Once Kruz had left me on Conrad's door, I heard his loud grunt to let me know that I was invited in. I entered the room and was quickly mortified to see him in his boxers only. He didn't flinch but I was scared for my life. I had already seen his abs even when I had shut my eyes down the instant I realized he was shirtless.
I hurriedly turned my face down and gulped. What were his intentions?"Lock the door." He ordered very calmly. My body had begun to feel numb in terror. I had been sheltered from the outside world since I was a child, they always told me that I was supposed to be protected because I was their last hope. Now that I was in a room with an Alpha, whose mood swings had no limits, I felt like being betrayed by the entire world.I did what he said and soon we were alone in a locked room. The only lights were the white led's around the roof."You blew up such a big chance." He stated, it didn't seem like he aimed to wear a shirt anytime soon. He was standing in front of the mirror to comb his wet hair. I could see the muscles in his back and the abs in the mirror.People had said a lot of things about how handsome he was, and even though I was in a very bad situation, I could still agree with them."You either put others before you or you are just naive." him dropping the brush on the dressing table startled me and I bet he noticed it too, "And very scared." He declared, taking steps closer to me."You have really not learned from your previous experience with your coven when they ditched you?" he tilted his face and once noticed that I had drowned my face down, he hunched down with his hands on his knees to look me directly in the eye. As he raised his beautiful eyes up to look through his arch eyebrows, I felt my heart sinking in my chest.I remained intact with my hands tied in front of my body. As he kept staring at my face for the next few minutes in silence, I gulped right in front of his eyes."Tell me, how many spells do you know?" Conrad straightened his back and stood right in front of my face while he waited for my response.I had no idea what to say to him but in response to his question, I lifted my eyes and lowered them again."I'm waiting!" a sigh left his lips with the words and I knew he was getting impatient."I have been taught to learn many by heart but it doesn't matter since I don't have any magic in me." I humbly replied with my eyes still lurking on the floor. I couldn't raise my face and meet eyes with his, giving him another chance to get mad at me."Hmm, since you have been prepared by your coven for your initiation ceremony, you must have come to known many witches and warlocks." His questions were different. Unlike Kruz, Conrad didn't focus on his se*ual desires, at least not for now.But what did confuse me was his interest in magic.I lowered my face and sighed, "I have heard about some of them but I never got to meet them, since Alpha King had banished the ones that were actively practicing magic, we never got to meet each other ." I wasn't lying to him. If he wanted to know the truth about the witches, he should ask his father since he had kicked us out and the rest unlike us had been forced to live a life without their magic."Hm!" he was looking around, thinking about something when I raised my eyes and noticed him so confused and lost."Have you ever heard of a seer?" He stepped back and walked near his nightstand, picking up a bottle of wine he had left there.Not something I wanted this beast to drink from. He was already confusing in his sober form, I wondered what kind od twisted games he would play once he is drunk."Yes! I have heard about them." I was only answering what he was asking, not giving out unnecessary details."Heard about them only," he repeated after me and then let out a breath."You must know a spell to summon a seer then." He chugged through the bottle, facing away from me.I was trying to pick up his intentions behind these questions but I couldn't reach a conclusion."I know the spell but I don't think it will work even if I do it." now that he had his back facing me, I could clearly observe him."Hmm!" he left the wine from where he had picked it up and walked towards his study table, taking out a notepad and a pen. I watched him heading towards his closet from where he took out his ties and that was when my brain started to alert me.Once he reached me again, he left the ties and the book on the floor and slid a chair behind me."Sit down," he ordered, picking up the ties. As I did what he said, he began to tie my one hand behind my back with the chair. I've started to panic a little at this point, whatever he was doing wasn't something to end peacefully.He then proceeded to tie my right elbow with the chair behind but left my hand open. He then sat down to tie my feet and that made him kneel down to my lap.He had tied my each foot to the chair's foot, ceasing my body from getting up from that chair.The right hand he had only tied from the arm could hardly reach forward. He then went back to his study table and dragged the desk in front of me, placing the notepad in the range where I could reach it with my right hand only."Now, you will write down all the versions of the spells to summon a seer." He bent down on the table from the other side and waved the pen in my face, "By the morning, I want them all here in this notepad and if you failed to do so, your punishment will be even worse." He glared at me right through my eyes and then adjusted the pen between my fingers."Do as I say and I might delay the day to your punishment." He gently slammed his palms against the table but kept his eyes at mine.I was baffled at his demand. The Alpha King Uziel of the Dark Shine Pack had made it crystal clear that there was no place for a witch or any warlock in their country. The city I was residing in was even strict in these matters since the alpha king himself lived here."I'll keep my eye on you, so make sure your fingers don't stop." He straightened his back and waited until I nodded and began to write down the first-ever spell I've been taught by my coven. After my dedication to the work, he had given me, caught his interest, he went back to his bed and laid down there with his eyes on me. I was tied right in front of his bed, facing him.I did begin writing but soon a weird feeling of uneasiness began to engulf me.What am I doing?How can I betray my coven my handling over these soon-to-be alpha magic spells? They banished us and now they wanted our spells? Was he going to summon the seers through me to hurt them?I know that there were versions of books of magic that were missing but the ones that we had were the only ones that contained spells to summon a seer.There were countless queries and the person who had the answers had begun to fall asleep. I ceased writing and lifted my face to see him fully falling into a slumber.Is keeping the spells safe worth my life?I did try to do everything for them but my own coven left me tied up to that tree for the wolves.I had only been here for a day and the sleep deprivation, the injuries, and the starvation had started to take a toll on me.My eyes felt even heavy whenever I made an attempt to stay awake. And just like that, I had soon fallen into a deep slumber."No!!!"My body jolted awake at the loudest grunt ever. I looked around in panic and fright to see what was going on, my eyes landed on The Future Alpha, he was growling and grunting in his sleep.After blinking the sleep away, I was able to see clearly, I was able to perceive that he was having a nightmare.I watched him being restless in the bed, he would constantly begin to shift and then go back to his human form while not being able to get out of the nightmare. It seemed painful, only by the looks of his bones twisting and going back to place was enough to cause me fatigue, I could only imagine the tiredness he must be feeling. My sleep had been long gone, he was in so much pain that I could hear his heavy breathing from that far. It took me some time to register but I did start to analyze his condition.And then it began to make sense. He was cursed!He didn't want a seer to hurt them, he wanted to know the prophecy. I then knew why he was so strong yet so miserable, why I could feel a mist around him.It wasn’t a mist; it was a curse that was always with him."Argh!" he broke free from the nightmare and sat up with an accelerated breaths and his eyes changing colors, keeping showing signs of transition to his wolf form.Once he was able to dra
"Get up! Your time has come." Brenda woke me up with a slam to the bars. I have fallen asleep after I felt like dying from the lack of food. At this point, I was feeling so miserable that if anybody asks me for my last wish, I would say a drop of water.As I rubbed my eyes to clear my sight, Brenda dropped a white dress in my feet to get ready. Sadly, every time I was asked to wear a new dress, it was because I was being prepared to take one step closer to my ending,"Hurry up! The coronation ceremony is about to start and I don't want to miss out on anything," this woman sounded ignorant to my situation, she didn't want to miss a ceremony while I had to get ready for my execution. I ended up silently changing into that dress, there was anyways no point in having an argument with her.I couldn’t even fight back because I knew they would drag me to the punishment ground by any means possible.Once I was ready, she spun around to stare at me and then a chuckl
"What is her birth certificate going to do? What use is it for us?" As expected, Uziel didn't know the importance of a witch's birth certificate that was made with magic when they are born. I was even surprised that Conrad had found out about the importance of the birth certificate somehow. Since he was desperate to uncover all important secrets behind the curse he was put under, he was going at limits to find more about it.My body was trembling beyond my control because I denied to ever be enslaved to these werewolves. The sad part was that I didn’t know much about the link thing. It was something I wasn’t taught as most of the magic spells were in the books that had been stolen from us."When a witch's birth certificate is signed by a blood of a person and burned in their presence, the witch is forever linked to the person and she can never leave him or even stay away from him for too long. Betraying him will only cause her pain, and this type of relationship is only painfu
I was dreading for not only my life but my piece of mind as well. How long can I fight this man off? There will come a day when he will finally be able to get what he wants either by force or not. I had yet not eaten anything and my body had grown weak now. I could not even lift my face up without feeling pain.As Kruz was busy making threats and wandering around like it was his frea*ing bedroom, the door opened and the real owner of the room walked inside."Your highness!" Kruz instantly placed the glass down and bowed a little with his hand on his heart in respect. When was this torture going to end? "The day went well," Conrad mumbled while Kruz helped taking off his long coat. Conrad seemed tired and even exhausted, he must have started to feel the intensity of the curse now. The blue in his eyes looked darker as he lifted his face up to the ceiling and exhaled desultorily. "It indeed was a special day," Kruz repeated after Conrad with a smile formed across
"Good morning!" The maids said in unison when Conrad passed them to be with his father for the breakfast. He had woken me up when he woke up himself but didn’t say much. The entire time he got ready in silence, no useless arguments or jabs were thrown at me by him. I was allowed to walk behind him alongside Kruz, where he was his right hand and I was merely a personal maid, who was supposed to keep him safe with no weapons or spells, stupid right? When have the Alpha king's ever made a right decision anyways?I was wearing a black tight Jeans and a white dress shirt over a black top. The white shirt was hardly buttoned up from only my waist, making my tiny waist look even prominent.My black hair was left as that all over my back with no makeup applied on my face.I felt like a guard more than his personal maid, or should I say, I was his personal witch."Good morning son!" Uziel greeted his son and offered him a seat. He roughly passed me a glance and then attended
"Use your teeth!" he repeated under his breath, very casually staring at me like it was no big deal. My body shivered visibly but I was quick to get a hold of myself. I watched him for a moment to make sure he wasn't joking and well, he wasn't. He damn wanted me to break the tag with my teeth.After deciding to not turns things bitter between us, I gently grabbed his shirt with one hand and the tag with the other to my lips on the string. As I lowered my face on his chest, my nostrils were hit by his natural scent, that could be hardly spelt because of the perfume he was wearing.I brought my face extremely closer to his chest and cut the string, a smile of pride and smirk covered my lips as I raised my face. The moment my breath fanned against his naked skin, I noticed something and it made me scoff a little."What? What are you smiling about?" He seemed annoyed, he knew what have happened and he was irritated that he got caught."Why is your heart beating like a dr
We watched a girl in a bed, completely naked with a man thrusting inside her. The sudden opening of the door made the guy to jump off her and cover his body whilst he stared at Conrad with fear in his eyes.The girl didn't react much, she rested her head back and moaned until she realized what had happened"How dare you slept with an Alpha's mate?" Conrad's voice trembled us in our skins as he tightened his fist and stepped inside the room.To our surprise, it was supposed to be romantic date the two have planned. The entire room was decorated with red roses and the red wine beside the table was an evidence that they both drank a lot before getting in bed.Katie was still drunk while the guy was a little aware of the surroundings. It wasn't long that Katie lifted her face and her eyes met up with Conrad's eyes. The fear of losing someone you love, someone who had loved you was all I could see in her eyes."H--," Conrad was ready to pounce onto the guy with an appearan
I zipped past them after they have showed me how dense they could be and was welcomed by the grumpy king himself. There was no rest for me, I seemed to be babysitting this giant wolf. "Why did you stop me there, little witch!" He growled, punching stuff around onto the floor and creating a mess. Ah! Of course he was alpha, he had to be extra. "Are you going to clean after your mess?" I asked with my arms crossed, I might have looked like a weak and a scared person to them when I was first caught by their guards but I wasn't that feeble at all.Once I knew my environment and the people around me, I got more comfortable even in a place where I knew nobody liked me."Why would I? I'm the Alpha King, I don't need to do all these things." Conrad was breathing profusely as he glared at me through the mirror. He was bending over the dressing table, his palms resting on the expensive wood."Exactly! Why would an Alpha King show his desperation for someone who betrayed him?
It has been a few days since everything. Conrad has been all over me as I overexerted myself during the ritual. I have barely left the room. He gets me everything I would need. As sweet as it was, it was also a little annoying not being able to move or roam around. I am thankful to Uziel for getting Conrad off my back. He has called for a pack meeting and requested my presence. I hope everything is alright. He never really calls for meeting so suddenly. I sighed as I made my way to the meeting hall. I could see the room filled with pack members. Conrad and Uziel were standing on the makeshift stage at the end of the room. Conrad extended his hand, and I gratefully accepted it as he helped me on the stage. Uziel stood at the center with Conard next to him while I stood comfortably next to Conrad. His hand wrapped around my waist and it made me a little shy with the fact that we had the pack members watching our every move. Uziel cleared h
Everything happened in a blur; Conrad had made sure to get Kruz’s body away before I even opened my eyes. Clara, on the other hand, tried her best to free herself. I could see her struggle, her agony on not being able to perform magic. I wanted her to feel every bit of the pain she has inflicted on me. I wanted her to know how to it feels to be helpless. Tears continued to stream down her face, and surprisingly enough, I did not feel upset seeing her that way. “Please, let me go. I promise, I would never bother you again.” She pleaded “You still have audacity to think you could be forgiven?” Uziel asked, his anger and hatred clear in his voice, and the way she flinched, she knew it was for her. “Please, I am sorry. Let me go. I promise to never come back.” She pleaded pathetically making me scoff. “Cordelia, please, help me.” She pleaded with me; it didn’t affect like it normally would. “After everything you did, you still expect me to
After we have shared the vows, both of us stared at each other to signal that we were ready. “You may now mark the bride,” Uziel smiled at Conrad, who tossed his face to me and then looked around. Clara and Kruz were standing very close to us, as I said, there were not many people attending the wedding. “I have a concern,” I suddenly objected and that led both Clara and Kruz to share a glance and then watch me. “We don’t have time, Cordelia.” Clara spoke very anxiously; her eyes weren’t able to focus on one spot. She was quickly looking around to avoid eye contact at any cost. “Maybe she is not ready to help her husband out yet,” Kruz tried to play mind games, pressuring me into showing my sincerity for Conrad.“You are just a Beta, don’t speak on the behalf of your Queen,” Conrad, who had been desperately waiting to punish Kruz, muttered and it shocked him. Kruz had been with him since they were kids, that’s when he thought he deserved more power than him. "I
We couldn’t sleep the whole night. I told him everything in the next few hours."I can't believe Kruz wants me gone." Conrad and I had been lying naked under a blanket and cuddled up. Now that he knew everything, we didn't really need those."When I was first brought here, he as*aulted me in the dungeon," I still recalled everything he had done to me. I noticed Conrad pulling away from me and sitting in the bed, he was staring at me with a frown on his forehead, "the day your father found me using magic, I was actually saving myself from him because he was - - - he was going to r*** me." once I finished, he made tight fists of his hands and tried to get out of the bed but I grasped his arm and pulled him back."We have to be very careful about what we do, we have no idea who else they have under them. They might have casted a spell on most of the mansion, let's not do anything in haste." I rubbed his hand between my hands to calm him down as he breathed heavily like a bull.
"What? I don't know what you are saying. Why would I want your virginity?" He shook his head and started dialing her number again.I knew what was happening and how he can break this spell, well, the answer was right there.Only he can break this spell and set himself free."Because you won't be able to feel my touch after tomorrow." now that I knew Selene won't be able to read his mind or hear what I was saying since she was long asleep, I started opening up to him.There was a mist forming in his eyes, I knew he was feeling helpless and bad for not being able to hold me tight and tell me it will be fine, like he would always do. I remember I used to push him away because of the people around us, because of that link, but I was now realising how much his hug, his arms had boosted my confidence in the past. Yes! we humans do take smallest things for granted but when we lose them only then we realise how important and how special they were to us."What do you me---an,"
I stole my eyes from Clara and began to brainstorm an excuse. The instant Uziel got upo from his seat and left for his room, I cleared mu throat to explain my motives. “I wanted to know why my mother tried to kill me. I just cannot understand that she did it only for power, she loved me.” I was lying out of my mind, fearing if she would even believe me at this point but then she passed me a sad smile and it gave me enough confident to keep moving on.“Cordelia! Evil people dpnt need reasons to hurt ypu, they just find a way to do it and they do it,” now that I was aware of her true intentions, her fake smile and comforting tone was not enough to console me. “You are right!” I whispered under my breath and noticed Kruz and Conrad leaving the table. I knew Kruz only stayed behind to make sure I wasn’t doing anything behind their backs or I have not got up on them. “What is happening between you and Conrad? I noticed the change in his attitude towards you, I thought you
I was sprinting to Uziel’s room, my heart was beating like a drum and my skin covered in goosebumps. Somebody has to listen to me or they will succeed in their evil plans. Before knocking on his door, I gathered myself together and plastered a fake smile across my lips. He opened the door and stared at me in confusion, I don’t think he was expecting me to pay him a visit and disturb his peace. “I am so sorry your highness, but the matter in hand was important. Clara and I want to get the access to the books of magic, we are preparing for the ritual and i---,” I don’t think he wanted me to explain, he was ready to do anything for his son. “Here, please make sure everything goes perfectly.” He had the same misery in his eyes that he had when he asked me last time to help his son. I took the keys from his hand and gave him a satisfactory smile, despite being heavily scared and confused myself. He didn’t even know that his son was now even under some kind of spell. I mar
I kept listening to her and the more I heard, the more I shivered in my skin. But she wasn’t alone neither was she on the call. It seemed as there was somebody inside with her. “The plan is simple; Conrad is not getting free from this curse.” There was content in her tone as if she had no worries that it was living person she was talking about. “But why did the crystal show Cordelia as his mate?” My stomach formed a knot when I recognized the voice. I had to cover my mouth to prevent the gasp of horror heaving my lips. Kruz!It was Kruz with Clara.“Imogen had decided to kill two birds with one stone.” Listening my mother’s name from her lips hit me like a bullet, “She wants Cordelia dead so that she can get the powers for herself because as long Cordelia lives, there will be a fear among us, she will never let us hurt Conrad or the pack. Tomorrow when Conrad marks her, the ritual we will perform will not lift up the curse but kill his mate. After she is dead,
We have all been gathered by Clara in the living room at night time where she wanted to discuss the ritual in detail. Now I understood that even if I was not related to the witch who had cursed Conrad, I would have still not been able to lift the curse because of how unprepared I was. She had put out different things this time, there was a crystal ball on the desk that I don’t remember being used in this ritual. “This is a new thing for you, I bought it for a purpose.” Clara watched me eyeing the crystal and it made her mention me, “There are a few steps that we need to take in order to completely free him from this ritual.” She stated and then started explaining it in detail, “In these three days, we will need to do it on the day of his wedding, right after he marks his mate.” As she announced, my heart flipped inside my chest and I tossed my face to Conrad, who looked very shocked as well. “Mate?” Conrad repeated and then shook his head, “I already have one.” He didn’t