Chapter 4
_Sarah's Pov
I tried hard not to think about the punishment I was to receive from the Alpha. I tried not to feel the pain of being rejected since I haven't accepted my rejection. I tried not to think of how I was accused of stealing jewelry. I haven't even seen any jewelry since I came into the palace. I remembered when I was preparing the bath for Diva. She brought in a Jaden box and placed it on the table. I never thought it could be jewelry. I had finished preparing the bath that night and headed out not after receiving a slap for not arranging her clothes well. I never touched anything.
Tears fell freely from my eyes. I just hope my punishment should be my dying. I didn't want to live any longer, I didn't want to be in this life anymore. The moon goddess has cursed me. She cursed me and didn't grant me a beautiful life. She cursed me to live in regret all my life.
My wolf cringed and I cried the most. She had suffered a lot more than me. For the past months, she hadn't stepped foot on earth. The pain I felt wasn't compared to how weak she would be. I sob louder.
The rattling of the iron gate made me jerk out of my sleep, "They are coming." I thought, shifters begin to enter the cell. Of course, I knew they were coming for me. It was time for my punishment.
The gate to my cell was opened and I didn't even think twice before my hands were handcuffed with chains, not just chains, but heavy convoys. I cowered in fear as I was dragged out of my cell, out of the dungeon.
I was dragged from the dungeon down to the packed building where I would get my punishment. The sun gleamed and I could tell it was late in the morning. My body aches. My eyes were heavy and I looked like shit.
I just hope we end this thing quickly so I can know my fate. Pack members were already gathered at the square center and the moment I passed through them, they began to throw things at me. I didn't mind, I just wanted to get out of the mess. I didn't blame them, I blamed my parents for their dreadful mistake.
The noise expired when the King Alpha paced towards the square. I could only see through the corner of my eyes because I bent down and my head facing the ground but I could scent the aura of last time.
This time, I didn't care about the punishment. My fears left me and I was dangled with anger. I haven't stolen anything yet I have to receive severe punishment because of what someone else did. My anger increased when the Gamma was called to visit.
"Do you have anything to prove your innocence?" The king's voice trembled through the crowd and I could hear giggling from everywhere. I saw Diva from where she stood, smirking devilishly and I suspect something was wrong. Something tells me she lied about the stolen jewelry.
How was I supposed to get a roof when I was locked up in the cell? It's not like I would even get one if I haven't been thrown into the dungeon. I have no idea what the jewelry looked like and I have no means to find them.
"You always disrespect me!" King Alpha cringed, "You won't give me an answer?"
I threw my head at him but the stare I got made my head back down again. If I peek too much, I might have my neck pulled out of my head.
"She wouldn't speak, Gamma, hit her till her last breath!"
That was the last thing I heard when the leash began to hit my body. The first one landed and I was sure it wasn't just leashed because when it hit me I felt my skin tear. It was an iron whip.
I growled each time I was hit. I felt my body crumbling as blood spewed from my back. It was a tremendous torment and pack members were laughing heartily at my agony. The way my body shook from the hit looked like I could break at any time.
As I struggled with myself on the floor, a loud growl suddenly filled the climate and the earth trembled from it. I felt the ground shake and a thumping sound hitting the earth.
Another growl came in again and I knew someone had shifted. The wolf was running toward where I was and I felt its claws hit the soil, angrily. I noticed the Gamma had stopped whipping me and members of the pack were wailing, I wondered if I was going to be turned into pieces by a wolf, the King Alpha to be precise.
I tried to raise my head but I could only make use of my corner eyes to see. I saw it, it was a tall gigantic brown wolf. His eyes were vague and dangerous, ready for attack. I decided to close my eyes and waited to be pounced on. Then, my wolf reacted, she wiggled in my head and I sniffed a scent, it was faint though but I could swear I smelled the same fragrance I smelt the first day I came. It was my mate, sorry ex-mate.
Before I could open my eyes to see his wolf again, I heard a harsh howl and screams from the crowd. Instead of ripping me out, he had pounced on the Gamma, slashing all his flesh into chunks. He made another growl and members of the pack began to retreat.
I watched as his wolf sneered and unexpectedly, something that had been fired from a long distance pierced into the side of his core. His wolf groaned, making him topple, and I was also forced to spin my head. I saw King Alpha sauntering towards the wolf that was already standing right in front of me, shielding me. Why would he?
The King was holding something that looked like an arrow in his left hand and a syringe in his right hand. The syringe contained silver content and I knew instantly that my ex-mate wolf had been shot with wolfsbane. My ex-wolf was strong since the wolfsbane was meant to weaken him. Instead, he stood firm as if nothing had touched him. Puff, he was the next King Alpha, what was I expecting?
"You have no right to intervene, Jake!" King Alpha sneered at him and he responded with a bark, scraping one of his paws on the soil.
"I command you to leave here, now!" King Alpha commanded but Jake's wolf wouldn't attempt as his canines were clasping together out of anger.
I didn't know the rest of the story since I fell into a deep slumber, maybe I died at that moment.
Chapter 5_Jake's PovI stood on the terrace of the packed building watching as members of the pack gathered to hear what punishment would be given to Sarah. I wasn't but my wolf was very excited to see that we'd stopped her from being hit. My wolf keeps arguing with me that she was innocent and wouldn't even dare disrespect my father. Joe had walked up to me yesterday and informed me about the forfeit my father had pronounced. "He was still going to punish her?" I asked him since I thought everything would end yesterday. I couldn't imagine my father would still want to chastise her again."He said she disrespected him." Joe proclaimed.I turned to him and asked, "How? How did she disrespect him?""He asked her some questions but she didn't respond to him," Joe said and I could feel my eyes turn dark, my claws forcing themselves to come out. I knew my wolf was at it again."Was that why he declared another punishment?" I growled and Joe nodded, "He can't be joking. To hell, she was l
Joe carried Sarah and hurried down to her room located in the servant quarter. He then commanded some shifters to get the pack doctor. When he got to her room, he placed her head gently on her little squealed bed and required a bowl with a towel from another servant to help clean her blood.Some minutes later, the pack doctor arrived and began to treat all her wounds and add concoctions to heal them faster. He finished and gave Joe some medicine which she should use when she woke up."When will she wake up?" Joe inquired, worriedly."In a few hours, she should be awake but if it takes more time just know her wolf is also trying to feel better." The doctor assured me and left with his things.Joe sat waiting for Jake since he had mind-linked him that he was on his way to the quarter and it had amazed Joe since Jake wasn't the type to visit the servant's quarter."How's she?" Jack asked as soon as he banged into the room."Doctor said she'll be fine in some hour's time," Joe answered as
_Sarah's Pov_The discomfort I felt in my body sprung my eyes open. My body ached so much that I couldn't raise my hands. I was even fighting to see clearly since my eyes were so blurry. But with how soft my body felt laying on something, I guess it was a bed. I was in my room. I also saw that my clothes had been changed. When they took me out for trial, I was wearing my servant costume but now I was in a long-sleeve floral gown that covered all my neck to my knees. "Who the hell changed my dress?" I shrieked in my head. Everything seems unusual to me and I was surprised as the event of what had happened before I slumped, came running into my memory. I was amused. I was supposed to be dead but I was here lying on my bed. What went wrong? I tried to think of the reason but I found none. Has the jewelry been found? Has the king finally left me alone? Then, the thought of how Jake had turned into his wolf to kill the Gamma came running into my mind also. He has appeared to save me. Wh
"Don't you ever call King's Alpha son by his name!" Olivia snapped at Sarah. She gave her a scornful look before redrawing her hands from Sarah's mouth, "You'll be dead if you do."Sarah didn't say anything, she only nodded, agreeing to Olivia's warnings to her. Jake was the King Alpha next-in-line to his father and she had no gut to call him by his name. He was already an Alpha but not fully since his father had not stepped down from the throne.However, she didn't see him as the next Alpha since he doesn't behave like one and that made her forget he was an Alpha. The day she heard he was the King's son, she was stunned as well broken. She was mated to an Alpha. It tore her heart. She was destined to be Luna but fate had changed it. Fate has made her a servant and her mate has rejected her.She tried hard not to think about it but it still kept coming and wouldn't stop too. Most times, she got mocked by members of the pack and her fellow servants on how the King's son had rejected
Sarah was called out by the head servant to deliver goods to the pack building. Even in her state, the old woman insists she must go. Olivia's wolf had thrown a taunt but Anne pleaded with her to back down since she was good and felt better to go on an errand.However, Olivia feared her master, the Alpha son and also the wrath of the pack building. What if the king sees her? What if her master found out she had left her room for an errand? She was sure in hell.She watched as Sarah grumpily carried the goods on her head and prayed for safety since she couldn't go with her since she was assigned with other works.Meanwhile, Sarah also feared the pack building. It was the place people who wanted her dead lived in. She feared she might not return to the quarter again.The goods were successfully delivered and she was quite delighted that she had passed the real judgement. She was walking through the passage, gazing down at the floor to avoid being noticed when the faint scent passed thro
_Sarah's PovNothing matters anymore to me as I opened my door to go in. I couldn't even wet my eyes again since all the water I got there had been squandered. I felt exhausted as well betrayed. The people I was starting to trust were the ones who had hidden a big secret from me.I was going to die in three days. Why three days? They should just kill me instantly instead of waiting for three days. Are they trying to hunt me down before my death?I staggered towards my bed. I was as good as shit right now, you wouldn't want to see how saddened I look. Just then, a sparkling box caught my attention. It was a jaden box just like the other one I had seen at Diva's room. I gripped in fear. My body was trembling, my feet were wobbling and I fell beside my bed by just staring at it. With my shaking hands, I pulled the box open and my eyes met with the most glamorous jewelry I've ever seen.It was wonderful, I mean, it would have cost a fortune. I quickly closed the box and stood up to lock
Sarah was dragged to the center of the Pack's Square center, her head bowed the whole time as she whimpered in the shifter's hands.The leader of the gamma wolf stood angrily as his disciples tied the end of a rope into a knot and threw the other end over a branch on the tree. "Any last words?" He asked in mockery. He was ready to relish the anger he'd felt for Sarah when Jake killed one of his men. Although Sarah didn't say anything, she wished she was dead instantly.Just then, the thought of Jake crumbled in her head and she roamed her eyes searching for him, perhaps he could save her again. "Does he hate me to the extent that he didn't come to my aid?" Sarah thought after a fruitless search for him. Her thoughts were scraped out when the leader of the gamma wolf forced Sarah's head through the hole between the knots and held on to the other end waiting for the king's orders.The king stared at Sarah with what seemed to be a pitiful expression. He would have forgiven her but he co
Jake ran to the servant quarters and hurried straight to Sarah's room. He got there and knocked on her door but no one answered, he tried opening the door but it wouldn't open, he banged harder thinking Sarah didn't want to answer him but still no one opened the door. He called her name several times and decided to break down the door when a maid walked past and halted, seeing her Alpha. "Is something wrong, master?" The maid asked as respectfully as she could."Yes, no, I mean, did the accused girl that lived here get executed today?" He asked, worriedly. "I'm not sure but I heard that she was, it seems she was slit by the throat with a dagger." The maid replied while wondering why Jake was curious to know about the execution.Jake said nothing, gave the door one more glance and stormed away to Joe's compartment. "Why didn't Joe wake me up when all this was happening?" He thought all his way.He barged into the room without knocking and moved towards Joe who was sitting gracefully o