Methis Delis POV
That afternoon after I saw my contract to be sold, I spent a huge chunk of the afternoon crying my eyes out in my room. Muttering curses for my stepmother for throwing me away. It might have been temporary, but it was going to hurt nonetheless. She was not going to be able to see her father for the entirety of her stay, neither was she going to be able to speak with her friends or do all the fun stuffs she used to do. Now she was stuck in a contract. She had to honour the clauses stipulated in the contract. After weeping my eyes out, I heard my stepmother scream my name from downstairs. There was no time to start up a fight with her. She had already won and had made a sizeable amount of money doing so.Once I was downstairs, my stepmother comprehended me with repulsive stares. "Why is your eyes red?" She asked."Nothing." I replied."You are going to chase away these people looking like this. Go up and brush up.""Don't worry. I'm his wife am I not? After he takes me every morning do you expect my hair to be all perfect and my face made up?"My stepmother closed the gap between us. She was much bigger than I was. "Don't give me that attitude girl."I hissed and walked back up the stairs, on my way she grabbed me by my arms and spun me around, raising her hand to hit me but stopped halfway after catching a smile in the corner of my lips. She was thinking the same thing. They might return me if they see me with a black eye or traces of physical abuse. She let me go and I went back upstairs, fixing my hair and redoing my dress just in time.My stepmother must have planned it all out well. The contract required the man to provide me with clothing so as I left the house in my stepmother's car with just a few things small enough to fit in one backpack, the camping story was even more believable.We pulled into a public garage and we exited the car. There were a few other cars in the garage but one stood out. A black one, immaculate in its appearance and fancy too. The body was so black it shone and reflected and outside it stood a man in a black coat. He had a black cap on that partly concealed his face. As I and my stepmother drew closer, he took off the cap and welcomed us with a creepy smile. I froze but my stepmother nudged me on."Get in the car," she whispered to me. "You better be good.""Yeah?" I whispered back. "Says the person who sells her own daughter." I said, making reference to the first time we met when she introduced herself as my 'mother.'Unsurprisingly, she had a comeback. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not as if I gave birth to you so shut up and be good."I got in the car. I tried not to show my reluctance. If I had one chance to take this all back and make it like this never happened, I would be more than glad to take that chance even if it involves me having to fight a bear.My stepmother and my new husband exchanged words outside the car. She was smiling but he wasn't. Clearly, she was trying to get a raise or something or an extra bonus for bringing her to such healthy state. That woman would do anything for money, I thought. It burned me that they were haggling over my price as if I was an object, as if I was worthless. It made me feel hopeless.So much for being special, mum. I felt more stupid now thinking of my mum's words. It was something that used to give me pride but now it ridicled me. What was I thinking believing it anyway? A bloody stupid moon appears during my birth and I'm suddenly special. Well, maybe I was in an awful way. Because there aren't a lot of teenagers my age who get sold out by their stepmother.My husband gets in the car. He clicks his teeth and jokes: "That woman sure loves money" before driving off.I don't laugh at the joke.We spend some time in the car and it is eerily quiet. The car has a leather smell like it was brand new. Not much in the car that was able to give away how long it has been used. My husband does not say a word. He just keeps his eye trained on the road, not turning to the side for a split second to apprehend me.Maybe he was expecting me to talk first. To ask questions. If so, he was wasting his time and there was no way on earth I was going to strike up a conversation with the person who bought me from my father through my stepmother.It was not until we got to the sign that bid us farewell from our town did I realized that I might be actually doing another thing I haven't done in my life - go far from home. It was bad enough to think of going alone or with a friend but now I was going with a complete stranger who in a few hours or so, would claim me on the bed as his own, defiling the body I had kept for 18 years. Another thought came to my mind. What if this man was trafficking me? It made sense that way. Meet a greedy woman who only cares about money, offer her money for a girl and resell the girl for a higher price. Surely, younger girls just reaching their most attractive stage who are virgins were hard to find and they ought to pay the most.Now I felt like I had to start a conversation. I needed to know where they were taking me."Where are we heading?" I asked."Home," he replied as quickly as I had asked."Isn't that where we are leaving?" I lost my confidence and my voice began to crack. "Why did you buy me?""There is a purpose more than what you might think. You aren't ready for it now.""I am." I insisted. "I know I am. I can tell."The man just turns to me and smiles the same creepy smile. I shivered a little."What kind of man doesn't tell his wife anything?" I sum up the courage to ask."The kind that doesn't have one." Was his reply.I turned to him confused. "What do you mean? You bought me to wife, didn't you?""I didn't," He said. "The alpha did.""Your boss?" I asked."You could put it that way."The man must have felt the tension because he then slowed down and faced me occasionally. "Look, I don't know what your mother said to you about us but we aren't like that. We are good people and we will welcome you."Weirdly enough, it worked. I calmed myself a little and began to focus on enjoying the ride. "She's not my mother," I said. "She is my stepmother.""What happened to your mother?" He asked. His questions did not come off cold but caring."Dead," I replied."I'm so sorry, kid."With that we drove smoothly until we got to a riverside and booked a ferret to the other side.Jamal Kunis POV
I had received a call from Conrad that he was on his way back to the palace and he had come with the girl for the surrogacy.I sat at the stairs of the palace, with the White Witch standing by my left hand and on my left hand, where Conrad was supposed to stand, a member of my Council of Elders. We awaited the arrival of Conrad. Some minutes later, I saw the outline of both their bodies as they walked down the way that led straight right into the front doors of the castle. As they arrived at the staircase just beneath me, Conrad took a bow before climbing the steps and resuming his position on my right-hand side while the girl remained below. She was human, and the difference was clear: she was smaller than the average female werewolf, she was not as curvy and not as beautiful. But I had to take that last part back the moment she raised her head up to look at me. I looked to my side just in time to catch the suspicious glance of the White Witch. I knew right then we were thinking the same thing. This girl looked exactly like the Dark Witch, the one who had betrayed me and placed the curse upon me. This was more than a mere resemblance. I studied the girl for quite some time, noticing how she continuously bit her lips. Oddly enough, I found it attractive already.Methis Delis POVStanding before the Lycan King as Conrad had called his title to me was no easy feat. Sure all it took was just to stand, but there was more to just the standing. There were the stares from his entire entourage. I was originally scared that the welcome would be more loud and full of drinks and laughs and that my husband would try to have me at once in his room, but there was nothing in this world that could have prepared him for what I experienced next. The welcome was quiet and next to nonexistence. The king stood on the steps that led to the castle, towering over me even from the distance we had kept apart from each other. He was huge and intimidating in nature.I could hardly believe my eyes that I had to be the one who would bear a child for this regal wolf. As much as I thought it weird, it looked as if it was supposed to be an honour. On my way to the castle on foot beside Conrad, I noticed a few women Conrad had whispered to me were also werewolves. They were bi
Methis Delis POVMy body froze instinctively as his lips locked with mine. I did not kiss him back neither did I pull away, I just let him do what he was doing. He eventually broke off and looked deep into my eyes but it was difficult to hold a gaze with him. It was very frightening to do so. My eyes bulged open and my mouth hand hung open as well. I did not know whether I should smile or frown or blush but all I knew is I was having this feeling of shock. I never believed that I was going to kiss a guy I had just met a few hours ago, in fact, we have not even properly met, all we did was a mere introduction were we barely spoke words and now we were kissing. Deep down I wondered where all of this was going to lead to seeing that we still had a lot of time to spend together in this castle.King Jamal pushed himself further, trapping me tighter between himself and the door behind me. He leaned in again and kissed me, still, I did not reciprocate the action, I just let him do as he wishe
Jamal Kunis POVI felt the burning urge to ignore her pleading and force myself on her but there was this tender innocence that her pleading radiated that made it intensely difficult to ignore the pleading.“Why are you pleading?” I asked. It vexed me that I had paid a large amount of money I had paid only to have this girl refuse me. things were not done that way. “Why then did you agree to the contract if you were going to plead? Did you not read the contract?”“It wasn’t me,” the Methis said.“What?” I was genuinely confused.“It was my stepmother who sold me I swear. She just did it out of nowhere.” She sat up on the bed but still did not dare to look me in the eyes as we talked. “I had no idea we were going to do this on my first night. I had not prepared for such thing, my lord. If only you could just give me a little time to adapt, I promise I would not be this way.”I held her face and stared into her eyes, adjusting her head so she stared back. Tiny traces of tears had begun t
Jamal Kunis POVMy anger flared in me and I called one of my many servants. “Get me the Beta. We have combat training to talk about.”A few minutes later, the Beta entered. “You know if I hadn’t known you long enough, I would have guessed you were drunk,” Conrad joked. “What sort of combat training do you want to engage in in the middle of the night?”“Where did you get the girl?” I asked.“What girl?”“Don’t play dumb, Conrad.” There were quite a lot of things I needed to get off my chest and the tension I was feeling because of this human girl was one of them.“Oh. Methis, they call her.” Conrad moved around my room as he spoke. “From the land of the human. That’s where I found her. Just as you and the White Witch commanded. Is there a problem?”“Something tells me you chose her as a tease.” I stared deep into Conrad’s eye. Unlike Methis, Conrad stared back, unmoving.“I don’t get your meaning,” said Conrad to me.“Why does she look so much like the Black Witch?”“I did not create he
Methis Delis POV It must have been the reason I refused him last night but I was not very sure. Perhaps I was just trying to escape the greater pain of child birth in the future. Thoughts of last night made me look weak, even to myself so I stopped thinking about it. All I just wondered now was how much angrier I had made the Lycan King. He was an angry person on a normal day, he sent me off angry just when he was about to get into a good mood. I was at fault to be blamed here.I did my mouth and took my bath but was now concerned that not even a single servant had entered my room to inquire of my health or my need for food as they usually did. If I was to die right here right now, I do not think any of them would notice. I had begun to get hungry and not being brought up in a royal family, I knew just how to setup my own breakfast without the need of servants so I got up from bed and headed to the kitchen. Except now there was one problem: where the hell was the kitchen?I had forgo
Methis Delis POV A month later I felt a surge of nervousness as I entered the clinic. It was my first time undergoing the surrogate checkup process, and I had no idea what to expect. The wolf people had a different way of monitoring their pregnancies, and I was the first human to carry their child. Getting pregnant with a werewolf baby happened much sooner than I expected, which made me feel uneasy inside. “Relax, Methis. It’s not that bad.” Beta said, sensing my anxiety. He was the one who brought me here, since Jamal had some urgent business to attend to. He took my hand and led me to a room where a female wolf doctor was waiting. He smiled warmly and gestured for me to lie down on a bed. She then attached some wires and electrodes to my belly and chest, and turned on a monitor. “This will show us the heartbeat and growth of your baby.” She explained. “Don’t worry, it won’t hurt.” I nodded, trying to calm myself. I looked at Beta, who was standing next to me. He smiled reassur
Methis Delis POV As the doctor finished speaking, I couldn't help but almost laugh at the absurdity of the situation. I had expected my role as the Female Lead to be anything but conventional, but I never imagined playing the part of a surrogate mother. It was a strange predicament, one that left me puzzled and curious about the lycan king's motives.Sensing my gaze upon him, Jamal's voice cut through the air, stern and commanding. "Methis, there's no need to overthink things. Focus on what you need to do and carry out your role as we've agreed."I bit my lip, suppressing the questions that threatened to spill from my tongue. After the checkup, Jamal disappeared once again, leaving me alone with Beta, his trusted companion. Beta, a towering figure with a demeanor that commanded respect, led me through the halls of the palace. Silence enveloped us for a moment before Beta broke it with a nod of apology."On behalf of the wolf servants, I want to apologize for their earlier rudeness to
Methis Delis POVBeta hesitated for a moment before speaking. "I know that you are human, and we are wolf people. But I cannot help but feel drawn to you. You have a kind heart and a gentle spirit, and I find myself wanting to protect you."I was taken aback by his words. I had not expected this kind of confession from him, even worse I wasn't particularly sure what he was talking about. "Beta, I...I don't know what to say."He looked at me with earnest eyes. "Don't misunderstand." He said, chuckling slightly, "It's nothing like that, I just wanted to keep things open with you." I smiled softly at him. "Thank you for being honest with me, Beta."Beta nodded, understanding. "I respect that. But know that if you ever need anything, I am here for you.""Thank you, Beta," I said sincerely.We sat in silence once again, watching the young wolves play. I couldn't help but feel a sense of warmth and comfort in Beta's presence. He was still a loyal and trustworthy friend and in the current s