Alyssa's POVI think I might have fallen asleep again. But this time, my dreams weren’t filled with nightmares or the ghost of my mother. I didn’t dream at all. Maybe it was because my body knew I was safe with Kai beside me.My eyes flittered open, and my body was still aching from everything that I’d been through. But my eyes weren’t heavy, and my chest wasn’t tight with fear, because as I looked up, there was Kai, still wide awake, glaring at the door as if waiting for a challenge, arm wrapped around me securely. As I moved, Kai’s attention grew back to me, and his eyes softened the tiniest bit before he placed a kiss on my head.“Glad you’re awake.”“How long was I asleep for?” I asked as I moved my head from his shoulder. It was hard to tell the time in the dungeon with no natural light flowing through it or a way to tell if time had passed. I could’ve slept for ten minutes or even hours.“Only two hours, but no one has come by, so I didn’t want to wake you.”I nodded, feeling g
Kai’s POVI was talking to Alyssa, trying to comfort her because of what she’d been through and what she just witnessed as I beat that guard within an inch of his life. I was close to her, so close, but I could barely feel any warmth coming from her body, knowing it was because of the freezing dungeon. I shrugged my jacket off, ready to wrap it around her for the littlest bit of warmth it could provide.Even now, when she was broken and a mess, she was still the most beautiful person that I’d seen. I wanted nothing more than to hold her close and never let her go, especially when she asked me that question.“Why?”“Do you really not know?” That was how I replied. How could she still not know? I thought I’d made it clear about how I felt. Had she ignored it or thought I was trying to play her? I didn’t blame her considering my reputation. So I pulled her in closer and I told her exactly how I felt.As I was talking, I felt her move, her hands going to my chest and balled up my shirt i
Alexander’s POVIt wasn’t hard to find my mother. She was where she usually was, in the comforts of her room, sitting in front of a mirror and fixing her appearance for the ongoing party. The stress and conniving must’ve messed up her makeup and hair, and my mother hated anything but perfection, especially in front of other people.“Mother,” I announced myself, looking at the servants in the room and gesturing with my head for them to leave.My mother lifted a hand and waved the servants off, who left quickly, closing the door behind them.It was just my mother and me in the room now. That wasn’t something I was typically afraid of or nervous about, but that was because my mother and I always had a close relationship. At least we did before all this political warfare had come between us.“Dear, we should be returning to the party soon,” She said nonchalantly, still primping in front of the mirror as if she wasn’t the reason the woman I loved was locked away in the dungeons.“I have so
Alyssa's POVI remembered Kai’s voice, I remembered the feeling when I heard it and when I realised that he’d come for me. I had never felt anything like it, like my whole world could depend on a singular person, that I could trust someone other than the few, careful friendships I’d constructed over the years. I hadn’t known Kai for as long as I’d known Nolan, but this feeling was different to how I felt about Nolan. Nolan was a friend, I appreciated him, but I wasn’t looking in the crowd for him, I wasn’t waiting to hear his voice or wondering when the next time I’d see him would be. For Kai, I did.Maybe the pain from my imprisonment was finally getting to me mentally. I had no idea what Kai was doing with the guard that had been tormenting me as I lay on the floor of the cell with no strength to pull myself into a seated position. Slowly, I closed my eyes for a moment and took deep breaths, trying to dispel the pain. I think the adrenaline from the fight for survival had stopped m
Alyssa's POVI was right to fear the footsteps that came for me after my dream. It was my guard, I still didn’t know his name, and to be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure that I wanted to know. It was better to think of him as a monster than someone who wanted to do these horrible things to me. His laughter was vile, and the familiar whip was there in his hands. He was used to me cowering in the corner by now, haunted by the memories of the past and the pain I knew he was going ot inflict, but this time I stood tall. I glared at him with a ferocity I didn’t think I possessed. For a moment, he seemed confused as to why I was doing this. He narrowed his eyes and tilted his head before a sadistic smile was cast onto his face.“Planning to put up a fight this time, mutt?” He taunted as he stepped forward, unlocked my door and welcomed himself into my cell, “Well, isn’t this a change to our usual afternoons?”I didn’t want to answer him. He didn’t deserve an answer. I just glared at him, w
Kai's POVWe couldn’t do anything more to Alpha Evan, even if I wanted to. As much as he had betrayed us, betrayed Alyssa, there was someone a lot more powerful leading this game of chess. For once, I didn’t argue with Alexander, didn’t bring up the fact that it was his mother who was making Alyssa suffer, because even if he was in love with Alyssa like I was, she was still his mother, and I didn’t want to test his loyalty at a time like this.“I just don’t understand what my mother would achieve by backing Vivian with something like this,” Alexander murmured to himself more than me.I didn’t reply to him; I had bigger things to worry about than trying to figure out the viperous mind of my stepmother.“If your mother is behind this, then we need to get Alyss out of that cell. Who knows what’s happening to her down there?” I stated gruffly, trying not to let my emotions take over again, even though a swell of rage was beginning to build once again in my stomach.We picked up our pace t