Things happened so fast. The moment she was dragged outside the store which Estelle noticed was a secret underground for traffickers, she was placed into a car and sedated.
When she woke up, she found herself in a completely different place that she didn't think was in the world. It was obviously a room but the size was obviously more larger than her apartment. The furnitures were blinding her with their elegance. She stared down at herself and sighed when she was still in that tiny dress given to her. She also sighed in relief when she noticed she wasn't having any funny feeling in her body except the banging headache she was having.Just then, the door opened and a man walked in, another followed after him and Estelle's eyes widened. She could recognize the other man, of course why wouldn't she?That was the man she had stained with her ketchup that same day. What was he doing here? Like...what was even happening?" Hi, are you okay?" The first man asked, standing beside the bed she sat. Estelle almost screamed at his gorgeousness, he had a pretty round face like a lady's, she couldn't believe how pretty his eyes were too, who were this gorgeous men and where did they come from? Certainly not from this earth, right?He was also looking much more calmer than the other one. Estelle managed to glance at him but the glare he was throwing at her way didn't seem as a good omen at all. He was seriously and angrily glaring at her." Her being okay or not is none of our business. Do we have to bother about something we bought now?" He asked. He was the one with the gorgeous eyes Estelle was gawking over earlier that day.Estelle thought she wasn't hearing right. Bought? And was he referring to her as a thing?" Neil." The calmer looking man called in a scolding tone but the respect in his voice could also be heard." Who are you guys and what am I doing here?" She finally spoke out. She was tired of them staring at her like she was some kind of an experimental object." I'm Lair and this is my...erm, friend, Neil." The calmer one with the blue eyes said. " Actually, we were the ones who took you away from the auction event."" Bought you off, actually." Neil chipped in." What?" Estelle hissed." What is it?" Lair asked." You bought me? Why would you do that?" She asked again and the two men glanced at themselves.Lair was about to talk but Neil cut him off with an annoyed look. " Hey human, listen carefully. First of all, if we hadn't bought off your unlucky ass, you'd have been chilling and screaming in a old, potbellied man's bed. Do you get that? And, we didn't buy you for just any reason like pity or something, hell, why would we even waste money to buy something like you?"" Neil, stop being harsh."" Excuse me, because you bought me away from there because of some stupid reasons I don't know doesn't mean you should keep referring me as a thing. I'm not a thing, I move, I breath–"" Maybe you wouldn't any little time from now." Neil cut her off and her eyes widened again." Neil, stop. Okay...can you just allow me talk to her? We have no progress so far with this banting." Lair scoffed." Look," the Gamma turned to the furious Estelle. " We actually have a solid reason for our action, I mean, buying you."" What reason? What stupid reason would make you buy me?" Estelle hissed and this time, dark angry clouds flashed across the Gamma's features." Are you so dumb? If we hadn't, you didn't know someone else would have bought you on a more cheaper price? We saved your damn ass so shut up and let him talk before we do this the hard way! Don't make us regret losing such amount of money!" Neil looked like he'd run out of patience any minute from then.Even though she managed to talk back frequently, Estelle wouldn't lie she kind of felt too suppressed in the midst of these men. They looked too different, seemed to different and without waiting for a soothsayer, she already knew there was something about them. Something that she'd be too surprised to know." Listen Estelle..."" How do you know my name?"" Freaking shut up. Are you sick?" Neil growled at her and Estelle could swear that growl seemed familiar with the ones she heard from wild animals on television." You're getting her terrified. How do you want her to be when she finally hears what we have to say?" Lair asked accusingly at the yellow eyed man who muttered something under his breath as he threw his face to the other side." Till I'm done with what I have to say, I really do not want any interruption, Estelle. I'd really appreciate that." Lair said. It seemed like a simple permission but the tone he used made it seem like he was ordering her instead." As I said, we bought you for a reason. Neil saw the potentials we needed in you at the auction and that was why we did what we did. Buying you. We could have just picked another lady but we grew tired of futile attempts the whole time and that was why we decided it had to be you this time. For some reason we still don't know." Lair paused. He could see the hunger on the blonde lady's face. Not the hunger for food but the extreme hunger to bombard him with questions." We actually aren't complete. There's someone who's a vital part of us and needs to be among us here, and as you see, he isn't here with us and we need him to be here but how do we do that? See, you're not the first woman to have come by us and helped us with this but for some reasons still unknown to me, I feel you'd be the one to help."" Go straight to the point and let her know what she has to do. My hands are itching." Neil muttered behind them.Lair paused before continuing. " There's a cemetery in this town, Estelle. And we need you to uproot a body for us." Lair finally said and the shock on Estelle's face could clearly be seen." What? Are you both insane? This idiot behind you has been bluffing about saving me and now, you're telling me to do this? Are you both crazy? What's the difference of chilling and screaming in the bed of a old, potbellied man and doing this? At least, it could have been much more better." Estelle yelled, staring at Neil as she yelled the last part." It wouldn't have been better, Estelle. Listen, after this you're not just going to be empty handed. You'll be given any amount you want after you do this, I promise." Lair said, earning a sarcastic grunt from Estelle." Hold on, do you both think I'm a fool? You mentioned about some other ladies doing this, right? You gave them any amount they wanted too?"Lair's eyebrows twitched. " W...we did."" No, you didn't. You didn't because they sure couldn't do the task and that's why you asked me to do it now. Or wait, were they even alive to ask of the unlimited amount they wanted? For goodness sake, the only cemetery in this town was locked and shut down years ago after the records of deaths it had. Now, you expect me to go there? And only ladies? Why can't you both go instead? You're both more agile and stronger than the ladies you've been sacrificing."" Estelle..."She cut the Gamma off. " And do you guys eat dead bodies? What do you need a probably decayed body for? Maybe that's why this angry looking friend of yours told me I wouldn't be breathing any little time from now. I'm not a fool, okay? I know what you both are trying to do and I'd never submit to your request. Know that and know peace!" Estelle ranted with a look of finality on her face.Lair looked defeated but the Beta, Neil looked like he hadn't heard any of what Estelle rambled about. He was looking unconcerned and unshaken." As Lair said, you'd have to go to that cemetery downtown, find a way to get in yourself and uproot that body for us. We'd direct you on the right location to dig the body out from. Tommorow night would be a perfect time as there's a huge celebration in town so everyone would be perfectly busy. Understand?" Neil growled coldly." You didn't hear what I said?"" I actually do not give a fuck! You'll do what we say and not vice versa, do you understand that?" Neil replied hotly. Both parties glared at themselves for few minutes until Estelle spoke up again, the stubbornness in her eyes hadn't disappeared. " I'm not going to do it."" You will." Neil spoke." I said, I won't."" And I said, you will. For fuck's sake, I'll get back the damn money used to buy you and fling you back at them to do as they wish. You want that?" Neil threatened." Do it." Estelle said, her voice low but high with stubbornness. The Gamma completely looked like he just wanted to go lay his head somewhere, if it weren't for Neil, he'd have surely let the stubborn human go but Neil badly wanted their Alpha back. They would never be able to get hold of Lilith if the Alpha wasn't back and time was running out.They had seven years and the due date was almost getting closer. Too close. That was what was getting Neil too riled up." Okay. It's fine then." Neil suddenly said.Even Estelle knew he had something up his sleeve. " I'm actually wondering where you'd get the money for your little sister's surgery if you refuse. Twenty years of porn wouldn't even be able to get you half of the money, you do know that right?" Neil smirked and Lair turned to Estelle whose hard expression was already starting to crumble like a pile of arranged cards that was hit mistakenly." You're so evil." She threw at Neil who nodded, arranging his already arranged collars." I know that." He confirmed with a sly look. He wasn't even smiling." So, get ready. It's all fine to be our guest for now until tomorrow evening. You won't be allowed to go home or go outside as long as you're here. You'd be here in this room till the next evening." The Beta said before exiting the room." Goodluck." Lair muttered, exiting the room too.A few seconds after they left, Estelle broke down. How had her life suddenly changed overnight? How come everything happened so fast?As she sat in the back seat of the benz, her heart thudded at every seconds. She had faced a few scary circumstances in her life that got her scared but not scared as she was at the moment.The loud music from the distance incited the jubilation in town, they were going downtown, where the cemetery was. That haunted cemetery that had been locked by the government officials several years ago because of the amount of death it recorded. But, Estelle actually wondered sometimes, the reason those people went there. They just wanted to get themselves killed? " Are you okay?" Lair asked from the front seat, he turned to stare at Estelle but the cold glance he received from her made him sigh and turn away." We're almost there. Buckle up." Neil announced indifferently and Estelle suddenly felt like biting his head off." The map?" She requested in a mutter, swiping her tongue over her chapped lips. She hadn't talked since a while." You wouldn't be needing them."" Why?" " You were given
Estelle could feel the scream coming from the bottom of her stomach but his lips on hers prevented her from disturbing the peace of the dead ones around them. He had clamped his lips on hers! He was kissing her! A dead body that had been lying in a coffin and had been in the cemetery for years was suddenly awake and was kissing her! These horrifying thoughts repeated again and again in Estelle's head, body and mind. She could feel the sweats from her neck running into the underwear she wore. Not only that, she could also feel her vision revolving slowly before her eyes. She was dreaming, oh yes, she had to be dreaming. There was no way such horrifying thing was happening to her.In the next minute, she had slumped and slipped out of his hands and into his broad chest. When the man saw she had passed out, he slowly, with a groan, sat up and at the same time, holding the small head of the small human laying on him gently. The man's golden orbs blinked repeatedly for a while as he
" E–xcuse me?" Naina stuttered but the woman passed her a small smile that didn't still seem to calm Naina in any way." You look terrified. I'm sorry for scaring you," the old lady apologized. " I'm Zora, a worker at Escala hotels." She added. Naina knew the hotel, it was the hotel for the rich folks only." How may I help you?"" Not in anyway, Miss. Actually, someone sent me to give this to you. She didn't tell me who she was but she said you'd know her when you read the letter. She asked to give this to you." Zora said and Naina's brows raised with suspicion.By the "she" Zora kept referring the anonymous person as, she was already starting to suspect who it was. " I'd be leaving now. I'm running late."" Please hold on. Did she give this to you by herself?" " Yes, actually."" A blondie?" " Right." Zora nodded again and before Naina could say any other thing, she turned and left. Naina fixated her gaze to the letter and sighed, she was right. Estelle was fine and good somew
When Estelle opened her eyes that revealed the blur environment, her gaze firstly caught the figure that entered into the room and for something or whatever she didn't know, she immediately felt tied to the figure. A more surprised gasp escaped her lips when his eyes jammed with hers, the effect made her transfixed. He had an imposing figure. He was huge, really huge that his shadow towered greatly above her. Now, the air in the room had completely changed, it had thickened to the extent that it almost started to suffocate her, what was it about him? B...ut, he looked familiar too.Too much familiar that whatever it was, Estelle knew there was something about him, or maybe, something about them. Like she didn't like the toll he was taking on her, she slowly turned her face away from him. She even wondered how he must be feeling with the way she had stared so hard at him but she wasn't the only one staring. He was also giving her this deep stare she couldn't understand why." Este
" You also heard him say that, right? He knows he said that too." Estelle argued." Yes, he did."" Right? So why were y'all looking so shocked like it's something unusual?" She rolled her eyes while he only stared at her for a moment. It wasn't his usual gentle and adoring stare but this time, his eyes seemed to be searching.Neil never said that out at all and Estelle heard what he said. How? She was human and nothing else. " Quit staring at me now. It's getting too much." Estelle groaned." I could stare at you all day without getting tired." His deep voice were so damn low and were almost echoing into her ears, making her heart jump without her permission. Hold on...was she being possessed or something? She had just woken up in an unknown place that looked like heaven and coming face to face with a man and a few other people that looked like angels. Angels as he, Kaileyn and those two idiot that almost got her killed were so very strikingly beautiful like they were created on
Estelle only stared at him as he gently and at the same time, elegantly stirred the hot cup of coffee. She was feeling quite cold but he seemed completely unaffected by the weather's temperature.She knew his name now. River. What a perfect name for a perfect being like him. He was exactly how a river was, calm and soothing." I still don't know why I'm receiving such special treatment." She spoke up and he tilted his head towards her for awhile before returning his gaze back to the cup of coffee." Here," he said, handing the coffee cup over to her." I asked a question. Quit ignoring my question almost the whole time now, River." She groaned, throwing her hands up in the air." Just drink up. You're freezing."" Answer me." She demanded and he sighed. " Elle,"" What?" She pouted with a demanding look." I think an introduction is what we need first. I–"" I'm Estelle. Just a normal Estelle Mia Brown. I'm twenty five, and of course, single and maybe, trying to mingle." She said,
Dmitri looked back at her again all of a sudden but then, his eyes were back to their normal deep blue color that it was. He folded his head into Estelle's neck and started to whimper for a while while she only patted his head with a smile." It's fine, wolfy. You know, you're actually more cuter this way." She said and immediately, Dmitri raised his head up and gave a small howl that seemed like a howl of jubilation but in the next second, Alpha River was sitting in place of him and he didn't look too pleased." Woah." Estelle smiled." Yes. At least, you're going to believe me now and that's Dmitri, my wolf. I also heard you telling him how cute he is than I am, you wouldn't believe the amount of trolls I'm getting from him now." River said but Estelle was confused." I don't understand. Dmitri is a different person from you? You transformed to him, right? I just meant I prefer you in your wolfy form than this human form but now, you're making it seem like there are two people.""
*UNEDITED* " River?" The older woman walked in elegantly with a brilliant smile on her face while Kaileyn rolled her eyes, standing back. Her gaze were locked on Estelle angrily." Marianne." The Alpha called, now facing the woman who still had that brilliant, elegant smile on her face.Estelle marveled at the woman's beauty moved back a little, she was feeling quite nervous already. She'd start seeing so many people from now on anyways. She was still glancing at the beautiful older woman when her eyes fell on Kaileyn who immediately looked away. Estelle shook her head, something was wrong with that girl but unfortunately, it was none of her business. She knew Kaileyn kind liked River, it was obvious but it wasn't her fault their moon goddess chose her for River." I missed you so much." The woman smiled, sniffing as she hugged the Alpha who hugged her back tightly with a smile on his face. " You look so lean now, my child." Marianne sighed but her unhappy face was replaced with a s