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Chapter Two-- Holding the girls

He picked me up like a feather and tossed me into the back of his vehicle like a bag and slammed the metal door.

“Hey!” I hurried to the door before it shut but it was too late. I hammered my palms on the doors, but it was useless.

“Layla.” A small voice whispered.

I turned just as the car started moving.

I counted six girls in front of me. Covered in ash and dressed in laces skirts like me. The girl who called me helped me build the bonfire that burned out pack. Tears welled in my eyes.

She ran to me and we collided in an embrace.

“Everyone’s gone.” She whispered.

I let the tears fall silently even though I wanted to blare into the night. The other girls crawled to us and we formed a huge embrace.

“Where are they taking us?” I asked thirty minutes into the ride.

Cora lifted her shoulder, “They didn’t say.”

“What are they going to do to us?” I asked again.

“We can only speculate.” Kate said.

I’d known all these girls since I was a kid and now we were the last of our pack. It was difficult to live knowing everyone you loved was gone. It was painful to be alive.

“Your mother was very brave. She fought to the end.” Monica said.

I looked away so she wouldn’t see my eyes cover with tears.

“Your father didn’t abandon us either. He fought for everyone left behind.” Cora said

My body trembled and my heart beat so fast I thought it would explode.

“That’s why we can’t let them die in vain.” I said.

“What are you saying Layla?” Cora asked.

“These thugs killed everyone in our pack. Now they think they’re going to do whatever they want with us? They might as well finish me off because I won’t be anyone’s slave.”

“Don’t be foolish. We can’t fight them. You saw what they did and not a single one of them shifted into a wolf.”

“They aren’t wolves. They’re monsters!” I scrawled.

“Hybrid. I saw it in their eyes. True wolves cast a reflection of their wolves in their eyes these ones didn’t. Their souls are bottomless and dark.” Kate said.

The car grounded to a halt, jolting us all forward.

“We have to run.” I said.

“That’s foolish we’ll all die like the rest of them.” Cora said.

“It’s better than what they’re going to do to us.”

“Stop Layla. I know you want revenge for your parents for our pack, but we have to survive today so we can fight tomorrow.”

The metal doors opened and we all shuddered. The guy who dumped me in here pulled the doors open entirely.

“Out.” He ordered. “No funny business girls. Act right and things won’t be so bad for you.”

We got out one by one. The girls kept their heads down. Fire blared in me. In my pack we were told to never keep our heads down. I was the last to get down and I looked at my enemy dead in the eye as I walked by him.

He grabbed my waist and it took everything in me not to sink my teeth into his arm.

“It’s not worth the fight.” He said.

He let his hand fall and I continued walking with the girls.


They locked us in a small room with a small window. I pressed my ear against the door so I could hear any useful information. My fidgeting was irritating the girls.

“Give it a rest Layla. You should rest.” Cora said.

The orange morning sun seeped through the window. I hadn’t managed to sleep all night. I kept seeing them in the darkness of my mind.

“Killian here?”

I perked up when I heard voices from the other side of the door.

“Yeah.” The reply came.

“Did you get it?” A man with a husky voice said.

“No, the Alpha wouldn’t budge of course. We searched the whole damn village. No sign of the stone.”

“Damn it!” The man spat. “There’s no way they would keep something like that in another location. It has to be there.”

“What do you want us to do?” That sounded like the man who grabbed me on the road.

“Go back and look for it of course.”

“It’s going to be hard. We burned the whole pack down.”

“You fucking idiots!”

“Don’t worry. We got some of the girls.”

“Why the hell would I care about that? I don’t want hostages. I want the moon stone.” He barked.

“What do you want us to do with them then?”

“See if I give a damn? Get the stone. Failure isn’t an option.”

They were going to kill us. My dad’s last request was for me to protect the moon stone. I had to find a way to get it before them. One of them approached the door. I shifted backwards. A man draped in dark leather opened the door and grinned.

“Alright girls get up.”

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