CHAPTER 4

YARA’S POV

I kept hearing muffled sounds in my ears but then, it also felt like everything was very distant from where I was. I didn’t even know where I was or how I got to the place I found myself after regaining consciousness and no matter how hard I tried to get my eyes open so I could see what was happening around me, I couldn't.

It was like my eyelids were too heavy for me to open.

So I began to struggle to at least move my body but I felt too weak to move since my body felt quite heavy and I still couldn’t move no matter how hard I tried. It felt like I was stuck in a spot.

Then I heard footsteps and the person came closer and closer to me until the sound of the footsteps stopped right before me and I froze, my eyes were still tightly glued for no reason so I wasn't sure if I should move or not since I didn’t know if I was safe or not.

Suddenly, my head was grabbed and dunked deep into very cold chilling water and I began to struggle to get out of the water so I could breathe but it was all futile so I gave up and acted like I had passed out.

Then my head was pulled out and I finally opened my eyes while gasping very hard to catch my breath. I looked at the unfortunate person that had decided to piss me off by trying to kill me and I was overcome with so much rage when I saw it was the same alpha that had attacked my kingdom just weeks ago.

Slowly, the memories of what happened to me that evening after I snuck into the SINNICA pack began to flow back into my head and I could remember that I had snuck into his pack just so I could enter his palace and get my wings back. Then I would be able to regain my powers back and finally have my revenge on him and his forsaken pack for the sake of my sisters and queen that he had killed.

Only that I didn’t get to see what he hit against my head when I had lunged toward him in anger after he called me unladylike. The nerve of the man to think he could speak to me the way he wanted when he had taken the lives of all the people I had known as family ever since I was twenty.

Then I began to feel something warm rush down my forehead slowly and when it dropped on my hands that were tied in front of me together with my legs, I saw it was my blood and I looked up at the stupid alpha that stood over me at once, waiting for him to explain how I had blood dripping down from my head.

Instead, he smiled smugly before he took a chair and sat right in front of me but after he had pushed the basin of water away from my front.

“It was high time you woke up. I was surprised that I could knock you out with just one hit” he said to me with that infuriating smile still on his face and I growled at him while struggling to get the ropes of me so I could put him in his place and let him know that I wasn’t to be messed with.

“You’d better tell me what you did to me and where I am at once or else…”

“Or else what? You’ll kill me?” he asked, not letting me finish what I was saying and I just glared at him as I wondered why he seemed so unbothered by my threat to kill him.

“I know you lost your powers when I took your wings so don’t try to scare me. You’re powerless and I can do whatever I want with you… that is the exact reason why you passed out so easily after I broke just a wine glass on your head. Which should also explain the bleeding on your forehead, It was so easy that I almost felt disappointed because I was hoping for a duel with you, perhaps to continue from where we stopped two weeks ago” he laughed wickedly while I stared at him with so much hatred because all I wanted to do at that moment was rip his head off his shoulders and present it to his beloved subjects that followed him in his pack.

“You’re going to regret messing with me and believe me when I say this to you because I always stick to my words and you're going to wish you didn't do this to me or my sisters in the first place” I warned him through gritted teeth while I still struggled with the ropes my hands and legs were tied with.

If I still had my powers, it would have been so easy to get these ropes off my body but here I was, struggling with all my might but it still wasn't budging because the forsaken alpha that sat in front of me and stared at me mockingly took my wings.

“Which of them are you referring to? Is it for when I destroyed your kingdom or for the time I broke my wine glass on your head?” He asked me just to piss me off with a smile playing on his lips as he mocked me further while referring to my threat of making him pay and I growled out loud in anger.

He had no right to be making fun of what he did to my sisters and queen. He killed the people I knew loved me, he destroyed my home, and made me homeless again after living as a rogue for years.

I wasn't going to just sit back and let him make fun of such a grave thing that he did to me and my people. I wished I could add more to the scar that he had on his forehead but my hands were tied and that alone made me more furious.

I glared at him silently, not knowing what to say back to him and he watched me too, like he was daring me to get as angry as I could and do my worst. It was like he wanted to see the worst I could do and it only made me angrier because he was supposed to be frightened.

He should be scared of me for just sitting a couple of feet away from me but he was smiling instead because he knew I was powerless. He was literally making fun of me and my dead sisters and he thought I was just going to let him get away with it. Even though I had lost my powers, I still wanted to teach him a lesson and let him know that I could still hand his ass over to him with or without my powers.

So I smiled at him and he raised an eyebrow. I was still in my black dress that I wore for the party and even though my hair was now a mess, it was still flowing down my back, so I swung my hair back and fixed my posture while my eyes remained on his. I was planning on looking away even once and he chuckled.

“Are you trying to seduce me? You should know you are not my type. You’re too crazy to be and I don’t even do witches,” he said to me and I almost lost it again from hearing what he just said but I held myself back and I didn’t. Instead, I just smiled wider at him and shook my head.

“It would be a waste of my time to seduce you. I was only making myself comfortable. Also, trust me. I’m still going to make you pay for killing my sisters and breaking a glass on my head.”

“I’ll make you wish you didn’t take my wings in the first place because once I find them, you are dead! I'm going to make you beg me for mercy and I’m going to make sure that you ask me to spare your life but guess what? All I’m going to do is enjoy watching your eyes as you slowly die in my hands.”

I said those words slowly through gritted teeth, so they would sink into his skull and take up a place in his head, ringing on and on to remind him that I was going to kill his sorry ass one day.

Instead, he laughed like he had just listened to something very funny. I didn’t find anything funny about what I had just said to him because I meant every word so I just watched him until he stopped.

Then he looked at me when he finally stopped laughing and I kept my eyes on his unshakingly to let him know that his presence didn’t stir me or fear me. I was going to be the one he would fear one day and that was going to be soon.

He began to come closer to me with his chair and when he was very close to me, he leaned toward me with his eyes still fixed on mine like glue, and flames were burning in his eyes as he smirked at me.

His eyes didn’t smile and even the corners of his lips didn’t curve. He looked so lifeless and all I saw in his eyes was the urge to take my life but it looked like he was holding himself back this time, unlike the day he attacked my kingdom and had everyone killed without even a second thought.

The man was truly a power hungry psycho and the only way to stop him was to kill him and I was gladly going to do that without any hesitation one day. We kept on staring at each other until his smirk slowly vanished and he gave me cold blank eyes with a straight face.

“Don’t think I’m just going to let you have your way after speaking to me the way you wanted. You’re the one in ropes and I get to do whatever I want with you. Last time, it was your wings I took so maybe I’ll take something else from your body again. Your whole body is also fit to keep for a souvenir” he said to me and that was the last straw.

I lost it completely after hearing him call my body a souvenir and I took the only chance I had to teach him a little lesson and shut him up since he didn't know how to run that mouth the right way.

So I used all the strength I had in me to raise myself up along with my chair, then I wrapped my legs around his neck and squeezed very hard to choke him while he struggled to get himself out of my tight grip.

“Next time, you should think before you speak because not many people want to hear the trash that you spew, and trust me… next time, it won’t just be a wring on the neck, it would be worse and it’s a promise” I yelled at him as I squeezed harder than I did before until I was sure that he was too dizzy to even fight back anymore, so I let go off him and fell down to the ground in the process but I was lucky enough to see a sharp blade lying on the ground just a few feet away from me.

I quickly pulled myself along with the chair until I was able to pick up the broken blade then I used it to cut the ropes that were used to tie my hands and legs. I stood up once I was free and arranged my hair then I looked down at the alpha that was still lying on the floor, while whizzing and coughing hard to catch his breath. I smirked to myself while enjoying the sight but I knew that I had to leave soon before he would get back on his feet.

So I kicked him twice and hard in the gut before I rushed toward the door to run away but it seemed fate wasn’t smiling at me that evening.

Just as I turned the knob to leave, my hair was suddenly grabbed from behind and when I turned around to push him off me, he grabbed me by the neck and pushed me against the wall while I struggled to get his hand off me. He was choking me wasn't even budging.

He was panting hard from the kick I gave him but he still had that look of mockery in his eyes and I just wanted to slap it off.

“Now who is having the last laugh, witch?” he asked bitterly and I spat in his face.

“Fuck you” I yelled at him angrily.

Before I could recover from his tight hold on my neck, his hand made hard contact with my face. Then it did again and I fell to the floor. My sight became blurry and I couldn’t make out anything around me again. Then a sharp pain rushed through my head and it began to slowly turn dark around me until I passed out again.