You Wouldn't Dare (Khaos Trilogy Book 1), стр. 23

“Don’t ask questions when you don’t want the answer. Come. We’re being rude.”

“No.” He glared down at me, eyes blazing, “I told you, I won’t have my friends hurt, and I can tell that’s what you’re planning. Leave them alone Khaos, this pack does not border yours, you can’t use it for expansion, so what possible reason could you have for being here?” As I expected, he didn’t answer me. He clicked his fingers, signalling over two warriors. Before I could react, he flung me over his shoulder and deposited me down in the huge van that the other wolves had travelled in, and slammed the doors behind him.

“See that she doesn’t get out. Do not open these doors, do not talk to her, do not even so much as think about her. If I find she has moved a muscle out of this van, I will personally slice you open and bathe in your entrails. Do I make myself clear?” I heard my guard mutter a response and then the sound of a dozen wolves howling, their paws thundering across the dirt.

I raged against the van doors, slamming my fists against them repeatedly, screaming at the warriors that they would regret it if they didn’t let me out.

“Settle down, princess. I like my head where it is, there’s not a chance you’re getting out of there,” one laughed. I howled my frustrations, cursing them with every kick and punch I gave but, as I had expected, they didn’t budge an inch and neither did the doors. I threw myself to the floor and listened, waiting for the sounds of destruction that followed wherever Khaos went.

It didn’t take long. I could soon hear the screams kicking in, hundreds of wolves either howling in pain, begging for help, or screaming at Khaos and his pack. Even inside the van, I could hear teeth ripping into flesh, of bodies crashing to the ground. I covered my ears with my hands, pressing them tightly against my head to drown out the noise, but still, I heard the shouts, the begs for mercy. I sobbed, thinking of all the damage Khaos was doing, the lives that had been lost because he had something to prove to the world.

I had no idea how much time passed, but the sounds soon quietened before stopping altogether. I brought my knees up to my chest and prayed to the Moon Goddess. I had seen the devastation Khaos had caused to my pack, and that had been a mission to pick up his mate. Whatever he had planned for the Olympus pack was motivated by pure evil. Khaos wouldn’t have allowed anyone to survive, and so praying for their souls seemed the only thing I could do. The sounds of footprints crunching along the gravel had me tensing, a terrified scream escaping my throat as someone pulled open the doors to my prison.

Khaos

She looked broken, sitting there with her knees brought up to her chest, her face streaked with tears. She didn’t wait to find out what had happened; she believed the worst because she thought the worst of me.

I knew I had done nothing to ease her fears, and I knew it shouldn’t have hurt me as much as it did, but I couldn’t ignore the tightness in my chest as she looked at me with venom in her eyes.

My plan had been to kill all the warriors in the Olympus pack, to take their alpha and bring him back to my pack. We set the dungeons up for our captives, complete with various tools that would soon help us gain all the information we were after. All that had changed the moment Violet had looked at me, trying her hardest not to show her fear. From the moment I met her, she had been so genuine and open with her emotions, her feelings so easily read on her face. When she had told me that these people were her friends, I couldn’t bring myself to harm them. My growing love for her had saved them all. Most of the blood covering me was that of my own warriors as they raged against me, accusing me of being weak. Before we had even reached the Olympus pack, they had forced me to prove my strength as challenge after challenge from my own men came my way.

Why couldn’t she give me a chance? Why couldn’t she understand that all was not as it seemed?

She wasn’t the only one who had heard rumours and tales. I had heard all about her - she was a doll. A beautiful, perfect doll with no substance behind her pretty face. She had nothing to offer, no thoughts and opinions of her own. She spent her days partaking in frivolous activities and shopping sprees. The Violet in front of me was nothing like I had heard. I had given her the opportunity to show me the real her, why could she not offer me the same courtesy?

This is your destiny, Khaos. This is what you wanted; the entire world fearing you.

I hardened my gaze. I had to listen to my inner voice. If I gave Violet the chance, she would destroy me, just the way so many had done before her.

Violet

Khaos stood there looking like a fierce soldier, his torso covered in blood. I jumped up and threw myself at him, my fist connecting with his jaw with a loud crack. The pain that jolted up my arm proved it was my own knuckles I had broken as Khaos remained unharmed. He grabbed my wrist to inspect the damage, and I wrenched it from his grasp, glaring at him.

“I want to go home. Please Khaos. If you have an ounce of decency, let me go. I can’t stand by your side and watch my friends get hurt! I don’t want to be