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Silva's POV

3 days. For 3 days, Devin locked me down here and he kept his word. I haven't eaten or drunk anything until today. The last time I ate was my fried egg. Oh god...I was just so hungry and worse, my throat was dry.

I was slowly running out of strength. I didn't know how much longer Devin wanted to keep this up, but before I sleep with him I'd rather rot down here. The main thing is that my mate is fine now.

Every day Devin came down to me and asked if I had changed my mind and he got the same answer every time.

"Silva?" came his psychopathic voice again and a moment later he was already standing in front of the bars. In his hand he held a delicious toast with jam. It was just an ordinary toast, but I was really damn hungry.

Exhausted, I lay on my bunk and glared at him angrily.

"How's it going? Will you be my mate?" He grinned as if he had already won.

"Only over my dead body," I replied. My voice sounded so scratchy. No wonder, after all, I haven't had anything to drink for days.

Devin shrugged and then took a bite of the toast with relish.

"W-wait..." I tried to stop him. Of course he immediately stopped moving and looked at me intently.

"Have you changed your mind now?"

I thought for a moment. But then he took a water bottle, which he opened and put to his mouth.

"B-please pass me some!" I begged him. Devin just kept grinning stupidly though.

"Only if you accept as my mate!"

"Okay," I finally gave in. I just wanted that water so bad. How refreshing that liquid was in that bottle...I was just thirsty.

Devin threw the toast next to him on the dirty ground and he just let go of the open water bottle, so I had to watch the water spread across the floor.

In the next moment, Devin unlocked the cell door. As he approached me, he undid his pants and freed his already hard cock. He licked his lips and as I digested what I just said my eyes widened as I realized what he was about to do.

"Devin please!", I tried it a bit anxious. Maybe I could postpone it further?

"I've waited long enough, Princess. I need redemption now."

He lay over me on the narrow bunk and then he started groping me everywhere. His hands went to my pants button, which he then undid. But before he goes any further, I saw my chance and kicked him hard in the balls so that he fell sideways off the bunk in pain. With my last reserve, I got up and looked at the redhead crouched on the floor again before I left the cell and this time locked him in.

"SILVA!!!" he yelled furiously when he realized what I was doing. But he couldn't help it now anyway. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!" he kept yelling, but I didn't even think about it. So I left the angry Devin behind and hastily climbed the basement stairs. Just get away quickly, because I'm not sure if Devin could smash the bars if he was as angry as he was right now.

Luckily I didn't run into anyone here because the next thing I want to do is get back to my mate. Even if he didn't want me, since he wasn't here to free me, I had to get out of here. The main thing is to get away from this psychopath.

When I got outside, the first thing I did was bump into my brother's bare chest. At first I was surprised, but then I got angry very quickly, finally he allowed his best friend to almost rape me.

"YOU?" I started my lecture. "YOU'RE SERIOUSLY ALLOWING THAT THIS IDIOT ALMOST RAPE ME AND LOCKING ME IN THE BASEMENT FOR DAYS WITHOUT EATING OR DRINKING? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? YOU'RE NOT BEHING NORMAL BROTHER WHO SHOULD PROTECT HIS SISTER!!!" Angry at him, I kept punching him in the chest, hoping he would have a good explanation. Which of course he couldn't have, because you just couldn't have them for something like this.

My brother started to growl menacingly and grabbed my neck the next moment. He lifted me off the ground a bit so I couldn't breathe anymore because he was also squeezing very hard.

When I looked into his eyes, I was startled. They weren't green as usual, but glowed yellow at me. Since when does he have the typical outcast eyes? What did he do to be one of them now?

Startled, I tried to inhale air, which of course didn't work. Instead, I croaked out a soft "Jaxon."

Jaxon was still staring me in the eyes with hatred before finally throwing me sideways against a log. There was a loud crack on impact. I've probably broken several ribs now. Which hopefully will heal in a few hours anyway. The only condition for this is energy, which I am currently lacking because I still need food. Still, it hurt a lot. So much so that I couldn't breathe for a moment.

But what was bothering me the most right now was what happened to my big brother who used to always protect me and now I didn't recognize him.

"What's the matter with you?" my voice spoke softly and through tears. My whole body ached, but I wasn't allowed to show weakness.

But Jaxon didn't answer me.

"Go! he yelled angrily and then went in the house. He left me outside bruised and as if that wasn't enough, it started raining just then. That was the beginning of October, was at least because of this horrible fall weather clear.

I hated rain and wetness in general. Then I always stank of wet dog, which I somehow was.

I tried to get up, which I somehow managed to do. Then I transformed into my silver wolf, which was quite painful with the injuries. But I survived this too. And somehow I managed to move, too, because when I fell on the ground, exhausted, I was in the middle of the forest. Hopefully I hadn't crossed foreign borders.