And here’s chapter 18!!!! — twists upon twists. Haha. Hope guy’s enjoyed ittttt. Things are about to become a lot more fun and dramatic!! lol… See yA!
{Ciril’s POV}The Prince’s plan was a wild and crazy one but then he meant it.He ended up not rejecting me but then as obligated of him and as necessary for our act, he still whipped me— which felt like the most awful thing ever as he was still my mate.— and him scourging me as my mate was bruising me on the inside more than it was doing on the outside.But then, he didn’t whip me with the metal strip whip that was required for the process as he ended up bringing out another whip he had secretly been carrying. It was still a whip but a much less torturing one as it had light leather strips and not serrated metal wires. The Prince was supposed to lash me all over my body but then he had only whipped my back and bailed out, saying he couldn’t go any further. Metal whip or no metal whip, full body beating or no full body beating, I had ended up shedding tears as the very idea of being whipped by your other half was not a nice thing in the slightest. In recompense, the Prince had hel
{Ciril’s POV}I started wailing loudly. The pain from the whip marks on my back was no longer hurting but I started weeping like I had just lost a limb.— and I didn’t lose a limb.My wailing was the Prince’s cue so he gripped my hair and started pulling me through the rest of the trail out to meet the Sentries.I groaned and gnashed my teeth as I cried loudly.We were doing such a good job. Soon, the path where the Sentries stood waiting for the Prince came into view and then almost immediately, I was thrown to the ground by the Prince. He bawled. “You filth!” He termed me. “I would have whipped you to your death if I wasn’t in such a weary mood.” He said and faced the Sentries. “Take her away to her chambers! She is to remain there for four days after which she would resume her usual Palace service.” He said and the Sentries promptly bowed in understanding and stumped towards me.“She can’t walk so you maybe have to carry her— or better still, drag her on the ground.” He added me
{Ciril’s POV}Sometimes I feel like if our heart had the option, they would just break out of our chest cavity and make a run for it. Some people’s hearts have been through so much tension and dread than they can handle— for example; my heart.My heart has been through so much tension and dread. Upon seeing Ivanka in the doorway, my heart ached and then it started thumping mightily against my chest. I didn’t like being scared of her but at the same time, I couldn’t control it.I immediately shot up to my feet, Vera with me, and I stared at Ivanka in tremble as she made her way in. “You are going to make what work?” Ivanka repeated herself and then motioned her hand at the Sentries in the doorway, signaling them to remain outside. I started to make slow paces back.I didn’t know what to tell her and at the same time, I couldn’t let her find out about the Prince and me. I dreaded that reality but at the same time, my brain wasn’t supplying me with any excuse.“I asked you a question
{Ciril’s POV}“Oh my goodness.” Vera started panicking. “It's real. It’s happening. There is truly a feral.”She was panicking audibly and she was doing it on both our behalf frankly. I couldn’t talk because I was too dazed to do so but then she was saying the exact words I was thinking.“We’re in deep mess, Ciril. Very deep mess!” She voiced. “What are we going to do?!” “Hey, lower your voice and calm down.” I told her, trying to be the emotionally stronger one among us. “How do you expect me to fucking calm down, Ciril?!” She retorted and I stared at her with a hint of surprise.“Since when do you cuss?” I asked her.“I cuss whenever my life is about to be over.”Good point. “Look.” I shifted closer and held her shoulders. “I know this is a terrible situation we’re in but yelling and complaining is not going to solve anything. It’s only going to call the guards' attention to us. They helped the wounded warriors into the Hencher and soon, they’ll be back out to guard the doors, by
{Ciril’s POV}I waited.I waited patiently until it was nighttime. I had been bored throughout the day so now that it was nighttime, my only impulse was to sneak out. And that’s what I did. Vera had subconsciously become my roommate so I snuck out before she could get back to the quarters, from her daily duty and try to stop me. I trailed through the gardened pathways now towards the Palace's main buildings as the Slave Quarters were separated from it. I was moving with stealth and a rapidly beating heart now but then my urge to know the truth kept pushing me. I just had to have my questions answered. I made it to the main Palace buildings and stood for a moment as I studied its architecture to know what axis the Prince’s room was. I was using the mate bond we shared to locate him and it was working just fine but then I realized that the Prince’s room was on the east side of where I was standing and it was in the upper story of the buildings. I needed to climb. I saw a group o
{Ciril’s POV}I crashed to the ground roughly and bruised my knees but that wasn’t the most disturbing thing.The most disturbing was the fact that I had just been dragged from the Quarters to the courtyard, embarrassed along the way and now I was knelt before the person I least wanted to be beside. — I didn’t know it would only get worse.“I am made to believe that the Prince didn’t reject the slave girl.” I heard the Abasha girl say behind me and then immediately, my heart started struggling to break out of my chest with harsh pounds. My breathing stiffened. I promptly swiveled around to look at Abasha now and I met a cunning smile on her lips. I tensed as waves of shock and dread poured through me. How did she find out?“Is that so?” The Alpha Queen said now, her voice calling my attention back to her. I promptly bowed down my head in mercy and to avoid making eye contact with her especially since my eyes were becoming teary. “Yes, my Queen.” Abasha responded.“And how do you k
{Ciril’s POV}“Oh, you thought I didn’t know?”Those words crashed into my consciousness like six daggers rather than six words. I trembled with more fear than I thought was possible now— on a hot day, I was shuddering. Abasha knew.She knew all along and she was casually here, trying to make me mess and lie… which I had just done. “Interesting.” The Alpha Queen muttered for the second time today. I turned to look at her but I didn’t know who to focus on anymore. The Queen was powerful and cruel and this scared me, but then, with the few things that had happened today, I was made to realize that Abasha was dangerous.Very dangerous.I swiveled back to rest my gaze on Abasha as she started to laugh and address me now. “Look at how edgy she looks.” She said while she chortled. “You’re literally convulsing. Your slave hands are shaking.” She added and laughed some more. Fresh tears streamed out of my eyes. “Guilt.” The Alpha Queen commented and then she faced Abasha. “Explain to me
{Ciril’s POV}Vera stunned all of us with her presence. — me especially.And she stunned me more with her words. “She wasn’t in the Prince’s room… because I was.” She said and I trembled as waves of dread and confusion poured on me.The Alpha Queen looked from me to Vera and then to Absha before she looked back at Vera.“What are you saying, girl?!” The Queen bawled at her and I flinched in reaction. I promptly looked back at Vera dreadfully wondering the same thing.What was she saying?What was she even doing here? I tried to call her gaze to myself for her to make eye contact with me but then she wasn’t giving in. She was consciously avoiding my gaze.“My Queen. I’m here to confess! I’m saying that I was the one in the Prince’s Chambers yesterday.” She said and I started shaking my head gently to signify a no. I was disapproving but she was intentionally not looking towards my axis.My heart started racing faster now as I stared between the Alpha Queen and Abasha. They were both
{Ciril’s POV} It started to rain… and it took me a moment before I could register this.I was panting. I was panting hard.And then I was raging. Nothing was happening anymore but I had a sea of anger bubbling within me. The water started to splatter on my skin now and I threw my gaze up to glare at the skies like I wanted to attack it… but then I realized that it was just rain so I calmed down, and then I sighed.I poured out a heavy breath and stared at my body as the rain started beating me more furiously, washing all the blood that bathed my skin and clothes. I was still heaving and my claws were still out, but soon, with the chill of the rain, I calmed down and my eyes went back to normal. I blinked. I looked away from my claws now as I retracted them and I looked up to see all the dead bodies of Ferals before me— presented as disintegrated rotten flesh, splattered at random points on the ground.I drove my eyes about the scene as I took the sight in and then I heard voices
{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t want to go… but I had to.People were in danger. And even if I wasn’t the Reignile Champion, going to help people in distress was the right thing to do, so this was the reason why I got up.Clord?Closed felt like he had no reason to go. He was strictly hesitant until Feryt poured on him one of her death glares and threatened to come to him. And so now, we were all darting through the woods, being led by Rowan towards the Pack in question. As we drew close, I started to hear screams that made my heart quicken its pace at once as I realized how serious the situation was.We took some turns and soon the Pack came into view. My heart…I saw people racing helter-skelter and then I saw some other people dead so that I tensed in fear. Clord, Rowan, and Feryt were several paces before me now as when I had caught sight of the scene, I had slowed down and started pacing slowly instead.I was overwhelmed with the sight.I knew I was to do something to help but at the
{Ciril’s POV} I saw Abasha and I instantly trembled. She was someone I would never expect to see out here, but there she was standing at a fair distance away from us, smiling. My heart started to race…… and all the traumatizing memories of my doleful past started to come back to me.Fear claimed me.— Its chilly claws seized my lungs as I stared at her instead of helping Feryt or checking how badly she was injured. She rose up to a sitting position some seconds later before I realized that I had totally forgotten about her. “Feryt. Are you okay?” I promptly asked her now, forcing my gaze away from Abasha but still conscious of her presence.“I’m not.” Feryt complained while I helped her up, my eyes now back to monitoring Abasha. I didn't pay attention to what Feryt had just said and I ended up letting her go untimely as my entire focus was on Abasha. I had a scowl on as I stared at her but then my heart was really racing fast. Abasha soon noticed this as she stood defensively b
{Ciril’s POV} ~ The Next Day ~ A little recap from yesterday’s emotions hunt around RawHowl…Once I got into the Alpha Mansion, I tore it down.-End Of Recap-Sigh…Yesterday's events had put me through a lot.The first day we had come here to RawHowl, I hadn’t experienced any emotion that disconcerted me but then yesterday, as we started to go deeper and towards the more sensitive parts of RawHowl, things started to get more twitchy… and when we had gone to the Alpha Mansion, I had exploded.Literally. I had told Rowan that the Alpha Mansion was the most sensitive place to me and I had been right. I had been breathing crazily fast and waves of anger had stormed me once I stepped foot into the wretched place.And now, it was crumbled to the ground— All 10,000 square feet of it battered to dust. In addition, I had almost killed Rowan, Feryt, and Clord in my raging. I had almost buried them along with everything else in the Mansion but fortunately, the three of them had managed to es
{Ciril’s POV} Tears bathed my eyeballs as we went around RawHowl to see how broken and destroyed it was.This was the second day of doing this. We had gone around yesterday, and nothing in me was triggered so Feryt decided that we went around today also. And now we were doing just that. We were going deeper into the heart of RawHowl, towards the area where the Aloha Mansion was situated. And as we went now, something was beginning to happen. — while the others saw how broken down RawHowl was… I only saw how much it broke me.I was getting flashes from every angle and they scourging my being. If I didn’t know Feryt as a good friend from my childhood days, I would have definitely misinterpreted things and thought that she purposely brought me here to scourge and punish me.I was pushed to the back of the line now as I was walking slower than the rest of them. I didn’t want to do this.RawHowl was torn down by the Ferals— it was turned into a ruin due to the Feral’s rough and Britis
{Ciril’s POV} ~ Two Days Later ~ “What are you guys doing?” I asked as I came out of the cave to see Clord, Rowan, and Feryt chattering around the sitting wood blocks. It was morning time and I was apparently the last one to wake up from sleep. Even the Bears were up before me. Did I mention that those two Bears were now staying with us?Yeah. For some strange reason, they hadn’t left us since they followed us back to the Cave two days and for some stranger reason, they were now acting like pets rather than the Ferocious beastly creatures they were— especially to me. They were very drawn to me.“Nothing serious.” Feryt responded now as she got up to her feet to face me. “Clord was just explaining the details of how he thinks we could get you to enter your Glowing State.” She explained while I brushed my fingers through the dense but smooth furs of the Bears as they both strolled before me in a form of greeting. They rubbed their bodies on me as they went by before going to lie arou
{Ciril’s POV} “Feryt?” I muttered, not believing my eyes.And then my eyes told my brain that I was in a new environment so I proceeded to not believing my brain also.I grew very confused.I impulsively looked to my left now and saw Clord and Rowan standing there and looking at me in a weird way. That was strange and disturbing but then I looked to my left to meet an even more disturbing sight. Bears…Two Bears were positioned there.Two mighty black Bears— not attacking but just snarling and staring at me. It was all they did but it was all I needed to be more jumbled up.I didn’t understand this scene in the slightest and to make it even more confusing, standing before me was the person of someone I doubted I would ever get to see ever again.“Feryt?” I said her name again, contemplating if she was real, and with that, she started to pace closer to me with tears in her eyes and a matching expression of doubt and confusion. Instantaneously, she looked fearfully to the side where the
{Feryt's POV} Two fortnights (four weeks) ago, I didn’t ever think I didn’t ever think RawHowl could get worse than it already was.I grew up in RawHowl and grew up under the cruel rule of Dolores and her hateful husband as the Alpha and Luna of our Pack. To make things worse, I had a best friend who I watched get tortured every day of her life until she was eventually sold off to slavery at the Palace.It was slavery but I knew it was a better fate than RawHowl. Hence, I was separated from my best friend in that manner and was left with the oppression of Dolores and her husband to deal with. I thought both of them were demons until the Ferals attacked RawHowl and took over RawHowl.It was then that I experienced real misery as everything went into disarray at RawHowl. Fortunately, our cruel Alpha had been killed by those monsters and although this was good news, I also lost people of my own…I lost my entire family to the Ferals.My father, my mother, and my two kid brothers— they h
{Ciril’s POV} Mother of God!My heart was beginning to race and I immediately rushed to wake Rowan up as that was the only thing I could think to do.He might be just a kid at the end of the day, but then he had more knowledge than me when it came to this aspect of things.I don’t know anything about glowing-eye figures, or Champions, or Chosen Ones. Meanwhile, Rowan does. He said it himself— he was Ciril’s guardian until the day he died and so I was going to wake him up to be that Guardian.I pulled him off the ground and carried him in my arms.I was that uneasy.Ciril was already marching out towards the exit and I needed to wake Rowan up immediately so that he would do something about it. Hence, why I raised him up carefully and took him high up in my arms in bridal style… and then I dropped him.Yep. I let go of him and let him crash to the ground. It might seem wicked of me but then it did the trick as Rowan immediately rose to his feet and roamed his gaze around with a pain-