Total pages in book: 55
Estimated words: 52241 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 261(@200wpm)___ 209(@250wpm)___ 174(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 52241 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 261(@200wpm)___ 209(@250wpm)___ 174(@300wpm)
It was cold comfort to know I wasn’t being dragged away to be raped immediately, but I knew my reprieve wouldn’t last for long. What would they do to me? And what would they do to Jack for trying to help me?
I wished with all my heart that we had never come back here. I wished we had stayed in my childhood home and lived together. That way Jack could have helped me without the damn Pack interfering! But we were caught now and there was nothing we could do about it.
I had no idea what my fate would be, but I was afraid it wasn’t going to be a good one.
EIGHTEEN
“All right, people. Come to order! Come to order!” Packmaster Sanders called from the top of the rock in the center of the Pack grounds. Yes, I was back where I had started the night before. Only Jack was nowhere to be seen.
I had heard two of the men who had been guarding me talking and apparently my Blood-guardian had broken free and gotten away in the middle of the night. Of course, I was happy for Jack that he had escaped, but I was also missing him horribly and feeling lost and alone. I was also in fear for my life. What were these horrible people going to do to me?
So far the treatment had been rough but bearable. I had been locked in a dark closet with nothing but the quilt from Jack’s bed to keep me warm and cover my nakedness. I had not been given any food, although someone had opened the door for a moment and shoved a bottle of water at me.
I tried to make the water last because I didn’t know when I’d be given anything else. I was sure they probably wanted me weak—so I couldn’t fight whatever they were going to do to me. I didn’t care though—I was damn well going to fight! If only I could break free from these horrible people and find Jack, we could run away together—get as far from here as fast as we could.
It was a fantasy and I knew it. But I couldn’t help wishing for my sweet Daddy to come save me. Just thinking about him seemed to wake my body up and remind me that I needed to be bred. My breasts were aching and full again and my pussy was slick with need. I saw the males near me wrinkling their nostrils and sniffing the air around me appreciatively—clearly my Heat was broadcasting itself to everyone in the immediate vicinity.
“Come to order!” Packmaster Sanders bellowed again. “The trial of this Wayward Bitch is about to begin.”
Wayward Bitch. Great. I was sure that wasn’t a good thing in Were terms. I was sitting behind the Packmaster on the rock, shivering, still only wrapped in the quilt from Jack’s bed. I was naked underneath it and my breasts had been leaking nectar all night, leaving me a sticky mess.
I might have tried to run for it, but my wrists and ankles were tied with some rough rope that scratched my skin. So I just sat there, trying to ignore the crowd of people gathered around the rock in the center of the Pack Grounds—all of whom seemed to be giving me the evil eye.
“The Wayward Bitch!” someone shouted and then they all started to chant it.
“The Wayward Bitch…the Wayward Bitch…the Wayward Bitch…”
“Get her up here!” Saunders shouted and the two men who had tied my wrists and ankles lifted me roughly to my feel and shoved me over to stand beside the Packmaster.
Then, to my horror, one of them stripped away the quilt, leaving me naked and shivering for everyone to see. I lowered my gaze, trying not to cry, trying not to see all the eyes staring at my naked body. I knew that some of the Alphas and the other bitches I had met the night before were in the crowd. I heard a lot of boos and hisses and then someone threw a rock at me.
I gasped and ducked out of the way—not quite in time, though, because it grazed my temple. It stung fiercely and I felt a thin trickle of hot blood begin making its way down my cheek.
“All right now—enough of that!” Packmaster Sanders shouted. “I’m up here too, you know! Besides—the Wayward Bitch must be tried first before she can be punished.”
There were murmurs of agreement and then he held up a hand for silence and went on.
“Now, as most of you know, this was supposed to be a double trial. This Wayward Bitch was caught in the very act of breaking the Unbreakable Laws with her Blood-Guardian, but he escaped our guards. So we only have her to judge tonight.”
I felt my stomach fist in a knot and had to choke back tears as I thought longingly of my Daddy.