Captured by sight (Book 4)

Chapter 4

Fallon POV

I’ve been here for weeks, months maybe a year I don’t know. They still give me decent food, the girls come every other day to give me a bath, and then they leave me down here. Kyle is weak, but still alive

“Baby” his voice calls out

“Yeah”

“You okay? You’ve been very quiet lately” he says and I sit up sighing

“Yeah, better knowing you’re here” I say making him chuckle

“Some man I am, I can’t even save you” he says

“Hey don’t blame yourself. You’re the one being tortured” I say but he’s quiet

“I might have a plan” he says and I turn to him

“Really?”

“Yeah, I can escape, get help and come back for you” he says and I smile

“How?” I ask

“Well, they have a routine here. So the next time, before they drag me to the room I’ll escape. They’ve become relaxed, you noticed they only send two guards?” he asks and I reply

“Yeah”

“So I could take on two, slip out and from there it shouldn’t be too hard getting out” he says

“Kyle, honey you have no idea what this place looks like, what if they kill you?” I ask and he sighs

“It’s a chance I’ll have to take. I can’t stand listening to you cry anymore Fallon, it breaks my heart” he says and I smile

“Sorry”

“No I get it, you’re scared and lonely. Me too” he says and I chuckle

“We’re lonely but not alone. I just wish I could hold you”

“So do I sexy. I would love nothing more than to kiss you right now” he says and I let out a sigh

“Oh yes, and to feel your strong arms holding me”

“And your fingers running through my hair”

“Your hands squeezing my ass” he groans

“Babe stop, you’re giving me a hard-on” he groans

“Really? Well if I can get out of here now, I’d help you with that”

“Stop Fallon dammit” he groans

“You want that baby?” I ask

“f**k yeah” he says and I hear him moving around

“s**t Kyle, I hope someone is looking for us” I say but he’s silent

“Babe you asleep?”

“No… just… oh f**k” he groans and I feel my cheeks heat up realizing what just happened

“Oh… was it uhm, you know… good?” I ask shyly and he chuckles

“Not nearly as good as it would’ve been if you were doing it” he says and I giggle

“Imagine that, we’re captured, sitting in a dark dungeon, and here we are thinking about that” I say and he laughs

“Hey it’s better than thinking about reality” he says

“Yup” I lie down with my hands under my head

“You know in this darkness it’s like sometimes I’m not sure whether my eyes are open or not” I say and he laughs

“Yeah, it’s like it becomes part of you” he says and that statement makes me feel even more alone. The darkness has become part of me, it’s like it has invaded my thoughts and soul. Enzi is gone or sleeping I don’t know really, all I can do is pray that my dad finds me soon. The door opens, but this time it’s not the guards, it’s a man I’ve never seen before. He stops at Kyle’s cell, speaking in a quiet voice

“Okay” I hear Kyle say and the man leaves, guards come in and take him

“Kyle!”

“It’s okay baby, don’t worry” he calls as they take him away. This time he doesn’t come back, I sit and wait, they don’t even bring me food anymore. I just wake up and find a canister with water in it. I cry, sleep, and exercise for as long as I can. The time I’m awake gets shorter, my exercises slow to only a few crunches, since my body starts shutting down because of starvation. The last time I saw light was when I watched his figure disappear through the door. That could’ve been days or weeks ago, I won’t know. The only thing keeping me going is the hope that he somehow managed to escape, to get help, that he will indeed be my hero. How pathetic is this? A royal Lycan princess and I’m captured by rogues, letting my boyfriend be tortured. I can’t believe this is happening to me. Come to think of it, my family actually has rotten luck, my granddad had to see his whole family being murdered in a war, found Nana, who was abused badly by her boyfriend, had another war, uncle Cayden saw his first mate die, got captured and tortured for months, ran away, almost never came back, war broke out, my dad was sent back in time, lost his wife had to raise me alone, now I’m here, don’t even know where here is. Damn, if I heard this from someone else I’d think this is the worst story in the history of all existence. How can so much bad luck hit one family?

“Get her” I hear a voice and the door swings open, the sudden light hurts my eyes as I struggle to sit up, squinting I see two figures approach

“Come on” one says unlocking the cell door. I can’t stand on my own. Blinking to get my eyes to adjust to the light I look at my body. I’m so skinny, it’s sickening

“Look at her, the mighty princess” the one mocks. The other one shoves him out of the way and kneels down in front of me, his kind voice making me look at him

“Come on majesty” he says softly and I smile. Softy, I dubbed him

“Thank you kind sir” I say and he nods. I look at his eyes and see they are indeed kind, soft and caring deep blue eyes scan my body while he helps me up. I wish I could see his face

“She has legs” the other one barks but he ignores him. Wrapping his arm around my waist, basically carrying me since my I’m so weak I can barely stand

“Shut up” he growls and the Asshat keeps quiet. Oh I get it, he must be a superior somehow. We slowly make our way to the door, he doesn’t speak, he just patiently helps me walk.

“You’re kind” I whisper and he nods

“I’m sorry majesty” he whispers when we walk through the door, I frown at him

“For what?” I ask and he looks up. I turn my head but a stinging, burning sensation spreads over my face and my legs give out

“Shut up. Get her to the room” the guy that slapped me commands and they drag me away. They’re all wearing masks, hiding behind the mask like a coward. The room they drag me to is small, but there’s a bed, and the girls are waiting there

“Get this cleaned” Asshat commands and slams the door, leaving me on the floor. The two girls help me up and get my in the bath. Once undressed the full reality of my starvation comes into focus. I’m pale, the veins visible through my skin, bones sticking out all over my body and my face only has color where his hand connected with it.

“Just keep quiet and don’t look them in the eyes” the one says in a small voice, drying me off

“What?” I ask and she repeats her words

“Why?” I ask

“The master, he’s a cruel man” they say and I nod

“Why did they fetch me now?”

“We don’t know princess, he only came back the day before yesterday” the one says and I nod. I get a dress that looks like the ones they’re wearing. This is a uniform. Oh shit

“She ready?!” Asshat hollers, the one girl opens the door and he enters scanning me up and down

“Good, bring it” he says and they help me as we follow him, down a hallway, two lefts and then a door opens. Is this the laundry room?

“You’ll be working here” he says and leaves. They sit me down on a stool and start explaining what I have to do. The other woman, all looking pale and worn out somehow bows

“Princess” the one says, a girl no older than 12 years curtsies

“Oh aren’t you just the most beautiful little thing” I say smiling, she blushes and looks at a lady a few feet away

“Thank you majesty” she says

“You must stop addressing me by my title” I say but their eyes go wide

“No, we could never majesty” the one lady says

“I’m one of you” I say and she smiles slightly

“I met your grandfather once, he is a good kind man majesty. A true king, the master he, he’s cruel” she whispers and I nod

“Yes, I heard that” I say trying and failing to stand

“No please, we’re waiting for your food ma’am. Just sit there, you need your strength” she says and I nod smiling

“I’m Fallon” I say and they all giggle

“Oh we know princess, your father is prince Leopold, your uncle king Cayden. I grew up with his wife, queen Amala” the lady says and I scan her up and down

“So you know pain?” I say and she nods

“Yes, I was sold a few months before the war. If only they caught the master when they found the others, maybe it would’ve been different for us” she says and I glance around

“You all came from there?” I ask and only two doesn’t nod

“And you?” I ask pointing to the woman with the child

“We were taken when he destroyed our pack” she says

“You have names?” I ask and they all look down

“We don’t remember” the one finally answers making me gasp

“You don’t remember your names? How long have you been here?”

“We don’t know. They have ways to make you forget” the one says and I feel my stomach drop. How do you forget your own name? What do they do? Before I can ask a bell rings and they help me up. Walking to the back they open a door and we walk into a small room with one table, they place me at the table but I move letting an older woman and the little girl have my place

“No princess” the old woman says but I just smile

“You have my place, I’m fine” I say. A door opens and a man with deep wrinkles enter placing a pot on the table, he glances at me and bows before leaving

“Does everyone know who I am?” I ask and they nod

“Yes, the guard told us you were here. At first we were happy, thinking you’d rescue us, but then…” she trails off and I know what she wants to say. I can see it in her eyes. They dish up handing me a cup of soup. I sip it slowly, savoring the taste; the little girl turns to her mother

“I’m still hungry” she says and her mother looks at her with a pained expression

“Here honey” I say and they look at me

“Take mine, I’m full” I say and the little girl smiles

“No princess you-“her mother starts but I hand her mine

“It’s fine. She’s still growing. Growing girls need to eat” I say smiling at the little girl with the big yellow eyes

“Thank you majesty” she says in her small voice

“My pleasure honey” I say and she sits down sipping the soup. After what I learnt was dinner we go back to the laundry room. I can sit down and fold the laundry, they refuse to let me stand up to do anything, keep telling me I’m too weak. Later that night they help me onto the bed and for the first time in I don’t know how long I sleep peacefully, the bed is not the best but it’s better than the cold stone floor I’m used to. I’m shaken awake by the one girl and sit up rubbing my eyes. It feels as if I only slept an hour

“Time for work” she says and helps me up. We start our day, working the whole day without rest or any meals, we only get dinner. Tonight its stew, it’s good actually, not aunt Amala’s or Nana’s but it’s edible. I eat a little more every day, but I make sure to share with the little girl, I named her Katya, she loves her name. No-one knows what happened to Kyle, they just know no-one escaped because it’s impossible to do so. That night I get into bed, crying knowing that Kyle is dead and it’s my fault.

Unknown POV

We searched for months, looking all over Europe for her. I knew she came here, but I didn’t know where she was. The problem was that my men didn’t know what she looked like, honest mistake on their part, so when I came home and saw her in the cells I made sure they knew who she was.

“Master, she’s here” Gunther says and I smile

“Finally, bring her up” I say and he nods and leaves. I sit back smiling, looking at the mountains. I have her, she’s here. I know the circumstances weren’t ideal, she might resent me but I have my reasons. Knowing she’s finally here, in my castle made my heart warm, if only a little.

“What will we do with you now?” I wonder looking at the mountains. This is a dream come true for me, that little i***t was helpful after all. I stand up walking to the window and look out over my territory

“Sir, she’s settling in as we speak” Gunther’s voice breaks through my thoughts and I nod

“Thank you Gunther. With her here we’ll be unstoppable. She’ll help us overthrow them, they’ll have no choice but to surrender” I say and he nods

“Those so called royals will not know what hit them” he says with an evil smirk on his face

“She’s very powerful, but never underestimate your enemy Gunther. They’re cunning, together with their allies we will have to plan carefully. We can’t do this by force, we’ll have to be innovative” I say and he nods

“As you wish my lord” he says and leaves

“Now my dear, how am I going to persuade you to turn against your family?”

Leo POV

“Hey princess” I say and she smiles

“Hey daddio”

“How’s my girl?”

“Oh I’m fantastic! Dad this is the best place in the world!” she says and I smile

“Good to know honey, so you’re coming back for the holidays?” he smiles fades

“No… I want to but we have a project that has to be done” she says and I frown

“Fallon, it seems you’re never coming home” I say and she looks pained

“I know, it’s just that if we get this done and I do real well, I could get a job here. Oh dad it’s my dream job” she says and I sigh

“Okay tell me” I say and she goes on about the ‘dream job’ for a long while telling me that she really wants it and I can see the excitement in her eyes

“I know you miss me, I miss you guys too but this is important to me dad” she says at the and I sigh again

“Honey your mom is going to be heartbroken about this” I say and she nods

“I know, really I wish it could be different but please understand” she pleads

“Fine, I’ll try to let them down softly” I say and she squeals

“Thank you daddy, I knew you’d understand!”

“Yeah, don’t go overboard”

“Who me? Never!”

“Okay honey, we love you. Be safe okay?”

“Sure thing dad, love you bye” she says and cuts the call. I sit in my office rubbing my face. Callan is going to lose it. This is the third time she’s cancelled coming home, we can’t just leave everything and go there but I really want to, I miss my baby girl

“Morning brother” Cayden says closing the door behind him, he stops when he sees my face

“Oh no, she cancelled again” he says and I nod

“She did” I say as he sits down

“Leo, something has been bothering me about Fallon” he says and I gesture for him to continue

“She used to text or phone all of us, but lately she’s silent. Zia phoned her a couple of times but she never answers, sometimes she texts back, but rarely. Don’t you think maybe you should go to her?” he asks and I sigh

“If we do that she’ll think we don’t trust her. She’s very busy, Zia shouldn’t take it personally. We barely speak as well” I say

“Well if that is what you think is best. I just hope she’s really okay” he says and I lean forward

“What is that supposed to mean?” I ask

“Well Callan spoke to Amala a while back, about the fact that Fallon seems to be forgetting small things. Amala told me that she has this weird feeling about Fallon, she said it feels like she’s not herself” he says and I rub my face again

“Fallon is fine” I state

“Brother, maybe you should visit her” he says

“I want to, I miss her terribly. But she’s a grown woman, as hard as that is we have to respect her decisions. It breaks my heart knowing we’ll have to wait another few months before we can see her but you must understand this better than anyone Cay” I say and he leans back in the chair

“I do, being away from home, having to figure things out on our own was the best decision I ever made. You didn’t choose it but look at you now Leo, it made a man out of you” he says

“You see, that’s why I can’t go there. She’s been sheltered her whole life, she’s my baby girl, I’ll always feel like I have to protect her but I also know that we raised a responsible, level headed, formidable woman. She has to do this. She’s okay, right?” my resolve wavering

“I agree with you. She’s all that and much more, well seems we’re in agreement. But if you feel like you have to go, don’t hesitate to ask. Zia and Kit are more than happy to oversee the training and your team is more than capable to handle things in your absence” he says standing

“I know, thank you Cay” I say standing

“Oh and Leo” he says turning at the door

“Yes”

“Outstanding” he says smiling and leaves. I walk over to the window, overlooking the training grounds. Fallon honey, please be okay.