The Gift chronicles

Book 1 Chapter 22

Gwen's eyes shone in horror at my violent words, and she ran to the cell door, smacking on it in desperation. "Let me out of here! She's a psycho! This wasn't part of the deal!"

Within seconds, none other than Alpha Cain himself opened the door. "What are you doing, Gwendolyn?" He demanded assertively.

She bared her neck in submission and breathlessly told him, "She's going to wait until someone lets her out and she's going to kill them, their mates, and their pups! She told me herself! I looked into her cold dead eyes as she threatened it!" She wailed, tears streaming down her face. I smirked.

"You are dismissed, Gwendolyn. I will speak with you later." Alpha Cain's eyes shone with fury, and I swear I could see the fire in his eyes. Gwen ran out of the cell immediately, and I could hear her sobs as she crossed the hall.

His whole body shook with anger as he approached me in my corner. I wouldn't have been surprised if he shifted into his wolf right then and there.

I kept smirking at him, knowing there was a dangerous glint in my eyes as my own inward anger threatened to spill out.

"You think threatening the lives of my pack and pups is funny?" He roared, grabbing my hair and smacking my head into the cell wall. Blood matted my hair instantly.

I laughed sinisterly. You really thought I would tell my escape plan to your undercover planted prisoner?

His anger quickly turned into confusion as he realized that I had played him.

You have a really bad habit of underestimating me, mate. Do you remember what my position in my old pack was?

He didn't answer me, and just continued to hold my head against the wall by my hair. The smell of my own blood overwhelmed my senses.

I was the Gamma. Do you know that Gammas run the prisons in my pack too, Alpha?

He sharply inhaled, realizing his mistake.

Pretending to throw a pack member into the jail cell with the prisoner and hoping they talk to the pack member? That's one of the oldest Gamma tricks in the book, Alpha. You should really play smarter next time.

him as his hand released my hair. He

out.

trust each other. I mockingly told him. I will say though, it's interesting that you believe I would behead innocent

flashed in his eyes momentarily, and I could feel regret through the mate bond. I will admit, a small part of my felt hurt that

me any reason to trust you,"

Have you?

ignored my question, and I took his silence as confirmation. He was right not to trust me, and I'm sure I was right not to trust him. That was confirmed today. We both were playing each other like fiddles, and neither

in silence for a few minutes, and I wondered why he wasn't leaving. Suddenly, he

"I don't want to do this anymore, Ares. We keep hurting each other, and I don't want to hurt you anymore regardless of how much you may want to hurt me. The Blood Moon is in twenty days. We are having a huge celebration, the whole pack will be there. We can induct you into the pack, and you will officially be the

want? My freedom. Not to be the Luna of a pack with an Alpha who locks

feel the bone beginning to shatter. "You can rot in here for the rest of your life if that's what you choose, but you are not leaving this pack and we are not breaking the bond." Blood pooled in my mouth from his lethal grip on my jaw. I spat the blood

If you were more connected

I want more than to be far

footfall during Autumn. I growled and threw

I rebroke my jaw, making sure it was aligned

sank into a fighting stance, and was confused when he didn't mimic me, as I was sure we were about to engage in another fight. He looked at me sadly,

at me from the mate bond, knowing that it was only the the bond

--

my surprise, for the next twenty days, Alpha Cain stayed away. I tried scoping out

began to grow restless. I knew patience was crucial in order for me to escape. I just had to wait for the

Alpha Cain meandered into my cell, cool as a

you like to accept your role as

rot in

certain that he was going to try

few moments later, he returned with another vial of wolfsbane and another

really necessary? I haven't attempted to escape