CHAPTER FOUR

I know Athena wouldn’t let any opportunity of her taking over slide but I know her well enough to know that I have to keep her under control for she was a violent creature.

‘You do know that I can read your thoughts right?’ She spat venomously at me before lying in her favorite spot like nothing happened.

I chuckled at her childishness, before bracing myself for the fight that was about to come.

‘Oh! Look who we have here.’ Raymond said. He was the one who saw me first. I continued walking towards the gate with the hope that they let me go, fingers crossed.

I froze when I felt someone’s hand on my shoulder.

‘And where do you think you are going to bitch?’ He asked.

I distanced myself from him before looking him in the eye, ‘to my room.’ I answered simply.

They all laughed trapping me in the middle. ‘Hey guys, why don’t we have some fun before our shift is over.’

I looked at Raymond in disgust, how dear he belittles me like this! I remembered clearly that he and his parent took shelter in our pack seven years ago. 

They were rogues that got rejected by their pack when they were accused of murdering one of the pack members. I remembered clearly how he had begged Father to take him in and give him shelter and protection from the outside world.

Is this how he repays the seven years of protection my pack offered him? I will just have to show him what this bitch can do!

‘Grab her!’ He ordered them. I moved right grabbing the hand that had reached out to touch me.

 I twisted it making him scream in agony, next, I punched the one in front of me in the face and then kicked him in the abdomen. Another lunged at me, but before he could land a punch I kicked him with full force sending him flying several meters away.

'How dare you do this to us?’ One of them pointed his hand accusingly at me after I beat all of them up.

'Don't you want to have fun? I just entertained you.’ I smirked before turning around to leave when the pain of their mating started again.

I screamed in agony as the pain made my blood boil. It was like I was set on fire from the inside and nothing in the world could put out the fire. I fell to my knees as the pain became unbearable for me. I watched with a pained expression as Raymond walked towards me with a smirk on his face and a dagger in his hand. It was obvious what he was about to do, so when he raised the dagger in the air I took the chance to kick the dagger out of his hand which seemed to be a bad idea for my wound reopened as I stretched.

I lost balance and fell flat on the ground with a painful thud. A hand pulled at my hair, dragging me up.

‘You think you are smart huh?’ Raymond asked stabbing me with the dagger. 

‘You must really be blessed by the moon goddess to still be alive even after all the torture of the past two years. Let’s see how you survive this time.’ He said forcing several pills of wolf bane down my throat.

I fell flat on the ground feeling numb.

 Everything became oddly quiet even though I could clearly see them moving their lips and laughing at me.

I was confused, shouldn’t I feel the burning sensation of the wolfsbane in my system? All I felt was quietness and peacefulness.

Blurry images loom over me, I reached out to touch, to feel, as everything and everyone around me looked so far away but my hand was slashed with a dagger, surprisingly it didn’t hurt one bit. Yet I knew I had been cut because I felt liquid trailing down my arm.

I stared at it confused, I'm bleeding yet I felt no pain, it was as if I was staring at someone else's hand. 

Was this what it felt like to die? It felt so peaceful that I would prefer it to all the torture, and no I didn't give up on life. I just wanted a little peace and quietness away from the pain and suffering. I smiled, my only regret was that I didn’t avenge my parent's death.

‘I’m sorry Rose, I couldn’t protect you.’ Athena apologized before I passed out

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A cold sensation was the first thing I felt when I regained consciousness. How am I still alive? I looked around sitting up and crossing my legs.

I was behind bars? I squinted my eyes feeling confused.

'Why am I in the dungeon?' I asked before it clicked. They locked me up! Those bastards locked me up! I tried standing on my feet but the chains restrained me. I strained my ear trying to listen for any sound but there was none so I lay down again allowing my thoughts to consume me.

What should I do? Was Derrick right? Should I just leave the pack? After all, I was no longer wanted by the pack members. They already accepted Julian as their Alpha and Hailey as their Luna.

My mate too was less interested in me and seemed to be bewitched by another she-wolf. My pack members too are less interested in their once beloved Alpha princess Myla-Rose Halls.

No! I can’t leave, not when the pack was in the hands of an incompetent weak Alpha. Thinking about it, the DNA results in his room weren’t just a coincidence. 

My father had never shown any dissatisfaction with me even after Mum left. I’m their daughter for sure. So how come the DNA says otherwise? Was it even my dad that took the DNA test or was it forged by someone that wanted the pack for himself? 

It couldn’t be Julian, one thing I know from staying around him for so long was that he was stupid. He always acted rashly. 

The person behind this was very smart and strong to have murdered my parent. 

And still, successfully make someone else the Alpha of the pack. But who was it? Who hated my parent so much that he wanted them dead?

One thing I knew for sure was that Julian was just a pound in this game.