Chapter 5

"No way!" I said to myself again.

I couldn't mistake him, it was definitely Liam, the beta and Freya on the bed. She was on her knees, leaning forward and grasping onto the bed head as Liam held her waist from behind and inserted himself into her. At each thrust she shuddered heavily and moaned loudly.

I was definitely going crazy! Wasn't this the same person that cancelled his planned trip with Alpha Derrick because he was sick. He had lied just so he could have a taste of the king's meal. That was why she had instructed me to go away! What a snake!

"Oh…oh my fucking goodness, Liam! I can't feel my legs!" She exclaimed as they slumped on the bed. "That was intense."

"You're always a good sport, Freya." He said and bit her lower lip as his hand ran over her breasts and twisted her nipples.

"Don't tell me you want to go again, I'm completely drained, Liam." She said, staring into his eyes with affection.

The Greenhills pack was like a fucking p**n hub, this was the second time I had almost walked in on a sex scene. But there was something eerie and dangerous about this particular one that made me stay and listen. My heart was thumping heavily like a drum and I was scared they would hear it and come for me.

"No, not yet, let's talk now. How long do you want to keep this going? It hurts sometimes to see my mate playing as that bastard's girlfriend." Liam said with disgust in his voice.

What? Freya was Liam's mate?

"I think it's time already, he's vulnerable as you can see, we do not have to wait any longer, baby." She said, rubbing her hand on his chest.

"Hmm…You're right, you've got him hooked badly. He wouldn't even see it coming, what's the least suspicious way? I'd say an attack." Liam said.

"Poison?" That was Freya's voice.

"A gun?" Liam said.

"A knife? A sword?" Freya added and they both burst into a hysterical round of shrill laughter that turned my blood cold as realization hit me.

They were planning to murder Alpha Derrick! I had never been this frightened my whole life, there were goosebumps dancing all over my skin and my heart was racing with the speed of light. I suddenly felt like a corpse, I couldn't feel my legs, nor my arms.

"The goddess knows I've been patient, Derrick took what was rightfully mine and I've always said this, I am going to take it back. We're so close, baby!" He said with a smile.

"I can feel it too, just like I can feel that cock of yours rising again. Derrick won't know what hit him, I guess I can already start addressing you as Alpha Liam." She said and giggled.

"Soon, everyone else would address me as that and you will be by my side, as my Luna." Liam said, his voice sounded so menacing and devilish.

Freya looked down and smiled, "I knew you were rising again, I want it in my mouth."

"I'm not stopping you." Liam replied and that was when I decided that I had heard enough.

I turned around and as I did, I almost knocked over a vase stand in the corridor.

"Fuck!" I exclaimed as I caught the flying vase before it dropped to the ground. My feet shuffled and I suddenly heard no sound from the bedroom.

"Did you hear that?" I heard Liam ask.

Oh shit! This is it, I was done for! My entire body was shivering with fright as I stood in the awkward position I was, holding the vase for dear life. My insides turned completely and my lips quavered.

"Hear what? I didn't hear anything, Common Liam…don't distract m…m…oh my gosh!" She moaned as her sentence trailed off. "A little higher…there! That's it! That's…that's the spot, fucking kill me, Liam!"

I was relieved that they had forgotten about me, but I also wondered what the hell he was doing to her that made her scream that way. Carefully, I placed the vase back on the stand and tiptoed downstairs. When I got out of the mansion, I took all the fresh air I could breathe in and a little color came back to my face.

His pack was under fire, his life was in danger but Alpha Derrick knew nothing about it.

I was so shocked about what I had just discovered, it was a triple shock. First, they were having an affair behind his back, second Freya was Liam's fucking mate and lastly…lastly, they wanted to end Derrick's life so that Liam could be the Alpha.

I wasn't only thinking about Derrick at this point, I was about myself, if Derrick died, I was toast. Freya hated me and there was no doubt in my mind that she would come after me.

I hung around till it was late, I even saw when Beta Liam left two hours later. I couldn't wait till the next day, I had to tell alpha Derrick the moment he returned.

My heart surged faster when I saw his Rolls Royce pull into the garage and he stepped out. I rushed towards him immediately and he was so startled by my sudden presence.

"Bloody hell, Layla! What are you still doing here? It's dark already." He said, his tone flabbergasted.

"There's something I have to tell you, Alpha Derrick." I said huskily.

"It has to wait, I need to sleep, report to my study tomorrow morning." He said flatly and shut the car door.

"But Alpha Derrick, it can't wait!" I examined desperately.

"It has to! I said tomorrow morning and that's when we'll fucking talk, now get away!" He snapped irritably.

As he walked away, I held his hand but the other quickly lashed out at me and caught me across the face.

"Don't fucking touch me again, you slave!" He snarled and walked into the house.

I felt the tears welling in my eyes but I wiped it away, he was probably in a bad mood, someone that wasn't supposed to upset him did. I held my cheek all the way on my long, dark walk back to the maiden house.

The next day, it took me half the time it usually took to get to the pack house and even the guards were surprised.

I waited for an hour or so at the door of his study and when Alpha Derrick walked down the stairs and saw me, there was a baffled look on his face.

"Oh, my fucking goodness, whatever you have to tell me had better be important, or else another slap from me will leave you with a black eye." He said grimly and walked into his study, I walked in after him hastily.

"Your life is in danger, Alpha Derrick!" I said hysterically.

He frowned, "What do you mean, Layla?"

"Your girlfriend, Freya and Beta Liam, when you…when you left yesterday and I..I...I was cleaning this room…I heard noises…"

"Go straight to the point and stop stammering!" He snapped impatiently.

"I found both of them having sex and then they plotted on how they would kill you! I swear, you have to believe me!" I said, breathing heavily.

He stared at me in disbelief for a long time then his face contorted with anger, "How dare you, Layla?"

My heart sank.

"How dare you lie against my girlfriend and beta at the same time? I brought you here just to fulfill the wishes of the mate bond and you chose to overstep your boundaries?" He asked scornfully.

"You have to believe me, Alpha Derrick, you have to-”

"Guards!" He yelled, not listening to what I had to say.

In a moment, I was surrounded by three hefty guards with cold eyes.

"Lock her up, she'll await judgment for treason and blasphemy!" He scowled.

"Alpha Derrick! You have to believe me!" I yelled as they dragged me away. "You have to! Your life is in danger! Alpha Derrick..."

A night in the cold, dreadful prison was enough to make me completely weak, the next morning, the cell gate suddenly swung open and four guards stormed in with animal whips in their hands.

"Cuff her to the wall." One said, behind them, I saw Freya, Liam and Alpha Derrick.

A guard bound my feet and hands by a chain and dragged me to face the wall.

"Here's the Alpha's judgment, she shall be given thirty strokes of the whip and thrown into the forest to rot with the beasts of the wild." Alpha Derrick said and I heard retreating footsteps.

My dress was torn down to my waist and my bare back was lashed mercilessly, each whip brought a new world of pain tearing into my body and soul. I laid in a pile of my own blood an hour later and three guards carried me to the borders of the pack.

I was dumped in the middle of a forest and the last faces I saw were Freya's and Liam's.

"Walked right into your own doom, didn't you?" Freya said and laughed then spat down at me before walking away.

I laid still for about an hour, I was unable to move under the scorching sun and all I smelt was baked blood. Suddenly I heard more than a dozen footsteps around me and my heart started thumping heavily.

I was surrounded! I gave up at that point, I was as good as dead. A man stood over my bloodied body with a cold look, it was the last thing I saw before complete darkness covered my eyes and all I heard was death calling onto me and crawling up my spine…

The blinding lights forced my eyes opened, then forced me to shut them tightly again. After a while, I felt a pang of pain spread throughout my entire body. My back! The pain in my back was unbearable and I groaned loudly. Was I dead? Was I in paradise with the moon goddess? Could spirits feel pain?

Slowly, I opened my eyes again and looked around, I was in a room. A room with luxury, a beautiful room, painted with pure white. Where was I? This had to be the paradise of the dead.

My blurry vision steadied on a figure in the center of the room. I blinked repeatedly until my eyes were clear. It was a man, dressed in all black and a hat over his head like a grim reaper.

When my vision became clearer, I recognized him immediately. It was the same man I saw before I passed out…