~Amara~“Welcome to my safe space,” Katherine said and closed the door behind us.I walked into the unfamiliar room, one that I hadn’t been in before. It looked depressing; almost like the person who lives there doesn’t want anything that has to do with happiness. It was painted in dark gray, and the only splash of a little color in it was the ashes that were in a gourd.“This is your room?” I asked, my gaze moving all over the properties in the room.She took my hand and drew me to the bed, then flopped down beside me. “Yes. You’ve been here before, remember?”The flesh on my forehead scrunched together as I tried to remember when I might have possibly visited here. But nothing popped up. I looked around the place again, trying to see if something might jog my memory, but it was blank. But if Karina was my best friend, then I probably might have visited her before, right?“I know you don’t remember a lot of things, but I don’t want you to stress yourself trying to remember anything.
~Lucian~I sat on the wooden chair in a room that looked like it had seen better days, staring into the eyes of the pack oracle. It’s been more than five minutes since I came here and she was yet to say anything to me. Out of respect for her position, I tried to let her do her voodoo thing in peace and give me the answers that I sought, but I was starting to get very impatient. I didn’t come here to see her throwing sticks and bones around and having a staring competition with her. Mirielle has been our Pack oracle for as long as I can remember. She’d been the one who guided my father during his reign as the alpha king and had followed her instructions to the letter. When I, on the other hand, became the alpha king, I felt that I didn’t have the need for her advice. I did things the way I wanted to do it, how I wanted to do it, and when I wanted to do it. I wasn’t going to let a bunch of sticks and bones interfere with my choices. I remember the last time she told me that something
~Chad~The dull ache in my heart wasn’t gone yet. It still lingered, reminding me that my mate had somehow rejected me. Her rejection wasn’t one in the common sense, but the fact that she seemed to have forgotten who I was, or what I am to her.It’s been two days in the cell and each minute makes me feel as if there was someone using a straw to suck away all the strength in me. I felt almost powerless. As the second in command of the alpha, it took more than just locking me in a spelled cell or starving me of food and water to get me tired, so I just knew that the only reason that I felt this way was because of Amara.It was a thing with werewolves that when they’re not close to their mates, or if their mates somehow forget about them without breaking their bond, the other person gets affected. In my case as a beta, I kept on becoming weaker every day. If we hadn’t connected and recognized each other as mates, I wouldn’t have been affected this much. But we had linked our souls togeth
~Amara~I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, looking back now and then to see if my pursuer was gaining in on me. With every stomp of my feet on the rough, dirty ground, I felt the beginning of labor contractions but this wasn’t the time to be mindful of little pains when my life was at risk. With every step, I felt the weight of my unborn child. My heart pounded in my chest, not only fueled by the fear that consumed me but also by the physical exertion of my desperate escape. I had to escape from my pursuers somehow.I continued to run, my hands propelling my body to move as fast as it could. They were getting closer and closer. I could still hear their howls and snarls reverberating through the night and the sound of their paws hitting the ground. Because I’d been marked for death by the alpha, my only hope for survival lay in outrunning them through the dense underbrush of the woods.My breath was getting shorter. I was already tired and I didn’t think that I could run anymore.
~Amara~I almost panicked when I saw Alpha Adrik lying beside me.’How had I gotten here? And why am I on his bed?Everything seemed so confusing to me as I tried to rapidly recollect what had happened. We both still had our clothes on so there was a probability that nothing had happened between us. But, I was still confused about a whole lot of things; the first being why I would sleep beside Alpha Adrik. And what sort of weird dream did I just have? Who were the people chasing me and why were they chasing me? What did my mother mean about my child being a destined child?I placed a hand on my belly and rubbed it, the not-so-gentle kick from my pup confirming to me that it was still in there. Alpha Adrik stirred, and then one of his fat, hairy hands reached out and grabbed my breast. I made a disgusted face and tried to wriggle out of his grip but he held on tight, practically even hurting me in the process.My head turned to look at the side of the bed and when I saw that there was
~Amara~I lay there motionlessly, afraid to move even one bit before the two people in the room realized that I wasn’t sleeping anymore and found out that I knew about their plans. My brain was whirling a hundred times in one second as I tried to find solutions to my predicament.So the Hollow Ball is in seven days, and that means that I have just six days to plan my escape from this place. And I had to also find a way to take Chad with me. There’s no way that I can possibly leave him in that dungeon to rot away as his strength had left him ever since Alpha Adrik demoted him from a beta to an omega. I was even surprised that he was able to mind-link me at that stage. Most betas would have given up the ghost.I tried to send my thoughts across to him but I couldn’t feel him anymore. Panic surged inside of me as I thought of the worst-case scenarios that could have happened to him. What if he had slumped inside that dungeon and there was no one to attend to him? What if the guards had
~Amara~“No. I think that it’s too late for everything to be alright, Amara. You can’t even begin to imagine the horrible things that I’ve done. Sometimes I just sit and think about my life and I can’t believe that this person is that little girl who was once filled with laughter. My life used to be so good”Still leaning on my shoulder, I patted her hair and threw the few words that I could, trying my best to help her snap out of this mood that she suddenly went into. She was showing me a side of her that I never thought ever existed.“I don’t think there’s anyone in this world that is irredeemable, Katherine. Whatever it is that you have done is in your past. You have a whole life ahead of you” I said.She scoffed and laughed bitterly. “A whole life? Do you know how it feels to know that you hold someone’s life in your hands? An innocent person at that. and then you look into this person’s eyes while she pleads for you to have mercy on her and her children. But you go ahead to block
~Amara~I made my way to the dungeon, the possibility of seeing Chad again making my heart flutter. I desperately prayed and hoped that he wasn’t seriously hurt.“Katherine said I could come and see him," I said to the guard on duty who glared at me as I tried to round the corner to Chad’s cell.When he nodded his approval, I continued on my way and went to his cell. I could make out his body from the small opening under the cell. He flopped across the floor. The guard was taking a long time to open the cell door so I knelt beside the opening and called out his name softly.There was no answer and I feared that he might have fainted, or that something worse would have happened to him.“Chad? Are you alright in there?”A guttural groan was all I could make out. A sigh of relief escaped my throat. At least he was alive and conscious. That was one thing to be grateful for. Soon enough, one of the guards came and opened the heavy key lock. My heart fell as I took in the sight of the man