I was trembling while following his orders. I had a bad experience by defying Kruz, I was not going to repeat my mistake. I walked all the way in front of the bed and stood with my body touched down due to the pain in my stomach.
The TV was playing behind my back when he lifted his arm to switch it off with the remote controller.Now that he was busy taking the food tray to the side, I noticed he was in black jeans and a black buttoned shirt, whose upper buttons were all left open."Take out the tray," I heard him talking to his maid on the phone and then hanging up. In a matter of a few seconds, a maid joined us and grabbed the tray out of the room."Cornelia?" He was still not looking at me, Conrad got up from his bed and went inside his bathroom to wash his hands."Cordelia Gabriel!" I mumbled, slowly raising my face to see if he could even listen to me from that far. The moment he got out of the bathroom and appeared in my sight again, I hurriedly lowered my face once again."Ah?" I was right, he didn't hear me because he made me say it again."Cordelia Gabriel!" I repeated again. My body was hurting and him living his life to the fullest was not helping me at all.He had just devoured the most delicious-smelling food and now he would rest in his comfortable bed."Cordelia!" Instead of sitting in his bed or standing in front of my face, he walked all the way to the back and postured behind me.Knowing he was behind me made my body shudder uncontrollably. I was constantly trying to move my eyes to the side so that I could get a glimpse of his actions or motives through my peripheral vision."What happened to you?" his utterance coming from behind me, made me squeeze myself together. I was about to bite my lower lip when I recalled the bruises that would cut open to bleed once again.His footsteps marched away for a moment and when they picked up my ears again, I felt something warm covering my body.He left something over my shoulders."Wear it!" he said before coming in front of me. I steadily cocked my face to my shoulder and noticed that he had wrapped his leather jacket around me.I pulled my hands in the sleeves and immediately covered myself. His jacket smelt amazing, very intoxicating, warm and very large on me. He was extremely tall and broad, obviously, his jacket was too big for me."Can I-----ask som---ething?" I kept my eyes lowered and my arms tied around my stomach, hoping that would help the pain to ease up."If you have anything to ask, you can!" he bent down to my level and whispered in his mouth.I don't know why he gave me his jacket or why he was being nice to me because I have not heard too many good things about him either."If I apologize nicely, wou---ld I be spared?" I don't know what I was thinking, but my lips whimpered in whispers. I bet he could tell from how careful I was that I did not want to die, I wanted to live and someday get my happy ending and live a normal life."What?" He suddenly let out a loud laugh and shook his face, "no matter what you say in your apology, you are dying, honey!" The taunting tone of his made me lift up my eyes and stare at him.It was so easy for them to laugh at somebody's last breaths, I wondered if they ever even felt the pain of others.He walked away from me and when appeared in front of me again, he had a cotton bud in his fingers."You must have pissed someone off real bad," he bent down to my face's level and gently tapped the bud over my lip.I was confused at his actions, was he really nice or was he preparing me for a torture. The fact that his beta had given me all these bruises and now the alpha himself was taking care of my wounds had me go crazy."So, what exactly were you planning on doing once you get your magic?" He was whispering on my face, his eyes almost drowning in my eyes and his face merely an inch away from mine while he kept cleaning the blood from my lips. I was able to look at the blue in his eyes even clearly now, there were so many shades of blue that it was hard to pick which one was shining brighter than the other.“My coven wanted freedom!” I said in a fainted tone, the blue in his eyes seemed deceptive, more like a cunning fox using manipulation to fool me.“Oh! You were going to save them?” I found him scanning my face, not with lust but interest, that’s when I accidentally made eye contact with him and swiftly looked down to nod my head.“But why didn’t they save you, little witch?” He was speaking in such a soft low murmur that my body was feeling a weird comfort in his presence even though I knew he was manipulating me."You know what?" He suddenly pulled back from me and dropped the bud on the beautiful furnished floor, "Let’s play a game." he said, making me watch his face in concern.I did not like the sound of it. Whatever he was planning didn't seem like something very nice."I'll leave you free in the woods, completely free." He announced and my heart immediately felt a wave of relief."And if you are able to find a way out before I catch you, you are free to go back to your family. You are free of the punishment," he smirked through his eyes at his cruel way of raising my hopes and breaking them again."But I can't outrun you," I declared without hesitation. Not only was I brutally injured but he was an Alpha and without my magic, I was only a wounded human."You didn't think of it before," he sounded surprisingly happy with my statement, "But let's do it. It will be fun." He continued to run with his idea, which didn't sound real to me.I was going to outrun this alpha, who had just consumed a hot meal and why I got beaten up by his guard in the dungeon.I don’t think refusing to play this game was even an option for me, he had already declared the game and I bet he was going to make the rules."Kruz!" Conrad walked to the door and yelled, peeping his head out to Kruz. Hearing his name immediately covered my entire skin in goosebumps. I was thrown back in that dungeon where he had a**aulted me mercilessly. Thankfully, his jacket was able to cover my body and the zipper up, I even felt a little warm."Kruz, come over here." He sounded weird, it was like he thought of it as an entertainment. Is that what Brenda meant when she said he wasn't in a good mood? Because it seemed like he was trying to get his frustration out on me.I didn't turn my face to look at Kruz, who had entered the room after Conrad's commands. My body began to quiver in Kruz's presence. The way he beat me up back in the dungeon, I could tell he had no soul in his body.No wonder he was Conrad's right hand, someone who would willingly do anything to please the Prince.“I have just come up with a game,” Conrad announced, making me drown my face in fright even more."What kind of game your highness?" Kruz asked, slowly strolling in front of me.I bet he liked the scars he had left on my face and my body. He seemed proud of himself and his cruel ways. What’s messed up was that the torture was going to get worse from here.“That’s interesting, don’t you think we should make this game even interesting by making her run naked? How about we make her take off her clothes and then run in the woods and if she fails, then she knows what happens when you are naked and alone,” Kruz’s words made me flinch in disgust and bite my lower lip despite how bad It hurt.“Kruz!” suddenly Conrad spoke in a much serious tone, “This is a game for her freedom, her life, not for her ----,” Conrad took a pause to lower his eyes, “Body!” he hurriedly finished and then regained his posture again.I noticed that Kruz wasn’t happy to hear Conrad dismissing his brilliant idea. It also gave me a slight relief that Conrad had some boundaries, or maybe he wasn’t annoyed enough to cross those limits yet."I will give you head start of 3 minutes, run as far as you can in these 3 minutes, and if you are able to win this game, the freedom is yours." Conrad and Kruz drove me to the woods to start the game that they knew they would win. We were standing with the car when they were stating the same thing to me. My legs that were uncovered were numb due to the cold. It worried me into thinking how was I going to make a run for my life when my legs are not even ready to move a muscle. I looked around in the darkness and the fear consumed me. Not only was it cold and the only thing I was wearing was a jacket, but my body was numb by all the beatings from earlier."And imagine if you are able to outrun us, you'll be a free person," Kruz repeated what Conrad had said as he stood behind Conrad in black jeans and a white shirt. The prince was in the same attire as earlier, he had just worn a jacket over his shirt.My eyes and mind were more focused on my surroundings than t
Once Kruz had left me on Conrad's door, I heard his loud grunt to let me know that I was invited in. I entered the room and was quickly mortified to see him in his boxers only. He didn't flinch but I was scared for my life. I had already seen his abs even when I had shut my eyes down the instant I realized he was shirtless.I hurriedly turned my face down and gulped. What were his intentions?"Lock the door." He ordered very calmly. My body had begun to feel numb in terror. I had been sheltered from the outside world since I was a child, they always told me that I was supposed to be protected because I was their last hope. Now that I was in a room with an Alpha, whose mood swings had no limits, I felt like being betrayed by the entire world. I did what he said and soon we were alone in a locked room. The only lights were the white led's around the roof."You blew up such a big chance." He stated, it didn't seem like he aimed to wear a shirt anytime soon. He was
I watched him being restless in the bed, he would constantly begin to shift and then go back to his human form while not being able to get out of the nightmare. It seemed painful, only by the looks of his bones twisting and going back to place was enough to cause me fatigue, I could only imagine the tiredness he must be feeling. My sleep had been long gone, he was in so much pain that I could hear his heavy breathing from that far. It took me some time to register but I did start to analyze his condition.And then it began to make sense. He was cursed!He didn't want a seer to hurt them, he wanted to know the prophecy. I then knew why he was so strong yet so miserable, why I could feel a mist around him.It wasn’t a mist; it was a curse that was always with him."Argh!" he broke free from the nightmare and sat up with an accelerated breaths and his eyes changing colors, keeping showing signs of transition to his wolf form.Once he was able to dra
"Get up! Your time has come." Brenda woke me up with a slam to the bars. I have fallen asleep after I felt like dying from the lack of food. At this point, I was feeling so miserable that if anybody asks me for my last wish, I would say a drop of water.As I rubbed my eyes to clear my sight, Brenda dropped a white dress in my feet to get ready. Sadly, every time I was asked to wear a new dress, it was because I was being prepared to take one step closer to my ending,"Hurry up! The coronation ceremony is about to start and I don't want to miss out on anything," this woman sounded ignorant to my situation, she didn't want to miss a ceremony while I had to get ready for my execution. I ended up silently changing into that dress, there was anyways no point in having an argument with her.I couldn’t even fight back because I knew they would drag me to the punishment ground by any means possible.Once I was ready, she spun around to stare at me and then a chuckl
"What is her birth certificate going to do? What use is it for us?" As expected, Uziel didn't know the importance of a witch's birth certificate that was made with magic when they are born. I was even surprised that Conrad had found out about the importance of the birth certificate somehow. Since he was desperate to uncover all important secrets behind the curse he was put under, he was going at limits to find more about it.My body was trembling beyond my control because I denied to ever be enslaved to these werewolves. The sad part was that I didn’t know much about the link thing. It was something I wasn’t taught as most of the magic spells were in the books that had been stolen from us."When a witch's birth certificate is signed by a blood of a person and burned in their presence, the witch is forever linked to the person and she can never leave him or even stay away from him for too long. Betraying him will only cause her pain, and this type of relationship is only painfu
I was dreading for not only my life but my piece of mind as well. How long can I fight this man off? There will come a day when he will finally be able to get what he wants either by force or not. I had yet not eaten anything and my body had grown weak now. I could not even lift my face up without feeling pain.As Kruz was busy making threats and wandering around like it was his frea*ing bedroom, the door opened and the real owner of the room walked inside."Your highness!" Kruz instantly placed the glass down and bowed a little with his hand on his heart in respect. When was this torture going to end? "The day went well," Conrad mumbled while Kruz helped taking off his long coat. Conrad seemed tired and even exhausted, he must have started to feel the intensity of the curse now. The blue in his eyes looked darker as he lifted his face up to the ceiling and exhaled desultorily. "It indeed was a special day," Kruz repeated after Conrad with a smile formed across
"Good morning!" The maids said in unison when Conrad passed them to be with his father for the breakfast. He had woken me up when he woke up himself but didn’t say much. The entire time he got ready in silence, no useless arguments or jabs were thrown at me by him. I was allowed to walk behind him alongside Kruz, where he was his right hand and I was merely a personal maid, who was supposed to keep him safe with no weapons or spells, stupid right? When have the Alpha king's ever made a right decision anyways?I was wearing a black tight Jeans and a white dress shirt over a black top. The white shirt was hardly buttoned up from only my waist, making my tiny waist look even prominent.My black hair was left as that all over my back with no makeup applied on my face.I felt like a guard more than his personal maid, or should I say, I was his personal witch."Good morning son!" Uziel greeted his son and offered him a seat. He roughly passed me a glance and then attended
"Use your teeth!" he repeated under his breath, very casually staring at me like it was no big deal. My body shivered visibly but I was quick to get a hold of myself. I watched him for a moment to make sure he wasn't joking and well, he wasn't. He damn wanted me to break the tag with my teeth.After deciding to not turns things bitter between us, I gently grabbed his shirt with one hand and the tag with the other to my lips on the string. As I lowered my face on his chest, my nostrils were hit by his natural scent, that could be hardly spelt because of the perfume he was wearing.I brought my face extremely closer to his chest and cut the string, a smile of pride and smirk covered my lips as I raised my face. The moment my breath fanned against his naked skin, I noticed something and it made me scoff a little."What? What are you smiling about?" He seemed annoyed, he knew what have happened and he was irritated that he got caught."Why is your heart beating like a dr