ANYA'S POV"I told you you shouldn't have left without breaking the mate bond, right? Do you think that you can really run away from him without Andrei ever finding you?" My wolf asked me. She sounded like she was boasting. I did not have the time to pay attention to her. Instead, I was thinking about the fact that I could be caught and brought back to the palace. I looked at my disguise. I had done a really good job with it so no one would be able to discover that it was me. But what if they know that it is me? Will I be forced to go back to the palace? Just thinking about what Andrei would do to me if he did was enough to make me sweat. He would think that I have disrespected him by running away, and he would find the worst ways to torture me and make my life impossible! "I left a note for Abel. I told him that I wanted to be left alone. This was supposed to buy me some time to get out of here!" I could not help but complain to my wolf in a low voice.She sneered at me. "Do you

ANDREI"You have tortured her until she could not take it anymore! She is your mate, for goodness sake! Why do you have to treat her as if she's some maid in the palace?! You let Ariana frame her, and you did nothing about it! You've been mean and cruel to her! No one would be able to take that kind of treatment! It makes sense that she wanted to get away from you!" He barked, his nose flaring in anger.I frowned at this. I felt anger taking over me but I didn't want to lose my cool. At least not right now. I hate to wait to find Anya then. "You've already said it yourself that she is MY mate. What does it matter to you how I treat her? I am going to do whatever I want with her! I don't need you to get involved!" I said. I was already pissed with the way he was always spending time with her. She was MY mate for crying out loud. If she needed help, she could have come to me. Why did she have to go to my brother all the time? Has she forgotten whose mate she is? As soon as I catch h

ANYAI looked at the Alpha and blinked. I tried to keep an expressionless look on my face, but my heart was beating fast against my chest as he looked at me. "Alpha Andrei? I have no idea who that is," I lied. "Are you sure that you don't know Alpha Andrei? He is the Alpha of the biggest pack around here. Are you sure that you don't know him?" He asked me one question two times and it made me feel as if he knew I was lying and wanted me to confess myself. I refused to say anything, though. I did not want to give myself away. If there's a chance that he doesn't know who I am, then I am going to take it and live my life as quietly as possible. "No, Your Highness. I have no idea who he is. I want to stay here. I fear that I might lose my life if I went back to my pack!" I said. The Alpha looked at me for a few more minutes and then nodded his head. He even smiled at me. "Fine. I believe your story. You can stay here!" He said. I almost jumped up for joy when he told me this. I fel

ANYAI glared at Andrei as he said this. He glared at me, and I knew he would not hesitate to do worse to me. I scoffed at him. "That's the only thing that you can do, right? Think of ways to torture me?" I asked him. "Don't test my patience, Anya or else I can assure you that you will regret it. Where were you thinking when you decided to run away, damnit?! Did you think that you would not be caught? You think that you are so smart, don't you?" He asked me. "What I think is none of your business!" I said to him. I knew that I should stop to avoid getting in trouble, but I could not stop myself. I was so mad at him, and I hated Andrei a lot. He just turned away from me as I said this. "Take her to her room. Make sure that she doesn't come out. And if she ever runs away, know that all of you will pay for it with your lives!" He said. .....I was in my room. The curtains were closed, and I refused to open them. I just wanted to be left alone. As I thought about what to do, I hear

ABELI led Anya into my mansion. I did not stay here often, but they were workers who cleaned up every day, so it was clean. I took her to the bedroom next to the master's bedroom. It was clean and big enough for her. "You can stay here for Anya now. No one would dare to hurt you!" I said as I led her into the room. She turned to look at me. There was guilt in her eyes. "Thank you so much for helping me. I thought you would never talk to me again after what happened," she said to me. "What do you mean by that?" I asked her. "Well, I ran away and didn't tell you about it. I know that you must have been worried about me. Despite that, you still helped me from Ariana and her minions and you also took me away from there. You are risking getting into a fight with your brother just for my sake. You don't have to do all of this just for me," she said. "Anya, I was mad when I heard that you left. I admit that I was worried looking for you, but I understand why you wanted to run away. An