FOUR DAYS AGO
"Faith! Where are you, Faith?"Faith heard someone calling her but the tone was filled with terror and worry which scared her. Faith, who was very tired and had just fallen asleep after a really exhausting day of work, woke up hurriedly and lit the lighter on from the kitchen counter. She sleeps in the kitchen. So, she didn't dare to turn on the light to get into some new trouble."Erin? What are you doing here at this time? You are going to get in trouble if you are caught talking to me at this time of the night!" Faith whisper shouted at Erin, her only well-wisher of this pack. She was an omega as well. Erin looked scared and it scared her as well."Faith, you didn't hear anything that's happening outside?!" Erin whispered with a frown and that's when Faith realised that there were many noises coming from outside."I was very tired and fell into a deep sleep, so I didn't hear anything. What's happening? Are we under an attack?!" Faith asked in fear as she looked down at the spot beside her where her little bundle of happiness was sleeping. Fear and thoughts of saving them gripped her heart immediately."No, no, Faith! We are not under an attack! But our alpha caught someone and put him into the dungeon!" Erin filled Faith with the information which put her into confusion."Then why are they making so much noise? And why do you look so scared?" Faith asked with a frown."Because I heard that this man is a very dangerous alpha of some pack and almost killed our alpha once. He's a complete threat to our pack." Erin said in a hushed tone, as if that man would hear her now and come to kill her. Faith looked at her with widened eyes."Then why didn't the alpha kill him yet? What if he escapes somehow and then attacks us to take revenge?" Faith gasped out loudly as she thought of the possibility of that happening."Don't worry, I heard he's heavily injured and he can't even move a muscle. Our alpha has attacked him with silver wolfsbane. So, he's not a danger to us as long as he doesn't get the antidote of the wolfsbane." Erin said in an assuring tone."I hope he never finds the antidote. I would like to stay as far as possible from him." Faith said in a fearful tone and Erin nodded at her."Yes, that's why I came here to warn you. Don't go near the dungeon even by mistake." Erin warned her and Faith nodded at her obediently."Yes! I will never go near the dung-..." Faith couldn't complete her sentence when she heard their alpha, Jackson, speaking up."Where will you never go, Faith?"Faith and Erin jumped in fear and immediately started shaking in fear. They were caught while talking by none other than Jackson. It was like a nightmare coming true!"A...alpha... Please forgive us... We...we didn't mean to be nosy... Please forgive us..." Erin immediately kneeled down in front of him to beg for his forgiveness. Faith was frozen in her place in fear."Leave." That's all Jackson said for Erin to run out of the kitchen without giving Faith a second look as his eyes were fixed on Faith."You haven't answered my question yet. Where will you never go, princess?" Jackson said while kneeling down in front of her and taking the lighter from her lap which slipped from her hand the moment she heard his voice.He lit the lighter and brought it near her face to look at her beautiful face with which he was obsessed with. She looked really beautiful in the soft red light of the fire."I...I...said I will never go...go near the dungeon...where the dangerous prisoner is..." Faith said in a fearful tone while looking down. At that moment she was more afraid of Jackson than the 'dangerous man'."You made me happy by saying that, princess." Jackson said with a smirk while putting strands of her hair behind her ear. She shivered in discomfort but didn't dare to move. "But I need you to go near him." Jackson suddenly spoke up, making her look at him with a frown."Wh... what... Why alpha...?" She asked in a confused tone, making him smirk."Because I want him to stay alive so that I can torture him more. And only you can keep him alive." Jackson said with a sick smirk on his face. She was more confused after hearing that."H...how can I help...alpha?" She asked in confusion."By..." Jackson stopped as a strange look crossed his eyes which left as soon as it touched his eyes. "By your care, princess. You can do that for me, right princess?" He asked and his sick smirk was back on his face."Y...yes..." Faith answered as she didn't have any options to deny."Good! But I need a promise from you." Jackson spoke up as he cupped her face with one hand and made her look up."Wh...what is it, alpha?" She asked in a shaky tone. Her eyes were forcefully on him so that she could see the seriousness in his eyes."You will just give him food and water from outside. You will never get inside the cell and never show your face to him. All you have to do is stay near him. That's it. Do you get it?" Jackson asked with hooded eyes and gritted teeth and she could feel his temper worsening. So, she quickly nodded her head, not wanting to upset him more. "Words… I need the words, princess." He said as his grip on her cheeks got strong. She winced in pain but before the sound could get out of her throat, she gulped it down."Ye…yes… yes, alpha… I will never show my face to him and I will never get inside the cell. I promise." She promised immediately, making him happy as his hold on her cheeks loosened up. He took his hand away from her face and she felt as if she could finally breathe."Good. Now sleep. I will go and greet our dear prisoner who will be needing your care soon." Jackson said with a smirk before standing up to leave.Before he walked out of the room, his eyes fell on the occupied spot beside her. When she realised where he was looking, she immediately scooted over there to hide that from his eyes. He smirked at that but left the kitchen without saying anything. Faith let out a sigh and felt as if she was finally safe.With the thought of that mysterious dangerous man, she slowly laid down on the cold kitchen tiles. She couldn't think of any more dangerous men than Jackson.Jackson was already the cruellest man she has ever seen. He may have never torture her himself because he 'loves' her. But that's just a stupid lie because he lets others bully her and beat her to death sometimes.She was lost in her thoughts when she suddenly jerked up in fear after hearing the scariest growl in her entire life. She felt as if the entire pack house was shaken by that sound. Jackson has started torturing the man already. She felt her heart wrenching in pain for no reason.Maybe it was because she goes through this beating and tortures everyday, that's why she was feeling bad for that man even though she shouldn't...She looked down at her three years old sleeping daughter and found her stirring in her sleep. She quickly pulled her daughter in her lap and curdled her back to sleep. Soon, the baby calmed down in the safe embrace of her mother.Her lovely daughter, Echo. She was her only reason for fighting through this hell. Echo was like a miracle out of her miserable past about which she doesn't remember much.All she vaguely remembers was a dark night, a man whose face she doesn't remember and an accident.. That's it. Nothing else. That accident took away her memories and she remembers nothing of that night. After that accident she went into a long coma. When she woke up after nearly one year, she had a baby girl looking just like her, sleeping beside her already. Those broken memories were so disturbing already that she didn't try to remember the rest of it and never questioned anyone about that night.She just knew that Echo was her daughter and that's all that mattered to her. She loved her cute little girl to death and was ready to protect her from everything at any cost.She feels like Jackson's cruelty toward her increased by tenfold after she gave birth to Echo. He said it was to punish her for betraying him and cheating on him. He said that they were lovers before that accident. He said he was going to marry her and make her his Luna before that. But after she "cheated" on him, he couldn't take it and wanted to kill her and her baby.But the reason he didn't was because 'He loves her a lot' and he didn't want to do anything to 'hurt' her.She just wants to laugh out loudly sometimes when he claims to love her. But she wished she was that brave!With these thoughts running in her mind, she didn't realise when she had fallen asleep with her daughter close to her heart._______THREE DAYS LATER"Wh...why aren't you... eating?" Faith asked in a meek tone while eyeing the knocked over food on the dirty ground of the cell from the small looking glass. For the past three days, she has come to deliver food to this prisoner every day, but he has never eaten a bite,"I.. it's been three days... Yo...you will die...if you do... don't eat anything..." She said slowly and in a fearful tone, not wanting to anger the beast. A beast is a beast, injured or not. Even though she was scared of him, she knew he couldn't do much. He could hardly move a muscle as his whole body was filled with deadly wolfsbane. He couldn't heal himself because of that. Also, Jackson comes at every night to torture him to put him back to his previous state. So, in this state, he would really die if he didn't eat. "Isn't that what you want? For me to die?" The man spoke up to her for the first time in three days and she felt as if an unexplainable shiver ran through her spine. That voice..."No
"She's going to die if we beat her more than this now." One of the guards said to his partner while looking at the heavily injured omega of their pack. Faith was her name and just like her name, she had full faith on the moon goddess that she wouldn't do such injustice to her. Faith was chained and hung up with her hands above her head. Her feet could barely touch the ground. The old clothes she was wearing were torn, and the wounds caused by the whipping could be seen. Some of the blood had dried, forming a dark red stain on the clothes."What a shameless cunning bitch! She is dying but still isn't telling the truth!" Another guard snapped at her while looking at her in disgust. He looked as if he wanted to kill her. He spit at her. She couldn't flinch even though she wanted to. She didn't have the energy to flinch. She was numb. She couldn't feel her limbs. She was hardly breathing and she felt as if her ribs were breaking into pieces with every whiff of air she was getting inside
"Faith...Faith... Can you hear me? Wake up... Faith!" Faith opened her eyes slowly after hearing Erin's voice and found her looking at her through the looking glass. She slowly got up and ran toward the glass in shock."E... Erin... Erin! What are you doing here?! The..they are going to punish you as well if they find you here!" She shrieked out loudly in fear. "Shh, Faith! They won't find out. The guard outside is my mate and he has given me his word." Erin spoke up in an assuring tone while looking around."What are you doing here, Erin? And... and how's Echo? Where is she?" Faith cried out as she was desperate to get a small glance of her lovely baby. "Echo is with me currently. She's sleeping and she has a little fever as well." Erin said while looking down at her arms. Faith's eyes widened after hearing Erin. "Fever? How? why?" She freaked out, desperate to take her daughter in her arms to soothe all her pain. Erin quickly opened the door and gave Echo to her."We don't have
A FEW HOURS LATER "Why isn't she waking up? It's been hours already!" Kendrick asked, desperation clear in his voice. His eyes didn't move from Faith's tired and exhausted face. She looked pale at that moment. She wasn't recovering that well even though he was sitting beside her and holding her hands. "I…I.. I think it's the potion she had, my king…it's a potion made by a witch to control her mind. It took all her energy. Also…" The doctor stuttered, as if unsure if he should continue. That took Kendrick's attention and he moved his eyes on the doctor. "Also what?!" He growled, urging him to reveal whatever it is he was so reluctant to reveal. His eyes were glowing black, ready to rip the doctor off. "I…I think she doesn't have a wolf, my king… that's why she's taking time to recover on her own." Words tumbled out of the doctor’s mouth in a stutter, making Kendrick look at him with a deep frown. He didn't believe the doctor. "What the fuck do you mean by she doesn't have a wolf?
IN THE DUNGEON"Stop fucking laughing!" Kendrick growled, trying to control his anger. He wanted nothing more than to kill Jackson but death was too easy of a punishment. He was enraged knowing his mate had a baby, A child that was not his, and that wasn’t something any wolf or Lycan takes lightly. The mate bond meant everything to them, and although he couldn’t change the past, he had the opportunity to get his revenge on the person who’s responsible for everything that has gone wrong."I think I am going to continue laughing because that seems to irritate you." Jackson wanted to get on Kendrick’s nerves, and by the looks of it he was succeeding."Then I am going to continue to beat you until you stop laughing." He prepared to continue Jackson’s punishment. All he wanted was for Jackson to shut up and take his punishment as he got whipped. If anything he wanted him to beg for death as he continued to torment him for everything he’s done."What happened? Why is the mighty Lycan so up
"Wh…where are you taking us?" Faith quietly asked as she held her sleeping daughter close to her. As if wanting to protect her from all harm."To my kingdom. To my pack." Kendrick coldly replied. His heart still wasn’t able to come to terms with her betrayal. Maybe it never will, the more he thought about it the colder he felt."To the kingdom of Lycans.. a place full of monsters…" Faith’s fearful response made him enraged. He still couldn’t believe that she would think of his or his pack as monsters, especially when she was living with one."Yes, a place full of monsters. Don't try to play your games there. The monsters will tear you into pieces." He snapped, making Faith shrink back in fear. He had not done anything to make her fear him yet she behaved as if he was going to eat her alive. But he felt it was good that she feared him, especially after what she had done."Wh…what did you do to Jackson? Are you going to kill him?" Her voice shook as she questioned him. How could she sti
IN THE LYCAN KINGDOMFaith was looking around fearfully and carefully as she followed Kendrick inside the big palace she has never seen in her entire life. She has never seen such a palace. She has hardly seen anything in her entire life anyway. It was very late in the night. She guessed it was almost 3 AM at night. They were very quiet in their way here and she heard Kendrick ordering his people to not to make any noise so that no one notices his arrival. He didn't want to disturb the sleep of his people.So kind he was for his own people! She thought bitterly.The palace was quiet and they weren't making any sounds as well. All the other people with them vanished at the back of the mansion. It was just him, herself and Echo. Echo was asleep soundly. The journey was very long but they didn't exchange another word after he called her a betrayer. They both hardly got inside the living room when the dark room palace was lit up and someone shouted in sheer happiness from a little dista
"This is going to be your room." Kendrick said while getting inside a small room near the kitchen downstairs. She was inside the room as well. She wasn't going to complain. It's a thousand times better than sleeping on the kitchen floor. It even has a bed. Her daughter is going to sleep peacefully and more comfortably now. She put Echo on the bed and stood up."So, you are going to punish me now by making me your maid? For something I don't even know." She asked while looking up at him. Her eyes were blank, void of any emotions. Her words seemed to push the wrong nerve of his as he bent down to her level and squeezed her cheeks in his hard hold. Her words sounded like a taunt to him. As if being a maid was not a big punishment to her. She didn't let out a single sound even then. "You don't know? Look at that pup sleeping on my property and ask yourself if you have done something or not." He fumed before pushing her face away and retreating his hand faster than light. As if her skin