Athena woke feeling much better than she had in the last twenty four hours. Some of the vicious bruises, lacerations, and fractures were healing. That healing had allowed her unconscious mind to rest. Now she began to puzzle where she could go from here. Lucas and her mother were not in a great situation and wouldn't be of immediate assistance she was certain. That meant that her rescue would likely fall to herself. Marcus had been less intelligent than Damon and she was certain that he would be watching for more of her tricks. As she tried to formulate avenues of escape, her planning was interrupted by a blur of activity that started with the loud clanging of her cell door.
With the cold metal choker still affixed to her neck and her arms tied high above her, she could not get a great picture of who it was that was entering. The noise of whomever was with them told her she would not be alone in her cell.
"Get off me! Get off me! Get your dirty hands off me you assholes," a young feminine voice shrieked.
Two of Damon's larger henchmen were dragging her unceremoniously into the chamber. The girl was thrashing madly, legs kicking and flailing in their direction. Neither seemed to care. Athena watched as they chained her to the wall and then left. All of the girl's efforts were in vain. As the door closed, the room was once more plunged into near darkness.
In the quiet of the cell, Athena heard the girl began to softly cry and she felt pity for her. Her senses told her that the girl was a simple human and was woefully unprepared for the strength of weres.
"Shhh," she hushed, "You don't want to cry here. It will only invite more trouble. Damon likes seeing us suffer."
Between weak sobs, the girl responded.
"Who's Damon?" Her soft voice was filled with fear and pain.
"Damon owns this place and is in charge of pretty much everyone you'll meet."
"Why does he want us," the girl asked, assuming that Athena was in a situation similar to her own.
"I don't know why he wants you. He and I have a bit of a disagreement on some things," Athena corrected. Her sharp eyes allowed her to examine the girl in the darkness and only her color vision suffered. She could see that the girl was indeed as young as she sounded. She was in a short plaid skirt and white blouse and her hair was a tangled mess.
"Do you have any idea why you'd be brought here," Athena pushed. She might be able to learn something to her advantage from the woman.
"No. I got home from school and let Fifi out to do her business. This big huge dog jumped the fence and bit her. When I ran after him and tried to get her free, those two men grabbed me and drug me into the woods. Now I'm here."
That seemed unusual. The wolves very rarely randomly kidnapped people. It drew too much attention.
"What's your name?"
"Karen. Karen Miles."
The name didn't ring any bells and Athena was certain that she had never heard the name before. She was pretty and Damon may have been planning on adding to the harem of human women that Marcus had kept imprisoned.
"How old are you Karen," she asked.
"Eighteen. I'm a senior," the young woman replied.
"Well, just hang tight. There's not much we can do here. My name is Athena, and I'll do what I can to help you. Just remember to always listen to me. If I say something, you have to do it."
Athena kept the discussion going, delving for more information while trying to calm and distract the young woman who had no idea of what she was in for. She had just gotten an interesting tidbit about the girl's father when the cell door was pushed open. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw one of the pack bitches enter.
"Hello, Jill," Athena snarled. The woman had always been power hungry, but was never high on any of the pack leaders' lists. She was too stupid and her nose was just a bit too masculine.
"Hello, Athena. Damon asked me to come and see you. Right after he fucked my ass," Jill retorted. Helpfully, she swiveled her naked hips and displayed several long scratch marks across her buttocks.
"You could fit a train in your ass."
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Jill grinned snidely down at her before glancing at Karen. "Sorry to not introduce myself before we make personal. I'm Jill. You're Bitch One. Athena, you can be Bitch Two."
"That the best you could come up with," Athena snapped.
Jill paced back to Athena's side of the cell and gave her a vicious slap. Across the room, Karen winced at the violence. But she wasn't done there. Grabbing Athena's hair, Jill turned and pushed her naked ass into her face. Aggressively she rubbed her soiled bottom on the younger woman's face.
"Bitch," she spat as she finally pulled away. Athena was left with a fair amount of Damon's cum on her face. Apparently the girl hadn't been lying.