The Alpha's Captive by A. J. Jarrett Read Free Book Online Page B

the pain was unbearable. He lifted his hand, but the chain caught, and his hand fell to his side.
    “I can hear you perfectly,” Aiden snapped.
    Devon reached out and brushed his knuckles down the side of Aiden’s face. The moment Devon’s hand made contact to Aiden’s skin, his fury stared to fade. As if by its own accord his head leaned into Devon’s large, warm hand as it cupped the side of his face. Aiden nuzzled against the strong, firm hold. Had the situation been different Aiden could see himself wanting this man, or at least wanting him more than he did now.
    “So you’re fine then?” Devon continued to caress his skin.
    The kindness in Devon’s tone wasn’t consistent with the actions that landed him in this house. He didn’t care how hot this guy might be. Aiden was a person, not an animal to be chained up. “No I’m not all right. Look at me.” Aiden used his free hand to point to the metal cuff on the other then to his face. “Do I look okay to you?”
    His emotions took a different turn as anger infused his words. He had never been the argumentative sort, but this just wasn’t his day.
    Devon very carefully pulled his hand back. “Calm down, Aiden,” the man said calmly.
    “Are you insane?” Aiden shouted, and the sound echoed in the small bathroom. “You’ve got me chained up for god knows what, and you want me to calm down.” Aiden huffed.
    “Well you must be all right if you can run your mouth off like that.” Devon stood up and held out a hand for Aiden to take. “Let’s get you out of here.”
    Aiden so desperately wanted to take the offered hand but didn’t dare. He felt an unexplainable attraction to this man, and it didn’t make sense with the current state of things. Even now his cock twitched in his cotton pajama bottoms as Devon’s hard stare pinned him to the floor.
    Taking a deep breath, Aiden pushed up from the floor. He waited until Devon exited the restroom first. Aiden didn’t want to have the man at his back just in case he attacked him.
    Aiden sat on the edge of the bed and he watched as Devon pulled a chair over to sit across from him. The man looked tired, and Aiden didn’t feel threatened, but that could be because of the bump to the head.
    “Aiden, do you remember anything from last night?” Devon asked.
    Now that Devon mentioned it, he did. Aiden looked off into space as the previous night’s events ran though his mind. The one thing his brain settled on was that Devon accused his dad of taking someone, but that was absurd. His father wasn’t a bad person. In fact he was the best man Aiden knew. There was no way his dad would hurt another living soul, never.
    “You said my dad kidnapped your brother, but that’s impossible. My father would never do something like that.” That was all Aiden could think to say. It was the truth.
    “There are things about your father that you don’t know, Aiden. I’m not lying to you about this. He’s done some bad things.”
    Aiden laughed. “Right, like this?” He held up his arm indicating the chain.
    Devon looked away from Aiden’s accusing glare. “I’m sorry about that, but we couldn’t chance you trying to escape. We need you in order to get my brother back. Your father is a hunter, and hunters don’t like my kind.”
    “Your kind?”
    “Let’s just say we’re different, you and I, and because of that your father and his friends want to kill us. And in their prejudice took my baby brother. He’s just a kid who doesn’t deserve what has happened to him.”
    “And I do?” Aiden totally looked over the different remark and took a deep breath and counted to ten. If anyone didn’t deserve this sort of treatment it was him. He was sitting at home minding his own business when this guy’s brother knocked him out and brought him to wherever here was. Plus, what Devon spoke of was nonsense. His dad was a veterinarian. He would be the last person to want to hunt down animals of any sort, let alone