5. RAT

Amairah Garcia's POV: 

It’s been an hour since I have entered this prison. The woman next to my cabin was constantly blabbering as sometime I did understand her but sometimes I couldn’t. She told me how much cruel were these Dark Spades as apparently from her words I got to reach the conclusion that she hated werewolves or she was scared of them.

I am still confused between hatred and fear.

I was sitting on the table as the floor was dirty with stones pricking my bare feet. My legs were loosely hanging down the table with my back aching by constantly sitting in the same position. 

The woman next to me was asleep while sitting on the floor. I was looking at her peacefully when I felt some noise making me turn around to find a girl with a same age like me standing their looking at me with eyes that had different emotions. 

"Are you alright Your Highness?" She bowed her head at me as I looked at her from top to bottom when my eyes fell on her hands. Those were the same hands that used to bring me the tray of food. 

"Food lady." I whispered as she looked up at me trying to stifle her chuckle I guess. Was she smiling at me?

"My name is Amber but you can call me food lady too." She smiled at me as her face turned serious while coming closer to me. I also went close to her looking at her from close. 

She had curly red hairs in a bun with few loose strands guarding her face. Her skin was milky white but pale as compared to mine. Her eyes were exactly like her name, amber colored. She was beautiful. 

"I went to take back the tray but I waited for half an hour but you didn't bring it so I had to ask the guards to open it and I didn't find you there. I told the guards that you are in the room so no one knew yet that you are here. You can't tell people that you are the Queen or they will kill you." She said everything in one breath as she was in haste. 

"How do you know I am the Queen?" I asked as I was glad that she spoke every word clearly for me to understand. 

"Your mother asked my mother to give you this ring. When my mother died she gave me this to give to you and I have also seen your hands. I am serving you since three years. My mother was serving you before." She said with a small smile adoring her face as I glanced down at my finger. Two years ago when I turned seventeen this food lady game me this ring with written wishes for me on the paper. 

"Wear this in your finger. Happy Birthday." 

Since then I was wearing this ring in my finger as I have many other jewels in my closet but those were too heavy. 

"Thank you." I mumbled to her as she bowed her head at me again. 

"I have to go tell the general about all this. Till then don't tell anyone that you are the Queen. People are scared of you. It will create a chaos that you are out of the room." She said as she was about to go when I mumbled to myself but she still heard. 

"Why people are scared of me?" I said to myself as I knew the answer but sometime I got tired.

"People get scared of things that they can't understand. I was also scared but after seeing you I think I can take my time to understand you. I find one rumour wrong I think other would be proven wrong too." She left saying those words to me. 

How will people understand me if they wouldn't see me just like that food lady? 

"Which rumour she found wrong?" I almost jumped on my feet as I heard that old lady's voice. She was listening to our conversation. She got to know I am the Queen. 

"I won't tell anyone. I am in the prison because people don't trust me at the first place." She made me to release my breath as I went to sit on the table when I found something moving in the corner of the room. It was a small creature as it swiftly jumped from its place making me scream.

I jumped onto the table screaming as soon the door of my cabin burst opened revealing the same grey eyed man. He was looking at me with slacked expressions as he didn't get to know the reason why I was screaming. 

"What..." He was saying coming closer to me as that creature moved again as I felt this time it would jump directly on me so I jumped at the opposite side but I never reached the floor. 

I opened my eyes to find my legs wrapped around the torso of that grey eyes man with my arms wrapped around his neck as I didn't pay heed to him. I looked over the room to find the creature nowhere. 

"It's gone. It was a rat." The old lady told me as I sighed in content. Whatever it was a rat or not but his face was scary. 

"What a sight." I was breathing heavily looking at the corners when I heard a rough voice. There was a man standing while leaning against the metallic rods. His lips were pursed in a thin line as if he was trying to hold his laughter. 

I looked where he was looking as my breath hitched when I found that grey eyed man's face so close to me. His face was so close that I could feel his warm breath on my lips. 

He was looking at me with unknown emotions in his eyes as my golden brown hairs were sprawled all over his shoulder blocking the sight of his right side. 

My body was stiff as his eyes were cold and beautiful at same time. I wasn't even letting anyone touch me before and now I was practically all over him as there was mere distance between our chests. 

"I..." I tried to say something as his trance broke. He clenched his jaw as he grabbed my waist and made me sit on the table as if I weigh nothing. 

"What do you think you are doing woman?" He asked me gritting his teeth as he was also breathing heavily and then I again felt the same heat that I experienced before. 

"I...m-e...t-that...rat..." I was blabbering as my eyes filled with tears. I was scared of this man more than that rat. 

"It’s a prison. You will find plenty of them." The man with blue eyes came forward as the grey eyed man massaged his forehead as if he was frustrated. 

"Hn!" I listened to him as I abruptly pulled my feet above the table looking down at the floor. I couldn't stay here with the rats. 

"F**king stop this. Tell me where is the Queen? Where the general has hidden her? That grey eyed man asked placing his both hands on the table caging me between them. 

"G-general?"  I visibly flinched at his harsh tone as a lone tear fell down from my eyes. 

"F**k." He moved away looking somewhere else as if he was annoyed by my tears. 

"Hey what's your name? I am Kaz" The man with blue eyes came forward almost glaring at that grey eyed man for scaring me. 

I looked at him with teary eyes as I had to come up with a name. I couldn't tell them my name was Amairah. "...um...Rapunzal." I sniffed using one of the names from the fairytale that came first to my mind. 

"Well your hairs are too short for that name but it still suits you." Kaz said glancing at my hairs that were reaching my waist. 

"Stop treating her like a baby." That grey eyed man whispered to him but I still heard that as he was annoyed when he pushed Kaz away from me to stand closer to me again. 

"F**ker you are scaring her. She isn't that hard." Kaz whispered to him again as I figured out that his name was F**ker as he called him that. 

"You are forgetting that I am your King first then your childhood friend." That grey eyed man said gritting his teeth still standing closer to me. 

"Well the King and the childhood friend I know keep himself away from woman and never inquires them personally. It's Conner's duty." Kaz replied him back with the same intensity of words as that grey eyed man glared at him growling a little. They were acting like as if I wasn't present in the room. 

"I am the King of Dark Spades. I can do whatever I want. If you want to inquire her then do that or otherwise go train the army general." He smirked as Kaz smirked back this time. 

"I think I can inquire in the most civil manner so you can go and let me do this." Kaz said as if trying to irritate him more with his words 

Were they friends or enemies? 

I hadn't read the stories of werewolves much. Might be their friendship was like this but that wasn't my concern. 

"I am ordering you Army General of werewolves Kaz Mal to go and train your men." This time he demanded in a serious tone as Kaz’s smirked grew. He tilted his head at me and vanished behind the metallic rods. 

"Let's get back to work Miss Rapunzal." He moved towards me but I wasn't looking at him as my eyes were searching for another rat in the room when suddenly I felt my world upside down. 

He put me on his shoulder as my hairs sprawled all over my face. I grabbed his gown from the back for support as I wondered where he was taking me.

How will Amber find me if he took me somewhere else?