All Chapters of The Alphas Hunt: Chapter 41 - Chapter 46

The room was spinning around me and I couldn't get out of my head.His eyes started glowing, a beautiful golden-brown hue with a deceiving calm luring behind them.Trixy stepped back, she was scared and the pressure from the Lycan was driving her into submission without a single word uttered to make her kneel; it was all him, his energy and his wolf simply existing was enough to make us cower.It was why the Lycans ruled for as long as they had, they were different from us, stronger and much more powerful. Darian's lips hovered by my ear and his breath fanned my face when he whispered, “Look around,” Without turning my head I tried to see what room I was in. The walls were dark, a near charcoal color matching with the red heavy drapes that covered the window. The canopy bed had thick black bed posts with upside-down teardrop-shaped finials decorating the heads of the posts.

One beat. Two beats. Three beats. I heard my heart beating in my ears, quieting all other sounds- not that there were many. Like a horse race I saw on TV once, the humans loved those, I remember them in the stalls before the doors opened, the signal broke out and the horses took off running like their lives depended on it. That eruption of speed and sound and the way that the people in the stands stood up and cheered on their favorites. It was a deafening sound, it made your heart pound against your chest and then when I saw the faces of the people who won, they were euphoric.My heart was the steps of a horse running on the track, Darian was the observer in the stands, having betted money and waiting to see his favorite horse run over the finish line.My fingers clutched and my legs started to tremble like Bambi on ice while I pulled with all my might to get

I couldn't tell you how long I walked the halls before Elise found me. It was embarrassing enough that I couldn't find my way back to my room but when she told me that I was in the wrong wing of the palace I just gave up.She guided me back through the twists and turns of the halls and the stairs, it was like a jigsaw puzzle and I had no clue how I would get out of here.One of these days I needed to sit down and map everything out. I knew that down the right corridor and past two hallways, down two flights of stairs and past three colorless doors was the door that led out of the palace- the one that Gabe used to get me out.I hated to admit it but that was everything I knew and that was a piece of information that I’d keep safely tucked away until I needed it. “Has he told you anything about tonight's ball?” Elise asked while she dried my hair. I told her that it wasn't necessary, that I could fix it myself but she insisted, stating that it’d been her job since she was a little girl