thirty three

"Do you think that Luna Rose knows we're here?" I asked sadly, pressing my tiny hands against the cold ground.

"She knows I'm here," Wyatt answered with a sigh. "She might know you're here, but I don't know for sure."

"Well, Kaius will be coming for me soon," I told him and promised myself, "I'm sure of it, whether she knows I'm here or not."

"Kaius, Kaius, Kaius," he clicked his tongue before realization seemed to dawn on him, "wait, do you mean the Alpha Kaius?"

"Yes," I let out a sigh much like his own, instantly knowing that he was definitely talking about my Kaius, who else could he mean? My eyebrows furrowed as I prepared myself for whatever Wyatt had to tell me about Kaius, so adding to it truthfully I said, "I don't know what to do about him."

"I've never met him," Wyatt said, "but I've heard stories, and when Rose started dating Kendrick she started attending those parties, and she would always tell me how exquisite and beautiful everything was-"

"It was very nice," I interrupted, brushing down at my dirt stained dress as I remembered the gown I was wearing that night.

"I'm sure it was," he hummed, "but that's the thing actually, Rose was always very confused on why Alpha Kaius never went to one. Then one day Kendrick wanted to visit him, so he took Rose along, and she told me about how Alpha Kaius barely gave them a greeting, he actually slammed the door right in their face," Wyatt started laughing, wheezing and coughing as he did so.

"What's so funny about that?" I asked him, looking over in his direction to only see darkness and the outline of his incredibly thin face.

"Because at the time, I, well, pretty much everyone thought that Alpha Kaius was this terrible man, so I thought he was being rude, but in reality it was just because he didn't like Kendrick, and now I'm sitting in a cell completely agreeing with the man," he answered, "I mean, I don't know why Alpha Kaius doesn't like him, but now I don't know how anyone can like Kendrick in the first place."

I thought about it, "I didn't like him when I first seen him, but when everyone was celebrating at the party he didn't seem that bad, but instead he seemed, well, acted like a decent person."

"Looks aren't everything," Wyatt muttered, "you never know what could be going on."

"You're right," I whispered.

Mama and Papa always looked perfect.

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The door slowly creaked open, light shining teasingly through the crack as I blinked my droopy eyes. Quickly realizing what was happening and without meaning to, I had already started shaking the body next to me, while Wyatt continued snoring as he slept peacefully, he was clearly way too used to these horrible arrangements.

"Wyatt," I whispered and shook his body, getting rougher as it didn't seem to be working at all, "wake up, please, wake up, wake up, wake up."

I felt him roll over next to my shaking body, his back facing me as I continued to pull at his noticeably ripped up clothes, pushing him around at the same time as fear seemed to start leading the way.

"Wake up," I sniffled, "someone's here. Please, I'm really scared."

Wyatt groaned in his sleep as soft footsteps began making their way over to me, slow and tauntingly as I waited for whatever was to come. Shutting my eyes closed, I shoved my head down between my knees and practically stuck myself to the side of the wall.

"Amoret-" that voice, I know that voice, "-it's me."

Lifting up my head as I pressed my hands against the ground in an attempt to find something that would calm me down, steady me. "F-Flynn?"

The boy in front of me stood in the perfect spot where the light hit his face, his hazel eyes shining at me as they looked at me with nothing but pity, guilt, and remorse.

"It really is you," I whispered, my hands going up to place themselves on his cheeks as I squeezed them, "Flynn."

"Hi-" he leaned down to look me straight in the eyes, grabbing hold of my hands and began lifting me up, "-come on, we have to get you out of here, and fast."

"We can't leave him," I said right away, slipping through his hold, and pointed towards the body sleeping next to me. "Can you carry him?"

Flynn made a face, a twisted and contorted one as he looked down at the figure of a man. "Uh, yeah, maybe."

I watched as Flynn tried lifting up Wyatt, leaning over as he wrapped his arms around him, and tried to pull him up, main word in that being tried.

Flynn let go with a scream-like whimper of pain, nearly sounding like a little girl screeching instead of a boy with an oddly deep voice. His eyes shot down at his hands with the look of surprise evident in them, obviously not expecting something and definitely not used to it.

"Wolfsbane," he mumbled with a hiss, clutching his sore hands to his chest as he cradled them gently.

"Flynn," I spoke and stumbled as I stood up straight with barely any help from my wobbly knees, "are you okay?"

"I'm fine-" his eyes flicked to the man on the floor, "but he's not."

"We have to get him out," I begged him. If Flynn just got hurt by just touching the chains that had been wrapped around him, then I can't imagine what Wyatt must be going through, "We have to."

"Look," Flynn started, "I know that I try to look like this strong guy, but seriously compared to everyone else I am nothing. I'm the runt of the pack, Amoret, I can't lift him."

"What do we do then?" I asked.

"We'll have to wait," Flynn spoke, "just until-"

"Until when? Until Kendrick comes down here looking for me to only find him, so that he could do whatever he wants to Wyatt?" I questioned and put my hands on my hips, "I can't put him in danger."

"Amoret, we need to leave," Flynn stressed, drawling out the word 'leave' as he practically begged me to hurry up.

Looking back down at Wyatt, I sighed and said, "Okay, but you have to promise that we'll come back for him."
 

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It's been a long while since I last updated, super sorry about that!

It's late, not too late, but I am sleepy.

I've been working more on Mated To Morpheus and I am almost ready to post the first five chapters! I'd say next update on this, I'll have them up!

Sorry that this update is just a filler!