You Wouldn't Dare (Khaos Trilogy Book 1), стр. 96

I hadn’t been lying. I had every confidence that Khaos would get free of whatever situation he had found himself in, but what sort of person would return to me? After the weeks of hard work to remove him from his hard, protective shell, how far back would this set him? I had to get to him before some serious damage was done. Physical wounds would heal, given time.

Mental scars stayed with you forever.

The silence had me growing nervous, my skin tingling in anticipation. I was so close to getting free, I could feel it. I was getting through to Junior. But at the same time, I was one wrong word away from losing his help – I knew that as surely as I knew that Khaos needed me.

“Junior? Please answer me. Don’t let our insane parents get in your head. I promise you that Khaos loves me, he has never once laid a hand on me.”

“I... I can’t. He killed Logan for fuck’s sake! Or have you conveniently forgotten that?”

“And again, I ask you, what would you have done if that had been Jenny? If someone constantly tried to steal her from you? If you caught him with his hands all over her? Are you seriously going to say that your wolf would have no problem with this? Imagine yourself in a few years, Alpha of this pack. Are you telling me you would have no problem with an enemy Beta treading on your property? Especially when you and that Beta have already had problems in the past. Now imagine not only has that Beta come onto your property without permission, he’s trying to turn your mate against you… Imagine it, Junior, and be honest with me; you’d have no problem, would you not?”  I heard him growl and knew his wolf was instantly rejecting the idea. “Come on! That’s not the way our kind works, and you know it!”

“I wouldn’t kill the bloke!”

“Yes, you would! You would! You’re thinking with your heart and not your head because Logan was your friend. Logan was nothing to Khaos, just another wolf out to take what little happiness he managed to claw out of his miserable life.”

I felt Junior sever the bond and screamed out loud, pounding my fists against the bars of my cage until they were raw and bleeding. Damn the lot of them to hell!

I sagged against the concrete wall, hugging my knees close to my chest, tears of self-pity close to spilling down my cheeks.

Everything seemed so hopeless!

I rubbed a hand over my stomach and wondered what effect this was having on the baby.

Were they able to sense my distress?

Immediately racked with guilt, I hugged my bump with both hands and spoke softly to them. “I’ll love you forever my sweet little dove. I promise you that you will have the best life I can possibly give you. I will get us out of here. I will find your daddy, then the three of us will go away and live the most perfect life together. Your daddy will be the best daddy the world has ever known. He will teach you to hunt and track, he’ll play all sorts of silly games, and more importantly, he already loves you more than anything in this whole world. You’re already so precious to us and I will never, ever let anything happen to you. I swear it.” Tears fell onto my bare arms as I sobbed, hoping, and praying it was true.

Surely the Moon Goddess would not be so cruel to deny the baby his father? She would let us get out of this mess and we would live a long, happy life together.

Khaos deserved this more than anyone I knew.

With no windows down here, I had no idea how much time passed. It was only when the surrounding air turned cooler, biting at my skin with its bitter coldness, that I knew it was becoming night.

I wiped away the tears that were drying on my cheeks with the back of my hand, grimacing at the dirt covering my skin, and pushed myself up. I braced my hands on the wall as I was hit with a wave of dizziness. I needed to get out of here soon; I had already gone too long without food or water.

I had just steadied myself when I heard the door slam against the wall and my head snapped up to follow the noise.

Chris stood in the doorway, both arms on the frame to keep himself standing. He was bloody and bruised, every inch of his face a red, sticky mess. His small mate squeezed past him and ran to my cell door, twisting the lock quickly and pulled me into her arms for a fierce hug.

“Thank the Goddess you’re okay,” she mumbled into my shoulder.

“What the fuck happened here?” I demanded, hurrying over to my brother.

“Your mother,” Jenny replied with a twist of her lips as we pulled him away from the open door. He was badly wounded, needing both myself and Jenny to hold him up, each of us wrapping an arm around his waist as his own arms went around our shoulders. “She’s lost it, Violet. Really lost it. She’s ordering attacks on anyone and everyone that dares to mention your name. Junior caught her laughing hysterically into the mirror. When he asked her if she was okay, she shifted her hand and shredded her face open, screaming that she wouldn’t let you damage her. She wouldn’t live her life looking like you and having people ridicule her. He ran forward to stop her, and she called the guards. Junior barely escaped with his life.”

“Where’s my father?” I demanded, sickened by what I was hearing.

Jenny gulped loudly before answering, “he’s readying the guns. He said he’s seen first-hand what Khaos’ family is capable of, and