The days were long and painful, my body was covered in both deep and shallow gashes; the blood that seeped from them had dried and blackened on my skin. Every day, Alpha Maximus would come into my cell and torture me, trying to force me into rejecting Alex and coming back to this pack. After everything he had put me through, there was no way that any amount of torture would make me want to come back here, to be a part of his pack.
I knew that Alex would be looking for me, no matter how long it took, he wouldn’t give up on me. When Maximus wasn’t brutally attacking me, I would imagine what it would feel like to be back in Alex’s arms; to feel safe again.
The sound of keys jingling down the stone hallway made me flinch, I knew exactly what it meant when I heard it; Maximus was on his
