“Layla?” I growl.
“Okay, okay, I may have tried to attack her, but she was so much quicker. That sister of yours is a real badass, Reid has trained her well. Luckily Ryker got in the way because she probably would have given me a beat down, then Damien drugged me and then I came here and yeah all caught up. So yeah, she is pretty mad at you for nearly hurting Ryker so I thought it best to come get you so you can deal with her and I don’t try to eat her” Layla blurted like word vomit.
“You did what?”
“You said you wouldn’t get mad, I didn’t even leave a scratch on her, I am sure. Pretty sure we got gravel rash in places we shouldn’t have gravel rash but we will be fine, might have scratched that itchy ass skin of yours glad to be rid of that. Think you need a flea bath”
“I don’t have fleas and will you slow down, you aren’t making sense. Why would you attack my sister?”
“Because I made a list, like you do of what I need to do, to bring you back”
“And attacking my sister was on that list?”
“No, but she was like an added extra. You were upset because she didn’t tell you about Kade, so I wanted to get revenge for you”
“Layla, no she is my sister and what about Ryker?”
“He is fine, said I can’t eat his mother, complained about my well your boob in his ear. I like that kid. Gave me quite the fright when I ran into him, but he is good, everyone is good”
“You didn’t think to tell me this when you first came here?”
“No, kind of slipped my mind, like I slipped yours. But if you come back, we can fix everything. Fix us”
“Maybe, but I don’t even know how to get back”
“hmm, this place needs some neon signs and map”
“Be serious, Layla. How do we go back?”
“I don’t know, I can’t even see you. Just feel you’re near”
“Well, maybe we try to find each other, then we can find the way back together” I tell her, trying to feel anything in oblivion surrounding us. I couldn’t even feel my own limbs, yet I could feel her presence as I struggled to reach out to her, to find her in the darkness. Both of us are pulling on the weak teether that holds us together. Stretching and moving further into the darkness until I felt it. Like a rubber band being stretched before it flings back together.
Smacking into each other with so much force we burst from the darkness and I felt her fur brush against my hand as we both looked out the eyes of our human vessel. I move closer, debating whether I should take the reins back.
“You can do this Lily, I am here with you” Layla says, her fur brushing against me in encouragement.
“I don’t want to feel the pain”
“Then don’t, focus on something else, focus on our mate” She says, nudging me forward.
I go to run back when Layla gets in my way, blocking my way back to the void of darkness.
“I can’t Layla”
“You can, I am right here. Right here, Lily. Where I have always been,” She says her Sapphire and amber eyes burning into me. "We are one. I won’t let you fall, not again. You can trust me"
That’s when I felt it, the overwhelming feeling of every emotion I ever felt rush into me, but that wasn’t all I felt as I felt hers rushing over me to making me gasp and I realised she was giving it to me, showing me she would always be there, that she has always been there. Watching from the shadows, but she was there watching and feeling everything with me. So I let go, let go of everything and I felt stronger and more in tune to her.
Layla always thought we needed a mate to fix us, and I always thought I needed a different wolf, but what we really needed was each other. To let the walls we built up between us come crashing down. Brick by brick they fell, and I snapped back to reality, snapping out of my head and into the present.
Opening my eyes, I felt heavy, like I haven’t moved in weeks. I try to sit up, but even that is a task in itself, as I prop myself up on the headboard. Looking around the room, I try to figure out where I am. I don’t recognise this room. The walls padded with white padding;
I try to reach up and rub my eyes only to find cuffs holding my wrists to the bed, my ankles also shackled to the bed. I yank them, trying to free myself, when that doesn’t work. I feel Layla press against my skin.
“Layla, can we shift?” I ask and I feel her force the shift, I scream from the snapping of bones and I can tell wherever we are, we have been here awhile, because shifting isn’t usually this painful. I feel the cuffs slide off our paws and the hospital gown is shredded on the bed. Jumping off the bed we land on our paws on the floor, which is also padded.
Shifting back, I am left in a coat of sweat as pain wracked every muscle and bone in my body. There are no windows to let us know if it is day or night, turning I see a door. When it hits me, the room upstairs. I recognise the steel door. The prison Damien made for us. The one I thought I would never see the inside of.