Damon’s POV
The arena was occupied with more people than I imagined. I thought this was going to be something private. I never expected the news to have spread so fast to almost everyone that lived in the pack.
As I was standing in the middle of the arena waiting, I turned to look around me and saw the faces of the people, both young and old wolves, ready to watch a disgraceful fight of a father and his son.
It was a fight for my father to prove one more time that he was in control of who I am but this time, I won’t sit back to watch him do what he wants because if I did, I’ll be losing Lyla and I can’t afford for that to happen.
A neighboring pack’s Beta was standing at the corner, watching me and pulling at his beards at the same time. I stared at him with curiosity wondering why the Beta would decide to turn up for something like this.
His pack, Hollow grave, is a nightmare to many werewolves. Their Alpha is a brute who derives joy in killing, raping women, and using their children to transport drugs across countries.
I’ve never had a one on one encounter with the Alpha but from the things I heard, those werewolves under him needed saving.
“Damon,”
I turned and saw Tunde gesturing at me, with worry on his face.
“What’s wrong?” I asked him.
“You’re in danger,” he said silently, trying not to draw too much attention to us. No more words were needed, I knew my father wouldn’t call for a fight just to disgrace himself out there.
He had a plan all along.
“Keep the girls safe. No matter what happens, keep them safe”
His eyes went wide once he properly processed my request. I’d given him an indirect order not to protect me by staying around here. He should go back to my place and keep both our mates safe.
My house is far from the packhouse, pack life, and every other thing related to this pack. I wanted it to be that way because I never wanted to concern myself with things since I was not their Alpha.
“Don’t die just yet. I still have to beat your ass up someday”
I smirked. He turned and left the arena immediately.
I heard murmuring as my father entered the arena, his Beta, Gamma, and bitch, Alexa all lined up after him, walking into the arena one after the other.
My father paused to talk with the Beta of Hollow grave, they shook hands and smiled at each other as if something good was about to happen.
Alexa walked up to me, smiling like the slut that she was.
“Long time no see, Damon” She kissed my cheek. I pretended she didn’t exist and refused to react to anything she would say.
“How have you been, little boy?”
She teased.
“The last time I remember, this little boy had you up against the library shelf while he banged the life out of you, remember?”
Her face turned red at the embarrassing event.
I just turned sixteen at that time and she just won’t stop being obsessive about me. We had an agreement that I’ll fuck her so she’ll get me out of her mind even though she was my father’s girlfriend. While we were at it in the library, my father walked in, almost destroyed the library in a rage but ended up slashing my face with his claws, and there it got birthed, the hideous mark on my face.
“Best of luck today, loser. It’s such a pity I won’t be seeing your handsome face again”
“I bet you won’t” I spat on the floor as she walked away.
*Good riddance* I cursed under my breath.
Something flashed across my eyes and for a moment, Lyla came into my thoughts. She was sleeping when I left home this morning. I smiled when I remembered how she clutched to me when I tried getting up. I had to force myself to remove her hand from my shoulder.
“Is that a smile on your face? That’s the first time I’ll ever see you smile, Damon” My father’s voice pulled me out of my thoughts.
“Do you like it? Because that’s the smile I’ll give to the visitors at your funeral” I replied.
“You plan on killing your old man, son. I taught you to be fearless, not to be a killer” he removed his shirt and I did the same.
The fight would start soon and I was born ready for this.
“Don’t believe that. Anyone who hears you talking would think you brought me up to do anything else but kill”
He smiled, “isn’t that right?”
“I wouldn’t smile right now if I were you”
“If you kill me right in front of my pack, do you think they’ll accept you as their Alpha?”
“Did you see me accepting to lead them either?”
“Don’t make the people hate you more by fighting me in front of the same people you are scared to transform in their presence”
I swallowed the growl that was threatening to rip out of my throat.
“Surrender Damon and that bitch you’re protecting will live”
“Over my dead body”
“Very well then. I’ll be sure you watch from the grave as I fuck her over and over before tossing her body right into the canal where bitches like her belongs” He threatened.
Everything became blurry at that moment as I was consumed with anger. Mentioning Lyla’s name had released the beast from its cage.
My wolf has been on the edge since it met Lyla the other night in the forest. It pushes me to protect her more, and now, when he said those words, it triggered my wolf.
Without fear or restriction, for the first time, I shifted right in front of everyone.
A loud gasp emerged from the mammoth crowd but I didn’t care, my target was right in front of me and if I didn’t kill him, I wouldn’t rest.
I lunged towards Victor as I growled loudly. As he tried running, I pulled him by his leg and dragged him back to the middle of the arena effortlessly.
The leg I held had crushed in between my wolf’s hand and I held up my hand to see the blood on it. Victor’s face was etched in pain.
Before I could do anything else in that form, I forcefully shifted back and punched Victor in the face as I stood naked in front of everyone present.
If I’d done anything in my wolf form, I would’ve slightly regretted it in my human form. Even though I had the intention of killing Victor before now, he looked as pitiful as ever and that was enough for me.
I bent down to his level, lifted his face so I could look at him eye to eye.
“The next time you try to hurt Lyla, I wouldn’t hesitate to kill you. This is your second chance, I won’t promise you that there’ll be a third” I dropped him back on the floor.
“You lost Damon,” He started laughing hysterically.
A loud noise from behind me made me turn and I watched as a person, a girl, was held by the hair and chained to the legs and hands. She was struggling to get herself free and at that point, she lifted her head and her eyes met mine.
Lyla!
In pain, I growled out as she was pushed towards Alexa.
I tried moving as soon as Alexa brought out a pocket knife but I realized I couldn’t. I was chained by the legs.
“Surrender to death, Damon” A voice hissed in my ear.
“Or she dies” It was the Hollow grave’s Beta I’d seen earlier.
He held me by the neck, suffocating me.
“The plan was to get rid of me, right?” I asked, struggling to get free even though my hands were chained.
“Right from the moment when you were born but your stupid mother kept on getting in the way. Oh, the joy I had when her heart was ripped out of her chest”
I kept my eyes fixated on Lyla and every time those tears ran down her face, my heart got crushed.
“The same joy I’ll have to rip your heart out” I held on to his hand that was around my neck, struggled to pull it off “That’s if you ever get to”
“What are you waiting for? Kill me” I taunted.
“Of course I will, after which I’ll kill that bitch too but before you die, I’m curious about something, is she your mate?”
I kept mute. I was like a time bomb, waiting for the right moment to explode.
“Surrender and you’ll live Damon”
Live a miserable life. Live a life where I’ll be easily controlled and manipulated like the rest of the people. Live a life of silence as I’ve always done without knowing when I’ll be killed or why I’ll be killed.
“Kiss your mama up there when you see her”
A knife was stabbed into my stomach and I screamed out at the pain. I didn’t need to be told, it was silver.
The Beta had moved back and at that moment, I touched the spot with every strength left in me and looked at my blood in my hands.
*Whenever it gets too difficult to escape, make sure you draw blood from yourself, it enrages your wolf*
Everything became dark, my vision, my senses became blocked.
Before losing my consciousness, I turned to Victor who was already being held up by the Beta, and smirked, “You thought I was done?”
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