Louisa's POV
"Why are you smirking like that, little nymph?" Lucas looked at me and asked while walking me into the bath. It was an open-air hot spring spot located in a secluded spot in the forest. "I like you better when you're around Lucian. You look very delightful and relaxed." I said. "Really? You should see him when he gets fucking mad." Lucas said while removing my clothes. As soon as he peeled off the jacket from me, he gasped in pain and waved his hand. "Ouch! It hurts!" He said. I immediately realized what happened. Alpha Zackery's ring was in the jacket. When it came off me, Lucas could feel the pain I was going through. I jumped off him quickly and searched for the ring in the jacket's pocket. As soon as I picked it up in my hands, Lucas calmed down. "Sorry." I apologized to him, holding the ring in my hand. Lucas looked at me and asked curiously, "Is that the ring? I thought you had swalloweLouisa's POV After getting dressed with the help of maids in the temporary tent set next to the lake, I looked at myself in the mirror. I was wearing a turquoise-green silk wrap maxi dress with a deep V-neck. After the transformation, I became a bit plumper than I used to be, and this dress certainly enhanced the shape of my bosom, which made me feel a bit uncomfortable. Who on earth came up with the idea of making a dress like this? I wondered. Whenever I tried to lift my arms, I felt my boobs would bounce out of the wraps. And why were there two long slits on the side of my legs? This design was definitely made to restrain women because if they dared to walk fast in this dress, the slits would open wide up and everyone would see their groins. Why doesn't Lucas just find a rope or something and tie me up like a dumpling? I thought to myself. It would be way more comfortable than this. Just when I was pushing the cups up underneath
Louisa's POV That was the first auction I had ever attended in my life. I felt extremely nervous when I walked into Ragnar's Hall. It was the most famous place for royalties from the North to go on a spending spree. Every auction held in this place is strict by invitation only. That's why only the richest of the rich were allowed to step into the famous gold Falcon's Gate of Ragnar's Hall. The giant gate, made of iron and gold, had been shielding poverty and misfortune outside for centuries while harbouring tremendous wealth and fortune inside. It provided the old and new money with a great venue to proliferate and socialize. My stepmother Rosalie used to brag about this place to everyone whenever my father took her to this place. She said everything in Ragnar's Hall was made of gold and diamonds. Even the doormat was woven with thousands of gold threads. At that time, I thought she was just talking nonsense. But today, when I stepped on the gold
Louisa's POV It wasn't Lucas. It was Lucian standing behind me. Noticing that I looked a bit disappointed, he offered me his arm. I lowered and shook my head. "It's OK. I can walk by myself..." I didn't finish my sentence when Lucian took up my arm and wrapped it around his. Then, he walked with me to the side entrance. "You don't have to do this." I struggled to hold my tears back and said. "No, I don't. But I chose to do it," Lucian said without looking at me, taking Will from my arms. "Why are you so kind to me?" I frowned and asked, "Why don't you just kick me away just like everyone else?" "When I was little, I was sent by my father to the White Walkers Pack as a pawn. I didn't know why he chose me, because he had seventeen sons and I was the fourth. He would usually ignore me, just like everyone else in our pack. So before I was sent away, I decided to make a scene. I walked into his tent for the fir
Louisa's POV Lucian looked at me with confusion and replied, "It's Cocotini. Coconut juice and Martini." "Does Martini mean... Alcohol?" I covered my mouth and asked. He frowned and said, "Yeah. It's five o'clock already and you're already 22." No way! I put the glass back on the table and tried to rush out. Lucian stopped me by grabbing my arm. "What happened?" he asked. "I... I've got to go to the lavatory! I need to get alcohol out of my system..." I panicked. "Why?" Lucian looked muddled. "I... I can't drink alcohol! I don't handle drinking well... I can't control myself when I'm drunk..." I realized that my speech started to get stuttered. "Don't be delusional. You've just taken a small sip." He looked at me and said. "No, Lucian... You don't know... I can't... I don't..." I was trying to explain to him that I couldn't drink any kind of alcohol at all. But then, the rush of adrenaline kicked in and I
Louisa's POV The lobby suddenly turned quiet. Everyone was staring at Lucas, who was visibly dying inside like a poisoned rat trapped in a hole. He tightened his fists and walked towards me, with a draft of anger and deep humiliation trailing him like a cheap perfume. The dark and unfortunate aura coming from him was overwhelming, so I picked up a bottle of wine and threw it at him. "Stop right there and don't come any closer or I'll..." I exclaimed. He dodged the flying bottle. It fell to the ground next to his feet and was smashed into pieces. He looked up at me and kept walking towards me, "What the fuck will you do?" I saw a giant crystal water barrel on the side of the table, so I ran towards it, trying to push it off the table at him. But I guessed my heels must have tripped over something on the table, so I lost my balance and fell off the table to the ground. The whole table flipped and everything on top of it w
Louisa's POV Lucas stared at me as he was about to penetrate my soul with his eyes. "I'm not going to apologize for things I haven't done," he said. "Fuck, I don't even apologize for shits that I have done." "You ignored me," I said and bit my lips. Lucas approached me, pulled me up from the bathtub, and tossed me into a bathrobe. Then, he sat on the sofa and put me on his lap while wiping my hair. "What the fuck are you talking about?" He glared into my eyes and asked. "You ignored me... At the door." I lowered my head and murmured. "You can't walk with me into the main entrance. That door's only for Alphas and their Lunas." He said with a serious look on his face. "I'm not your Luna," I whispered. "No, you aren't," he said. "So who am I to you?" I looked up at him and asked. I didn't expect his reply. If there was any, I knew what it would be like - "You're my fucktoy." "You're my property.
Louisa's POV As Lucas carried me into the Grand Auction Hall, everyone was looking at us. My enhanced hearing helped me to catch their gossip even in the lowest voice. "What's Alpha Lucas doing with that service maid?" "Why is she still alive after making such a notorious scene in front of everyone?" "This is preposterous! He's holding her! Unbelievable." "Just when I thought I'd seen everything." "Has anyone seen this girl before? Anyone knows anything about her?" "I heard that she's Alpha Jacob's daughter, traded to Alpha Lucas as a maid." "Alpha Jacob from the Crimson Pack?" "Yeah, who else." "Well, if you ask me, I'd say that girl must be good in bed." "No one is asking you anything, Cyrus." “What? The one thing I can tell is that Alpha Lucas' into freaky things in bed." "If I may ask, how on earth did you learn what happened in his bed, Alpha Cyrus?" "You've all seen
Louisa's POV "What do you mean?" I felt half tipsy, half confused. "I need you to go sit next to him like a fucking little doll and talk to him. Do whatever you can to make him occupied, so he doesn't bid for anything during the auction." Lucas organized my hair for a little bit and said. "But... Why?" I stared at him in bewilderment. Lucas seemed to be pissed. "There's no fucking why," he grunted. "I'm asking you to distract him during the fucking auction and you do whatever I fucking tell you to do." I tiptoed so I could move my head closer to him. "Are you fucking sniffing me again, you little pervert?" He frowned. "You smell fishy." I narrowed my eyes and said, "You must be scheming on something. I won't help you if you don't tell me why you want me to distract him during the auction." Lucas looked outrageous. "Helping me?" He raised his voice, but immediately lowered it down. "I'm not asking you to do me a
Lucas' POV "Fucking Kings and Queens! A bunch of mother fuckers and losers!" I shouted. Derek looked intimidated and turned his head towards Lucian. "Don't you fucking look at him! Nobody can fucking save you today!" I kicked him. "I should have killed you long ago! You're a fucking cancer!" He rolled on the ground for a couple of laps and coughed out some sticky muddy fluid from his mouth. "Master... I'm already dead... For a dead man, there's nothing on earth that matters... But my brother... He served you... I forced him to do a lot of bad things, but he was innocent... Please spare his life..." Derek said. "You have no right to negotiate anything with me! I'm going to let you witness I torture your brother to death!" I said angrily and grabbed his neck. "Now, break this fucking ice shield and give my fucking woman back to me. Give her back!" Then, I heard a faint voice. "Leave... my brother... alone..." It's Darren
Louisa's POV "What?!" I couldn't believe what I had heard. Pregnant? I'm pregnant with Lucas' child?! But, I have to tell Darren that I... Then, I heard a wave of hysterical laughter coming from Derek. "The prophet's true! The advent child! The Dark King rises! He who has Lycan, witch, and vampire's blood will marry his mother and be the tyrannic ruler in the Kingdom!" Every single word was like a knife, stabbing my heart. Was it a vicious curse? Or just some disturbing nonsense coming from a madman? Then, before I realized it, my ankle was grabbed fast by Derek. I tried to move back, but I couldn't. Frost started to spread all the way up from my feet at a fast rate. I didn't know what happened before my whole legs were sealed in frigid ice. "No! Stop it!" I saw Vincent and Will trying to pull Derek away from me. But they ended up pulling the remaining of his legs off his body. More sparkling ice w
Louisa's POV Vincent looked at me and didn't say anything. The look on his face was almost lamenting. "Vincent, where is Darren?" I frowned and asked. "He's inside," Vincent said. "But he's in a very bad condition. Miss Louisa, I have to brief you before letting you see him. You have to be prepared. The werewolves at the slave market tortured and humiliated him. His skin was badly burnt. His face was deformed. His head had concussions. He is completely shut down right now. He refuses to communicate with anyone and it seems that he has developed a certain mechanism to protect himself." Vincent took a pause and said, "It seems that he has lost his memory, Louisa. I doubt he will recognize you." "No... No!!!" I felt like I was struck by a bat or something. My vision was black and I fell to the ground. Vincent caught me and held me in his arms. The world was spinning in front of me. Something bitter was stuck in my throat. I curled up a
Lucas' POV "Lucian, I really should have told you about this... I really should have told you about it long ago. But I get this kind of feeling... you know, if I don't talk about it, then it means this whole thing has never happened... And Derek has never betrayed me." I said in a low voice. Lucian was silent. "Anyway," I said. "it wasn't very long until the Red Queen found out that Derek was just lying to get back to the Underground City. So the Red Queen was furious and wanted to kill him. You remember the time that I was summoned to King's Land. I was actually forced to go there to cast an imprint on Derek. I did it and I tortured him. But it was just for the Red Queen to know that I was her loyal subject. Then, I faked his death by sending a corpse back to his uncle. I was planning to hide him somewhere, but those fucking traveling druids took him away. I was enraged, so I took his brother Darren away from the brothel to replace him. I thought one da
Lucas' POV "How many secrets have you been hiding from me these years?" Lucian stared at me and asked. "I'm sorry, brother. But my woman is missing. And she might be pregnant with my child. Can we just focus on looking for her?!" I said. Lucian didn't say anything, he took the tuna head and got on horseback. Then, he rode off without saying anything. Oh, fuck. Now Lucian's not talking to me. Like I haven't got enough on my plate. "I have a good suggestion for you." I heard Finn's voice in my head. "What now?! Don't tell me shit like rubbing the back of his neck. It fucking didn't work," I said. Torrent snorted his nose, urging me to catch up with Lucian. "Fuck, Torrent. Sometimes I get the feeling that you're fucking riding me! You can get as fast as you can, I don't give a shit as long as my ass is still on the saddle. I'm busy having a conversation with my fucking wolf," I patted Torrent's neck and said.
Lucas' POV "What's on her fucking mind?" I said. I was really fed up with women in my life. They were so fucking unpredictable. Lucian said, "She's gone this morning after Louisa told her off in front of everyone. And we've lost contact with Kylo. He took away our best people and our soldiers in the camp were either killed or wounded. Louisa tried to treat some of the soldiers this morning, but it will still take a few days before they're fully recovered." "Kylo's fucking with me! He sent his fucking sister to mess up with my soldiers. His father was with me and he still dares to fuck with me! Why does he do this to me?! Why did he betray me?!" I kicked the grass on the ground and said. "I don't know. If you left that traveling druid alive, we could have asked him," Lucian said. "Stop blaming me! That fucking asshole was blabbing about my fucking identity in front of Louisa!" I said. "Why don't you just tell her who you really are?
Louisa's POV Derek put his hand into his pocket. Colt thought he was about to take out a weapon or something, so he stepped forward, trying to stop him. "This..." Derek took out an amber-colored stone from his pocket and said. "This is Amber of Star. I want to give this... to your friend. I got it from... Underground City. With this stone, people can communicate with the soul... of their beloved deceased ones... I'm sorry that..." "I don't want anything from you." Mata cried out. "You took away my brother's life and there's nothing you can do to make up for it! He's dead! You killed him! You took him away from me! I have been staying with my brother ever since I first opened my eyes, and now his eyes will never open again. He can never hold my hands when I'm scared! It's a big scary world out there and I'm always scared!" "But you can talk to your brother... As if he's still alive..." Derek tried to explain. "You just don't understand, do
Louisa's POV The fire spreading all over my body dimmed. I stared at Derek and walked closer to him. He looked panicked and desperate at the same time. "What's the matter with you?! Where's the fire?! I have just killed your friend! Why don't you kill me with that fire of yours?!" He barked at me like a mad dog. I didn't say anything but kept stepping closer to him. "Come on! Hit me with a fireball or something! Hit here!" Derek pointed at the empty void in his left chest and said. "Don't you want revenge on behalf of your friend?" I stood right in front of him. Still, I didn't say anything. In despair, he grabbed my arm and said, "Come on! Hit me!" "Where is Darren," I said. "Take me to see him." "You'll never see my brother again..." He said with a sadistic grin. Before he could finish his sentence, I strangled his neck. He didn't protest or struggle. Instead, he kept smirking at me. I did
Louisa's POV The smirk on Derek's face was gone and replaced by ferocious malice. "Let me correct you, Miss Louisa Reeds. Nobody is supposed to be dead. We were born into this world to live our lives and hug our beloved ones, not to destroy and manipulate other people's lives." He looked exasperated for a brief moment, but then he regained his cool. "I used to serve Lucas when I was young and vulnerable. He's such a hypocrite and he used my innocence and love for him to take control of me. He came into my life without notice. When he was gone, he took everything away from me, including my life... and he told me it was for my own good! He locked me up in a cave and let those monsters torture me to death! And is this for my own good?!" Derek pulled off his shirt and let me see his naked chest. I could see there was a hole in his left chest. The place where his heart used to be. I was horrified and stepped backward. At that time, I rea