chapter 70:Gabby’s POV

I was unconscious for a few seconds, the angry booming of his voice as he strode into the room revived me. He was yelling at Willow while she passed death glares at me. Laya had entered the room too but she stood at the entrance watching the whole exchange with an amused expression. I used the little mnoment that attention wasn't being paid to me to recollect my senses and compose myself. I pieced two and two together, thinking about Willow's words and how Titan and Laya were here with him yelling at Willow. She wanted Aiden before I came in the picture, she would have done everything to gain his attention which she did but my man looked at her like a little sister and then I came along as the mate. She hated me more for being his mate having to compete with me for his attention. She got close to me, pretended to be my friend when in reality she had always wanted to pop my head off. She found her real mate Titan whom so happened to be obsessed with me and now she was following his every whim to please him so he can love her. I realised that I was actually in deep shit knowing that they were Working for someone higher whom I didn't know off and how the hell did Titan and Laya escape? How was my daughter? How was my mate? What the actual fuck is happening?

"Don't you ever fucking disobey me Willow!" Titan's angry bellowing drew me from my thoughts and I looked in he and Willow's direction.

"Titan stop yelling at me." She cried out in a painful tone, her hands were fisted by her side and she was staring at him.

"Stop doing things that makes me yell at you!" He retorted in his usual manipulative style.

"We are mates for God's sake!" She moved towards him and began to bang her fists against his chest,

"Why can't you accept me and forget her!"

"Maybe because I know you are still lusting after our dear Alpha King!" He held her shoulders stilling her movements, "And I am not fucking ready for a mate!"

"But you are ready for her?" She looked in my direction, her gaze filled with hate and disgust,

"What do fuck do you men see in that slut?!"

"Right what I was suppose to ask?!" Laya screamed from the other end where she was, "The ugly Wretched bitch keeps getting all the men!"

"Both of you Get out!" He yelled at them but they stood their ground remaining unfazed, " I said get out!" This time around they left, "And you all!" He barked at the henchmen and they didn't waste time in using the door leaving Titan and I alone.

"Fucking idiots." He murmured to himself as he stood with his back facing me. His hands were beside him and I could tell he was heaving like he was trying to calm down. He stood there a quite some time before turning around to face me. He smiled, a very creepy smile baring his unkempt yellow teeth. The marks on his face and scars some of which I had caused while I tortured him made him look scarier and creepier. He looked haggard, his hair was now a dirty brown and he had on overgrown facial hair, his clothes were rumpled like that of a stranded hobi. I was glad he looked like this, glad I was the reason why he looked so ungraceful and less powerless cause he looked more like an outcast than an Alpha. He took long strides towards me causing me to wrinkle my nose at his stench, he came before me saying nothing, the smile still on his face. He bent over the chair bringing himself to my level, he dipped his head to my neck grazing his nose there sniffing in my scent. I shivered, my skin crawling at the close contact and then I gagged in disgust. I heard him chuckle darkly. He kissed down my neck and right to where Aiden's mark was before pulling away. His hands came up to my face, his fingers held my face, grazing the skin, skimming across the planes with soft caresses like he was memorizing every inch of it. His harsh grey eyes bore into mine as he did this, watching me pervertishly as I struggled against the seat wringing my bound hands in protest to his touches.

"How the tables turn." He murmured, "Weeks ago I was before you bound like this with you holding a knife to me and now you are before me bound with me being able to do anything with you."

"Get your lecherous hands off me!" I spat at him while trying desperately to avoid his touches, "You have a mate!"

"I want you not the crazy red head." He cooed rubbing his thumb along my lower lip, "I am trying to protect you."

"Am I suppose to feel flattered?" I asked in a sarcastic voice peering at him with all the hatred I could muster, "I am not yours and what the hell are you protecting me from? I only need protection from you and your mad allies!"

"That will change soon." His hand came down to my neck again rubbing Aiden's mark, "Your Alpha wouldn't come to save you this time." He added avoiding my questions.

"I will kill you myself!" I spat sputum in his face and he smirked wiping it off with a smug look, "You are a bastard!" I cursed. He smacked my face turning my head to the side and I bit back a yell. My face burned and I was sure his fingers will be imprinted on my pale skin, "One more disrespectful word towards me and I will cut your tongue out!"

"You think you are all great and mighty when in reality you are just someone else's pawn!" I lashed out at him and he looked at me in shock, "Yes! I know you all are working for someone Titan! A big bad Alpha like you wor..."

"Shut the hell up!" He seized my throat squeezing hard, "Willow and her big mouth!" He cursed, "One more disrespectful sentence towards me Gabby and I swear you wouldn't live to see tomorrow."

"I don't think the big boss wants me dead." I mocked him making him withdraw his hand in anger, "You should wait for the big boss's approval before you take a decision, don't you think?"

"I do not take orders from above!" He lashed back at me and then stormed out of the room slamming the door behind him. I let out a sigh of relief immediately he left, I was alone now and for the first time I had privacy to recollect my senses. I looked around the room, studying it, trying to know what sort of house we were in and from the way the wall was clearly brown bricked, i could tell that we were in some sort of really ancient manor or an abandoned out house. I cringed in disgust as what looked like a rat ran past my feet.

"Gabby! Gabby! Can you hear me? A voice sounded in my head and I looked around trying to know who it was, Have you forgotten you have a wolf? Hera! I cried with joy on realising that she was the one. It felt so good to hear her again, I thought you were gone. I was not, She said, Just weak and unable to communicate, that bitch Willow really did a number on us. you know everything?

"Yes and it took me all the will power not to come out and claw at Titan's face! I didn't want them to know I was back since they assume that we are separated.

"That was a smart move, what do we do now? I asked her.

"I tried communicating Spyro but because your dumb ass pronounced a rejection it didn't work!

"Guilt ladened in me at her words, I am trying to think of something.

Go to sleep Hera, I will come up with something, I said to her not wanting her to worry herself cause of my stupid unjustified actions, You need to rest. What about you?

"Don't worry about me Hera, we solely need your strength for this, so for now sleep, We said our final goodbyes and Hera went into seclusion leaving me wide awake. Since knowing Hera was back, I played with my fingers trying to see if my powers would work but it didn't. I huffed out a frustrated sigh and moved my leg backwards trying to reach the implement I badly needed. I tried hard but my legs didn't reach and then I decided to try my telekinesis. After a few short fails, it worked. It worked really slow and finally I picked it. It was a knife which I had purposefully fallen to the ground from one of the guards while fighting them. I picked it at started working on the ropes that were twisted around my hands. I worked on it, cutting slowly, an act which finally set my plan in motion, if everything worked well like I had planned in my head, we would be out if here in no time.