Bound by My Alpha Mate: A Rejected Mate Wolf Shifter Paranormal Romance by Jennifer Eve

Author:Jennifer Eve [Eve, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Kiara

Colt was a wretched pig of a man. He may not have looked it, with his cunning good looks and playful smirk, but I knew now that deep inside him was an irredeemable monster that wanted only to see his father succeed. I hated it so much that I had ever let him get close to me.

Seeing him again had nauseated me. All he did was stand there, watching, letting it all happen as his father pelted my companions and me with kicks and locked us all up! And then, he had the nerve to come to us while we were all chained up and make comments about how I’d find him irresistible—as if our lives weren’t at stake and my mother wasn’t crumpled on the floor, dying. I couldn’t believe him. He had no empathy, no heart. Why would he even pretend to care so deeply for that baby girl, as if she were his own, if not to manipulate us?

He didn’t truly care about her, did he?

The cold, stone floor left pebbled impressions on my arms and legs as I lay there, watching the guards like a cobra waiting to strike. If David and Colt thought I would just sit here quietly until they were ready to sacrifice me, they were wrong. The instant the guards looked away, I was scouring the cables around my wrists or the metal hooks driven into the rock, searching for some weakness. Aislin, Billie, and I had developed an unspoken system of communication with subtle glances, nods, frowns, and tilts of our heads; we were working out a plan to distract the guards, but we wouldn’t act on it until I had figured out how to get out of the bindings. We were going to escape, no matter what. I stared at my mother—out cold, near me but just out of reach—every shallow breath of hers motivating me more.

The sad truth was that, despite our determination, hours after sitting here and tricking ourselves into thinking we were onto something, none of us had a solid idea of what to do next.

Our first real chance arrived when a cacophony of noise blew up further down the tunnel. We all straightened up, looking past the guards toward the lantern light flickering in the tunnel. The guards turned, and one of them set out to investigate. Voices rose up in angry shouts. The sound of gunshots bounced through the cavern. I looked at Aislin and Billie, relieved to find their faces illuminated with hope.

“That’s Gavin!” said Aislin, standing up.

“Hey!” snapped the remaining guard. “Get back down!”

“Fuck you!” Aislin barked back.

She immediately went for the cables tied around the hook planted in the wall. The guard lunged for her, but as soon as he was within reach of me, I stuck out my foot and tripped him. He stumbled into the wall, sliding onto his butt, and I grabbed a rock that had been sitting nearby. Flooded with wild courage, I straddled the guard and slammed the rock into his temple.

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