Chapter 5

Rowan

We reached the locked door and the sweet smell hit my nose stronger. As I reached for the door, I felt something happen to her. It is abnormal to feel your mate until the mate bond is complete. But I felt her. I felt her warmth going cold.

‘Brian, open the door.’

Brian nodded to me and used his powerful strength to kick in the door.

We heard Alpha Dean yell angrily as we ran down the stairs.

The stairs seemed to go on forever. But her scent got stronger. After what seemed like a 5 minute run through the forever descending staircase, the air around us got colder and we saw the bottom few steps with a girl laying on the floor.

Blood was on the wall near where she laid. I immediately took off my leather jacket and covered her with it. I picked the girl up and held her in my arms. What had they done to my beautiful mate!

We heard Dean yell behind us again as we started to walk back up the stairs.

Dean stopped a few steps above us.

“Alpha Rowan, that prisoner is to be hanged at dawn. She is dangerous. You shouldn’t be near her!”

Dean’s voice was only missing me off more.

“Alpha Dean. Please let’s go back to the office and talk.”

Dean’s face went white as he turned to go back up the stairs.

We reached the end of the stairs and started the walk back to the office. The girl was still knocked out and has not moved. Her hair was covered in blood, her weak frame was thin and I could feel her bones. I couldn’t see much in the filthy basement, but I could feel a plethora of scars. My jacket still covered her body as we continued to walk.

‘She is so beautiful’

As we entered the office for a second time, I sat down with her limp body in my lap.

“Alpha Dean. We have more important matters to discuss. Why is this girl a prisoner? What did she do?”

“Alpha, she is dangerous. At the age of 10 she shifted. She was huge. She is not a normal shifter!”

“So she has been beaten, starved, and imprisoned?”

“We needed to keep her weak Alpha.”

‘Cam,’

‘Yes Alpha’

‘Knock him out, cuff him, and bring him to the Tahoe. I will question him more at our pack and torture him like he did my mate’

‘Yes boss’

‘Brian, notify the counsel that this pack is to be on lock down until we have further information on who all is involved with hurting our mate’

Brian nodded and I left the office.

I walked with her in my arms to the Tahoe. A few minutes later my Beta and Gamma got in the car as well.

With Dean in the trunk we headed home.