CHAPTER FOUR: IT ALL FALLS DOWN

BEATRICE’S POV

The morning light hit my face, and the scent of freshness dampened with sex lingered in the air. My head banged hard as I managed to drag myself out of bed. Bed? Silk white bedsheet and the hot naked blonde lying right next to me. I gasped the second it sank in. I had slept with a stranger. Kia was going to kill me. Picking my scattered clothes, I darted out of the room with my heart pounding fast. I knew I was so dead because, by now, Kia would be foaming. 

My adrenaline increased the second the house came into view. I caught the glances of the other enslaved people and their hushed whispers. I could tell I looked like a mess and probably still smelt like him. 

Sarah sent me a concerned look the second I stepped in. “He has been calling your names for hours. He is foaming. You need to go see him.”

I sighed heavily and sent a nod before proceeding to his room. I cupped my palm and blew into it, and trust me, I stink. He was pacing up and down by the time I stepped in. On seeing me, he stormed forward, his face formed in a frown.

“Where the hell have you been?” He questioned, then leaned in, his eyebrows furrowing, and slowly he grunted. “You….whore! How dare you let another man touch you!” 

My heart raced as fast as a sports car would. He knew…How?

He grabbed a handful of my hair, pulling it as hard as he could, causing me to yelp.

“It seems you have forgotten your place.” He groaned, and I let the tears fall from the sting, the burning scalp. “On your knees! NOW!” He roared, kicking me in the knees before I could process his words.

“Please…please just let me go.” I sobbed.

“You think you get to go out there parading your beauty and swaying your hips in the face of whoever you deem fit.” His voice was laced with anger. “I own you, Bet, forever. Don’t forget that.” His right hand moved over his zip, and his trouser fell off to reveal his hard cock laced with a whitish substance that I knew was from Anna’s pussy. “Suck on it.” 

I shook my head amiss the sobs, but his grip was too tight as he shoved my face on it. I clenched my jaw, holding my mouth shut. The pain was spreading through me. He grabbed my jaw and forced it open, then thrust in. The taste of her left a salty, bitter flavor on my tongue. I could feel the vomit threatening to jump out, and I bit his cap in a bid to survive and heard him yell as he staggered backward.

“You wench!” He sounded breathless while holding onto his cock. “Guards!” 

The door burst open, and the hefty men trooped in while my heart pounded fast.

“Seize her and throw her in the dungeon. No food or water is to be allocated to her.” He ordered. Their arms grabbed mine, making pain shoot through me while I pleaded. A sob choked my throat.

“Please…” I pleaded as they threw my hands in chains as well as my legs. “Don’t leave me in the dark,” I whispered, my breathing haggard as I watched them exit the dark, creepy space. Fear crawled through me as the space closed in on me—the darkness. I hated the darkness. I was afraid of it. It reminded me of way too much. 

Suddenly, the stench filled the air—the smell of burning skin. My parent’s screams echoed in my head as the images flashed through my mind. My heart was beating twice as fast as the usual rate, making breathing hard, and suddenly, darkness consumed me entirely.

By the time I drifted my eyes apart, I had lost track of time. Every part of me felt it was broken from the burden I have had to carry for years. No one came or left, and I sat there releasing my tears and waste. My nose was filled with the pungent smell of my defecation and urine, yet I held onto the hope that someone would save me. Maybe Kai would change his mind and realize that he loved me. Maybe….

My stomach rumbled loudly.

“Mummy…Daddy…” I called out weakly. My eyes were getting dizzy, and I felt every bit of my strength and will to live fading. Suddenly, the gate flung open, and a figure strolled in—a male figure. 

“Kai….” I muttered, my head lightweight.

***

I opened my eyes to see Kai’s angry face staring back at me. Did he miss me? Was he going to accept me now? Was that why he came back for me?

“Kai…” I reached out to him and watched him back off.

“I thought two weeks in the dungeon would teach you something, but I guess I thought wrong.” He paused, gritting his teeth. “Who is responsible for your pregnancy?”

My heart skipped a beat. Pregnancy? How? The stranger?

“I…I….”

“Talk now!” He roared, grabbing me by my neck. His rough breathing landed on my face as tears welled up my eyes. 

“I don’t….”

“You will get rid of the bastard in your stomach, and I will fuck you like the whore you are. I will fuck you so hard that you would wish you died today, Bet. Remember, Bet, you will always be nothing but my sex slave. My whore.”

I coughed hard the second he let me go. My throat was hurting, and my tears streamed down.

“Kai…” I called out weakly as he paced up and down the room. I had hoped that he would learn to love me, and now my silly act had drifted us apart the more. 

“Maybe we are unworthy to be loved.” My wolf wailed weakly. This was the third time she had spoken to me. 

“You will get rid of it, which is the final!” He roared.

Suddenly, the door burst open, and his Beta ran in.

“Alpha, we have a problem.” He announced, causing Kai to stop in his tracks, but before he could speak, a tall male figure walked in—the same Orange eyes from that night.

“Hi, mate. You didn't think you could run off on me, right?” 

My heart stopped for a second. Mate?

“What brings you here, Xander?” Kai questioned, his voice laced with distaste.

I watched as he walked towards me gracefully with a charming smile glued to his lips. “I am here for my mate. I believe we have met.” I swallowed a lump of saliva. Embarrassment filled every part of me. He looked so breathtaking while I looked like a mess, still dressed in the same dress as the day we met.

“That’s impossible. It has to be a mix-up. Bet here is mine. Bought her with my…”

“Name your price. Ten. Twenty. Name it. I will buy her freedom.” His hands were in his pocket while Kai stared in disbelief. His expression changed into that of anger. 

“I can’t. I….” His words trailed off the second Xander closed the distance between them. A dangerous aura oozed from him. One that showed that he wasn’t the type to take no for an answer. I caught Kai trembling. The first male Kai feared was my mate. “She will be ready in a few hours.”

Xander nodded, then stole a glance at me. “I will give her twenty-four hours. I will be around. Don’t think of doing anything stupid to her. I won’t spare you.” With this, he walked out of the room. My heart fluttered at the thought that he came for me—finally, a savior.

Kai pulled me by my hair. His face up in mine. “What did you do? Xander isn’t a man to toy with. He kills whoever he deems fit. You will be dead in his hands in seconds. No one ever survives the Lycan King. Leave with your ill fate, and don’t say I didn’t warn you.” 

His words echoed repeatedly as I ran as fast as possible. Away from the pack, far away from them. The Lycan King. He killed my parents. It had to be. Their words that day, they had said something about him. I couldn’t let him kill my child. I squeezed tight the number Sarah had written out for me of her aunt in Russia.