Splash!
I jolt awake when ice-cold water floods my face. I analyze my situation. I'm sitting on an old wooden chair with my hands zip-tied behind me. I wiggle them a little and realize the amateur who tied me will be surprised when I undo them instantly. I decide to leave them on for a little, element of surprise. It looks like I'm in some sort of modernized shack. I can't see outside the windows because they're fogged over.
To my surprise, two built men wearing black suits walk in and move to each side of the door. When they moved they revealed an extremely tall, muscular man with broad shoulders and a powerful aura. I'd say he's about 6'10. He has messy brown hair that looks like he just got up but is perfect at the same time. But those big brown eyes. No! He freaking kidnapped me!
But all of those things weren't even measurable to the biggest surprise I got.
The look on his face. Murderous. But not to me. Odd… I've never seen someone look so angry before.
In an extremely quick movement, he snapped the neck of the man who dumped water on me and left me in such a bad condition. If I didn't hear the body fall I wouldn't know he did it. He was so fast. A human would have fainted but I've killed before… many times… so death didn't affect me anymore. And quite frankly I would have done the same thing eventually.
I know I can't take this guy but these zip ties hurt. In an instant, I snapped the ties and rubbed my wrists. "Amateur" I whispered under my breath but with werewolf hearing there's no doubt they heard that.
"Well hello, trespasser. I'm sorry about that mess. I didn't think we would be meeting like this. I suppose introductions are very overdue. I'm Hunter Malcomb. The soon-to-be alpha of the Bloodmoon Pack. And as it turns out, your mate." he says in a gruff voice. I didn't realize the obvious mate look in his eyes until now.
That's where those butterflies came from. He smells so good… If only I had as much self-control as him.
"My what?" I say in a low shocked voice. See what I mean. I sound like a ten-year-old who just got told how babies are made. He could probably see my mental facepalm. But at this moment I didn't care.
This man could see right through me.
"I see you could use some more time to process this. And if I'm being honest, so could," he says as he turns around to leave.
Still facing away he says. "Discard the bodies. Let her go." Thank god he couldn't see the smirk on my face. His self-control was slipping.
"You better leave love... before I lose my control over my wolf," he says looking back at me. He didn't have to tell me twice. As much as I wanted to stay with him, I needed time to think. Love… I like it.
I got up slowly and the drugs and beatings came back to me. I got so dizzy and lost my balance. Next thing I know he's in front of me holding me up with a mixed look... sadness… and… anger. Then he pressed his forehead on mine and his breathing got rough.
"Thank you," I say in a quiet and low voice.
"Let me take you home. I don't want you out in this condition. Those vampire repellents won't go away for a while." he says in a low voice and then slowly removes his forehead. I felt so bad. That looked hard to do. Then, he scooped me up bridal style and walked me to the freakin sleek black mustang outside!
"You don't have to do this!" I say, my face turning bright pink. All I can feel is his strong hands on my back. "I can walk!"
"Uh-huh. You demonstrated that well," he says with that devilish smirk again. This man is trying to kill me! I didn't even notice that I was putting my head down on his shoulder until I felt him relax to the touch. Was he nervous about how I felt? Did he think I wasn't comfortable with touching? Ahhhh! Too many questions. I'm so tired. He smiles cutely at me when I accidentally let out a yawn.
"You've had a long night. Get some sleep love," he says and kisses my forehead and gets in the back of the car, and sits down with me still in his lap. Then I fell into a deep sleep. He was right.
I am abruptly awoken by the sound of screeching tires. I jolt up and instantly become dizzy again. I look around and realize that I'm still in the car and we are parked outside the castle.
"Good morning sleepyhead. I'm sorry you couldn't sleep longer, but Carlisle here isn't the best driver." a voice next to me says and I turn around and see him sitting there smiling at me. I shift myself so I'm sitting next to him and not facing away.
"Oh shut up! Do you want to drive?! You made me drive just so you could sit with Red back there!" Carlisle yells from the front seat. They must be friends if he is that comfortable to talk to him like that. And Red, seriously! Hunter just smiles.
"Watch yourself Bertrum," I say calmly and as menacing as I can. Apparently, it didn't work. Instead, he starts laughing hysterically.
"Feisty little one, aren't you., Carlisle says after a good 30 seconds of laughing. I use my vampire speed and quickly grab the dagger off of his leg and gently carve "-R" into his forearm. Once their eyes focus, Hunter takes his turn laughing hysterically while Carlisle starts cussing and laughing and sucking on his arm.
"It'll heal in a couple of days but it'll hurt pretty bad until then," I say with a victorious smile on my face.
"That's my girl," Hunter says quietly with a small smile on his face, but I heard him clearly. I can feel my face start to get red real quick.
"Ha! Now you fit your name!" Carlisle says childishly as we pull into the castle's long driveway. My heart stops when I see my father facing a platoon (about 20) of his vampire army, probably ready to search for me. Maybe a second after we pull in his head flashes towards us, and I have never seen him so angry.
I turned in fear to Hunter, I didn't want him to get caught up in this. Not that I didn't think he couldn't handle his own, but my dad doesn't mess around, especially when it came to his only daughter.
I whip my head back to my father and see him and his very angry-looking platoon march over to us as we park about 50 feet away from them.
"Sir, I'm calling reinforcements now!" I hear Carlisle yell as he quickly pulls out his phone. That's not good.
"No no, it's okay! I'll talk to him." I say as I scoot over the door and start to open it. Carlisle looked skeptical but one look from Hunter made him lower his phone and give me a 'You better be right about this' look out of the corner of his eye.
"Maria." I hear Hunter say as I turn my head to him. "Be careful."
"You don't have to worry about me Alpha. I have an advantage… I'm my father's only weakness." I say as I open the door and slowly get up and walk out. I don't need someone from his make-shift army to get startled and attack. Even though my royal blood makes me much stronger than them.