Moon Blessed Luna

Chapter 5 - Lena

I'm floating, there's darkness all around me, but it doesn't feel scary. I'm peaceful, weightless, and free. Am I dead? Did the Alpha kill me?

You're not dead yet, Lena! Hold on a little longer for me? I can help you soon.

The voice inside my head sounded familiar, but she didn't know what she was talking about. I just had to let go and I would be free.

Lena?! Don't you dare!

Lena!

"Lena?" the voice changed and came from further away, not from inside my head.

"Lena!" The voice belonged to Cait, and the moment I recognized her, pain shot through my body. I definitely wasn't dead.

Told you. That voice inside my head again, she sounded smug.

I open my eyes and blink a few times to focus on Cait, her red hair is tucked behind her ears in greasy strands and her green eyes scanning over my body are filled with worry, one of them framed by a purplish bruise.

"Lena! Thank the Goddess! I thought you were dead!" She helps me to sit up a little against the pillows on the bed in the Alpha's room, and pain shoots up from between my legs. My body begins to tremble violently as I remember what the Alpha had done to me and I look at Cait, begging her with my eyes to tell me what happened.

"The Alpha was very happy when he was finished with you, he actually smiled." she tells me, while her eyes scan over my body to assess the damage. "He brought medicine for Kaylee to help with the soreness between her legs, he even gave me an ice pack to hold against my eye. We got an actual dinner, with carrots and potatoes! I think it was just leftovers from the pack's meal, but," she stops talking abruptly when her assessment reaches my legs and I hear her gasp in horror.

"Oh Lena, what did he do to you?" I glanced over toward the fireplace where the poke iron was thrown after he had stuck it inside me. It had been white hot and the pain was so intense I had blacked out, but the memory came back all too easily.

He had been going at me for hours, punishing me for the orgasm he caused me to have. He did that often, teasing until you couldn't help but fall and then punishing because he hadn't said you could. He had whipped my back until it was raw, and I'm sure I had been bleeding from some of the cuts as well. He had kept on f*****g me, ignoring my cries of pain as he forced me in positions that hurt the cuts and bruises he gave me earlier.

When he needed to rest he laid on top of me, pressing me down and making it hard to breathe. A few times he had bitten his mark again, making my body respond to the mate bond while blood trickled down his mouth and my neck.

"You are a useless excuse for a she-wolf you know." he said after another round of seemingly endless, painful s*x. "You don't have a wolf, you never gave me any children despite me and my men trying our hardest on you for 7 years." he got a wicked smile on his face as he pretended to caress my face. I hated how my body responded to his touch, despite the pain those same hands caused me.

"I kept hoping you would repay our kindness for saving you all those years ago. We took you in as one of our own and you betrayed us with your weakness." he went over to the fireplace and grabbed the poke iron he had put in the fire earlier.

"It has been fun, my men and I agree that you are a really good f**k. But I think we have tolerated your disrespect long enough." I had started to scramble away when he had ordered me with his full Alpha authority to lay still and spread my legs. I tried to resist but he pressed his aura out even harder until I cried out in pain and did what he said.

"Tomorrow I will let my men hunt you in the forest. Whoever finds you, gets to kill you in whatever way they like." he slowly walked over to me, keeping his aura up to keep me down with my legs spread open. His grin turned maniacal as his eyes turned completely black.

"But let's make sure first you won't be as likable to my men anymore." with those words he shoved the hot iron inside of me and I screamed as my sensitive flesh sizzled and melted. He pulled the iron out and the world turned black around me.

"Lena? Lena! They're coming! You have to listen to me!" Cait's voice pulled me from the memory.

"I heard them talking about hunting you. They will give you 1 hour to hide in the woods. You have to promise me you'll try to run. I know it will hurt you in your condition, but promise me you won't just give up and let them kill you? You could be free, Lena! Please promise me you'll try?"

As I stare into her emerald eyes, I know she doesn't believe I could be free, but she was right. It was at least a chance, if only I didn't hurt so badly. I nod and we hug one more time, ignoring the pain that shoots through my entire body with even the slightest of movements. I am never going to get very far.

I'll help you, Lena! This could be our only chance, I won't let it slip away.

Great, even the voice in my head is delusional. I would never escape this place, but at least death would also offer some sort of freedom. I would keep my promise to Cait however, and really try my best.

My best friend squeezed my shoulders once more before sneaking out again, and just in time. Loud voices draw nearer as the Alpha enters the room and smiles.

"You're stronger than you look, you know. I'm happy you survived, I wouldn't want to disappoint my men. They're so excited to hunt you." he lifts me off the bed bridal style, nuzzling his mark and making my body respond. I curse the stupid Bond once more, I couldn't understand how my body could keep responding to him after he mutilated me like he did.

"You'll make sure they have fun, won't you my little one?" I moan as he nips his mark, and then curse myself inside my head. Stupid, stupid bond! He carries me outside before dropping me on the cold ground.

"Now hide. You have 1 hour before my men will come to find you. And they will find you, and then kill you." with those loving words he slams the door and I'm free, at least for now. Pushing through the pain I get up and start running, ignoring how the frosty forest floor stings my bare feet and how my body starts to shiver in the early spring morning.

Let me take over! I can help us!

I ignore the voice, all I could focus on was moving my feet one in front of the other. Don't trip, don't think about the pain, just keep running.

Lena! Stop being so stubborn! I can help!

I don't even know who you are, you stupid voice. Why are you in my head?

You know full well who I am, now let me help us! I know where we have to go and go fast enough to lose the hunters!

Shut up! You know I can't outrun them! You're distracting me! and I fall face first over a fallen branch.

Are you happy now? I think, as I flatten as much of my body against the cold ground. Might as well die of hypothermia before they find me.

Let me take over! Why are you being so stubborn!

I notice a strange tugging sensation in my mind. It feels like somebody is trying to push me aside but I can't seem to move away.

Just let me help us! The voice begs, the cold has numbed my body enough to stop the pain and I like it. Giving in to it would be all too easy, and I feel my eyes slowly close. The tugging gets stronger and as I feel myself slip away, another presence seems to take over my body. It's a really weird sensation but also feels natural, and a warm glow starts spreading through me. I give in to it and let myself fall asleep.

Unknown POV

I wait to help her shift until I know her mind is asleep. She has been through enough pain and I know most of it is my fault. I could have healed her every time they beat her, cut her, abused her. But I had to stay hidden, I know she will understand one day.

When I had heard the Alpha say he was going to let her out to have a head start for the hunt, I knew it was my only chance to escape, and I entered her mind just enough to help her survive but not enough to change her scent. If they found out what we were, she would never see the light of day again.

White fur covers our body as I force the shift and my senses enhance. When I feel my wolf body for the very first time, I let out a howl of excitement before starting to run. Power courses through my body as I run at our full speed, the world around me going blurry. We are so much faster than those rogues, I just know it. I can't wait to see how Lena reacts when she finds out what we are.

I follow an invisible string, a pull that tells me where to go. Hearing the frustrated howls far behind me when the hunters can't find us. I ran for 2 days and 2 nights, following the pull, following Her guidance, before I barged into a clearing in the woods where the pull disappears and almost makes me drop to the ground from exhaustion. A large, black wolf turns around and when our eyes meet I can only think one word before I can't stop us from shifting back and losing consciousness.

Mate!