“Is she the one?” the taller guard asked. His partner nodded. “What’s it?” I asked, attempting to retreat to the room. The tall guard grabbed my wrist and pulled me out in one swift motion, making me almost fall down. He forcefully turned me around until I was facing the wall, then pulled my hands to the back. The shorter one started tying a strong rope around my hands. My wolf become angry and tried to come to the surface. I fought hard against the man holding me but he was too strong so it was like I was doing nothing. “Walk,” he commanded after the deed was done.Two doors opened and two heads peeped out. Of course it had to be Kat and Francesca. “What’s going on, guards?” Francesca asked.The guards didn’t say anything, but followed me down the hallway, towards the open door. “What’s going on?” I asked. “Are you taking me to the dungeon?”The tall guard chuckled. “You wish. The dungeon sounds like heaven compared to what’s going to happen to you. Prepare yourself because you m
Leo Killman turned out to be the monster in charge of making me curse the day I set foot in Midnight Pack. I screamed when I felt the lash hit my back. It was on the third one that I felt my shirt rip apart. A high pitched scream escaped my wide open mouth as tears soaked my entire face. The crowd was animated, with some people yelling as the lashes hit my back in quick succession. Eventually, I stopped counting and screaming. My bruised back felt like it was being boiled while hit at the same time. The pain kept becoming more intense as time went on, and the tears never stopped coming. It went on until it all became like a distant blur. My mind started shutting down as my body became weaker and weaker.“Stop there,” I heard someone say. The voice sounded familiar. “We don’t want her to pass out. She needs to feel this.”By now people were just talking, no more chanting or cheering. I just stayed there, resting my face against the pole, wishing I could lose consciousness. After some
“It’s so good so perfect,” Jackson said. The words made my eyes well with tears. I couldn’t believe they were coming from the same man I had been about to spent the rest of my life with. The past few weeks had really blinded me from who Jackson King was. I should have kept my distance and stuck to my decision of rejecting the mate bond. “I wish it was permanent,” Mia said. “It would look so good on her, and would always remind her not to do bad things.”Jackson chuckled. They were talking like old friends, not an alpha and his subject. I wondered if there was something between them. Had Jackson told Mia to beat me up when he sent me to the slave house? Was she his newest catch? “Leave her tied up here for two more hours,” Jackson said. “Let’s go.”Humiliated. That’s how I felt when they left me there half naked and tied up against a pole which couldn’t allow any movement. The sun had risen and was starting to become hotter. Blood had soaked up the ropes and my leggings. The pain w
I didn’t pass out. I must have taken a smaller dose that required, or maybe it was because a guard found me early. He lifted me and took me to the kitchen and put me on the floor.“What’s going on?” the older woman asked.“How did she get the wolfsbane?” the man asked, heading to the cabinet. He opened the same compartment I’d opened and removed a bottle. He came to where I was and poured the contents into my mouth. I swallowed everything. “How did this happen?” I heard a new voice. It belonged to David the beta of Midnight pack.“I don’t know,” the man told him. “I heard a scream and went to see what was going on. I found her writhing on the bed after drinking the wolfsbane.”“Where did she get it?”“Ohh, she must have got it when she came for snacks.” The old lady said. “That sneaky little woman.”“And why was that compartment open?” David grilled the poor woman.“I had to get some Nythrin poison for the prisoner downstairs,” she said. “I forgot to close it. I’m sorry.”“You’re luc
For a moment, I was frozen, unable to make a move. My mind was telling me to run but for some reason my legs couldn’t move.“Hey,” a man said, peeping from the window of the car near the one whose alarm was blaring. “Get in.”The trunk opened up. I hesitated but when I heard voices getting closer, I jumped in and it got locked up almost immediately. I lay down in the small space as my heart beat like a drum. One of the doors of the car opened. I could hear more people talking and getting into the other cars. “What happened?” someone asked.“Oh, I accidentally touched your car,” a voice that sounded like that of the man who had told me to get in said. “Okay, we thought something had happened. Why didn’t you join us?”“I didn’t feel like drinking and driving tonight,” the man said. “I hoped you guys had a great time. I’m gonna get back in the car and wait for the alpha.”Every werewolf has a unique smell and sometimes it can be apparent. I was so scared that the alpha would figure out
When the door opened, I jumped out and studied my surroundings. The driver was standing there, watching me.“Hello,” he said.We were in a small town. There were barely any people in the streets, and it was fairly quiet. Most of the houses lining the streets had their inside lights off.“Thank you so much,” I told the man. “Where are we?”“Huntswood,” he said. “It belongs to Black Moon pack.”“How close am I to Bryson Miller’s pack?”“It’s two towns away but I can’t go there now. Why did you run away from Midnight Pack?”“They were going to kill me,” I lied. I couldn’t tell him I was the woman his alpha and his friend were talking about. The one who had got Jackson King’s mind twisted for a second. If he knew that, he would realise that I would soon be highly wanted. I knew that Jackson was going to put a huge price on my head when he found out I was gone whoever was going to return me would get something good out of it.“Were you a slave?”I nodded. “Yes. Why did you help me?”“It se
I clutched the edges of the starched sheets as I sniffed harder, trying to see if I could recognise it. The scents were unfamiliar but that did not reduce my worries. When the banging and rough knocking stopped, I heard the muffled voices of two men. Had the man who saved me sold me out to Jackson? Why would he save me only to hand me back to the enemy? I decided to stay still and silent, hoping the men would go away.“We know you’re in there,” one of the men said out loud. I glanced around the room for anything I could use as a weapon in case the men decided to break in but there was nothing. I glanced at the bedside drawer. Maybe I could throw that on one of the men. “Open the door and we’ll be easy on you.”I didn’t say anything. Slowly, I sat up. Making sure to avoid making any sound, I slid out of bed and went to the bathroom. I looked at the window. Unfortunately, it had metal railings which made it impossible to escape through. Sighing, I returned to the room. There was a white
Jackson.“Alpha Jackson!”Opening my eyes, I nearly recoiled when I saw the slave on my bed. She looked so peaceful as she slept, and beautiful. If she was asleep, who had called my name? A knock on the door made me sigh.“Alpha Jackson, please open up.” Francesca said. “I need to tell you something.”“Give me a minute,” I said out loud. This awoke the woman who had been sleeping next to me. She looked up at me with a smile on her face. Knowing the kind of things she was capable of, that smile made me feel a bit uneasy.“Good morning, alpha Jackson.” She said, reaching out to touch my cheek.“Good morning, Mia.” I said while turning to get out of the bed. I figured I must have been really drunk to bring that woman to my bed. She was a psychopath and that disqualified her from being my type. There was an amount of psycho I was willing to handle, for example Francesca’s. Mia’s was too much for me. Wrapping a towel around my waist, I stepped out of the bedroom and crossed the living room
“What are we going to do about her?” I asked Jackson thirty minutes after he kicked out Francesca. I shuddered when I remembered the madness in the woman’s eyes. It was clear that she would never accept that Jackson wasn’t hers. I used to think she was just obsessed but it turned out she was also delusional. Something wasn’t right in that crazy brain of hers. Jackson poured the water into the glass and gave it to me before putting the jug back in the fridge. We were standing by the kitchen counter.“I don’t know,” he said. “What I know is she’ll be leaving the pack house today. I’ve asked them to take her to a secure place as I plan on what to do. “I can’t have her here because she’s a danger to you. I’ve always known she didn’t like you but didn’t think she’d go to the extent of wanting to kill you. I cannot tolerate that.”I went and hugged him. “Thank you so much. Truthfully, I don’t think I can feel safe with her around.”“I know.”I heard those words in my mind. With narrowed ey
I smiled when I felt the hand move from my wrist to my waist. His other hand joined the first one. A wave of delicious heat travelled from my waist to my core, and I felt my nicker getting wet. I moaned as I looked up. Jackson angled his head to the side and kissed me on the lips.“Hey,” I said when his lips met mine. I looked around and saw that people had moved further from us. He was hugging me from behind and I just wanted to collapse in his arms. My heart was beaming with joy as my wolf danced around in my head.“Let’s get out of here,” he said.“Sure.”Jackson took my hand and we walked out of the yard, several eyes staring at us. We entered through one of the side doors and went straight to the elevator. He didn’t wait for the door to close. Jackson pushed me against the wall and kissed me. The kiss was rough and fast, a testament to our starvation. As he kissed me, one of his hands went down and pulled my dress up as he touched my core, rubbing in rough circles. By the time we
I spent the next two weeks avoiding Jackson. I had returned to my room in the servant’s quarters and asked Francesca to give me roles that didn’t involve serving the alpha directly and she obliged which made it easier to avoid running into Jackson. Jackson did not also bother to look for me so the distance between us grew each day. Thankfully, I never felt any mating related pain which made me happy. At least he was not sleeping with Mia or any other woman.Kat left the day after the celebration. I’d never seen her so happy. She promised to help me repair the relationship with my parents and she fulfilled it. Two weeks after Kat had left, my mother arrived at Midnight Pack and asked for me. We hugged for what seemed like hours by the swimming pool, crying and talking about how we missed each other. “I’ve tried to talk to your father,” she said. “He’s coming around but you’ll have to give him some time. Losing Edmund took a toll on him. Edmund had been prepared to be the heir. He may
The warriors surrounded Vlad while others went to lift their alpha and quickly carried him away. Vlad turned his attention to the guard holding the torch and made him fall to the ground. Suddenly, he was invisible which made it easy for him to escape the guards. He returned to where we were and told us to hold his hands. We did and started running towards the outer boundary. We hit it and stumbled back.“Shit!” Vlad said. “This seems to have been reinforced since Bryson took over. That bastard.”“They’re going to try to escape but won’t be getting anywhere. Michael, run to the pack house and get more torches. Suddenly, we heard two distinct howls and the guards all went down on one knee, their faces adopting sombre looks. My eyes widened.“Bryson is dead!”Vlad smiled. “Yes. I knew he would die. I added black magic to that silver bullet. It had to take him down.”Forgetting about us, the guards started running back towards the pack house.“We need to get Jackson!” Vlad said and let g
“Let’s go into the woods,” Maran suggested, running from the yard towards the back yard.“Okay,” I said, following him at a high speed.“Get AJ right now!” Bryson yelled and guards started running around in different directions. Running while holding another person’s hand made things complicated but we managed to reach the wooded area quickly.We did not stop until we were over five hundred metres away from the pack house and deep in the woods.“I think we’ll find Vlad in the caves,” I told Maran. “Let’s go there.”Suddenly, a portal appeared in front of us and Vlad stepped out of it. “It’s really you!” Maran exclaimed. “I’ve read a lot about you. I couldn’t believe it when I heard you had come back to life.”“You’ll have enough time to worship me later,” Vlad was still as cocky as ever. “Do you know how to reverse the Xiang Xiang spell?”“Anna Jiang taught me,” Maran said. “But I’ve never done it practically. All I know is the theoretical part.”“That’ll have to do,” Vlad said. “Now
I let Bryson do whatever he wanted with me for two days. I stayed silent and pretended to be unmoved while planning my next move. Quietly, I studied Bryson and the new staff in the pack house. I had no idea where Francesca and Kat were but was glad I didn’t have to run into them. By the third day, I was ready to set Maran free. I chose to do it on that day because Bryson was around which meant that his guards wouldn’t be watching me like hawks.I failed to get my hands on a good weapon so I settled for the small dagger I found under Bryson’s bed. The only decent thing Bryson had done was not sleeping in Jackson’s bed. Of course he didn’t do it out of respect but because he found Jackson disgusting. As if! While Bryson dined and wined with his loud mouthed friends in the living room at 4pm, I snuck out of my room. The main hallway of the second floor was empty and so was that of the first floor. It was almost too easy. It made me wonder if I was being set up. What if Bryson had someho
The person’s scent was familiar but I couldn’t place it. All of a sudden, he let go of me. I thought I was about to come face to face with Bryson or one of his guards. To my relief, it was Vlad.“How did you find me?” I asked, trying to study him in the dark cave. My super eyesight was enabled me to identify him but I couldn’t see him very well.“I’m one of the most powerful witches in the world,” he said. “I tracked you.”“What do you want from me?”“I want you to surrender to Bryson Miller.”I gasped. “What? Do you want to get me killed?”He shook his head. “No. Bryson won’t kill you. If he wanted to kill you, he’d have done it already. He wants to use you to make Jackson jealous and made. That’s all. “That man raped me,” I said. “I can’t go near him again.”“I’m sorry that happened to you, but do you have an idea how many women he’s raping now? The man even undergoes for minors. Do you understand now how important it is for him to be stopped?”“Yes, I do and I wish to stop him but
Thankfully, the information had not yet reached the motel. Betsy the girl who ran it was shocked when I decided to check out at night. I refused to reply her questions and told her to keep the money I had already paid for that night. I didn’t find a taxi so I ran to the high way and began walking along it. About ten minutes later, a truck appeared. It was going the opposite direction so I crossed the road and stopped it. “Hey, where are you going?” a man looked out of the window.“Midnight Pack,” I said.It was the safest place for me at that time. I didn’t intend to give myself up for Bryson but to hide in the one place he wouldn’t think of looking. Bryson knew that I had run away. He also knew that the people of Midnight Pack would surrender me if they found me. Therefore he wouldn’t think I’d do to hide there. Running to other packs was more dangerous for me. When I arrived at my pack, I paid the kind truck driver and alighted near the forest. Stepping into it, I ran as fast as I
For the first time in my life, I was truly alone. The whole world had turned against me and I couldn’t think of anyone who loved or wanted to be with me. My family and pack mates had watched in silence as I was banished from home once again. The first time I left, I had a plan but this time there was nothing in mind. I had no idea where to go. I walked towards our small town. I was about to reach when I met my cousins Hans and Jerry.“Look who we have here,” jerry sneered, standing in my way. I was in no mood to talk so I tried to move out of the way but he grabbed my wrist. “What are you doing here, you killer?”“I’m not a killer,” I defended myself.“You probably killed Edmund and lied about it,” Hans said.Hans and Edmund were 17 and 18 respectively. I wasn’t about to let them disrespect me. “Could you please leave me alone? I’ve been banished from the pack and vie got to get out of here.”“What do you have here?” Hans asked, ripping my bag from my hands.“Hey, give it back!”He ra