Semua Bab Annora: The Alpha's Prey, Beta's Obsession : Bab 11 - Bab 20

ANNORAThe Beta. Wait, what? Why’d he have to come out half-naked? That was the first thing I could register about his appearance. He’d come out with bandages wrapped around his neck and shoulders— maybe he mistook that for a shirt. I watched him help Lady Wendeline up. He seemed so concerned that it was a little bothersome. It looked like they were friends. I didn’t know an Alpha who let his Beta and brother become so intimate with his bride. Then again, that was no concern of mine. I was dead meat.Lady Wendeline confirmed that she was okay, but the Beta seemed to need help with the injury I'd caused. Watching him momentarily scrunch his face in pain made me admit that I felt a little bit of guilt for stabbing him.All he’d tried to do was help me, and I took advantage of that. I shrank deeper into my uniform. “It’s you, isn’t it? The slave girl,” Lady Wendeline mentioned, and my soul almost snatched out of my body.How the hell did she know that? Doing my best not to look at th

AEGONWaddling behind me like a lost child, Sin wrapped her hands around herself, shivering from the blistering cold. It only made her look more pathetic than she already did in those unfortunate clothes.And she appeared meeker than usual, as though that defiant side of her had drowned in the well. Who locked her in and why? I couldn’t care less. Every near-death experience she incurred only made her fear me more.That was exactly what I wanted. There was clamoring within the maids as I slipped by— they all looked at her like she shouldn’t be alive. If anything, she shouldn’t have messed with Kairel, not when every single maid and slave he had helped pledged his life to him.Leading her inside my chamber, I pointed to a spot for her to stay. I couldn’t have a wet trail lining my entire rug. She looked up at me with sad, puppy eyes, though she stank everywhere. No one would know how much of a clown and menace she was with that piteous look on her face.“Strip,” I said as I took my sea

ANNORA“Are you okay?” Beta Kairel asked me as he walked down the hallway, past the festering sight of the guards and maids.I still got goosebumps from walking within them, knowing they’d willingly set up my death and no one would know. Getting locked up in the well shrunk the size of Alpha Aegon as a threat. I had a lot more to worry about, and it was all sinking in that I’d have to worry about my life every day like thisTrying not to tear up as I did, I nodded, keeping my lips tightly pursed and tasting the bitter bile that sat at the bottom of my throat.There were concrete chairs just outside Alpha Aegon’s chamber, and Beta Kairel ushered me to sit. My thoughts were crashing very wickedly. “What happened?” he asked, seeming concerned. Was I even supposed to trust him?He lied that he would get a ladder and didn’t return. I was in that position anyway because of him and his incorrigible fanbase.“I got stuck.”“You were trapped in there. You didn’t put yourself in there, and some

ANNORAWhen I opened my eyes, Sora wasn't right next to me, and neither were any of my other maids. The soft bedding had deceived me and I forgot the kind of hell I was in.The fog cleared from my eyes as I took in the complete image of the room. It was Beta Kairel’s room. The moment I remembered that all the other memories punched in, too, I felt the fear lace my lower back as I sat up.All the horrid images, all the struggles, and tears, I felt them once more, as though I relived the moment again. I didn’t even want to think of the horrible things that would have happened if the Beta hadn’t found me faster.Shielding my face from the sun with the back of my arms, I shuffled my way out of the bed. I remembered falling asleep on his couch, not in here.I glanced around slowly, and it looked like a bedroom to me. The Beta’s room? Despite the pain that weighed on my bones, I leaped out of bed as I’d sinned.My heart lay heavy in my chest as it had always been, with a void in it that did

ANNORAHow does it feel to wake up to a murderer watching you while you sleep? All the blood drained out of me when I opened my eyes and found Alpha Aegon staring right back at me with those endlessly dark orbs of his.I was startled but choked on the cold, plunging fear. The look on his face when he slit the guard’s throat still churned relentlessly in my brain. It didn’t matter how much I tried to shove it off or how much I thought the guard had it coming— it just stuck like a bad dream.“Alpha Aegon…” I sat up slowly, my entire body weak from the shelves he’d upheaved. My mind thumped in my chest like it struggled to claw its way out of my chest.Sweat broke on my forehead, and I couldn’t hold his gaze. How dare I stare into such an abyss that threatened to swallow me whole? I found my voice after seconds sprinted by. “What are you doing?”He looked absolutely normal, like he hadn’t just slit a man’s throat open in front of everyone. It was almost hard to tell how much evil lived w