Chapter Four

Elsa's POV

I was forced to the stage to dance seductively before the crowd of men that were gathered from the four corners of the pack waiting to watch the now degraded daughter of the former Alpha of the pack dance and flock her body before them.

"I am not going to do this not before everyone is present, I am not that shameless and still have some sense of dignity." I returned to my mate, Gulther, but he shot an angry look at me, looking right into my eyes with fury.

"You aren't going to disappoint this crowd of people, you are there and doing whatever they want you to do, right there right now." He fired angrily at me and pushed me to the stage with a thick frown hanging on his face.

"And don't try anything funny with me." He whispered and watched me from another end.

Immediately the people saw me, they began to clamor for me to dance but I wasn't going to give in to them so easily.

"Dance! Dance! Dance!" The men in the hall kept yelling at me but I wasn't going to give in to anybody.

I turned around to leave immediately but Arthur came over to me and slapped me hard on my face with a frown hanging on his face and tears formed at the corner of my eyes while I clutched my aching face.

"Fool, why aren't you dancing? I thought I already told you to behave well if you still love this miserable life of yours." He thundered at me but I could not say a single word to him.

"Stop." A loud cry came from the other end of the hall and I turned around quickly to see who it was, together with everyone in the hall.

And to our greatest surprise, it was the Lycan king, making everyone in the hall gasp in shock and confusion.

Immediately I saw his face, that night crossed my mind and I was already shibari with fear so hard that I could not even stand properly.

"He has finally come for me." I thought in my head as cold shivers ran quickly down my spine.

The Lycan together with his train of pack warriors walked over to the stage and shot a deadly stare at the both of us, staring right into my eyes as though he was searching the inner part of me. 

I could feel my heart beating hard against my chest as though it was going to burst through.

"What does he want from me?" I thought

"Good day, Lycan Arthur." He bowed before the Lycan King but he seemed not to be satisfied the slightest bit.

He went over to him and raised his head and "slapped." A deadly slap landed on his face making everyone stare at the Lycan King in shock and surprise.

"What's the heck is happening here?" I could hear the people murmuring from the point where I stood.

"What the heck is happening here," I yelled in my head, equally shocked at what was happening there.

"How dare you bow before me when you are disobeying me?" The Lycan King fired angrily at him with a frown sitting on his face.

"But how am I disobeying you, my Lycan." Gulther returned already shivering with fear. For the first time since I met him, he was visibly afraid and sweat was already flowing down from the corner of his face.

"Why are you being Cruel to my mate?" He announced before everyone was present and the hall became as silent as a graveyard while my jaw dropped in surprise.

"Mate? Lycan? Here? How?" Several thoughts ran through my head while I watched the event happening in the hall in shock.

"But how is she your mate," Gulther said with a stutter already shivering with fear and cold shivers running swiftly down his spine knowing too well what he was going to be in for if the Lycan found him guilty of any offense.

"How dare you question my authority?" The Lycan King growled at him with hate and disgust in his eyes.

"Slap." Another deadly slap landed on his left cheek. I watched as the Lycan king called out to the guards and they brought a leather belt with them and handed it over to me.

I stared at the belt, then at Gulther, and then at the Lycan king. "I can't do this," I announced, shaking my head side by side.

"Then I will do it for you." The Lycan king announced. He began to whip him with the belt while he screamed out in pain, just the same way he always did with me.

When he was satisfied and Gulther was already bleeding, he stopped and turned over to me while I fell back in my tracks.

"Come with me." He said stretching his hands towards me but rather than see those lovely hands, I saw the claws of death, those claws that caused the death of my parents and were also about to end my life.

But I could not disobey him, he was the Lycan king and he had the sole right to do whatever he wanted with anybody that he liked.

We got to the carriage and I remember that I had forgotten something back at the brothel. "I have to get something," I informed him and turned around quickly and broke into a run. 

When I got to the place, a strange hand held me and made me shiver with fear. And when I stared into his face, I noticed that it was Arthur. He was still hell-bent on not letting me go.

"What do you want from me again you beast." I fired at him, already getting irritated by him. "Can't you see that I am no longer yours?" I fired.

"We all know why he came for you, dummy. Deep down, you know he is not your mate and he only wants to do the same thing that he did to your parents to you." He whispered into my ears...

And I realized the truth of what he was saying, making me shudder absently and sweat ran down from the corner of my head.