CAPTURED

ADAIRA

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When I woke up after who knows how long, I was lying on my stomach in human form, and I was clean. Someone had bathed me, washed my hair and put a gown on me. I felt so violated and I growled as I tried to stand. How dare they touch me without consent?

My back bumped into the top of whatever I was in and it made me even more angry. I looked around and discovered that I was in a fucking cage, I couldn’t rise up more than this. I only had two options in the enclosed space, lie down the way I was before I woke up or maintain my current crouch on hands and knees. Lying down would leave me vulnerable to attack so I decided to remain on all fours, it wasn’t much of an advantage if I actually got attacked while I was in this enclosed space, but it was something at least.

My anger at being touched without my permission multiplied at the thought that I was locked up like a damn dog. I’m a shifter with an animal side, but it doesn’t mean I should be degraded this way, wolves deserve better respect than this. And I might have gone unconscious in wolf form but for them to have changed me, I had been in human form when they put me in here. Couldn’t they have put me in a cell, somewhere I could stand like the other members of the Brookstone pack? Someone was going to pay very dearly for treating me like this.

My wolf stirred inside me and I heaved a sigh of relief. I hadn’t felt her when I woke up. I knew she was still exhausted from the fight and needed to restore herself so I wasn’t worried. Now that she was awake, her anger matched my own. She did not take kindly to being treated like a common dog. Omega wolves were supposed to be calm and submissive, but my wolf had never been like that, she has always had the soul of an Alpha and a fiery temper to go with it. That’s what made her a great fighter even though normal Omega wolves avoided battle as much as they could. I didn’t know how strong she was till I started training at the Grenshaw pack.

Initially, I hadn’t been allowed to join the Grenshaw warriors to train because everyone knew my wolf was an Omega and that Omegas weren’t suited for battle. It took me almost a week and using my Grandparent’s influence to convince their Alpha that my wolf was different, she wanted to fight. He had agreed to give me one trial, I would join the new recruits to get through the beginners obstacle course. If I could come out on the other side without giving up and I also didn’t want to drop out, then I would be accepted. If not, I was to never bring up the topic of training again. They were all surprised when I beat every wolf present by a wide margin by coming out the other side first, before even the Alpha and Beta wolves present, the more athletic types of our species. I was honestly surprised too, I hadn’t known what my wolf was capable of back then but now I do, and right now, she wanted to show these assholes that we were not one to be trifled with.

I felt her anger, and her blood lust but now was not the time so I forced myself to calm down so she could feel it and cool off too. Unlike what a lot of human paranormal books said, we couldn’t actually speak to our wolves nor could they speak to us, we could only feel each other’s emotions and pass them one to another. Though some of the details they put in those fairytales of theirs are actually correct, like the mating and mindlink thing. Only members of a pack could mindlink themselves, leading pack Alphas could also mindlink  Alphas of other packs. I also heard that a pack Alpha or anyone with enough mental strength could mindlink a wolf that isn’t part of their pack, but they don’t do it because it hurts badly since they don’t have a pack bond. Only a shifter could know all these, so whoever first wrote about it must have been a wolf shifter, probably a lone wolf or one that was exiled to the human world and then became a writer.

My wolf calmed down a little within me and no longer pushed me to shift but I could still feel anger simmering underneath my skin, just waiting for the right time to explode. I felt a foreign but familiar presence in my mind, someone from the Brookstone pack was trying to mindlink me. I had learnt to fortify my mind, so even though I could feel the strength of the person trying to communicate with me push on my mental shield, it held, whoever it is can only speak to me if I allow it. My wolf was against me listening to the person, but whoever it is may want to share valuable information with me, anything remotely useful would help me escape. I lowered my mental shields a little bit to grant the person access and immediately regretted it when I realised who I just allowed to speak to me.

“Ady, it’s been so long. Are you okay?” Tyler asked and the anger I just let go of returned in full force.

Ady? The nerve of this bastard.

“First of all, Tyler, you lost the right to call me Ady years ago. Secondly, don’t act like you suddenly care about me. You knew exactly where I was, you could have communicated with me since I left this pack if you were actually concerned about my well being.” I replied to him.

His veneer of civility and care dropped immediately and he snarled in my mind.

“I will call you whatever I damn well please, I am your Alpha and you will cease your insolence and speak to me with respect.”

“I don’t know what you’ve been smoking, Tyler, but you must have been high on something for you to think for even a second that I would fall for your pretentious concerned friend act. And I will speak to you however I damn well please.” I said to him.

“It seems that being away from here has made you forget who you belong to. I will deal with you later, for now, we have more pressing issues. The Rogue Alpha will return soon and we need to plan an ambush so he can be killed for invading my pack, but first, we need to get free. You’re the only one locked in a cage that isn’t reinforced with Silver. Break through the cage and then release me, after that, we’ll…”

“I do not take orders from you Tyler, I may still be a part of the Brookstone pack but you are not my Alpha. I do not belong to you.” I said and forced him out of my mind, my mental shields were back in the same instant.

I felt Tyler push against my mind, he was probably trying to use his Alpha command on me but it would not work. My wolf had disowned him as her Alpha so he had no hold on me. I don’t know how she was able to do that because normal wolves could not break the bond they have to their pack Alpha without consent, but I gave up being normal years ago. I felt a different presence in my mind, I knew it wasn’t Tyler, this one felt foreign in an unfamiliar way so it definitely wasn’t someone from the Brookstone pack. None of the rogues here would be strong enough to use a mindlink on me because we weren’t pack mates, so there was only one other person here that could be trying to talk to me, Raed.

I lowered my mental shield but not all the way, so just in case it actually wasn’t Raed, I could easily force the person out of my mind and rebuild my shield. The second I gave the person permission to speak to me, I was happy to discover that it was actually Raed. But before any of us could say a word, I felt excruciating pain.