4. This can’t be true…

~Aliyah’s POV~

Uh… Oh god…. What’s wrong with me? Why was my head spinning?

Goddess… My whole body was aching. It feels like someone threw me across the room.

I slowly opened my eyes but to my surprise, everything was dark around me. Were my eyes even open?

I tried to sit and… Wait, why does it feel like ground instead of a bed?

My eyes shot open and I gazed everywhere around me.

There was nothing but darkness! I couldn’t even see my hands and legs!

I was not at my place. I couldn’t see it but I could feel it!

Fuck… Where the heck am I? Why… Why was it so dark?

“Mom! Dad!”

“Damien! Carter! I swear, if this is any prank, then I am gonna kick your asses! Switch on the lights!”

I yelled and mindlinked my family again and again but there was no response.

No… My family doesn’t play with me like this… They know I can’t handle darkness. I even keep the lights on when I sleep!

“Mom? Dad? Uncle Liam? Damien!”

Why the heck was no one responding? Wait… My mind link…

I focused on my mindlink with my family and pack. My eyes widened. My connection with my family was severed! I couldn’t reach them… I couldn't ’t even feel them!

My breathing turned heavy, and my heart started pounding so loud it echoed in my ears. Tears blurred my vision, but it didn’t matter. I couldn’t see anything anyway.

Everything around me felt too close, too tight, like the air itself was pressing against my chest. I tried to move, but my legs wouldn’t listen. It felt like I was glued to the floor, trapped in the dark, gasping for air that just wasn’t enough.

“Li… Lizzy…?”

I called my wolf but again, I was greeted with silence. No… She was supposed to be with me. She was inside me… Why can’t I feel her?

“Lizzy? Lizzy talk to me!”

“She won’t… She is in a long sleep…”

Ellen… Goddess, I was never happy to hear her voice until today.

“Do you know what happened?” I asked Ellen.

“No and calm down. You are giving me a headache.”

Headache? My heart has started to burn with such blackness around me!

“You know… I… I can’t… I’ll freaking die because of this darkness!” I hiccuped and held my chest tight.

“I know you are claustrophobic and all but if you want to get out of this situation, you need to calm your ass down,” Ellen hissed.

I know... But what I don’t know is how the fuck did I end up in a room like this!

I was… I was in the Dark Moon pack attending a party. Then how did I end up here? And what happened to Lizzy?

It wasn’t possible to see anything around me; the only thing I could hear was my own racing heartbeats and heavy breaths. My cheeks and neck were wet with tears and I felt like I would pass out any moment.

“Give control to me. I will find a way out…” Ellen said.

‘I will find my way…’

I heard that before… Ellen said the same thing at the party.

The flashback of the party started to appear in my head. I was thinking about when and why she said that when suddenly I saw some light coming from my left, and I ran for my life.

It was a door that was ajar but I was thankful for it.

I quickly opened the door and started running in the hallway in front of me. I ran for a few seconds, and then my legs froze, and my eyes widened.

Though I could see everything around me, everything was still so creepy. All the walls were black and there were large curtains of black and red at the end of the hallway. There were lamps with dim yellow light and… Portraits…

What the hell? Who would hang posters like this in their own house?

Pictures of people biting into women’s necks covered the walls, blood dripping down in every one of them.

I swallowed hard. Why… why does it feel like I’ve walked straight into hell?

“And why do I feel like I am in heaven? Because this place looks like it belongs to someone from my kind,” Ellen chirped.

No… It can’t be… A vampire? Again?

“It looks like the beauty is awake from her sleep…”

A deep manly voice reached my ears. His harsh yet deep voice sent shivers down my spine and I tightly clutched my dress from the sides.

I took a deep breath and slowly turned around. My whole body froze.

A man was standing there, staring right at me with blood-red eyes and a wicked smirk on his face. The air around me felt heavy, and my breath got stuck in my throat. My eyes met his, and I inhaled sharply.

No… this can’t be true. This… This can’t be true!

“This is freaking true! This is awesome! Ha! You wanted to get rid of me now you can’t. You got a vampire mate!”

No, no, no, no… This can’t be possible… A vampire mate? Why moon goddess why?

He slowly walked towards me and even though I wanted to run, I found myself waiting for him to reach me.

His every step toward me made my heart beat at a faster pace, and I bit my lower lip; I don’t want to say this, but… He looked handsome.

His cleanly shaved face with a pointy chin and plumped lips looked… Oh goddess, what the heck was wrong with me? I shouldn’t be thinking such things right now!

He was only a few inches away from me when someone grabbed my neck from behind and licked my earlobe which made me scream and shiver in terror, “No!”

“You should have said this to your brother…” The person behind me whispered in my ear.

I looked at my mate for help, but he smirked at me and clicked his tongue, “You enjoyed seeing our people dying; now, we will enjoy making the princess of Knight’s suffer…”