Chapter 3

Amber’s POV

The shock on my face gradually turned into fear due to the effect of his voice and I could feel my palm getting sweaty as I nervously rubbed them against each other in a bid to dry them.

“Aiden!” I heard a tiny voice scream from behind me and my mother and I turned around to see one of the twins running towards the Alpha King who still had my father in a chokehold, looking crazed as hell with blood dripping down his clothes and the claws on his other hand out.

She didn’t seem scared of him one bit right now, with how she literally ran into his arms.

My mouth fell open.

The sneaky twin had obviously managed to loosen the ropes which I had used to tie her up and was also excited to see that her brother had come for them.

The anger in his eyes were evident as his eyes had already turned dark red, causing an immense amount of fear in the room. From the look of things right now, it was obvious that he had dealt with a whole lot of people out there and had completely conquered them.

“Step aside.” He ordered, pinning mother and I with a look that had us trembling in fear, and as we scrambled to do just that, we both watched as he flung my father across the room against the wall, causing him to fall face down.

He started walking towards my mother and I and with each step he took forward, we took one back until he got to us and grabbed my mother by her throat.

“Mother!” I screamed in terror as he grasped her by her throat and lifted her off the ground effortlessly, causing her to gasp for air and making her breathing hard.

My palm was over my mouth as I stared at my mother struggling to breath helplessly and before I could try to process anything we all heard a gunshot that made me gasp and flinch in terror.

I turned to see my father with the gun, he had pulled the trigger and I screamed when I realized that he’d shot one of the twins– the one who had managed to loosen from the ropes and had run to her brother, minutes ago. I wasn’t exactly fond of them but I hadn’t expected my father to kill one of them, especially in this current situation.

“Let her go.” My father growled and I looked back to see Alpha King Aiden’s eyes turn darker than it was initially. I’d thought he was going to at least drop my mother and run over to his sister but he didn’t.

Instead, he dug his sharp claws into my mothers throat as she struggled to leave his grasp but she couldn’t, and before I could blink, he had torn out her throat, causing her to drop dead on the ground in a pool of her blood.

A blood curling scream tore out from my throat.

There’s no way this is happening right now in front of me.

My blood froze and all the colours that usually filled the room soon started fading away as he made his way towards my father and yanked him up.

“No, No. please.” I cried but my voice came out as a whisper instead of an actual plea.

Each step he took was heavy and filled with so much power, I briefly wondered what my father had thought when he decided to mess with this man.

“How dare you ?!” He growled in a voice that held so much promise of death.

He walked past his dead sister and when he paused for a moment, I could tell that he’d wanted to pick her up, but he didn’t.

Angrily turning towards my father, he roared as he picked him up, and then he threw him across the room, causing my father to hit his head as he slid down the hard walls.

Fuck.

Fuck.

Fuck.

I chanted in my head as I watched my father getting approached again.

He picked him up with his cloth and slapped my father across his face so hard that it caused him to get deep cuts on his face from his claws.

“I didn’t have the intention of killing her but because you had the guts to touch my wife with your cursed hands, she’s dead now.” My father spat, referring to the King’s younger sister as he spoke amidst laughter and that only caused Alpha King Aiden to get even more angry.

“How Dare You?” He bellowed, slapping my father again and kicking him so hard that I couldn’t hold back the sobs that escaped my lips.

“Father,” I cried, reaching out to him but was too far away from him to take his hand and  another swing my father hit the wall again as the bricks came shattered down on him.

Alpha Aiden picked him up and after staring at him for a while. He dug his fingers into his throat and just like he’d done to my mother, he tore out his throat without blinking.

This cannot be happening to me right now, there’s no way this is happening to me!

Both my parents just breathed their last in front of me. Just some time ago, I was happy and everything about my life was extremely perfect, and right now, I’m staring at their lifeless bodies in front of me.

I screamed as I hit the ground and crawled over to where my mother laid.

“Mother! Mother!” I knew she wasn’t going to respond to me but I held out hope that she would at-least move. When she didn’t flinch, I crawled over to my dad to repeat the same thing and then it finally dawned on me.

Both my parents are dead.

My world was completely still.

I couldn’t believe that I was now parentless

A cold wind ghosted over the back of my neck and ears like the touch of cold fingers.

Suddenly, the whole world seemed unnaturally dark, as if it had been drained of all light as I buried my face in my palm and tried to comprehend what had just happened.

“You fucking bastard!” I yelled, mustering up all the courage I had in me as I stood up and walked towards him, “You Selfish bastard.” I cried as I punched his chest and hit him multiple times.

“You fucking killed them! They’re dead now and it’s because of you arrogant, fucking, son of a goddamn bitch…”

I was still talking when I felt a hard slap across my face that made me stagger hard and hit a wall hard. I lifted my hand to touch my throbbing head and It came back with blood.

I was bleeding due to how hard I’d hit my head against the wall.

I licked the side of my lips and I couldn’t miss the metallic taste of blood in my mouth, “You Bastard.” I growled through gritted teeth.

He made his way closer to me and picked me up with my hair before throwing me across the other side of the room. I hit the wall real hard and screamed from pain. It was so painful that I thought I was going to faint at first.

“Do it, you fucking coward. Kill me the same way you fucking killed them.” I yelled as I spat out blood and he took my words literally as he picked me up by my hair once again and slapped me so hard my vision blurred out for a few seconds..

I struggled to open my eyes and when I did, he had a look of intense hatred on his face.

I watched his claws come out as he slapped them across my face and I could feel the slash on my cheek.

“Do what you have to do. Kill me.” I seethed and I could tell he was taken aback that despite all he’s done to me I still didn’t stop talking.

He dropped me and I hit the hard ground so hard that I felt the effect on all of my bones. I struggled to stand up but before I could stand, he kicked me and again, I hit my back against the hard wall, slumping to the ground in immense pain.

“You will kneel, you will bow down to me and you’re going to beg for mercy.” He said as he gritted his teeth at me.

I stared at him for moments before letting out a roaring laughter amidst the pain coursing through my entire body, “That will only happen over my dead body.” I groaned as I spat out blood and he slapped me across my face once again that I went crashing into the wall one more time.

He yanked me by my hair and dragged me out of the house as he kept hitting me against whatever he came across. He was angry and he wasn’t hesitating to take his anger out on me the same way I wouldn’t lower my pride to bow down to a man as disgusting as he is, who had killed my parents minutes ago.

“I’m going to make sure you pay for every single thing your father did. You will pay for the death of my little sister. I will make your death so slow and so fucking painful that you will beg me for mercy and I will not give it.” He groaned, his teeth gritting against each other and his grasp tightening on my throat as he held it and it got impossibly hard to breathe.

“I will only do that over my dead body like I said.” I groaned out through the little air I could get into my lungs, and I could see the anger stir up in him once again as he slapped me hard.

My head soon started feeling hazy and my vision got blurry, everything seemed to start getting dark but I knew it was only as a result of how hard he’s been slapping me.

“Coward.” I gurgled out and he smirked, looking possessed with the look in his eyes and the blood staining his face.

“You really are not going to listen to me?” He asked and I croaked out a groan as I jutted my chin.

“Never.”

I didn’t care if he was going to have me killed as well, at least that way, I’d know I didn’t give in to what he wanted.

I’d go down with my pride still intact.

“I don’t care if you kill me. I won’t surrender, or give in to what you want. So – tear out my throat already, you monster.” I whispered through shaky voice while sucking in deep breaths, but I was sure he heard every word because he only chuckled and tightened his grip on my throat, completely cutting my breathing space.

“I think giving you death right now is quite undeserving right now, don’t you think so?” He mused with a dark chuckle and then he jerked my face closer to his face, making my head spinned faster at the lack of air.

“I’m going to take you with me. You’ll become my slave, my property– mine to use however I please. I’m going to break you completely. I’ll deal with you so thoroughly that you’d end up surrendering to me. You’d beg for death at one point, but I won’t give it to you. You’ll suffer endlessly for what your father has done, and you’ll thoroughly pay for his sins.”

As he spoke, the more the world around me got darker, and as he came to the end of his promise for me, so did the world around me get completely black, dragging me into the world of unconsciousness.