Total pages in book: 74
Estimated words: 68913 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68913 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
“Get comfortable, you’ll be here for a while,” he snapped. Then he went back to help the other guy carry Cole inside.
While I waited for them, I looked around the small shack. I saw what looked like claw marks on some of the walls, low down, as though some huge animal had tried to claw its way out. But all the baseboards were reinforced with metal that went two feet up the wall and was bolted into the floor as well—it didn’t look to me like anyone—or anything—had successfully escaped.
The two Alphas came back in, panting and lugging Cole between them. They dumped him on a bare mattress on the floor, which was the only furnishing besides a rickety wooden table in the corner.
One of them came back one more time to place some bottles of water and some protein bars on the table.
“I’d make those last if I were you,” he said to me as he left them there. “That’s all you’ll get for a while and you’ll need your strength to go through the Choosing Ceremony.”
Then he left and I heard the heavy silver chain rattling as it was locked in place.
They were gone and Cole and I were locked into a place that was sealed with a silver chain—we were trapped until someone came and let us out.
But I was desperately afraid of what might happen when they did.
15
DELILAH
Cole finally woke up maybe an hour before dawn. His eyes fluttered open and he put a hand to his head and groaned something that sounded like,
“Wha’ th’ fuck?”
“Cole?” I was so glad to see him awake again I could have cried. I’d been snuggled up next to him, trying to get warm and not succeeding very well. It was very dark in the small hut—there was a single window, too narrow for an adult to get through—but it only let a little bit of moonlight in. Probably because we were in the shadow of the forest here with huge trees rustling overhead.
“Lilah?” he asked, rubbing his head as he sat up. “Why are you naked?” He looked down at himself. “Why am I naked for that matter?”
“Don’t you remember anything?” I shivered as I sat up next to him. “We were together at the penthouse—”
“Oh God…” He groaned, shaking his head. “I fucked you, didn’t I?”
“No, you didn’t!” I said quickly. “That is, you almost did, but—”
“But I remember putting my cock all the way inside you…and then pulling out of you and seeing my cum leak out of your pussy,” he protested. “I got my knot in you too—I’m sure I remember that!”
“Only for a minute—not even a minute,” I told him. “And you only spurted once or twice inside me—then you pulled out and came on my breasts instead.”
“Still, I can’t believe I did that,” he growled, shaking his head. “Can’t believe I gave my own little sister a creamy pussy.”
“Cole, that’s not what’s important!” I told him. “I wouldn’t have cared if you’d knotted me and bred me! I wouldn’t mind having a breeding bump by you right now!”
“I didn’t’ do that to you, too—did I?” In the darkness his big hand felt for my belly. “Still flat, but I remember seeing it bulge when I put my cock in you,” I heard him mutter to himself. Then he added, “Lilah, you’re ice cold!”
“There’s no heating in here, I don’t think,” I said and shivered.
“Come here.” Cole looped one long arm around me and drew me close to his big body. “Now tell me, what the fuck else happened? I seem to have a hole in my memory.”
“After you, uh, came in me and pulled out of me, some guy named Rickter came in,” I told him, leaning close to his side to try and get warm. “He, uh, caught us right after you pulled out. He said he was on the Provisional Council and he sprayed you in the face with something that knocked you out.”
“Rickter?” He growled, his voice going low and dangerous. “That son of a bitch. He didn’t touch you while I was out, did he?”
“No—nobody touched me.” I couldn’t bear to tell him about the Choosing Ceremony which I was supposed to participate in very soon. “They…they left me alone,” I said.
“Good. Because I’ll fucking kill any male that tries to hurt you.” He drew me even closer, tightening his grip on me. “Come closer—you’re shivering.”
He pulled me into his lap and I shivered against his chest. His big body put out heat like a furnace, but I was so cold by that time I couldn’t’ seem to warm up.
“Cole, what are we going to do?” I asked, pressing against him. “That horrible Rickter person, he said he was going to report us to the Council. And he…he took pictures of me all covered in your…your cum. And…and your cum dripping out of me, too.”