Chapter 26 – Inside

• POV – Alice
• I woke up with a throbbing head. It really is too exhausting to get wolfsbane so often in such short periods of time. But I’m glad I’m still alive. I looked around and realised I was in some kind of box. WTF? Am I in some kind of coffin? I could see through the gaps in the wooden boards that it was already dark outside. I tried to look closely to see where I was. The gaps were so small that it was very difficult to see anything. The air is getting colder by the minute, it’s probably past midnight by now as the air gets colder in the early hours of the morning. It’s strange, I didn’t feel like I was outside the pack because if I see correctly, I’m somewhere near our dungeons. Why hasn’t anyone come to get me? They should be able to smell me, or at least see this huge coffin lying here. I don’t understand… I put my head back and try to think and remember the accident at the lake. No, I can’t call it an accident, it looked like it was planned. But Sara’s parents… I can’t believe it… Could it be that there’s more to it than meets the eye? Could it be that Sara is my sister and it’s all somehow connected? Naaah… I shook my head, they couldn’t have known about me, about my sister, for so many years… Or could they? Alpha Daniel had mentioned that he'd known about me since my family died, and Claire, the witch who'd taught me all about my gift, had died to protect me. Could Elena and Jack have known Alpha Daniel all these years? Could it be that the story they told about Sara was a fabrication and they were purposely keeping it for their plans for the future? Could they be part of the union? Sara mentioned that she never felt loved and that they were always very strict about everything. People who can’t have a child but desperately want one wouldn’t act like that if they had the opportunity to have such a cute little kid, would they? I massaged my temples. Everything is so confusing. Do they really think it's a good decision to kidnap me inside the pack’s territory, or are they sure no one would suspect them?
• I don’t know how they managed to get me here undetected, but even if there are not many people in the dungeons, there are some. The guards change every few hours to watch over the prisoners down there, so maybe I can call someone out if I see them. I would try to get out of this box, but my body still feels numb and I can barely move without energy. I haven’t eaten or drank anything for most of the day, I regret not having breakfast, just coffee.