Chapter 7 Captive

Moana

“Hey! Stop!” the scar-faced man shouted.

I ran as fast as I could, willing my legs to pump harder, to push me further away from the imminent danger that I sensed. I could hear the sound of footsteps pounding on the sidewalk behind me; I was just a human, and these men were werewolves. I should’ve known I wouldn’t stand a chance trying to outrun them.

I screamed for help, but no one came — no one ever came when a woman screamed for help in the city, and I cursed them for that in that moment.

The sound of the men running behind me came closer. I felt as though my body didn’t belong to me, like I was watching from a third person perspective as I ran for my life.

The two men gained on me. They were so close now that I knew that one misstep on my part would allow them to catch me. I felt a hand brush my shoulder and I shrieked, pushing myself faster as I glanced over my shoulder to look…

Whack!

I ran into something hard and gritty: a corner of a brick building. As I stumbled backwards, my head reeling from the impact, all I could feel were hands grabbing me. My vision faded, and the last thing I saw was the scar-faced man…

I came to in the back of a car. My head was throbbing and I felt as though I would vomit, which kept me from being able to scream or fight. Where were these strange men taking me?

“She’s awake,” the gravelly voice that belonged to the scar-faced man said.

all that came out was garbled nonsense. They stopped the car and got out, opening the back door and

that lay before me, my head lolled back on one of their shoulders. Above me towered the massive apartment building where I

Edrick Morgan’s penthouse.

me up fully, carrying me in through the brightly-lit lobby. I heard the sound of the scar-faced man saying something to the concierge,

I blacked out again.

I woke up again, I was laying on something soft. The room was

up; somehow, I managed to do

familiar male voice said. I winced as I felt a damp cloth

“Where am I…?”

in the

he dabbed at my forehead with a damp cloth. I thought, as I slowly came back to consciousness, that I secretly caught

here?” I

answering me, his face turning cold again as soon

the washcloth and propped a couple of soft pillows under me to help me stay upright, then stood and walked over to the window to look

he said. “It’s rude of you to run

two terrifying men to attack me on the street in the middle of

face me. His expression was, unsurprisingly,

expect me to do? They were never going to hurt you. From what I heard, you took off screaming before they

Through my closed eyelids I saw Edrick’s tall form approaching me once

Selina,” he said. I cracked my eyes open to see the housekeeper hand him a bottle of pills. He opened it and dumped two out into his palm, then held them out to me along with a glass of water. “It’s just Advil,” he said, noticing my hesitation to take the pills. “For the pain. Don’t

down with the glass of water. I

turns out, you left your phone here by accident.” He pulled my phone out of his pocket and tossed it onto my lap. The screen lit up as he did so, showing five

own pocket. “But you should know that I don’t have any intention of continuing to work

someone else to fill your position, and

by our… brief history… to want anything to do with

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