I was alone, sitting with my back against the wall. Maverick and the sidekick had left hours ago. A plate of food was delivered, of which I had eaten some. If I was going to get out of here I had to keep up my strength.

I was tired and sore. The blistering on my arms still throbbed. I lay down and curled up into a ball, feeling more hopeless in the situation.

Would I ever get out of here? And what scared me more was what else they could do to me.

The cool air made me shiver slightly as I walked into a forest. The grass soft as I walked barefoot into the lush green forest. Birds chirped and as I looked up the sun began to set coloring the sky in shades of orange, pink and purple.

I breathed in the air as the forest began to darken. Fear of the thick darkness of the crowded trees should have kept me from going further but curiosity and something else I couldn't explain kept me on my path.

Just as I passed a the first few rows of trees small lights appeared in the air. Fireflies. They were beautiful. I reached out to touch one but it danced just out of my reach.

Deeper I walked, feeling more compelled to find what I was looking for, even if I had no idea what that was.

The fireflies disappeared leaving me in total darkness and silence. I noticed there was a deadly silence, nothing, no insects or animals. I couldn't help thinking that was strange.

The darkness was thick in the air. Every breath harder to take than before.

Amber eyes appeared a few meters in front of me and I faltered a step, feeling fear for the first time. The eyes that watch me were not natural, it made the hair on my arms stand up. It was something I should have feared, but didn't.

There was a deep growl from the animal that moved closer. I should have run as fast as I could but I didn't. I stood unmoving as a large wolf neared, growling to show is sharp teeth. Teeth that could easily rip my flesh from my bones.

It stopped a couple of feet from me. I reached out my hand and it slowly began to approach me. My hand shook slightly before making contact with its head. The growling stopped and it looked at me with its florescent amber eyes. Gone was the fear and in its place something else took hold.

A belonging I had been searching for for years settled inside me. The massive wolf watched me with eyes that seemed to see deeper into me, right down to my soul.

I bent down and encircled the neck of the wolf and hugged it.

I couldn't explain what I was feeling or my actions. It made absolutely no logical sense.

The wolf continued to stare at me while I embraced it. My cheek rested against its face.

Mine. I heard the word. I knew it was from the wild animal even if I couldn't explain how I knew that.

"Mine," I whispered in return.

Knowing it belonged to me like I belonged to it.

The wolf moved slightly and I would feel the fur disappear and I felt skin. Human skin. The shape of the animal I embraced changed. Strong male muscled arms embraced me back.

I moved back to see Maverick. His eyes still amber and wolf like as they held mine. There wasn't distrust or scorn in his eyes like I would have expected, instead there was possession.

"Mine," he breathed, huskily.

I moved to hold his face, in awe of the emotions I was feeling.

For so long I was guarded, keeping people at a distance, unable to connect deeply or form any kind of relationship. But here I was open and accepting of this. Knowing this would last our lifetime, deeper than anything I had had ever expected to feel.

"Mine," I whispered, knowing it in my heart.

He moved closer and touched his lips to mine. I closed my eyes as he deepened the kiss.

The Earth moved.

I shot up, my heart racing. I touched my lips, I could still feel his lips. The asshole's lips, the one who had held me against my will, the one who had burned my skin with the strange flower.

What was wrong with me? Was I losing it? Why was I dreaming about Maverick?

Snippets from the dream left me more confused than before. The wolf, the wolf changing into Maverick. I felt like there was something more to the dream that I couldn't explain it.

Mine. The word vibrated through me. I remembered how I felt. I was unsettled, unsure of why a dream had affected me so much. Feeling trapped and needing to do something I stood and began to pace.

I had no idea what the time was but it felt late. And I had no idea when Maverick would return. I didn't like how I felt when I thought about Maverick. My feelings for him were getting more complicated the longer I stayed.

For my own survival I had to get out of here, somehow.

I paced, again and again. Still with no idea how I was going to escape the door to the room opened. I stopped.

Maverick entered the room. Our eyes held. His hair was a mess, like he had just woken up. He looked like he had gotten dressed in a hurry.

There was no confidence or arrogance in his features. He was different, not just the physical things. There was a difference in the way he was looking at me.

"I had no idea," he murmured, opening the door to my cell.

Unsure of how to proceed I backed away from him. I knew how to handle the over confident asshole. This guy, with an unsteadiness in his stance I didn't.

"About what?" I found myself asking.

There was a look in his eyes. His expression I recognized from my dream.

I frowned. It wasn't possible. But there was no mistaking it. It was in his eyes, possession.

Mine. The word vibrated through me.

I shook my head as he neared me. "It's not possible."

He stopped, studying me. "You don't know what you are." I wasn't sure if he was talking to himself or me.

"Of course I know what I am. I'm fed up Maverick and I want out of here." This place was making me crazy.

Then he did something unexpected. He moved away from the door out of the cell. "If you want to leave then leave Victoria."

I eyed him out suspiciously not trusting him one bit. Was this some sort of trick? I eyed out the door trying to figure out what to do. My eyes caught his, staring at me. I should have run as fast as my legs would take me but I didn't. I stayed and I had no idea why.

"You can't leave, can you Victoria?"

I folded my arms unable to admit he was right, I glared at him. "You seem to have all the answers."

This was insane. All I had wanted to since I'd had woken up locked up in this cell had been to escape. And here I had the opportunity to literally just walk out and I couldn't. There was something very wrong with me.

He rubbed his chin while he studied me. "I have to tell you something and I need you to promise me you won't freak out."

I bit my lip. In truth I could already sense what he was going to tell me but I couldn't accept that some of what I had dreamed was real.

How I felt about him was different. For some reason, I couldn't explain, I was attracted to him a way that made no sense but chemistry rarely made sense.

But he had kidnapped me and held me against my will. It did nothing to change how I felt about him.

"Don't be so dramatic Maverick. This is just physical, you know." I refused to even consider that it might run deeper. "An attraction between two people, that's all. Sex will fix it."

He shook his head with a shadow of a smile. "That's not how this works."

I rolled my eyes. Why was he talking to me like I didn't know how the world worked? If anyone knew that, it was me and not some guy who stayed in a little town in the middle of nowhere.