Then Cody leads his guards to get the five girls. I feel so scared because the guards are the ones who beat me just now. But this time they behave pretty well. I hope I am not chosen, but things always go against my will. After praying for a few minutes, I am held up by the two guards. As I expected, Betty is held up too. And I notice that my neighbor Megan is held up too. I am not very familiar with her, but with two people I know accompanying me, I feel better in some way. The guards tie our hands behind our backs tightly with ropes. I can feel the bruises forming. I think if I get so much pain here in the ceremony, I will suffer more if I become Cody's slave.
The road is bumpy. I heard before that the place where werewolves lived always had bumpy roads. Werewolves can run fast on this kind of road, but humans can not. So no one can escape from werewolves. We, five girls, were put in a small car. The car was so small that we always hit our heads against each other on this bumpy road. As I hit my head, I think, I never expected the ceremony would be so painful. I do not want to imagine what pain I will go through if I am chosen. We finally reach the alpha's palace. We are dragged out of the car like cheap toys. We are taken inside the palace and put in an empty room. This and your room is called empty because there is no furniture inside. It is said to be a slave room where the slaves can have a rest when their owners do not want the slave to be near them. We are told to stand in line and wait for Cody to come in. After some time, Cody comes. He stands in front of us inspecting us carefully, just like what he did in the ceremony, but more carefully. After a few minutes, he uses his long nails to cut a girl's dress open and lets the dress fall to the ground. The girl is almost naked, only in her undergarment. Then he goes to all of us and does the same thing. I do not know why, maybe because of fear, but they keep silent as if nothing has happened. I am the last one. I try to behave like them, calm and quiet. But I can not. How can I endure being ripped in front of so many people, girls, and werewolves? When Cody walks toward me, I look up and look him in the eye again. When I see his eyes filled with rage, I suddenly realize that I should not look him in the eye. Cody yells, “How dare you look me in the eye again?” He quickly rips my dress open and asks a couple of guards to hit me with a whip. It happens all too quickly, so I have not told him not to rip my dress. I can only stand there, almost naked, and being beaten by the guards. I can feel myself bleeding. Bruises are forming all over my body. I beg, “Please. Please do not hurt me. I will not do it again. I will not look you in the eye.” However, Cody ignores me. I am a little angry, but mostly because of the pain. I shout, “ Cody, let them stop. I said I would not do it again. Why do you still do this to me?” I hear girls gasp when I suddenly realize that I make an even more severe mistake. How can I call him by his name? Humans are only humble creatures for werewolves. Even ordinary werewolves cannot be called names by ordinary humans. How can a future alpha be called by his name? I close my eyes in fear. I know I will die soon. “Stop.” Cody walks toward me. All the guards stop, but they seem to be laughing and waiting for some interesting things to happen. “Never call me by my name ever. You should call me master. Understand?” Cody yells. I nod in response. He yanks me up by my hair to make me stand up and leave. Everyone, including me, is surprised. I thought I would die miserably and others may think the same. Why did Cody let go of me so easily? Not long after, the future Belta, Bruce Atton Comes out. He announces, “Mr. Stark wants to see you all individually. You will be invited to his office.” He is a handsome man, in a black suit. He looks professional and kind. I notice that he deliberately walks past Betty and says in a low voice, “Easy.” I wonder why he does it. I want to ask Betty, but there are too many werewolves around. I am afraid of being beaten again. But maybe because I am looking at them too seriously, suddenly a werewolf hit me with his whip. I scream subconsciously. Several werewolves laugh when they hear me scream in pain. They come to hit me together for no reason as if it is a funny game. I can feel my body bleeding. I can see the blood on the ground and soon I can not even see my blood on the ground because even my head hurts. My blood covers my eyes. I can hardly see anything, even the werewolves who are beating me. I scream, “No, it hurts. Do not beat me like this.” One of the werewolves says, “ OK, I agree. I will stop beating you as you wish, and I will give you something enjoyable.”Before I say anything, he slaps hard across my face. “Here is a little punishment for you.” He snarls at me as he begins ripping my clothes. “ No. No...” I know what he is going to do. Although I have been abandoned by Cody for no reason, I do not want to have sex with this kind of person. “ Do you know what I like best? I like humans’ screams, humans’ begging, humans’ tears. They make me excited! Do you know what I will do? I will destroy you and let Cody see what a werewolf should do.”At this moment, I feel desperate. Dillon is different from other werewolves who have bullied me. He has clear logic and he is determined. He knows what he wants and everything he does is for this final aim. For this kind of person, it is pretty difficult to persuade him into anything different from his logic.Dillon smirks at me as he pulls my clothes off of me, leaving me in only my bra and panties. "Pleas
“ From now on, you will not be my slave anymore. ” “ What?” When I first hear his words, I think I am daydreaming. When I finally notice how serious he looks, I know he is not kidding. “ What the hell are you talking about? Are you even awake? What happened? Why?” Cody stares at me calmly as if he wants me to know that he is not angry and these words are for real rather than meaningless cross words let out because of anger.“ Cody, what do you mean by ‘ I will not be your slave anymore’? Do you even know what you are talking about? Do you want me to go home?” Cody shakes his head. “ You cannot go home now. You may stay in his palace for sometime and then when it is safe, I will let you go.” I lower my head and think for a while. “ Is this because of Alger?” Cody shakes his head. “ I am not angry.” I gasp and say, “ So you just abandon me for no reason?”
I overestimate my ability to stand the pain. I rush to the bathroom with the new dress in my hands. I change into it quickly so that I can stop the scream in my mouth. Then I clean my face and my hands and walk back to Cody’s room. To be honest, I do not want to stay here, but I bet Cody will not let me go back to my room since I am injured.“Ah...” Suddenly, I let out a cry in pain. I was absent minded thinking about Cody’s reaction when I would say I wanted to go back to my room, so I did not notice that there was a little stair by the door to the bedroom. I tripped on the end of my dress, tumbling to the ground. The pain from the knees stimulates the pain in the back. It is so painful. Cody rushes towards me when he hears my scream. "Emelia! Are you OK?" Cody yells sounding concerned when he hears my cry. I raised my hand to look at him. It is too awkward to tell him the truth."I am fine," I reply back in a strained
I close my eyes in pain when Cody flips me over and picks me up off of our dryer. My cheeks are wet because of my tears of pain. I close my eyes to avoid looking at Cody’s face. “ Emelia... Why did you do that? Why did you come to him? Emelia!” Cody growls loudly as he hugs me to him. I open my eyes and see the look of horror in his eyes. He is worried about me. I close my eyes in tiredness and I hear Alger stand up to approach me. He seems to be worried about me too, but Cody orders him to leave. I open my eyes and see Alger’s back. There are only Cody and me now. I turn back to Cody and see the look of pain, regret, and guilt in his eyes.I frown. It is too painful. It has not been so painful for such a long time. He puts his hands under my legs and holds me up in a bridal style. I put all my weight on his arms in relief. At this moment, I rely on him. He holds me to his bed and sits beside me. “ Emelia, I...” I open my eyes wea
“ What are you doing?” I turn around and see Cody’s angry face. I quickly pull myself away from Alger and tremble subconsciously. Maybe because he tortured me, I still just tremble subconsciously every time he gets angry. “ I am asking you what the hell were you doing?” Cody growls at us angrily while rushing towards us. I raise my eyelids to glance at Cody secretly and keep silent. Alger answers instead of me, “ She hugged me.”“ She hugged you?” Although I am keeping my head low so I have not seen Cody’s face, I can expect how terrible his face looks. “ You are not allowed to hug him!” I can sense that Cody is shouting at me. I mustered up my courage and raised my head to look at him in the eye. “Why?” Cody yells at me hilariously, “ No why! It is against the rules!” I frown. “What rules? It is only a friendly hug. In what rules am I forbidden to hug a friend? Was
When we finally get to Cody’s room, I can not wait to ask Cody about Dillon. “ Cody, who is that man?” It seems that Cody has not heard me. He looks absent minded. “ Cody?” I call Cody again. He comes back to his senses and turns to me. “ He is my uncle.” I drag Cody to the sofa. “ I know he is your uncle. I heard you call him. I mean... He looks a little scary... I, I want to know more about him to protect myself.” I try to make myself sound reasonable.Cody sits down on the sofa and drinks the black tea after I hand it to him. “ He is my father’s cousin. His father is my dead grandfather’s nephew.” I nod. “ So you are not very close. That’s why I have not heard you talk about him or seen him in the palace very often.” Cody shakes his head. “ Although we are not very close in relation, he lives very near to the palace.” I purse my lips and listen carefu