Five minutes later Alpha Derrick and Luna Kelly walked in, with Michael hanging onto his Mother's neck and Gracie on her dad, squealing as he tickled her.
They finally get seated and Rose, the cook, serves the food. My favorite, steak and baked potatoes. The food got passed around by Rose and some other kitchen workers.
Joshua, her son, also helps out at times and I can't always help but notice how he gives Mavis an extra large serving of food.
He definitely has a crush on Mavis, but Mavis, being two years older than him, has decided to just see him as a little brother. But I guess the smile she gives him anytime he serves her a plate suffices for him. His cheeks get all pink and he can't look her in the eye and moves on to serve the next person, me. Who begrudgingly gets less food than the former.
I'm pretty sure if she keeps smiling at him like that, one day he's just gonna give her all the food and leave the rest of us to fate.
I can't blame him though, Mavis is beautiful and has such a warm personality. Apparently she got all her looks from her mum, that's what she tells me. But she believes she got her hair colour from her Dad, since her mum was blonde. It was just an assumption though.
Mavis was raised by her single mother, who was Alpha Derrick's older sister. When she passed away, Alpha Derrick assumed responsibility of Mavis who was just 14 at the time. She doesn't talk about her Dad much, probably because she doesn't even know who he is.
She has been living with the Alpha's family ever since, and Rose being the Alpha's cook, stays in his home as well.
That gives Joshua enough time to ogle Mavis, day in and day out.
I've seen it happen. It's unhealthy really, but cute.
The three-year old twins, Michael and Gracie, were already at it, fighting each other on their seats, for which reason, no one knows. They kept screaming and hitting each other, in a playful way of course, until someone dropped a plate and broke it.
Suddenly they were both silent and did their best to avoid their parents' gaze. It was quite laughable.
We were about to get started on the food when Beta Shawn rushed in.
"Alpha! They crossed the border, they're attacking us, they're on their way here!" Beta Shawn was all sweaty but he didn't look scared, if anything he looked furious. Alpha Derrick stood up abruptly.
"Who?" He asked handing Gracie to her mother who quickly took her, beginning to shield her two kids.
"The Blood Moon pack." and that was the last thing I heard before the windows all around us were shattered and wolves came barging in. And all I remember were screams, crying, blood and then darkness.
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I woke up with a pounding headache. I sat upright and held my head. Everything felt woozy and stuffy and it took me a little while to fully come to.
Then I took in my surroundings.
I was in a small room with steel bars at the end which made me realize that I was in a cell.
There was a small beat up body in the corner of the cell. I studied the person a bit longer to see that it was Mavis. I rushed to her only to realize she wasn't the only beat up person. My whole body ached and I felt like I had been run over by a truck. But I didn't see any actual bruises on myself, I just felt that way from the inside.
"Mavis, Mavis, wake up." I shook her.
Minutes later she groaned and turned around.
"What? Where are we?" she asked sitting up and groaning at the same time.
"I should be asking you, I have no idea." I explained.
She sat in silence for a while and then looked around.
"Shit, we're in the Blood Moon pack's dungeon." She muttered standing up.
"Hello? Is anyone out there, Alpha?" She called. No response.
"Hello?" She called again, gripping the bars this time. She immediately let go as she hissed and fell to the ground.
"Mavis!" I stood up and rushed to her.
"Are you ok?" I asked. She just squeezed her eyes tightly whilst rubbing her palms. They were extremely red as if she had just touched hot coals. I curiously looked at the bars.
"Wolves bane and silver, don't touch that darling, she'll be fine." a familiar voice said.
"Rose?" I looked at the cell opposite us and I was right, there she was, her beat up figure still holding a genuine smile.
"Are you girls ok?" She asked.
I looked over at Mavis who looked better now.
"Yeah, we're fine, but where are the others?" I asked.
"They are in cells all around us, they just haven't woken up yet."
"What happened?"
"We were attacked by the Blood Moon pack and they've captured us, and from what I know they are probably planning to kill us, in the worst way possible." She sighed.
"Kill us?" I asked terrified. "Why?"
"To settle an old score." a manly voice said from a couple of cells to our right.
"Alpha?" Rose spoke up, looking in his direction and squinting her eyes a bit.
"Yes." he sighed.
"Why would you say that Alpha?" Mavis asked leaning closer to the bars but making sure not to touch them. He let out a long sigh before he spoke.
"I killed the Alpha's father." he said.
Wasn't expecting that. Alpha Derrick doesn't seem like the murderous type. There has to be some rational explanation.
"Why?" I asked.
"I just did, it was a battle for supremacy and I won. We're wolves, we're territorial." He let out a bitter chuckle. "But now I'm going to pay for it, including hundreds of innocent people." He answered.
Before I could get another question in, someone spoke up.
"Alpha, I see you're awake." A deep voice said .
"Marcus." Alpha Derrick growled.
"That's Beta to you." the Marcus guy growled back. I couldn't see him but I could smell him, he had quite a strong aura for a Beta, much stronger than Beta Shawn's.
"I don't care, where is my mate and children?!" Alpha Derrick started to shout. His wolf getting the better of him.
"I suggest you control your temper for when the Alpha comes back, trust me you'll need every bit of strength you have for what he has planned for you ... and as for your mate, let's just say she's in good hands." Beta Marcus said before walking away, passing by our cell and heading off.
Alpha Derrick let out a frustrated growl before everywhere went silent again.
I sat back down leaning against the wall taking everything in. How did this become my life?
It's hard to think that right now as I am wallowing in self pity, a group of heartless wolves are planning the worst ways for us to kick the bucket. Just in that moment Mavis moved closer to me and hugged me saying it's gonna be alright. But she didn't sound convinced of what she was saying, I wasn't either and I had this gut wrenching feeling things were only gonna get worse.
'Pssst, Adriane? Are you awake?" Mavis said whilst poking my ribs, stirring me awake from my short and uncomfortable nap"I am now." I said groggily while sitting up, the ground cold and hard underneath me."Good." She smiled at me. It was amazing how she still found it in her to actually smile."What is it?" I asked her once I noticed her expectant expression."I'm bored." she pouted.I gave her a blank look. "And?"She shrugged and just repeated her statement that she was bored."Gee May" I said as I rubbed my left eye, "I had no idea you were interested in entertainment before execution."She frowned at me.'There isn't much to do as a prisoner, so you're gonna have to suck it up and wait till they end our lives." I said. No need for any sorta sugar coating.'Wow, Adriane, always looking at the positive side of things." Mavis said, sarcasm lacing each word.Well, there was nothing remotely positive about this situation and I wasn't about to convince myself otherwise, just to be let
One of the males let out a fierce and gruesome growl breaking the eerie silence. It didn't take long before a silver bullet was lodged into his skull. And just like that, he slumped to the ground. "Anyone else?" The Alpha dared us to speak. The whole room was silent. But it was more of a shocked silence, well for me anyway. I didn't even have it in me to be scared anymore. We all knew what was coming now. Confrontations between packs always ended badly. It's either you come out the victor or you die. There's nothing in between. And based on our stance right now, it's safe to say that we've lost. We've lost more than just a fight. 'Good, now, where is the group from the Alpha's house? Royals first." and with that we were being pushed up to the front of the room in a line, side by side. The Alpha walked up to the first person, that happened to be Evelyn. He studied her carefully. Evelyn looked him straight in the eye, her head held high. She clearly wasn't intimidated by him, or
I woke up to the scent of fresh bread filling my nose.I didn't know how long we'd been here, but it felt like days. It most definitely had to be some days, a couple at least. We were starving and dehydrated and my mind felt all sorts of cloudy, I couldn't even think straight.Was there even oxygen in this place?I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes just in time to see one of the guards shove two loaves of bread on a metal pan into our cell."What's that?" I asked, sleep still clouding my eyes."Breakfast." he said and started walking away but then he stopped and after a long pause he added, "Lunch ... and Dinner." he smiled at me."You've got to be kidding me." Mavis muttered, rubbing her eyes as well.'No, I'm not. Enjoy." and with that the guard left, continuing to shove bread into cells.Once the guard was out of earshot, or so I guessed, I spoke up. "They're feeding us now?" It seemed strange to me. Or maybe a last meal sort of thing?Mavis looked over at me and shrugged. "I guess s
A completely severed link would only leave room for grieving for the people we've lost, but not like the feeling we had initially of literally having lost your actual head, like you don't know how to go on, like it was impossible.My knowledge on some of these things wasn't too extensive, but I believed that's basically what was happening to us.We live in a kill or be killed world. That's just how it is.Nature's way of taking care of us, again, making sure that life would go on, that life can go on.Helping us grief intensely and thoroughly, but not forever.But this was me, I can't even imagine what the others were feeling, even with the help of a fading bond, there would still be so much sadness for the loss.Which is probably why the dark thoughts seem to be desperately pushed to the back of our minds now."But now that I think of it, I am quite hungry." Mavis said.'Oh no you don't." I said sitting down and pointing a warning finger at her."Maybe you could ask your mate to brin
We woke up to our cells being forcefully drawn open, the sound of metal bars banging.'Get up, you lazy animals." one of the guards who unlocked our cell, kicked me in the ribs.Ah, it's the red head guard from yesterday.Dan.And I was sure to catch the scowl he threw my way as he kicked me. Sour puss."Ow." I whined, getting up and looking around to see chaos in the dungeons as people were dragged out of their cells. The males putting up a fight since their sedatives have obviously worn off, females less so.At this point though, why bother."Hey, watch it!" Mavis mumbled as Dan kicked her too, not as hard as mine but painful nonetheless.Then we heard a growl."That will be the last time you ever touch her. Got that?" We turned to see a fuming James glare at Dan, a frown marring his handsome face.He rushed to Mavis and helped her off the ground, whilst I stood up also. James cupped her face and asked her if she was okay,and she shyly nodded.James smiled and placed a soft kiss on
Out of nowhere I found the courage to speak. "And if I don't?" I said slowly, placing the flag behind me and taking a step back, ready to bolt, although I doubt I'll make it far.At least I'll try. He rose his eyebrows fully this time in slight surprise at my sudden outcome."I will take it from you, even if I have to use force." he said as he took a step closer. And I don't know where this came from either, and I really hope I didn't render him incapable of having children, but in one quick move I rose my knee up and hit him in his jewels. Hard.My action must have taken him, and me, by surprise because he couldn't block the shot and he fell to the floor holding his babies as I stepped over him and made a run for it.I heard him let out an aggravated growl just before I was out of earshot. I ran back the way I came, past the stream, through the hedges, through the woods meeting unconscious bodies on the way, both from the blue and red team.I could see the base now, I was almost ther
I just stood there frozen, a pair of gray blue eyes staring at me. Growling and baring its canines drawing its claws as it approached me. I hid further behind the curtains only to have them ripped off leaving me exposed, shaking, scared. Pieces of cloth were stuck between its teeth after it tore the curtain. It let out one more sickening growl before it pounced on me ..."No!" I woke up in a dark room. My heart pounding out of my chest, my breathing heavy. I was sweating but I felt really cold. I wiped off some of the tears that had slipped out of my eyes as I was asleep. When I had calmed down I took in my surroundings. I was on a bed. A bed?I looked around and saw a window, it must be dark out, cause hardly any light came through. Then I noticed some movement with the corner of my eye and its like I saw a shadow in the corner of the room. I sat up abruptly and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes hoping to see more clearly, but the figure was gone."Hello? Who is there?" I tried to get
"So keep all sorts of pressure away from the injury for about a week and you'll be good to go. You are actually healing very fast, its amazing." Dr Hawkins told me with a reassuring smile. I looked at my arm that had been put into a fresh cast after the doctor cut off the old one to inspect my arm.He got up and packed his stuff and Latifah escorted him out.I already took my bath, which was extremely hard with just one hand, and changed into some fresh clothes that Latifah provided for me, which wasn't easy either.I looked on the bedside table and picked up my half eaten breakfast. Bacon, sausage, eggs and toast. I had my breakfast in my room instead of downstairs at the dining table because I seriously wanted to avoid some people and Latifah understood completely.I only drank my tea and ate the toast and a bit of the Bacon and eggs. I'm not a big fan of sausages. I placed the plate with my leftovers on the tray and took the tray in my right hand and walked to the door. ! gently us