Charlie’s POV
The idea of me having a wolf was strange and oddly exciting, a wolf that my father had kept at bay for the last seven years and I wondered how he did it. Max told me that I was being drugged but how, I barely ate, I made my own drinks, my bedroom door was always locked at night so how had he done it.
“Can you take me to see him?” I knew I was pushing my luck but had to ask
Max stared at me, I knew he was weighing up his options “Tomorrow, you need to rest right now, you had a big operation”
I sigh, I knew I was pushing it but I had questions I needed to ask my father “Okay” I agree with Max, I will rest “How long have I been in hospital?”
“Two days” I nod, trying to figure out what day it is, just like he knew what I was thinking “It’s Thursday”
Just two days until my eighteenth, at least I would be able to make my own choices then, as much as I
Max’s POVAs I stepped back into Charlies room, it was obvious that there was tension between her and my brother, but something else was different too, Charlie’s scent had grown stronger and I was fighting the urge to grab her and kiss her there and then.Reminding her to breathe, Charlie growls at me as the cold stethoscope touches her back. It was pretty clear what was happening to her body, the wolfsbane was slowly leaving her system and I mind link Alexander to tell him as much.“You said you did not know how long it would take?” He snaps back at me“I didn’t, but it’s obvious isn’t it?, do you not see that her heritage has something to do with this?”Once again Alexander storms out, he hated being wrong or not being a know it all and I follow him, reminding Charlie to take long deep breathes, when she looks at me, her usual grey blue eyes are a dark grey, an odd colour for a wolf.
Alexander’s POVI knew exactly where Damon would take my mate, he would take her back home and treat her as a slave once again. I left my brother talking to my father in Charlie’s hospital room, I was not waiting around for them to decide her fate.Leaving, I hop back in my jeep and speed off down the road, screw them, I would find her and save her from her wretched father. Driving at top speed, I run some red lights and some stop signs, that would be no problem, it’s easy enough to buy people’s help when you have money. When I arrive at her house, there is no sign that anyone is here, to be honest it looks as if no one has been here for days.I move around the house searching for clues, there must be some little detail, anything that will lead me to her. The house stinks of cigarettes and beer cans are littered everywhere. I check her bedroom, images of her bloody and beaten flit across my mind, but for the first time I really look at he
Charlie’s POVThere was very little I could do as he dragged me from my hospital bed, his hand pressed tightly over my mouth, muffling my screams as I tried to fight and get away, he stabbed me in the shoulder with something leaving me in an incredible amount of pain, my body automatically goes limp and no matter how hard I fight it, he flings my unresponsive body over his shoulder and flees the hospital as my eyes drift close.When they eventually open again, they could barely make out anything in the darkness. My mouth was gagged and my broken arm had been bent around my back and bound to my other hand, leaving a shooting pain travelling up my entire arm. As my eyes adjusted to the darkness I could make out the body of another, somebody was slouched against the wall opposite me, with their head hanging.Recognising the hair bun immediately, I try shuffling myself over to him but find my body is tied to the chair I am on and instead I fall sideways crashi
Alexander’s POVHe is carrying her once again, why will he not accept that she is mine, not his. A jealous twang hits me hard as I watch her rest her beautiful head against my brothers naked chest, and closes her eyes, why was she so comforted by his touch yet she seemed to recoil when I touch her.Following them into the hospital he lays her gently on the bed carefully placing her arm down in the sling he had made out of his top and leaves to sort out the x-ray machine.Charlie thanks me once again for helping her and Max, I wish she knew that I would do it a thousand times over if it meant saving her.Sitting and watching her for a moment I finally tell her that she is different and she looks at me sceptically and I continue telling her that she is not like the others but I could not muster the courage to tell her about her true heritage of being an Alpha-Luna.Before I could say anymore I leave as Max comes back in, he raises an eyebrow at
Max’s POVIt was obvious Damon had no clue that we already knew about Charlie’s status, what we couldn’t figure out was why he was poisoning her for so long and waited until days before her eighteenth to almost kill her.Alexander was getting frustrated, he could not always read between the lines and would quite often jump to conclusions.Anyway it was time to focus on this woman, what did she know about Charlie. As we descend the second staircase, I try to ignore the smell, I understood why father left it this way because it did bring our captives to tears, most just wanted to escape the smell and would eventually cave.The woman was already screaming and shouting about how it was a disgrace that she had been left in these conditions, how she wanted to speak to whoever was in charge and that she would co-operate as long as she could leave her cell.Again we trade places with the guard who left in a hurry, much like the first one.
Charlie’s POVI drop my hands but refuse to move, what the hell had I just done “Charlie” and my head snaps up to meet Max’s gaze “Please, just don’t move”Max rushes to help Alexander off the floor, his nose pouring out with blood and he looks mad as he catches sight of me. I stay perfectly still, there was no way I was moving until someone explained to me what had just happened.I call out to Alexander, apologising for what had happened even though I didn’t know myself. Max helps Alexander to a room nearby and returns to me “Are you okay?” and I very slowly shake my head“What was that Max?” he tells me he doesn’t know and that he will call his mother and father in to see if they know anything. When he asks me to go back to my room, I tell him I am not moving and he asks if he can pick me up, I nod but as I move my head the light above me explodes, sending sparks everywhere an
Alexander’s POVI was more than fuming, I cannot believe she broke my nose, more importantly I could not believe how she broke it. All she did was hold her hand out at me in a stop position but when she moved it down, it was like my body was being pulled to the floor with an insane amount of gravity.Max helps me to a side room and a nurse rushes in, I briefly hear Charlie asking Max what had just happened but I did not care, how dare she do that to me.The brunette nurse tells me that she needs to correct my nose position so it could heal quicky and wastes no time in snapping it again, she laughs at the scream I let out and tells me that men are so much weaker than women when it comes to pain.How dare she speak to me that way, just as I was about to shout at her for speaking to me in such a way, Max brings Charlie inside my room and I start to flirt with the nurse, very much against my wolfs will.My eyes cannot help but trail
Max’s POVIt was a horrible feeling, having to drug Charlie but it was the only thing that I could think of to stop her making everything explode. As soon as she is asleep everything stops, no exploding lights, no doors rattling or furniture moving and i breathe a sigh of relief.She looked troubled whilst she was sleeping and my mothers words replayed over and over ‘She has been given a gift by the Moon Goddess herself’. The only problem is, no one knew how to help Charlie understand her gift, no-one else had ever come across an Alpha-Luna before and as much as I was confused, all Ripper and I wanted to do was find a way to help her.Her father must know something, otherwise why was he so keen on stopping her reaching her eighteenth birthday? I decide to pay him another visit, alone this time. Calling one of the nurses, I ask them to keep watch over Charlie and as soon as she wakes up to mind link me, I probably had a couple of hours anyway if