10 Kaya’s POV. There was a time in my life when the rise of sunlight was a joy I could not fathom. It felt like a part of me that I always cherished. I would have woken up early, mesmerized by my thoughts, which were beautiful then. I’d run up the ladder to the roof of the cottage and watch as that yellow vibrance landed on my skin. Having watched as my skin glows, I’d smile and appreciate nature for creating such beauty in the midst of the darkness that lurks in this world. But now, here I am, lying on the bed with my eyes closed as I feel the rays of the sunlight beaming onto my skin. Yet, I do not stand up. I cannot bring myself to be happy about anything because my life is no longer mine. I am crush and doom from the moment that the people left in my love life were murdered by the ones who captured me. They’ve left me to be nothing. Suddenly, I reverse from the depths of my thoughts when I hear someone clear their throat. My eyes snap open, and my body bolts up from the bed.
11 Kaya’s POV. It is a dead end with the brothers. I have come to realize that. They want to destroy me totally, and maybe I should just allow that. But they won’t kill me. Would I be in excruciating pain forever? I’m not that kind of girl. I never thought that’s what fate has in store for me. A few weeks ago, my imagination of what the future holds was wild. I thought of a world where I am not exactly judged for who I am, where I don’t suffer for my kind of breed, but thinking of the reality that I live in now, perhaps I had asked wrongly. Perhaps I should not have wished for a better life. Maybe that way, I would still have a brother who keeps disturbing my life and a father who dreams of a world where invention reigns. “Your dress is here.” Blinking rapidly, I come alive to the voice of Melissa. She pats the side of the bed where she has placed the cloth before a smile emits from her lips. My eyes shift to the gown in a wrapped nylon bag, and upon opening it, my lips part o
12 Kaya’s POV. The ride has been going on for God knows how long, and it’s now tiring. My ass cheeks hurt from sitting in one position for the past half an hour that I’ve been inside this space. The triplets don’t say anything to me, which I’m glad for because I don’t think I can even hold a conversation. . Yes, I am still traumatized by what happened earlier. I thought Kieran was the only one capable of doing what Kade did, but then, thinking about it, Kade never showed me who he was. What am I even saying? None of the brothers have shown me their all. I don’t know what else they’ve got up their sleeves. Anyway, taking that off of my mind in the meantime, I have watched the beauty of the road as we passed by. It’s alluring how it’s filled with people beautifying nature, except those people are vile—they are werewolves. At this point, I am coming to the conclusion that all werewolves are cruel, uncultured, and savage. All of their eyes that have ever been placed on me reveal
13Kaya’s POV.“I should leave.” I don’t wait another second before I pick up a pace, except that I didn’t pass by the alpha before he draws me back.“First rule: no one walks away from me.” His voice is dangerously low. There’s a dark glint in his eyes when he lands on mine, and I look away.“Plus, you don’t want to get back there without your owners. You’d be eaten. Have you ever imagined having your heart plucked out while alive? Oh, you don’t want to imagine the horrific look that settles on the victim’s face.”Why is he telling me this?“And how do I know you won’t hurt me?”“Because I want you to have a drink with me.” He sounds convincing enough, but I will never trust any werewolf.If the triplets hate him, then he must be just as daring as them. One of the things I’ve learned about these creatures is that they hate when someone else wants to boss over them.“And how do you know if I don’t want to die out there?”“I cannot answer that. Come with,” his voice doesn’t give way to
14Kaya’s POV.They want each other’s necks. Anyone can see that.I watch as Alpha sadistic suddenly shifts off of the ground, grabbing Kyle’s leg and cracking it like he just broke a biscuit into two pieces.Seeing that, as Kyle goes down with a leg shred into two, I feel myself wanting to vomit once again. My stomach churns at the sight.Yet, when I looked back, he had stood up. Since the door is broken, he has easy access to see me inside the carriage, choking in fear and shocking out of my senses.A smile drips off of his face, and then I see a wink. Cracking his neck to the left, then to the right, his leg fixes back to normalcy with a groan coming from him.As he runs into the fight once again, that’s when I fully realise the reality of what I am into.“You don’t touch anything that is ours.” Kade growls. I can see the veins poking out of his neck and his forehead as he hit Alpha sadistic with his elbow.His face presses inside when his bones crunch inside. Damn, they are breaki
15Kaya’s POV.In a reckless manner, the carriage comes to a stop, and then the triplets walk inside.No one has to give me the instructions before I know I must trail behind them, and that’s what I did. My heart could stop beating at this point from the many tensions it has faced.I don’t know what will happen when we reach wherever we are going now. I just hope they kill me quickly, if I have to die, and not force me to pass through similar torture as that alpha Alaric stated.A chill ripples within my insides at the thought of it.“Go inside.” The dominance in Kade’s voice makes me bid, unable to not do as he wants. Or as any of them wants.For a reason unknown to me, I feel absolutely submissive and actively love the act of gruesomeness that drips off of their gaze.Speaking of their gaze, I see a dim glow of scarlet in Kade’s eyes, as well as in Kyle’s and Kieran’s. I think they are connected through their minds. I am assuming anyway.“Stand there.” He commands, and I stop with m
163RD POV.Chewing down a pea, Kade clears his throat as he hits a fork into the plate once again.“Will you just voice out whatever is swirling inside you instead of bottling it up? We can sense your mind, and there’s like a hurricane in there.” Kieran speaks up, slamming the table with his bare hands, before he rolls his eyes at Kade.Then, Kyle picks over, “true, I can sense the turmoil in your mind as well. And trust me, Kade, you’re not good at bottling things up.”Kade hisses, staring ahead into nothing, right before he grips his hair and stares at his brothers. “It’s about the girl. We are supposed to have found out how she’s able to affect us like that. She obviously changes everything, and we are playing into it. Mind you, we always make the rules, not follow them.”He spills, his eyes interchanging from Kyle to Kieran. “She doesn’t even have her powers, yet we are attracted to her body. How much longer will it be before we are soft? We are barbarians, and we have to begin s
17Kaya’s POV.Two weeks later.The sun burns my skin, forcing me to wake up and sit up. I am on a spherical-shaped mat, placed directly on the ground, just a few centimeters from the bed.Raising my face, I see that there’s no one there. I can only fathom a meaning: the triplets didn’t sleep in last night.It has been two weeks since they released me from that ill-fitting dungeon, where my skin still suffers bumps from the worms in there and the insects.Anyway, my life has moved from poor to agonizing. Every day that I wake up, I wish I did not. I wish it was death knocking into my ears to wake me up, not the sound of the triplets telling me what I must do for them that morning.“Why?” I cry into my hands. I change my view to face the rays of the light entering the room. “Why are you doing this to me?