Chapter 3

Damien POV

I growled from an intense headache as I woke up from sleep. I had drunk excessively for no reason last night. As I sat up on my bed, I felt the taste of blood on my tongue.

'Did I kill someone?' I thought in my mind as I tried to remember what had happened. I turned around only to see trails of blood stains both on my sheets and the floor.

The scent of the blood made me feel a tinge of fear as it seemed familiar to me. 

"Alpha Damien," a knock came at my door and I let whoever it was in.

"What do you want?" I growled at the guard standing before me, making him tremble in fear.

"Alpha Damien, the maid...she is gone," he said and I squinted my eyes trying to get what he was saying. Just then, a flash of my memory came to my head and I remembered what I had done to Elena.

Guilt washed over me as the flashes of my brutality crossed through my eyes. Infuriated, I barked at the guard in front of me.

"Find her!, or you are dead!," I gritted my teeth, shattering all the glass vases in my room with my powers.

I dashed into my wardrobe and wore a clean shirt over my body before I left the room in search of her.

"No one should dare rest without finding her," I ordered everyone in my mansion. 

'I wasn't done with her yet, how dare she run away from me. I swear if I find her, I will make sure she never leaves the dungeon '. I thought in my mind as I dashed through the woods in search of her.

"Damien," I heard my name immediately after I stepped foot into my mansion. Luckily, the person who had addressed me by my name was Eric, my Beta.

"What?, did you find her?," I grumpily asked him terrifying all the guards who were present.

"She is gone Damien, this morning she was found on the ground underneath your window. According to the men who saw her, she was cold dead with broken bones," Eric informed me of her demise and I turned angry instantly.

"No, she is not supposed to die unless I kill her! Where the hell is her body?" I grabbed his shirt ready to blow him away if he said something I didn't like.

He sighed and nodded to some men who showed me the place where her body lay. Truly, she was dead. She was motherfucking dead without my permission.

"Take her to my room," I ordered not wanting to let her go yet. She belonged to me and I was supposed to cause her more pain. Why did she have to die? 

"I'm afraid we can't do that. She is a lowly Omega and her body is supposed to be laid to rest for her soul to be at peace," Eric tried to go against me.

"Peace?, did I ever say that I wanted her soul to rest in peace? If you don't want to end up like her, send her body to my room," I threatened him darkly before laughing insanely in front of everyone.

I was going to lock her soul here on earth and be her inner demon. No one can ever run away from me without my permission. 

Once in my room, I sat down close to her caressing her cold bloody body. 

"My lovely Elena, who asked you to kill yourself," I ripped her skin with my claws in anger.

"You pathetic witch, how dare you sleep in peace after taunting my dreams? I will never forgive you my lovely Elena. I hope you don't mind me keeping you here with me. Sadly, you are bound to me forever my love," I cackled evilly as I stroked each part of her body.

Two days later, I began a nightmare to myself. I never got any sleep and was always stuck by Elena's side.

"My Lord, you can't keep up with this act of yours. This is total madness, what will the people think of you? Please let the girl be laid to rest," the archpriest of the pack begged while on his knees, Eric was beside him too and their action infuriated me.

"Why can't you understand that I cannot let her die in peace." I surged out fire from my multiple powers and blasted it to them but Eric was fast enough to absorb the blast in order to save the priest's life.

"You can't continue like this Damien, people will think you are insane. She is dead and gone. There is no bond between you and her anymore, after all, she rejected you as you wished," Eric's truthful words pierced my heart and without thinking, I stabbed him with my claws.

"Remember your place, Eric, I'm the one to say what goes on in this pack and what doesn't. I will spare your life because it is quite useful to me. The next time you challenge my words, I will make sure you never live to see the next day." I pulled out my claws from his stomach making him cough out blood and whine in pain.

"Now, what is it that you wish for dear lovely priest?, tell me and I wish to grant it for you," I trailed my bloody hands on his face as he trembled in fear.

I loved it when people were afraid of me. There was this inner demon in me that loved to feed on people's fear. And that was the reason why I loved taunting Elena. Her fear was the only thing that calmed the demon in me and now that she was gone, it was looking for a new vessel filled with fear.

"Please, have her body buried before the next full moon," he trembled but his fear wasn't genuine, it was faint and unappetizing.

However, it was enough to calm the demon in me for a while. 

"And what if I don't want to bury her? You see, she has a lot of darkness lingering in her body. And it calms me every time, if I'm to bury her then you must take over her place. And that place of hers is not very comfortable to be," I taunted him and he oozed out more fear from him.

"Enough with your nonsense Alpha Damien, the more you pressure the people around you, the more that thing gets the best of you," Lady Zakira, the oracle of the moon goddess stepped ceasing my fun.

"Oh dear Zakira, has the moon goddess brought any news for me?" I smirked moving back to where Elena's body lay.

"Just as you assumed, the goddess has brought her curse upon you. Till the day you atone for your sins in the river of blood, you shall never bore an heir to your name. Your life shall become empty and void till the day you take your last breath," she spelled out and I turned around.

"Take back those words," I growled at her but she smirked making a mockery of me.

"So you really care about having children after what you did to that poor girl. I can't take back what the goddess has proclaimed. If you want to lift the curse find the girl and ask for her forgiveness. Truly, I know that you know the path that leads to the underworld realm," I sizzled out of the very place I hated the most.

"Get back here Zakira!," I yelled and chased after her. Once I got to her, I furiously clawed her left eye turning it blind.

"Curse you, Damien, you shall never find what you seek, never until the day you die," she cursed me and I stumbled backward realizing how I had messed up my life all because of my stupid mistakes.

After a week before the blood moon, Elena's body was buried but my curse still remained unable to be solved. 

The blood moon came and went by without the goddess paying my household a visit as she had forsaken me. But hell I didn't care, all I wanted was to lift this damn curse she placed on me.

I found all sorts of sorcerers and witches but none of them were able to reverse my curse. With time, I began to grow numb in my soul and as the oracle said, a void of emptiness overtook my body, mind, and soul leaving me in my own abyss.

As my desire to lift the curse on me grew, I got tired of the useless sorcerers and witches and began to hunt them. I was killing every one of them that failed to fulfill my wish until I met Red. A promising witch who made an attempt to make what I wanted to come through.

"Red, if you fail me, you know what awaits you," I threatened her with a smile that meant nothing but chaos.

"I will lift your curse, Alpha Damien, in exchange, you have to marry me."...