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
Lance's POV.My route back to my room after my angry episode was cut short.When I was suddenly approached by the head slave, I raised my eyebrows in question."What is it?" I asked."All the slaves report to the slave quarters every time they finish what they are to do for the day, but every time Alyssa fails to do that.""It feels like she's always evading the job.""Or maybe she's in cahoots with the rogues for real." She added sternly."She'd never dare." I scoffed, I already knew she was in the forest where I left her.But for some wicked reason I want her to suffer."I'll see that she pays for it." I said and the head slave nodded and walked away."Oh and when she's back, punish her." I added feeling a little gleeful for what I said.I stalked to the forest finding her asleep on my way there, her body wrapped in branches close to the stream, her face still covered by the thick leaves.I sighed, annoyed, I really wanted to hurt her more than this. I knew she fainted from exhausti
Alyssa's POV.I woke up with a cold due to lying down on the cold hard floor.My whole body feels sore and it hurts when I move my neck. My eyelids are glued shut as if trying to block out the pain I felt, yet they wouldn't budge even an inch.There’s no sound in the room and I have this feeling of suffocation that I can’t get rid of, so I try to focus my eyes. My vision is blurry because of tears forming at the corners of my eyes as I remembered everything that happened last night.My heart was beating too fast and I kept thinking about how I could escape from here, but then I realized that there was nowhere to escape,I was in a hidden cell.I didn't know which part of the dungeon he hid me in, but I hoped it would be easy for me to escape.Though I knew escaping would only make the Alpha angrier.I glanced around the cell room, my head throbbing.I groaned in pain as my headache seemed to increase ten times more when I tried to stretch myself as I glanced around.My whole body f