Chapter 51

Judy’s POV

“Kill us?? W…why would they want to kill us?” Irene stammered, panic clear in her eyes. “W…what did we do.”

“Okay, Irene. I need you to listen to me,” I said, sliding over to her, trying not to move the cuffs around my wrists too much because they stung badly. “You have to calm down. If they find out we are awake, they might come back sooner than later and kill us right away. Right now, we have the element of surprise on our hands. They don’t know we are awake.”

I knew we were in the basement, but I wasn’t sure if they could hear us. I could hear their shoes creaking on the floorboards above us, and I silenced my voice even more, worried about our safety.

“So, are we just supposed to sit here and pretend we are asleep?” She asked, tears welling in her eyes.

“Until we can come up with a better plan, we need to do what we can to survive,” I told her.

She wrapped her arms around her body, but immediately yelped when the cuffs moved around her wrists, burning her. She let out a soft sob as tears ran down her pale cheeks.

“My father will find us…” she whispered. “He’s the most powerful werewolf in this entire world. He has to find us…”

I wanted to believe that she was right, but my heart was in my stomach. I didn’t want to admit to Irene that I was terrified as well. I had been training my entire life to be a gamma warrior and now that I’m in immediate danger, it’s like all my training had been forgotten.

There was no window in this basement, so I had no idea what time it was. As I scanned my surroundings, I noticed a vent on the ceiling. I let my mind briefly wander and I wondered if I would be able to get into that vent. But until I got these handcuffs off my wrists, the likelihood of getting into that vent was slim.

Irene slid her knees to her chest and buried her face in her lap as she took a shaky deep breath.

“We are going to get out of here…” she kept whispering to herself. “We have to get out of here…”

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Third Person POV

Ethan’s subordinate sent him a text message in the evening telling him that it was all set. He smiled to himself, knowing he had the upper hand once again. Judy had been kidnapped by harmless packmates and being stored somewhere, waiting for someone to save her. They were probably using silver cuffs and wolfsbane to keep her weak, but otherwise, she should be safe. Not that Judy knows she is safe; she thinks she’s in danger and that’s all that matters to him the most.

He was going to let her sit in confinement for about 24 hours and then he would rescue her. She would be so grateful to him for saving her, that she would do whatever he wants, including becoming his mistress.

The thought sent a jolt of excitement through him, and it went straight to his cock. The image of Judy in that home he purchased just for her filled him with desires. He grabbed his phone and brought Irene’s name to his contact. He needed to get off and the best way to do that was to meet up with his fiancé.

When she didn’t answer, he frowned and called her again.

Still nothing.

What the fuck? She always answered his calls.

He decided to send her a text instead.

Ethan: Where are you?

He waited for a few minutes for a response, but there was none. His brows furrowed at his phone. He sighed and stood to his feet. Well, if Irene wasn’t going to answer him, then he would just have to go to the Landry Villa and find out where she was for himself.

He wasn’t going to tolerate her ignoring him like this. As he got outside of his home, he got into his car and started to drive in the direction of the Silver Crescent pack. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. While he was driving, he decided to call the packmates who kidnapped Judy.

He knew from his subordinate that things were all set, but he wanted to hear it from them as well for further confirmation.

He brought up one of their contacts and pressed the call button.

“Boss,” one of the men said. “What can I do for you?”

“Send me a picture of Judy,” Ethan demanded.

“Judy?” He asked. “Judy Montague?”

Ethan’s brows furrowed.

“Yes, the one you kidnapped earlier,” Ethan said, losing his patience. “I want a picture of her. Not one hair better be hurt on her head.”

There was a long stretch of silence on the other end for a moment before the man cleared his throat and responded.

“We don’t have her, Sir.”

“What the hell do you mean you don’t have her??” Ethan asked through his teeth. “You were supposed to kidnap her in the city earlier.”

“Well, we were sent to a location via text message to meet up with Miss Judy, but when we got there, she never showed up,” he explained. “We didn’t ask any questions; we just left. We honestly thought you changed your mind.”

“You’re telling me that Judy isn’t with you??” Ethan asked, panic rising in his chest.

“We haven’t seen her,” the man replied.

Ethan almost crushed the phone in his hands when he heard this information. He quickly pulled the car over to the side of the road, throwing it in park.

“Send me the location you went to meet her,” he said, trying to take calming breaths.

“Yes, sir,” he heard on the other end.

He hung up the phone and waited with bated breath for his phone to go off. He received the location and immediately knew where it was. He quickly drove to that location, his heart practically in his throat. If his trustworthy packmates didn’t have Judy, then who the fuck did? Where was she? And why wasn’t Irene answering her damn phone?? He was shocked that she hadn’t tried to call him back.

He reached the location in record time and quickly got out. He could still smell Judy’s scent lingering nearby, but it was obvious she hadn’t been here in a while. His eyes narrowed when he noticed that some businesses had street cameras.

He was about to walk into one of the buildings, but he was shocked to find that Gavin and some of his men were walking out of the building with the owner behind them. Ethan quickly moved out of the way so he wouldn’t be seen and hid on the side of the building.

“Beta Taylor,” Ethan said to his Beta who waited by the car. “I need you to look up this license plate. We managed to get footage of the kidnapping on the security camera of this business. The kidnappers looked like a bunch of rogues, but I couldn’t be sure.”

Kidnapping? Was he talking about Judy’s kidnapping? Why would Gavin be looking for Judy? Ethan’s stomach clenched at the thought of it. Judy was his to find and he wasn’t going to let anyone, especially not Gavin Landry, take credit for rescuing her.

He told Beta Taylor the license plate and Ethan couldn’t help but furrow his brows. It sounded so familiar to him. He grabbed his phone and scrolled through his note app on his phone; where had he heard this plate number before?

Then something caught his attention. A few years ago, there was a series of break-ins that he singlehandedly stopped; he jotted down the license plate from the rogues in charge of that break-in via his notes app and managed to find some of them at an old, abandoned house in rogue territory. Most of them escaped though, but he remembered that house and the car parked out front.

He let out a low growl at the thought of those rogues coming back and taking what was his.

He wasn’t going to let that happen.

Good news for him, he already knew where they were located. But now, he just needed to get there and find Judy, saving her. She would be so grateful; she would willingly be his mistress. But now he knew this wasn’t going to be easy because these rogues wanted his blood.

Gavin looked as if he was ready to take off at any moment, but Ethan knew he had to be the one to get there first. From what he remembered, it could take several hours, even in wolf form, to reach that part of rogue territory. He needed to go now if he wanted to make it in time.

“Judy, just hang tight,” Ethan said in his mind as he shifted into his wolf. “I’m coming for you!”