Chapter 105

“You two need to eat.” Heena explained as she handed them both a pot of noodles and a plastic fork to eat them with.

“What? No water?” Anastasia replied dryly as she stared at the noodles in distaste, having never enjoyed them, not even during her college days when money was tight and she wasn’t good at cooking either.

“They must have forgotten.” Heena stated with a simple shrug of her shoulders as she returned to her position by the door, wanting to disassociate herself from the two prisoners as much as possible.

“Well, call Harvey and he’ll get us some water.” She murmured quietly with pursed lips as she twisted her fork in the dry noodles which appeared to have needed some more water to have been done properly.

“Harvey isn’t your personal water boy so I don’t think so.” Heena snorted with a dark look in her eyes and as Anastasia stared back, the doctor growled and bared her teeth, her eyes darkening until she could no longer be able to differentiate between the colour of her iris and pupils.

“I don’t understand how you can expect us to be able to eat this without any water to wash it down with.”

“I hate to break it to you sweetie, but this isn’t a restaurant.”

“Well, no shit!” Anastasia snorted as she lowered her head to take a mouthful of noodles; her hunger for food greater than the lingering taste she had never grown to become fond of. “But seriously, why can’t you tell Harvey to bring us some water? It’s basic human decency!”

“Stop fucking saying his name!” Heena roared loudly as her eyes flashed again; suggesting that she was battling with her wolf to stay in control.

It was only then that Anastasia realised why Heena was getting so worked up. Holding back the twitching of her lips, she forced a thoughtful expression on her face; all for show.

“Why do you have such an issue with me saying his name?” Anastasia feigned innocence as she continued eating her noodles, completely aware of the effect that her words and tone were having on the doctor. “We’re good friends, you know?”

“The kind of friend that kidnaps you and gets you stuck in child trafficking?” Heena snorted and rolled her eyes.

“That’s just technicalities.” Anastasia hummed. “But with the way that things have been going on between us, I’m sure I can do a lot more than get a bottle of water out of him?”

“The way things have been going on between the two of you?” The doctor asked with an unpleasant grimace on her face, suddenly very interested in this prisoner; and not because essentially, she was just a surrogate to them.

When she didn’t receive a response from the woman in question, Heena took a few steps closer until finally, she was stood right in front of Anastasia. When that still didn’t elicit a response, she dropped to her knees in front of the woman and looked her straight in the eyes; her gaze dark, dangerous and unwavering.

“Tell me what you mean by that.”

“I’m not the kind of woman to kiss and tell.” Her lips curled up into a coy smirk as she blinked up at the woman. “But between you and me, we did a whole lot more than kiss.”

While the admission was enough to drive Heena crazy as Anastasia was talking so crudely about her mate, it was the wink that threw her over the edge.

Unable to control herself even though she would most definitely come to regret this later, Heena raised her hand and backhanded the woman without so much as a warning. Although Anastasia had expected this; hoped for it even.

“Don’t you dare speaking about my like that!” She roared as she delivered yet another slap, unable to bottle the rage that now consumed her. “My mate is not a cheater so stop fucking lying about it!”

Instead of retaliating, Anastasia made a show of trying to move herself out of the direct line, even going as far as to throw herself to the ground while clutching her head.

“And my son?” Thea questioned in a desperate voice.

While she was genuinely concerned about her son and his safety, she also couldn’t help but fear for the safety of Anastasia, especially after having been struck by Heena; the woman who looked dangerously close to reaching out and strangling the woman on the ground, her eyes still dangerously dark.

“What about him?” Heena asked with a distasteful look on her face as she glanced over her shoulder at Thea.

“Where is he? What have you done with him?”

“I don’t know.”

“What do you mean you don’t know?” Anastasia couldn’t help but ask even though the side of her face was now red and throbbing painfully, but she couldn’t help but fear for the safety of Thea’s son.

Heena turned her head back to face the woman in front of her and instead of answering, she glared at the woman and snatched the pot noodles out of her hand.

“I’m not finished with that!” Anastasia protested but it was no use as Heena stood up and headed over to the same with Thea however, the latter had barely touched hers with the whole ordeal that had unravelled in front of her mixed in with the worry regarding her son and his safety.

“Please, just tell my son is okay.” Thea all but sobbed as she reached out and wrapped her hands around Heena’s arm before she could walk away.

Flinching in disgust, the doctor rolled her eyes and yanked her arm out of Thea’s grip which was easy as the former was a werewolf and the latter, not quite.

“The both of you are so annoying.” Heena’s lips curled up in disgust as she trekked away from them both and came to a stand in front of the door, ready to leave. “But your son is too old for us to be interested in him, so you have nothing to worry about.”

While she had technically answered the question, there was still a lot left unanswered however, in her desperation to get away from them both, the door had closed and locked behind her before either of them could even open their mouths.

Much to Anastasia’s surprise, Thea threw her head back – not the least bit bothered or concerned with the way that her head banged into the wall behind her – as a large, shrill scream sounded aloud. As the sound faded only to be followed by another one, Anastasia sighed and pressed her hands over her ears, a pitiful expression on her face.

Unlike her, Thea hadn’t had the chance to come to terms with the situation as very quickly, they had their blood taken now, the results of their blood test revealed. While she had, had the opportunity to scream, cry and thrash out to her heart’s content, until she felt like she could think clearly again, it was now Thea’s turn and as she personally knew that screaming was effective, she allowed the woman to do what was needed.

Neither of them was sure how much time had passed after Thea had screamed until her throat turned raw and dry, her eyes red and out of tears,

“Are you okay?” Thea asked in a small voice as the door closed, her shoulders slumped in defeat.

“My face kind of hurts.” Anastasia couldn’t help but wince as she spoke, the skin of her cheek stinging and her jaw aching slightly. For a small, seemingly innocent woman that gave off the impression that she was being manipulated and controlled by her superiors, but that wasn’t enough to stop her lips from stretching up into a slow grin.

“What? Why are you grinning like that?” Thea couldn’t help but ask in a panicked voice as she blinked at the woman in front of her, worrying if somehow that slap had given her a concussion. Or worse.

“Because I’ve just got my hand on our ticket out of here.”

“What do you mean?” Thea couldn’t help but question again however, the words soon died on the tip of her tongue as she was met with yet another grin but this time, it was followed by something sharp and shiny.