Chapter 36
Lily POV
I was stuck in this paralysed state; I don’t know how long I was out for, but I remember waking to Layla calling my name. Her voice ringing loudly in my head and I could feel a terrible headache coming on from whatever Damien gave me.
“Lily, you need to wake up. I can’t shift, you need to do something, anything. Please wake up” I groan, forcing my eyes open.
“I’m awake, what?” I tell her, feeling defeated as the events of the night rushed to me. Damien’s last words replaying over and over in my head. I heard the door, and I rolled my head to the side, too weak to sit up. Damien walks in and I see him walk over to me before Natalia drags a chair in and places it beside the bed.
Damien sits in the chair and brushes my hair out of my face. I can smell soup and he is a little blurry, but it is definitely Damien. I turn my head away, not being able to stand looking at him.
“Thank you, Natalia you may leave,” He tells her, and I hear the door click shut. I try to roll away from him, but my limbs are too heavy, and I feel like I am being weighed down by weights.
“Look at me!” Damien demands. I ignore him and I feel Layla growl at his tone, like we are beneath him. Feel tears brim in my eyes at hearing the venom in his words. I feel his hands on my face as he turns my head, making me look at him. He sighs before rubbing my cheek with his thumb, and for once I hate the feel of the sparks as they rush over my skin at his touch. Hate the way he looks at me with that pained expression. He has no right to feel that way when this is his doing, he did this to me and he is acting like I did him wrong, like I betrayed him.
“You need to eat” He says lifting a spoon to my lips but I press my lips together refusing. My stomach growled at the smell of the chicken soup, I was starving absolutely ravenous but I would rather starve to death then rot in this room.
“Please Lily, you need to eat,” He says, bringing the spoon to my lips. When I refuse, he growls before hitting the side of the bed angrily.
“Why do you have to be so difficult, I am trying to help you?”
“By locking me away?” I scoff, averting my eyes away from him.
“You killed three of my men and attacked my mother. What else was I supposed to do?” He says. Mother? His mother is dead? I know I have never met his mother, so how could I or Layla have tried to hurt her.
” Do you know who he is talking about?” I ask Layla, but she is just as dumbfounded as I am.
“Your mother is dead, I couldn’t have hurt her” I tell him.
“No, I banished her. I can’t believe you are seriously going to deny what you did, I caught you standing over their bodies. I know what I saw,” He retorted.
I try to lift my head when I realise something is around my neck; I thrash with my arms, trying to get free, the thing around my neck suddenly making me feel claustrophobic. Trying to grip it with my fingers but I can’t reach. Damien just watches with a blank expression, like he isn’t watching his mate struggle.
“You’re only going to hurt yourself, Lily. Stop” I ignore him and he stands up and reaches in his back pocket before pulling another syringe out and popping the cap off with his teeth. I stop thrashing, not wanting to be injected with whatever it is he has in the syringe.
I watch as he sits the syringe on the bed beside me in warning to behave. Horrified that my own mate would subject me to this.
“Now are you going to eat or am I putting you back to sleep?” He asks and I press my lips together. Suddenly the door opens and Natalia walks in.
“Let me try, please. You don’t need to drug her” Natalia says, and I hear her voice in my head and I almost gasp when I realise I can hear her and that the mind link is working.
“I will help get you out of here” She says, and I almost burst out crying at her words. She was going to help me, help me escape. Damien watches her enter before nodding his head and getting up.
“I will wait outside the door, make sure you sedate her, I will check” I watch as he walks out shutting the door behind him. As soon as he was gone, I burst into tears and Natalia hugged me.
“I don’t know what I did?” I tell her, confused.
“I know sweetie, I know. Now eat for me please” She says, and I shake my head wondering why she isn’t helping me out of the cuffs. Her voice came through the mind link.
“He is outside the door, we can’t speak out loud” I nod and open my mouth as she spoons a mouthful in and I moan loudly at the taste, and the moisture, my mouth was so dry.
“Good?” She asks out loud for Damien’s benefit.
“Yes, very” I tell her, opening my mouth as she spoons more in. I feel the mind link open before I hear her voice in my head.
“Damien’s mother came back. Estella said you attacked her and killed the warriors that worked at the front gate.” I shake my head, but she holds up a hand.
“I know you didn’t do it, but when Damien was called to the front gate with an intruder alert, he found you standing over his mother with your teeth on her throat,” I feel Layla trying to remember but she said she couldn’t remember anything.