*FREYA*
When I woke up hours later, there was an empty spot beside me, I jumped out of bed hurrying over to the window, flinging the curtains aside, I gasped in surprise seeing that it was already nighttime, the full moon shining brightly above and I stared at it for few seconds, I was too stunned to react, all I wanted was a quick nap! Now I realized, I shouldn’t have taken that nap at all.
Closing back the curtains, I hurried out of the room in search of Jet, if he wasn’t in the room then he must surely be in his study, my heartbeat picked up in a panic when I found it empty, I tugged at my hair in frustration not believing I had overslept.
After searching all the rooms in his quarters and yet no sign of him, I decided to check in with Hunter in case he happens to be with him, I spotted Kale coming from the storage room and hurried over to catch up with him. He stared at me in surprise as if not expecting me to be awake. I sway a little as I stopped in front of him, I frowned wondering why I was still feeling drowsy.
“You are awake” He let out slowly.
“Duh, where the hell is Jet?” I noticed he was holding a large chain. “And what is that for? Where is everyone” I asked looking around for any sign of them?
“The servants are probably busy in the kitchen” He responded acting clueless, seeing the look on my face and realizing how serious I was, he sighed. “He is in the castle, you do not need to worry, the full moon is up and he is acting crazy all over again” He held the chains up for me to see like they weighed nothing. “We are about to tie him down, he asked us to” He quickly added before I could protest.
“You guys should have woken me up” I grumbled following him to the unfamiliar part of the castle, I was used to being in Jet’s quarters it was had to imagine I hadn’t seen every inch of the building, once this is all over I promised to take a tour. I stand back as Kale unlocked the door where Jet was kept, I hesitated as he went inside.
*Okay Freya, no need to panic* I thought composing myself before going in, Morgana immediately rolled her eyes as soon as she saw me step in, and Claire came to stand beside me.
“Before you tie him up, could you please excuse us?” I pleaded to look at each one of them. “I will be quick, I promise. You can stand outside and guard the door” When no one moved, I decided to convince Claire hoping she might be able to convince the guys to let me have a moment with Jet. Speaking of Jet, I don’t know if he was aware of my presence or not, he hadn’t even looked in my direction since I walked in.
“We will be outside,” Claire said, dragging Hunter along with her, the rest had no choice but to follow. Once the door shut behind us, I stare out of the window gazing back at the moon, I was dimly aware that he could flare up any second now, I took a step towards him before bending down in front of him.
“Will you please look at me?” I pleaded to turn his face to my side. I tried not to panic when he looked at me, I have never seen that colour of an eye before, his right eyes were red while the left one was pitch dark. Pushing back the panic I could feel swelling inside me, I ran my fingers lazily around his face. “You can drink from me, please don’t let them tie you up, I don’t want you to be tied up like some sort of monster, you are not” My voice wobbled.
“It is best. I do not want to risk hurting anyone, especially you” He answered giving me a smile that broke my heart. He reached out to touch me but the chains yank his hand back, buckling noisily.
“You are hurting me more by refusing to drink from me, I can help. I want to help you, please” I begged, stretching my wrist towards him, the same spot he had once drunk from me, I don’t think the wound would be healing anytime soon, which is a good thing now since it would be easier to tear open.
“No!” He growled at me, I stood up feeling the animal side of him beneath the surface. “How much blood do you think will keep me under control? I shall no doubt drain you of blood until you die from blood loss, is that what you fucking want? I… I…..” Another growl from him as he yanked hard at the chain, tears besting up in my eyes as I backed away from him. “Freya, get out!” He snarled, his eyes turning pure red.
I was barely aware of the door opening behind us, a second later I was dragged out of the room by Kale who then dumped on Morgana and Claire. “Keep her away from here, I do not know how long the chains can hold him” He ordered before going back inside.
“No!” I protested. “I’m not leaving him, what if he finally breaks the chain, I’ll be needed here to give him my blood” I tried convincing Claire as she started to pull me away, man! She was strong and I couldn’t fight her hold.
“Will you give it a rest already human?” Morgana snarled at me. “I’m sick of your whining, you are completely useless at this point, is that hard to understand? Your blood cannot stop him, he’s a lycan. He is evolving, there is nothing anyone can do….” Somehow I broke free from Claire and slapped her hard across the cheek.
Morgana gasped and followed mine cause I didn’t believe I just slapped her. I have never raised my hand to anyone in violence. I open my mouth to apologise to her but she was already stalking towards me, her claws and fangs out ready to tear me apart.
“Control yourself, Morgana, we cannot have you too losing control on a full moon night” Claire cautioned which helped cause her to calm down almost immediately.
“Are you seriously demanding I calm down? She hit me on the face!” She yelled in her normal voice.
“You should have not called her useless, her mate is in trouble here Morgana and you calling her useless is not helping especially if that mate gets lose, we will all be dead. We cannot stop Jet, so I suggest you stop being nasty for the sake of everyone” Claire reported, I haven’t seen her get this angry before. The way Morgana shoot me a death glare was enough to tell me she was no doubt blaming me for the way Claire was talking to her.
“I apologized Morgana, I don’t know what came over me” I apologized for the sake of peace, and even though I never really meant to slap her, I felt better after doing that.
“I shall let that go with a warning, next time you raised your human filthy hand to hit me, I will tear you apart and not even Claire will be able to stop me” She threatened before walking away.
The walls of the castle shook from the growls coming from the room where Jet had been locked, Claire looked around probably afraid that Jet would bring down the entire building. “I wished you are one of our kinds at this moment,” She said and sensing my confusion, she elaborated. “For you will be able to feel how strongly the aura of how powerful a true Lycan Alpha can be. It send chills down your spine, it makes you want to quiver in fear and bow down in surrender” She explained and I smiled a little at that.
“I might not feel it as strongly as you do, but I know I’m terrified and in awe, I can feel his aura. I just hope he won’t bring the castle down” I paused recalling what she told Morgana. “He will really kill us all if he breaks out of that chain right?” I asked even though I knew the answer to that, I just wanted to be proved wrong.
She nodded her head in confirmation. “He cannot control it now, it will take a lot for him to be able to. His desire to be cruel, to kill and to torture is as strong as ever” A teasing smile suddenly appeared on her lips. “Also the feeling of lust” Despite myself, I blushed at that.
“Just to be on the safe side, let’s informed the servants to stay out of sight and the warriors should be positioned around the castle” I suggested aware that this was going to be a long time. Recently, I find that I don’t like the moon very much. We still have one more night to go, that is if we managed to survive this one.
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TBC