The lighting... It must be the lighting, Rayna! "I don't have time for this bullshit—" His phone rang and he stopped mid-sentence. Was it my imagination or did he look more panicked than frustrated?
"Alpha, the girl—" He looked like he was cut off and his eyes glowed brighter and feature tensed. I took a cautious step back.
Alpha? Alpha male?! How much did his parents hate that dude to name him that?
His glaring eyes dug holes in me and the other hand clenched tighter by his side. Is it only me or the whole Restaurant is glaring at me now?
"But Alpha, the girl—" He was cut-off again and glared harder at me. What's his deal?!
My eyes fell on the Exit as my heart constricted in panic. This isn't good. I need to leave this place.
Whatever the hell it is, I'm sure it includes selling and buying a human being which doesn't sound good for me as that sold Bitch in question sent me here. She is dead meat.
"Yes, Alpha." The man cuts off the call and turned his unwanted, undivided attention to me.
I fixed my stance and clear my throat, "So you see, I'm really not Sienna. I'll get going then—"
"Get her." He ordered and in panic, I made a run for it but I was grabbed by both arms in my second step. I turn my head to that mother fucker and glared.
I raise my finger despite the harsh grip on my arms, "Do you know who I am? Touch a hair on my body and you will be surprised at how many pieces a human body can be mutilated in!"
Ridiculous, I know. They are touching me enough to warrant that twice over.
He scoffs with a bitter smirk, "Sorry, foolish woman. It's your own fault for being at the wrong place—"
"Oh, fuck you!" I try to jerk my arms out of their clutches, "You're not sorry enough. But you will be when my Dad comes to find you!" I pant as my fear overtakes my senses. I want to get out of here but begging will not get me there so threatening it is.
I take a look at my surroundings, not a single person looks like they are calling for help. The diners look like families then why aren't they calling for help?! I make eye contact anxiously with several people but as they meet my eye, they avert theirs. I want to wail out in frustration.
I turn my face back to the guy and clench my jaw, "$10 Million. I'm being generous and offering you the deal of your life—" Before I could finish my sentence my words were muffled by the heavy cloth placed on my mouth.
I know what the strong scent in it is. I stop breathing and thrash around. My lungs burn but I still struggle. My heel slips in my thrashing, and I stumble on the harsh ground. I make eye contact with a blonde girl who's shouting and beating the chest of the man now.
"Let her go… Stop it… Please, let…" Nothing is registering in my frantic efforts to be freed. my shouts are muffled and my arms are restrained in harsh grips.
My struggles weaken, as I take in desperate breaths because of my burning lungs. My teary vision fade and my senses lull down. Light leave my eyes just like apprehension and strength leave my body.
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I feel pain, not sharp piercing pain but the heavy kind of pain that weighs you down. Slow and consecutively consuming. By and by the pain exceeds and I can feel my wrecked-up senses returning.
The pain in my head and knees hit me like a bolt and then I feel hands touching me and hear cheery hushed voices. Several of them. Then the feathery touches on my face and smoothening hands down my body, above the fabric.
"...What..."
I hiss as I try to move myself away from the touches and a groan leaves my parted lips. All the voices quiet down and touches disappear. I squint my eyes as light blinds me for a moment.
Blinking several times, I clear up my vision enough to see a ceiling. I have never seen it before. A white engraved ceiling.
A tasteless tacky ceiling...
My hazy mind slowly grasped back on reality and I jerked up to see several women, young and old, smiling silly at me.
I blink. Then I blink some more.
...Did I have a memory lapse or did I get amnesia? That too on my wedding day because I clearly can't remember knowing these ladies, wearing this 90ish ruffly white dress or this awfully flashy room.
The women were observing me with shy giggles and whispering things like 'she's pretty.' 'New Luna...' and 'the girl…'
I shook my head to clear my head then tapped my temple for good measure.
Nothing is making sense. I don't know these women nor do I have any idea how they know. I clearly remembered Sienna forcing me on a Blind date in her place, the weird place with weird people and that man… That man!
My body jolted up from the recliner chair I was on to stand, but a sharp pain hit me in the head. I stumble trying to regain my balance to no avail. My body felt too heavy for me. I anticipated the harsh hit of the ground but then before I could hit the floor, arms grabbed me.
"Luna!"
Her eyes stay latched on mine till begrudgingly she is shoved into another corridor. Her material beauty shone brighter than Sirius. I tear my eyes impassively.The charm of a demon is such... huh.“Tsk. Her wooers come in all sizes, and now species.” Annoyingly Ddurehan wriggled his brows.Rashard peeled his eyes away from the opening she disappeared to, chuckling.He raised his hand in the air. His Twin Daggers from across the room, swishingly flew closely by several heads, landing in his fist. Gasps and then a deafening hush fell with his stunt.Turning around he craned his neck, “What I saw was a pathetic slave, lavished with gold and silk that can't cover the shackles in her feet.”The Hall submerged in a mum disturbance left in his wake.“God! Sordan had screwed him up good,” Durehan muttered with his mouth dripping his drink. The Coven’s Master hadn’t been the ideal father figure.Hashtan tipped his head pouring more of the rich fruit sap “It must suck to be the runt of the fami
Eerily static, everything in his house reeks of lousy witches and nuisance. In the veil of the night, I stare down at my wife with empty eyes. She always looks almost innocent of any flaw known to men. “Nafasm.”How she held my attention just breathing you would expect her to be the most profound of arts. Carved to perfection and vices.“Little Temptress.” Whispering in the night, I graze my forefinger on her cheek. From her neck to her inviting bosom. Her miniature freckle there buzzed with her beating heart. This dainty twig-like neck would snap in two with a flick in my hold. This fragile, yet she had this inexplicable hold on me. I narrow my eyes, sniffing her close. The transition had begun. I scrutinized the minx and I wonder how she made it this far.She will likely need to have molten lava in her veins to survive the change. The corner of my lips turned up humorlessly. There's a possibility the last thread holding me here could disappear any moment.As if to gut me good, she
I jerked up with a yelp, my hand on the bite mark warily still. Leaping for the coat, I wore it turning my head away from her. Once the evidence of my blunder was under wraps, I pivoted to her. she stood there with hands twisted on her chest and a dirty smirk in place, “What is that? A hickey from your lover to remember him by?” It stung when she called it out. My lover? The man looked like he could hardly stomach the sight of me. I curse the day I fell into this loop of misery. Venus didn’t have much to her if you took away her lineage and the grudges that drove her motives. Dad always said she was all ‘all rattle and no rain’. Inconsequential. Perhaps that is what drove her this mad at the world. Unsurprisingly I wasn’t feeling generous enough to humor her jabs, “Watch what you say. I’m not as laid back as your diabolical family.” I was giving back the throb Sarkhan's indifference had left on me to her. And despite this new low, I didn’t have an ounce of guilt. She scoffs. Eve
We both took the comfort only we emitted for each other and in those moments his identity or my obstinacy didn't exist. Though I didn't acknowledge it, I was the monster my parents' blunders birthed to.I sigh burying myself deeper and getting cozy with the hard and sturdy man I barely knew. A voice from the back of his throat snaps my head up. I see his eyes squinted at the ceiling before scrunching them up like he was holding something in. He looked so intense, so intimidating. Everything about him screamed sinful, the wide shoulder that could shoulder two of me. If I didn't know he was 'Lycan', I would assume he was one of those sculptures carved to surreal perfection in Italy, brought to life with a kiss of true love.Assuming a mere kiss had the capacity to achieve such a feat. I purse my lips but decide it's futile to ask anyway. Hiding my reddened face on his chest I take a breath. He wasn't ready for an upgrade from his status as my comfort pillow. Like a glutton, I open my
"My door isn't locked." He only smirks cupping my face, "Feverish." The voice was so rich like a siren call, it had me entranced. Surprisingly so. I was stone cold just a while ago. He snatched up the blanket and bundled me up before getting under too. Even with the flimsy barrier of the heavy blanket between us but his heat still reached me. The sensations he awoke began from the depth of my heart so a layer couldn't help from the shyness. My eyes cast down to his chest exposed between the buttons. "You shouldn't have bothered, human these days are too materialistic to believe." Snapping up I can only stare at him. While I was distracted his hand came down soothing my hair. I slid closer to him. I only guess from where he conjured it from, but he slipped something into my parted lips. My first reaction was to spit out the unfamiliar thing but he covered my mouth. I looked up at him horrified. "Eat." His decree fell on like a sentence, and I chewed it bursting the tangy and sweet
"He can't kill you, Rey! You are his only heir." I reassured my beating heart, repeating my life mantra. This is what I counted on when I screwed up. I stand in front of the giant oddity of bricks and stones I called home. It had never looked this intimidating. I knew my father was already aware of my arrival much before I stepped into the perimeter but my heart just thumped down at the thought of facing him. Dragging my feet on the path, I halt with a grimace. I should have gone to my mother's place instead. She would be pissed too but I won't be this scared of her. Besides, like any other emotion, her anger was volatile gasoline too. Sarkhan wasn't agreeable when I told him to leave me we were close to our estate but I didn't want to choose a discreet tombstone for him in our backyard, so I insisted. Dad will probably know who I hitched a ride with. But I'm too virgin to be a widow. Looking up, I'm struck to see my Dad standing in the doorway. He looked far more wretched and mi