Never Too Late

[Nox]

Healings were never easy on the recipient. Liv, her name was stood weakly on the other side of the cage. Nox still couldn't reach the power. Now he was just too tired. He needed a nap. But did he dare close his eyes? He'd never been dinner before. What would his father think? Nox was a little fuzzy on how he got here.

"You hungry?" Liv asked.

I nodded. "Famished. But it might be in my best interest to not eat."

She smiled softly down at him. "Cedric will make us force feed you if you don't eat."

"Why do you do this?"

The blond who's been flirting with Raffe spoke from the other side of the room. "If we don't we get punished, same as you." He brought a tray over and shoved it under the bars.

"Why were you at the club? Targeting me? What do you want with Raffe?" He looked at Nox like he didn't know who he was talking about "The bartender you were flirting with."

The blond smiled. "He's cute. Would you be mad if I took him for a spin?"

There was a moment of anger and the horde rolled across his mind hard and Nox growled.

"I guess that's a yes. But don't worry, he's not my target, just you. He was just fun."

The food didn't look good but the first rule of healing was to eat and rest. Nox didn't hesitate to pull the tray closer together and use his mostly healed arm. It still hurt, it was stiff to move. "Let me out of here and I'll make their lives a living hell and get you out of here. You won't have to do this again."

Heels sounded down the wooden stairs. "Cedric really isn't a good liar."

Liv took one look at the blond coming down the stairs and slipped around the table and the guy who had flirted with Raffe and out of the room.

"They won't be doing that darling." she said. She handed my captor a packet. "Use this to incapacitate him. So you don't have to be here. Cedric likes him I'd hate to disappoint my baby boy."

She rubbed his head like a favored pet. "Good boy, Ashton. Good boy. Don't take too much, we can feed the boys well for a while with this one."