Daciana POV
-Hours earlier-
"why aren't you really in support of this war?" I asked the pack beta that one big question that's been lingering on my lips.
I mean everyone of this pack is so excited about the damn upcoming war between we and the Lycan blood pack, except me off course.
"Well I've a lot of reasons but I've one very major reason for that. It's not as if I'm scared of our pack losing or being enslaved cause definitely that is impossible as no one has ever defeated us.
When I was of your age, I use to pray and wish that I do experience any war before my passing especially since I already met my mate then.
I wanted a war to come in my time so I'll be among those legends who fought and won the battle but everything changed when the previous war came in my time.
I thought since I have a mate, I'll surely come out alive with my mate and my little family alive. As usual our park won the battle but all the happiness and excitement I've harbored for this war, went down the drain when I lost my mate and my first son.
maybe I could have lost Ava too if I hadn't taken her to my sister park before the war since she was still a toddler then"
"Wait...You had a son?" I was dumbfounded.
He nodded, his eyes emitting plangent. If I should have an eye of a eagle, I could swear he was trying so hard to fight back the tears building up in those Hazel eyes of his. and I instantly regretted brining up this topic. It's the first time I'm seeing the beta in such lugubrious state. The death of his wife and son must have really been tragic for him.
"I'm sorry about that." I mumbled.
"It's okay." He gave me a reassuring smile. "I've gotten over it I guess but please don't ever tell Ava about this okay?"
"Sure I won't" the beta really spent quality time with me this morning, I wouldn't have mind spending a whole day with him as I consider him more a father to me than my biological father But when my father arrived I have to leave them and came here to my favorite spot-the alyvia forest.
Right now, I'm sitting up high in a tree on one of the branches. My head rested against another branch my gaze fixed to the sky.
The songs of those birds playing around in the sky filled me with a sense of tranquility. I wish to be like them_they are so free and happy with thier lives.
I stayed up here for a long time till the sky starts getting dark.
the birds began flying away and the cloud starts grumbling.
It took two thunder bolt and a drop of water on my body to realise that it's about to rain.
With that, I jumped down from the tree and started racing.
Now the rain start pouring down angressively making The ground slippery.
I wasn't careful enough so I slipped and fell down. My head came in contact with a stone and that's it.
I blacked out.
***
I was hearing crackling and popping noises of woods burning but I couldn't fathom where's coming from as I was grooming in darkness.
Suddenly my eyes flickered open and I was met with fainted light illumating the place I was. Trailing the reflection of the light, I look to my side to see woods burning which was offering both light and tepidness. With the aim of finding out where exactly I am, my head spun around.
"We are in a cave." I heard a masculine voice confirmed as if reading my mind. My head kept spinning, this time around, searching for the owner of the voice but it seem I was the only one here.
My chest starts heaving as a sense of terror dominated me. who's that??
I rose up from the floor which I was lying on and I was going to say something when someone walked in. It was the figure of a man, he was clad in a long coat and he has long curly hair. I couldn't see his face until he walks in fully, the light reflected on his face.
his front hair was covering a part of his eye. the other eye that was exposed was pure red. He looks just like a beast seeking to devour someone. the only deference between him and a beast is that he isn't ugly and of course he's human. Yeah,Despite his dangerous Aura, he still manage to look-handsome.
Fear washed over me as he starts walking towards me.
I glumped and starts shifting back with my butt.
As if he notices it, he spoke.
"Don't be scared, I won't hurt you." His voice is as calm as the sea but his Aura is blazing with fire and so I found it hard to believe him but I just remained still anyway. He got to me and squatted down before me. I looked away from him.
"What happened to me, how did I end up here?" I also want to ask him who he is cause I'm certain he isn't one of this park members but let me take it one question at a time.
"I found you at the forest soaked under the rain and you were bleeding, uncoucious so I brought you here."
And my mind went back to when I slipped and past out on the ground. My hand flew up to touch my forehead but surprisingly, I couldn't feel any open wound or scar and I sure aren't feeling any sting.
"Don't worry, I healed you." He answered to my questioning look and sat down on the big stone close to the fire.
"What were you doing there at the forest?" He started and from there questions led to questions and I was getting a little bit comfortable with the stranger.
Yeah, he's still a stranger to me and the realization of that prompt me to ask.
"Who are you? I'm sure you aren't from this pack cause I've never seen you before."
"Yeah you are right. I'm an outsider. I came to visit my aunt in this pack and I happen to lost my way back home so while wandering around the forest, I happen to see you there, lying on the floor unconscious" he motioned to the ground.
"Oh I see." I muffled and smiled at him.
"Your pack seem to be waging war with other pack and as I heard it's few days from now so what were you doing in the forest at time? Weren't you suppose to be training?"
"I don't have a mate."
"Why does it matter.? Everyone fights for themselves. Right?" He shrugs.
"Well let's say your fate during that war depends on the power of your mate." I says and he turn to look at me like it's the first time he's hearing something like that.
"Now I'm so interested about this war. tell me more about it." He gave me his full attention.
"There's nothing much about it. On that day, the men goes out to battle field and the women are save guarded in the hidey-hole Cabin at the battle ground then once they gets a signal from their mate, they goes out to attack." I explained.
"Hmm. How do you know all that? You seem to be very current with your park."
"Well my father is the Alpha so it's nearly impossible for me not to be familiar with all that." I replied.
"Wow... so you are the Alpha's daughter?" He arched his brow, amazed.
"Unfortunately." I shrugged.
"Like you are adolphus daughter for real??" He asked on a more serious note. His facial expressions became so stern that it got me scared.
He stood up and broaden his stance.
"I'm sorry baby girl but you'll have to come with me.." he said already pulling me up by my wrist. He didn't even wait to hear my response before he started dragging me out.
Wait what the hell is wrong with him??
"Hey wait...where are you taking me??" I asks but he paid deaf ears as he continued pulling me alongside him. Honestly his height was enough to scare the shit out me, I felt like a mice running beside him.
He walked deep into the forest while pulling me alongside him and I was getting really scared, I tried pulling my hand off his but it was a wasted effort, rather the more I pull the more his grip gets stronger.
It was as if he wanted to hurt me on purpose that very moment I told him I'm Adulphos daughter.
"Let go off me, you are hurting me...." my voice shook in accordance with my beating heart.
"Wallace get ready, we are leaving for the pack right away." I heard him mumbled to someone who wasn't here. Was that mind linking??
Next, he hit me so hard on my shoulders and I felt so weak. He swept me off from the ground like dry leave and drew me across his shoulders. I couldn't struggle with him, I felt too weak to do that and slowly I dozed off.
Daciana POV
Groaning and grooming in the dark, I forcefully pulled my brows up and my eyes flicked open.
My sight was blur for a split seconds and slowly became clear as I was met with a sandy brown-roof. this isn't what I always wake up to and what I'm lying on, its way rocky and harder than my bed. I tried standing up from the ground I was lying on but got restricted by the chains wrapped around me. I wriggled my body trying to loosen myself. I cracked my head trying to remember what happened and how I ended up here and it clicked.
I remember how I had went to the forest. My favorite spot, then I met someone. I knew we talked but what we talked about is what I don't know and what happened afterward, I've no idea. I was still deep in thought when I heard prodding footsteps coming from the exit.
I look up to see two guys walking in. They were coated with arms and looks like warriors. they bought proffered towards me. I braced myself as I thought they were coming to kill me cause they were with weapons but when they got to me, They grasped both my arms and lifted me up from the ground then they drag me out of the place.
I felt my bones breaking as they each tigtened the grip on my arms, leading me through a maginificient hallway. the tiles were pure gold and the whole environment puced with life, the journey seems not to be coming to an end until we arrived at a door. One of them opened it and I was led inside.
"Stay here, the Alpha will come for you soon" one of them growled monitoring me to sit on the king size bed.
Alpha??? Who's that?
I hesitated for a while but then sat on it. While they left, my head spun round taking in the eneviroment around me right now. The walls were made of corpers and the room is Times two bigger than an average room. Compare to my room, I'll call this heaven.
the beauty of the room made me forget about my problems for the meantime. Not entirely all my problems cause my mind never stop hinting on what he... the said Alpha is gonna do to me. The more the clock counts, the more my heart beats knowing that he will soon be here.
I almost thought he wouldn't come anymore till I heard the creaking sound of the door.
Someone traipsed in levelly.
He is clad in a long black garment sweeping the floor behind him.
His long hair was packed into a pony tail, revealing his full oval shaped face, as he walks in closer to me, his red eyes became vivid, it was blazing with fire and it reminded me of someone from somewhere.
Someone I didn't only see in my wild dreams but... wait that stranger?? He looks exactly like the stranger I met at the forest. Wait is he the Alpha those guys talked about?
As he walked in closer, he stood few inch apart me staring at me.
"You...you who are you and...and where am I?" I stuttered fearfully.
"You aren't supposed to say a word without my permission but I'll pardon you for now. And I'm Alpha Lowell of limia pack, and..." he stop and stoop low before me staring into my eyes. "But you can consider me as someone who's soon gonna be your worst nightmare." A ghost of smirk was cornering at his side lip but he quickly wiped it off like he doesn't want any crumb of humor in his face.
So he's indeed the Alpha of my park worst enemy?? Wait does that mean he's the one I've been seeing in my dreams? Talking about my dreams, more of a nightmare, it all started the day father told me about the coming of the war.
I kept fantasizing about the nature of the war and then in my fantasy, I always see my self being captured by the lymia park and beheaded by their Alpha. I never saw the Alpha's face cause in a manner of dream, the face was never revealed but his height was vivid.
He is very tall and his height is very similar to that of the stranger at the forest. The fantasy soon became a dream and when the dream becomes frequent it turned into my nightmare.
"Look at me." I heard him say angrily but I pretended I didn't. I didn't know how my eyes had drop to the floor while avoiding his gaze.
Ask me why I'm scared of him, I don't really know.
The only thing I know is that, right from the moment I saw him at the forest, something in my gut told me that he's dangerous. Suddenly I felt two fingers under my chin and the fingers pulled my head up in a vice like force, almost breaking my neck. Once again I was met with two pairs of feiry eyes.
"Do you know how much I take pleasure in inflicting pains and making my enemy suffer?" His voice was serene. Too calm to the extent of scaring the shit out of me. "I bet my throne you don't and I certainly know that you don't wanna fall prey too so When I ask you to do something you should do it with immediate effect." He growled staring into my eyes and I just nodded with a glumped. His hand then left my chin and his fingers pierced into my cheek deeply.
A sharp pain shot around my face.
"I won't codone that kind of behavior from you. You should address me properly as your master, am I clear?" He growled, his red eyes leering into mine. He looked at me in the most loothesome way as though I've done a terrible thing to him.
But...What?
Master?
Masters are men who buys people and has them working for him, as servants or slaves. but he never bought me so he don't owe me right?
I was just staring into his eyes until he pierced his finger deeper tearing into my skin and making it bled.
My cheeks burns like fire.
"Yes.. master," Escaped my mouth
"Good." He nodded and then let go off my cheek.
I watched him walked up to a chair and then sat on it. He drew a bottle of wine close to himself and starts drinking.
"Your father..." he began just when I was about asking him 'what he's gonna do to me.' he said the name with disgust.
"Has done alot of things tongues cannot pronounce. Just because he's labeled the most powerful Alpha who ever reigned, he feels it's okay to oppressed other parks, de-humanized them, turns them into slaves and get away with it. Just because no one has and no one will have the courage to challenge him. But his biggest mistake was the day he made my father a victim."
He paused and sip from his wine. I could see it was taking all in him to keep his voice at a low pitch, maybe he wanted his voice to torture me slowly for reasons Best known to him.
"All my life I've been waiting for this moment. I've been craving to have sole dominant over the Lycanblood pack, I want to inflict so much pains on them and make them experience what it feels like to be slaves but unfortunately your father seems to be hard-headed. He had refused to surrender his pack even after I've sent him a letter that I've got his daughter hostage. I guess he thought I was joking around. But not to worry.." he stared at me passionately, his eyes craving for my reaction but I was just numb trying to process where all this was leading to.
"I can still achieve my revenge through you. Rather than killing you, I've got other plans. I'm gonna make you pay for the atrocities of your father and you are gonna take all the afflictions for your pack, from now on, you are my slave." Venom dripped in every syllables of his words but I could care less for now. Only four words reverberated in my head and settled rent free in it;
~you are my slave~
Still in a state of trance, I watched him, looked at me with so much hatred emitting from his eyes. I stares at him keenly as if I'll see any trace of humor in eyes but his eyes held a lot of things far distance from it. It was dark and it holds lot of miseries, beneath the facade of his fury I swear I could see a broken man__broken beyond repair, a wanderer who need help to fix the remains of his life but has blatantly throw it off for his fury.
His outward facade made me tremble in great fear but a part of me pity the man inside him.
"Stand up!" came his cold voice, I didn't process the word at first but When It dawn on me that he was gonna hurt me again if I exhibits any ounce of balkiness, I sprung to my feet.
"Strip!" One word. Just one word made my heart sank into my stomach, pounding real fast and threatening to burst forth from my ribcage.
Daciana POV
"Strip"
I just hope I didn't hear that right cause if I did then God knows he's gonna have to kill me cause I can't think of going naked before him.
I promise myself that the first man who'll see my nakedness will be my mate and not some gruesome beast mistaken for a human.
"How dare you?" I felt his palms connected to my cheek sending me to the ground but I didn fall rather i was caught up by him.
his hand gripping my hair, He yelled "the nerve of you to call me names."
No, he didn't read my mind. Did he?
Before I knew what was going on, my face met with the wall and my forehead smashed against it.
"I'm gonna have to teach you some manners." He kept pummeling my forehead against the wall and blood was running down my face mixing with tears pouring down my cheeks.
I felt my forehead throbbing, micking my heart beat. It was burning. I couldn't see anything other than crystalline circles which looks like stars.
The pain was unbearable! I felt like I was going to die if he didn't stop.
but he did and by the time he stop, I was so weak.. too weak to even stand.
He then pushed me very hard and In that split moment, I prayed to moon goddess I doesn't land on the floor cause if I did then I sure would pass out.
As if moon goddess answered my prayers, I landed on something soft- his bed. I felt my eyes closing and my head was stinging like hell. "Strip off and don't make me repeat myself" I heard his voice in my head.
I tried standing up but I felt too weak to do that. In as much as I'll never resolve to strip before him, I don't wanna experience another torture so I tried all I can to stand but I was too weak.
"I bet you don't want to make me do it myself huh" He spoke again and Suddenly I felt my dress raising up, and it was ripped off me with full force. I instantly felt exposed as I was stuck in my undies now.
I felt his grip pulled up the strap of my pant. "No" I whimpered as I felt tears rolling down my checks.
He went further and ripped it off me making a gasp escaped my mouth.
I felt his hands touch my clit and I shivered unexpectedly.
The finger move further digging into my Virginal but suddenly halted halfway.
"Dang! you are so tight-perfect." I heard him muffled and felt him pulled away from the bed. I look up to see him taking off his trousers.
"No please I'm begging you don't do this to me." My cries seems to be like noise to him as he completely went stuck naked and he got on top me on the bed. He pulled up my legs and spread it open. And without warning, I felt a strange pain at my virginal. A scream tore out of my mouth as I realise he has Slip in two fingers without a warning.
He starts moving the fingers in out, fast and furious. The pain was damn excruciating and all I could do is cry. I tried to stop him but hell I was too weak to even move a finger.
"Please stop it." I croaked.
"Don't beg me, I haven't even started. I told you how much I enjoy inflicting pains on my enemy right?" He pulled out his finger from my clit and now he knelt down before me. I felt something more harder budging into me, I couldn't contain the pain.
It was unbearable, the most excruciating pain I've ever felt. the more it go deep into me, the more I scream. I felt my head aching real hard adding to the stingy pain already in my forehead.
"Cry , just cry I want to see you cry."he cooed in my ears and then he starts thrusting in and out of me angressively. I couldn't screen anymore as I was too weak to make a sound. my eyes transformed into a dam of water and tears blurred my vision pouring down my cheeks like rain.
I was already feeling like a slave for him, cause I willingly submitted to his want. He wanted me to cry and that I did, cause I had no choice.
As I jerked under him, I felt as though I was in torment, hell, purgatory infact anything worst. I wanted this to stop but it didn't. He kept thrusting in and out of me till I could no longer take the pains.
Was this the sex people call fun? Or was he just doing this to turture me? Each pains he inflicted on me, made me feel his burning urge to get his revenge. Whatever my father did to him must be very cruel and it filled me with Guilt. I felt so guilty that I didn't want to beg him, cause I stupidly thought I deserve this.
I felt my body go numb, my head shutting down, the pains disappearing and my eyes closed on it own.
I passed out.
Next morning
I was curled on the bed. With my head buried in my legs, my hair messed up. The event of last night reverberating in my head, I couldn't help crying. I kept thinking of my family. I've tried mindlinking mother but seems like she blocked me out, I tried mindlinking Damon too and same thing. Have they all forgotten about me? Do they already think I'm dead?
Why does bad things keeps happening to me?
Don't I deserve to be happy for once?
Deferent thoughts kept running through my mind until I heard the creaking sound of the door.
My heart jumped at the expectation of who it might be but my thought is betrayed when I see a woman at her forties walked in. She was wearing long flay gown.
"Oh my God...poor girl." The lady exclaimed Backing it up with sympathetic expression on her face.
C'mon Who wouldn't pity me in this messed up state, my clothes were torn by that Alpha, my hair messed up, uncontrollably tears pouring down from my eyes.
Even a vampire will pity me.
"Are you alright?" She asks touching my shoulder.
"Do I look like it?" I sniffed in a tears. the lady immediately apologized.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm mrs priyanka the Head of maids here. the Alpha asked me to show you around and the work you'll be doing here." She said but I didn't reply.
"But with the way you are looking now, we can't move about this way. Let's get you to bath." She says and walked out then she came back minutes later to tell me my bath is ready. She helped me climb down from the bed.
The moment my leg touch the ground, I felt elotrucuted by the pains burning between my legs. I couldn't move further, it was like hell.
The lady noticed it so she aided me out of the room while I limped beside her.