I sob only for a little while feeling nauseous at some point and end up barfing right into a plant pot sitting at the side of the door for décor.The little bit of food I had forced into my tummy goes down the drain just like that before the door behind me pulls open.I immediately move out of the way getting on my feet and rubbing the residual wetness in my eyes. The last thing I need is for anyone to see me like this.I look up to meet the gaze of none other than alpha Arden. I assume he must be satisfied, dragging me out here dressed as a whore to be humiliated and ridiculed in front of his own people.All of this was purposefully, only I don’t understand why yet.Perhaps to break the self-esteem I had acquired in Deathstone. The moments I had challenged him must have bothered him.“Are you okay?” he asked with a concerned tone that is almost convincing, moving his eyes between myself and the ruined plant by the side.Don’t tell me he’s going to make me clean it up now.“I am.” I m
“Where’s Arden?” Ivan’s voice comes out too harshly as though they’ve smashed in his own wind pipe during his beat down.He leans against my shoulder limping forward even with my help as we very carefully sneak out of the dungeon and move to the upper floors.We have to be as stealthy as possible which is much harder given the current situation at hand.I silently pray to the goddess that the banquet lasts long enough, for us to get out of here before anyone can go down stairs and fond those two.“He’s too busy hosting the entire pack in his banquet. I’m just coming from there.”“Yeah I noticed. The shimmering sequins on the dress is enough to bling me. You’re like a walking disco ball.” He laughs for a while wincing from the pain in his side.He probably has more than a few broken ribs.“Ha, ha, nice try.” I say sarcastically rolling my eyes at him while trying to hide my own laughter. “I’d rather be a disco ball than look like an abandoned sock puppet on the side of the street.” I t
Kain’s POV“The finishing touches on the previously burnt down building has been made and the new changes you’ve order have been put into place.” The constructor in front of me speaks giving me the lasts report on the project.Finally the surpise I’ve been preparing for a while is done.Lilith will be pleased with the renovated building and when she sees the room I’ve prepared for her brother she would even be more ecstatic.I put in great care in everything, including placing his room close enough to ours because I have a feeling she might want to go and check on him more often.Right beside his room will be the nurse’s who will be constantly attending to him due to his condition.Everything is already ready for our new family, all that’s left is for my mate to return.Residual feelings of regret for letting her leave on her own still haunt me every second.There are moments when I feel a slight tingle of her emotions that make me concern but I know that she’s okay.I have to trust t
Lilith’s POVI wait by a corner until the group of chattering maids walking by pass a significant distance before I step out of my hiding spot.While I move further and further away from the planned escape route I find myself doubting the decision I have made; to stay back just to get a keep sake, while an injured Ivan and Jonah make their way to safety alone.I won’t lie to myself, I’m terrified with every step a voice nags at me to turns around and run away but what would be the point of this all, getting this close and not completely wining.Or maybe it’s just my anger and resentment talking, leading me forward.Whatever it is, the choice has already been made. I’m going to get that necklace before I leave.I can do it.The coast around Arden’s room is clear so I step closer, pulling out two hair clips from my hair to pick at the lock on the door.Spotting his room had never been hard for me. It was the only room with double doors and made of high quality mahogany with a large key
My consciousness seeps into my body for the third time, I think in one night.This time my eyes don’t open at will though.My body feels too heavy, like logs are resting over each limb, and if they aren’t neither of them respond to the signals I tell them but I’m awake just unable to control my body.From whatever paralysis I’m having I can hear mumbling in the background that lets me know that I’m not alone.A female giggling from something.Must be that bitch and then a new voice, deeper and bolder.Finally my eyes open but very slowly and takes way too much from me causing me to groan from exhaustion.I can make out two figures that remain blurred from in vision while I try so desperately to look at them.“Ah, she’s awake.” The male voice speaks.I recognize his voice s Arden’s immediately.Rage feels me in the next second followed by the desire to fight back but I’m still paralyzed.Footsteps drawn closer and I’m lifted up from lying on the cold floor and put in a seating position
For some reason his words make me feel dizzy.The room spins and swirls around me like a dull illusion manufactured to twist my mind and unravel it.I’m lost in a hazy dream that I might forget all about the second I open my eyes again, but the dream has morphs into a never ending nightmare that feels way too real and taunts me.Hot tears prickle my eyes painful while I stare back at the mad man in front of me in horrified shock that steals my ability to even speak, or utter a sound and yet he’s smiling.Somehow he’s smiling in the middle of all this, in the middle of confessing his part in my parent’s death.I shake my head slowly choosing to doubt this reality that plays tricks on me.“No…” I whisper under my breath, denying it.“Yes.” He responds nodding his head firmly with a wide grin.“No!” I scream out suddenly feeling my entire reality crumble. “You’re lying. You’re saying that just to mess with me. You know that if that’s true that I’ll… that I’ll—“”“That you’ll never forgiv
Kain’s POVEvery time I close my eyes it starts out with a nightmare where I lose my love, Lilith.This time she falls over a high tower and I’m running to catch her but the floors turn into quick sand that sinks beneath me and I can’t reach her before I’m thrown out of my own dream.I wake up jump right up drench in my own sweat and with my drawn out wolf claws ripping into both sides of the bed.It takes a second for the new reality to sink in and I can calm myself again.The two day mark has already been reached, she should be back soon but something feels deathly wrong.The bond feels already weak from the large distance between us and even then I can feel bits of her own despair seeping through my own end.I can’t help but be on edge and paranoid constantly.Was she not successful in saving her brother?Whatever the reason of her sadness maybe, I will fix it when she gets back, all that matters is that she returns to me safe and sound without a single scar on her bodyI will rage
Lilith’s POV“Get away from me, you pervert!” I kick and scream at him desperately trying to keep more distance between me and this psychopath that’s too sick to realize just how much he’s lost his mind.All those years he had called me ‘Lili’ so fondly I begin to wonder if it had been me his eyes stared at with so much care of someone else.If the nickname little rose had been because my mother’s favorite flower was a rose.All those times she had just a passing thought of how weirdly interested in her was just in fact her instincts screaming at her to keep distance away from him, warning her that he would ruin her completely.“Get away!”Kain! Kain please help.I cry continuously begging him not to come even closer while silently praying Kain can hear me where ever he is.Arden’s rage returns again and he smacks me the other way trying to shut me up and he doesn’t stop with his assault attacking over and over again trying to get me to shut up.“You should love me and not tell me to