Four

Calla’s POV 

I cried with every lash that touched my skin, tearing it apart and sending me into waves of pain, it was indeed agonizing and what made it worse was the fact that my best friend and her Alpha, the man who was supposed to be my mate stood watch and watched in excitement as they laughed at my cries.

They watched coldly as Axel’s guards whipped me and they only stopped when he’d asked them to. They untied me and he’d ordered that I walk to him.

I was unable to stand, I’d attempted but I fell back hitting the ground and letting a resounding thud fill the air, I was too weak as I gasped for more air and my eyes were begging but I didn’t say a word.

“Come here!” He ordered, his voice echoing in the hallway as it hits the walls of the horrible dungeon.

“Go to hell!” I snarled and with a nod of his head, I felt another hard lash on my back, followed by another as my wails filled the air.

I watched with blurry and teary eyes as they both turned their back on me and walked out of my sight, the guards did the same and all attempts to sit up proved futile as there were wounds all over my body.

My stomach growled, it was yearning for food as I hadn’t eaten anything all morning and I could hear the sad cries of my wolf, we were both dejected from having to face that rejection and betrayal from someone we loved and trusted the most our entire life.

“Why did she do this? Why did they do this?” I asked, my voice breaking as I felt the cold air in the dungeon, I was freezing and there was no where I could go to warm up properly.

   ‘We’ll be fine, the moon goddess will definitely do something.’ My wolf replied and I calmed, she was the only friend I now believed would never betray me.

I winced as I tried to lay on the cold hard ground in a bid to catch some sleep, I closed my eyes but I was too cold, hungry and in so much pain to be able to sleep.

I struggled to stand as I paced about the small room, I’d decided I was going to write to my parents, hopefully it gets to them but there was nothing I could use. I sat back down and waited patiently for the night to pass by.

“Wake up!” A disgusting voice jolted me awake with a bowl of water emptied on my head. I opened my eyes to find Axel standing outside the dungeon, he’d ordered that I be brought outside for a walk.

I looked horrible, I became the laughing stock of bright wood pack, I looked like a clown that served only for amusement purposes. I was humiliated and it was difficult to believe that I am a princess.

“You’re stubborn and I like your zeal,” he commented and I only seethed, “but you’ll eventually have to do as I say.” He added and I could sense the pride in his tone.

“Make me.” I shot back and the guards had wanted to spring to action, lashing me again but a raised of his hands stopped them.

He smirked as he told them not to worry about me, he’d teased me using my status and had told me my parents couldn’t save me now.

I missed them so much, I was grateful for the fact that I didn’t have to spend another night in the dungeon, I was assigned my own room and although it was small, I didn’t care.

I saw a pen and a paper and I took it as I sprung into action, I started to write to my parents. I knew they’d said I shouldn’t come back but the love a parent has for it child runs deep, at least that was what I thought until I got the letter they wrote back to me.

 

      “Calla, dear. Whatever it is you’re facing over there, you deserve every bit of it.” I read out loud and I couldn’t believe what I was reading as I closed the papers shot but opened it back to continue reading.

    “Every last bit of it, you deserve and you don’t deserve to ask for our help. We warned you, we told you not to go and your mother and I tried our best to make you listen to us but what did you do? You went with him and now you dare ask for us to come for you? I can’t and I will not be sending anyone, the doors of this pack is now shut to you and you are no longer welcomed here, don’t dare me by showing up here, Calla. Love, Alpha King.”

Every word in the letter stung and I felt the tears welling up in my eyes already, I closed my eyes and it flowed freely. My father was right, he’d warned me but I was too blinded by love that I didn’t listen.

“Where is that bitch!” I heard Axel’s angry voice as he stomped through the halls and stopped right at my door, swinging it open and ushering himself in, he had my best friend by his side too.

He took the letter from my hand and read the content out loud as he and my best friend laughed at  me, I buried my face in shame as I heard their roaring laughter.

“Why is she still here?” My best friend asked, “she’s pretty much useless and of no use to us anymore.” She finished and I could feel her gaze on me as she spoke.

“What do you suggest we do with her?” Axel asked, I’ve heard worse and so nothing they did seem to have any effect on me anymore.

I was disappointed in myself, I mentally slapped and scolded myself for being too foolish.

“Send her out of the pack.” She answered without having to think.

“To where? Even her own parents have rejected her already.” Axel said in a mocking tone and my heart sunk to my stomach again at the thought of it.

“We don’t want a reject here now, do we?” She asked in a low tone that made me raise my head and she was comfortably in Axel’s arm, “Say, we send her to the wilderness, she could be eaten by other wild animals for all we care.” She added.

My friend had just suggested that I be sent out of the pack, into the wilderness, alone?

“Calla Spencer, you’ve been hereby banished from bright wood pack and your presence here at anytime apart from now would attract a dire punishment and you will be killed.”