Don't touch her

Winter's eyes opened gradually, and she found shackles around her hands. It confused her, and she looked around herself only to find out she was locked in a prison.

Winter felt the pain in her head because of the wound she got on the last day. The screams of people rang in her head like a bell. When she lifted her hands, the sound of shackles fell into the prison guards outside the prison.

"She has woken up."

Winter heard the masculine voice and heard the prison gates open up. She knew something terrible had happened and someone had imprisoned her. Before Winter could understand, she was pulled up by those prison guards.

"Walk!" One of them commanded her.

Winter gulped and silently followed his command. She got out of the prison and was taken to a dungeon where her father was kept.

The closer she was to the dungeon, the more she got the scent of her mate. Her feet halted at the dungeon's entrance as her eyes landed on her mate, the man with emrald green eyes.

Winter's eyes landed on her father, who was chained up in shackles. He was brutally beaten. The blood had covered his entire face and hands. His clothes were completely stained with blood.

"Father!" Winter rushed to her father, forgetting the pain she would get from those shackles. She fell to her knees and began crying to see her father. He was unconscious and was on his knees.

"Why did you do this?" Winter met the gaze of the man, who was her mate.

"Lower your eyes before the new king, you fool!" A slap landed on her face. Her lips got cut and blood came out of them. "Keep your eyes down before Raphael Kingston!" The woman, named Cecilia, shouted at her.

Winter wiped the blood from her lips and lifted her head again to look at Raphael.

"Everyone leave this dungeon!" Raphael finally spoke in his deep, intimidating voice. His eyes remained fixated on Winter.

Cecilia, the prison guards, and one other man present in the dungeon left upon Raphael's order.

Raphael bent down and his face came closer to her view.

"Your father ended my clan brutally. It is the time when your father must die. If you have anything to say to him for the last time, you can," Raphael said with an expressionless face.

Tears rolled down her cheeks as she got to know her father would die. For more than thirteen years, her father only physically abused her. She should not be feeling empathy, but as a daughter, she could not either leave that soft part toward her father.

"Did you kill everyone?" Winter asked.

"You should call me Master. I am the King now," Raphael said.

"Answer me. Did you kill everyone in my clan?" Winter queried.

"Yes, everyone is dead! Your father is the next one to die," Raphael stated.

"And what about me?" Winter asked.

Raphael turned quiet. He kept staring into her eyes for some time and then rose to his feet. Pulling the sword out of the scabbard, he told Winter, "Your pathetic father tortured my parents to death, and took the lives of my clan's people!"

He stepped forward and pulled Ezkiel up by fisting his hair in his palm. Ezkiel gradually opened his eyes and whined in pain.

"W-who are you?" Ezkiel managed to ask and saw his daughter, Winter. Hearing her father's voice, Winter quickly stood up and began crying.

"Father, why did you do it?" She complained.

"So, your eighteenth birthday became the reason for my doom as well!" Ezkiel remarked. Winter was stunned to hear that while Raphael got confused. He let go of his hair and took a step back.

"Father," she murmured and furrowed her brows together.

"Shut your filthy mouth! Don't call me father. Your ill fate brought me to my knees today," Ezkiel screamed at his daughter with his remaining strength.

Raphael decided to intervene. His wolf shouted at him to defend Winter. Because his wolf already knew Winter was his mate. He strangled Ezkiel's neck. Ezkiel tried to free from Raphael's grip, but his attempts were futile.

"You slaughtered Kingston clan thirteen years ago. You tortured my parents to death. It is the time when you should leave this body and my revenge will be over with that!" Raphael pronounced while boring his gaze into Ezkiel's eyes.

The next second, the sword shoved inside Ezkiel's abdomen and the blood purred out of his mouth. A horrific expression loomed over Winter's face and she screamed in fear. Her knees fell weak and she fell to the floor.

Raphael took out the sword from Ezkiel's abdomen. His body fell back and the blood covered the entire floor. Winter covered her mouth with her hands to see her father's lifeless body.

"Stop crying like a fool for this pathetic man! He does not deserve to be called a father," Raphael said and left the dungeon.

As he stepped out of the dungeon, he ordered his beta, Hector, to throw the body away.

"Did you kill Ezkiel and his daughter?" Cecilia asked.

"I killed Ezkiel," Raphael stated.

"What about Ezkiel's daughter? Did you kill her too?" Cecilia questioned him. However, Raphael did not answer her, and he walked ahead. He finally completed his revenge, so he wanted to visit the graveyard of his parents to pay tribute to them.

Cecilia followed Raphael and asked him if she should kill Winter.

"Don't touch her. If you do, I will punish you," Raphael said in a fury.

"Why? Our initial plan is to kill all of them," Cecilia stated.

Raphael stopped in his steps and turned swiftly to Cecilia. "Don't you understand words?" He gritted his teeth at her. "You can go and rest in your room," he advised her.

Cecilia lowered her eyes and did not utter another word before him. She silently left while Raphael resumed his walk to the graveyard of his parents, which was situated in the forest where once Kingston clan lived.