Alyssa's POV.I woke up with a wince, and I was not exactly pleased about it as I remembered the night before.I remembered how I was punished by the Alpha, I am happy I got saved at the last minute.I could still remember what happened to me, before I came back to the pack.I tried standing up, but my body ached like crazy, I groaned out in pain. My mind had already started racing around in panic, wondering if I would get in trouble again.I sighed as I tried standing up again, this time I managed to sit up. My hand went to rub my head in agony. The headache had become so intense.I felt myself falling back onto the mattress as I tried to find the strength to move. This was all too much for my head.My body hurt, my muscles ached and I didn't think I wanted anything more than some quiet, a shower and sleep.I forced myself to concentrate and open my eyes, I realized I was in the Alpha's room.A blush stained my cheeks, as I thought of him meeting me in his bed.Though it has happen
Alyssa's POV.This time when I opened my eyes, all I could see was white. It took me a while to realize it wasn't snow and I was just staring at the ceiling. A sharp pain hit me immediately, and I groaned as I moved my arm around trying to find out where it hurt worst. A lot of it, actually. Like most of my body. Everything felt sore and tender.I remembered fainting after the pain was too much, I thought it would be gone when the healer told me it was just side effects.I hated the fact that every time I went there seemed to be some new pain involved. As if someone put something in the drug the head slave gave me.The pain didn't stop, it was worse than it was earlier.Which didn't make sense to me, since I had been asleep for several hours from the time I saw now, the pain could've subsided as the healer said it would.I tried standing up, but the moment my feet touched the floor, they began throbbing, like an intense ache in my whole leg.I winced and collapsed on my bed, hold
Alyssa's POV.I couldn't believe Belinda was sneaking into the room.I closed my eyes, trying to pretend I was sleeping, but the fact of her being here kept me from doing that.I suspected that she had something to do with how I felt when I woke up, I just didn't know it would be true.She must have been waiting for me to sleep, I'm sure she was close to the door, enjoying my cry of pain.I couldn't understand what her problem was, and why she hated me and wanted to kill me.She was making several attempts, some she made me know and some I suspected.Right now she was making my suspicion true.I could hear her getting closer to my bed. She stood close to me and I hoped I was able to pretend that she wasn't here and that I was sleeping.She paused for some time, my heart beating repeatedly, I wondered if she had left yet, or if she would try something else.I couldn't open my eyes, it felt like she would catch me, and I was so scared of what she wanted to do.I didn't want to feel pai
Alyssa's POV.I couldn't believe him, he was back to being cold, he was caring and now she was eating and kissing, he even sent me out of the room immediately.My heart aches a lot, and it hurts all over when I remember them kissing repeatedly.It hurts so much, I can't believe this, I don't know what's happening anymore. I've been trying hard not to cry. I have always cried. I'm supposed to be happy that he finally gave me attention after a while but he showed me that my happiness was for nothing.I winced as I stumbled on a large stone, it sent me rolling, and I ended up hitting something solid with a thud. I groaned as I rubbed the sore spot on my head where it hit something hard and sharp and I looked at what I hit, I sighed when I saw the rock.I really didn't want to get up because then there would be another painful experience, I wasn't strong completely and I was hurting already, physically and emotionally.It weighed down, like an anchor keeping me from moving forward.
Alyssa's POV."Where have you been?" the head slave asked immediately I entered the slave quarters."I was working ma'am." I lied, I hoped she wouldn't be upset, my heart was thumping loudly.I was sure she could hear it, "I was told you went to meet rogues." The head slave walked closer to me.I stepped back, I didn't want her getting any closer to me, she could hit me immediately.I knew how frequent she was about punishing other slaves."It was a mistake." I replied softly.I wasn't ready to get into trouble with her, I'd already got punished for what I didn't do and I still got hurt after being healed, I didn't want any form of pain.She narrowed her eyes and studied my face, before nodding at me once and walking away without another word to me.I breathed a sigh of relief, I made sure not to look in the direction of where she'd gone, afraid that she would turn around and catch me looking at her. I hurriedly walked towards my room, trying to calm myself down, it's alright, nothi
Lance's POV.I woke up with a start, sudden familiar memories plaguing my mind.My hands trembled as the memory of that night came to mind.My heart sank as tears stung my eyes. I had been in bed for so long when suddenly everything flooded back to me.The horror of how I suffered and everything that I went through replayed in my head. It was like it happened all over again.But it hadn't. It couldn't have.I knew this because I wasn’t there anymore.I could feel that I was in my room, but the memories became vivid.Everything came rushing back to me in an instant.Everything, the pain from the torture that night, the screams that escaped my lips while I was being held down.Her father!!! I could remember it perfectly . He had beaten me bloody without even caring, not sparing any remorse about almost killing someone's son.I remember the pain of losing my parents again, feeling utterly alone and helpless.I remembered the fear that plagued me every day, I was shaking right now the
Lance's POV.Seeing her increased my rage, it felt like he was staring right at me.My eyes burned from the intensity of my glare.She stared at me nervously, her eyes darting around the forest.I wondered why she was here, but my mind was clouded with refreshed hate right now.The memories that came in the form of nightmares made me angry, they were all I could think of as I came here to get rid of them.She looked like him and that made me feel like he was here right now staring at me.I felt like he was mocking me as well, through her, I felt like he was staring at me.But it was just her with her crazy resemblance, nothing else.The way she looks so similar to him. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I can't stop looking at her, it feels like I should make her pay again.I walked closer to her and she stepped away fearfully.But I didn’t care if she was afraid, my gaze never left hers.She stared back at me with such terror, such desperation in her expression.Her breathing s
Alyssa's POV.I ran immediately. He screamed at me to go, my throat still hurting, but I ran anyway, because he wanted me to run away from him. With the way he was angry, I don't know what he would've done to me after pressing my neck.My eyes were watering again, tears of pain and fear, and it felt like my heart would beat out of my chest if it didn’t calm down already. I had been so afraid when I saw him, I came to the forest to calm down a little.I kept running, until I reached the stream. I stopped in front of it and started taking deep breaths, trying to calm myself down. It wasn’t working, I could feel the adrenaline pumping through my body, making me feel hyper aware of everything around me.The water made my neck sting, but my heart didn't feel any less heavy as it pounded against my ribcage, and I needed to stop that too.I started crying, as I remembered how he was cruel to me.If I kept it up, it'd only make me cry harder, and then I couldn't control myself anymore. S
Allyssa's Pov. I wake up in my bed, the bed I and the Alpha share, I don't even remember dozing off, I just remember the Beta dropping me off here and me going inside, worried sick about my mate. Who is currently leaning over the bed, looking at me, his breath fanning my face and a smile grazing his lips."You are beautiful" He murmurs and nuzzles my neck. I smile and then when my eyes trail to his arms my breath catches in my throat." And you're hurt" I whisper, alarmed, he straightens and I jump up, getting the first aid box." You're adorable, it's okay though, I don't need that, I'm going to heal on my own anyway" He mutters and I glare at him. Applying some antiseptic cream to my thumb and forefinger, then opening my palms, I mutter, " Bring it here" He looks at me and sighs, " It's really okay"" Those cuts are so fucking deep, please let me treat your wounds, please " my voice cracks at the end, buy I try very hard to keep my composure, and fail miserably. There scratch
Allyssa's POV. Belinda leaves my jaw, examining her nails to see if any damage was done to the new manicure, then she orders Adrian to untie my hands, and he does so, keeping his hands on my shoulders to keep my from escaping, I almost roll my eyes, there's no way in hell that I'd be able to escape, I don't even know there the hell I am. I am so angry and also, so scared at the same time. Belinda, this bitch, came in and started gloating about my predicament, and considering the fact that she is the one that put me in it, I think my murderous thoughts are justified. "How does it feel huh, answer me" She screams at my face and I look up at her, then spit on her feet. "How dare you?" She shrieks, "hold her" she commands Adrian and he does just that.He yanks my head back so that my throat is bare, Allyssa's sharp pointed nails trail in my neck, and I hold my breath. If she sinks her nails in my flesh, she might hit a vein or major artery and I may die from blood loss. Pak. The sla
Lance's POV. I'm on a searching spree, my wolf is beyond angry at this point, there is no word in the vocabulary that can describe the intense feeling of fury and rage that I am feeling at this point, it's red hot and blinding, searing me from the inside out. I'm still waiting for Dylan and pacing the clearing, clutching her hair to my chest and trying to use the mate bond to lead her to me, I call out to her using the mate bond, but it's either the mate bond has been weakened or the distance between she and I, is too far for the mating pull to reach. I still feel like it's all my fault that all these happened, I am the one that got angry and left while she was still in her feelings, had I behaved like a sensible person and tried to calm her down, we would not be in this position, she would be in my arms now and not missing. Had I taken the time to explain everything to her then maybe things would be different right now, but I had let my emotions cloud my judgment, I had acted base
Allyssa's POV. I open my eyes, my head hurts, and I sway to the side, my head lolling, I'm tied up, that's the first thing I notice, and I'm alone in a very nondescript room. I turn my head around, my head feels heavy on my shoulder and I feel like it is going to fall off and roll down but my hands are tied and there is nothing I can do. I look around the room, there is a single light bulb that produces smoky illumination which hurts my eyes, the chair I'm chained to is made of iron, there is an iron table with all sorts of torture items sprawled on top of it. The room is bleak, and my heart jumps in my throat as I realize that this may be the end for me. I am going to die without even seeing Lance, I am going to die with the image of my aunt's dead body crawling through my mind. I squeeze my eyes shut, hoping this is just an hallucination, a dream, but when I open my eyes, the rope is still fighting into my wrist, the table with the torture instruments still looks as menacing a
Lance's POV. The sweat drips down my back as I head back to the room, I needed to clear my head and figure out exactly what is going on around me, and what better way to do it than to pour all my rage on the punching bag, which now lays in pieces on the gym floor by the way. Now that I have had some time to think about my actions and cool off, I find that I actually have done some things wrong, first and foremost my approach. That slap was well deserved because when Allyssa had talked about her aunt, no, Elaine, I had laughed in her face, with Elaine's dead body a few meters from me and her blood on my hands. That had been a completely unacceptable approach to the issue, in my defense, I didn't want to laugh, it just bubbled out of me without control, but it was still wrong. And I also get the reason she would have to doubt me, she witnessed me crouching over Elaine's body, her blood on my hands, face and clothes, telling her immediately that I was not wrong would have been like
Allyssa's POV. My emotions are all over the place, I can't believe anything that happened in the last twenty four hours, I cannot believe that my aunt that talked to me some hours ago is no more, and that my mate killed her. I moved into a blank room, with only a bed and a chair, the room seems empty, and lacks life, just like my life at this moment. I wanted to move to Elaine's old room, but that would hurt too much, it's like I am relieving my mother's death over again, I cannot even believe that I am back to square one. The Alpha had been so enraged when we had our last conversation, but he had no right to be, I saw it very well with my own eyes, the blood splattered on his hands, his face, his clothes. He could not convince me that someone else had killed her and splattered the blood on his hands, his face and his clothes. I just need space, I need a place to retreat to and cool my head, a place to nurse my wounded heart. I also cannot believe that Belinda had come immediate
Belinda's POV.HappinessHow long does it last? Because mine suddenly seems to last forever.When last did I smile and treat myself to a bottle of wine and a pedicure? I think I'll do that right now, I'm so happy I feel like I'm going to combust, I am so happy that I persevered, I am finally getting very close to my goal.This is the happiest I have been in ages, I'm not even lying.The look on the Alpha's face when Allyssa told him that she did not want to be his mate anymore, and the broken look on Allyssa's face as she flung baseless accusations at the Alpha.Their relationship is at rock bottom and I am so very happy about it, I cannot believe that idiot Allyssa.I'm convinced at this point that her brain is only for decoration and she does not use it to think at all, it's all for fancy.I laugh out loud and pick a bottle of champagne that I iced in a bucket, pouring the sparkling white wine in a glass, the paper brownish-gold color excites me.I lift it to my lips and taste the b
Lance's POV.I'm angry and frustrated, Allyssa has succeeded in making me utterly enraged, she is not even giving me the chance to speak for myself, she just up and assumed that I was at fault, and I guess in a way I am, but I wasn't the one that killed the woman and she is not allowing me to clear myself.And I am even more angry when she just threatens to end our relationship, like it's some superficial bond, like the mating bond means nothing to her, it makes me so angry that my wolf growls. I'm so angry, rage fills my head, my vision turning red and dangerous.I look at as she speaks, barely registering her words, my head feels like it's about to burst, she is shaking, from whatever emotions are rocking her body, her eyes are red and bloodshot, the tears still falling in torrents like it's not going to end.When she says that she wants to end our relationship, I laugh in her face, the laughter just erupts from the pit of my stomach, bubbling it's way out of my mouth with an intens
Allyssa's POV.The shock on my face must show because he is taken aback, I feel a lot of emotions at this point, disgust, rage, anger, sadness, I feel betrayed.I think I'm going to vomit, I look at him like he is sick, deranged, unstable, and honestly, he is.She warned me, she came to me and begged me to save her from him, but I denied, maybe if I had not denied all the facts she told me, if I had not brushed all of it off as hysterics, she would still be alive.When I look at her again, her body mangled on the floor, I bend over and vomit in one of the shrubs.When I turn back to look at the Alpha, the blood on his hands, on his face and his clothes tells me everything I need to know, tells me who exactly is responsible for this crime.I watch his face closely, wondering why the hell he had to do this, a tear gleams on his face and I am taken aback, I feel the urge to laugh at him.Why is he crying? The almighty Alpha? Why is he showing this emotion? He fucking killed my aunt! My o