The Runaway Orphan

Being Held

                                                                                          Rena

    I woke up to my wrists burning. They felt like they were on fire. I groaned quietly. I opened my eyes and saw that there were chains on my wrist and around my ankles as well. The one around my ankle though was chained to a wall limiting how far I was able to move.

    “I didn't think you were ever going to wake up” from the cell next to me. I leaned forward looking through the bars to the next cell. It was Natalia. 

    “Your alive, but how” I questioned reached towards the bars.

    “Don't touch those” another girl said from a cell across the way. 

    I turned back to face Natalia. And avoid touching the bars. Our captors had put clothes on us. From what I could see she was completely healed.

    “So kid what's your name,” Natalia said sitting against the wall relaxed.

    “If I had friends they would call me Rena, But my name is Serena,” I said softly.

    “Nice to meet you,” she said nodding her head at me.

    “I’m from the Snowcrown pack out of colorado, what pack are you from,” she asked.

    “Pack?” I asked. The men who had grabbed us earlier mentioned packs as well. I had no idea what they were talking about.

    I watched as her eyes seemed to go from hazel to golden and she sniffed the air.

    “Well, your definitely a wolf and you don't smell like trash so your not a rogue. Where are you from?” she said and I could see her interest.

                                                                                              Lucas

    I was in the front passenger seat of the black SUV impatiently waiting to gain entrance to this pack and hopefully find his cousin. They had just entered pack lands of alpha Jett. They didn't want to warn him of their arrival which typically would be proper etiquette before entering another pack. They had stopped when they approached stone moons pack lands. One of his warriors had gone out to announce their arrival. About 30 minutes later the warriors of the other pack let them through and directed them to the packhouse.

    The three vehicles that accompanied Lucas pulled up to the packhouse. I was in the second vehicle. As we opened the doors of the vehicles the front door to the packhouse opened and alpha Jett walked out followed by his gamma. 

    I walked over to them followed closely by my beta and pack warriors. 

    “To what do we owe this surprise visit,” alpha Jett said reaching out to shake my hand. Keeping myself calm was the only way I was going to be able to discover if he was holding Natalia here somewhere. 

    “It's been a long time alpha Jett, do you mind if we go inside and talk privately,” I said as we shook hands. 

    “Of course Alpha Lucas,” he said as we walked into the packhouse. 

    I followed alpha Jett into his office meanwhile trying to see if I could smell Natalia's scent. 

                                                “Do you smell her?” I asked silently in my head?

                                                “No. But everything smells off here” my wolf Sabre said.

    Hmm. I thought to myself. 

    “What can I do for you alpha Lucas, I'm sure that this isn't just a pleasure visit,” he said sitting down behind his desk.

    Sitting down across from him I thought about how to best respond to his question without seeming as I was accusing him. Although I knew in my gut he had something to do with her missing.

    “I came as a courtesy and request for aide,” I said looking at the man seated across from me and seeing the look of shock quickly flash across his face. 

    “Go on,” he said. 

    “Natalia is missing. She was on her way back from Chicago. The last place we found records of her was a diner in st Louis. As you are the nearest pack to where she went missing I was wondering if you have had anyone gone missing?” I said.

    “I'm so sorry to hear about Natalia. My pack is at your disposal” he said.

                                                                                    Rena

    Something must have happened because men had come in and injected us with something. This time It just made it where I couldn't move. They gagged our mouths and then took everyone and loaded us into a van, We were all chained in the van. There were 10 of us in this van and as they were loading us up I saw another van loading girls as well. I wanted to scream and run. But I couldn't move. I looked over at Natalia and saw that she was calm and it looked like she would be smirking if she could.

    What did she know that I didn't know. I wondered if the police or someone had shown up and our captors had decided to move us to avoid punishment. 

    We sat in the van for probably about an hour or two before we turned onto a bumpy road. An hour or two later and many curves later the vans came to a stop. I noticed that I was able to move a little bit. Men came and unchained us from the van and brought us out. I watched as the other women didn't put up a fight just let the men pull them along. I looked over and saw Natalia attempting to fight one of the men and saw him punch her in the head knocking her out. He grabbed her leg and dragged her leaving a trail of blood. 

    A man came up to me. He was thin and shaggy-looking. I tried to back away from him he yanked my chains off and pulled me into a building. I tried to fight back and tried to run away from him. He was faster than me and grabbed me and slammed me against the wall busting my lip and nose and I felt blood running down my face and could taste blood in the back of my throat. The pain was nothing compared to other injuries I had received growing up in foster care. I ran at him barrelling into him and tried to get past him. The man grabbed my throat choking me and dragging me into a cell. I was seeing stars when he threw me on the ground in a dirty cell. Blood pooled around my body as he continued to hit me and kick me. I tried to stay conscious and keep fighting but I couldn't. I let the darkness overcome me and release me from the pain.