Chapter 29

Aria's POV

I turned around at the sound of his voice.

What was he doing here?

"No, no no, no. Please." I begged, "Leave me alone." My brother just laughed.

He continues walking towards me, a smirk plastered on his face. I inched back, keeping as much distance between me and him.

I felt the cold metal of the lockers as I backed in to them, hoping they would swallow me up and get me away from him.

No such luck.

He continued towards me as I pressed my back into the lockers, behind him were a load of his goon, his boffins, his cronies, his slaves.

The backed him up, making sure I didn't escape. They all wear matching grins, smug smiles of satisfaction. They knew they had won.

Tyler raised his hand to slap me, I flinched away, waiting for the inevitable pain.

But it never came.

I looked up to see Forest standing in front of me, protecting me from my brother.

"What are you doing here Tyler," He growled out, blocking him from getting to me.

"Well, you see Forest, I've just missed my delightful sister soooooo much, I just had to come visit her, I thought I'd take her back with me." My brother said sarcastically before laughing like a maniac.

Forest snarled at him, "You aren't having her, you will never lay your hand on her again."

My brother just laughed more, "We'll see."

He turned to his disgusting friends, "Attack."

No sooner were the words out his mouth before they all flew into action, out numbering Forest and me about seven thousand to one. Well, not quite, but still.

We couldn't shift in the corridors of school, so we had to fight hand to hand. The men easily over powered me, holding me by my neck against the lockers. I struggled, trying to get out of their grip. Key word, trying.

I was helpless as I watched Forest get overwhelmed by the sheer number of goons all attacking at once.

Only one was needed to hold me hostage, so all the others were free to beat Forest to a pulp.

They got him onto the floor after a long struggle, punching him everywhere, his face, his chest, his neck. I could see him start to fade away, he sent one last helpless glance to me, "I'll always find you." He said before the fight went away from him and he lay limp.

Even once he was unconscious they didn't stop, punching and kicking. The sound of braking bones like a fog horn in the silent corridor, the silence only broken by my pleas, "Please, he hasn't done anything to you, let him go,"

My brother came walked slowly over to me, "You see him," I nodded, "He'll live, as a final present to you, see how generous I am, remember it. You owe me now."

With that he stuck me in the neck with a needle and my world went black.

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I woke up in a cold, bare cell. I was confused, groggy from whatever drug they injected me with, and angry.

I wanted to rip my brother's throat out. Sadly, I was restrained with silver handcuffs, so all ideas of murder were thrown out the window, for the time being any way.

My wolf had been worn down by the silver. I was alone.

I was yanked out of my thoughts by the arrival of the three people I hate most in the world.

Tasha came in scowling, "You stole Forest from me, now he's all mine, like it should be."

My brother came in smirking, "I can't wait to watch your world burn, by the time I'm done with you, it won't matter if your family save you or not, you won't be the same person who we kidnapped."

My dad came in full out laughing, "You can fight us all you like, but we've already won, soon you won't even remember your old life, you will be completely and utterly in our control."

I snarled at them, "That's never going to fucking happen, I'll never stop fighting you, Forest will come for me and I will end your pathetic life,"

My dad just tutted at me, "Language, language, we're just here to introduce you to someone today, this is Simon."

The man who walked in the cell was lanky and tall, with shoulder length, blond greasy hair and dull grey eyes. As unlike Forest as possible.

"Oh, she is hot, you're right," He said, looking at my body, not me, "Yes, she will suit me perfectly. Definitely worth the money I paid you for her,"

Anytime Forest talked to me, he talked to me, but Simon only talked to my body, he acted like I was a possession, a possession he owned.

He strutted over to me, getting into my personal space, I shoved him away, "Shut the fuck up, I'm not yours and I never will be,"

"Ohhh a mouthy little thing isn't she," He said to my Dad, "We'll have to do something about that won't we, can't have a woman who speaks her mind, I need an obedient trophy, not a opiniated little girl,"

My dad just smirked, "We'll help you beat it out of her, then she'll be all yours to have your way with her, just think of it as a project, we will customise her to your preferences and soon you will have a custom-made girl."

Simon nodded, they were talking as if I wasn't even there, I swear on all the skies and heaven I'll never give into them. If they think I will ever stop fighting they have another thing coming.

He turned to me, but he still didn't look at me, only my body, "Soon you will be mine, and we will have such fun, you will be begging to be mine, body, mind and soul."

He leaned forward, trying to kiss me, I shoved him away, as if I would ever give myself to him, Forest is the only man I will ever love, I will never be his.

He laughed as I shoved him, "Plenty of time for that later." He said before walking out the cell.

"We will be back tomorrow, and we will be bringing a friend, your treatment will start tomorrow," He yelled from over his shoulder.

My dad left with him, but Tyler and Tasha stayed, "You know Tasha," My brother said, "I think we need to teach this bitch a lesson." Tasha nodded and they both came towards where I sat.

Before I could react, punches were raining down on me, all I felt was pain as they hit me, kicked me, breaking bones and leaving bruises.

All to soon I felt the well know darkness creeping up on me.

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Forest's POV

I woke up to the sound of beeping and the smell of a hospital. A human hospital.

I opened my eyes with a wince, looking around me I saw my mum sitting by my bedside, although she was so lost in thought I doubted she actually saw the wall her gaze was fixed on.

As I remembered what had happened, Tyler, his attack, the pain. I grew more and more concerned for my mate.

"Mum," I said, waking her out of her daze, she looked at me and pulled me into a tight hug, I felt pain erupt from where she squeezed but I barely noticed, I was worried about Aria, and I could feel my mum's wolf, she was on edge, something was very wrong.

"Mum, where is Aria?" She pulled away from me slightly, tears running down her cheeks.

"We don't know. Someone heard a commotion outside their classroom and went to check it out, you lay beat up on the floor but no one else was there. Your dad is looking but we have no idea, what happened."

I had my eyes squeezed shut, no this couldn't be happening, she's gone? My wolf howled out, he slunk to the back of my mind, consumed by his grief, I knew who had her.

I turned to my mum, "I had just sat down in class when my wolf started howling at me, telling me Aria was in danger, I said I had to go to the bath room and ran to Aria's class, as I reached it her brother was there, he attacked us, there were to many of them, I lost consciousness before I saw what they did with Aria, but I bet they have her."

My mum nodded, straight to business, she was already thinking about how to get Aria back, so was I. She was my world, I had to get her back.

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As soon as possible my mum got me discharged from the hospital, I don't know if you've ever tried it, but it takes ages to be discharged, I swear I saw almost every doctor and nurse in the whole hospital, it was taking up precious time, ever second longer at the hospital was a second longer my mate was with those horrible people.

The police wanted a statement, but I just said I didn't remember what happened and went home, we weren't going to get the police involved with this, it would just slow us down. Apparently, murder is illegal.

My dad met me by the door to our house, he gave me a hug before promising we would find Aria, I just nodded in response and ran up to his office where we tried to figure out where they could be hiding.

We didn't know if they had wolves involved with kidnapping Aria, heck, we barely knew why they kidnapped her except to kill her, which didn't sound quite right.

"There must be something we're missing," I said, looking up from the map, "Why kidnap her just to kill her, if they wanted her out of their life, why bring her back in?"

My dad nodded in agreement while my mum rubbed my back, "I don't know why they took her, but we'll get her back."

"I promised her I'd always find her, and I don't break promises." I said, this was one promise I couldn't break, my whole life rested in the balance and I refused to let her fall. I would catch her.