Locked Away Lycan

Chapter 7

CRYSTAL'S P.O.V.

Feeling a soft warmth hitting my body I purr at the old familiarity of it and the softness under me, I just want to snuggle into it and sleep all day. Wait... what?! My eyes shoot open wondering just what the hell is going on. Sitting up my eyes go wide as I take in the sight of the fancy unfamiliar room I'm in, the walls are a neutral grey color with white trim, plush carpet covers the floor, there's dressers, a full length mirror, couch, large t.v. and I'm on a super soft king sized bed that has beautiful grey and white bedding. Getting off the bed I stretch out my arms and legs popping my joints in the process, with a moan of satisfaction at the feeling. I slowly pad to one of the doors and open it, I want to squeal in excitement as my eyes land on a claw foot bath tub, it's been so many years since I've taken a nice hot bath! The bathroom is gorgeous but not enough to hold my attention for very long, shrugging my shoulders I exit the bathroom heading straight to the next door, my eyes nearly pop out of my head when I yank it open. It's a walk in closet filled with all sorts of clothes from sleepwear to fancy dresses, stuff I haven't worn in fifty years and from the fabric and stitching I can tell these are some expensive clothes and they are all brand name.

Where the hell am I? Did Elijah take me to this place and he did he buy these things or were they already here? Not wanting to think too much about I grab some clothes out of the closet and head to the bathroom. Even if this stuff isn't mine it sure as hell is now cause I like the idea of wearing something that's not an orange jumpsuit and I seriously need something to wear right now that isn't torn, bloody and stinky.

After a nice long hot shower, I put on my new clothes then skip to the door leading out of the bedroom humming in happiness at my newfound freedom. Yanking the door open I'm shocked that it's actually unlocked my lycan snickers at the stupidity of someone giving me any sort of free roam. Going into the hallway I look left and right furrowing my brows, I chew on my lip trying to decide which way to go, shrugging I just go right in hopes it'll lead me where I want to go. Soon I'm descending a fancy staircase with my nose stuck up in the air hoping to sniff out the kitchen to satisfy my grumbling stomach.

Making it to the end of the stairs I follow my excellent sense of smell right into a large sleek modern kitchen with granite counters and top of the line chrome appliances. Smiling to myself I go straight to the large fridge to dig around in search for something I can eat that doesn't require cooking. The stoves now are way too different from what they were fifty years ago so I'm not entirely sure how to use one, I'm used to using four simple knobs these new fridges have a bunch of buttons on them that'll take me forever to figure out. I've saw enough t.v. to know how to use a microwave but I think it's fishy that something can food that fast. Grinning from ear to ear I find a container full of extra bloody meat and from the smell it's some sort of delicious bear. We shifters always have containers of freshly hunted meat in the fridge or freezer for our lycans. Once I had a human friend who found several containers of meat in my fridge and I had to convince her my family nor I wasn't some sort of serial killers that it was just something we hunted and planned to eat later for dinner.

Putting some of the meat on a plate I found in one of the cabinets I go to the kitchen island and happily sit down on a stool immediately digging into my food savoring the deliciousness of the metallic taste of blood sending my lycan into a frenzy. It probably seems gross that I'm eating bloodied raw meat but I'm basically part animal so it's amazing food to my kind except usually we only eat it raw when we're in our lycan forms cause our lycans love it, when it comes to our human form it's absolutely disgusting to eat unless you're someone deranged like me. I lick some blood off my hand that's dripping onto the island making a loud moan escape my lips, a low primal growl sounds from behind me making me slightly stiffen, jerking my head in the direction of the growl I snarl showing off my blood covered deadly canines to Elijah. Shaking his head getting rid of whatever thoughts were going through his head he then clears his throat as he bravely takes a step into kitchen. "Looks like you managed to find the kitchen without any problems." He eyes the raw meat in my hand raising a single brow. "Do you not know how to cook?"

"My lycan and I love the taste of blood. It's been so long since we've actually had any, last time was about twenty years ago when I bit a guard's hand off." He pales a little at the revelation. It's not like I ate the dude or anything just enjoyed his blood that filled my mouth. Carefully he takes small steps towards me like he's afraid I'm going to attack or run from him, I moan again as I take another bite out of the meat and his eyes flash gold for a second making me smirk, him and his lycan is turned on by my moan.

"Your lycan has a strong blood lust that's nearly impossible to satisfy correct?" I just nod at the stupid question something that anyone with common sense knows the answer to. He sighs. "Nobody is anywhere near this area aside from the two of us so get any idea of harming someone out of your pretty little f****d up head and we both know if you even so much as attempted to scratch me I could take you down in a second." He leans down close to my ear as he says the last part. Dropping my food onto the island my claws extend as my eyes turn gold and my canines completely elongate, my lycan and I are not liking his hidden threat. Reaching forward I try to swipe him with my razor sharp claws but he easily grabs my hand then growls in warning at me trying to put me in my place, angry I snarl at him. His eyes turn gold then he lets loose a growl so powerful it shakes the room causing cabinets to open and the single window to crack, feeling the power my lycan backs down like a coward. I let out a small whimper cause of my lycan being scared from just how much authority he has, I on the other hand am not the least bit afraid of this asshole. Releasing my hand his eyes go back to their normal grey.

Lazily he walks past me. "You're an alpha but I'm not only an alpha I'm the f*****g leader of all lycans. You can't ever compare to me. That lycan of yours is going to have to be tamed some as well as you." My eyes threateningly narrow staring into his grey ones almost in a challenging way. He then sits on a stool across from me grabbing an apple out of the basket of fruit sitting on the island. "You have free roam of the house as well as outside cause this is your home at the moment." Internally I wickedly grin at that imagining all the things I could do. As if knowing what I'm thinking Elijah cuts off my thoughts. "Don't even think of stepping one single foot off this property cause you can't. While you were sleeping a good friend of mine injected a chip into you that will cause excruciating pain that will have you begging for death if you step off the property." I glare at him as a cocky smirk covers his face. "I've been alive a very long time I'm not stupid, every little idea you think of I already have a way to stop or counter it, you're not the first blood crazy lycan I've dealt with."

Oh how I would love to claw that irritating smirk off his face it's pissing me and my lycan off. I hid my annoyance with a fake smirk. "You're bluffing there's no way you could do something that would hurt me, it would cause you and your lycan to suffer if I was hurt cause of you. It would eat away at you both."

He just chuckles making me raise my lips in a silent snarl. "My lycan isn't that big of a wuss, it's true he doesn't like the idea of you in pain especially when he is the reason your hurt but he knows what has to done to keep you from slaughtering anyone you can get your hands on." A growl catches in my throat as Elijah and I have an intense stare down. "If you try anything I'll lock you up myself in a dungeon where you'll have nothing to do but stare at the dirty moldy cell walls and smell the stench of piss from the wolves and lycans that were previously in the cell." His voice turns cold making me raise a brow at his words.

"What do I get if I can manage to behave?"

Elijah leans forward with a mischievous glint in his eyes. "Do you expect to get rewarded for being good when I've already gotten you out of that bleak prison cell that you would've rotted away in for all of eternity?" I clench my fists so tightly my nails dig into my palms drawing blood. He leans back so he's sitting normally with his muscular arms crossed across his broad chest. "Actually depending on how you act there's a chance you might sway me to give you a reward of some kind." A shiver of pleasure goes down my spine at that. "By the way there's nothing but forest for miles so there's plenty of animals to hunt, that might help you with your... problem."

"I know what can help my problem." I purr then seductively lick the blood that's going down my arm from my bleeding palms, looking into his eyes I climb on top of the island on my hands and knees making sure my low cut shirt is displaying my large cleavage as I sexually crawl up to him. When I'm an inch from his face I run my tongue over my lips, he growls then puts a hand on the back of my head tightly grabbing my hair. I start to put a hand on his chest but he roughly tugs my hair yanking my head back, his face hardens as he glares at me.

"Nice try but I'm not falling for it. I have a pretty detailed prison record of you which includes all of your seduction tricks and how you actually got people to fall for them resulting in their deaths. I have to admit I was surprised that you brutally killed most of them during or after s*x, guess that kind of sick twisted game gets your f****d up lycan off. Sorry but I'm not interested in s*x if I have to worry about getting my heart ripped out of my chest." His hold on my hair is released, I give him the hardest glare I can muster while curling my lips up in a snarl. Elijah just looks amused at my reaction. "If you truly want to have that kind of reward I can always tie you up." He winks.

"f**k you!" I try to hold back my angry trembling as I feel my eyes turn gold.

"You can if you're a good girl." The bastard teasinly says as he takes in how riled up I am.

Getting off the island I pick up what's left of my food and launch it at his head much to my dismay he swiftly catches it with one hand. "Glad you got feisty after your long three day sleep."

My anger quickly vanishes at his words. "I slept for three days?" I just blink in disbelief.

"Yep." He pops the p as he leans back kicking his feet up on the table, that used to be one of my biggest pet peeves. Manners have drastically declined over the years if I did that before I was locked up in 1960 everyone would be horrified at the rude action. "Guess a nice bed, lack of food and sleep deprivation does that to someone. It's good though cause it gave me plenty of time to think of security measures and what to do with you." f*****g asshole! Letting out a small growl I storm out of the kitchen needing to put as much distance between the both of us as possible, his laughter follows me making it really hard to not turn around and rip his tongue out.

Flinging the front door open I stomp outside grumbling to myself wanting to take my anger out in some way. Since I can't shift I won't be able to easily hunt so I decide to go for a run, not wanting to get my new tank top sweaty I take it off leaving me in my short shorts and bra. Going to the treeline I stretch out my legs loosening up my muscles then get into a runner position. After a few deep breaths I take off.

Running has never felt so free before, feeling the sun peeking through the trees hitting my skin is almost euphoric, it can't even be described how truly amazing it is to finally feel the sun's warm rays and see the brightness of daylight. Putting all my senses to use I'm able to easily navigate my surroundings without tripping or running into anything with grace I'm able to leap over every fallen branch also my steps are barely audible as I pay attention to where my feet are stepping. Sadly it doesn't take long for me to start running out of energy in only one all too short hour but I still try to push myself ignoring the burning in my lungs and legs not to mention the buckets of sweat pouring off me. My lycan actually feeling the tiniest bit happy as she howls as loud as she can in my head, even though she's not the one running free she can still feel the freedom of the wind whipping by as the trees are nothing but a passing blur, and our hair being blown all over the place, we both reveal in the pine scented air.

Sniffing the air a huge grin lights up my face as the strong scent of fresh water invades my nostrils, using my last bit of energy I sprint in the direction of the source. In just a few minutes I enter a large clearing with a breathtaking small lake that spreads out from the meadow deep into the forest. The sunlight shimmers off the crystal clear water like something you'd see in a painting, there's an almost magical feeling to the area that warms you up on the inside. Slowly I step to the edge of the water and peer down at my reflection, my black hair is messy from the wind but not in bad way sort of looks like it's been styled that way, my icy blue eyes actually have some small spark of life in them, my body is still as toned as it was before I went to prison which makes me smirk, while locked away I did workout daily in my cell. I take my shorts off carelessly tossing them off to the side somewhere and step into the water til it's waist deep. Relishing the touch of the water on my skin I close my eyes raising my head up towards the sun, wanting to savor the moment as if it's the last time I'll ever be in water again.

"Already found the best spot in the area. The next closest lake is maybe two hundred miles away." My eyes snap open and I quickly turn around to see Elijah leaning against a tree watching me, I was too busy enjoying the environment to notice him.

"Are you f*****g kidding me?! I was having a peaceful moment you jackass!" I nearly shout in frustration, I came out here to get away from him but he just had to follow me.

A small smile graces his lips. "Sorry but I do have to keep a watch on you especially when you go outside. For all I know you'd be crazy enough to claw off all of your skin to try to dig out that chip so you can run off and slaughter an entire city." My eyes roll at him, even I'm not insane enough to skin myself.

"Would be nice to do that, you have no clue just how much my lycan enjoys the screams of people as she rips them apart limb by limb." I internally smirk as I see a small frown wanting to creep across Elijah's features but he tries to hide it. "Can I ask you something?"

Curiosity shines brightly in his eyes. "What?"

"Tell me how the f**k you expect me to hunt when I can't shift?!" I growl out annoyed that I had to run my anger off instead of tearing apart animals which believe it or not I would much rather do.

His face clouds over in confusion. "What do you mean you can't shift?"

My eyes flicker gold. "You said you read my prison records but you must not have read everything if you don't know I can't shift due to the f*****g spell they cast on me yearly! My lycan is aggravated that we can smell all the animals in the forest but can't hunt them down" My hands go up showing off my frustration at the situation.

Elijah purses his lips. "That's not mentioned in the records at all but it's good you can only half shift, less for me to worry about. Your lycan can't take control so you won't be as much as a threat, I just have to deal with you."

Growling I storm out of the water and stalk towards him like he's my prey, his eyes widen as he takes in my barely clothed, half wet body. Using that tiny distraction to my advantage I charge at him with full force. With a hard thud and groan my canines come out as I pin Elijah down on the hard forest floor. Unseemly affected by my action he smugly smirks at me then flips us over so I'm under his large body. Using one hand he pins both my arms above my head while resting his other hand next to my shoulder holding himself up. Then he leans down to close to my ear. "Being in sweat and water covered see through lingerie and trying to pin me down is playing with fire, you're being naughty." Elijah makes sure his warm breath fans on my ear causing my body to shudder then he lightly nibbles my ear. Growling I maneuver my legs so they are under his torso then harshly push him off me.

"I think you're the one playing with fire, if you value your d**k and balls you won't do that again." Once again I find myself storming off away from this infuriating lycan. I don't know how I'll be able to survive being stuck with only him for who knows how long. He's a complete and utter ass but my body dangerously wants to give in to his perfectly sculpted one.