Chapter 48: Taken

I awoke to a vicious claw at my neck.

“Shut up, or you die,” came the vicious snarl.

Something struck the back of my head, and blackness sank in.

***

The second time I awoke, I saw red.

Curls to be exact. Red curls. The sight told me everything.

That b*tch kidnapped me!

“Rory.”

My words slurred. I sucked in a breath and tried to clear the fog from my vision.

“Why?”

She snorted.

“Because you’re a danger to all of us. If you aren’t there, they have no bargaining chip. There’s nothing to fight for.”

“I thought you wanted to fight.”

She laughed and held up a hand full of wicked claws.

“I always want to fight, but you aren’t worth it. I’ll sneak in later and kill them all.”

Rory shrugged.

“It will make the pack see me as powerful and fit to be the Alpha’s wife.”