Crystal and I talked for what seemed like hours, she had even invited me to spend the night.  As the meeting was coming up quickly, however, I needed to get home. As per the usual, Crystal gave me a gift before I left, and today it was a pair of giant blood red rubies.

While I studied them I felt like they were staring into my soul.

"Do you not like them?" Crystal asked in concern and I hurriedly shook my head.

"No, not at all, they remind me of someone though..." I mumbled the last few words as an image of Raven's wolf, Ira, floated into my head. Her hunches were raised and her lips curled into a snarl.

The shining blood red color hypnotized me as I picked up one of the jewels and held it to a light, sending a stream of red light onto my face.

I'll have to give these to Raven, I know she will like them. I thought to myself peacefully and set it back in the creme colored silk, which I had no doubt was hand made and probably worth a fortune.

"Thank you so much Crystal, I promise to return a gift later." I told her and she shook her head.

"No need to dear, please have a safe trip home, our mates will have to get together sometime to have a cigar and have a chat about the packs." She said with a small but soft smile.

"I'll talk to Blackthorn and relay the message." I smiled and walked myself out of the house with my pack after a goodbye hug.

I tucked the gift for Raven safely under my arm, I didn't know what she would end up doing with them. That was for her to decide, she could get a pretty penny from these, but I hoped she wouldn't sell them.

~

We got home late, but it was easy to get from India to Russia as the pack houses were very close to the borders.

I addressed the carefully wrapped and very delicate gift to Raven and handed it to one of my wolves so they could deliver it quickly and leave.

He nodded his head respectfully and left with the gift in hand.

I changed into some silk pajamas and went up to my room, where Blsckthorn was peacefully asleep on the bed. An arm outstretched on my pillow so that I could curl up to him, which I did happily and left his strong arms tighten around me in his sleep.

I smiled and fell asleep quickly.

~

When I felt Blackthorn shift I woke up slightly, but his skin burned mine when I touched it, making me inhale sharply and try to get away from him.

He smelled different though, and from what I could see from beyond his broad chest was a different room, none that I had seen before.

I screamed and the arms let me go, an evil laugh booming around the room as I saw Blake move slightly so he was looking at me from above.

"Well well well, look who is up finally." He snickered and moved off the small bed, I tried to lunge at him, but a silver chain around my ankle kept me from doing so.

I could hear people screaming around me on other cells as I glared and growled at Blake, my eyes swirling a pitch black.

"You bastard, where is my mate?!" I snarled, my canines sharpening and claw digging into the mattress of the bed.

"Don't worry, he is safe and unharmed, but you my dear, will not be that way for long." Blake smirked and walked over to my, pulling my shirt up just below my breasts so he could clearly see the scars that littered my stomach. I clawed his hand and he pulled away, healing quickly.

"Well now, those were some pretty scars you had there." Blake said as he cradled his hand close to him, wiping off the blood from the now closed wound.

"Don't fucking touch me you bitch." I growled lowly, I lowered my head but my eyes stayed even with his.

"We will see how much longer both you and Blackthorn keep up that attitude." Blake snarled at me and stalked towards me, I brought my knee up between his legs before he could reach me. But he saw it coming and stopped it.

"It seems I know your moves a little too well my darling." He said but his voice wasn't soft, it was deadlier than any growl or snarl could have been.

"Now k get free bragging rights with Raven for this, I'm sure she will be thrilled to hear about her little cousin." Blake smirked and pinned my arms down, kissing me on the lips. It left like they were on fire and it was causing me a great deal of pain.

I screamed when he pulled away and started to claw at my lips, tearing and ripping them. By the end the pain had stopped but I was bloody from the wounds.

Blake was leaning on the wall and had his arms crossed over his chest.

"Now, if you listen to me, maybe I won't hurt you... As much as I could." He snickered and walked out of the room.

~

*One Week Later*

I tugged weakly at the chains holding my wrists, my silver hair fell out of its long forgotten ponytail. I coughed harshly due to the lack of water and it was taking everything out of Crimson to keep me alive and breathing.

One of my legs was bent at a strange angle and the other was seeping puss from the wounds. The door in front of me opened and a pair of heels clicked on the mossy stone in front of me. I felt a cold bucket of water get dumped on my head.

I shook the water off of myself as best that I could with the chains, the water wasn't the kind I could drink so I had no choice but to try and ignore it as it left black and brown stains on my face and hair.

"Wake up, Shadow." A girl growled and I felt my lips twitch and a snarl build in my throat but she gave me a swift kick to the face and a high pitched yelp echoed around the cell.

"Finally, you're weak enough. Look at me Shadow, tell me what you see?" She said and kneeled down, using her index finger her turned my head to look at her eyes. The green made my stomach turn and the dominance they held made Crimson whimper as she was weakened but I smirked.

"I see a vial beast. Demented and -"

"Enough with the games you stupid stuck up wolf!" She snarled and threw my head down angrily causing me to be sent into another for of coughs.

She dug one of her heels into my stomach, tearing the skin of a long forgotten wound. I howled in pain and gnashed my teeth together as blood seeped from my stomach.

"Tell me what you see, mutt." She snarled and I looked up at her.

"I did. I wasn't lying." I gritted out at her. She got a forced calm look on her face and stiffly removed her heel from my stomach.

"You play a good part, Shadow," she began and I tried to keep a straight face," but I can see right through it. You're weak, and I think it's time to begin." A dark smile passed over her face. My eyes rounded with fear and I gulped.

"Get her ready. Her wolf is weak, we will only have one shot at this!" She called before walking away and two people walked up to me, one female and one male. They pulled me up by my arms after unlocking my wrists.

I growled at them, annoyed and angry but they acted like nothing had happened and walked after the girl.

"Set her down here, I believe we owe her an explanation." She said as we walked into a white wall, sterile room.

They set me down and took thin leather straps, and tied them around my wrists and ankles.

"So, I think you've probably been wondering why you are here, other than the fact you are a dirty traitor to the wolves." She began as I pulled at the new cuffs.

"Well, to put it plainly, we've figured out a way to kill your precious cousin, Raven. And we are going to use you to do it. You see, we know how powerful Raven is, we've been watching her for some time. We've created a wolf that can rival her." She explained and walked over, looking at the different needles on the wall before pulling off two.

One was empty and the other had a black liquid in it.

"We had to weaken your wolf enough to the point where we could take her away and replace her. You are going to be the one that kills her, Shadow. You're going to kill you cousin." She said in an eerily calm voice.

"You know I wouldn't do that, you sick bitch."

"Oh, but you will, you see, you aren't strong enough to fight Venatrix off. You will be put in a cage and forced to watch the blood shed. Raven will either die by your hand, or have to kill the person that swore wouldn't hurt her." She whispered in my ear and my breathing increased.

"Now, say goodbye to that wolf of yours, you won't be seeing her again." She sneered.

"No! Get away from me! Get away!" I screamed and began to struggle against the straps.

Please hang on Crimson! I'm not losing you! I yelled in my head and only got a whimper back.

"Now then, hold still or this is going to be much more painful." She tutted and jabbed the needle into my neck. The needle filled with a dark grey liquid and I felt something being pulled out of me and I began to choke, writhing in pain.

I'm sorry Shade... Crimson whispered before I felt her completely leave me.

"How... How could you?" I gasped out behind tightly shut eyes.

"I know you don't see it now, but believe me, this is for the best." She told me and started to slip the other needle under my skin. My heart felt like it was going to give out and fear consumed me.

"Don't do this, please stop." I cried, tears leaking from the corners of my eyes.

I felt as the new wolf was mixed with myself and the wounds healed quickly, my breathing returned to normal and all the infections became almost nothing, and I felt stronger, deadlier.

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