Chapter 16

" Liam!" Dani gasped as she looked at the young man chained a few feet away from her, his head hanging and his leg, obviously broken as it was at an odd angle and the bone was sticking out through a gash in the skin of his calf.

Slowly, the singer lifted his head and looked up at her.

Then his face broke into a huge grin.

" Hi Dani. Good to see you're still alive; I thought you had been killed already." He spoke in a weak voice, but his eyes were shining as he looked at her.

" What are you doing here?" she spluttered, distressed as he slowly pulled himself into a more comfortable position.

" How much has she been told?" Liam seemed to ignore her as he addressed the Muskony to his right.

" Nothing, I was just getting to that when she was taken." Growler replied grumpily.

" Okay, I can fill her in if you want to just take a nap big guy. I just was broke the news yesterday myself, I should be able to handle it." Liam assured the big canine.

Growler nodded once, then laid his big head on his paws and was out, just like that.

Liam then turned back to her.

" First, I want to hear how you have been hearing, then I will fill you in." he said.

Dani did not want to upset him, so she complied, even though she was dying to hear this story that is seemed everyone but she knew.

She took a deep breath, and began to tell him all about her time here.

" I was really scared." She said when she reached the day's activities with the guy in the house. " All I wanted to do was make a break for it and run, but I knew he was faster then I was. And he scared me too, plus on top of that I am in pain, but that seems to be the norm here."

Liam laughed.

" It sure does." He agreed.

Dani narrowed her eyes at him.

" What?" he asked innocently.

" Are you going to tell me this big thing you guys keep talking about, or what?" she asked him.

" What big thing?" he asked, keeping the same innocent tone to his voice.

Dani growled in forestation, and he held up his hands, laughing.

" Okay, okay, I'll spill it." he said, chuckling.

Dani settled back as comfortably as she could to hear the story Liam was about to tell her.

Liam took a deep breath, hesitated, as though deciding where to begin, and then started.