Bás (completed book 6 of the blood moon saga)

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I smile and gran approaches her slowly, she takes her hand and soon you can see both her eyes properly after the swelling disappears and the cuts heal up. She gasps as she moves her hands around her neck and moves slightly.

"The pain is all gone"

I smile happy gran could help her.

"You have a lot more healing to go through but for today that might be enough. You have been through more than anyone I've ever met before. it's going to take time to heal you properly and I'll probably need my daughters, and grand daughters help"

I gasp this time, I've never heard of gran needing help from anyone but to need all their help. What the hell did they do to her? I stand up and move slowly towards her. She doesn't shrink back like before but stares at my hand that is outstretched to her.

"Come I'll bring you to get some clothes and to meet my sister. I won't let anyone hurt you I promise"

She studies my hand then slowly lifts her own shaking one and places it in my hand. Sparks light up my palm and I gasp as she pulls away and looks at my hand with a gasp.

"I should have warned you I'm sorry. We know we are mates when we get tingles when we touch. It's strange but nice isn't it?"

I am afraid she will be repulsed by me. But she takes my hand again and studies it where our skin meets. Probably checking to see if there are actual sparks where our hands connect.

I pull on her hand as she tries to stand up. I reach over and pull her to her feet then realise she's practically naked so I turn around and pull my hoodie off and hand it to her. She takes it and to my surprise she places her hand back in mine after she puts it on.

I smile to Myself but say nothing and lead her out of the room. I watch her as we walk, anyone moving too fast makes her jump and her heart rate speeds up. When in the elevator a man steps in and she cowers behind me and pulls my body so I'm covering her own.

The man who's name is Adam raises an eyebrow at her and smirks at me.

"Alpha"

He nods. I nod back and just enjoy the fact that she's not screaming for me to get away from her. Gran chuckles and I can feel her head rest between my arm and body. I look down and bite my lip to stop myself from chuckling when I realise she's looking out between the hole and her grip on my hand is probably hurting her own. She's holding it so tight.

The door dings and Adam leave first and she sighs in relief but doesn't move.

"Do you want me to carry you?"

"No, I can walk. But how many more of you are here?"

"How many of the pack? Well in the house only around 10, outside around 15000"

"15000 wolves? That's a lot of dog hair"

I snort and laugh in surprise but quickly pull myself together and pull her to my side gently so she wasn't behind me anymore. But she pulls back when someone walks past.

"I promise no one will hurt you. Damn even if they tried I'd kill them in a second"

She lifted my arm and looked up at me. She was so small and extremely beautiful even covered in mud.

"How many people have you killed?"

She asks with her eyebrow in the air I bite my lip but decide the truth was probably best.

"Quite a few, but only those who try to hurt my pack or family, what about you?"

"2. I ran out of bullets and only shot the 3rd"

I nodded

"Well done"

She looked happy with herself, like she wants to do it again. I decided to try my luck and ask her another question.

"Just out of interest, how many more have you to kill?"

I started to walk with her behind me holding on for dear life.

"Are you sure you don't want me to hold you? Nobody will get past my arms"

"And you will kill them if they try"

"You have my word"

She jumps as an omega comes around the corner and I turn and lift her like she's a baby. She's so small and skinny she fit in my arms perfectly and soon she was huddled in and she sighed happily.

"I'm going to bring you upstairs so you can shower or would you rather my sister do it?"

"No you will kill them so you"

I don't argue with her and tell mum to bring me clothes for her, I go straight to my room and open the door of the bathroom.

"I'll just be outside the door"

"No. Don't close the door"

I place her on her feet and raise her chin so she's looking at me.

"I don't want to freak you out by being in here"

"I don't care. It's just skin. Just don't touch me but please don't leave me alone again"

I sigh and turn around then decide to sit on the toilet and wait for her. I hear the door of the room open

"What was that!"

"Ssssh it's just my mum bringing you clothes I'll be right back"

"You're not going to leave me are you?"

"No I promise. Mum just put them on the bed I'll bring her downstairs after"

"Ok sweety"

She answers and I hear her close the door again. I sigh and sit on the toilet but freeze when I see her body. Under the mud she is littered in scars. I hold back bás as he comes to the surface to growl.

Bás

What the hell did they do to mate? Look at her neck!

Me

I know but you can't growl and freak her out. We need to be calm around her

Bás

I understand but look at her body. It's like they have mutilated her.

Me

I know but stay calm bás we will catch them. They won't get away with this

he retreats into my mind and whimpers. Tears spring to my own eyes as she turns around and looks at me.

"What happened to you"

My heart felt like it broke into teeny tiny pieces. My body felt like it was ready to burst into flames and before I even knew what was happening I was crying.

Her features softened but she didn't say anything instead she just washed herself not saying a word.

——-

7 months earlier

Fays POV

2 more months of hell but at least they let me shower and eat a little, I never thought washing my teeth was a luxury but now I realise it is. Sometimes they even let me smoke or drink coffee if they like the meal I made or if I didn't complain while they tortured me.

We were in a cabin in the woods, nothing for miles around but at least I could see the stars in the sky or the sun rise in the morning.

They sedate me most nights but lately it had been wearing off earlier than before and soon I could be up early enough to shower before they even waken up or eat something if they hadn't put me off eating because of the pain.

They spent hours everyday away but one always stayed back. I started to plan my escape. But it would take time and I had to be good. I had to take their beatings and had to go willingly when they raped me. I even forced myself to smile when they let me have a smoke or a cup of coffee.

But it didn't make up for the scars that littered my skin from where they had whipped me with belts or sticks. Right now I had a gash across my stomach where they had used a heated knife to brand me.

It hurt like hell but they pumped me with antibiotics and other pills so I wouldn't die from infections or get pregnant by mistake. I pulled down the box with medical supplies to change the bandage on my stomach. I hissed at the pain of pulling the old one off.

"It's still healing huh?"

Donny the youngest said to me. Steven and Patrick were gone today and donny was my babysitter.

"Yeah"

"I'll tell him not to do that again"

I smiled at him and refrain from telling him to stick his niceties up his ass. They didn't like it when I did that. I remember the last time I did and shivered at the thought.

They chained me to the wall and hit me with a belt for hours. Even when I passed out I'd wake up screaming as they continued. Since then I haven't even rolled my eyes at them. I knew better.

I changed the bandage and sighed happily that it no longer stung. He threw me a smoke and the lighter, donny always let me smoke as much as I wanted and drink coffee but I couldn't stomach much of it anymore with the little food they fed me.

I smoke and decide to sit on the couch and watch tv with him. He pulls my legs off the floor and puts them in his knee, I yank them back but he raises his eyebrow and pulls them back painfully. I give up and let him have his way. No point in getting a beating over him holding my feet.

"We need to get you warmer clothes your feet are freezing"

I nod not really sure if I'm allowed to even talk to him.

"Maybe make you eat more and you won't be so cold either. Humans are strange, we don't get very cold. Your all very fragile"

"Yeah we die easy to"

I clamp my mouth shut afraid that my mouth will get me in trouble. He notices and laughs loudly.

"Yeah you do don't ya, a simple car accident and your all gone, I'm surprised you haven't died by accident already"

"honestly I probably would have if you 3 didn't keep giving me antibiotics"

I decided to take part since he was in such good humour. It's not often I get to talk anymore and sometimes it's lonely being in my own head all the time.

"Your probably right, if they didn't keep beating you to such an extreme maybe they wouldn't need you to take them so much"

"Yeah I'm surprised they still work to be honest"

He frowns and looks at me

"What do you mean?"

"Antibiotics, they stop working if you take too much. Same as paracetamol. If you take enough they don't help and your body gets immune"

"I didn't know that. I'll tell them so hopefully they will stop hurting you but you have got to be good."

"I'm trying"

I say honestly. He taps my leg

"I know you are"

He looks back at the tv and soon my eyes start to close.

———-

2 month later...

I opened my eyes and I was surprised that it was still dark out. I climbed out of bed quietly and checked the time. It was 2 am. That means I'd only been knocked out for around 2 hours. I needed to be quiet so I went in search of the sedatives but they were nowhere in sight and I needed them to get out of here.

I yawn and climb back into my bed and decide to go to sleep and bide my time. And I did. I waited every night and a few months later the sedative only worked for a few minutes.

But I had to be careful in case they heard me move. I needed to wait until they were too deeply asleep to get up or hear me so I waited until they were all snoring loudly and then I got dressed in warm clothes and went in search of the sedatives.

I nearly jumped on the spot when I realised they finally f****d up and left them on the countertop. I go straight to the bag and I fill 3 syringes to the very top. Normally they only gave me 0.5mil but I was giving them 7mil. I worked quickly but as I looked them over I got nervous.

They were going to wake up as soon as I stuck them with it and I didn't realise until now that I only had 2 hands.

Donny was the deepest sleeper. The other 2 had to bang a damn pan to wake him. The other 2 were lighter sleepers so I decided to stick them first and hope they would be knocked out long before donny had a chance to wake.

Sweat was running down my face and my hands shook impossibly fast. I took a breath and pushed the needles into their necks, I do it fast and then moved on to donny but to my surprise he opened his eyes as I pushed the liquid into his neck, I pushed it all in as he gasps and grabs my hand.

"You'll f*****g regret that!"

He pulled me towards him and kneed me in the stomach. The other 2 try to wake up but the sedative must have kicked in because they can barely open their eyes.

Donny takes me by the hair and stands to his feet and punches me in the face. I feel the hair rip from my scalp, I scream out as his grip is relentless. His fist connects with my face, the crunch of my nose comes before the pain. I try to hold back my cry. I don't want to give him the satisfaction of reacting to his attack. I was getting out. I just had to hold out long enough for the drungs to work, I feel my eyes start to swell as his fist pummels me, blood run down my nose and over my lips.

He kicks and knees me, he puts all his fury behind each hit dropping me to the ground and kicking me hard in the stomach before he stops and stumbles and suddenly he starts to grumble and grunt.

"Nomatter where you go or what you do we will find you and we will kill you"

He drops to the floor with a thump, the wooden floor below us creeks with his weight, and passes out.

I will myself not to pass out and I push myself off the floor, my body shakes and trembles in shock as I heave my body from the floor. Pain slices through my side and I grab onto the kitchen island to stop myself from falling. Everything hurt and my vision was shaky. I lifted the sedatives with my trembling hand and I filled 3 more syringes full using the last of the bottle. I will myself not to fall as I make my way back to donny on the floor, I drop to my knees Landing on his stomach and I chuckle at the fact I practically bounce off his soft flabby stomach, i inject them all again and then look for the keys.

I grab the cigarettes off the table and leave the cabin locking the door behind me. I ran to the car and I knew it was adrenaline that was keeping me moving but I didn't fight it. I embraced it because I had to get out of here. If they wake and they find me they will kill me or do something worse then kill me and I can't let them do that again. It's surprising I survived the first time. I push that one particular memory out because right now I can't think of it, I can't think of pain like it ever again.

I jumped into the car and locked the doors after me and started it. I took off and drove down the dirt road taking a left and I was surprised to see the sign for New Orleans. I growled at the memory of them taking me, of what they had done. Anger bubbled up inside me and fuelled my adrenaline. I wasn't far from where they had taken me, I wondered what became of the place, were their bodies still decaying and rotten in the field or did someone find them. I push the thought out because right now I needed out, I needed to get away from here and when I do I can then ring the cops. Ask them to do a drive by or something.

I take the road to the city and pull out a smoke and light it. The roads started to get wider and my head soon started to pound. I could see black dots appear in my vision so I slowed down but not fast enough because my tire catches on the grass and I swerve and the grass pulls me off the road and I drive straight off the road and over a ditch, the car rolls and tumbles, creaking and breaking under its own weight, the glass groans and I close my eyes as it combusts and shatters and by the time it stops rolling I'm hanging upside down and I vomit everywhere, unable to hold it in anymore.

I knew I didn't have long and if they tried they could possibly find me so I braced myself, the only way out was down and I curse myself for not puking on my Landing spot, I brace myself and find the seatbelt opening, it cut into my skin painfully as it held me upside down. I took a breath and counted down from 3.

1..

2...

3....

I open the seatbelt and I tried to catch myself from falling. I fail and fall headfirst into my own vomit, creaking my neck as my head falls first and my body falls to the side landing unnaturally. Pain strains down my spine and I whimper trying to move my head back to a more normal position. I groan and I try to rub the pain away but my body was exhausted and so was my mind. I don't let myself get comfortable even when the black spots start to appear again.

I pull myself from the car and climb out the shattered window and fall into a small river. I welcome the water, opening my mouth so I can swallow some but the force of the stream surprises me and I cough and choke on it. I push up with all my energy and sit there catching my breath. After a few minutes I use the water, cleaning myself from my puke and blood, I cup the water in my hands and I drink some more. Then I crawl out completely drenched.

I look to the sky and it must be early morning. The sun was just beginning to rise on the horizon So that means I don't have much time left so I crawled into the forest and away from the road praying I would make it far enough that they won't find me. I grab onto a tree and I try to pull myself to my feet, the bark cut into my hands and nails as I pulled my weight up, I grin and bear it and the aches in my body is brutal but I force myself onwards.

Eventually I coming to a clearing and I fall too tired to go any further, and in too much pain to try. The light around me is sucked away like a vortex as the darkness slips in stealing the light and my hope of escape goes with it. All I can do now is pray death takes me before they find me.

—————-

Ardens POV

When she finished I handed her a towel unable to take my eyes off her. She wrapped herself up and looks at me. She was so unbelievably beautiful, even more so without mud and blood stuck to her, her bright red hair fell down over her shoulders. Her face was full of freckles, her face was so equal and exact it was hard to believe she was real and not a painting from some famous artist. She was tiny, a good foot smaller than me if not more and she probably had more weight in her hair then she did in her body. Her bright green eyes were big and a beautiful contrast to her hair. She looked like the ultimate warrior queen.

She raised her pretty little eyebrow at me and only then did I realise I was staring at her. She followed me out of the bedroom. I gave her clothes and she looked through them and pulled on a pair of leggings but when she let go they fell down on her and she groaned, her face crunched up in annoyance and I couldn't help but chuckle at her, she was adorable aswell as beautiful.

I grabbed the pile of clothes and lifted the sweatpants, I pulled on the string and they closed in on themselves so I handed them to her.

"Here try these they seem to tighten"

She took them looking them over and pulled the strings tightly, she smiled and pulled them on but cursed as they to were huge on her. I bite my lip to keep the smile from my face and I sit on the bed and pull her between my legs. He hands go to my shoulders to steady herself and I push away the moan as her hands connected with my chest. Even through the fabric I felt the sparks. I had to shimmy some of the fabric around so they would close fully then she tied them. She lifted the vest tops and then looked at her scars so I got up and grabbed a T-shirt from my closet and handed it to her.

She looked it over and grinned Then she pulled it on and it fell down past her knees and I chuckled again. She pulled the end up and tied it in a nought and left it to hang at the side.

"Better?"

She said looking herself over I chuckle

"Well to be honest you look like a barbie doll dressed in human sized clothes but it will do until I buy you more"

She crossed her arms defiantly and I crossed mine and raised my eyebrow at her.

"That's a little rude considering your a giant"

I smirked at her. Damn she was adorable when she was sassy. I like it.

"It's not often Someone so small has the courage to give me lip, I think I like it"

I winked at her and her lip tugged up slightly, I held out my hand for her to take but her face fell as she looked to the door and her heart started to pound in her chest. I turn around and lift her. Her heart starts to slow down as she tucks herself into my body.

"I kind of like that your so small"

"I kind of like that your a giant"

I chuckle and kiss her forehead but we both freeze and I bite my lip.

"s**t sorry- I couldn't help myself and then I just- wanted to- and em I'm just- s**t-"

"For a giant you seem offly afraid of a little person's reaction"

I sigh in relief and my heart stops beating so hard. Damn I need to be more careful

"Sorry. I actually am. You're one of the only people in the world that can actually hurt me. Not physically but if you decided to leave me I'm not sure how I would survive it"

"I'm not leaving. You're one of the only people in the world that can protect me. Plus you carry me around. Who needs to walk if I have a giant person thats willing to carry me around and buy me pretty things"

I smirk and shake my head

"Buy you pretty things? What exactly is it that you desire that's so pretty?"

"Well maybe clothes that fit would be a good start, after that you can use your imagination I'm not picky"

I chuckle and carry her into the elevator.

"So my sister Aspen, my mum Baylee and dad caden are in the kitchen with our cook Evelyn. My brothers might stop by but none of them will touch you. You can even sit on my knee"