Chapter 110

The both of them remained deathly silent for a few moments as they heard voices sound aloud from both ends of the hallway which suggested that either way they decided to go, they would still have to sneak out past their captors.

“Let’s try this way.” Anastasia murmured after a few moments, opting to head down the way where it sounded like there was the least amount of people.

Reaching a hand out, she nodded back at her ally as she accepted and together, they rushed down the hallway as fast as possible hand in hand, both of them holding their breath in fear of someone walking in on them.

As they reached the middle of the hallway, both females came to a stop and Anastasia leaned forward to glance through the open doorway, needing to be able to walk past it so they could make it to the stairs.

Very much aware of the fact that they were currently in a building full of werewolves, Anastasia worked hard to keep her breathing as quiet and possible, fearful of the fact that they would be caught straight away. As they had been lucky enough to not have been scented out already, she was determined to keep it that way.

Tipping herself forward a little more, she was glad to see that the room was empty and in fact, the noise had been coming from downstairs.

“Come on.” Anastasia whispered quietly back to Thea and squeezed her hand tightly before she rushed to move past the open doorway and continue down the hallway however, they were barely able to make it a few steps before they heard something sound audibly from the bottom of the stairs; heading right in their direction.

“Fuck!” Anastasia couldn’t help but swear under her breath, knowing that if they were to head back now, they wouldn’t be able to make it far without being spotted and going forward wasn’t an option either as they would run right into whoever was coming up the stairs. When her eyes landed on a door slightly in front of them, Anastasia squeezed Thea’s hand tightly before pulling the girl behind her.

With her eyes trained ahead, she rattled the door knob forcefully and when it finally opened, she literally threw her body into the room, dragging Thea behind her. Turning around, she was much quieter as she closed the door behind her, afraid that they had been too loud and whoever was about to come up the stairs right now had heard them and would come to investigate.

If that was the case, then the both of them were far more than royally screwed.

Knowing that they wouldn’t be able to last much longer without one of the wolves eventually finding out that they had both escaped and were currently on the run, Anastasia rushed across the room and pushed at the window. A sigh of relief escaped her as she found for it to be empty.

“Go on.” Anastasia reached out for Thea’s hand, pulling her toward the window.

“You go first.” Thea insisted with a fearful expression on her face. “I’m scared of heights.”

Even though she feared that after she had gone out the window Thea would bottle it and become too scared, she knew that now was not the time to argue and instead, she braced her hands on the edge of it and began to lift her legs.

“Don’t be scared, okay?” Anastasia tried to assure her as she now stood outside the building with both of her feet planted on the slope of the roof, only able to stay upright because she was holding onto the window pane with all of her might. “I’ll be down there to catch you. I promise.”

Thea nodded and glanced over her shoulders as the chatter outside the room faded but when a loud roar sounded a few moments later – no doubt after having discovered for one of their own to be locked up in the room and not the two human surrogates whom they had kidnapped – a shiver ran down her spine and she gulped painfully.

“You need to go now.” She demanded but by the time she had turned her head forward again, Anastasia had already dropped herself.

Anastasia was too afraid to admit that she, too was afraid of heights however, she needed to stay strong for the both of them. they couldn’t both be afraid as the longer they hesitated, the quicker their captors would be able to find them and judging by the sound of the loud roar that shook even the roof, Anastasia knew that they had finally run out of time.

Forcing herself to let go and slide off the edge of the room, she closed her eyes tightly and braced herself for the impact of her body hitting the ground, knowing that she couldn’t afford to get hurt as she would need to catch Thea. However, the ground never came as instead, she all but dropped herself into a pair of strong, awaiting arms that wrapped around her immediately.

Instead of tensing up or trying to fight her captor off, Anastasia all but melted into his arms as they wrapped around her, her whole-body erupting in a series of delicious tingles.

Unfortunately, the moment didn’t last long as another loud roar sounded through the air just as a second body landed on the both of them, forcing the unsuspecting trio on the ground in a pile of tangled limbs.