CHAPTER OO7
ALICIA’S POVMy heart dropped right to the farthest pit of my stomach at the sight in front of me, a chill running down my spine instantly. It was phase two because there was a chair right in the middle of the room, with him sitting right in front of it, some guards surrounding the room, and other faces who were in normal clothing and not the guard’s clothing.I took a step back only to collide with a hard body, my fear doubling at the hard gaze of the guard at my back. I shook my head as fast as I could, terror showing on my face before trying to leave the room. The guard grabbed me and lifted me off the floor, ignoring my screams and proceeding to the chair.“NO! I Know nothing! Please don’t! NO!” I yelled out but everything fell on deaf ears as he kept moving towards the chair.He placed me on it, immediately strapping the belt to my waist. Everything reminded me of Walter and his haunting. The guard pulled my hand, chaining it, bringing back the memory of Walter also chaining me to watch him pleasure another woman. I continued to scream as loud as I could, begging, pushing and kicking back at something hard but with no response.I knew I had begged for death before but now I wanted nothing with it, I had a new thing in mind and this was not it. I stopped screaming after a while, slowly opening my eyes to see them all staring at me with a wild and shocked expression.“Alicia Wilson, ex Luna of the blood moon pack.” The devil in human clothing read out, my head snapping towards him in a flash.I watched as his eyes burned with an intense desire, not knowing who it was meant for. His throat bobbled up and returned down, leaning out of his chair and towards me. His scent wafted into my nose, cold and dark, musky like the woods and with the hint of his masculine energy. He stood up from the chair he was seating on only to pull it closer to me, our knees bristling against each other as he took his seat again.“It seems like you know about this already, i thought you wanted to die, you changed your mind?” He mocked, a smirk growing on his lips.“Release me.”He leaned back into his chair, a grin now replacing the smirk on his lips. Deep lines of his veins popped on his face before he snapped his finger, a guard hurrying towards him and placing some papers in his outstretched hands. His eyes left mine and went to the papers, briefly glancing up at me again, “You have such a history, one would not believe that despite the power you have in you, you still endured all this suffering.”Another wave of confusion set in as my eyes darted from him to the guard, “What do you mean?”“Alicia Wilson, mate to Walter Drummond, Alpha of the bloodmoon pack. Was once a caring Luna until she started getting jealous of everything and everyone, treated the maids like shit, only to get shitted on.”“That's not me,” I growled out.He looked up from the paper to my eyes, “I know. Your life was worse than this. I expect that good people are always good to the end, but who knew that they carried a pint of wickedness with them.”“You don’t know anything about me,” I said with a clenched jaw.He nodded before stretching the paper in his hands back to the guard, bringing his face close to me, “Well, I don't know but at least I know you killed your child.”It felt like a very cold water was poured right from my head to every part of my body at his words and the way he said it. He has looked for information about me, and of course, the last thing I said at Walter's place was exactly there.“What could the small boy have done for you to kill him?” He muttered, squinting his eyes at me.For three days, I had tried so hard to bury everything to the back of my head. To not think about it, but now, the tears I have been fighting so hard not to let out burned hard, pooling my eyes. I clenched my jaw hard, “now, now, tears to look for pity. You killed your child and now you're crying about it, such a witch move to make.”“I’m not a witch, and I didn't kill my son. I loved him.” I said to him, finalizing each word.He leaned back, his eyes boring into mine, the desire still burning in it, now coupled with intense curiosity, “So who killed your child then? Or did you use him as a sacrifice to your coven of witches?”My anger boiled hotter within me at his words. I leaned close to him now, and he did the same, not less than an inch separating our lips from clashing, “Fine, I killed him. At least I'm not someone who claims he’s hung up on his dead ex-mate memory yet sleeps around with women.”The smirk on his face vanished immediately, the desire nowhere to be found, replaced by a sharp and annoyed look. Deep veins stemming from anger replaced the joyous smirk on his face as he leaned away, “You know nothing about me, Alicia.”I tried to lean closer but the belt held me back, “Ohh, of course,” I smiled, “But at least you’re a liar who claims that he loves his mate yet sleeps around. Who knows, did you kill her also? Maybe you killed her and out of guilt, you’re lying around claiming you love her. Or may…He was out of his chair quickly, yanking my hair back with one hand and grabbing my chin forcefully with the other, the blackness of his orbs now colored red, a symbol of a true alpha. My heart was beating rapidly as he stared into my eyes, as his grip kept hardening and hardening on my chin.“You know nothing about me, so fucking keep quiet.”I ignored the part of me that wanted to cower desperately, a habit I have learned and now engraved to my soul, “That’s exactly how it feels when someone says something that they don’t know. It hurts like a bitch, and I'm surprised that even An alpha king like you still hurts.”My words only made his grip on my chin harder, and the pain from it spreading through my body, “I really hope that after what the guards would do to you, you’ll still be able to run your filthy mouth at me,”He released my chin, his other hand slowly patting my head as his lips curled up into a devilish smile, “you can take her now.”He walked away from my sight as his guards approached, my heart now racing more than before “what’s going on?” I asked, my eyes wandering between the two guards that were standing by my side.The last thing I saw was his chair before a helmet covered my vision and my loud scream pierced the air.CHAPTER 008ARTFOLD’S POVI was mad at her and at the same time not mad. Part of what she said made sense, but for my word to be used against me infuriated me more than anything. I could hear her screams at every step I took away from the room and although for some weird reason, it kind of broke my heart, I could not go back.For some weird reason, I was feeling something for her. I wanted to be close to her and have her near me, I didn’t want her hurt, I just wanted her to undo whatever she had done to me. I asked my beta, Callum, to look for information about her and that was where we got that she killed her child. I didn’t believe it though, but I wanted to know the kind of person she is even though I didn’t believe.I stepped into my study room, far away from the room where she was being tortured and settled into my chair. I looked up to see my beta right in front of me, his arms folded on each other, “get Mia, let’s find out what she knows.”He bowed before turning out of the ro
CHAPTER 009ALICIA’S POVPain and the cold, stench smell of blood, those two things were the first thing I felt as my eyes opened. I hissed out as I tried to seat up, my entire arm coursing with pain at every angle I tried to use it for. My eyes found the chair at which I had been tortured, and I started boiling immediately. After the helmet that they put on my head, blocking my vision, the guard had started from tugging down on the chairs used to hold my hands, pulling it as another person whipped me badly. My heart sank in fear as I heard the sound of the door, looking up at it immediately. My fear intensified as the sound continued, more of someone unlocking it. I managed to stand up on my feet and rush back, ignoring all the pain I was feeling for that moment and trying to find somewhere to hide.Although I was angry, I still did not want to go through the same thing twice. I managed to hide behind a wall locker, my heart racing steadily in my chest.“Alicia,” I heard someone ca
CHAPTER 010ALICIA’S POV.Before he could recover from the impact of the first slap, my anger doubled right within me, causing my hand to connect again with the left side of his face, “how dare you!” I yelled out.Tears burned at the back of my head, the stinking smell of the blood that had stuck on my face, either from the helmet because it was hard on my face or from what they did annoyed me. Even when I was with Walter, it never got this bad.He would beat me some days, but never torture me to the point of drawing blood. Scars were his utmost priority, and he always made sure I had them.But this bastard left me on a chair and allowed these measly guards who wouldn’t stand a chance with me when I was Luna, beat me and do whatever they liked.“I’ve told you, and I would continue to tell you,” I blew hot in his face, stepping closer and bringing my hot face near to his, “I have no fucking idea what you’re talking about! I don’t know how the ducking mark got to my wrist!” I shoved my
CHAPTER 011ARTFOLD’S POV.“Here we are, if you want to change your mind and enjoy my torture instead, you still have the time to do that.”I watched the way she took in the entire thing, the way her eyes widened and gauged it as if she could read every possible entrance and outline of the towering walls of greenery that she was about to enter. The maze. If there was one thing I’ve learned from being the alpha and also witches, she would not survive the maze at all.I had no idea what it did to them, but the maze was one place they never dared to enter. And if she was one, she would die inside. Maybe if she died, the mark would leave her and my memories of my dear mate would return.“Can I do this tomorrow? And start?”“Nope,” I replied immediately, making sure the ‘p’ sound popped out. “You start now. Since you badly want out, I’m badly giving it to you too.” She turned to me, her tattered and bruised body making my heart worry a little. What if she actually died in the maze? What
CHAPTER 12ARTFOLD’S POV A knock on the door disrupted what I was doing, my head snapping towards it with creased lines of annoyance on my forehead before calling out to whoever was there to come in. Two guards marched in, stopping in front of my desk and bowing both their heads at me,“Your highness, we were asked to come and report.” One of them said,The lines on my forehead deepened and my eyes squinted with curiosity, lifting my left brows for them to continue, “what report?”“About the lady in the maze. She’s not out yet. The beta asked us to come and tell you that.” Realization set in as my mouth formed an ‘o’, leaning back into my chair. I clenched my jaw, rubbing my hand on my forehead. Since yesterday afternoon that she has gone in, she hasn’t been out. Although I didn’t care much, I gave her two days and when the time passed, I would go there to search for her.But a certain someone was so worried about her, and has not been able to concentrate on his work since morning.
CHAPTER 013ALICIA’S POVA low groan escaped my lips before my eyes fluttered slowly, the first thing registering on my brain, a pair of glasses sitting on the bridge of the nose of the male doctor whose eyes were wide open and staring at my face in curiosity. I fluttered my lashes close before blinking it open again, this time our eyes boring directly into each other and his eyes going wider than before.He jumped away from me, his hand flying to his chest, “you scared me!”I closed my eyes again, opening it back to glance through the room I was in. I squeezed my face to myself before managing to lift myself up to sit up on the bed. I was in a new room, one I’ve never seen before, a white blanket covering my body and, with crumbled brows, medical instruments all around me, “Where am I?” I turned back to the doctor and asked. “You’re in my clinic. You fainted after the alpha sent you to God knows where and you were delivered to me here. The alpha will be here soon, I already called
CHAPTER 014ALICIA’S POV.I smiled to myself in the mirror, the image of myself so surprisingly beautiful to myself. It has been a long time since I played dress up, that I was allowed to dress myself up and look as beautiful as I wanted to be. I tilted my head to the side, smacking the red lipstick I had applied on my lips together and batting my lashes to myself. I dragged the chair backwards and stood up, staring at my full self in the long mirror. The corners of my lips pinched upward to a nice smile that reached the down part of my heart, my hand slowly smoothing over the silk gown. I moved some feet’s back, trying to see my figure and an overwhelming sadness plunged over me.I remembered the early days of my marriage with Walter, how beautiful I used to look. He allowed me with everything back then, I wore the finest of dresses, used the finest and most expensive glosses and lipsticks. I wore the best of shoes, the best of good clothes. I had always had a good eye for clothes a
CHAPTER 015 ALICIA’S POV“Mate,” I repeated, the word sounding surreal and foreign in my ears.My entire body went into shock, my eyes boring deeply into his own without knowing what to do next. Alina's voice was still ringing in my head, urging me to go close to him, to touch him, and even to make him touch me. But it can't be. In my mind, this man cannot be my mate. I should not be having any other mates now.I cannot even be having any mates right now. It was a world that I didn’t want to be part of anymore, a painful and disastrous world, and even if I’m to do it again, not with someone who thinks women are sluts and has put me in a chair to be tortured.“Excuse me,” I said quickly, turning back on my heels and finding all the energy in me to make my way back to my room.My chest was heaving greatly as I slammed the door close, my heart beating fast and loudly in my ears as I turned the lock to prevent anyone from entering. My hand flew to my ears, pulling off my earrings, dashin