Chapter Nineteen

Emily's POV

I stood very still in the middle of the forest, my ears listening intently to pick up any foreign sounds. It sounded eerily quiet but I wasn't fooled, I knew there was something out there lurking in the shadows waiting for me so it could attack me. I took a step forward then paused swiftly, I turned around just in time to see a shadow hide behind one of the trees. My suspicions were confirmed, someone had been following me and now they wanted to attack. Unfortunately for them, I wasn't just an ordinary wolf, so whoever it was had no idea what was in store for them. I began to move faster, walking briskly to lure out whoever it was that was following me when I suddenly felt a sharp sting in my neck, it was like a pinch but I suddenly felt unstable. I reached my hand to the spot in my neck and pulled out a syringe. It didn't take a lot to know what was in the syringe, it was no doubt a sedative. Whoever these people were it seemed they had a more intricate and complex plan than just killing me in the middle of nowhere. I felt another sharp sting like the first one, it was another sedative. They wanted to kidnap me.

My balance shaked and my vision blurred. I tried to shake off the effect of the sedatives but it was proving impossible to remain standing on my feet.

"Why am I so weak?", I asked out loud.

It felt strange, I thought being a beserker came with a stronger immune and pain tolerance system, it was supposed to take more than two sedative shot to take me down so why? My vision blurred even further and it was like I fell into a dark abyss.

I came to with a strong headache, slowly I opened my eyes but the sunlight streaming into the room forced me to keep them close. I gave my eyes time to get used to the brightness of the room before opening them again. The sight in front of me had me confused. I was laying on the bed in a large room. The decorations of the room gave a very oestantious vibe. The bed I was lying on was a lush king sized bed, the curtains looked like they were made from pure silk as well as the beddings. These realizations made me even more confused because the last thing I remembered was being followed in the forest and then ultimately being shot with sedatives. Why then was I waking up in such a luxurious room?

"Or am I dead?", I asked myself out loud.

"Is this the after life?", I wondered.

Just as I was lost in my thoughts, the door opened and a young woman walked in, holding a bowl of water. She looked up, our eyes met and she was startled.

"Oh!", she was exclaimed then her cheeks immediately flushed pink with embarrassment.

"Oh goddess, I'm so sorry, my lady. I was just surprised to see you awake is all", she apologized quickly.

I didn't respond and she flashed a smile at me.

"How are you? Are you feeling any pain anywhere, my lady?", she asked as she approached the bed.

I didn't respond, instead I studied her. I needed to know if she was a threat, if I had to keep my guard up around her. I had already been burned two many times before. She dropped the bowl carefully on the bedside table and looked at me with the smile still plastered on her face, I studied her. Maybe it was the way her eyes crinkled when the smile reached them but she radiated a kind of warm aura that made me feel safe around her so I decided to trust her, at least for now.

"Where am I?", I asked her.

"You are in the Blue Blood pack, my lady", she answered.

I cringed. That was the third time she was using that term to address me. I had never been called that before and I didn't understand why she was using it to address. The people who were following me and shot me with sedatives are most likely the ones who brought me here. But it still didn't make sense, everything felt weird, how did I go from being captured in the middle of the forest to waking up in a luxurious room like this?

I looked at the lady who was still beaming at me.

"What is your name?", I asked her.

"Adeline, my lady", she answered with a little bow.

I cringed again.

"Can I ask you a question Adeline?", I asked her and she nodded enthusiastically.

"Of course my lady, go ahead", she answered.

"That, why do you keep addressing me like that?", I asked her.

"Like what, my lady?", she asked, her eyebrows raising in confusion.

"That!", I exclaimed already getting frustrated.

"My lady, why do you keep calling me, my lady? And why am I here in this luxurious room? Surely, if I was captured, I should be down in a dark cold room somewhere or maybe even dead so why am I?", I lashed out her and she gasped loudly.

"Don't say that my lady, why would you be?"

"Would you just stop calling me 'my lady', already?!", I exploded.

Adeline was taken aback by my outburst, she took a few steps back away from the bedside and I remembered who I was. I was no ordinary wolf, my beserker transformation was more or less connected to my emotions so when I exploded like that she must have felt my strong aura and it would have been really scary. I looked at Adeline who was staring at me wide eyed and I felt bad.

I opened my mouth to apologize for exploding at her like that when the door opened at that very moment. I looked up and a tall man with a majestic aura slid into the room smoothly. He beamed at me,

"My love, you're awake"