The Alpha’s Companion - Chapter 69

When Lacey woke, she was in a room with no windows and steel walls. She still felt groggy, but she willed herself to stay alert. Lacey looked around, but there was just a bed and nothing else in the room. Lacey looked down and she was wearing a pair of sweats and a tank top. She made a mental note: When she saw Scar next, she was going to kill her, along with Brock and Rex… the list was growing.

She sat up and her stomach lurched, ready to heave, probably from the drug and the lack of food. There was a small trashcan nearby, so she heaved the contents of what she didn’t have in her stomach into it. She needed to eat. Lacey hadn’t eaten anything in over twenty-four hours, and she was famished.

Feeling weak from whatever they had injected her with, she looked around to see what she could use as a weapon, knowing she had to keep her wits about her if she was going to get out of this alive.

One thing Lacey learned in her years training as a warrior, and training other warriors, was that anything could become a weapon. However, the only thing in the room was the bed, the mattress, and the sheets. When she checked under the mattress, there was a box spring foundation under the mattress.

“Bingo,” she said to herself.

Lacey looked toward the door and, luckily, no one knew she was awake yet. So, she moved the mattress and the box spring foundation was made of wooden slats, wires, and springs.

As quickly as she could, she pulled the box spring foundation apart, ripping off the wooden slats as quietly as she could. Then she used some of the wire to tie three of the wooden slats together for more support, creating a makeshift baseball bat. Then she stood on the side of the door and waited. She was nearly ready to give up when she heard footsteps down the hallway.

“Alpha Queen….” Brock said in a sing-song voice on the other side of the door. Adrenaline coursed through her. This was it. The moment of truth. Keys rattled on the other side of the door, and then it slowly opened. “Alpha Queen… I have something for you to eat.”

“What in the ….” As soon as he stepped in the door, she hit him as hard as she could with the bat in the stomach, sending him flying to the ground as the tray and food scattered. Then she hit him again on the back of the head and he was out cold.

Lacey took her bat with her and closed the door tightly, locking him in. In the hallway, no one was there, so she ran as quickly as she could manage after being drugged, knowing that if she were pregnant, her child would be dependent on her to escape. But then Lacey heard voices down the hallway in front of her, so she quickly darted into an open office door and hid, waiting for them to pass.

Even though Lacey had no idea where she was, something looked familiar, felt familiar. When the hallway was clear again, she quickly darted out of the room. It was daylight out and the building was small. She wasn’t in a compound.

Lacey heard voices and footsteps growing closer again…

“Julien would never think to look for her here, so you should be pretty safe, until you decide what you want to do with her.” Her heart stopped. For it was a voice she wished she could forget but knew she never would. The voice belonged to Thorn.

Lacey knew that her stepfather had never accepted her as his, but to sell her out like this to Rex, helping him kidnap her, was way beyond what she had ever expected… even from Thorn.

But if she was at the Silver Pack Compound, then she knew it like the back of her hand. She just had to gain her bearings. Lacey darted into another room and there was a window. The sun was up, so she guessed that she had been missing for more than twelve hours. Julien would be looking for her by then.

Lacey stood in the shadows, looking out, trying to figure out where she was when an armed guard walked by, so she quickly darted to the side of the window. Lacey knew she was on the ground floor, so escape would be easier. But they would realize she was gone at any moment, and then escape would be impossible.

Lacey looked out the window again and dead ahead through the trees… was the Silver Pack Compound.

She knew where she was. Thorn had an office—an outbuilding or office building, really—that no one was allowed to go to. Lacey thought that was his hide away when he either had business to do and didn’t want to be disturbed, or she suspected, private clients that he didn’t want anyone to know about.

“Just promise me one thing,” Thorn’s voice carried down the hallway and Lacey ducked under the desk, out of sight.

“What’s that?” a deep voice said. She recognized that it was Rex.

“That you will kill Julien.” Thorn sighed. “Lacey will be much easier to control without him in the picture.”

“Oh, I plan to do better than that,” Rex said. “I plan to make her my Alpha Queen, once I take over the castle.”

Thorn laughed and they continued walking down the hallway. Finally, their footsteps grew faint and then slowly disappeared. Lacey peeked out and no one was there, so she ran to the other side of the hallway, knowing this office building was too small to have rooms on the other side. Lacey looked out the window on this side of the building. No one was there. The only thing visible was the great expanse of forest behind the office. Lacey darted behind a filing cabinet, knowing she had to make her escape soon. She couldn’t wait until dark. It was now or never.

If she could just make it outside, then she could shift, and they could never catch her… especially if she had a head start.

Lacey peeked out the window again and no one was there. Adrenaline filled her veins and her heart pounded so hard against her ribcage that Lacey thought it might give her away. Wolf-shifters had good hearing. As quietly as she could, she slid the window up and then climbed up into the window… and jumped. As soon as she was on her feet, she started running.

Suddenly, alarms sounded behind her. The place had an alarm and it was armed.

As quickly as she could, Lacey ran into the forest, letting the shimmers run down her spine and limbs and the red haze with black edges overtake her vision. Then she leapt into the air at just the right time and landed on her white paws.

Lacey dug into the lichen, pushing herself harder, when she heard footfalls behind her. She didn’t look back to see who it was but prepared for a fight.

“Julien!” she yelled in the Pack Mind. “I’m at The Silver Pack Compound! Rex kidnapped me, and Thorn is helping him!”

“My Alpha Queen?” Koi asked mentally, his footfalls speeding up. “Is that you?”

“Yes!” Lacey answered. “Someone’s on my tail but tell Julien that I’ve been kidnapped, and I’m being held at The Silver Pack Compound!”

“Right!” Koi yelled. “I’m on my way!”

“No, Koi! Go tell Julien… now!”

All of a sudden, two shifters ran up by her flanks, but Lacey pushed harder, jumping over a stream… but it was too far, and she fell in and it carried her downstream. Lacey tried to swim to the other side, but she was too tired and weak. She was so close… yet so far. As the current carried her away, she hoped that Koi followed her directions and told Julien.. Koi would never make it if he came alone.