Chapter 5
ZARA'S POV "Oh shit!!", Luna yelled in terror when she caught sight of me staring at them fucking. Confused by what was happening, Kyle pushed Luna to see what was happening, and his eyes widened in shock at the sight of his girlfriend staring at them from the darkness. “Za... Zara, I can explain...", Kyle began to stutter as he frantically put on his boxers and jumped away from her I opened my mouth to yell in horror, but it felt like my tongue had somehow been tied, and the only thing I could do was stare from my tear-blurry eyes at the image of my own sister, naked and bouncing back on my boyfriend's dick. They were so deep in pleasure that they didn't even realize that someone was staring at them in the darkness for minutes. “Kyle?Luna?”. I managed to say as I watched them struggle to put on their clothes. Luna had a smug look on face. No wonder, she was not dining with us when that horrible Alpha was here and Kyle didn't tell me he was coming around today. I… I couldn't believe this! How long has this been going on? Why will Luna do this to me?. I always knew she hated me and also said I killed mum, But why Kyle? He was the only thing that gave me joy. I wanted to ask them all these but my mouth somehow remained shut. “Zara…”. Kyle began but i couldn't stand and listen to him, Instead i turned, and ran, heading straight to my room. This has got to be the worst day of my life. What was happening all of a sudden? My life just went from bad to worse. I cried fervently as I ran back to the place I was just trying to escape from. I passed a couple of people on my way there, but I didn't care, I just wanted to get to my room. I finally got there after what seemed like eternity, Shut the door behind me and fell face down on my bed crying as my world collapsed over me. I felt dizzy and was a few seconds away from giving in to darkness, but my ears twitched in high alert. My wolf could sense a presence in my room. Emerging from a far corner of the room, a silhouette slowly transforms into Asher. “Why are you here?” I frowned. I was surprised by the work out look on his face, but I prepared myself not to be fazed. Asher never had control over keeping his hands to himself, so I was sure he had come over to steal some of my stuff as always. “So Father sold you,and to no one else but Alpha Damon?” he started off, walking towards me slowly, “I'm so sorry.” I raised a brow. “Did you get hit in the head? Since when did you become …?” “Concerned?” Asher finished my question for me, still approaching me. In the blink of an eye, Asher grabbed me with a strength I could have sworn I never knew he had and threw me on my bed, his weight immediately pinning me down. “Well, I tried to be. For a few seconds.” “What are you doing?!” I asked, anxiety flooding my senses. Asher’s eyes roamed my body for a second, “I want to have a little taste of you before Alpha Damon comes.” “Asher, have you gone mad”.I couldn't help but ask, “Let go of me now” “No, No, you little murderer, You are all mine tonight”. He said with a devilish smile on his face. “From tomorrow, you can go on and be Damon’s whore” “Please, Asher, Don't do this, I'm your sister”. I kicked and trashed with all the strength I could muster, but Asher had enough power to keep me pinned down, his eyes hungrily staring at the whole of me. He brought both my hands above my head and pinned them down with a hand, his hand immediately groping my breasts. “Hmmm. You’ve got beautiful breasts Zara” He closed his eyes, savoring pleasure from fondling with them. “Please don't, I'm still a virgin.” I sobbed quietly, and suddenly, my wolf mind links to the guard who was always stationed outside the door to my room. “Hmm, Perfect”. Asher said, lust filling his eyes all over again. “Help me. Please,” I wept helplessly as I continued to struggle against Asher who kept tearing away at my dress. His hands roamed all over me, tracing them down my belly and to my underpants. Just then, the door burst open and I saw the guard walk in, his expression fierce. He was bewildered for a moment when he saw Asher, but he hesitated no further to send Asher flying across the room. Other guards matched in and seized Asher just before he had any chance of recovering. Almost immediately, the guard I mind-linked with rushed over to me, tore the cape off his armor and wrapped it around me. “You are safe now,” he reassured me, but I couldn't respond. I just rocked back and forth uncontrollably, clutching the cape tight as I wept silently. The guard saw the other guards through the door after Asher was dragged away. Not once did my father show up, and I couldn't care less. He had always been this way, and now, I was fully convinced he would never see me as his daughter. Neither will I consider him my father. I rocked myself back and forth, shivering on my bed at the thought of what just happened. I don’t know how long i stayed in that position, i don't know if i was waiting for anyone but no one came and i gradually drifted to sleep. ******** I jerked up as soon as my mind registered it was Morning. I checked the time and it was 9;30am “Shit!”. I jumped down the bed and instantly headed straight to the door, in fear at what Miriam would do to me for not making breakfast. I got to the kitchen but it was empty, it was then it registered to me that the castle was awfully silent this morning. I got to the Grand Entrance, looking around for the sights of anyone, but I was met with the eerie silence of the castle. “Where is everyone?” I thought aloud. Just then, I saw a knight approaching the palace. I scurried towards him, but he beat me by saying, “Please return to the castle, My Lady.” The guard said “What's going on? Where's my father? Where's everyone?” Like the universe was granting me a response, I heard the sound of a cry, and I instantly recognized it. “Father?!.” I relied on my wolf's instincts to track down where my father was. I first saw the car that once stood by my window and a new wave of fear gripped me. I doubled my pace, heading down to the sparring grounds. I stopped in my tracks when I saw the horror unfolding before me. Asher was strung up to a pillar the knights used as a training drill to hone their climbing skills in combat. His limbs were at an odd angle, and I could tell they were broken. His face was an ugly mess of blue and purple, his cheeks and lips swollen. My father laid on the floor, unconscious, and Alpha Damon was holding on to his collar. I screamed into nothingness, caring less about the approaching figure of Alpha Damon.Chapter 6ZARA'S POV “A word to my dearest,” Alpha Damon said as soon as he crouched before me, raising my chin up with a finger. “No one touches my bride and goes scot-free.”I was crying uncontrollably, despite Alpha Damon yelling countless times for me to shut up. My father remained unmoving, Asher probably dead. I caught a glimpse of Miriam and Luna at the other end of the field, bawling their eyes out. I kept screaming out to my father, and this time when Alpha Damon approached, it wasn't to warn me again.He slapped me across the face. “I hate repeating myself, young girl.” He turned to his subordinates. “These people have proven to be incompetent. Right under my nose, another man dares to touch my bride.” My eyes widened in shock, wondering just how what had transpired a few days ago had gotten to the Blood Moon Pack that was four vast grasslands away. I then remembered there were spies and Rogues constantly patrolling and switching between clan territories. Knowledge was
CHAPTER 7ZARA’S POVIf I was told I was going to wake up to see another dawn, I would have argued otherwise. It's been four days since I arrived at the castle of Alpha Damon, and thankfully, he had not come around to pay a visit. Lady Rose, despite her weird demeanor, had been kind enough to help me out with some clothing and a bed to lay my now frail body on. My days were spent profusely cleaning the room the best way I knew how and ended with me watching Lady Rose and other servants around in the kitchen as they prepared dinner for the Alpha and other royal relatives. Sometimes, I tried to fight my body from making it to see the next day by skipping a meal, but the whining of my wolf became a disappointing reminder of the fate I had been subjected to.The darkness did no justice to the room I was placed in. It was much smaller when the sun rose. I try to dream of my bedroom sometimes, hoping that as I lay on the stone cold bed I retire to, I would feel the comfort I once used to
CHAPTER 8Alpha Damon’s POVI watched Zara’s eyes widen in horror as those words came out of my mouth, “Wh..What?”. She said, her voice and body visibly trembling.“Don't let me repeat myself again. I said "strip". My voice husky, as my wolf whined in me, hungrily. I didn't have time to waste, she was mine now and I couldn't wait to have her. Since I met Zara when she was just a little tenager, I have always imagined what her body would look like and how it would feel with me all over her. I couldn't do anything then because she was just a little girl, so I told her father to keep and preserve her for me until I'm back for her.So how dare he let his bastard of a son lay a finger on what is mine?. Although she was a little quiet and timid when I first saw her, I know there is a feisty naughty part of her which I am going to unleash, enjoy and explore all by myself“I…i dont…i don’t….” she stuttered, taking a few steps back, as if trying to bolt from the door. My wolf whined agai
CHAPTER 9Zara’s POV“Alpha Damon….”. My voice trailed becoming weaker and weaker as I cried to him to have mercy.He wasn't close any more, but I could still hear him roaring in the background as I was dragged almost naked to the dungeon. The dungeon, a place I dreaded and feared with everything in me.“Please…please…”. I pleaded with the Gruff, rugged men that pulled me to the dungeon. Although my body was being dragged along the ground, and I definitely got some injuries, that was the least of my problems. If only I could see reasons with them to just let me go, that would be perfect. But that, that was impossible.My heart beat increased the moment we reached the areas that were out of the residential areas. The air grew thick with the stench of mold and decay, making my stomach churn.As I stumbled along, the guard’s grip on my arms tightened. I struggled to break free, but their hold was unyielding."Where are you taking me?Let me go!!” I demanded, but my voice was met with
Chapter 10Zara's POVMy screaming seemed pointless and my tears stopped flowing after enough crying. I knew noone was coming but that was the only thing I could do so I remained on the icy floors of the disgusting dungeon screaming for help from anybody, anyone at all, with the littlest of emotions."Help, help me. Please, anybody. Please help me," I was on my last strength, I felt it as my voice was leaving me and my body felt weaker than ever. I was not going to last long in this cell. If anybody was coming, it had to be now, before I lose my mind or my breath ceases."I'm hungry," I finally said, thinking that it would at least shake the guards that were most likely standing watch outside the doors of the small dungeon.There was nothing. No sound, no footsteps, nobody was coming. Nobody made an attempt to help. I was losing faith that I was going to survive another day. Would that be such a bad thing? If I died right now? I definitely would not be missed. My father would be rel
Chapter 11Xavier’s POV.I never knew my mother. The maids say she was the most beautiful human they had ever seen.I would beg Lady Rose to tell me about her as a child and she would, with obvious grumbling. She was never to refuse my requests, I assumed that was father’s doing. She was kind to me, her role in my life was more than that of just a servant. I would come to see her as the mother I never had.Her warm hugs and that sweet, lavender scent that accompanied the embrace, when my father neglected or disregarded me as he usually did became my safe haven, my refuge.She would speak highly of him, praise my father, speaking about the days of their youth and how ambitious he was. She would recount stories centred around his breathtaking aura, his unmoved resolve, eyes that pierced through even the darkest of nights and more tales about his awesomeness. She made me love him, the beast that terrified packs and haunted children’s nightmares, my father, the heartless alpha of the b
Chapter 12Alpha Damon’s POV.Everybody was useless. They all acted out of place and stupidly.My mind was plagued with Zara and her beauty as I sat, lost in thought, on the mahogany, sculpted chair seated comfortably at one side of my chambers. That skin that shone so pure and almost unblemished, her hourglass body, the tenderness of her very being, everything about her aroused my deepest, nastiest desires.Her soft, pale lips made me want to kiss them and rejuvenate them, made me wonder how much more beautiful she would be when she was well fed and better taken care of.I disregarded her all these years. The first time I saw her was at her pack. She was standing aside, dazing into the distance with eyes that carried sadness beyond her years, it was like she bore the burdens of the world all on her own but she was the only beautiful thing about the Red moon pack. Her sister too was a beauty, but Zara stood out.Her wretched father had treated her terribly since she was born, I heard
Chapter 13Zara's POV."Hurry up, Acer," another guard said from outside the dungeon where I was stuck with a man I had never seen before.His smile was sinister. His eyes plotted as he moved. He wanted something but there was nothing in the dungeon, nothing but me. Could it be? Another attempt? Was this my curse? Fated to be abused by countless men who only saw me as a tool for their selfish satisfaction. Curse or not, there was only so much a girl could take.Acer, the haggard long man approached me, inching closer to where I sat on the dungeon floor.I had no strength left to talk, I only stared as he drew closer, watching keenly every step he took and every move he made, trying to predict the next one.Acer looked like a man with kids and a wife. He looked like the kind that cheated on his wife with every opportunity that he got and felt no remorse afterwards. He seemed like the kind to beat his wife and children whenever he had too much to drink. I could tell from the stench of
Chapter 102.Riana’s POV.Two days until the wedding. I have forced myself to remain quiet and imposed sanity on my raging mind.Two weeks feel like forever when you are stuck in your room with thoughts of a man you are to marry and the woman trying to take him from you.Silence, even though my body ached for adventure and my heart longed for the extermination of a certain person. I have never felt such hate, such anger and jealousy because of a person, not even to the man that raped me as a child.My emotions towards him were conflicting to say the least. I do not know how I feel about the man that harassed me, tore my clothes and opened me up to a world I have come to enjoy. Maybe enjoyment is an overstatement because the thrill that comes with not being tied down to a man was exciting but at the same time the pleasure was satiable unfulfilling.I want to be tied down. I want to be loved by someone, by Xavier. Only two days now.Today is like any other day for the last two weeks, ex
Chapter 101Zara's POVThe intruder pushed again and the door shook but it was hinged too tight to be moved too far from its fixed point. I was too afraid to ask who it was so instead I crouched down on the floor and waited for the intruder to tire himself out and leave. I hoped he would leave.The knocking continued and after a minute or two I knew that he would not go away. Could it be that Alpha Damon was back to inflict more pain or he was going to finish me off properly this time?Each time the handle of the door moved, I felt my heart almost leave my chest. Like I was naked, I felt exposed. The only thing that separated me from the intruder was a door, a relatively small, wooden bathroom door."Open up Zara. It's me," the voice behind the door announced. I know that soothing low pitched voice. I'd recognise it anywhere. Its lustre was distinguishable even in the midst of confusion. Xavier's voice was calming.I opened the door, relieved to see him standing before me because part
Chapter 100Zara's POV"Where is it?" Loud footsteps came before the thunderous voice announced itself in the room and the tall, dark man appeared before me. A sense of danger immediately engulfed me. His deep blue eyes were marked with a hint of boiling red rage."Where have you hidden it?" He repeated himself, a rarity for the alpha of the Bloodmoon pack. His rage was apparent but something lay beneath it, masked and well hidden by the anger but I spotted it. It was one thing I knew too well, fear.Underneath the guise of anger was an intensifying fear. Alpha Damon was afraid. I was afraid. This foreign feeling would no doubt bring with it unpredictable actions. I had never seen Alpha Damon like this, I did not know what to expect, not like I did all the other times he burst in with rage but something was different about him this time, more dangerous."You better tell me where you have kept it," he said and started walking closer towards me. My heartbeat immediately quickened as he
Chapter 99Xavier's POVI shed the false bravado as soon as she left. The truth is I was even more whimpering that she was. I hate to admit the truth, which is the fact that I cower before my father, the man who had been raised high and mighty by the exaggerated stories, endless tales that Lady Rose told of him, of their past together.She said, "our past," when she referred to her and my father's shared experiences, like there was something more to it.I felt pretentious. I asked Zara to put her faith in me. I asked for her trust when I was not even sure of my plan. How could I expect to help somebody else when I could not even help myself. All these years living under my father's wing, under his watchful eye, I had never defied him.I should blame aunt Rose for my compliant behaviour. I like to believe that she was the one that kept me in check."He has his reasons," she would say, making excuses for his unfatherly actions or, "give it time. He'll come around." Her words barricaded
Chapter 98Zara's POVA jab, loud shuffling through books, clothes, possessions, hasty movements. I immediately get disturbed by these. Unconsciously, my heartbeat quickens and my body is reminded of fear. My father is rushing towards me with his hands raised, it strikes me. I can never escape that fear.Alpha Damon is back in the room. He does not look happy. I did not expect him to be. I am just happy that I made it back to the room before he got back.More movement. He is searching for something, rummaging endlessly through his belongings. I dare not to ask, I dare not disturb his search so I sat quiet, frozen. My mind drifted to earlier in the day, with Xavier.He whispered his plan to me, as though we were not alone and someone could sneak up behind us as he spoke. I liked the feel of his breath against my ear."That's it?" I asked, unsatisfied by what he had told me. "What next? We can't possibly..."He raised his finger to my lips and stopped me from talking. "I'll tell you whe
Chapter 97Zara's POVTime existed no more. Seconds, maybe hours, had gone by since I came to Xavier's room. I did not care. Everything was perfect.Xavier lay next to me, quiet and motionless for a while. His fingers had been stroking the side of my cheek very softly and slowly."I love you," he whispered in my ear. Our bodies were mingled under his sheets, just like I had imagined him with Riana.His words sent shivers down my spine. I felt as every syllable travelled from my ear to the rest of my body. Love? Too soon? I barely knew Xavier Elord. There was an undeniable connection between us but that was it. It did not change the fact that I met him a few weeks ago. I did not say it back. Awkwardness and silence lingered in the air, until, like a rotten smell, it dissipated.I looked at him to notice that he was not waiting for a reply, he was not even looking at me. He appeared to be sleeping. His face is peaceful and begging to be left alone."I have a plan to get us out of all t
Chapter 96Zara's POVI don't know what I was thinking when I left Alpha Damon's chambers. Maybe I was not thinking at all. My feet moved on their own and like a girl possessed I walked past the guards at the door without a word.They did not say anything. They made no attempt to stop me. Alpha Damon had not instructed them to lock me up yet. He must have been too angry, too hurt to speak as he rushed out of the room. Screw him. After all he had done.I contemplated knocking as I stood in the empty passageway, right in front of Xavier's room. I wonder now if I should have taken a proper look around the mansion one last time.Alpha Damon's words made me wonder. "The next time you will get to stand under the sun will be the day that I marry you. You belong tome, only me!" I don't think I would be allowed out even after the wedding.A prisoner to Alpha Damon for life. Maybe I preferred the dungeons to this. Okay, I don't.I took in a deep breathe at the door. Nothing. There were two scen
Chapter 95Riana's POVI held them back as much as I could but the tears had broken past my barriers. Like water breaking past a dam, it all came at once. It hurt.My vision was blurred with all the salty liquid in it. The tears continually rolled down my cheeks but they did not stop forming in my eyes. How could they? I was betrayed by someone I loved.The feeling of emptiness is a painful one. It was not just emptiness I felt. Xavier promised me. We are supposed to be together. We are meant to be together.I found it hard to trace the path to my room while crying. I hate it here. I hate her. I hate Zara Smith.I flung the door open to find my father sitting on my bed. He immediately rose at the sight of my teary face. He was just the person that I needed to see."What's wrong dear?" He asked but I fell into his arms before I could answer. What was wrong? How do I start? As hard as it was to say, I did it eventually. I told him everything, starting with the first time I saw Zara Smit
Chapter 94Zara's POVA week has passed since Alpha Damon made love to me. That night with him was unlike any other experience. His gentleness incited a feeling within me. I liked it.The mansion has been calm since. I have not seen Xavier since nor have I seen Alpha Alken and his terrible daughter, Riana Park. There has been an unusual silence within the walls of the Blood Moon pack house.I like the silence but it also scares me. The moment before a storm is the quietest. Alpha Damon has been quiet. He is barely around but when he is, he seems different, kinder.The truth is, I have been happy. I almost like it here. In a very odd sense, I've felt, even if just a glimpse of it, what being loved could feel like. The oddity of everything is that the love I have received is from both father and son, mostly father in recent times.It was from the same man who locked me up in a dungeon and left me to die for two days, the one who hunted me down and dragged me back to my prison at a very