His lips had a pale hue and his face seemed somewhat alright, with bandages wrapped around only his eyes.
I sighed and couldn’t stop my tears from coming out.
“Ash.” I looked at him again. “I’m truly lonely without you. It’s been three years and I haven’t been myself. I can’t remember the last time I was truly happy.” I sobbed. “Whenever I look at my surroundings, I am reminded of your presence. Mom wants to throw you out of this mansion. She seems to be tired of you even when she is not doing anything about your life. She does not take care of you and never checks on how you are doing at all. Your friends are being punished because of you. I heard they were about to be released from their homes. We couldn’t even graduate from school, but I’m glad I’m not in that school again. It is terrifying, Ash, to be in this same mansion with our parents without you.” I looked at my food and took a huge bite of the fried chicken beside my rice.
I swallowed and felt a sharp pain in my stomach.
I sipped from the bottle of water beside me to numb the pain in my stomach.
It is quite understandable why my stomach would hurt. I haven’t eaten for the past two days, anyway.
“What do you want me to do, Ash? Please, talk to me.” I burst into tears all over again.
Three weeks passed. My parents moved Ash to the facility and locked him up.
Devastated, I cried out to my parents to not do this to him, but they turned deaf ears on me.
If only I had options, I would take him far away from this clan.
~ Jinx’s Pov ~
“You are free to go.” The guards from the pack opened the door and let me out of the dark cold prison my father had locked me in.
I staggered for a moment before getting up on my feet.
I finally walked out and saw the bright light properly for the first time in three years as my eyes twitched.
My hair had grown past my elbow and I stink so dirty, like some poor rat in a drench.
The guards escorted me to my room to clean me up.
The maids scrubbed my body, washed my hair, perfumed my body, and trimmed my nails.
I looked more human than an animal for the first time in three years.
I ate delicious food, cold drinks and felt refreshed too.
I walked over to the window and looked at the sunset.
And the next thought on my mind was to burst the fuck out of here.
How had I manage to stay in that poison for three years?
I almost turned insane.
“Alpha Jinx.” My assigned guard came into my room. “Your father has requested for your presence at his chambers.”
“Tell him I will be there shortly.” I responded with my back facing him.
“Yes, sir.” He left abruptly after he bowed before me.
I wore my black baggy pants, black boots, a white singlet and a black striped white overcoat, which was arranged on my bed.
I stormed out of the room to go see my father.
I took a deep breath before walking into his chambers. I saw multiple barely naked omegas around him, licking his body with their tongues all over him as he drank his champagne.
His gaze fell on me the minute I stormed in and he frowned with a smirk on his face.
“How does it feel to be out of the cell after three years?”
“I don’t know.” I responded without taking my eyes off him. “Father.” I added.
He cleared his throat. “Since you are no longer in high school, it’s time you take up responsibilities and fulfill your roles.”
I questioned. “What roles, father?!”
He had locked me up for three years and the next instruction he gave me was to take over his responsibilities?
“Taking over the pack as an Alpha.”
“The pack-”
“Not so soon.” My father stood up and came closer to me. “Prove to me you are capable of the pack.”
He doesn’t want me to take over the pack. He is lying on my face.
He isn’t even dead yet. Why does he want me to take over the pack when he is still the leader?
I thought I was his unfilial son. His outcast, who killed his wife during childbirth so he could come to the world.
“Prove to you?”
“Yes.” He grabbed my shoulder. “Since you are out of the cell, I locked you in. Your skills must have rotten. You need to sharpen your skills and take over the pack. And the elders of the clan will watch your skill, rate on your performance and we will see how it goes.”
His breath was as stinky as always. If he could just get his fucking hand off my shoulders.
“But…father-”
“No, stupid questions.”
“Alright, father.”
“And once you’ve sharpened your skills, you will need to enter the forest of wolves. If you survive inside the forest, you will take over the pack. Now, get out of my sight.”
“Yes, father.” I bowed before him and left his chambers.
I strolled along the hallways and sighted a couple of guards training between themselves on the battleground.
I climbed the pavement and jumped down to the training ground and landed on my fangs.
“Alpha Jinx.” A guard exclaimed and all of them bowed before me.
I strolled up to one of them and took the large stick he was holding.
I swirled it around myself and held it up to him in a rectangular form.
“Hit me.” I ordered.
The red-haired looked at me for a second and was hesitating to hit me. “Do it. I order you to hit me on the guts with this.” I strongly instructed.
He took the stick from me and lunged it at the navel of my stomach.
I stood still, looking bored at his stance. “Seriously.” I rolled my eyes and stared daggers at him.
Nothing holds my attention today.
“This isn’t a toddler’s fight. Have some class.”
“I’m sorry, Alpha Jinx. I was just -”
I punched him so hard between his nose. Everyone gasped at my actions and stepped back a little.
“When I say hit me. Do it harder. Don’t play house with me.”
“Yes, sir.” They all chorused and bowed again.
My mind is wandering all over the place. I feel restless and all I just want to do is break the monotony.
I’m sick and tired of my life being this messed up and dark. I don’t know the next step to take because I heard Ash hasn’t woken up in three years.
“Long time no see, buddy.”
I looked at my right side, a little surprised at his presence. I wasn’t expecting him to come to my home after I was just released from my father’s cell.