Layla Twist

Chp. 13 Burdens

* Warning ⚠️ This Chapter May Be Disturbing For Some Readers *

* Barrett POV *

After my Mom, the packs doctor, let us know that Layla was recovering I left the hospital. There are some warriors that dropped off the items collected. My Gama was waiting to give his report.

Walking into the office I see Danté standing off to the side.

"Alpha." He greets me, we grew apart a long time ago, he was still my friend but he was always so formal.

"Danté." Moving around the desk I sit in my chair. Before I could tell him to start his report Naomi and Drake walk into the office as well.

"We just want to hear what was found before showering." Drake didn't leave room for argument taking a seat on the couch after shutting the office doors. The room was now perfectly soundproof.

Danté didn't seem to happy it was more than the two of us, but he quickly went on with his report.

"We found almost 150 girls in the caverns, some were dehydrated but overall in perfect health. They had most of the equipment packed up to move. Certain parts of the cave we photographed and sent to you." He fidgeted with his long sleeve shirt, not bothering to move his blonde hair out of his eyes. Turning on the computer I type in my password and open my email.

With the images pulled up on my screen I see different maps and pictures laid out on tables. Names of the girls name scribbled on papers and where they were from.

"There was a lot of plans based around Drake. Then down a side hall off the main entrance there was a room, and we collected videos and a camera."

I open another email to look at the pictures of the room.

Shackles hung from the ceiling, there were bags under a table, a bucket with liquid on the table and the camera mentioned stationed in the back of the room.

After finishing his reports on the casualties, thankfully none of my men were fatally injured. Danté excused himself wanting to go back to the site after a shower.

"Show me that room." Naomi said walking up behind me to look at the screen.

Her face became pale before she whispered almost too quiet to hear. "That's where she was, isn't it?"

Drake grabs the camera out of a box next to my desk and hooks it up to the computer.

Putting in the oldest dated memory card we see a figure come into focus. A small framed woman stood on her tiptoes to relieve her hands in the shackles above.

Her slightly tangled hair fell down to her mid thigh hiding most of her body.

This video was like an interrogation, she claimed she was Naomi, probably couldn't think of a name. Her voice was already confirmed to be Layla, her hair is also not so common around here.

"She didn't know he knew of me." Naomi growled lowly next to me. "We should have told her about us."

We didn't respond to her, because suddenly the man launches forward and punches Layla in the stomach.

Her body jerks and a loud POP could be hear over her yelling. He injects her before leaving the room, when she stops moving a man walks into the room to bring in a bag and buckets.

Skipping over a few minutes we finally see a different man come into the room, injecting her with something that brought her back to consciousness.

He seemed shocked by her being awake so soon and began to question her. He finally got her to admit her age.

"22? I thought she was 26." Drake turned the volume up trying to hear better. "She was 17 when I found her."

We watch as her hair was braided with a rope and tied up to her cuffs.

He holds a whip that came from a bucket, it caused her to cough and he announced she was a wolf.

They soaked the whip in wolfsbane. Po confirmed what I was thinking.

Layla's body went stiff and unresponsive when he tapped her cheeks and screamed at her. Growing impatient he got his wolf claws out and dragged his hand from her shoulder to the hip.

She stopped herself from screaming and refused to answer anything the man asked.

She is strong. I say to Po trying to calm him down. She is with Mom now.

He ends up whipping her 6 times, chunks of flesh missing from her exposed back, the skin bubbling around the openings. The disgusting man walks around her to sit in a chair heating a blade with a torch.

he asks her another question. "No thanks." She spat blood on the floor by his feet.

"Why doesn't she say she doesn't know anything?" Naomi sounded more upset than she ever had in her life.

"They wouldn't believe her if she did, the second she said your name she has been silent, they think she knows more about us." Drake's words make my stomach drop, he was right.

When the torch started to make Layla's leg smoke, Naomi left the office. We didn't stop her. Instead it just fueled our anger that now 2 people will never be the same again.

Her screams when he cauterized the claw marks, I couldn't take it. Po took full control, leaving the office and taking off into the woods shifting at the tree line.

I will keep watching, I'll try and find information. Drake reached out, still in the office with the video.

No one else is to watch those videos! Not a soul! Po responded back for me. Our wolves can hear the mindlink but rarely respond to others, only through the private mindlink through wolves, do they sometimes communicate.

You have my word Po. He cuts the link. There was a time Po had been tricked and since then he has only a select few he trusts. Drake and Ambrose being on that list as well.