Chapter 109

Without saying a word, she quickly reached over and snapped the chain back onto Thea’s wrist before she turned around and scurried away back to her seat.

Thea watched with wide, desperate eyes as she fled back to her seat, unsure of what was going to happen or what to do. Anastasia simply shook her head frantically and hid the scalpel under her thigh before crossing her legs and perfectly placing the chains and the cuffs so it looked like she was still captured against her will. Just to make things more real, she reached for her sandwich and took a big bite out of it, indicating with wide eyes for Thea to do the same. Whatever they could do to make it look like they hadn’t just tried to escape was absolutely necessary right now.

And just in time, too as she barely had time to calm down her breathing before the click of the lock audibly sounded before the door was pushed open.

Neither Anastasia or Thea knew who or what they were expecting, but they hadn’t expected for one of the wolves from earlier to drop by and certainly not with a large, ear-splitting grin on his face, his gaze mostly lingering on the feisty redhead who as expected, was glaring daggers at him the moment he poked his head through the door.

“What?” The wolf chuckled as he clapped his hands together, moving to stand in the middle of the room. “I thought you two ladies would be happy to see me.”

“Why would we be happy to see you?” Anastasia rolled her eyes before taking another bite of her sandwich, already reaching out for the water bottle.

Glancing behind the man, she was glad to see that Thea was also nibbling on her sandwich. While eating hadn’t been on the initial agenda, she was glad that with this added distraction, they were actually given the chance but couldn’t help but wonder if this moment had deteriorated their plans. She sincerely hoped not as they simply couldn’t afford it.

“It’s always the redheads that are the feistiest, isn’t it?” He chuckled as he took a step closer, cocking his head in her direction after she had piqued his interest with her defiance. “Your mate is one lucky bastard.”

Anastasia had to fight off the urge to scream at him for speaking of her mate in such a way. Just because she was angry at him and not currently on good terms with him, didn’t mean that anyone else was allowed to talk smack about him. As far as she was concerned, only she had that right.

However, instead of defending her mate like every fibre in her body was demanding, she scowled deeply and shot the wolf in front of her a dark glare.

“Too bad he doesn’t want you.” The wolf threw his head back and chuckled, his eyes trained intently on the female in front of him. “One wolf’s loss is another wolf’s treasure. And what a beautiful treasure you are.”

Instead of spitting or swearing at him like she wanted to do, she baited him closer with another dark look as the masochist seemed to feed off it.

“Since he’s not interested, I’d like to take a go at you.” He murmured quietly and continued walking toward her, almost as if her gaze was keeping him under a spell.

Almost as if a knee jerk reaction, she pushed out her legs and kicked him in both knees with all of her strength, aiming to drop him to his knees so she would be able to do some last damage with her scalpel. However, what she didn’t expect was for the wolf to go tumbling down – having been caught off guard with the surprise attack as he had believed that both the women were still restrained – and smash his face into the exposed brick wall behind her.

A quiet gasp escaped the both of them, having not expected or anticipated for something like that to have happened, and so quick either.

Anastasia felt like her world was spinning as she glanced down at the now unconscious wolf next to her, a thin stream of blood flooding out of his nose, down the side of his face. It stained the collar of his shirt before pooling on the ground underneath him.

When she glanced up, she locked eyes with Thea who had watched the whole thing but instead of panicking like Anastasia had expected her to do, she finished off her sandwich and reached for her water bottle.

“You need to put him in the chains.” She instructed in a quiet voice, not wanting any nearby wolves to overhear but with the loud thump of his body hitting the ground and nobody having rushed over here already, the both of them were confident that there was probably no one on their side of the building right now.

With her middle stull clouded, she worked hard to cuff the wolf’s hands but with the way he had landed, she couldn’t quite reach his legs. Not willing to take any chances in case he woke up, she scurried over and grunted quietly as she pushed his body closer until finally, he was close enough to be completely and utterly chained.

Unwilling to even bend slightly on the promise she had made to Thea earlier, Anastasia curled her fingers around the cold metal of the scalpel and rushed across the room to free the woman. With her brain currently running in overdrive and his actions jerky, she was able to uncuff and free Thea in record time.

Not willing to waste any more time, Thea followed behind as Anastasia shot one last glance at the unconscious wolf before reaching for the door handle, very aware of the fact that the door was currently unlocked.

Squeezing down gently, Anastasia had never been happier to open a door before in her life.

After having been stuck in the darkness for so long, both of the women winced and covered the eyes, struggling to get adjusted to the harsh brightness from the overhead lights.

Neither of them felt any remorse or guilt regarding the werewolf that they had just maimed and chained up in the dark room that they had previously been locking in for an unknown amount of time. Instead, a deep scowl took over Thea’s face as she turned around to lock the door behind them.

If they weren’t in such a rush to escape, Anastasia would have paused to commend the woman for finally taking the lead and doing something without worrying too much but that would just have to wait until later.

“Which way do we go?” Thea asked in a quiet whisper, her eyes wide and frantic as she glanced up and down the hallway which thankfully, was empty.

“I don’t know.” Anastasia murmured in a distant voice as she glanced up and down, holding her breath as she tried to slow down her breath in order to hear better.