Chapter Four

JENNY’S POV

I couldn’t move and I didn’t know why. I just laid there, powerless and unable to feel my legs as my eyes darted to and fro while I wondered where I was. Then suddenly, where I laid on began to move like it was floating in the air and after a while, it came to a stop. This time, when I tried to move, it worked so I quickly sat up and I saw that I was on a floating carpet. Just as I was about to get down from the carpet, fog covered up the whole place so I stopped moving while I wondered what exactly was going on and where I could possibly be because I had no idea and all I wanted to was to return to wherever I was before I got here.

Everything felt so still and mysterious and it gave me an unsettling feeling because it didn’t feel good to be in such a place that I knew nothing about. Then I began to hear footsteps and I felt relieved to know that at least, I wasn’t alone. 

I saw the shadows through the fog as they got closer and closer to where I was and when their faces finally became visible to me, I felt every blood in my body freeze over as I stared at the people that stood before me in bewilderment. There were my parents and brother and last time I remembered, they were dead so if I was with them and I could see them, did that mean that I was dead too?

“Mum, dad, Marcus” I called their names as they smiled at me and I rushed of the carpet where I sat to hug them tightly because I missed so much after spending all those years alone living that wretched as a slave and the tyrant alpha’s piece of rag that he just kept on abusing and molesting at his will.

Remembering all those things that I experienced, my eyes got filled with tears as I hugged them tighter and they hugged me back too.

“I missed you guys so much, you have no idea how happy I am to see you all” I said while sobbing and I felt my mum’s hand on my hair as she patted gently to stop me from sobbing but I was too overwhelmed to be able to get a grip on myself.

“We missed you too Jenny. We all missed you a lot and we’re so sorry that you had to go through all of that alone and we couldn’t do anything to help you get out of that misery” my mum said to me and I pulled away from them to have a good look at their faces again while I shook my head in response to her apology.

“No. You don’t have to apologise to me for anything, we are all together now and that is all that matters to me” I replied and I watched as a sad smile slowly spread over my mum’s face.

I looked at Marcus and my dad and they all had the same look on their faces which made me wonder what was wrong.

“Aren’t you guys happy to see me?” I asked them and they shook their heads immediately.

“Of course not Jenny. We are over the moon to see you, the only thing is… It isn’t time for you to be here so you have to go back” my dad answered and I understood what they meant at once.

I wasn’t dead but only briefly unconscious and I had to wake up soon because I couldn’t be with them yet. It was disheartening to hear that because I wanted nothing more except being with them like we all used to before they died and now I had to wake up back to reality? I really didn’t want that but I obviously didn’t have a say. I looked at them with tears still falling from my eyes and I sniffed.

“So this is a hello and goodbye?” I asked them and that was when Marcus who had been quiet pulled me in for a hug and he patted me on the head too.

“We will meet again Jenny, just you wait. We are eventually going to reunite again so don’t worry too much because you are in good hands now” he said to make me feel better and I nodded against his chest, trusting in his soothing words that all was going to be fine.

My eyes were still closed as I hugged Marcus and my parents joined us too then suddenly everywhere began to shake and when I opened my eyes, they were all gone and I was alone once again. The place continued to shake non stop and I couldn’t help but get scared because I had no idea what was happening but I hoped it would end soon.

My head began to hurt soon afterward and I began to hear voices around me as the shaking increased and I couldn’t even maintain my balance anymore. So I closed my eyes in fear and let whatever was going to happen next take its course.

“Miss, miss, can you hear me? You need to wake up” a voice said again and when I opened my eyes, this time, I was in a car and right beside me was the same man that saved me from the roadside not long ago when I ran away from the tyrant alpha of my pack. He was staring at me with amusement in his eyes and I felt uncomfortable under his gaze so I looked away, hoping to see something that I would use to get his attention away from me.

“Um, where are we? I’ve never seen this place before” I said when I was finally conscious of my environment but he didn’t reply. Instead, he stepped down from the car and I just watched as he went around the car and came to my side of the car.

He opened the door for me and stretched his hand forward for me to take it but I didn’t place my hand in his like he expected me to. I just got down from the car on my own and I tried not to look at him because I could tell that he was still staring at me and it felt really unsettling.

“Are you going to tell me where we are now?” I asked him while looking around and I couldn’t help but notice the really large mansion that stood in front of me. It looked more like a palace and seeing the people that walked around in uniforms with the ones that walked in groups while carrying weapons, I was convinced that this man that wouldn’t stop staring at me wasn’t just a regular person.

“Who are you and where are we?” I asked him again and he sighed while a smile slowly grew on his face but all that was on my mind was the moment that I just had with my family. I didn’t know if it was real or not but it felt really comforting to see them again. 

“Aren’t you going to wait until we get inside before you begin to pester me to tell you who I am and where this is?” he asked me and I gave him a blank look.

“So you expect me to just go inside with you when I don’t even know your name?” I fired at him and he shrugged while tucking his hands in his pockets and I just watched him.

“Well, you weren’t bothered about that when you asked me for my help” he replied and I hissed before I began to speak to let him know that I wasn’t in the mood for joking around.

“I have a tracker in me, and I almost died this morning before I was able to escape on a broken ankle. So I have to know where we are, who you are and if I am safe” I said to him with blazing eyes and he stared at me longer before he looked away and nodded. He looked back at me again and I saw his gaze had softened as he looked at me.

“Okay, you are in my pack, and I am alpha Dammon. We are way far away from where I took you because we even used a plane to get here but you were asleep and you don’t know when that happened. I hope that these answers can help you calm down and ease your fear” he said and I looked at him for a while before I looked away this time.

“I didn’t mean to be rude. It’s just that you have no idea what I have been through and honestly, I desperately do not want to go back to where I escaped from because It was horrible” I told him and he nodded at me when I looked at him. 

“I understand that you needed to know, so can you tell me your name?” he asked me and I shrugged. “The name is Jenny” I replied and he called my name after me with a smile on his face and I couldn’t help but wonder what was running through his mind with that smile that he had on his face. I saw maids come down the stairs from the entrance to the palace and they all bowed to alpha Dammon before they went to the cars and took the luggages from the trunk and that was when I realised that I wasn’t part of them this time. I wasn’t a slave for the first time in a long time and it felt new and strange to me.

“So care to share what exactly happened to you and what it is that you went through wherever you were?” alpha Dammon asked me and my attention was snapped back to him as I took in his question and I knew that even though he was the one that saved me, I didn’t trust him enough to be sharing such horrifying stories and details about myself with him yet. It could change his views and thoughts about me and I didn’t want that to happen yet… not until I had found a place to stay if he didn’t want me around again so I shook my head while looking at him.

“I don’t want to talk about it” I replied before I moved to walk away but a sharp pain suddenly shot through my ankle and I winced out loud in pain as I fell to the floor while I realised that the broken ankle I got when I was escaping didn’t fully heal when I shifted to my werewolf form. 

I guessed that I was too weak to heal any major injury on me.

I saw alpha Dammon rushing toward me and he bent to meet my level as I sat on the floor.

“Is that the broken ankle?” he asked me and I nodded. The next thing I knew, he was carrying me and I looked at him with wide eyes as I stayed frozen in his arms due to the shock that he was actually carrying me regardless of how filthy I seemed to be.

“What are you doing? I can walk on my own” I said to him and he chuckled while he only held me tighter to himself as he walked up the stairs that led to the entrance of the palace and he looked down at me as I still looked up at him with surprised and wide eyes.

“I don’t know what you went through or what happened to you Jenny, but here in my pack, we help people when they need it and I am helping you up to your new room because I know you can’t walk on that ankle and you need medical attention since you can’t heal it on your own” he retorted and I grunted before I looked away from his teasing eyes.

“Thank you alpha Dammon” I said to him and he laughed, making me feel the rumble of his laughter in his chest that he held me so close to.

“It’s just Dammon, Jenny. Just Dammon” he said to me but I didn’t respond. It all felt too good to be true but I just wanted to embrace the whole experience because for the first time, I wasn’t feeling panicked or unsafe. My wolf was growling in fear and every part of me was relaxed. Even if this was the calm before the storm incase alpha Dammon was a bad person, I wanted to enjoy this moment before whatever that was going to happen next because it had been a long time since I was treated this way or cared for like this.