AZALEA'S POV
"Kai what are you doing!, get out!." I manage to order, but it did nothing to help.
"Why, I've not had my fun yet." I walk backwards, putting distance between us. "You know, I've always thought of what your skin would feel like in my arms, those perky breasts in my mouth…….." He laughs in a diabolical way, I've never heard before, pushing his brown hair out of the way, I walk away with each step he takes towards me.
"Kai, you're drunk and in my room! Get out, before you do something stupid." I shout, by now, all sense being quiet and respectful out the window. But he doesn't listen.
"Kai, stop right there, I'm going to shout!."
"Of course you are, when I show you all the pleasures of the world." In a swift movement, he is right in front of me, his hands on my neck, I try to run, but he's fast, I reach for something to hit him with, my eyes dilating as he restricts my air flow. His hands begin to rake my body in a very, very disgusting way, I manage to pick a pen holder and hit him with it, right in the eye and then I scream out my lungs.
"Mom!......."
He reach for me again, trying to stop me from screaming, I scratch his face with all the strength in me.
"Shut up!." He growls, his wolf completely taking over, he flings me across the room like he did my bed sheet, my scull almost split open, my eyes cloud for a bit, black dots appearing in my vision, but I see him making his way towards me again, I scamper to my feet, charging towards the door, but I never make it. He grabs me again, pulling me with my clothes, I hear them rip.
I try to kick him, screaming, I grab unto the door handle, but Kai pulls my feet dragging me back into the room so that the door handle tear through my skin, before he can do anything else, dad rushes in to pull him away from me with a resounding slap.
"Azalea!." I hear mom cry out and feel her hands around me almost immediately, my face moisten from tears already falling without realizing. I open my eyes, to see mom, dad, and a few maids, mom pulls me to my feet, and we hurriedly leave the room to theirs.
I hear my dad shouting and the sound of something crashing, Kai says something and another slap shut him up, I try to listen, but mom closes her door, putting a chair behind it to hold.
"Baby, I'm so sorry." She turns to me, her face already damp with tears. "I'm so sorry you had to experience that in your own home, I'm…."
I take her hands and shake my head, in an attempt to stop her from blaming herself for what Kai did, but with tears in my eyes, my clothes ripped and blood on my palm, did no help.
"I failed you Azalea, I promised to protect you and I failed."
"Mom, no you didn't, it not your fault, he was drunk." I try to reason out, even though the words felt like poison on my tongue.
"Don't blame his actions on alcohol, Azzy, we both know he can handle his alcohol, he will receive full punishments for this, I will not spare him at all, and I don't care if he's 80 years old."
Chills run down my spine at her words, mom's usually the chill and laid back person, but we all know better than to set her off, she's if not worse than dad.
"Go take a shower, I'll tell Camren to get you new clothes." She says before I can retort, leaving no room for argument. Nodding, I do as she says.
The next day, mom and dad don't really say anything to me, other than Kai was taking a trip for a while. I know that decision was definitely related to what happened. I pass by his office before Kai left and listen in on their conversation.
"She is your sister Kai!, how could you even think of doing such a thing!, have you no self control?!." Dad screams at him.
"She's not my sister dad, we all know that, Eloise and Alexa are, but that freak!....." He doesn’t get to finish as dad lands him another hard slap. My heart breaks, not knowing Kai thinks this way of me, or maybe I was aware and just ignored it.
"It happens a lot dad, in other packs, cousins are mates….."
"But she's not yours!." Dad shouts again.
"What's so special about her?, humans sleep with their siblings all the time, you guys take her like she some goddess!, she's probably going to eventually sleep with some useless punk and give away her virginity in some stupid drunk house college party!."
"I can't believe those words are the words of my son!, future Beta!, you have no regard for life, relationships and purpose!, is that what I've taught you?!."
"I can't believe I have a weakling as a father who won't even challenge the alpha after all these years!. It's like you want to remain in his shadows forever, but I don't!." Kai shouts back.
"I am Beta, I provide for my family and serve my pack well in that regard! I do not need the title of Alpha to feel powerful! If you think seeing the death of my friend is what being powerful means then I must have failed as a father."
"A friend that would not hesitate to kill you if roles were switched!, open your eyes dad! and stop wasting your time trying to cure Azalea! She is a weak slut."
"You are a disgrace Kai!, for daring to do that your own sister, blood or not!, how you will treat other women that are not even related to you!."
Hearing those words, tears pool out of my eyes till I can't take it anymore, I need to leave this place, the pack, immediately after mating day, I'm leaving!. If I was unsure before, now I am not. I do not want to be the reason Dad and Kai's relationship hits rock bottom. I do not want to get in anyone's way.
I know it would kill them, but sorry mom and dad.
HENRY'S POVThe nightmare came again.It always started the same way—me as a child, running barefoot through the woods, the shadows stretching long and hungry, the sound of my own breath too loud in my ears. I could hear him behind me, the headless man, his blade scraping against the bark of trees, a jagged whisper of death. My legs burned, my lungs screamed, but I dared not stop.I tripped.The forest melted away.I was home. Sitting in the living room of my childhood house, the scent of stew wafts from the kitchen. My mother laughed softly, speaking to a woman I couldn’t see. The voice was familiar. Warm. Comforting.For the first time in my life, I hear the voice clearlyAzalea.But before I could move, before I could even reach for her, the scene shifted again. This time, the nightmare did not follow its usual course. My father was no longer the one kneeling, begging for mercy. It was her. Bound, bruised, silver hair matted with blood.And standing above her, blade at her throat, wa
AZALEA POV "Don't you dare fucking touch him!" I shouted, my face red with fury. Lexa starts shouting through the duct tape too."No more shit like that, alright?" He grabs my face with force as if trying to break my jawline.I can only glare at him as he breaks into another monstrous smile. The doctor comes once again, this time with a gnash on her face almost matching mine."The doc will check if your blood level is enough for another draw." He announces and leaves.She was quiet while checking my blood and vitals, as she usually is, but I couldn't help myself from asking about her face."I'm sure you didn't decide to match with your patient. Who did that, Kai?"At first she doesn't respond and turns to the guards. "She needs to eat something if she's to survive another draw."I slip a scalpel from her tray as she talks to him. If we were to have any chance of escaping this place, I need some kind of weapon."If you do not cooperate, it affects us all." She whispers shakily to me as
AZALEA'S POV"Azzy, what's going on?" Lexa asks in a serious tone after the evil doctor leaves. I was sure we were being watched, so I didn't want them to suspect a thing."Do you know where Justin is?" I ask instead, shaking my head."On our way here, I noticed a room just like the one I was in with two hefty men guarding it, so I guess."I nodded furiously. "Lexa, look at me, things are definitely not how they used to be, everything we thought we knew." Tears gathered in my eyes. Everything I thought I knew was unfolding right in front of my own eyes. It was scary. I just had to trust that I could keep myself and my siblings alive like Mum and Dad told me to if Henry also decides to betray me as a sacrificial lamb."I'm so sorry I failed to protect you, but I promise I will get us out of here alive.""I don't understand, Azzy. What are you talking about? What was Kai saying?" She asks, still sobbing"Kai is no longer who we think he is." She nods, seeming to have gathered that much b
HENRY'S POV Shaking my head with amusement. "Still the same hotheaded bastard, I see." I smirked and clasped Gray’s forearm in an elongated weird handshake I didn't think I remembered that we made up when we were kids. "Still the same arrogant prick." I looked around quickly for Eli, its best I keep these two apart for a while. Gray chuckled before my eyes landed on the woman beside him. She had bright brown eyes and an air of quiet confidence. My brows lifted. "Your mate?" Gray in a manner I've never seem him before stammered, avoiding eye contact and the girl—Emma, I assumed—cleared her throat. I crossed my arms. "Oh, this is interesting." They have definitely fucked. I arch an eyebrow at Gray laughing. He sighed as she gagged at my eyebrow, pulling me aside. "It’s…..Uh complicated. But listen, Emma has rare abilities. She saved my life, Henry. And she might be able to help us." "Help how?" Gray’s expression darkened. "She gets visions. She sees things others can’t." Emma gi
HENRY'S POVI sat at the edge of my desk, my fingers pressing into my temples as I stared at the glowing map and countless computer screens before me. My eyes burned from lack of sleep, but I couldn't stop. I wouldn't stop.Azalea was out there, suffering, and I was stuck here, unable to do anything.I used to take huge pride in my collection of super computers with accuracy of 0.00001 to trace even the tiniest signals. I personally designed the tech lab myself, I gathered only the best from all around the world, Eli and the rest of the tech team are the very best among werewolves.Yet when it truly matters, the best computers and the best tech team can't seem to trace one person. Right now, as I stared and listened for the continuous chime and beeping from over 50 computers in every corner of the 1500 square feet lab I wanted to smash everything into tiny balls and set it all on fire.My frustration boiled over, and I slammed my fist against the table, the sound echoing through the ro
AZALEA'S POVMy breath hitched, my heart hammering violently against my ribs as I tried to process the impossible. Kai. My brother.And yet, he stood there, grinning like a madman, his red eyes gleaming under the dim lights. The once familiar warmth in his gaze had been replaced by something dark, twisted, malevolent."K-Kai?" My voice was hoarse, cracking under the weight of my disbelief. "How are you.....alive?." I puased to ask. Till now, I had thought he was in the fight that night of the attack. I remember dad saying something about calling him. I didn't know if he died or survived, but Ryder had assured me that no one alive was left behind in the pack. His sinister smirk only widened as he stepped closer. "Oh, sister, don't look so surprised, I was never truly gone," he taunts, stepping closer. "Did you really think you were the only one who survived?"."Something was deeply wrong. My instincts screamed at me to get away, to fight, to do anything but remain vulnerable before him