Hybrid Aria 1-4

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.Original from NôvelDrama.Org.

“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.

“That’s not all, all the warriors were drained of blood, and you were covered in it” I stare wide eyed, shocked by what she said.

“Where is his mother now?” I ask through the link. Natalia shrugged. “Damien had her sent off pack territory a few hours ago”

I nod, “Why can’t I remember meeting her then, Layla has no memory of her at all?”

“I’m not sure, but Ryker said when you woke up after they sedated you, that you were groggy, he said you came downstairs and said you heard a noise and told him to stay inside. I think the sedative that they injected you with might have something to do with it. I honestly don’t know because you seem fine now. We will figure it out though”

“I do remember seeing Ryker. He was asleep on the lounge when I went to get a drink, and I heard a noise outside. I went to check but I… I am not sure what happened after that” Layla says and I nod to her acknowledging what she said.

“How do I get out of here, you have to help me? I know we didn’t do what she said. I don’t understand what I did to her, but I know my wolf, she wouldn’t just attack his mother for no reason”

“That’s what I said, I told him this even Darian agreed. Darian tried to take over when Damien locked you in here. Made quite the mess before Damien got control back”

“Then why doesn’t Damien believe him?”

“Because she is his mother and for some reason, Damien has always sought his mother’s love, her approval. Can’t stand the woman. Estella was just as bad as her mate. Both of them are sick in the head for what they did to him” Natalia says and for the first time I actually see her wolf try to come through. Natalia was always so calm, so motherly that I often forgot she was a werewolf. But whatever memories she just thought of angered her.

“You knew them?” I ask. She nods.

“Yes, I was Damien’s nanny. After he got rid of them, he let me remain working with him. Said I was the closest thing he had to a real mother. The entire pack knew what was happening here, but we were all powerless to stop him. He killed everyone who tried, including my mate” Her voice was sad. I knew she had children, but I didn’t know her mate was dead.

Damien pops his head in and Natalia looks at him. “Almost done Alpha,” Natalia says.

“Good when she is done, sing out, I might take her to have a bath” He says and I look at him in panic. Natalia was supposed to help me escape. Natalia, seeing the panic in my eyes, rubbed my cheek.

“At least you get out of this room, maybe try to convince him to let you sleep in your bed?” She says. I can feel Damien’s longing through the bond, his need to touch me and have me close. Or maybe it was Darian annoying him, but I knew it changed nothing that he still intended to keep me locked away.

“Maybe if we behave, he will see we aren’t capable of doing the things his mother accused us of” Layla says, but I can also feel she is wary of him and she just really wants out of this room.

Natalia smiles before hopping up. Damien walks in and before grabbing the syringe, he injects half the contents into my shoulder while I try to get away from him.

“You said I could bathe”

“You can but I am not stupid enough to leave you unsedated, you will stay awake I didn’t give you enough to knock you out just enough to stop you running” He says and I feel him undo the cuffs. Natalia’s voice is ringing in my head.

“Behave, I have a plan. I will get you out, Lily. I promise” I look at her and she nods before walking out the door. Damien undoes the thing around my neck and helps me sit up. I frown when I realise he put a dog collar on me, my eyes burning with tears of embarrassment.

My limbs are floppy and I stumble as I try to walk. Damien’s arm around my waist is the only thing keeping me upright. He walks me into our room. Pulling me against him as he sits me on his lap on the edge of the bath.

I hear the water run and using his arm that isn’t around my waist; he pours something that smells like lavender into the water. I feel my head pull down as I lose the strength to hold it up. Damien stands and I am embarrassingly floppy like a rag doll. I feel tears run down my cheeks in embarrassment at my helpless state. This was so degrading. I try to talk, but my tongue has no feeling.

I can hear Layla whimper in my head and I feel her open the mind link to him.

“Just take us back Damien, you are humiliating her” Damien freezes his hands going to my face as he grips my chin making me look at him.

“Don’t be embarrassed” He says, kissing my face.

“Yeah, and what happens when she needs to use the bathroom, Damien. Are you going to embarrass her further” Layla snaps at him. “Just take us back it isn’t worth this torture, can’t you feel you are hurting her” Layla says. Damien growls and my heart rate quickens before I feel him stand lifting me and carrying me back to the padded room.

He lays us down before securing the cuffs and I close my eyes, not being able to look him in the eye. I suddenly missed my dad. He would have gone ballistic if he saw how helpless I was, how helpless Damien made me feel. Damien brushed my hair back, making my eyes snap open before turning away. I watch as he walks away then hesitates, clenching his fists tightly, his entire body going tense before shaking his head and walking out.

“Darian is furious with him,” Layla says.

“It’s okay Lily, Natalia will help us and at least we can mind link now, so we won’t be lonely. We can talk to Callie” Layla tells me but I am not in the mood, and nothing she says will make me feel better.