Chapter 7

Sophie's POV

Hours passed.

I was beginning to see this as a dream, but the sight of the stainless plate before me kept my hopes high. The water can was still beside me, and I kept staring at it occasionally.

If it was truly Lucian I had seen and it wasn't some kind of hallucination, then he was going to come back, I stretched my hands, to reach out for the plate he had used to serve me food, my finger brushed around It, I smeared the oil on the plate between two fingers.

My mind journeyed back to my daughter and her well-being, what if he doesn't come back, or worse case, what if he comes back and tells me that she was dead, I didn't know what happened after I was carried to the dungeon, Alexander was under the fingers of my sister, and he was a fool he would kill her if she told him to .

My baby was the only reason why I was alive and secondly if I was to be executed, I would die wholeheartedly if I knew she would be fine even if I was dead.

While I waited, I heard a familiar step again, my wolf picked it up, immediately making me jerk from where I sat, I held the bars again, my head forcefully pushing its way into the bars.

The guards had retired, as I could no longer hear their voices after they were served their evening meal, which also meant if Lucian was to pay a visit again, he could do it.

The quiet step proceeded even further, till I got a whiff of his scent, it was him!.

My heart began to raise even more, as my hands held the bars so tight.

He came closer, I could see his coat now, and soon he was standing before me.

“How's she?, please tell me she's fine” tears gushed down my eyes. I held my mouth almost instantly . I had spoken too loud, so I refrained myself from saying anything.

“Its fine, you can speak, they are knocked out” he said, his voice had gotten even deeper in the last few years, he was almost unrecognisable, but he was still Lucian, he was reserved and spoke very few words.

“Your daughter is safe,”

I fell to my knees, my body shuddered as relief coursed through me, I had thought of so many bad things in the past few days, that a little good news was strong enough to cripple me, if anything had happened to my baby, I wouldn't know what to do.

“Thank you so much, I wouldn't know what to do without you here!, may the goddess favour you, thanks so much” I cried even more, letting the pain flow out of me.

“She still has a low chance of survival”

“What?”

I rose to my feet, for a moment, I saw his poker face soften, it looked like a different emotion compared to what I had always known him to have, but with a quick wave of his head, he was back to being calm and collected.

He clenched his fist, I could see his wolf trying to come out of his body.

“Are you okay?” concerned I tried to ask why his wolf was trying so hard to burst out of him.

“It's nothing!” he barked at me, I moved backwards in fright, there was something wrong with his wolf, I just didn’t know what it was, but soon enough he was back to normal.

“She was left in a dusty basement with no proper treatment, and how long have you known that she had a terminal disease that had been eating her up?”

“What?, no, she's fine, she just had a fever, my baby doesn't have such sickness”

“Well you are mistaken, and she's seriously sick, but I have doctors checking her to make sure she would end up on a higher chance of survival”

I had no idea which was better, the fact that my baby was alive and she was in constant suffering, or the latter which was death.

“Thanks ”

My knees felt weak, as I fell to the floor.

“You don't need to thank me, I didn't do it without a reason”

Confused, I paired my eyes at the man before me, “what do you mean?”

“I came back to usurp my brother, and you are the only one that can help me,”

I was speechless, unable to phantom my next words, one would ask, how can a mildly crippled wolf help an Alpha like him.

“How?”

“You have to promise me you would help me without questions, if you want your daughter to be alive”

“I promise” I didn't even think it through, I just wanted to make sure my little angel was fine, whatever happened in the park afterwards shouldn't even be my business, since everyone around here had betrayed me somehow, they were not my business.

“Fine, I would break you out of here soon”

I didn't question him one bit, but I still felt concerned about usurping his brother.

Earlier when he was told to leave the park and never to return, the goddess had said that he would bring the end to wolf race if he became the alpha, even though he was the strongest wolf with godlike strength, he was still said to result in a mass distraction, but when I looked at him, I saw the man who came to my rescue when the world had turned their back at me.

“Okay, I would be waiting”

I went back to my seating position, my arms hugging my knees as I reflected on what I had gotten myself into, should I really help him usurp Alexander?

“I will protect you, and your daughter, you don't have to worry” his voice was calmer now, and somehow brought tears to my eyes, and I began to cry into my arms again.

And just like thin air, I didn't feel him anywhere close to me again.

I raised my head to confirm his absence, and indeed he was gone.

My heart ached, so I laid on the floor, and waited for him to come back for me, but while I thought about my life decisions I began to hear a series of footsteps like a fleet of soldiers were marching towards me.

I quickly stood to my feet, panic aroused in my mind.

“Selene!, what have you done!” I heard Alexander's voice.

Has he come to kill me?.

He approached me, totally infuriated.

“Open her cage” he said. A guard came forward then opened the gate to the cage, fear erupted in my mind but I stood my ground, I cleaned the tears brimming down my eyes.

He stared at me in disgust, before closing his nose with a napkin.

“Where did you take Ella to! Where is she!” he yelled at me.

Waving his fingers, some guard surrounded me, one of them kicked my knees, immediately sending me to my knees, the force bruised my knee cap.

“Bow before your Alpha”

Such disrespect…

“Where did you take Ella to!, did you take her out of the park so you can tell the whole park that I didn't take care of her!”

For an alpha who was scared of his people's judgment, he was a prick, he should face his people, not me.

“Talk now!”

“Fuck you” I raised my head then spat directly at him.

And just then, a hard slap landed on my face.

“How dare you”