Chapter 7- Irked by his stare

I woke up with a throbbing headache and a split skull. 

Yep, I could definitely say that my skull was split in two because why do I feel like someone performed an acrobatic on them?

I tried to move my hands and met with stiff opposition. I pulled a little bit hard and was rewarded with a sharp pain in my wrist. Startled, I opened my eyes and looked over at my hand. I was chained to the head of a bed with a handcuff. I looked around the room; this definitely wasn't the prison that I was confined to. This space was much better and cleaner. It almost looked like a normal person’s home but I knew that having a home was far from me.

“Sweet. You’re awake. I was wondering whether to baptize you with a pack of ice cubes. Thankfully you got the memo before you woke”

My head turned to the sound of the voice. It was him. The same werewolf who had ordered my abduction. 

Then the realization hit me. I was supposed to have been out of here by now. I pretended that I had collapsed after they opened the door to feed me, and had taken the first step out of the prison. I remember running as fast as I could out of the prison walls and trying to leave the gates.

“I see you don’t value your life. How did you even think you could escape from me?”

Then I remembered. Before I could leave the walls, I came face to face with Adrik and he didn’t seem too pleased with my actions. I remember him ordering the guards to beat me up until I collapsed since I loved to do that.

“Alpha… please spare my life. I never intended to run away from you. I only wanted to test out my wolf and see if she is still with me”

He looked already fed up with me. I could have sworn that he wanted to rip out my heart that instant but something held him back. Well, thanks to whatever it was, I got to breathe and live another day to plan another escape. 

Stupid, yes, I know but I’m not about to live my entire life being tossed around alphas and becoming slaves to their ridiculous requests one after the other.

My thoughts drifted to Lucian. I wondered how he took the news of my disappearance. He must be joyful at having gotten rid of the parasite in his Pack. Will he try to look for me? Even for the barest reason that I have his child? But then, he doesn’t even know about my pregnancy. I don’t know why but I kinda miss him a little. Maybe a little too much.

But what's the use of all my musing? The arrogant thing doesn’t even recognize that he is my mate. I really should focus on getting to Elsie’s cousin before this wolf in front of me loses his patience. But for now, all I need to do is grovel before him and beg for mercy to see the next light of the day.

“I can never be stupid enough to try to escape from you. please have mercy on me alpha” I continued pleading.

He stood and walked closer to me, his eyes boring into my skin. I felt uncomfortable with his gaze because I knew that my skirt was high above my thighs. Now, this is the next-level problem. “What are you called by again?”

I swallowed. “Amara”

“Hmm,” he sat on the edge of the bed, an evil smile spreading to his fat face. His eyes went down to my exposed legs again and I unconsciously clasped them tighter. My hands were still tied to the bed so I had no freewill to even try to cover up. The breeze that came from outside the window didn't help my case at all.

His fingers crawled up from my foot to my legs, invoking disgusting emotions in me. I may be confused about every other thing but the one thing that I am clear about in this instant is that I do not want this man’s hands on me. I flinched and tried to move myself away from his touch but he misinterpreted the gesture.

“My god! You are such a whore! A little caress and you can't even contain yourself. Have you already started having fantasies of me?”

“Adrik, remember that this isn’t what you came here to do? You’re here to give her repercussions for her actions, not flirt with her” a woman said from the doorway.

She addressed him so informally so I guessed that she may be his mate.

Adrik closed his eyes and took a deep breath before turning to the sound of the voice. “Katherine, did you follow me here?” 

The woman walked into the room with her hands crossed over her bosom. “I did. Maybe because I knew that you may not be able to contain your primal instincts, having heard how lovely our prisoner is.”

Okay. so it is confirmed that the man is a dog. Then he goes about sleeping with every woman? What a pity for his mate. The poor woman looked fed up with his actions. Well, each with her mate problem. I just wanted her to get him off my face. His breath isn’t something that I want on my face. I’m starting to think that everyone here takes a lot of raw garlic.

He stood and walked towards the woman and I was able to take a breath of fresh air. Phew! His mate must be a patient wolf to be able to take all that smell in.

“I think it's time you start to know your place here. You are just my witch and so you have no right to involve yourself in my private life unless I allow you access to it. I will not have you perambulating around, and poking your nose where it doesn’t belong. Do you understand?”

So she isn’t his mate then. Her eyes twitched and I saw that she was trying to rein in her emotions. “Understood”. She said and walked out of the room.

“And as for you”, Adrik turned his attention back to me. He called one of the omegas into the room.

“Clean her thoroughly and bring her to my bedroom in one hour”