"YOU WILL BE MY WIFE"

DERRICK KINGS

"What is it, Damian? And why did you have to come here? You are stopping the guards from doing their duty." I frowned at Damian when we were away from the guards and the intruder lady. 

"Derrick, I know I shouldn't be doing this but think carefully about this…" Damian started, his playful grin gone from his face. 

"Think about what?"

"Her…you can't have her locked up, don't tell me you are doing this because of…

"Because of what?" I snapped, feeling my anger surge. Knowing what exactly he was trying to bring up, I cut him off, not willing to reopen an old wound that moment. 

"She has a hand in the disappearance of Laura and must be held hostage until Laura is found." 

"Do you really believe she has a hand in Laura's disappearance?" Damian asked me. 

I looked at him, confused. "What the heck are you trying to say?" I clenched. 

"Relax man, relax. I just asked. But if you will let me speak to you right now as your Beta and not your friend, I will advise you to deal with this another way other than this."

"What other way should I deal with a criminal?" I scoffed with irritation. "Look, Damian, don't you see this? Can't you tell what is going on? They are rearing their heads up again, they are coming to challenge me again! They are fuvking coming at me again to hurt me again. Don't you see all of this? But they have missed something. I am not as weak as I used to be…"

Damian sighed. 

"Fine, you don't see it yet. Perhaps you will get to see it soon. Just watch, watch how I lay all of them bare, and one by one, I will break every damn bone in their body."

"Fine. I will agree with whatever you have in mind to do but…don't lock her up." He insisted. 

"And what would I possibly do with her? She is of no use to me…" I gritted, flashing a hateful glance at the intruder lady. 

"Maybe one of your servants …I mean that wouldn't hurt, keeping her as one of your servants. Then you watch her and see if she really knows something. I'm sure you will figure something out later on…" Damian suggested. 

I paused as I minced over Damian's suggestion. Take the intruder as my servant?

"See that, doesn't that make more sense than torturing her to death?"

I shrugged. "You have no idea, Damain. What easier way can a great man be killed other than through his servant?"

Damain laughed. "You? Killed by a servant?"

I frowned and gave him a serious look. "That's not a joke, Damian. And I don't mean me exactly...I mean I am quite great…"

"Of course, of course…I have no doubt about it. Still, why don't you give her the benefit of doubt this once…"

"Wait…" I stopped and peered suspiciously at him.

Damain must have read my expression. He chuckled. "I am not trying to protect her in any way. I don't even know her, man!"

"Then why do you keep trying to stop me from torturing her?" I tilted my head and peered deeper at him. 

"Man, believe me Derrick! I ain't trying to protect her…"

"Fine. I will believe you…" I said as I slowly turned to face the lady intruder again while considering Damain's suggestion. 

'Take her as a servant?' I exhaled slowly. I felt my veins throb. Seeing her did nothing but remind me of a past I have struggled to set straight. Could this be the chance I have waited for all these years?

"Go on, what are you waiting for?" Damian tapped my back. 

"Uh, yeah…" I took a quick breath before I started briskly towards the intruder and the guards. 

I ordered the guards to leave when I got to them. 

Once they left, I faced the lady intruder and approached her menacingly. I was going to try one more time to force the truth out of her before going ahead with Damain's suggestion. 

First I dismissed the guards letting her stay back. She must have thought she was free from my wrath. In her wildest dreams. I couldn't have missed the look of relief that crossed her face when I ordered the servant to go and free her. 

I would have given her a glint of hope. The same hope I will be taken away from her in the next minute. 

She started to step backwards fearfully as I approached her with a cold look until she couldn't move anymore. 

"I will be asking for the fuvking last time…who sent you?" 

"I'm sorry…I…" she stuttered. 

As I stared down at her shivering body, Damain's words came flashing in my head again. The person before me was too weak to raise a finger against me. 

My teeth clenched hard. No, I can't have myself feeling pity for her. If this was the plan of my enemies to infiltrate me by using a weak fellow against me, then I must never fall for it. 

"Fine. Then I must kill you with my own hands if you won't tell the truth. You are of no use to me."

She fell on her knees before me almost immediately. "Please spare my life! I was sent by no one. I swear!"

I scoffed in disgust. How dare she still lie in my presence…

"You dare lie to me?! How then did you manage to be in a wedding dress not meant for you?!" I growled in annoyance momentarily letting my Lycan aura loose. Seeing as she lied without flinching, she must not be as weak as Damian and I thought her to be. 

"I'm sorry please…I will do anything you order me to do! Take me as your servant! No, take me as your slave and I will serve you forever! Use me as bait to catch your enemies! Spare my life please!" She pleaded. 

'Use me as bait'… that part sounded interesting to my ears. And the perfect idea hit me right at the moment. 

"Yes, I will do as you said…I will use you as bait and capture all my enemies. However, this wouldn't be just any bait…" 

I pulled her tightly to myself with a pleased smirk and into her ears I whispered, "My slave? My servant? No. You will be my wife…"

She wobbled to the ground the next second. 

I lowered myself to her level, held her jaw and raised her face to look at me. 

"You are mine now and must do whatever I say…do you understand that?"

"Why…I…"

"You think you got a choice? No, you don't. Remember,  I only let you live as my bait to capture my enemies. I wouldn't hesitate one second to slit your throat and feed your weak bones to my hounds the moment I realise you are one of my enemies." I warned her sternly. I hope she took my warning seriously. It was for her own sake. I wasn't one to not keep my words.