**Emily’s POV** I parted my heavy eyelids slowly, and let out a wince as a jolt of pain shot through my body while I regained consciousness. I tried to sit up ignoring the discomfort around my neck region but laid back down almost immediately when I felt this splitting headache around my temple. "Shít." I let out a grunt and lay still on the cold floor. I shut my eyes for a while, trying so hard to adjust to the pain because I doubted if it was going away anytime soon. A few seconds later, the headache subsided and I was able to open my eyes. I observed my environment slowly and frowned but I could barely see anything. I believed I was in some sort of dark room and the only thing I could make out was the damp smell which signified I was in a cave of some sort. And that of algae, I crinkled my nose as vomit surged up my throat but I pushed it out. “Where am I?” I wondered aloud, holding my pounding head with my hands as if to keep it steady on my neck. No one would answer me,
**Alexander’s POV**Walking through the narrow hallway, I decided to check up on Emily. Some hours ago, she had been restless and barely let me have a break as she kept on trying to know where I was.“Emily, you’ve suddenly stopped checking up on me,” I murmured with a laugh.But, I was met with silence.It was odd. However, I shrugged it off.Thinking she had probably gone to sleep, I let it drop while attending to my soldiers who were kidnapped by the rogues.Surprisingly they all survived. A few were injured but the abductors were sane enough to know that I would hunt them down if something happened to them.I believed they all knew how vicious I could be but that didn't stop them from terrorizing my pack members.The urge to find everyone involved filled me, but I stopped myself. Going after some rogues could be dangerous. If it was only one, I could take him down but many of them that might have come together to form a mini pack- although they didn't call it pack because they wer
**Emily’s POV**I woke up to the feeling of air whooshing through my hair and against my face. I opened my eyes slowly only to realize that I was hanging upside down on someone’s shoulders. And the so-called person was walking along a rocky path."What the hell?!" I yelped, attempting to sit upright.But, it was futile. Instead, she went on walking and pretended as though she didn't hear my scream."Let me go!" I tried ago and luckily she heard me.She lowered me to the floor and I let out a grunt while trying to steady myself.My head reeled from having stayed in an upside-down position for a long time and I shut my eyes to get back my bearings.“Mary!” I said, rather annoyedly as my eyes collided with hers. For some second, I had assumed I was getting abducted and forgot I was with her before I slept off."You frightened me.” I glared, placing my hand on my still beating heart.“I noticed.” She replied with a small smile tugging at her lips.Mary looked at me intently for a short w
**Alexander’s POV**I sat unmoving on a side stool beside the bed Emily lay on, holding her cold hands in mine as I prayed to the moon goddess to keep her safe.I didn't know what had been done to her, but she didn't look like herself. She wasn't my Emily.The woman I left all happy in the house, my beautiful mate.Shít.Emily was my mate. Of course, I knew that and had failed to admit it for long until now.Seeing her this vulnerable made me feel guilty because I was partly at fault. I had let her be in harm's way and didn't do much about protecting her.Fuck, I was a terrible mate and I hope she wouldn't hold it against me.Staring at her face once again, I grimaced. She looked battered, mistreated, dirty, and even way worse than she was when I brought her in from the auction house.Dr Patrick said she had been beaten with silver, and starved. Also, he presumed her abductors had used black magic on her.The thought of her going through all those forms of torture made my blood boil.
**Sophia’s POV**“How the hell did it happen?” Prince Ethan growled at the rogues who stood staring at him.Each shook their head not knowing what to say.“I just asked a simple question, didn’t I? How the hell did she escape!” He barked again, his eyes turning golden.“We don’t know, she simply disappeared.” The one with the stinky breath who happened to be the leader said slowly, looking between Ethan and his boys.“Are you even listening to the crap you just said? How the hell does someone simply disappear under your—”“I think she was helped.” I chimed in.He turned to glare at me, showing that he was displeased by my unruly interruption.I shrugged my shoulders slightly, gazing away.“What do you mean by ‘She was helped’?” He asked, turning to look at me with dark fearsome eyes.“I feel she was because the door to her cage was still locked by the time I got there…?” I answered, cocking my eyebrows at the man with bad breath.“Gilbert.” He offered with a slight bow.“Yes, Gilbert
**Sophia’s POV**“Who is Mary?” Prince Ethan growled into the phone.I flinched back in fear, forgetting that his voice had sounded through the phone and that he wasn’t right in front of me.“Mary? I do not know of any Mary.” I replied.I tried wracking my brain if I had ever encountered anyone with such a name, but I couldn't remember.Yet, I knew there were a lot of people called Mary and I doubted I knew who exactly he was referring to.“You mean you do not know any Mary who is a member of your pack?!” He barked. “How nonchalant can you be not to know that?!”“We have over twenty thousand people in my pack, there’s no way I’d know all of them,” I replied with an eye roll.“Mary, she is your fúcking Beta’s wife!” He snapped.Shit, that witch I sometimes see with Emily. What does he want with her?“Yes I know her, what about her?” I asked.“She’s an Etheredylan, she helped Emily escape.”“She’s a what?” I asked, creasing my brows. What was an Etheredylan?I could swear it was my firs
**Emily’s POV**I jolted awake when a loud noise from outside my window echoed into my room. My eyes snapped open and I wrapped my robe around myself before stumbling outside to find out what it was that was causing the raucous.“Emily, go inside!” I heard someone’s deep voice order but I was so blinded by curiosity that I ignored the voice and continued my stride towards a spot in the field where a lot of people were gathered.As soon as I got to the crowded spot, my breath hitched in my throat and a foul odor attacked my nostrils.On normal days, I would’ve turned away, and been repelled by the smell. But this one called me, drew me in. I pushed through the crowd until I arrived at the front where I froze in my tracks.On the floor, in the middle of the curious crowd laid Mary, or whatever was left of her. Her face and body were burnt beyond recognition, and one of her legs was missing, probably amputated.“What happened?” I whispered in tears, crouching beside her as I cradled her
CHAPTER FORTY FIVE:**Emily’s POV**“There should be something I can do,” I whispered over again to myself as I sat on the cold floor of my room with my knees pressed tightly against my chest.I couldn’t believe that Mary was dead. I had tried to come to terms with everything that was happening. But nothing was working.She had died without warning.Again, something in me, probably the kind of bond we had still felt she was alive.But she had moved somewhere else. A better place.Somewhere peaceful and free of the chaos I was used to.Maybe the powers she had hid her somewhere and she'd come back soon when she found out that her mate, Chad, hadn't taken the news of her death lightly.If she knew Chad now roams about, terrifying people like a werewolf recently gone rogue, maybe she'd come back.The more I thought about it, the more insane it made me.I rocked myself back and forth slowly as tears leaked out of my now red-rimmed eyes. My eyes hurt and I didn't believe I could produce m