SWNOVELS Chapter Waking up.
A throbbing pain in my head wakes me up again.
“Lana, I'm finally getting through to you. You've been stupid. We've been drugged and we're stuck," says a concerned Zoë. I want to touch my aching head with my hand, but I can't. My eyes pop open and I look around. I'm strapped to a table and Damon is strapped to a chair. He looks weak.
'What did you do to him,' I ask Jan, who has his back to me. He turns and looks deep into my eyes. He has a sickening smile on his face. A smile that just makes me want to spit in his face.
“Wolfsbane, my dear, very dangerous stuff for us wolves. One kind kills you, the other weakens and then you have the other. It makes you very energetic before you meet the most painful death. Don't worry, he got the second one, although I would have preferred the last one. My Beta won me over. He's such a softie sometimes. I left him with that mutt. Now, you think. What are my plans with your cub? First I would raise it like the son I never had. But now that I'm a Lycan, I don't feel that need anymore. Don't worry, I'll be nice. The cub must die peacefully and mom and dad can watch. Then I'll give that last kind of wolfsbane to both of you.”
Damon responds with unintelligible muttering. But I'm afraid of something else. A stab of pain comes from the bottom of my stomach.
'No, our cub is going to be born,' my wolf and I think at the same time.
I don't have time to think when my water breaks. The contractions come in quick succession and the woman at the end of the table tells me to push. I squeeze with all my might and react with relief when I hear the cries of my little cub. Jan walks to the woman with the cub in her arms. The woman looks at him anxiously.
'Sorry, my king. It is a girl.' I respond with joy and look at the beautiful face. Our cub lies in the woman's arms and cries the lungs out of her little body. My father takes the baby and holds her by her feet. Zoë growls deeply, but it doesn't reach our mouth. I look at my father in fear, I should never have come.
'So do you. All those women get those stupid girls. I want a heir." He throws my newborn cub against the wall and I hear the snap of her tiny neck. My cub's crying has stopped and my eyes fill with tears. The room fills with my shocked breath and the sound of Damon his soft wailing I look from my husband who is way too weak right now to the monster who just killed my daughter.
My wolf goes berserk, I go berserk and try to free myself from my chains. I scream, and feel my body change. I become my wolf and easily break free from the chains that held me down as a human being. I snap at my cub's killer. Damon growls deeply, and also frees himself from the chains that just held him. Our wolves charge out, following a large black werewolf with a silver back. I easily catch up to him and bite his neck with my mouth. Jan shakes me off and tries to run further. But Thor stops him. Thor sinks his teeth into Jan's wolf's neck even more, and he just lays himself down in surrender. Thor proudly looks at me, but at that moment Jan jumps his wolf back up and bites Thor's neck. He takes a big piece of Thor's flesh and you can see him starting to turn into Damon. I also quickly change to my human form and drop to my knees next to Damon. He holds his neck with his hands but the blood gushes out.
Damon, Damon. Please don't leave me either,' I wailed. Jan and Nelly's Beta are coming to us. Jan is not happy that his Beta has let Nelly go. He links with someone and his Gamma joins the group in no time. His Gamma changes to his wolf, but the Beta changes to a brown wolf with white spots. The Gamma tries to attack Nelly, but the Beta steps in front of her and gets into attack position. He growls at the Gamma through bared teeth before punching the Gamma's ribs with his head. Nelly also turns into her wolf. The fight continues and I hear their growls and howls, but I only see Damon, who takes his last breath in a shock. My beloved has suffocated in his own blood. I have no time for tears as I rage at the man who has already killed two of my loved ones. I growl deeply, knowing my wolf is ready to attack. Jan looks at his fingernails and then at me with a deep grin on his face.