Can The Caged Bird Sing?

Chapter 27 Investigating

---Evelyn's POV---

At some point in the night I fell asleep in this new, smelly, damp hell hole. That is until I feel freezing cold water being thrown on me to be my alarm, waking me up instantly on contact. My eyes fly open as I gasp for air out of complete and utter shock.

I slip around on the ground, trying to sit up on my own.. but before I can do that, to see who has woke me up like this, my face is grabbed into the clutches of the man who is filled with anger at what I did to his other hand.

"That's right, wake up you little b*tch.. last chance, come with me and do everything I tell you to do or just deal with your punishment down here? I'm going to give you a hint beautiful, it's going to be worse down here than it will be up there.. but it's still up to you.

"I will NEVER be yours I don't care how much you paid for me.. do what you want to me but I'm never choosing your room over this cell. I don't care and I'm not scared." I say with so much strength in my statement.

"Well that's stupid, you should be scared because there is so much I could do to you." He states to me pushing the wet hair from me face and behind my ear, acting as if he is gentle but we both know he is not. "There is nothing you could do to me that hasn't already happened to me.. so bring it on."

I feel his hand slap me on the face again, sending me falling down to the side. I hit the ground with an "oof" forced from my mouth. He laughs at me as he hovers over me, Sticking his tongue out to lick from my chest and all the way up my neck and to my ear. This sends a disgusted chill up my spine hating every second of that.

But in that moment I extend my claws and scratch at his head, that's right by my head. I make contact with something, I'm not sure what, but I hear him yelling so I keep scratching not wanting to give him the chance to get the upper hand.

"YOU LITTLE CUNT!" He stands up and all I can see is the reflecting of the blood on his head from the lights outside of the cell. He kicks me again and again until I'm spitting out blood myself. He extends his claws to kill me I think. I close my eyes and just wait for him to take my life with that strike.

"Stop! Why would you waste your money and just kill her? If you do that you will never get your heirs." My cell mate states to him.. why would he be trying to help him out?! I thought he hated him?

The Alpha huffs as I watch his claws recoil back in as he storms out of the cell and away from us. "Why are you trying to help him?! I won't be his s*x slave!" I yell at my cell mate as he scoffs. "I wasn't helping him.. I was helping you.. he was going to kill you and I was keeping you alive.. unless if that's what you want is to die?" He spats back at me as I huff replying without hesitation. "I would rather die then do what he wants me to do up there." I say to him as I feel the tears welling up in my eyes.

"Well it's not like your marked anyways so why does it matter.. don't you want pups someday? He could give you a good life if you didn't fight it.. why fight him? Do something for yourself!" He lectures me like he knows me but he doesn't so he has no place to give me advice.

"I have been beat all my life so I fight this because I'm doing something for myself for once. I have someone I would be willing to fight for no matter how long it takes to get to him." I say to him even though he doesn't deserve an explaination.

"So you do have your mate?" He asks me as I shake my head. "No.. one mate rejected me after he took my virginity and then the other just looked at me and knew he didn't want me... but there was a special guy.. who I connected with on a whole new level like I have never done before.. and for once someone wanted me.. not because of the mate bond, or for what I could do for him, or offer him being a female alpha and slave.. but because he genuinely liked me. He asked me to be his chosen and I said yes.." I say to him just daydreaming about Quinton.

"I'm sorry no one deserves that from their chosen.. but this guy sounds nice.. so what happened that your not with him?" He asks me blatantly.

I let out a deep breath before I answer. "My father hates me and always has.. and when he heard him ask me to be his chosen.. he charged him 1 million dollars for me.. and when he couldn't pay it for me, my father said he would rather get money then see me happy so he sold me to the Trader.. and then I was auctioned off and then brought here.. but he said he would come for me."

He scoffs at that as he states. "I know you want to stay positive which is good and refreshing.. but you need to be realistic too.. you can't just wait here for this supposed guy to come for you.. what if he doesn't? It's not like you have had the best of luck with men anyways!" He spats personal information back at me just using it against me.

"He IS coming for me! But that's why I'm fighting until he can get to me or until I can get out first to get back to him. I know I'm not wanted by men, at least the way I should be, but don't use it against me.. I'm sure you have been through hell in here I understand that, but stop raining on my parade.. I believe he is coming and there is nothing you can say to change my mind.. I will get back to him.. I will." I say with so much determination in hopes he knows to stop pushing my buttons like this.

"I'm sorry.. I don't know how long I have been in here but it feels like an eternity.. I was like you too in the beginning.. I was determined to get out just to get back to my family because I knew they were searching for me.. but it never happened and it's been so long now that it's hard to hold onto that positivity. I'm sorry.. I bet he is coming for you." He says sadly to me in response.

I scoot closer to him because I'm still not chained to the walls I'm just cuffed and locked in here. I get to right next to him as I say a soft. "It will be ok.. I bet your family is still looking for you.. it's hard to stay positive in situations like this.. but take take it from a person who has been beat all her life.. things will get better one way or another, this will pass.." He shakes his head.

"I think I'm a gonner because I don't know how much longer I will last in here.. but thank you." He says to me as I positively reply back, "No we are getting out of here together.. I will break you out with me.. you know.. when I figure out how to get myself out first."

He chuckles at that statement before he says, "You really are too sweet for this dark world. What's your name? Mine is Leo." He says to me still not even looking at me but extending his cuffed hands that are burning from the silver used in his cuffs.

"My name is Evelyn.. it's nice to meet you Leo." I day softly as I shake his hand. That is until I hear the Alpha laughing at me. "Awe I should have known that was the way to get to you was by using someone against you.. because you don't care about yourself too much but you sure do care about everyone else when it comes down to it." He states his observation for me as my eyes go wide knowing what he is meaning.

My head quickly turns to the cell door that the Alpha is staring at us through. He opens the door then quickly coming up to us, as he sticks a prong out until it touches Leo's skin, making him yelp in pain. "Stop please stop! He has nothing to do with this!" I say as he continues to hit him with this prong but I think that this prong is silver from the way it's hissing at the meer contact of it to his skin.

He continues to torture poor Leo at my expense so I stand up without hesitation no matter how hard it was and step in front of Leo taking the brunt of the torture. I yell in pain as the metal touches my skin but I continue to stand there.

"Really? You're going to take the pain for him.. he is a mate stealing waste of space." The Alpha yells at me and Leo, as I just groan and don't move a muscle so he knows I'm willing to take this pain all day for this older man.

"I don't care what you think he has done to you. He doesn't deserve this because you're doing it to hurt me so just hurt me already." I say as Leo yells out to me. "Stop Evelyn.. I'm almost gone. you're not.. just let me take this for you to do something good with my time here."

"No I'm not moving a muscle." I say to him as the Alpha groans out at me. "I'm going to figure out someway to make you hurt! Shut your mouth and do as I say!" He demands trying to command me in his Alpha tone as Leo laughs at him.

"What's so funny?" He spats at him with so much anger. "She is an Alpha Female dumbass! So your Alpha tone and commands won't work on her duh! Do you not know anything about your kind?" Leo yells at him laughing at his expense making him pissed off. He tries to step around me to get to him but I step in the way pressing myself against him to make him stop. This works as the Alpha does stop instantly looking down at me. I can hear him smelling me all along the side of my head, as he huffs and states, "Fine you win now Evelyn, but that's just because I want you with me.. I will convince you one way or another to be with me.. even if it's at the expense of this wolf." He purrs into my ear as I just close my eyes but deal with him in such close proximity.

"Bite him while he is close!" Myra states as I just internally say, "I don't want to, I'm winning right now and I'll take a small win over nothing." She huffs in response but doesn't argue.

The Alpha huffs and quickly turns away leaving the cell but I'm sure he will be back soon because he can't seen to stay away from me.