The Defiant Luna
Chapter 49

Jay-la POV

The hours passed in relative silence down here in the cells, other than Stephen pacing around as much as she was, waiting on the inevitable moment when Sophia would bring that other man down here to take her away. They couldn’t escape the cells. Silver disconnected them from their wolves, and burned their skin. There was no use in trying to pry the doors open.

Stephen she knew, would be safer in his own cell away from her, when the s**t hit the fan, and she knew it was going to, sooner or later. That thought alone was making her anxious with every minute that was passing.

Neither of them knew what time it was, their phones and watches had been removed, and with no window down here, there was no way to tell, if it was morning, afternoon or night outside. The door that led up the stairs showed light coming in, but that could just be the light of the room not the sun shining.

No one even bothered to come down to the cells to check on them. She could only guess that because the bars were made from Silver or coated in silver, and with them being underground and the only way out being that one set of stairs. Thầt there was probably no actual need to come down here and check on them. There was probably a guard posted on the other side of that door,

Though the longer she had to wait down here the more nervous she was getting, she’d heard Sophia state that the man she was supposed to be given to, would get here before Nathan did. Neither she nor Kora liked that thought at all. She knew there was nothing she could do about it.

It was very unlikely that she could talk Sophia out of this, the woman hated her, and all for putting a hand on Nathan’s arm, just once when she had been his Mate. Shed now heard just how mean she was to the pack, when she had been there. Didn’t sound like she was at all nice or worthy of leading a pack, being a Luna.

Jay-la had been brought up to respect the Mate Bond, believing that the Goddess drew wolves together for a purpose. They were drawn together in her belief to make each other better. To round each other’s flaws out, to bring about the best in each other. When that was done, it made a good pairing.

She did not think from what she had heard from Nathan, from his mother, from Margaret or even Stephen, that Sophia had been brought up to respect a Mate Bond at all.

How she had been raised was anyone’s guess. Maybe Nathan’s fun-loving nature had supposed to bring out the good in Sophia, but shed not cared for it.

Both she and Stephen turned at the sound of the door opening, and then she saw three men following Sophia down the stairs. They were rather large and very well built, heard Kora snarl inside her mind at the sight of them. She saw that first one swinging a set of silver cuffs and fear rolled through her now, they were going to cut her off from

Кога.

It wasn’t just the fear of the unknown anymore, it was the real fear of being defenceless and having less strength to defend herself against men like them. She stood staring at them as they walked towards her. Sophia was smiling happily with herself. “See I told you, I could get her for him

“Took a lot longer than you said it would.” One grated out.

“She was taken away by his men before we could get her alone, but I told you she would have to come back. To just wait and be patient, now here she is.

“The boss ain’t known for his patience, you should be well aware of that yourself.”

“Jay-la.” Stephen tried to gain her attention. “They’re going to come into your cell and take you now.”

She looked right at him, she didn’t really need to hear that from him at all, ‘Sophia.’ He mind-linked right to her is going to have them hurt you before giving you to that other Alpha, then she is going to try and hunt and kill the triplets after they take you’

She stood staring right at him. Fear was growing within her, Those men Jay-la are going to try and assault you, they are going to come right into your cell, put those cuffs on you to make you defenceless and put their filthy dirty hands all over you, likely all at the same time. I can’t help you from here.’

She backed right up to the far wall as those three men stopped outside the door to her cell and looked her over, each one of them slid their eyes over her, she was wearing only a softly flowing dress, had been out to dinner before they had taken her, and a pair of calf length boots.

She nor Kora liked the way the three of them looked over her, with l**t-filled eyes, “This should be fun.” One of them laughed amused, it seemed.

“The boss is really going to like her,” another stated.

“I told you.” Sophia nodded “She is much better than me.

Now the boss has promised to take care of that prick of my ex as well when he gets here. That still stands, right?

“Yes it does. It’s why he’s not down here to have fun, up there in his car waiting for that young alpha to arrive.

“Good, he deserves to die for what he did to me.”

“He’s just a whelp of an Alpha, half the boss’s age, will be no match for him.”

“Good.”

Jay-la stood staring at her. This wasn’t just some plan to hurt her, it was a plan to hurt Nathan as well. Felt Kora’s anger spike at the thought of her Mate being hurt by this lot.

“How combative is she?” one of the men asked.

“Not very.” Sophia shrugged, “from what I can tell, she has lived in the city since he banished her, she’s spent a good 6 years away from any pack, no training in all likelihood. Is a lawyer, not a warrior. It’s likely you’ll be able to overpower her quite easily. Bolted away from her own pack, even when brought back after banishment, ran away from being punished.”

“Ran away?”

“and got away too. I heard she was fast.”

“Really, now that I like, I love a good hunt before mating the hell out of a she wolf.” The biggest of them said, he smelled of Beta b***d. She watched as he held out his hand and clicked his fingers, “The key, he stated, and she watched Sophia give him a key.

She and Kora snarled right at him the moment it was in his hand, it was pure aggression, and they saw all three of them stare right at her, then just burst out laughing, “That is a lot of noise from one tiny she-wolf. She’ll scream good for us fella’s” that Beta chuckled

Her heart hammered inside her chest as he reached his hand with the key towards her cell door. They’re going to try and have you Jay-la all at once, force you down on the ground and take you one after that other, they are going to enjoy hurting you, want to hear you scream in pain, cry and plead for them to stop. Stephen mind-linked right to her ‘ they are the type to love inflicting pain and see you try to fight them off, struggle against them. This is what they are going to do in just a minute.’

Her eyes were on the Beta as he unlocked the door, swung it open, could feel fear rolling off of her, her breathing was already heavy as she looked from one to the other as they altstepped into the cell with her, to stand and block the exit.

“Smell that fear.” One of them stated “Oh, isn’t that just perfect?”

“Jay-la Sophia is going to kill Nathan and the triplets.”

Stephen suddenly yelled at her.

“Yes, 1 am, gut those little bastards myself and take that pack for myself.” She heard Sophia laugh.

She shook her head “No.” she whispered and felt her own hand move to her stomach instinctively, took less than a second for her to realise why, she heard Kora’s fear-filled voice ‘pup. She whined. Could feel Kora’s fear for her own pup rolling through her body, felt tears prick her eyes at the thought of these men hurting her, not just her and Kora, but their unborn pup. It would never survive an attack like this.

Saw the three of them suddenly stagger about and g***n as her fear for not just herself and Kora but their pup rose up and rolled right out of her in waves, her full flight response kicking in, her Luna Distress pouring out of her, even Stephen staggered inside his cell. But managed ,she noted to stay on his feet.

Two of the men in front of her were down on their knees, both groaning and then whimpering, affected by her distress. She heard Sophia cry out in pain, and saw her suddenly clutch at her stomach as she staggered and then collapsed onto the floor onto all fours.

One guy was still up, the Gamma, she realised, though he was looking confused and staggered about, he was still on his feet, watched him shake it off and stalk towards her after taking in his companions. The Delta was all the way down lying on the floor, curled into a ball, the Beta wastrying to get up and struggling.

“Don’t you touch me.” Jay-la gasped as the Gamma stalked towards her now. She backed into the furthest corner of the cell, hit the silver bars and cried out as pain seared the skin on her arm.

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Then he was launching himself at her, snarled right at him the instant he moved, snapped a foot out into his abdomen with all they had and he staggered backwards but came for her once more and they were fighting it out in the cell, all her claws were out as he tried to fight her and get her to submit to him.

Then they were just all over the place, as pure rage and aggression flooded into her and Kora, a massive roar ripped out of them and she saw his eyes widen in shock at the sound of it. They were on him in a second, a full set of claws into his thigh and raked them through his femoral artery. As the other set slashed at his side, raking down the man’s ribcage.

Heard him roar in pain as b***d gushed from him and then ran in heavy rivulets down his thigh, heard a snarl from another and shot of to attack him, all she could think about now was the need to kill everything, and anyone that got in her way, in her attempt to run from this place. There were no coherent thoughts as she launched into an all-out furious assault on the next wolf that tried to hurt her.

Felt claws sear her arm and the silver of the bars burn her skin as they fought it out inside that cell, till his throat was ripped out of him, she was kneeling over his dead body staring at the one still moving in the cell, crawling away from her towards the door to the cell, her way out.

Shot forward and right on to his back, all her claws slamming into him, into his back, pushing past his ribs and into his lungs, heard a strangled sounding scream and as she stood up. Stared at the woman lying on the floor, dragging herself back away from her as quickly as she could, clutching at her swollen stomach.

Moved out of the cell, her eyes on her wearily and then just bolted for the stairs, raced up them and out into the light of day so bright it blinded her for a moment and a hand laid on her, reacted instantly. Grabbed that hand and twisted it hard and fast till she heard it snap, as her eyes moved to the person touching her, snapped her claws out and arced up his body and heard a roar of pain from he and his wolf as her claws gouged him from stomach to chest and up his neck

B***d spurted out of him as she let go and he fell down dead before her, saw many more wolves around her all standing staring at her, all their claws were out as they eyed her off, snarled right at all of them as her eyes moved round them looking for a way out.

Saw them all back away as a rather large man got out of a car, looked right at her and smirked at the sight of her “Ah good and feisty I see,” and then he was just running right at her a second later. She and Kora roared at him with all they had, before he reached them and was then just fighting him, all claws out, slashing at him and hitting and kicking at him, tasted his b***d and attacked him in a full frenzied state, blinded by their rage at being attacked.

They were fighting furiously, pain seared their back as his claws raked across them as they turned to defend themselves. They fought on. Pain burned down their side, slashed and clawed at him, felt their skin rip down the outer side of their arm. Then there was a massive roar, all aggression and the wolf was suddenly gone from her.

They stumbled and fell as their eyes moved to find him, only to see a fight between two wolves. One half shifted and one in human form, picked herself up as more movement caught her eye, another coming at her, he was gone, taken down by another and they took the moment of distraction as fighting broke out all around them to turn and flee from it all.

They could hear fighting going on behind them, but they didn’t stop for anything, could hear snarling coming from behind them, were being pursued and knew it, fled with all they had. Then there was nothing, no noise, the fighting was gone, as was the sound of anyone following them.

They just ran the hell away from it all as fast as they could.

Down into a ravine, through the snow, across the ravine and kept on going, away from all those that were hunting them and trying to hurt them.