Chapter 17: The capture
POV Helena
I wake up feeling tired and cold. I'm not able to open my eyes yet, feeling so numb. I hear drips of water echoing against stone tiles and cold metal grazes my wrists and ankles as I feel myself tied up to a chair. The musty scent around here makes my nose scrunch up. I slowly start to feel the pain of wounds on my body and I start to shudder as the recent events blaze throughout my mind, making my breath hitch and my heart racing.
I hear the soft breaths of people before they speak. "The bitch is awake!" I hear heavy footsteps come close to me and then a blindfold is ripped from my head giving me my vision back. I open my eyes but close them quickly as a bright light hangs just a few inches from my face. "Time to talk Huntress." The mocking voice of Erik says just behind me.
His hands, that are turned into claws dig into my shoulders as he holds them there making me wince. "Not so strong now, huh?" He asks with a low growl forming in his chest. "You probably felt so powerful killing of all of those innocent people."
I open my eyes, squinting them a little, looking straight into the eyes of Eros, but instead of blue they are almost dark grey. Goosebumps appear on my skin at seeing him and the anger and disgust that is showing on his face. Eriks claws dig deeper into my shoulders, making blood trail over my chest. I suck in a breath to hide the pained glance that threatens to form on my face.
To not think about the pain I look around noticing that more wolves are in this cell, watching with fangs showing, their sign that they wanna rip my throat out.
"What is your name?" Eros asks very calmly although his face shows other emotions.
I swallow the lump in my throat. "Helena." I thought my voice would tremble but instead it is steady and loud as it ego's is against the walls. I've decided to look at my wrists as they are captured by large metal restraints. I already see purple bruises lining at the edge of the metal. I can only imagine what the rest of my body looks like...
"It's not, cause on your first victims you wrote the letter A, am I correct?" His voice gets louder and when I don't answer immediately his loud shouting startles me. "Answer me!!"
Eriks nails keep digging as I speak. "A stands for Athena, Goddess of War. My Hunters name."
"Hunters name? That means someone gave it to you. You must work with someone or it is not with, but maybe for who you work." He is smart, very smart. " For what organisation do you work?" This time I stay silent, I can't tell them. If they know, everyone who works for SSL is in danger.
"I won't repeat Helena!" His vicious voice makes a shiver run down my spine. Then I look up into his eyes.
"I won't tell you." He jumps up and stands before me, he shakes his head frantically before he leans closer to me and then he explodes, firing questions at my head.
"Why did you do this? I trusted you! My pack trusted you! And in the meanwhile you kill us off! Goddamned! What makes you hates us so much that you kill our kind off like we are nothing?" He looks very mad, and I fear that if I don't answer he'll turn and rip me apart. "Answer me, Goddammit!" His fangs elongate and his eyes turn darker with every second that passes.
"Your kind needs to be killed! You are all monsters. Your kind killed of my parents, ripping them apart! And I was left to watch them die, to hear their screams of pain and agony as the life was ripped out of them!" Angry tears start rolling down my cheeks but I'm not finished. "Do you know what it's like for an eight year old child to see their family getting murdered by something you didn't even knew existed?" I'm screaming now and as I lunge forward Erik let's go of me, coming to stand beside Eros. "And that's why I want your species extinct, and I did a great job over the years, me, a pathetic human killing of shapeshifters with fangs and claws, with just medieval weapons. And one by one they had the same pleading look in there eyes as I murdered them, the same look my parents probably had when they were attacked! So why have mercy on you when you didn't have mercy on them?"
Erik leaps forward to attack me but he is stopped by Eros, who's eyes are no longer dark but again blue, and his anger look is replaced by an confused one. "Where did you live when you were a child?" He asks as his eyes roam my face. I am confused and shake my head. After all I screamed that is the only thing he is interested in.
"What does it matter?" The venom in my voice makes even my own skin crawl.
"Where did you live then?" His voice is calm as he awaits me answer. I sigh before telling him.
"Florida." His face is taking over by disbelief as he looks at me. He frowns, blinking rapidly. I frown too, not understanding his way of acting.
He shakes his head. "This can't be..." He mutters, making me even more confused as a strange feeling sets in the pit of my stomach. "But it must.."
"What?" I ask and my voice shudders. He kneels in front of me his frown not going away.
"Lena?" He asks and I feel like my world is falling apart. Tears brim my eyes again as memories of the boy I had spend almost everyday with since I was five flood my mind. I still hear his soft voice and his mother's stern tone as she would scold him for laughing at me. Then he would say in a small voice, 'sorry Lena' making me hug him.
I look into those blue orbs and suddenly I know where I know him off. My mind doesn't want to believe it because it can't be true but my heart knows it's the truth. And before my mind can stop my mouth from talking I already said the name I haven't called in a long time.
"Alex..."
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