I'm not sure if it was days or weeks that passed. Being locked up all alone inside a cold, damp, dark cell was depressing as hell. The only person that came in was the male named Griz. And that was once a day to dump a bowl of raw meat mixed with dog food on the ground by the front of my prison door. Not only did it look gross but it smelled rotten. I didn't want to eat but when my stomach growled from being empty I would gulp down a few bites to keep the hunger pains at bay. Sometimes the slop came right back up and sometimes my insides managed to digest the disgusting food. My water bowl wasn't filled up as much and sometimes it was left empty for long periods of time. It was hard to even think about anything remotely civil. The beast side of my life was beginning to take over the more I remained in my wolf form. At night I howled my sorrow when I wasn't curled up in a furry ball shivering from fear and overwhelming sadness.

I'm not sure if it was days or weeks that passed. Being locked up all alone inside a cold, damp, dark cell was depressing as hell. The only person that came in was the male named Griz. And that was once a day to dump a bowl of raw meat mixed with dog food on the ground by the front of my prison door. Not only did it look gross but it smelled rotten. I didn't want to eat but when my stomach growled from being empty I would gulp down a few bites to keep the hunger pains at bay. Sometimes the slop came right back up and sometimes my insides managed to digest the disgusting food. My water bowl wasn't filled up as much and sometimes it was left empty for long periods of time. It was hard to even think about anything remotely civil. The beast side of my life was beginning to take over the more I remained in my wolf form. At night I howled my sorrow when I wasn't curled up in a furry ball shivering from fear and overwhelming sadness.

Slowly I opened one wolfish eye when I heard my name whispered. Lacey smiled as she leaned against the bars and shoved her arm between two of them. She opened her hand, palm up and whispered for me to take it. With a huff I closed my eye and buried my nose further under my tail. First of all I had no reason to smile and resented the fact that the girl had one on her face. Second of all I didn't want anything from her, ever! She helped the other brutes hunt me down so I could be locked away in this cage. The second time she said my name I growled softly but refused to look at her. She didn't deserve my attention. For all I know she was going to hurt me just like the others.

Her voice squeaked a little when she started to beg me to come over to her. With a heavy sigh she dropped the contents of what she held before pulling her arm free from the cage. As I continued to lay in a ball at the back Lacey began to softly speak again. She told me she brought me a few biscuits that she had snagged up when no one was watching and laced them with butter and jelly. My stomach betrayed me and grumbled as I imagined how delicious something so simple would taste. I even started drooling like some idiot as she described how much better I would eat if only I would behave. Finally I couldn't take the hunger pains any longer and moved just close enough until my muzzled reached forward enough to gobble up the food as quickly as possible. I was so desperate that I even licked the floor clean. Once I made sure all the luscious flavor was gone I laid back down with my head on my paws and faced the girl.

Lacey told me that my truck had been burned to the ground. The shifters here had made sure that they did it when one of the female shifters died from her wounds in a fight. They wanted to make sure my mate would think I was dead and give up looking for me. Why was she telling me all this shit. The more she spoke the more I wanted to tear her apart. Her throat would look good with her jugular torn to shreds. I just didn't, couldn't, wouldn't hear any more so since I couldn't tell her to shut her trap so I bit the hand that she had squeezed in to pet me with. With a loud scream she jumped up and cursed at me as she held her bloody fingers against the front of her body. The kid actually got the message I wanted to be alone and stormed away.

The girl didn't come back and I began to wonder if I was going to find a way out of his hell hole or die in this garbage pit. I dreamed of Slade when I did manage to sleep. I tried to keep alert as much as possible. I didnt want to miss any opportunity of escape. I hungered for my mate greatly and my heart ached with such pain that I expected it to burst one day from the sorrow I felt in leaving him. I even argued with myself over whether staying or leaving was in his best interest. Just as I was about to get up and try to swallow some of the slop that had been dropped into my cell I heard a whistle and then my name being bellowed. It was the big bear shifter, Griz. He jingled the keys in his large palm and ordered me to get my ass up.