Chapter 3 Terrifying reality

Chapter Three

~Mirella~

I groaned as my eyes fluttered open. A throbbing headache rushed in, and I winced, holding my head. After a while, the pain subsided, making it possible for me to check my surroundings and try to find out what had happened to me.

I was in a foreign room and lying on a bed befitting a princess or prince. I knew I was in a male room because of the scent, and I wondered whose person's room I was in. Everything came rushing in, from when I'd been sold by my father to the beast in front of me and the chase and...

"Ahh!" I gasped and touched my neck.

I could trace the mark of his bite on my neck!

Was I alive?

Did I really survive that beast?

What the heck happened?

Whose room am I in? I scrambled off from the bed; my legs were weak, and I held onto the bed for support.

Why do I feel this weak?

Reality dawned on me; that cruel beast had marked me. He'd stake his claim on me, and no one can mate with me apart from him.

"You are awake," an amused voice startled me, and I lost my balance and fell on the ground, my butt hitting the floor.

"Oops, you need to be careful, my queen," the old man with gray hair and eyes said to me as he helped me up. He walked to the table nearby and brought out some herbs and prepared it with his tiny mortar and pestle. "Are you okay? I could-"

"Where am I?" I cut him short immediately.

"Silvermist pack," he replied and continued pounding the herbs. I blinked my eyes a couple of times, my lips parted.

I was still in this pack?

I held my head in my hands, uncertain of what to do.

What of the beast? Where is it?

Is it still alive or perhaps locked in its cage?

"Here, take your medicine before I inform alpha Kaelen about you being awake," he stated, and I became alarmed.

"What? No... no, don't call the beast. I'm still healing from yesterday's chase and bite. I'm still weak. I'm... scared of him," I pleaded, feeling so terrified.

"I need to leave here; please help me. I swear I won't tell anyone about how..." I trailed off unsure of what to say. Everyone knew about how dangerous the beast was, so what was I supposed to say to make him help me?

I'm sure he has a grandchild of my age. From the look of things, he was loyal to his Alpha, but I was desperate.

'Lyra! Lyra!' I tried to call my wolf, but I couldn't.

"You can't connect with your wolf for now, young lady, and you've been asleep for a week, not a day, and that's why you need to take this to gain energy," he explained, and my eyes widened in shock.

"A week!" I repeated, and he nodded his head in affirmation.

I've been asleep for a week, and I can't even connect with my wolf!

I can't run away from the pack even if I wanted to because I was sold to the beast by my father. I had no home to go back to, but staying in a pack with a beast as an alpha?

A beast with no humanity?!

I'd asked the Moon Goddess many times what I had done in my past life to deserve such a life.

Was it not better that he murdered me and drank my blood than forcing me to be stuck with him by marking me?

"If you think about escaping, young lady, that would be a dead end. I suggest you cooperate and drink the herb so you can get your wolf back," he warned.

Having no choice but to drink the herbs, I collected it and drank the bitter substance on the go. I squeezed my face, holding back the urge to throw everything up and brush my teeth and scrub my tongue.

"I'll tell the maids to get you ready to meet the Alpha, and I'm Gaius, by the way, my queen," he introduced and left the room.

Why was he calling me "my queen"?

I found it absurd, especially when he said the maids were going to get me ready.

Was he so sophisticated, and I so wretched that I needed to be prepared to be in the same room as him?

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I stared at the mirror, looking at the wonders they'd done on my face. I was amused and happy that I got to be treated this way; it made me feel wanted. The door flung open, and a man, tall, with dark brown, shoulder-length hair and light blue eyes, wearing a regal cloth, walked in. The aura oozing from him screamed deadly and powerful.

The thing that surprised me was his scent that wafted into my nose; he smells somewhat familiar, like we've met before, but I could tell that I hadn't met this drop-dead gorgeous man that made me squirm in excitement and fear at the time.

My experience in this pack would've been a lot smoother if he was the first person I met and not that horrible monster.

The way his bare aura sucked air out of me scared me.

He was an epitome of beauty; he had a Zeus-like physique that could easily make any man drool, and each step he takes toward me makes me wary of him. He makes me annoyingly comfortable, which scares me.

My defenses come up, guarding me from this man. He noticed my discomfort and didn't take a step closer.

He clears his throat. "W-who a...are you?" I stuttered, trying to look anywhere but his eyes.

"I am Alpha Kaelan" He responded calmly, and I felt my heart stop beating for a while. My eyes snapped to his direction, shocked at his answer.

One thing that got me utterly confused was - why would a perfect, down-to-earth, handsome guy claim he's the beast?