CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT

She woke up and opened her eyes. She looked around. The chains on her wrists were still there and nothing had changed. She looked down at her stomach and her eyes glowed in anger

“What did you do?” She asked him
“I removed the bastard child for you, you are very much welcome. The little bastard was still alive by the time I removed it. I guess I was wrong after all but I buried it still!” He said
“You are crazy! I will kill you!”
“I know you want to. You have the look of the devil himself in your eyes but you can’t kill me. I wish you could but you can’t even get out of those chains, how do you want to kill me? You are going to die here and I know that because your boyfriend is stupid, too stupid to find you and your brother? Well, I can say the same for him!”

She sat there and growled at him, hoping he was wrong. She has been his prisoner for so long that she had lost count of the days. She hadn’t seen the sun or the moon in days, maybe weeks. She looked at her wrist and saw that she wasn’t healing from his cuts any more. Something was wrong and she knew this. She turned to look at Phillip

“What did you do to me? Why am I not healing up?” she asked him
“I don’t know. I was waiting to ask you that”
“Ask me? You are the one that keeps cutting me because it brings some sort of peace to that psychotic mind of yours. Isn’t this your plan? Why the hell am I not healing up?” she screamed at him
“I have no idea. I guess I must have coated the knife with too much magic. If your cuts are not healing up then the abdominal cut wouldn’t heal up. If that is true, then you will die. I guess that is your destiny after all” he said to her and he walked out of the room

She couldn’t believe h just said that and walked out like it was nothing. She raised up her blouse and found out that she was bleeding. She needed to get out of here and see needed to get out of here fast. She looked around and she couldn’t find a way to get of the chains. She only had one way to get out of the chains. The only way she came up with was to break her own hands. She took a deep breath. She was going to die if she stayed here. It was either that or she died here. She made her choice and fell on her hands with the chair. She screamed in pain. She stayed there for about an hour, trying to get used to the pain because she had to do that to the second arm. She was going to change her mind and just sit still and hope that her brother and Damian would come for her but she couldn’t wait anymore. Besides, she didn’t break one arm just so she could sit still. She fell on the second arm and broke it. She couldn’t hold the pain in anymore. She broke headed for the door and pushed it with her feet before speeding off. It was only a matter of time before Phillip came back and found out that she was gone

She knew this so she ran as far as she could run before she blacked out. When she woke up? She was bleeding. She got up and her hands hurt as hell. She had to find her way home but she had no idea about where she was. She heard footsteps and hid behind a tree.

*****

The morning came for him. The previous night had been hell for him. For some reasons, he felt like his hands were broken. The pain was unbearable. He had a maid toe up his hands with bandages yet there was this excruciating pain. He got ready and they headed out to start their search with a different method. Damian and Justin took a different path. Alex and Sally took another. They believed that they could cover more ground that way. They were running out of time and Damian knew this. He had to hours to find her. He sat on the ground in frustration and growled. Alex and Sally caught up with them and they made their way back to each other. He looked at them and he could see the negativity in Sally’s eyes. He broke on the inside. They had found nothing either. Sally walked on while Alex walked up to him

“Hey, we will find her. It would just take time” he said
“And we don’t have time. She could be dying right now and we wouldn’t even know. My arms hurt as hell and I know it is because of her. She probably broke her hands or something” Damian said
“We will find her regardless” Alex said with reassurance

He offered Damian his hand and Damian took it. Alex pulled him to his feet when Sally called out for them

“Guys, you should see this” she yelled

Damian sped to where she was. She was at the entrance of an abandoned house. Justin looked from a distance and walked up to them

“Just like the rest, another abandoned house” he said
“I don’t think so. That grave looks like it was dug hours ago. It is still fresh and if Phillip did bury your child then this could be the house” she said

Damian looked at her and sped into the house. He saw a sweatshirt. His eyes glowed and he sniffed it. He knew it was Anna’s immediately. Alex and Justin came in with Sally

“Anna was here. That is her sweatshirt. Can we look for secret doors or something? Anything out of the ordinary!” Damian said, looking around.

Justin was a pure breed of wolf and if anybody could find her in their wolf form, it was him. Besides, he could communicate with Damian in his wolf form. He jumped into his wolf form and started to sniff around. Damian was right, Anna was here. Her scent was so strong and he knew that she was around. He changed back into his human form and got dressed

“She was here. Her scent here is so strong” he said
“I think I’ve found an entrance” Alex said as he stepped on a part of the floor and it creaked
“Do that again” Damian said

Alex removed his leg from the part of the floor and places it on it again and he got the same result

“Can you move back a little bit?” Damian asked

Alex nodded and loved back. Damian ran his fist into the floor and made a hole in it. He pulled the wood away from the hole and his eyes glowed. He had night vision, perks of being a wolf.

“A stairs” he said
“It is pretty dark in there” Sally said
“Well, you don’t have to come down with us. You can stay up here and keep watch incase someone comes in” Justin said
“What the hell? I can’t stay here on my own. If everybody else is going, then I am” she said

Damian looked at her and smiled. She reminded him of Anna so much. He took the lead and walked down. Anna was definitely here. He saw the chair and the chains. The place had her scent all over it. He saw the knifes on the table

“She was definitely here” Alex said
“I know. From the look of things, she escaped” Justin said
“That would explain the hurting arms. She broke her arms so she could escape” Damian said
“She couldn’t have gone far” Alex said
“What do you mean by she couldn’t have gone far? She is a hybrid. She could be half way around the world by now” Sally said
“No, Alex is right. She couldn’t have gone far. She is a hybrid, yes but she is hurt. She is barely alive. She couldn’t have gone far. She is too hurt to get far” Damian said
“In that case, let’s widen the search. We know she isn’t held captive again so it would be easier to find her. She would be running. She wouldn’t be underground and since she can’t have gotten far, we can still find her before the sun sets” Justin said
“Let’s split up then. Damian and I would speed ahead and try to find her while you and Sally would go back to where we came from. She could have headed back to the compound” Alex said
Damian looked at him and nodded in agreement.
“Keep up” he said to Alex and he sped off
“If by six you can’t still find her, head back to the compound. I would let you know how things are going. Arielle is back at the house just incase Annabelle shows up there”