Chapter 26

I opened my eyes, still being unable to see anything and I felt an awful stabbing headache, I quickly realized I had a fabric bag over my head and started to panic remembering the red-haired woman, who was one of the hunters standing over me as I was blacking out.

A few seconds later I hear multiple voices and focused my hearing to try and understand them. I recognized three of the voices, the three hunters that had shown up at the police station.

-She's awake - said the woman

-We shot her with concentrated wolfsbane, there's no way she's awake this soon - said the hunter with dark skin

-It seems like we got a fighter - said the hunter with olive skin

-No way, we knocked her out cold - said the female hunter

I heard her steps coming towards me and a few seconds later the bag that was over my head was gone and my eyes were burning by the super bright lights of the place, when my vision went back to normal I was able to realize I was at some sort of abandoned warehouse, tied up to a chair with, ropes? I almost laughed at it and attempted to brake out of them, but I stopped immediately when I felt an intense burning in my wrists.

-Don't even bother with it - said the hunter with dark skin - those ropes have been soaked in wolfsbane - he explained crouching down in front of me

Hearing him say the word "wolfsbane" freaked me out completely - as if I wasn't freaked out already - and my brain brought back the moment Aldahir told me about the group of hunters that knew about us and in that second I realized he was telling the truth. My first instinct was to play it off, play dumb and somehow convince them they had gotten the wrong person, but very quickly I realized it wouldn’t work, they had gotten suspicious at the police station, they had, somehow followed me home, who knows if they let themselves into our apartment and went around looking for stuff to prove we were werewolves, before I realized someone had gotten in, and on top of all that they had shot me with wolfsbane and it had worked, if I were a human it would have done nothing to me.

The hunter with dark skin started laughing, seemingly enjoying the panicked expression I for sure had on my face and he tighten the ropes around my wrists even more, which made the burning feeling even worse than it already was and I nearly screamed out in pain, but I refused to show how much it had hurt me; they had gotten me, but I was not going to show any weakness of even give them the satisfaction of seeing me in pain.

The hunters laughed at me, very clearly noticing what I was doing and the woman got out a hunting knife that had one of the edges serrated, it was the kind of knife they would use to take apart the animals they had killed and I knew it would end up somewhere in my body, so I started mentally preparing for whatever crazy ideas they had in mind.

-We have a lot of questions – said the hunter with Olive skin crouching down in front of me, taking the place of the other one

-I want to know how she was human during the full moon – said the woman looking at me and playing with her knife

-You heard her, answer – said the hunter in front of me

I stared back at him and said nothing, he chuckled and stood back up, a second later the knife that the woman was holding ended up on my shoulder after she threw it and I couldn’t stop myself from screaming in pain, this seemed to satisfied them because the woman retrieved the knife from my body, walked back to where she was and threw it again, this time it went into my stomach.

-Are you ready to answer? – Asked the hunter with dark skin

I again said nothing, instead I allowed myself to growl at them, which made them laugh and the woman approached me enjoying the pain taking out the knife caused me.
-We have to be careful, we had never been able to actually caught a werewolf before, if we accidentally kill her without getting as much information from her as possible, everything we have done until now would have been for nothing – whispered the hunter with olive skin to the others

He seemed to have forgotten I was tied up just a few meters away from them and could heard them perfectly, their conversation gave me and idea and I pretended not to have heard anything. They came back to me with an extensive list of questions, which they had written down on a piece of paper – I thought it was pathetic – and started going over them one by one.

Their questions went from very intelligent and thought out, like “Where is the pack that you come from?” They knew I wasn’t by myself; they knew I belonged to a pack and they also knew I had to be with someone else who was also a werewolf. They also had pretty stupid questions like “How old you truly are?” They thought we aged slower or a different rate than normal humans, which made no sense.

I refused to say a word to them, which was half intentional and half not because I had actually gone non-verbal in an attempt to not completely collapse with all the stimuli and the pain I was being exposed to. My lack of answers annoyed them to no end and after each questions I didn’t answer the knife ended up in a different par of my body, the woman threw it at me, she stabbed me with it and simply cut me as many times as she wanted, when they arrived to the last question they had the knife was dripping with my blood and I was covered in blood from head to toe.

Because of the pain I was in I was having difficulty breathing, I was actually nearly choking on my own blood because in the last knife throw it had ended up in my stomach again, but it had ruptured something important and there was blood coming out of my mouth, they were a little too busy arguing with each other to notice I was that hurt so when the woman came back towards me with rage in her face and she stabbed my leg with the knife, twisting it while it was inside I started screaming in agonizing pain.

-Great, maybe you’re finally ready to talk, where is your pack? – She asked while putting even more pressure on the knife and twisting it

I screamed out again, overexaggerating the amount of pain I was in and I noticed something twitching in her face, she puled out the knife and called out to the other hunters, they came rushing towards me and finally noticed the blood coming out of my mouth, since they weren’t actually trying to kill me they started to panic, they hunter with dark skin started putting pressure on the wound in my stomach while yelling out for the others to go get something to, somehow patch me up.

Hearing and seeing them rushing around panicking in a pathetic and completely selfish attempt to save made me laugh, this scared and confused the hunter so I decided to scare him even more and bit my tongue making more blood come out of my mouth, when he saw it he yelled out to the others to hurry so I started coughing and faking to choke on the blood, he reacted very quickly and untied me from the chair laying me sideways on the floor so I wouldn’t choke, I kept coughing and then held my breath, pretending I had just died.

It took the hunter with dark skin a few seconds to react and he started screaming in frustration while walking away from me and blaming my dead on the other hunters, I stayed there, playing dead, breathing as little and slow as possible waiting for my chance to get up and run away, but I realized I couldn’t just run away, they knew who I was, they knew where I lived and even though I had told them nothing they could find a way to track me. Right there and then I decided I would stay down, wait for my wounds to heal and then jump into action by biting all three of them, that way they would be forced to become one of us and keep us a secret it they wanted to stay alive, or they could take their own live if they wanted to.

They hunters kept arguing with each other, stopping by me and moving me around every once in a while to make sure I was actually dead, when about twenty minutes had passed I felt all my wounds had nearly healed and when I hear them say they had to dump my body somewhere far away from there and hide very well because the police would actively look for me, I knew I had to jump into action, but right before I did I heard Aldahir’s voice.