Forced into a wolf (#4 of the Grey pack)

the escape

Two hours earlier

Indi’s P.O.V.

The plan had been set in stone in only a matter of minutes. In a crazy way, it almost seemed to be too simple to pull off. That is, if things went our way. Because a tiny little bad voice inside of my head kept telling me ‘no, this will never work, you will never get away from him.’. And yet, here I was, sitting inside the tent, waiting for Alpha Dimitri to come back to me. Samantha had hidden herself behind the curtain that I had called my safe haven for much too long, waiting to perform the first part of our plan. Our plan to get the hell out of here.

I swallowed, as I heard the zipper of the tent opening. I could sense him before I had even seen him in the flesh. The wolf part of me shivered, wanting to please her mate and knowing how we would never succeed. Because no matter how hard the mate bond would pull on our heart, no matter how hard we would work to please, our mate was a man who would never be satisfied by anything. Not anything done by our hand anyway. And as he turned around and looked at me with his dark eyes, a look in his eyes that I could only describe as disgust and boredom towards me, it only confirmed my earlier feelings as my heart cracked. I needed to run away and I needed to do it now that I was still strong enough to do so. It was only a matter of weeks, maybe even days, before I would be too weak to run, and I would have been forced to stay here and simply waste away.

“Where is the new witch, my pet?” Alpha Dimitri asked me. Making my stomach drop as he once again objectified me like an animal. There was no love in the way he used that nickname. To my ears, it was only used as a way for him to remind me how I was below him. How I was less than him. And right now, hearing him call me that once more, gave me all the power that I needed in order to pull through with my plan. Making me push the wolf part of me back as far as I possibly could.

“I was making her ready for you, Alpha.” I answered him, even though my voice sounded nervous, the wolf part of me understanding what we were about to do here while I gave her no room for negotiation.

“Good.” The Alpha spoke, nodding once as he took off his jacket and he threw it on the chair where I had been sitting on. And before I even had a chance to say anything else, Samantha appeared next to me, and I felt how my own eyes opened wide, knowing that even though I was looking at her, this wasn’t really her.

This was her magic.

This was a hallucination of herself.

a way to mislead Alpha Dimitri

our chance to make a run for it…

Alpha Dimitri looked at Samantha, assessing her, trying to make her squirm and shiver with fear because he was just that evil of a man. He didn’t care if Samantha was afraid of him, or if she was hurting emotionally because she had just been taken from her pack and family. He was a selfish bastard who only thought about himself and his own needs.

“Pet, leave us. You have been very good today.” The Alpha spoke to me once again, feeling how my heart dropped into my stomach. Instead of being able to answer him, to tell him that this would be the last time he would ever see me in this life, I only nodded, seeing how he didn’t even care to look in my direction.

This is it

This is the last time you will ever see him.

and he doesn’t even care

He doesn’t even care to look your way.

We have to do this!

We have to save ourselves!

“Where do you wish for me to wait for you, Alpha?” I asked him, just like Sami and I had rehearsed, so Sami would know where to go and look for me once her part of the plan had been completed.

“Go see the other witches and wizards. Make sure that they are still alive.” He answered me. Still not giving me any attention, only having eyes for Samantha. And even though I loathed the man with every pore in my body, I still hated how he seemed to only have eyes for another woman in the room while I was seconds away from leaving him forever. This wasn’t right, a mated man should only have eyes for his mate, and yet here was mine… ready to claim and mark another as if he was making a choice in lunch.

“I will call for you, once I am done here.” He added, to which I nodded and gave Samantha one final look before I exited the tent. Trying my best to fight against the tears that were building in my eyes. Knowing that this man who I was forced to love, never even cared about me at all. And so, I forced myself to walk out of the tent, gasping for air once I had closed the tent, knowing that, in a way, a massive part of our plan had already worked.

Good

I’m out

I am safe

The first part of the plan is complete.

Now… on to part two.

I waited outside of the tent, looking around the Black Blood pack and the evil people living there. God, how I had hated this place from the first second that I had been brought in… how I had wanted to be dead so badly that awful day…

“Stop! Please, you’re hurting me!” I cried, trying my best to pull loose from his grip.

“Shut up already!” The man had growled at me, his eyes turning into a complete black as if he had been possessed by the devil himself. Dragging my body over the floor as if I weighed nothing.

“I want to go home!” I had cried, pleaded, begged, but nothing I had said seemed to work.

“This is your new home now.” The man had simply answered, as he had dragged me inside his tent, where I had cried and begged and pleaded and, worst of all… I had wished that I had died by the time that he had been done with me.

I was pulled out of my daydream, the second I heard the tent opening again. I squeezed my hands into fists and held my breath, knowing that if our plan had failed and Alpha Dimitri would step out right now, I would be getting a punishment I hardly doubted I would be able to survive at that point in time. But once I saw a modern snow white exit the tent, her short black hair blowing in the wind, I sighed in relief, knowing that we were still on the winning side of things.

Thank God!

“Did it work?” I whispered at Sami, to which she nodded and she grabbed my hand, pulling me along with her as she looked around to make sure that nobody would see us, telling me that even though her part of the plan might have worked, we still didn’t know how much time we had on our hands before Alpha Dimitri would understand that he had been played by a hallucination and not a real person.

“The witches and wizards, where are they being held, Indi?” Sami asked her, to which I pointed towards the west. Knowing that their cells were back there.

“There, but they are guarded constantly.” I warned Sami once again.

“I will make sure they won’t see us.” She answered me matter of factly,and I frowned, wanting to help her, wanting to do something other than just follow and observe while she did all the work.

“I want to help you, Samantha. Please, let me.” I told her, making her stop in her steps as I grabbed both of her hands and made her face me. She needed to understand that I needed to do this… for us, for me.

“My mother taught me a spell. I think it could work for us.” I spoke, looking into Samantha’s blue-ish grey eyes.

“We can bundle our powers, so the spell can be extra powerful. Like a double shot of espresso.” I added, reminding my own mother briefly, and how we would always combine our strengths in order to be stronger together. It was f*****g ironic, that on the one day that she hadn’t been there to watch me, that had been the day when I had been taken by someone who was too strong for me to fight on my own. God, how many times I had wondered if my mother would have come to look for me. And if she had been there, if we would have been strong enough to fight Alpha Dimitri.

I guess we'll never know...

“OK. Let’s do it.” Samantha nodded, locking eyes with me, as I focused on my own breathing and I mumbled my next enchantment, knowing that it would be the last spell that I would be casting today. I had already done so much, I figured that by now, my body was running on nothing more but pure adrenaline, and I knew darn well that at one point in time, my adrenaline would run out. And as the air around Samantha and me started to vibrate, I knew I had succeeded.

“And by the way…” Samantha added, smiling at me as if she was about to share a secret with me.

“My friends, they call me Sami.”

my friends…

she wants to be my friend?

I finally have a friend in the world?

“What did you do?” I gasped as I took in our surroundings, looking around as I saw some sort of new vibrations around us. Vibrations that told me that there was new magic in the air.

“I made us invisible, in some sort of way.” Sami stated as if it meant nothing, and I swear to God I had never wanted to kiss a woman as badly as I did right then and there.

“Nobody can see us?” I asked Sami. Unable to believe her.

She really needs to teach me!

“Well… nobody without magical powers, that is.” she stated as she started to walk again, holding my hand as she dragged me along with her in the direction where I had told her the cells were being hidden. And just like I had predicted, they came into view, showing us all the captured witches and wizards, as well as the guards guarding the cells, making it impossible for us to get to them.

I glanced at four guards that were guarding the place. Seeing how none of them seemed to notice Sami or me, and we slowly walked over towards one cell, trying to find the best place to talk to the people being held captive inside, without getting noticed by the guards.

“Help us.” An older woman whispered to Sami once we made it to the bars of the cells, her hands gripping the iron bars that held her captive inside.

“My father, is he here? A man named Carl?” Sami asked, looking into the cell, but as soon as she had called out his name, she gasped for air, and I knew for a fact that that was the second that Sami had spotted her own father, who had been taken captive by Alpha Dimitri as well, when we had attacked their pack only a couple of days ago.

“Sami, how are you?” He gasped, looking around as if he didn’t understand how the guards weren’t able to see us standing outside the cells.

“They trained me well.” Sami smiled at him, laying her hand on her father’s.

“We need to get you out of here.” She stated, seeing how her father sent her a small smile, clearly finding his daughter brave, or stupid… It was hard to read his expression when he looked so tired and hungry from being held captive by the Black Blood pack.

Hell…

I think we all look the same right now…

“They have a key.” I whispered at Sami, pointing my chin towards one of the guards. Knowing he had the keys dangling from his pants.

“We need to get them and free you all.” Sami stated, looking back up at her father.

“Just open this door, and we will take care of the rest.” The older woman who had called out to us before spoke softly, revenge soaring in her eyes.

“I still have some voodoo up my sleeve. And a whole lot more rage. These monsters are mine to finish.” She spoke, to which Sami nodded. Clearly not in the mood to tell her otherwise.

“Let me do it. Let me get the keys” I whispered at Sami, desperately wanting to help all these people.

“Do you think you can?” She asked her, probably sensing how weak I was right now after being held captive for so damn long.

“I was the one that cast the spell on this cell.” I answered her, feeling awful for being pushed to use magic on other witches and wizards, simply to save my own life.

“It’s because of me, that every time they try to do something with their magic, that they become weaker.” I added, desperately wanting to make this right.

“And I… I feel horrible about it. The Alpha forced me to do it, and like I said, I cannot say no to him because he is my mate. f**k… a part of me even wanted to do it for him, because I so f*****g longed for his acceptance as a mate and I loathe that girl! So please… let me make this right. Let me make it right for them, for our people. Let me do something right here. Something good.” I spoke, to which Sami nodded. I just wanted a chance to prove myself and to right my wrongs. And so, I walked towards the guards, ready to get those damned keys.

Within two seconds of focusing myself on the task at hand, I had made the keys levitate in mid-air, making sure they wouldn’t jingle or make a sound, before I let them drop into my hands, grinning from ear to ear, and for a microsecond, feeling like my own self. Feeling as if, finally, I was using my magic for something good again. As if, finally, I was getting a glimpse of the witch who I really was meant to be. I held up the keys as I walked up to Sami, seeing how her eyes grew big as she saw me and how I already had the keys in my hand.

“How?” She asked me, looking rather impressed by little old me, which made my chest expand in pride.

“I just made them float and caught them at the right time. Being invisible is so much fun!” I giggled...

I mean… I actually giggled!

And I honestly believed that, for the first time in what felt like forever, I was…...happy?

“OK.I will open the door, and then… we act fast.” Sami spoke, looking over her shoulder into my eyes.

“We open the door, and once the door opens… we turn around and we run away from this place as fast as we possibly can. The people inside this wagon are all strong enough to defend themselves. Especially now that the Alpha doesn’t have anyone whom he can use as leverage against them.” Sami stated, making all the sense in the world. And when Sami turned around the key and she threw open the door… all hell broke loose within a second.

Witches and wizards attacking guards

people shifting into their wolves

Wolves attacking magical creatures

magic soaring through the air…

and still… my only focus was lying on myself and Sami right now, and how we needed to run as fast as we possibly could.

“Not so fast!” I gasped, as Sami was dragging my body along with her as she ran through the trees and deeper back into the woods. My lungs were burning, my legs were hurting, tears ran down my cheeks as my wolf part whimpered deep inside of me, knowing what we were doing, and once I heard a howl in the air…

his howl…

I knew that he had figured it all out.

He knew that I was running away from him.

And even better,

he knew that I had succeeded.

And so, I cried and I laughed at the same time, as my feet kept stumping in the earth beneath me, and I filled my lungs up with oxygen, and I kept running for as long as I possibly could, until my legs gave out from underneath me and everything around me turned black, and right before I lost my conscience because I was just so darn tired, I knew that no matter where I would end up… it would be so much better than the place that I had just run away from.