Chapter 17.

All of us stood around each other, the fire sparked with big flames, and with winds picked up behind us, blowing into the room from the glass doors that remained open.  It bothered me to see the doors open like that, it was like they were goading us- leaving the doors open as if to say ’ You’re free to go’ but nobody moved. Were we all so docile that they felt safe enough to take this risk with us? Or were they just so certain of the Alphas abilities to chase us down if we ever tried? As I looked around I could see that I was probably alone in those thoughts. Everyone else seemed oddly content with being- how did Lady Hale put it?- Prey. Darian was standing to close for my comfort, his arm nearly brushed up against mine- perhaps he was afraid that I would run.  The unmarked girls were gone, taken into the first room we entered when we arrived where they would surely be blind folded, their hands tied behind their backs and they would return to the pack in the same manner that they were