Arya
I open my eyes and scan the environment around me. The only thing I have been able to smell is vampires for the last god-knows-how-many hours or days I have been here. I have lost track of time, I am always in and out of an unconscious state. I don’t feel myself at all. I think I have been poisoned, but I don’t know how. My wolf has been silent as if she has left my body. I don’t understand anything.
The last time I saw Penny and Ella seemed like ages ago. My head feels heavy and my thoughts are clouded.
The last thing I remember was Eric’s cries and the others whom they took out of the car. I know they have killed him. That is probably what they were up to.
Those heartless ungrateful beasts! They killed my brother!
Tears start welling up in my eyes. I can’t stop them, I don’t have to. He was my only close family left. I lost all my parents and now my only brother is gone. Hot tears run afresh down my cheeks. I start to sob and convulse at the same time.
This is all I have been doing for the few minutes I am conscious. I keep losing consciousness after crying for a long time, and the cycle continues. I just can’t help it. The pain I feel inside me is too much to bear. I feel empty and lifeless, I just want to die. I just want to run away from who I am now. Death would just save me from the pain.
My head starts to spin and everything is a total blur. I know what is coming. I wish I could go once and for all this time. I don’t want to face the real world at all. Everything turns blank…
I feel myself sinking, and I am taken back to those nightmares, I used to have as a child of falling into a bottomless pit.
There is something on my face!
Get off me! I try to scream but apparently, I have no voice. I try to open my eyes but my eyelids weigh a fucking tonne. I try to move, to lift my hands at least, but I just can’t…
Am I dead?
Is this what it feels like to be dead?
Why is it so dark?
The thing is back on my face, it is trailing down my cheek! I try to scream but I still don’t hear my voice.
Am I dead?
“Arya?” a muffled voice reverberates in my foggy head. Who is that? Where is that voice coming from?
Eric?
Something is on my stomach. It is shaking me.
“Arya? Wake up!” the shaking becomes violent. I feel like I am on the sea, in a boat. I sailing on a strong wave and my boat is slowly filling with water. A wave sweeps it upside down and I drown. I breathe in the water but I don’t struggle or fine. I just let myself drown. I just want to die…
“Arya! Wake up!” the voice is louder, and I am shaken out of my nightmare with a scream.
“Hush, it’s just a nightmare,” the white-haired vampire tries to comfort me by stocking my head. I let out another earth-shattering scream until my lungs are out of air. He is a nightmare himself. He is worse than the nightmare. I wish I could go back to my nightmare and finish my filling my lungs with water and end everything.
“Calm down, baby girl,” he whispers edging closer.
“Don’t touch me!” I yell and push myself away from him with the energy I never thought I had in me. I sit against the headboard of the bed and pull a pillow to myself wishing it would be my armor.
“Don’t come close to me,” I warn him, fixing my glare at him.
“What would you do baby girl, you are helpless. You are probably going to pass out in a few minutes anyway. I would rather you didn’t waste them,” he says with a smirk. He is good-looking for sure, but all that beauty is bullshit with such a kind of personality. He is not a match for my mate.
Logan.
Where is he? What happened to our ceremony? How long have I been here? What day is this?
The only one that can answer all these questions is this monster in front of me, but I would rather save my energy and stay conscious for longer than waste it talking to him.
“You look even prettier when you are scared. Has Logan ever told you that?” he asks, cocking his head to his side.
I am starting to think the reason why he kept me alive is to molest me and use me to satisfy himself. I get a bitter taste on my tongue thinking about that. After all, he has done, I would doubt him doing anything, especially the way he keeps looking at me and finding ways to get his hands on my body. It creeps me out!
“Say something,” she asks, raising an eyebrow at me.
“I hate you!” I spit out, without thinking because it is really what I feel deep down. He chuckles.
“I hate you more than anything in this world,” I hiss out. Lucky for him, he finds humor in my words. At least one of us finds this situation amusing.
“I know that, honey. You don’t have to proclaim that out loud. It shows all over your features,” he says. Well if you get it, then fuck off!
“You also gated the alpha when you first met him, but your heart melted with love for him. You miss him, don’t you? Even when you don’t admit it, your body still keeps demanding its owner,” he says. Where is he going with this?
“His family eliminated your parents, you see, but that didn’t stop fate from doing its wonders. Things have turned around this time. In case you are wondering, he has fought this war, for you, your family, and your entire pack, even though they had considered him an enemy for all the time he has lived. He wanted to kill me but I made him hesitate when I told him he would never see you again if he did,” he says with a self-satisfied smirk.
“Why are you keeping me here then? Why didn’t you just kill me with my brother!” I yell at him.
“I think I have already answered that, honey. Don’t underestimate your value,” he replies.
“Are you keeping me here for ransom?” I ask after realizing why he had to say all that.
“You may call it that, but I am going to call it a business deal,” he responds.
“What do you want? Is it the gold?” I inquire because that is the most obvious thing he could want.
“Not just the golf, pretty. There is a lot more under that soil that you probably know, but your brother knew and so does your mate,” he responds. My brows knit in confusion.
“How does Logan come into this negation?” I inquire. Grinning, he gets up from the bed and stands and put his hands behind his back.
“He is your mate and thus your husband whether legally or not. Since you are the only royalty left of your family, the Blue Blood pack will have no Alpha. A female can never be an Alpha. Even if you were to rule, you will have to rule beside your husband. This, therefore makes it inevitable that the Blue Blood pack will be annexed to the Black tooth Guardians,” he explains. I don’t want to believe what he is saying, though it sounds true. It is not a must to join the packs.
“Otherwise, the Blue Blood pack will gradually fall apart and its members will turn rogue. Before you know it, it will be more. It will fall apart without an alpha” he adds. He walks confidently around the room. It is obvious he is enjoying taunting me. “Don’t worry about the increased responsibility. The population of the pack is not as big as it was now. I am sure Logan can handle it. He is the most powerful Alpha in all of the five packs of the land,” he adds.
Did Logan agree to this? Why is he making him sound like he is so involved in this?
Are they working together?
I know they are business associates but this sounds like the most suitable kind of dirty business the two can do together.
My mind goes back to the day he came to visit Logan, and how pissed off he was when I interrupted.
Is this what they were discussing? Is this the very important business he didn’t want to tell me about? That he is conniving with the vampires to destroy my pack and kill my brother?
I feel a lot of anguish and nausea for my mate.
How could he?
Is this what the introduction ceremony was about? To get my friends and family together so that they can easily eliminate us and carry out their plan smoothly?
I now have a strong desire to die.
If only I could get something sharp enough to cut through my heart and relieve me of all of the pain in my heart right now. I just rock myself back and forth. I can’t cry anymore. I think I have dried out all the tears.
“If this goes well, we can all get what we want. I will get the mining rights and you will go back to your mate and you won’t have to see me again,” he adds.
I bury my face in the pillow and close my eyes which sting with lack of tears. My head is pounding and my mind feels so groggy.
I want to ask if Penny and Ella are still fine but I am scared of being told that they are no more. I just don’t want to see, feel or hear anything. I bury my face deeper into the pillow.
“I hope you are not trying to kill yourself with that pillow. You will need something better. I would help you do that but I have made the alpha a promise to keep you breathing. Don’t even think of ending your life else I will tie you up,” he warns. “Your knight is planning to come and rescue you. You would want to disappoint him, would you?”
I don’t even want to be saved. I don’t think can face Logan.
I don’t ever want to see him again. Even my wolf doesn’t respond to that. I think she has abandoned me. What if the poison they gave me killed her?
I chose not to think about her. She is probably still traumatized. She will come back to me.
There is a knock at the door.
“Come in,” Donovan answers. A tall skinny vampire comes in and walks directly to him. He whispers something to him that I can’t hear because all of my werewolf senses are dead now. I just look on as Donovan nods. The messenger then leaves. The white-haired vampire turns his attention back to me.
“I think that was enough conversing. I am glad you didn’t pass out immediately. I am going to take care of things. Try to make sure you don’t kill yourself,” he says before heading out and locking the door behind him.
I am left behind in grave silence to be taunted by my thoughts. I look around the small cubical room. There is nothing except this single bed and a small empty table beside it. There is no window or any outlet other than the door which is locked. I feel like I might suffocate in here. The courage I had abandoned me and I am now scared of suffocating to death.
I hug my knees, pulling them closer to my chest. I swallow saliva down my throat which suddenly feels dry. I take in a deep breath, fighting to remain conscious.
I breathe in once and out, then in again and out, but the room starts to spin.
Fuck!
My head hits the pillows on the bed and everything goes blank.