Louisa's POV
After Lucian was gone, there were only two of us left in an empty cell. The blood stains were drying up on the ground, while silence seemed to come drifting down like flakes of snow. Darren curled up in the corner of the cell while holding his knees. I knew he didn't want to talk to me, but I just couldn't sit there and watch his wounds bleeding like that. I took up my baggage from the ground and sat next to him. Pain gripped my chest. He was so badly hurt that there wasn't even one single inch of intact skin on his body. "Darren, please let me at least stop the bleeding for you..." I softened my voice and attempted to reach him. "Please don't touch me." He said while moving his arm away from me. I knew he was begging me to leave him alone. But the indifference in his voice was like a surgical knife, scratching my skull. Tears kept falling out of my eyes and melted in my tender voice, "Darren,Lucas' POV "Fuck, Lucian. Give me some good news. I mean, the good ones. Not the ones that sound about right at the very beginning and fucking end with a sudden twist of things going bad, because that made me want to strangle you to death." I lay on my giant bed, feeling exhausted from a long fucking day. I once kept chasing a fucking bunch of louts for three consecutive days and I didn't feel half as tired as I am right now. And tomorrow will be an even longer fucking day because a fucking Grand Ball will be on the way and I don't even have a fucking date. With that fucking skinny ass she-wolf down, who am I going to dance with? "Will you dance with me tomorrow?" I flipped on my bed to look up at Lucian. "Yeah, with you dressing up beautifully in a skirt, why not?" Lucian handed me a glass of water as well as a few hangover pills. "Fuck you, Lucian. When the day comes, I won't be the one who's wearing a skirt. I'll give you that." I
Louisa's POV "Louisa?" I heard Darren's blurry voice in the darkness. My body was twitching. Terror ebbed like water from a basin. I felt there was an invisible dark hand strangling my neck. "Darren, I..." I gasped in pain. Darren held me from behind. "You're burning and sweating. Are you having a seizure?" He whispered in my ear. "Ah... Darren... Don't... I don't know what's going on with me..." I started to moan. The sound coming out of my mouth made me so embarrassed. My loins were burning and I couldn't help but twist my legs together. Then, I felt it. The tenderest part of my body had become dripping wet. I had absolutely no control over it. I wanted to touch myself down there, but I couldn't. Not with Darren holding me from behind. Never. "What's happening to me?" I whispered and groaned in tremendous pain. "Am I going to die?" "It's Lucas." I heard my wolf's voice in my mind. "He's co
Louisa's POV "Wake up!" I heard someone shouting and the clashing sound of iron. I opened my eyes and saw some soldiers standing in front of me. Darren woke up as well. He pulled up the cape to cover my body, holding me in his arms. I knew he was trying to block me behind his body. He looked so thin. He needed to eat something, or else the wounds wouldn't heal. Then, Lucian walked into the cell. He was wearing a white casual suit, looking radiant in the dim ray of sunlight. He threw some clothes at me and said, "Stand up and put on these clothes." I didn't move. He glanced at me and commanded, "Move. You're needed for having breakfast with Alpha." I buried my head in Darren's arms. "Do you need me to give you a hand?" Lucian asked. He didn't sound very patient. "I won't go anywhere without Darren," I said in a muffled voice. I didn't know what those soldiers would do to him when I left.
Louisa's POV "OK," Alpha Zackery, who had been silenced since the very beginning, finally made a shallow cough and spoke, "Before this whole breakfast thing turns really weird, I'd like to invite Miss Louisa to join me here on my side and enjoy a quiet and undisturbed breakfast with me. Lucian, would you do me a favor to help Miss Louisa get to my seat? She seems extremely upset sitting on the cold floor like that." "Yes, Alpha," Lucian replied and pulled me up. As soon as I got back on my feet, I felt my head boiling with anger. I pushed Lucian away and tried to jump at Lucas. Several soldiers came forward and stopped me. I kicked my legs in the air and shouted, "Let go of me! Leave Darren alone! Stop treating him like your subject! He's a human being, not your pet!" The soldiers tried to pin me on the ground, but I became much stronger than I used to be. I managed to push myself up despite their efforts. As soon as I lifted my hea
Louisa's POV I didn't eat anything during breakfast. Alpha Zackery kept asking me about my family and past life, but I really prefer to walk away. My eyes were on Darren all the time. I couldn't bear the thought that someone I loved so much was treated like a dog by an asshole. Lucas snarled at me and said, "Miss Louisa, you look very distracted this morning while having a conversation with Alpha Zackery." I stared at him without saying anything. Yeah, you keep eating those sausages. I thought to myself. One day, I'll shove an entire plate of sausages in your mouth and stick two apples into your empty eye sockets, just like the roast pig we made on the Full Moon Festival Eve. "You mentioned your mother just now. The princess?" Alpha Zackery looked at me with great curiosity. He didn't seem to notice Lucas' existence. "If you want to make fun of me, the joke's on you, because my mother really was a princess when she was alive.
Louisa's POV Lucas' POV "She's so fucking dead! I want her dead! I want to squeeze the life out of her chest and watch her slowly turn into a fucking piece of lifeless meat!" I rushed into my tent and shouted. "She's in the Luna Tent now. You can shout louder, so she can hear you." Lucian said. That fucking warlock was following him like a dog. I could tell that he totally freaked out. "She's supposed to be in the dungeon! Why do you move her to the Luna Tent?!" I roared. Lucian said, "Alpha Zackery is with her right now. It will be very difficult to explain to others when he follows her into the dungeon. People might think we have put His Excellency into a dungeon. I don't think that's what you want right now." "No. That, I don't want." I said and kicked on the fucking warlock. He curled up on the floor and rolled in pain. Lucian took a glance at him and said, "Luke, Zackery's reaction is very suspicious today.
Lucas' POV That fucking warlock looked up at me with disbelief. I couldn't tell if he had bought anything I had just sold him. I couldn't see the burning hatred and anger in his fucking eyes as I expected. What the fuck was on his mind? So I decided to give him another push. "Go ahead," I said. "The window of opportunity has already opened. You're one step away from what you want. Pick up the knife and stab me. Come on, do it." The warlock picked up the knife, turned back, and looked at me. "Master..." He whispered as he was stumbling towards me. "All these years, I always told myself that by killing you, I can put everything, all this pain, sorrow, and humiliation, to a stop. But the truth is, I have my doubts. Master, you're an unstoppable force of nature, a horrible manipulative creature. But you don't kill people around you. That's why people follow you. You chose my brother to be with you for a reason. He was a good companion. He was... full of life when he was al
Louisa's POV "Is he going to make it?" Lucian asked me. "I don't know. He has lost too much blood. I guess I got his artery. I don't know what I'm going to do... We need a doctor... Alpha Zackery has got a physician..." "That Shaman doctor?" Lucian frowned. "Yes... Please get him here..." I said. I was too panicked to do anything. Blood just kept popping up from Darren's back and I couldn't stop it. Lucian was gone for a minute and then he was back with Alpha Zackery and his physician. The man checked Darren's wound and said, "OK. I need to transfer him to that bed over there. I also need a lot of sterilized towels and some more space. The she-wolf can stay and help. Everyone else has to leave." "I'm not going anywhere," Lucas said. "OK. So Alpha Lucas can stay as well," the doctor said. After Darren was transferred to Lucas' bed, some maids brought in towels and linens. The doctor looked at Lucas and said, "Listen, I'm going to sew him up, but I can't give him