The hair at the back of my neck stood as I got up to have a clearer view of my surroundings, the air was damp and the water dripping quietly from the ceiling at a corner was all the evidence I needed to confirm that this was underground; an underground prison. There was no furniture in sight except the iron table smelted into the ground that held different sizes of what I could assume were torture tools. Most of the ground was covered in dried blood, my face scrunched in disgust from the mere thought of how I laid on the ground before. I looked at Mr. Prisoner, he sat comfortable on the dirty floor like it was home and didn’t care about the rat in the corner eating from his food; stale food. “You led me here on purpose?” I didn’t want to stay here any longer. My eyes kept looking at the back of the cell where his make-shift toilet was. “I should have done it earlier but it looks like you have been busy,” he still had a smile on his face despite his embarrassing situation. “No
I can’t believe I swooned over a man I didn’t know. Remembering how the one I swooned over and called mate turned out differently, I kept my enthusiasm to myself.Dave’s face changed upon seeing him, “I guess my story ends here for now, Emily.” His gawp on me intensified, “Do stop bye again… unfailingly.”“You shouldn’t have led her to this place,” the exotic man who just walked in spoke.Dave shook his head, “Then you should have made a better circle of enchantment,” his hands gestured to the ground and that’s when I noticed the washed off drawing on it. “You could do better than this, Ray.”“You still haven’t answered my question,” I watched as he redrew into the darkest corner of the room after dropping his piece to Ray and didn’t bother answering my question.At this point, I was already on my feet out of annoyance for ignoring me, “Hey, don’t act like you can’t hear me, you kept hovering over me relentlessly, so why are you quiet now?!”I reached for his cell gate when I felt a h
I sat on my bed and stared at the wooden floor as sunlight gleamed through the open curtain. I was preoccupied with the thoughts of the missing necklace and who could have entered the room without my permission. Although I was just a guest here, this room was mine for the meantime.While I was preoccupied with the thoughts of who could come in here whenever they liked, someone walked into the room without knocking and I raised my eyebrows as Ari walked into the room with a smile on her face.Someone who could come in here whenever they liked? I shook my head to avoid sowing seeds of distrust in my head. I returned her smile with an even brighter one.“So you were here,” her voice was energetic, as if she wasn’t the one with me the previous night. “I didn’t see you when I woke up.”“I decided not to disturb your sleep and came back alone.” It was half the truth. I suppose.“How did you find your way back?” Ari’s eyes fixated on mine. I averted her gaze. Do I tell her that Ray sent a pa
Asher finally got to where I was and my heart was beating rapidly as he stood in front of me with his hands in his pocket, he began to talk in an uninterested tone, “ I found someone who could help us out of this situation. We’ll be going to visit a shaman who will know what to do about it.”“What do you mean?” I was absolutely confused at what he was saying.“Alpha,” he corrected me with wrinkled brows, “You refer to me properly.”He went on, “The thing between us shouldn’t have happened, I believe I told you before.”Oh. My heart tingled, I had completely forgotten the words he said to me for the first time in his study without even a smile on his cold face. “I see.”To be honest, I was completely disinterested in what he had to say as all my attention was talking to Ray at the moment.“We are leaving at sunset. It’s hard to meet the shaman, so we shouldn’t miss this opportunity. Be ready when I send for you.” The command slid off his tongue like he was accustomed to it. I wanted to
“This is delicious’” I said between muffled bites as I wolfed down the food Ari kept aside for me. Ari smiled and watched me eat like a starved man.“I know, I have had it for years now and I still don’t get tired of it.” Ari stood aside and didn’t leave, even though I was nowhere near finishing my food.I watched her through my peripheral view and her motionless figure didn’t flow with the setting of a hungry man, she wasn’t pacing but her just standing there was distracting me from enjoying my meal the way I intended.“What is it?” I let out a sigh as I placed my sandwich down and pushed it aside. “I can see you have something to say, so just carry on with it.”She kept looking at me without saying anything. I couldn’t help but say, “You are ruining my first meal of the day with your placate expression, say it.”“Well,” Ari looked at me with a hesitant look on her face before carrying on. “Well…”“Well, well, well what?” I was getting impatient and my eyes kept going to the sandwich
The car air was cold and I could feel it through the sweater I had on. I looked at Asher who had on a sleeveless vest and I could see the goose bumps on his arm. I leaned forward to adjust the regulator close to his side.A few seconds were yet to pass when he adjusted it back, and he glanced at me briefly before looking forward again. I quickly drew to a conclusion that maybe he likes being hit with extreme cold. I decided to mind my business, and take a nap.I was unable to fall asleep but I left my eyes shut and Asher never said a thing for the rest of the ride until the car came to a stop, “Wake up, we are here.”I faked a stretch and let out a quiet yawn like I was actually asleep. I looked through the tinted window to survey my current surroundings and all I saw was a neon sign and a half-empty car park. I glanced at Asher, “Is the shaman at this motel?”“No matter how desperate I am to get rid of this, I still need to take a rest, especially when it’s already past one in the mo
We returned to the motel after searching through the bushes for any sign of where the shaman might have headed to. We spent another hour or two ravaging through the shack, more like Asher did it and all I did was watch him.I watched as he trashed someone else's personal space, with each piece of furniture he smashed his rage could be seen. Not all could it be seen in his actions but it could also be seen in his eyes, when a piece of wood flew towards me and I scurried to the side; he seemed to remember I was there.He stared me down, his eyes wore his thoughts; I wish the Shaman was here so he could severe this thing from me. That was what his eyes said, he hated me and it was sad because I hated him too.Two mates who detest each other, one unwilling to get over his dead mate and the other too tired to try getting close to the former again. If Asher had a chance he would have left me in the forest but because he needed me, he took me with him back to the motel.Chivalry seem to have
"You must have met my brother," his brother? Ray?? "I should probably introduce myself. Although I go by many names, you can call me Richard." He spoke with a smile I looked at him with doubt, he was seven points similar to Ray and the likelihood of having a similar personality was also high."You're his younger brother?" His bottle was now empty and he sat there in a daze, I was unsure if he was listening to me until he shook his head."Not his younger brother, his older brother. Older twin brother." Oh, that explained the similarities although his hair was longer."You said you were waiting for me? Did Ray ask you to meet me?" He reached for the bottle of water and took a sip."Yeah. You wanted to meet me so I waited," I didn't get what he was saying and he noticed too. "You went to my shack in the middle of nowhere just to meet me."My body stiffened, "You are the Shaman?" He nodded lightly, "The one who's going to severe my bond with Asher?""No, no." He shook his head in denial