I woke up lazily to a pair of cold hands running up and down my cheeks. My eyes still fully closed but my senses fully awake, I just let it slide, considering, the pair of hands belonged to my mate.
The touch was beeitching, evoking emotions that I couldn't tell of. I wanted more... More of this touch...
But....
I quickly opened my eyes to the handsome but dangerous face of the Alpha of Morcliff. He was seated just by my side.
What he was doing here, I didn't have an idea. Surely, it was nearly time for me to be tortured and killed in front of his pack.
But why is this happening to me?
"Slept well?" I heard his breath taking voice and looked up to him. He was smiling. I wonder if this man never frowns. Why was he talking to me like I was some special person? Why was he acting like we were comrades when we are not?
I quickly bowed my head in fright as realization hit me. This was the very thing that happened when I forgot to bow to the almighty Alpha and I was taken by him.
His smiles could flatter and I nearly failed once again to realise that this man's smiles were a dangerous trap, a snare that I once fell into.
"I-I s-slept-t w-w-well-l, A-a-a-alpha." My mouth quivered as I tried to tell him that my night wasn't ok. I am scared my words will infuriate him but I was scared my silence might give me the worst death possible.
However, he was silent. With my head bowed, I didn't know what was going on. I couldn't look into his face again.
"I see you did." He replied with a chuckle following immediately after.
"Change into something proper. Chose from the robes in that alcove and meet me at the dinning hall, in the next 10 minutes." He ordered and left me there to my world.
I was scared, and I started to panic. What did I get myself into? If this man is indeed the scary Alpha Colten of Morcliff, then I fear, his ways of punishing me before my death sentence are going to be very cruel. I am scared that what awaits me at the dining room is not a plate of food, but a plate with a whip.
I closed my eyes, picturing it clearly. I see him seated at the far end of a table and he orders me to come closer. Taking one look at me, he orders me to strip and I do so. In no time, all his servants and slaves, guards and warriors are there, looking at me with indescribable and mixed expressions on their faces.
A hand, other than his lifts gently a lid that covered the whole plate, making me to see a long spiky whip. I swallow hard, realizing what's going on. He's going to whip me and ask everyone else to do the same as soon as he finishes.
Everyone takes turns on me and them they leave marks and bruises on me. This couldn't be any worst of a day, I think and soon they drag me out of there.
I watch as Colten smiles, blowing me a kiss and soon disappears into the darkness as I am dragged through a dark bend. I am scared, and frightened, but they take me to the outside, where I see the hanging gallows. My heart skips, realizing what they will do to me.
I soon start to shed tears....
"You really are pathetic with your imaginations." I heard a voice again in my head. Only Alpha Colten can talk in such a manner.
But he gives me more reasons to be suspicious of him. How is he able to read through my mind, when he's a mortal?
"Do you really think I am mortal?"
"With due respect, Alpha, my thoughts are like my private property that you should not be trespassing into." I warned.
He chuckles instead... Of course... He has to laugh at my pathetic self.
"Remain in your chambers and do not exit for whatsoever reason, even if it is to ease yourself. Wait until I tell you when to come out before you do." He ordered and then he no longer spoke again.
I sat back on the bed. The little moment of word exchange between the both of us seemed to have gotten to my head that I totally forgot my stand and the reason why I was here in the first place.
I almost forgot everything about myself and the actual reason, why I was here.
Soon my eyelids battered heavily. I rested my hands on the bed, supporting myself to sit upright but the weight of somnolence was overwhelming me.
Although I was falling asleep, it was because someone made me to sleep. He's voice... So enchanting...
[Knock! Knock! Knock!]
I heard soft, yet violent knocks on the door and frightened, I clutched to bed, tightly with my eyes, strangely on the door, all along.
My sleep-dried eyes scanned the entire room, in search for something that I could use and fight back any person that was trying to fight me.
[Knock! Knock! Knock!]
The knock came again and I shook in fright. Shaking my head, I refused to believe my thoughts. It surely was not someone that means harm for me. If it was I am certain Alpha Colten will intervene.
My hands rushed to my ears, pulling them very well, and shaking my head in synchronisation. I was scared and in urgent need of a plan. Nothing in this huge room seemed useful.
***
"Milady! Milady!" A feminine voice echoed through the corridor, as she heard constant knocking against the door of her room and she heard it.
Soon, the knocking ceased and then she could her the feminine voice and another voice as they discussed. Although she had no idea what they were discussing about but she felt that they were not up to anything good.
"Miladay, the king ordered us to bring your food to your chambers. Please open up so we can do what we have been told to do." The masculine voice pleaded.
Somehow, Elliana felt stupid. How could she have imagined that harm will come her way in the almighty castle of the great Alpha of Morcliff? How could she have thought that way?
She knew that, if anything were to happen to her, then Alpha Colten will save her. Her instincts were not going to tell her a lie in any case and it wasn't telling her a lie this time around.
She had a strong feeling of security here. In fact, she felt more secured than when she used to be in the village of Guara.... The pack of the gullible and the really attractive...
It makes her wonder...
How are the people taking it... Are they happy, sad, mourning her death, or are they living like it was never a problem? Did anyone miss her, especial her mate and her parents. Did they miss their beautiful pearl?