Chapter 27
William pov
Once Allie was well enough to travel we made our way back to the pack. Making sure she had everything she needed. I let her know that it was up to her if she came back with me. I wanted to give her that option. So when she told me she wanted to come back to the black rose with me I was happy. Calling ahead I had john and wade make up a room for her on my floor but not in my rooms. I don’t want to push her so I will make sure she has all the space she needs.
Even now I decided I would give her space now that her wolf is starting to heal her and the need for me isn't as strong. She's in the middle van. I wanted her well-protected on the journey home. She seems to be doing better every day. As for me, I am starting to feel the strain of being near her and not having her. When we get back to the pack I will go on a long run. I will leave john in charge of the pack and just take a day or two and get my head and emotions under check. I can feel both myself and my wolf coming unhinged and need to recenter myself.
I can feel the border closer so I have the van stop. Linking Ethan to let him know I just needed to go for a run and I will be back later. I also asked him to watch over Allie. He reluctantly agreed. Cutting the link I got out of the van stripped tossed my clothes in the van shifted and took off into the thick underbrush of the forest around my home. My big black wolf blended in with the shadows making me invisible to the naked eye. Stopping long enough to watch the van start again I let out a painful howl.
Allison pov
William has been great he doesn't push me to talk or anything. He just holds me when I climb in his lap. Never once has he asked me for anything other than to talk about where I was kept by who and what I know about them all. I couldn’t tell him much as I was locked in my room most of my life. I did tell him about trying to save one of the twins. Her master had business with Brent often so I saw her from time to time. She was looking horrible this last time and I knew I had to do something. Had I known what I was gonna do would be the end of her I would not have done it. Had she or I had known that when they put the silver-cored tracker in her it had a tamper-proof coating on it releasing a deadly dose of wolvesbain and liquid silver into her body.
Over the last two years the apple scraps I had been given I had saved the seeds. I overheard one of the new guys ask if it was safe to let me have the seeds as to many would kill me. So from that day on, I saved every seed I got in my scraps. So when amber as he likes to call her was in my room crying she told me she was pregnant with his pup. Thinking fast knowing she didn’t want the pup I crushed all the seeds into a paste we both ate. Tricking our bodies into dying for a few hours. When they found us we both got a beating but due to the poison we couldn’t move and our breathing so shallow we appeared dead. I had dug her tracer out of her neck beforehand and she slipped it under her tongue. When they dump us and the poison wears off she will spit the tracer out leaving it in the pit. They will never know she's gone. Sounded so simple how did it go so wrong.
Brent beat my dead body so bad I will probably die from it. Even if I die now I will be free of him so it cant be so bad. And I hope amber makes it out. I pray she finds her brother and saves her sister. His master had never blind folder her when bringing her here sure she would never escape him. That’s the problem with overconfident wolves. Even so, he will be fine. The twins will never be the same again. They are broken but hopefully, they will get the chance to heal. Holding on wanting to die outside looking up into the sky just once. Soon everything goes black my last thought was finally.
I can feel pain all over so not dead damn. The smell is overwhelming death that's all I smell. I can't move something heavy is on me and I’m too broken to move. I had wiggled enough to take in a breath meaning a groaning as I do. My everything hurt. Wait I am alive. Taking a big sniff gagging as I do. Getting my hands in front of me I push the heavy thing on me down. Opening my eyes I see spots everywhere. Thy twinkle in the dark. STARS!!! I scream in my head. I just stare up at the wonder above me. I can die now happy I am free of my brother and his gang. I got to smell the fresh air, well okay not so fresh, and I got to see stars. I had always dreamed of stars but they are so much more than I could have ever imagined. This got me thinking about what would the sky full of fluffy clouds look like. okay, self hold on for the morning let us see the wonder of the day's light. Feel it just once on my skin. Laying there staring up I wonder what the sun on my skin will feel like. Not being able to hold on anymore I drift back to darkness.
