A reward for the Alpha

Sarah's pov

"Let her go." I was scared inside, I was trembling, and it took all of my sanity and courageousness to say those three words, but the men laughed in my face.

"Listen Princess… "

"Don't call me Princess… my name is Sarah, and she is my sister, Nancy. You do not have the rights to just go into people's homes and take them captive just because you can… "

"You know…." The man holding my sister suddenly brought up his hand and I could see my own reflection in his sharp claws as he teased my sister's neck with it because raising his head to smirk at the horrified look on my face. "you have a lot of guts for someone who has her sister in my death grip.. "

"You won't kill her." I snap at him and he raises his brow at me.

"If you had wanted to kill us, you would have done so long ago. Sure I got bruised and almost lost my arm, you never intended to kill us… "

"You're actually smart and also admirably strong. You know what… we'll take you alone and not your sister instead."

"W- what?"

Before I knew it, the man carelessly dumped my sister on the ground and the wolves began circling her.

"What are you doing?!"

"I don't need her anymore, so I don't care if she dies. It's you we want." He folded his hand with a smirk, and my lips fell apart in despair. "So… what do you say, Princess?"

"Fine… " I threw the bar down, and the tears in my eyes welled up higher, but I blinked them back immediately. I would never give them the satisfaction of seeing me cry. It was a sign of weakness and vulnerability.

"I'll go with you.." I raise my hands and sighed inwardly when the wolves backed away from Nancy.

"Good." I suddenly hear a voice behind me, and when I turn, it's the hostile man, and he knocks me over with something and everything turns dark before I could comprehend what was happening.

When I'm awake, I realize I'm in an unfamiliar room which looked quite cozy unlike the one I shared with Nancy.

My eyes groggily open up, and I feel a dull pain at the back of my head as I sit up. I rub the back of my head and groan noisily, but I stop midway when I see a woman feeding something to someone lying on the opposite bed as mine, and my eyes snap open when I see It's Nancy she's feeding.

"Hey!" I yell, and the stranger looked apprehensive at first, but she still gives Nancy the pills like I didn't just snap at her.

I toss the blankets off my legs and make a beeline- straight for the woman, before forcing the bottle of pills she had in her hand to scrutinize it in mine.

"What did you just give my sister to take? Did you poison her?"

The woman looked bewirlded.

"You barely know me and you already assume I'm a bad person…"

"I wake up to see someone feeding my sister some pills... what do you want me thinking? That you wanted to save her life?"

"Sarah… " Nancy called out softly, and I turn to see she was smiling softly at me with her hands stretched on the bed. My countenance clears up, and I sit right beside her and we entwined fingers.

"Her name is Naomi." She starts saying and look up to see the woman was smiling at her. I glare at her nevertheless, not wanting to trust anyone here. She could probably be one of those beasts we encountered.

"We're not beasts. We actually have a name sweetie." Naomi suddenly said, stunning me to the core.

Did she just read my mind?

"That's very disturbing… r- reading my mind like that." I snap at her.

She shrugged but went her way and left us in the room. I growl and resist the urge to flare up, but I'm curious to know why these people had us treated and made us stay in a luxurious room like this.

I've grown up in the streets, trying to make ends meet for I and my sister to know that in life, nothing comes for free, you either worked for it, or you exchanged something for something you wanted.

"What were those pills she gave you.."

Nancy just smiled.

"They were just painkillers.. "

"You're eight. You shouldn't be taking that much painkillers."

She stiffled a chuckle, probably wondering why I was worried. I had to be. I almost lost her.

"It was just one pill."

My eyes suddenly move side to side, taking in the luxuriously furnished room before turning to Nancy.

"Did you, you know… perhaps find out anything.. maybe why we were brought here? What these blood suckers want from us… "

She bit her lip thoughtfully before blurting out.

"Naomi said something about someone called an Alpha wanting a prize for his success .. "

"A prize for his success?"

"Something like a reward. I don't know." She innocently shrugged, leaving me to brainstorm with the few resources I had now.

An Alpha was the leader of a pack of Werewolves, and of my theories were right with all the supernatural powers I've seen so far ..

Speed, shape shifting, heightened eyes sight, strength and even mind reading.

Then these guys were Werewolves and the Alpha was like their king.

If I hadn't been chased all night by these guys, I would have laughed in the face of anyone who said werewolves were real.

All my life, they've been mythically and only for the sole purpose of entertaining us in movies and novels.

Who would have thought they were real?

Were witches real too? What about Vampires? Faes?

And was this about the Alpha wanting a reward for his success? Did we have anything to do with it?

Suddenly, the door burst open and Naomi walked in with three girls who were dressed in uniforms. One had a bag, one had a suitcase, and the other had a Landry basket filled with nice scenting oils and soaps.

I get up and stand across the bed to stare at the them in curiosity.

"Um… what's going on here?"

"This is Maylin, Mariam and Monica, and they will be your maids for the evening. The Alpha will see you in an hour and believe me, if you want to keep your head, you'd learn to not waste his time…" Naomi spoke as she stared at her wrist watch, and I was just utterly confused.

"Meet the Alpha? For.. whoa!" But Monica tugged me into the bathroom. How my clothes were taken off and how I was soaked in the warm bath was still a mystery to me, but I did enjoy the savory of the moment as my blood red hair was massaged from the scalp down with the nice lemon scenting soaps.

When I was done, I was helped out with a towel about my body, and when I came out, Nancy was no longer in the room.