The cold was even worse on this dreadful night. I was shivering so badly and my brother tried his best to shield me from the harsh weather but he needed the warmth he was trying to provide way more than I did.
I felt terrible but I was also aware that there was nothing I could do to make him change his mind so I just kept quiet and burrowed myself deeper into his arms and the little warmth he provided.The monsters who did this to us were glaring at us but they had not yet uttered a word to any of us after they brought us here. I dared to look back at the pack house and could not stop the whimpers that left my lips as I took in the sight of our once beautiful pack house now brought to rumbles and ashes as it burned behind us.I silently prayed to the moon goddess to save us from this disaster but it seemed she wasn’t listening to any of us today. Has she turned her back on one of her own? Did we commit a great sin against her and now she was punishing us?I quickly dragged myself from those harmful thoughts, muttering apologies for my mistake of daring to doubt the moon goddess's plans for my family. She knows what’s best for her people and she never makes mistakes but why this plan for me? I would die if I lost my family.I peeked at the men parading in front of us. They were looking at us with anger and disgust, especially dad. The intent to kill him was so obvious on their face and it made me scared.Why would these monsters want to kill an innocent and loving man? I knew for sure that there was no way dad would have offended them.The pack loved him for a reason and it’s because he was so caring, and nice. He had never harmed anyone who didn’t deserve it so I did not know what to make of these strangers’ anger towards my pack and my home, a home that was now the shell of its former self.I was getting impatient and so were my brothers and parents. We were blind in this matter. We had no idea who these people were and they were not saying anything to us. Instead they seem to be talking to someone through their mind link. Their Alpha perhaps?“Who are you people? What do you want from us? Why have you destroyed our homes and killed our people as though we are animals?” Ethan roared. You could hear the pain and anguish in his voice as he spoke.His body shook against my cheek as he cried. Cried? I snapped my head up to study his face and surely, there were streaks of tears running down his face. Ethan never cries, he was a strong man but here he was crying in anguish at the loss we had faced today.It brought a dull ache to my heart and deep down, I vowed to get my revenge and never forgive these people regardless of the outcome of today’ event.“Shut up, you dirty mutt. You murderers deserve worse. You are such great actors. you should become entertainers and not rulers” the blonde that had dragged me and Liam out of the house spoke.He spat on the floor in front of us as if we were vermin and I saw father’s face were full of anguish and remorse but remorse for what?My thoughts zeroed in on the strangers words and I started to wonder why all these accusations were being thrown carelessly at my family. Why were they accusing Ethan of being an actor? I’ve known him my entire life.Ethan glared harder. The glare eliciting whimpers out of my lips. He was an alpha and naturally commanded respect especially as the next in line. The strange wolves even took a step back.“aaaah” Ethan groaned and I turned my head swiftly to see that someone had struck him hard and he was quickly bleeding from the back of his head.“Are you crazy? Do you want to kill him you bastard”. I screamed in horror but the male just laughed at me. Others didn’t laugh but I caught sight of some wolves with approval in their eyes at the action that just took place.“You better shut up your trash else you’ll be next” he spat but I refused to cower. Instead I spat at him and he groaned in disgust. He reached out to wipe the spit from his face and moved to hit me but his hand stopped midway. He dropped his hand and took a step back.“Luca, Callum, say something… hey… LUCA” the sound of mom’s pained voice made me turn from the man and my body became numb at the sight that greeted my throbbing eyes.“Cal, Luc?” I crawled out of Ethan’s arms towards my brothers who were laying too still. My hands trembled as I reached out to touch Luc’s arms gently at first before I started shaking him violently eager to get a response from him.“Luc… please wake up… LUCA… LUCA” I yelled but he wouldn’t move. He was just sleeping so deep and he wouldn’t answer either. He was too still. He had to be pretending. He can’t leave me alone.I turned to Ethan “Ethan, tell them to wake up.. this isn’t funny anymore” I spoke but my voice was so shaky with fear.“Ethan, say something…they shouldn’t die so easily. It’s just a little beating wasn’t it?” My heart was beating so hard against my chest but no one was answering me.I crossed over Luca's body and crawled towards Calum’s. I lay my head against his chest and it was still. There was no beat. He was so still.“No” I whispered at first “No” this time it came out choked “please don’t leave me. Cal I am so sorry, Please forgive me. It’s all my fault” The tears that streamed down my face were hot with my burning guilt. If only I had stayed in the room like he asked, this wouldn’t have happened.I turned towards the men who were just watching “what did you do? What did you use on them?” I asked them but they just stood there, watching me with cold eyes. There was not a single trace of guilt or remorse in their eyes.“Answer me goddamit” I yelled“Wasn’t the wolfsbane meant to make them just weak? How come they’re dead? Fucking weaklings.” Someone muttered but I don’t know who. I was too busy trying to make sense of the situation before me but the careless statement made rage burn through me.“You used wolfsbane on my family? You used that deadly poison on my family? Why?” Father roared so hard the ground practically shook. Mom cried out and you could hear her heart break as she tried to crawl to her children.“You don’t have the right to say anything. In fact you don’t have the right to be angry. You have done far worse things so you better shut it”. A man larger than the rest roared and I almost flinched at the ferocity of his voice but something held me back.He was powerful but he wasn’t an alpha. Maybe a beta. His build should be 6’2, he commanded respect and the other men with him flinched at his command and bowed in respect as he marched forward from where he was.He was furious. He was more than angry, he was livid and I didn’t noticed when my heart began to beat as my fears began to grow.“Did dad have a hidden side he never showed us?” I wandered inside and Dad’s eyes snapped to me. He heard my thoughts. He had fear in his eyes but not for the man before him.My brothers, Ethan and Joseph had a look of guilt on their face and their eyes lowered as if they couldn’t dare to look at the man before us. It was as though they had done him some wrong but I would never believe some stranger over my family. Never“What’s happening here? What’s this?” A large figure emerged that I hadn’t seen. He was the alpha and there was no mistake about it. He looked at us as if we were the filthiest filth, especially dad.I hated the way his eyes lingered on me and something like shock crossed his features but it didn’t stay long. The look he gave dad was something I couldn’t describe and Dad had suddenly become mute at the entrance of this man. Who was he?“Isaac I believe I asked you a question? Why are they dead?” He asked the man who I assumed was the beta and the man flinched back at the question. He was terrified of this man, not just respect but terror.“The warriors used wolfsbane on them, I didn’t order them to do it, they acted all on their own”. If I thought the beta was livid as well, I don’t know what to call this terrifying anger on the alpha’s face. In the blink of an eye, the large beta was on the floor and groaning in serious pain.It had to take a lot to bring such a huge man down even for an alpha that was just a bit bigger. This man was dangerous and powerful, two elements that shouldn’t go hand in hand.“Whose idea was it? I believe I said death was too lenient for this people” He roared and out of instinct and the power he commanded, I whimpered and leaned into Ethan but he wasn’t where he was before.No one spoke and the men from his pack stepped back in fear in order to avoid the wrath of his man. His whole being commanded respect even without demanding for it.The need to submit myself to him was so strong and it was nothing like I had experienced even my father who was my alpha.“Ethan?” I turned to search for him but he was also lying still on the ground like Cal and Luc. He was gone as well. Our future Alpha was gone. My knees gave out and I sat on the floor, weak.“No, no, no, not you too Ethan. Please, I can’t live without my anchor” my heart was logged in my throat but I was too scared to touch him as well. I was scared of what reality was showing me “Ethan please” I whispered brokenly “please don’t leave me as well. You said you would be with me until the end”Why was the moon bringing me so much pain? This wasn’t the bargain. The night was only halfway gone but the part that had gone had taken half of my family with it.My chest was aching so bad and the tears that were dropping from my eyes were endless. I scooted back from Ethan’s body afraid of hurting him even more and I found Joseph’s hand. I couldn’t bear to look at him because he was half dead as well. There was no way he would survive the night.I don’t think I can endure anymore but it was far from finished. Dad and mom were so weak and they could barely move. Ethan, Calum and Luc were dead. They left me even after promising that they won’t. Who was going to protect me now? I had a bad feeling about the way this would end and I didn’t like it.Even if the night ended on a positive note, there was no coming back from it. The hatred that grew inside me for these people in front of me tasted so bitter like Vermin in my mouth but I wasn’t spitting it out.I would make them pay for what they did. They would pay for every single blood they shed on our pack soil tonight.I lifted my eyes to meet the alpha before me and the pain in his eyes as he looked at the bodies on the floor didn’t match their actions. I spat at his feet.“You’ll regret this. I promise. I’ll make you pay”“Grab him” The alpha instructed and before I could ask what was happening and who they were referring to, two of his pack members stalked forward and grabbed dad roughly. They lifted him and mom slid from his arms to the floor while they made him stay on his knees.“Mary, are you alright” Dad tried to free himself so he could touch mom but he was very hurt and the men had a very tight grip on him so he couldn’t escape their hold no matter how hard he struggled. “Dad, Dad, leave him alone” I cried and made a move to go to him but I was held back by someone who tossed me to the ground again. I wanted to wince but I had been hurt a lot already so my body was slowly going numb from the rough handling. Mom only groaned in reply and it was barely audible that if we didn’t have enhanced hearing, we would have been unable to hear her. I left Joseph’s hand and crawled to mom’s side so I could check up on her. I pushed against the man that still had his hands on me and he let me go so I craw
I woke up with a dull ache somewhere in my head and I tried to get a bearing of where I was as though the humming of the car I was seated in wasn’t enough proof that I was not at home anymore but I was desperate for it not to be true. I was awake but my eyes were not open yet because I didn’t want them to know I had regained consciousness. I wished it was one of those times where I would wake up with no memory of what had just happened or it would all be a dream but this was reality and reality didn’t work like fantasies. When I finally decided to open my eyes since I couldn’t keep them closed for much longer, my vision was sleep blurred and I had to wait for a few minutes before my eyes finally adjusted to the space I was in. I almost jumped back in shock when I found someone already staring at me from the passenger’s seat. I shrunk into myself when I realised who was staring back at me. It was the same brunette who had handled me so roughly. But now as I stared at him in the light
I remained seated on the floor where I had landed earlier and didn’t move an inch. Everything was so quiet now, including my head. The only thing I could hear was the loud silence in my ears and the drumming of my heart. Who knew silence could be so deafening? I pushed back against myself and drew my legs to my chest. I sat so still for a long time until my legs and back began to hurt from the terrible position but I still didn’t move. I deserved to be in pain. It was my punishment for being alive. I slowly brought my head to my folded knees and it only caused more discomfort to my back but I didn’t mind. I didn’t deserve to be here. I don’t know why they brought me here but it couldn’t be for anything that I liked. I slowly began to rock my body and my eyes grew hot as warm tears flowed freely. My wounds were healed already but my clothes were so filthy now. The green dress was torn and stained with blood. If it was a different dress, I may have not been bothered at all but it
The name of the alpha rang in my head like a loud church bell. Alpha Zion Kincaid of the Valis pack. Everyone knew that name even if they didn’t know who he was in person. Very little is known about the man and for someone like me, I knew less than the others. Dad for reasons unknown to me till this day had put a ban on that name so we couldn’t freely talk about the alpha or anything that had to do with the pack but that didn’t mean that I didn’t hear enough about him from people who carried gossip but that also meant I knew practically next to nothing except baseless rumors. He was known as the Blood Alpha because he enjoyed bathing in the blood of his enemies but I didn’t believe that a person could be so terrifying so I always laughed off the exaggerated adjectives that were used to describe him. It was said that he became the Alpha of a small pack after a tragedy that took his father, the previous alpha and within the space of five years, he had grown that small pack into one
It’s been six days since I have been brought here and kept in this room with no answers of why the life I knew was snatched away from me suddenly. It’s been seven days since I last put a meal in my mouth which meant I was not capable of standing on my own for long. I’ve rejected every single food they brought to me and I was honestly surprised they kept the meals coming. They were always here to also clean up my mess day after day but I won’t be stupid to think they are nice people. I noticed that they never sent the same person twice and all of them had been ordered not to talk to me no matter the situation. They came, dropped the food and came back in ten minutes to clean up the mess after I would angrily throw out the food they would give me. I was starting to feel bad for the people who had to clean my mess like the young girl currently cleaning the soup I had spilled a few minutes earlier. There was irritation on her face as she cleaned but she would not look at me or voice
This time, when the plate of food was brought into my room, I didn’t throw it away but gulped down the food like a starving animal which I technically was. The girl who brought the food was startled by the way I had ripped the plate of food from her before she could place the tray down and started eating but she didn’t wait around. She flew out of the door as I settled on the floor ripping the grilled meat with my hands and teeth. “She is eating” I heard the girl gasp out to the guard at the door the moment she left the room “You’re joking,” Marcus told her. I could hear the disbelief in his voice and I didn’t blame him. I would too if I had been in his shoes. “Would I joke about something like that? I’m off. I need to tell Alpha Zain that she finally ate” The girl told Marus. She made a move to leave but he stopped her “Seems the Alpha’s visit was the nudge she needed to start eating. I was getting worried she was going to die at that rate. I’m glad he visited her” “The Alpha vis
My eyes fluttered open against my will so I glared at the annoying sunlight streaming inside the room from the opened windows, uninvited. I felt better than I did in days and I knew it was because I finally ate and slept on a good bed for once. I wanted to be grateful that I felt better but the guilt that I was so comfortable with kept lingering in my mind and I didn’t know how to move on from the death of the people I had known my whole life. I kept telling myself that I am doing all these to be strong enough to take my revenge but I don’t know if I even believe myself anymore. I had run out of tears and words to scream so I just sat on the bed staring outside, my glare softening as my mind travelled in thoughts. My nose picked up the smell from my pits and my nose scrunched up in disgust at the terrible smell. I had not taken a bath in two days. I reluctantly dragged myself from the bed to the bathroom. I had washed the clothes I was wearing when I came here and it was hanging
My hatred for the man could not overpower the bond that we shared. I figured it was because I was in so much pain, anger and hunger that I had not recognized him as my mate and only did when my head was in the right place Ever since he left the room, I can’t get him out of my head. There was a contrast in emotion between my head and my heart. My head couldn’t and didn’t want to accept the fact that Zion was our mate but my heart was fighting us on it. It had accepted that he was our mate and because of that, my thoughts always trailed back to how amazing he smelled and how good he looked. It was dangerous to me, these unwanted feelings I kept having. I despised that I was starting to desire such a man against my will. I was scared and worried out of my mind. I couldn’t risk rejecting him and dying because I was so stubborn. I would not be able to get my revenge but the main question that kept lingering at the back of my head was if I would be able to kill this man that was now bou