173Back at the pack, the Alpha brothers had gathered one more time in the morning, prepared to search for Alyssa again.“Has Ingrid gone back home?” Reynold asked Reece to confirm.“Yes, she has. The carriage already took her back home.”“Much better. I can’t have her waiting here all because some brat decided to play hide and seek.” Reynold spoke, looking towards the left with squinted eyes.“So, what do we do next? Where have we not checked here?” Reece asked, then removed his hands from his pockets.“Uhm… There is just one last place we haven’t checked. Follow me.” Reynold urged his brothers and they all followed his lead.They were all fueled by the anger of Alyssa disappearing when her disappearance only troubled their hearts more.Reynold especially wanted to teach her a lesson that will ensure she wasn’t going to ever try that again.But the lady who helped Alyssa, knowing fully well that if they found Alyssa, she would be in so much trouble in the hand of her Alphas, she deci
172Alyssa’s PovI turned my head away as I didn’t want to see any more of his face. Why did he always have to pop out of nowhere making me feel anxious that he could have seen something. That wasn’t supposed to be.But then, who was I to confront him and tell him to stop appearing and all. This was his house after all.I left Ryan’s room and walked back to my room where I shut the door behind me and smiled as I walked to the bed.“You were taking Reynold’s side so much that it brought your trouble closer.” I chuckled and laid on my bed.I also loved the look which Reynold had on his face when he saw me. It was like his pride had been hurt seeing as I witnessed the fact that Ryan fell into a hole. That was one embarrassing thing which I actually wished he fell into that hole, naked.“You should be lucky it’s just a hole you fell into. Had it been it was full of termites, it would have been satisfying too.”I giggled and cuddled in my bed and while staring at the ceiling, trying to thi
171Alyssa’s PovI laid on my bed and went to sleep. I was already exhausted, so I needed some sleep as it was necessary for me to get my strength tomorrow.But before I closed my eyes, I got down from my bed and locked the door so crazy Reynold wouldn’t think of getting rid of me in my sleep when no one least expects it.~Later in the middle of the night, I woke up feeling thirsty. I had gone through a lot of stress last night and must have been dehydrated by that, so I decided to get myself a glass of chilled water.I dragged my butt down to the edge of the bed until my feet were on the floor and I sat for a while as I still felt sluggish.“Damn it. I should really be filling up a personal jug of water before going to bed.” I uttered under my breath and finally found strength to rise to my feet.As I got up to my feet, I walked towards the door and pulled down the door knob, then stepped out of the room.I walked down the stairs gently so as not to attract anyone’s attention just i
170Alyssa’s PovJust as his grip was almost off me, someone from nowhere grabbed both of us and we fell to the ground.“Shit! Who the hell…” Reynold raised his voice in irritation but stopped halfway.“Reynold, how could you try to do this!” I heard Reece yelling at him.I raised my head and realized that it was Reece, Randall and Ryan who interrupted. I laid on the floor, panting, but I felt so much relief.The fact that I was safe now made all my worries go in one second. This Reynold was actually serious about getting rid of me. It’s so obvious how much he detests me.“Are you okay?” Reece walked up to me and reached a hand out to help me.But I ignored his hand and rose to my feet. I wrapped my arms around my body as I stood, waiting for them to take me home.“She deserves to die. I really don’t know you guys are keeping her. This isn’t what we talked about before she came.” Reynold voiced out. “She’s nothing but evil.”“How could you conclude on that, Reynold? What exactly did s
169Reynold’s PovI felt furious after she left and only stared at the trainees. The fact that they were not skilled enough to do what I wanted against her was annoying.“Are you certain that you all want to do well in the contests? None of you could shoot correctly at her!” I yelled at them as I felt my anger rising.“We’re sorry, Alpha. But she kept dodging it.” One of the females voiced out and my eyes scanned around for her among the other trainees.“If your enemy was right here, about to strike you, that’s how you’re going to explain to your ancestors when you’re dead that the enemy was dodging all your hits and that’s why you couldn’t save yourself. Right?”“Uhm… I…I…”“Get out of here and never come back to train under me.” I uttered and her eyes widened in shock and she came running towards me.“Alpha, please don’t do this to me. I’m sorry. I… I’ll watch my words next time.” She pleaded with sobs.“I don’t want people who watch their words. It’s what’s in their heart that I ne
168Alyssa’s PovThe trainees all began to shoot their arrows at me, and I began to dodge them all. About two arrows were so close to getting to my eyes, but I bent and even when more arrows were about to hit me while I bent, I swiftly avoided them, also remembering one of the practices which Daniel and I had engaged in several times.I also ensured that the bottle of water that I was holding was safe or that would mean that my plan against Reynold won’t work.“Come on!” Reynold urged his trainees and I could see that he was already beginning to get cranky and riled up. This was just so funny but the only thing I did was smile as laughing could distract me and all.Soon, their arrows had all been used, and I stood upright with my chest heaving up and down while I was breathing heavily from dodging a lot of arrows. Oh, goodness. Daniel, thanks for teaching me all these, and being there for me all the time that I needed you.Reynold walked up to me with an angry expression, and his fist