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Ashlee's p.o.v
I try to bite back my grunts and cries of pain as i'm slashed at for the millionth time.
"Just stop, please." I plead desperately, tears in my eyes.
"Then tell me-" Another slash in my stomach. "What I-" Another to my ribs. "Want to-" Another to my cheek. "Know!" Natalie yells. "Where is Cora Hale?!" She yells. When I don't answer, the knife's plunged into my thigh and left there. I howl out in pain, trying so hard to push my jaguar out and rip out of these chains but it's no use. "You're a strong girl, i'll give you that." She says, stepping back. I glance over at Erica, she's just hanging there like she was the last time I checked.
"Is she..is she a-alive?" I ask worriedly, my voice raspy from a lack of water and from screaming in pain.
"She won't be for much longer if you two don't start talking." Natalie says. I look down, refusing to give up Cora's location. What happened with Natalie's parents..that wasn't Cora's fault. She didn't intentionally send them after her family. It was an accident, and not Cora's accident. It just happened. Cora doesn't deserve to be hunted because of that. And i'm not going to let Derek lose his sister either. She's too important to him.
And you aren't?
That sneaky little voice in the back of my head says. I ignore it though. If it was between me and Cora..I wouldn't let him lose Cora.
And your family? What about them?
I ignore the voice again. Selfish.
Give her up.
I grit my teeth. Not going to happen. I know i'm getting really weak because i'm trying to argue myself into giving her up to save myself. Even if I did that, which i'm not going too, she'd probably kill us anyway. I don't really see a way out, at least my way Cora doesn't get hurt.
"Make this easy for yourselves, just tell me where the girl is. And I promise, you two can walk out of here alive." Natalie says, suprisingly calmly.
"Don't..don't say any-anything Ash." Erica says weakly.
"Don't be stupid about this Erica." Natalie says, setting Erica in her sights.
"You think we're gonna tell you anything?" Erica spits.
"Oh sweetie, you're not gonna have a choice." The woman smirks. She walks over to the battery and flicks the switch. From my toes to the top of my head-pain. Shocking pain. "Where are the Hales?" She asks, looking between us. Erica shakes her head frantically.
"We don't know!" I strain out in pain. She flicks the switch off again and we both slump forward, gasping for breath.
"I admire your loyalty, the both of you." She says, acting sounding sincere. "I can respect that. So you can see why I need Cora Hale. She took my parents from me. Now, I get to have my revenge." She says. "Tell me where she is."
"We don't know..where..where she is." I say, out of breath.
"I don't believe you." She says.
"Derek didn't tell me where they were going! The same as I didn't tell him where I was going! It's the truth!" I yell.
"Wow. Trouble in paradise?" She asks, sitting on the edge of the table and just looking at Erica and I with a smirk. "Hmm. What to do, what to do." Natalie says, walking around the room with a finger to her chin in thought. "Erica's not going to talk, the instinct to protect her alpha is too great. Because let's face it, to get to Cora, i'll probably have to get through Derek which would be easy enough-" I cut her off, growling lowly in protectiveness towards my Derek. "And then there's you." She says, walking to stand in front of me. "The instinct to protect your mate's too strong, isn't it?" She asks me. I will admit, I did falter a little. My what? "Unless you don't know if he's your mate or not?" She guesses.
"Mates are a myth." I say.
"Not true. Matt and I are mates. Happily married for close to 100 years, amazing right?" She asks with a smile.
"I don't care." I growl.
"Too bad." She shrugs. "But the fact that you won't tell me where Derek is tells me he's your mate. And you won't give him up. Not easily anyway." She grins. "But it doesn't really matter anyway, you've made it easy for me, you've gone to my plan B." She says.
"What are you talking about?" I ask her.
"I liked plan A. Torture you two, get their location then kill them both, but..you're obviously not going to talk." She says. I frown in confusion, what is she talking about. "Idiots, you've done exactly what I wanted." Natalie says. I frown even more, not liking where this is going. "This is what I wanted. I wanted Derek to come for you if I couldn't go after him and Cora myself. Now I can move on to him, torture him to find out where he's been hiding his little sister." She smirks. I tug at my chains roughly. I should have known it'd be some sort of set-up. But what was I supposed to do? I didn't know what to do, I thought she was going to kill us..we-we needed help. So I called for help, but I shouldn't of. Now they're going to hurt Derek. And that's on me. "But, i'm not done here just yet." She smirks, pointing between Erica and I. Then there's a rushing electrical pain through my whole body again. She turns it up higher and higher and I feel like my body's going to explode. I can't help the tears that are forced from my eyes from how much pain i'm in. I look at Erica and she looks like she can't take anymore.
"E-Erica! Ho-hold on." I manage to say.
"I-I c-can't." She says weakly. "I-I..i'm..s-sorry." She says and then she falls still. I struggle in my chains, screaming out in pain and worry for Erica. She's not moving. Not at all. Not even with the electricity corsing through her. That's not good, not at all.
I try to hold out but I can't. Eventually, everything slowly blurrs until it's black and i'm unconcious.
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I wake up, cold and shivering. The room's white, so brightly white that it hurts my eyes and gives me a headache. My whole body hurts. At least i'm not bleeding out anymore. I can see the blood that's painted the tile wall behind me. It's my blood. My hands are covered with it. But it's not streaming from my body anymore so that's a good thing.
"Er-" I errupt into a coughing fit. I cover my mouth only to find i'm coughing up black blood. Not good. "Erica?!" I call out weakly. I try to stand, slipping in my own blood. I all but fall out of the bathtub i'm in, crashing onto the floor. I'm in a bathroom, a far too white bathroom. I'm about to call out to Erica again, but that's when I see it. I let out a loud scream, covering my eyes and face away from the horror as I burst into tears, scrambling up againist the wall to get as far away from her as I can.
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