Aurora's POV
The inner cell door groaned open and the first smell to hit my nose what's the smell of damp concrete and dried blood.
I moved to the side and Smith and Rio came in with the man they had caught behind the trees. Both men held the man, each holding one of his arms. His good leg script the floor and his bad leg dragged behind him. They dropped him onto a metal chair in the middle of the room and I stayed by the door with my back pressed against the wall.
I have told myself that the reason I stood by the world was because I just wanted to stay there to watch the interrogation but that was the lie I told myself to convince myself that my legs haven't stopped shaking The Ravine.
“Chains.” Smith said and Rio pulled the chains from the world and quickly fasted it around the man's wrist. Blue light came on in the room and the man's head lolled to one side.
“Is he dead?" I asked.
“I was sure to have given him enough blows to knock him out but not to kill him.” Rio said and stepped back. He hit the man hard across the face, hard enough that the sound bounced off the walls.
The man suddenly jerked upright, gasping for air. He shook slightly in his chair, his eyes darting around the room. “Where am I? Where the hell am I? Let me go!!”
"You're not going anywhere," Smith said, stepping closer with that look he always had when he was about to do something drastic.
“Why would you kidnap me? You can't keep me here. I know my rights.”
“Rogues don't have rights and you are here to answer questions.”
“Who told you I'm a rogue?”
He thrashed his legs. “I'm not a rogue.”
"Then who are you?"
The man spat out blood onto the floor, a smirk pulling at the edge of his lips. Smith took a step closer and stopped right in front of the chair, his gaze darkening.
“I need you to tell me everything about Victoria. Every motherfucking thing.” He said, his voice coming up laced with venom. “Does she work for you, the rogues or do you work for her? Does she answer to someone else? Tell me!”
The man laughed. It started small and grew into a wheeze that shook the chains. He leaned out of the chair.
“And who do you think you are to question me?”
"I'm Smith Calloway. The Supreme Alpha."
"I know exactly who you are." The man grinned, and there was blood in his teeth. "That's why I'm laughing."
Smith didn't hesitate before his fist hit his face. The man's head snapped sideways, blood rushing out from his nose and from the corner of his mouth and the cheer rattled against the floor.
“Smith stop!” Rio said, his voice sharp but Smith didn't listen and hit him again on the face.
“Smith stop!” Rio called out again, his hand clamped around Smith's wrist. He firmly pulled him back, his grip tightening around Smith's wrist. “You have to learn to control your anger.”
“He was f*****g laughing at me.”
“You don't have to react to everything he says. He is intentionally trying to piss you off and you're falling for his bait. Take a look at him. He's bleeding from his nose and mouth. Hit him one more time and you would kill him without meaning to and before we even get any information out of him. He would literally die before he tells us anything.”
Smith's chest rose and fell. He pulled his arm free from Rio's grip and turned his back on the room for a moment.
Rio stepped forward instead and slowly crouched in front of the chair.
“So listen up, here's what's going to happen. You are going to tell us what we want to know and maybe, just maybe we will spare your life.”
"Maybe?" The man coughed and wiped his mouth on his shoulder. "You think I'm scared of you?"
“You should be scared of what we're going to do to you.”
“I would rather die than tell you anything.”
"Excuse me?”
“You heard me write the first time. I said I would rather die than tell you anything about the questions you just asked me.” He smiled and turned his bruised face towards me. “My boss would make it worse for me if I tell you and the punishment I'm going to receive is going to be worse than what you would ever inflict on me.”
My blood went cold. I wasn't expecting the rogue to be loyal even to the point of death. "Who is your boss?” I asked from where I stood.
“You would have to kill me to find out.” he said, his smile growing wider.
Smith let out a long and tired breath. "See?" he said to Rio, dragging a hand over his face “I knew that this was going to be pointlessless. We are just going to waste our time interrogating a man who prefers to be dead.”
"Smith..."
"He wants to die, Rio, why don't you just do the pleasure." Smith said and was already reaching for his gun at the back of his pants. The click of the safety echoed through the room. “I'll help him fulfill his greatest desire.”
I pushed myself off the wall. “Wait. You can just kill him. We need him alive in order to find answers.”
Smith looked at me.
“We need answers but he is not giving us any so why waste our time on him?”
“Smith you have to put the gun down.” Rio said.
"Why should I do that? Give me one good reason, Rio"
I opened my mouth to say something but that was when a sharp pain torch through my shoulders right where the poison was. It spread down my arm and my neck so fast that I couldn't even breathe. Something hot ran through my veins and for the next few seconds my vision went white.
"Aurora?" Rio said, alarmed.
I tried to say I am fine but the words couldn't believe my throat. It only existed in my mind but I couldn't make it out.
"Aurora!" Smith yelled and I could hear the man laughing.
Another scream tore out of me before I could stop it. My knees folded and crashed onto the floor. I heard the gun that Smith was holding hit the floor then I heard boots running towards me and Smith shouting my name over and over.
Suddenly an arm caught me and I felt myself being lowered to the floor and the last thing I heard was Rio's voice filled with panic.
"Stay with me."