But that was not what made me reject the offer. If I accepted his offer and got too comfortable, I knew I would get side-tracked and might forget why I was there in the first place. Jackson King had indirectly killed my brother and I was not going to let that death go unpunished. I had to get justice for my brother and prevent more bloodshed for Jackson King’s comfort.
Besides, I did not want his blood money. I could never be happy enjoying money that had been made off the backs of unwilling slaves.
“No,” I said, shaking my head. I stared at Jackson, feeling nothing but hatred and anger towards the man. He seemed shocked by my answer.
“What?”
I repeated my answer and let him know that I wanted nothing to do with him. Suddenly, I could almost feel the room getting colder as he started to move closer to me. I closed my eyes and waited for the worst.
The pain from the slap spread through my head immediately, and I gritted my teeth. Opening my eyes, I stared at the man who was seething with anger.
“Guards!” he yelled.
The door opened and two men rushed in.
“Take her away from here,” he said. “Take her to the dungeon and whip her until she loses consciousness. Don’t give her anything to eat and drink until I say so. Maybe in a few days, she’d have regained her senses.”
The men grabbed my hands and started leading me out of the room. I looked back and glared at me. “You can do whatever you want to me, Jackson King but I will never want you. You’re trash.”
My heart was pounding against my chest and anger kept growing as I was dragged away from the man I was supposed to love. Judging from the loud music blasting out in the night, I could tell that the party was still ongoing. The stars shone bright in the night sky as I got dragged along the grounds towards the other side of the building. There were a few shadows in the backyard, getting involved in all kinds of R-rated things.
I was tossed into an empty dungeon and the door quickly locked with a padlock. The place was dark with a few rays of moonlight coming through the metal bars on top of the door. For a moment, I didn’t feel anything. But when I heard the last footstep of the men as they retreated, the reality of what was happening sunk in.
I looked around and realised that for the first time in my life, I was locked in a room I couldn’t leave. I kicked the walls while screaming for a few seconds. Frustrated, I grabbed the metallic bars of the door and shook them with all my might. It wouldn’t budge. Exhausted, both physically and mentally, I found myself sliding down the wall unto sitting position. Sobs wrecked my body as I thought of my new reality. I remembered running with my brother in the woods as we tried to escape King’s men. I remembered the moment I had watched him die.
“Nooo,” I yelled out loud.
Eventually, I began to relax more and somehow found myself falling asleep. In the morning, I was awoken by the opening of the door. The men who had taken me there walked in. one was carrying a bucket and the other was carrying a long whip.
Scared, I quickly stood up. The man with the bucket started pouring water on me. Only it wasn’t water. It was wolfs bane. I tried to run towards the door but the other man blocked me so I hugged him. He felt the impact of the wolfsbane as well and rudely shoved me. He did it with so much energy that I ended up falling down.
The other man grabbed my hand and started pulling me towards the centre of the room. I tried to bite his hand and fight but all that got me were kicks from him. He let go when we were in the centre of the room and started whipping every part of my body. I felt the whip on my face, my stomach, my side and head among other body parts. To save myself, I decided to lie on my stomach and place my head down, covering it with my hands.
The man was relentless. He kept whipping me as if he had a personal grudge against me. i endured the pain and let the punishment continue without trying to do anything. The physical pain distracted me from the pain in my heart, the pain of losing my brother and family. My tears and blood flooded the floor, and the pain continued to unleash torment of me until a time when I started to feel really weak, close to becoming unconscious.
They stopped and went away. I remained lying down for over thirty minutes. When the healing started to kick in, I began to feel better. i sat up on my aching butt and looked around the room. My stomach growled and at the same time, I saw a mouse moving around in the room. I felt like reaching out for it, but I didn’t like eating raw meat. I only found myself enjoying it whenever I was in my wolf form which was always on the night of the full moon.
A few hours later, the men returned to beat me again. They first asked me if I was ready to give in but when I said ‘no’, they tortured me. I bore with it like I had done before, knowing that it would benefit me in the end. I didn’t think Jackson would beat me forever. Soon, he would realise that I wasn’t going to change my mind and he would give up. I knew he would release me, and I would start engineering his destruction.
On the third morning, Jackson came in. I had not eaten or drank anything for three days and could barely sit up. I was lying near the wall in a foetal position. I could smell the delicious meat he was carrying in a small brown paper bag.
After noticing him, I looked away. He came and crouched by my face.
“I have brought some very nice steak,” he said. “I can sense your wolf wanting to grab this and tear through it.”
He placed the package near my mouth. I could feel my canines becoming sharper and my wolf literally jumping in my head. Involuntarily, I opened my mouth and tried to use it to grab the food.
“Not so fast,” Jackson said and stood up. “I’m not giving this to you unless you fulfil the conditions I set for you.”
By that time, I was not hearing anything. The delicious smell energized me, enabling me to sit down. This made Jackson smile, because he thought I was ready to cave in. As he was still talking, I stood up.
“Wow, now that’s progress.” He said. “What do you say?”
Guided by a primal urge, I lunged at him and reached for the package. My movements were so fast and unexpected that I was able to grab the package from him and tear through it before he could get it back. When he grabbed the meat back, half of it stuck in my mouth and I chewed quickly as he stared at me in shock. I knew I’d made a huge mistake, but I felt better as I swallowed the meat.
Jackson.Shell shocked, I stared at her as she chewed the large piece of meat she had bitten off. I was speechless as I stared into her defiant large brown eyes. I couldn’t believe what I had just witnessed. Having tried very hard to ensure that my reputation was the worst it could possibly be, I was utterly shocked by what she had done. Everyone knew not to mess with me because I was not the best at controlling my temper. Had it been any other person, I’d have snapped their neck without thinking twice, but for some reason, I could not raise my hand to hit Kelsey. When she finished eating the meat, she crossed her hands over her chest and leaned against the wall then stared at me. I tossed her the remainder and she caught it instantly, before biting large pieces and chewing them. She had surely worked up an appetite. As I watched her eat it, I started to feel a strong feeling of attraction towards her. I realised that her stubbornness and defiance was making me want her even more. M
I was feeling extremely cold. Opening my eyes, I screamed when I realised I was at the bottom of a fast filling transparent water tank. The water was extremely ice cold. I quickly struggled to stand up, wondering how I had got there in the first place. I remembered drinking some juice and then falling asleep. The water reached my waist but was filling up pretty fast. I screamed out loud but the sound stopped inside the tank. I was pretty sure no one could hear me from outside. I coughed out water that I had swallowed while at the bottom. The tank had a narrow opening at the top which was giving me the air I needed to breathe. I panicked as I saw the water level going up. In only a few seconds, the water was already at my neck. I continued to scream and shout, calling out for anyone to come and get me out of there, or turn off the water. The door did not open and I couldn’t hear any sound except that of the water. In the end, I watched helplessly as the water filled up. I tried to re
Jackson.“Just let her out,” I told Joshua. There was no point in keeping Kelsey in the water tank since she’d decided not to give in. she had been there for over ten hours, alternating between consciousness and unconsciousness but still refused to give in to my conditions. “Okay,” Joshua said and left the room to do the needful. After a minute, I decided to follow him, a part of me wanting to see how she was doing.When I got to the room, she had been pulled out already and was standing near the tank. She was shivering and her white dress was hanging on to her skin like second skin. I could see all the soft, nice curves. I wanted to continue staring but then again, the two guards inside could also see her like that. My wolf growled.“Get out,” I said to the guards. “Bring a warm cloth for her to cover herself.”“You sound like you care,” she said after the guards had left.“What if I said I did?” I asked.“I wouldn’t believe you,” she said.“That’s good, because I just couldn’t stan
After getting approval from his boss, the guard who had been standing outside the door led me out of there. We went out of that section of the building, finding ourselves in the backyard. There were two women sitting on a wooden swing under a small tree. As the guard led me out, they stared curiously. I could tell that there was something going on in their minds. When they started talking, I judged from their expressions that it was all about me. I made a face at them and followed the guard towards the end of the building with the dungeon.As we entered the building, I noticed that the women had stood up and were following us. I forgot all about them as we got inside and I was taken to the cold dungeon. Before the guard could lock the door, the women arrived.“Hey,” one of them said. She was tall and blonde. “We would like to speak to her for a second. We need some answers from this woman.”“That’s not allowed,” the guard said to her. “She’s a slave who should be isolated.”The smalle
The work I was doing was terrible, but I was out of the dungeon. For days, I had been stuck inside that dank place and almost felt like my brain was slowly rotting away. Although the air I was breathing in stank, it felt fresher than that in the dungeon. The smell of animal waste filled the air as we cleaned the kraal. Midnight Pack was a large pack with a vast amount of land that stretched for miles and miles. The pack had many businesses, investments and also large farms, one of which was for livestock. It was the one I and a few other slaves had been assigned to work on.The livestock farm was four kilometres away from the pack house and it was huge. It was packed with a variety of animals and birds that provided great nutrition for the members of Midnight Pack. The work at the farm was a lot and was done by mostly slaves. The only pack members there were holding supervisory roles, giving orders left and right.I was working in the kraals with a young woman called Mia. She was a q
The foolish slaves had decided to take their revenge on Mia by splashing dung all over her body. She was seated on the ground crying while they watched her. The sight triggered my wolf who immediately got angry, sending me a rush of adrenaline and strength. Immediately, I lunged on the tallest one of the three slaves and toppled him before he knew what had hit him. I attacked the next guy immediately and fought him longer before sending him hurtling across the room. The other one attacked me before I could get to him so I fell. But I had spent my whole life training to be stronger than most men. I got up almost immediately and resumed fighting. This time the three of them all ganged up against me so I was getting defeated. Thankfully, two of the pack guards came into the room, making us all freeze.“What’s going on here?” one asked.“Look what they did to that innocent girl,” I said, forcing tears out of my eyes. They obliged and made me look weaker than I was. “She didn’t do anythin
The cottage was in the middle of the woods. Walking out of it, we saw a few pack guards playing cards under a small tree in the compound. They didn’t say anything as we walked into the woods. I was about to ask when, as if reading my mind, Kat told me that one of them was her boyfriend. Kat told me more about the pack as she led me deeper into the woods. A part of me wondered whether it was a good idea to trust her, but I decided to ignore that. Kat was the only connection I had to my past and it would do us good if we stuck together.“The inner border is here,” Kat said. If you didn’t believe in the supernatural, you’d think there was nothing special about the boundary. It looked just like the other parts of the forest except I could feel strong energy there. “Come on.”I followed Kat to the side with thick shrubs and some elm trees. “These are herbs,” she pointed to a certain plant. “We’ll pick them so if someone finds us here and asks what we were doing, we’ll say we came for the
“Come with me,” he said.“Are you sure about this?” Kat asked. “These men can be cruel.”I smiled. “Trust me, I know what I’m doing. This man is going to regret whatever he plans to do.”“Stop gossiping,” the man yelled.Kat was still giving me a worried look when I turned to follow the man called Commander Augustine. The forest was quiet and still, the evening breeze blowing fresh air over my face as I trudged on behind the big man. As we got to a thicker section, my heart began to beat faster. The man was extremely huge compared to me. He could flip me over like a pancake with only one hand. As we went deeper, I began to think I had made a very bad decision. I was relying on the mate bond between Alpha Jackson and I to save me. The problem was, would he feel saving me was worth it? Would he even get the signal? First of all, we had not yet mated. To make matters worse, I had rejected him and had lost a small connection to him but not all since he had not yet accepted that rejection