ve us combating to allow them to earn a living on the result. No less than a few of us struggle. I haven’t been right here lengthy, so I don’t know for positive.” She crawled throughout the cement flooring to the place I lay. “My title’s Lily, what’s yours?”

“Eva.” I fought the urge to vomit. The way in which my head throbbed, one thing or somebody had hit me. Onerous.

Brent had hit me many instances. This felt related. I closed my eyes once more and compelled my mind to rewind again to the very last thing I remembered, however there was nothing. Only a black gap in my reminiscence.

Had Brent discovered me? This wasn’t his basement, although. I’d acknowledge that place anyplace – it had starred in my nightmares many instances.

My coronary heart charge climbed as adrenaline flooded my system. I used to be an fool. I’d let the blokes lull me right into a false sense of safety. Simply because they had been sturdy, it didn’t imply the cabin was protected. If I used to be right here, locked in a room, somebody had discovered me.

The woman checked out me curiously, her black eyes alive with intelligence.

“You’re fairly. That may be why they took you.” Whereas I used to be having a panic assault, she appeared curiously unfazed.

“How did you find yourself right here?” I requested. The woman was younger; youthful than me. I couldn’t let panic overwhelm me. I wasn’t the one one caught on this place. It seemed like there have been a couple of women with us. There wasn’t a lot I might do, however I needed to hold my wits about me.

“I had a struggle with my boyfriend. He left me alone in a bar and a few older man purchased me a drink. It knocked me out lengthy sufficient for him to throw me behind a van. Once I awoke, I fought like hell, however he will need to have injected me with one thing that weakened my wolf.”

“How lengthy have you ever been right here?”

“Undecided. No less than per week. Possibly longer. There aren’t any clocks or home windows, so it’s onerous to inform.”

She needed to be a shifter. No human woman can be this relaxed about being locked up in a freezing-cold concrete cell. “Which pack are you from?”

Her eyes widened in shock. “Oh, you understand about shifters?”

“Sure, I’m mated to a few of them.”

“However you’re…human?”

It didn’t sting. I had larger issues proper now than worrying about what individuals considered me.

“Final time I checked, yeah.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t imply that in a nasty manner. It’s simply uncommon for shifters and people to mate. Who’re your mates, anyway?”

“Cole, Silas, and Tanner. So which pack?”

“Oh my, I can’t imagine these assholes have lastly discovered a mate! The Lone Pine pack. My dad’s a trusted beta.” Her face fell and a number of the bravado slipped for the primary time. “He’ll be apprehensive about me.”

“We had been there a few days in the past, for the Full Moon Celebration.”

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