Chapter 4

*****Myra's POV*****

As I screamed in horror, I begged Dorian for help, but his eyes remained distant and cold.

He just stood there, watching as the guards roughly dragged me away. I strained to catch a glimpse of him, but he soon disappeared from my sight.

The guards took me straight to the dungeon, dragging me like a rag doll towards the entrance. Once we arrived, they threw me in without a second thought. As I fell onto the cold floor, tears streaming down my face, I could hear Phoenix howling and reassuring me that everything would be alright.

"Myra, please don't cry, it's going to be fine." Phoenix quipped, trying to make me feel better.

"Phoenix please stop with the empty reassurances. This will never be fine. I've been proven guilty before the entire court and I was sentenced to death. Phoenix I would be cremated! No, we would be cremated! You will die! I will die and you say it's going to be fine?!" I couldn't help the anger that surged through me as I lashed out. My words hung in the air, heavy with resignation and sorrow.

"Why?" I whispered, my voice filled with anguish. "Why did Dorian have to do this to me? I would be condemned to flames alongside his baby, why would he be so heartless?"

All the while I spoke to myself, Phoenix gave no other response.

We stayed in that comfortable silence for a while as I tried to wrap my head around the entire situation. A few hours ago, I was so delighted to receive the news of my pregnancy. And a few hours later, I'm confined in the walls of the great dungeon.

Could life get a worse?

While still lost in thoughts, I heard footsteps approaching the cell. Suddenly, the approaching footsteps seized and I had the urge to look up at it. The dungeon wasn't dark, so it was easy to look around.

When I glanced up, my met his dark ones. Dorian came.

Did he come to get me? Had he finally realized his mistakes and come back to apologize?

With this thoughts swirling through my head, I got up to my feet in a hurry and rushed over to the jail cell.

Dorian stood before me with no traces of smile on his face. "Do...Dorian?"

"It's Alpha to you." He cut me short and I blinked, blinking away the fog of hope and finally facing reality. Dorian wasn't here to get me.

"Why are you here?" I finally dropped the sad expression, masking the pains I felt as I glared at him.

"How dare you glare at your Alpha?" He asked as his gaze darkened upon seeing the hostile look on my eyes.

"Dorian! What is wrong with you?" I asked through clenched teeth. "What did I ever do to you? Was it a crime to love you?" This time, I couldn't help the bitterness that flooded my chest and the anger from the humiliation I faced in the court.

"Yes, it was." He replied even before I could pose the next question. His glare intensified as he watched me.

"You brought this upon yourself, Myra. I had warned you to keep your mouth shut and leave this pack like the pretty little omega that you are. But what did you do? You went against my orders and you told my parents the truth. Now, see who's behind bars." A smirk formed on his face as he said those words to me.

Suddenly, dizziness hit me and I swayed. I immediately regained my balance, also looking up to see the cold look in Dorian's eyes.

My heart clenched in unexplainable pain and I reached out to hold onto my chest. I felt the dizziness from earlier, returned again and this time, I swayed.

"Myra be careful." Phoenix said the moment I swayed. Dorian still had his gaze on me, but only just stood there watching me as if he didn't care.

"Myra," His cold voice came as he called out to me. I slowly turned to look at him and saw the smirk on his face.

"I'm sorry but we cannot be together. Our union is definitely not what the goddess wanted. She must have made a big mistake while pairing me up. Even if I accept you as Luna, the pack would never. I chose Dahlia and I would be with her." He uttered and this time, I felt my entire body tremble as the dizziness came again.

The dizziness and pains in my heart became unbearable as my tears kept pouring out of my eyes like a broken dam.

"Dorian..." I still had the hopes of getting back with him and called out to him softly.

But after his name left my lips, my knees grew weak that when I lifted a foot to walk forward, I tumbled to the cold floor, closing my eyes.

But still, Dorian didn't move and just stood there.

My breath hitched when I suddenly heard the next words that came out of his mouth.

"Myra, you've made me commit too many sins. I've killed and lied just to make sure you didn't jeopardize my chances of becoming Alpha with this pregnancy. Thankfully, Miss Celia was nice enough to help me change the results. I never wanted things to end this way, but you were asking for too much and being excessively greedy."

In my confused half conscious and half unconscious state, I could hear what he was saying. He changed the results in order to make me appear guilty before then court.

I thought as much, his hatred for me ran deeper.

He loathed me so much just because I was foolish enough to let him impregnate me.

While still trying to wrap my head around it all, the dizziness came once again and this time, I succumbed to the darkness with one thought in mind; Dorian was wicked.

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The next morning, I was awakened by the sound of the Jail Cell door being pushed open by the guards. They walked over to my weak body and forcefully pulled me up by my arms without mercy.

At this point, I had already accepted my fate and my impending dismissal. There were no tears left to shed and I had no energy left to protest.

I was pulled directly to an open field where the pack's members were already assembled. They were all here to watch my existence finally reduced to ashes.

My only regret was telling his parents about this, at least I would have had the chance to save my baby and leave this pack. But here I was, about to lose my life, including that of my child.

The guards placed me on a wooden structure and tied me to it. This time, I breathed in and out as the tears came pouring out again. I turned to the side, my gaze falling on Dorian's.

His gaze remained cold and distant towards me as he watched me about to be burnt before them all.

An elder stepped forward to make.the former speech before the cremation.

"O Moon Goddess, we have gathered here today to fulfill one of the ancient laws of our pack. Before you today, lies a woman who was accused of transgression. We the Wildwood Pack would never accept such. A liar who tries to accuse our Alpha falsely is punished by cremation, and so we're here to fulfill that law."

After that, he stepped back and let the guards do their jobs.

I breathed in and out as they finally set the wooden structures on fire. As the flames enveloped me, I held Dorian's gaze with mine again as one thought remained in my mind.

In my next life, I, Myra, would never be an Omega. I would make sure that everyone from the Wildwood Pack would feel my wrath, I would punish and destroy this pack until it was reduced to nothing.

Dorian would die a painful death that was twice as painful as this.

His gaze never reflected regret or any form of remorse as the flames gradually enveloped me completely.

I screamed in horror, my voice piercing the open space and the birds of the air leaving their comfort zones for my sake. I finally gave up, succumbing to the calls of death.