125 Indigestion

" We have to get out of here!" -Snarled Brian, squirming in chains to no avail. His wrists burned like hell, and there was moisture on his palms, but he was not going to give up so easily.

" Brian, calm down and let's try to think out a plan. These chains are not so easy to break. Hunters specifically developed them for shifters. Even the werebear is unable to destroy them." - Veronika tried to reason with her son mother. But the ringing and grinding from Bryan's direction did not stop even for a second. He already was feeling like one of the handcuff is about to loosen up, as Risa's frightened voice sounded in the silence.

"Brian!" - She called in a trembling voice. The man immediately froze, feeling that something was wrong.

"Bri, my stomach hurts." - She confessed quietly. The man instantly exhaled, deciding that his worries were in vain.

" Did you eat something bad again? If you want to fart. Do not be shy. Not like I didn't hear it before." - He said with a grin, finding the figure of a girl who crouched next to Veronika with his eyes.

"No, Bri!" - growled Risa annoyingly. - " I am not talking about indigestion! And I don't fart at all!"

"Yea! Right..!" -Bri mumbled under his breath smirking.

"I just ..." -Risa continued trying to pick out words, luckily not hearing his comments. - "Nina said that now I shouldn't worry too much, but I don't even know what I was injected with when they caught us with Veronika by the gates. I ..."

She stammered and fell silent. Bri frowned, trying to figure out what it was all about. Nina? When was she visiting Nina? Why didn't she said anything to him?

"Risa, are you sick?" - Brian asked in a hoarse, nervous voice.

"I am not, but..." - Risa didn't know how to say what was on the tip of her tongue. She already regretted having started this conversation now. It was not the right time at all! But the pain in the abdomen caused her to panic. What if a tranquilizer hurt them? What if something happened?

" Risa, what is it? What's the matter?" - Without waiting for an answer demanded Brian. Panic began to approach the throat, and he again twisted in chains trying to creep closer. Seeing how her son's eyes were full of fear and how Rice was trembling alongside, Veronika wanted to calm them down somehow.

"Brian stop it! You hurt yourself even more. Risa is not ill at all. She is just pregnant!" - In the darkness, her voice sounded like a gunshot. Brian stopped dead, trying to understand what he had just heard. Did he hear it wrong? Was it fragrant? Or indignant? The noise very similar to the squeaking of the old dial-up internet started in his head.

"How did you know?" - asked Risa in surprise, lifting her head, although in the dark she could see only the woman's burning yellow eyes.

"Well, firstly, I am also a woman and went through it a whole two times." - Veronika answered with calmly. Trying not to notice that Brian began to breathe weirdly. - "Besides, your smell has changed. It is changing very slowly, and Bri did not notice, just because he is always with you. By the way, your husband seems to have a panic attack."

She said all this so smoothly and without any transitions that Risa did not immediately understand the last sentence. And only when her weak human hearing caught a strange rattle from his side, did the girl jump to her feet and without ran to her Mate, stumbling a few times in the dark.

"Bri! Brian? What's the matter? "- She called, with trembling fingers groping the guy and finally finding his face. His lips moved, but only strange wheezing came out. - "Breathe! Just calm down and breathe. Slow. In and out.

Risa spoke slowly, diligently soothing her voice and hiding notes of alarm, stroking Brian's face. Tears flowed from her eyes on its own.

"Please, Bri ... Everything's fine, it doesn't hurt anymore. All is well." - she repeated, again and again, stroking his face and chest, as if trying to make him calm down mentally.

" You…? I ... We ..." - He finally gasped, his breathing evened out a little, and the eyes flashed like two torches, clutching at her face. Risa tried to smile, but the corners of her lips quivered slightly, and the tears could not stop flowing down her cheeks.

"Yes," - she whispered, her lips trembling. - "You will soon become a dad. Sorry for not saying anything before. I just ... Everything is so mixed up, and I wanted it to be a special moment."

"It seems you have managed to achieve the greatest effect just now," - said Veronica, giggling. But Risa and Brian did not listen to her. Fear and panic in the eyes of a guy gave way to surprise, and then such a mad delight. He could not see enough of Rice, his heart was pounding in his chest like crazy. He wanted so much to hug her now, squeeze and never let go. But as soon as he jerked, the chains reminded him of itself, splintering into the already tattered wrists. Risa felt Brian flinch.

"Bri, don't move," - she quickly clutched at the guy. - "Let me see."

The girl tried to find his hands in the dark, but Brian did not let her continue.

"Risa, quickly get up!" - He yelled worriedly, noting that the girl all this time was sitting on the stone floor. - "Damn you can not sit on the cold floor. You can't be here at all! "

With each word, Brian's voice became increasingly panicked and angry. He looked around the room, clenched his teeth and crawled to the exit, not letting the girl stop him, although she tried, grabbing his shoulders and screaming.

"Brie, stop it. You won't achieve anything like this!"

"He will pay for it ..."- snarled Brian, stubbornly continuing on his way.

"Even if someone comes to your screams, what then? Do you want to fight in this condition?" - Risa tried to reason with the guy that went in full rage mode. Brian had almost reached his goal when Veronica's voice came from behind.

"No need to fight. For now, anyway. But you two will need to make a run for it."

Both turned, finding her burning eyes full of confidence. Risa could not understand what Veronica meant, but Brian realized this only a second before the wave passed through the woman's body and the small stone chamber was filled with the sound of breaking bones and twisted joints, and then a mournful howl full of pain.

"No!" - Risa screamed, rushing to Veronica, but the shift was already over, and now a body of white wolf spread out on the floor in the middle of chains. The whole coat was soaked in blood. Risa didn't even know from which side it was better to approach. The position of the animal was so unnatural. Something was sticking out from the fur here and there. Risa felt nauseating, noticing that it was chunks of the bones

Brian roared and struck the door with his shoulder. There was a metallic hum, but there was no dent left on the panel. Only the guy didn't stop there. Howling like mad, he began to bang on the door with his shoulder and even his head, leaving bloody spots on the panel.

Panic fettered Risa. It was a nightmare! Madness! She did not even know who to rush to first. But she had to pull herself together. Now she was responsible not only for these two nuts. The two angels in her stomach also needed protection. So there was nowhere to retreat!