CHAPTER 146: A Vision
ARON
Prison is nothing like I imagined. There are no screams that echo from within the walls, nor is there anything else. It’s just a long, grey nothing stretched into eternity.
It’s a quiet sort of hell, and I suppose I should have expected it.
There aren’t many prisoners here. Just a few that I’ve been acquainted with. One was imprisoned for taking a head off a council member nearly eight years ago, and he sort of had a look of death in his eyes.
I suppose there was some kind of madness everywhere.
The security here, on the other hand, was quite high.
Trained warriors, brutal techniques and methods were used if you didn’t abide by the council’s rules. I wasn’t sure why they bothered. Clearly, no one here wanted to escape.
My days blur. Breakfast, silence, training yard I don’t participate in. Lunch and then there’s more silence. Then there’s something else which I avoid doing. Sleep and repeat the same routine.
It’s been a week. My muscles have gone soft, and my sense that I relished on all my life has been nothing more than a faded memory in the back of my head. I can still sense my surroundings, but hearing everything, seeing everything, and feeling everything is just not possible anymore.
Sometimes I still feel him.
Kael.
Some nights I think I hear him. A voice. My wolf. The beast I was once. It’s like he’s still there. Buried somewhere. Deep inside me.
But it’s just my mind, just the memories of what I used to be.
Alpha.
Mate.
Monster.
Today is no different. Until it is.
I’m sitting against the wall of the tower, watching the clouds gather above the mountains while there’s a thick mist below, the fog is coming down, and it’s a little cold outside. I can see the warriors who are on duty, standing by the edge of the mountain cliff, and then there are the rest of them who are walking in groups.
Suddenly, my head tips back, and I feel something that’s hard to describe. There’s something that is coming, a sensation, something that feels a little too familiar, and my mind is trying to process it.
Pain.
It’s not me. It’s something that belongs to me. My heart starts racing in my chest, and my eyes widen as the sensation becomes worse and worse. I stand up from my place and start heading back inside the tower.
It’s just my mind. Just the memories.
But when it becomes even stronger, and worse, and then unbearable, I realise what I’m feeling.
Rhea. It’s her. And something’s wrong with her.
I halt on my steps. That can’t be possible. It’s not fucking possible.
The bond was severed. She made damn sure of it. The magic ripped whatever was between us. But this is not how the bond works. And yet, it’s her pain, it’s her suffering.
It can’t be her.
But I know it’s her.
Something inside me is burning. And I need to know what the fuck it is.
The door of the tower slams shut behind me. I walk toward the robed man who usually takes the duty for the afternoon.
“I need a phone,” I say to him.
Successfully unlocked!
ront of him. “You can’t have a phone. It’s not
He glances at me and then away, his eyes are focused on the
the time.”
Not the time?
Not the fucking time?
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I take a step closer, and my shadow appears over the book he’s reading. “I won’t ask twice.” That makes him look up at me.” Get me a fucking phone.”
A little fear appears on his face before it disappears.
“You don’t give orders here. You’re not an alpha, nor a wolf. And you have no rights. You’re lucky you’re even breathing right
now.”
Wrong answers.
The book jumps from his hands as I grab his collar and yank him closer to me, “I won’t repeat myself. You either give me a fucking phone, or I’ll rip you apart.”
He struggles in my grip, and the fear on his face becomes apparent.
When he screams, other guards scramble inside and take hold of me. It takes five of them to pull me back. They are wolves. I’m not one anymore, so I’m easily defeated. The man stands back up on his feet and wipes his hands on his robe before he walks toward me. The anger in his face is gone. He’s not afraid anymore, not now when there are wolves holding me
back.
He stops before me and glances at the guards before his fist flies at my face. The impact is hard, my lip splits, and my face twists, but I don’t move.
“You’re not getting anything,” he says, “Put him back in his room and don’t let him out of it until he can learn his lesson.” His orders are directed at the men.
It takes several of them to drag me to the stairs and up to my room, where I’m in for the remainder of the day.
I pace back and forth, waiting for someone to come up, waiting for anyone to appear.
No one shows up until the night has already fallen. Finally, a familiar man shows up. He’s the same one who greeted me here, in the same robes and everything. I can recognise a face easily.
He stands outside the barred cell and looks at me, “I heard what happened earlier.” He starts. “I was busy with other duties. What do you need a phone for? I might be able to allow it if it is necessary.”
I don’t answer him immediately.
“I’ve to make a call.”
“To?” He raises his brow.
Kovas. Who else? But I don’t tell him that. It’s going to take too long for him to travel here and then try to find where Rhea is.
Too long.
“Cade,” My tongue burns when his name rolls off. “Tell him to come here tonight and meet me.”
“Cade?” He gives me a look. “I’ll pass on your message to the councilman, but it’s unlikely that he will respond or come.”
“Oh, he will.”
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