I'll Take This Pain novel Chapter 12

"I can't get over you,

you left your mark on me,"

- Hold On, We're Going Home by Drake ft. Majid Jordan

I was walking down a dark alley way, it was so dark that you couldn't see anything at all. You just had to follow your senses which would all perk up in these type of circumstances. The alley just seemed to go straight as I trailed my fingers along the brick wall.

Suddenly there was a cold breeze that passed right beside me like someone just ran next to me. I shivered and looked behind me but it was too dark for me to see anything. I continued to slowly walk forward in my old tattered Converse like I was walking over a very narrow and unstable plank. I felt something sticky and wet under my shoe that made me stumble a little but I gained my balance. I stepped back and squatted down in the dark and felt around for the wet puddle that I stepped in. After finally locating it, I touched it and I put it up to my nose and sniffed. It smelled like copper, blood on the floor. I wiped the sticky blood on the wall, stood up and continued to walk straight with my hand trailing along the wall. I heard distant voices ahead and continued to walk faster, following the voices. As I got closer the voices got louder and there was a small ray of light there. It was like a ray of hope or something. I slowly walked nearer then I heard their conversation.

"Where is she? Tell me now." A man in a black hood said to a woman who was tied to a chair with tears running down her cheeks. The woman shook her head indicating that she won't be telling him where 'she' is and then he slapped her.

I gasped softly as the woman's face went to the right. She shook with silent tears and hiccupped. The man runs his hand through his hair and then gripped her neck. "Tell me where Scarlett Rose Davis is. Right now or I will kill you." He said as he tightened his hands around her neck. Immediately, questions flooded into my head.

Why was he looking for me and why did he have to torture the woman to find me?

"She's with her mate. The Alpha of the pack." She choked out. After she said that, he let go of her neck and gripped her chin with his palm as his fingers digged into her cheek, making her look like a fish. He stepped nearer to her and growled. "Which Alpha?" he snarled in her face.

"Al-Alpha of the Broken Shadows Pack. Al-Alpha Caleb Asher." she stuttered. I crouched down and crawled closer to the side of the wall so that I could see the scene clearer. I realized that there were many more big buff guys guarding the alley that led to an empty road. The guy in the hood took out a gun from a holder and pointed it to her forehead. Her eyes widened as she saw the gun that was pointed to her forehead and started shaking as more tears spilled out of her eyes.

"Sorry to interrupt Mr. Asher, Ms. Davis is allowed to leave the hospital anytime. Please sign the release forms at the reception before you go." She smiled. "Sure, thank you." He said, getting ready to stand up. "Come on, let's go home." I shook my head again, no.

"The pack house was never home, it was prison." I blurted out without thinking. His eyes softened and he tried to pick me up, wrapping his arms around my waist as my hands instinctively went around his neck. "I'm sorry that they treated you so badly, that I treated you so badly." He whispered, leaving a gentle peck on my temple. I leaned my forehead against his cheek and sighed, "It's okay, eventually I got used to it." He growled and tightened his grip around me. "I didn't know what do, you can say that I don't treasure my life or call me a freak but in that moment I just wanted to be gone." I said. He slowly slides me onto my feet and holds my hand in his calloused ones.

"Let's get you back to the pack house and talk to my dad." Caleb said, taking a hold of my hospital bags and I felt a shiver of fear run up my spine. "Alpha Asher?" I said and he nodded.

"Come on, let's get the papers signed and go." He said, grabbing me by the hand and escorting me out of the hospital room.