Reyna woke to a cold, dark room with no sign of anyone being there. Her hazy eyes did a quick search around the room and when she didn't see Glen, she inevitably heaved a sigh of relief.
" Damn" She cursed under her breath as she tugged onto the handcuffs with which Glen, her Alpha has chained her to his bed. She looked left and right, trying to see if she could break the handcuffs or the headboard of the bed. Her gaze fell on a violently purple mark on her neck, and then her entire body stiffened.
That fucking bastard actually marked her!
Reyna couldn't help but take a tentative sniff of her scent, fortunately for her - her scent hasn't mixed with Glen. Yet. Which means Glen failed to mate with her again. Though it didn't matter if she didn't look for a way out for herself and her parents who were in Glen's control it was a matter of time before Glen forcibly takes her as his mate.
And this is the thing she would never accept. Because she knows Glenn more than anyone else.
Reyna was an aide, not only able to heal physical wounds, but also capable of neutralizing every negative emotion, healing any trauma, and uplifting moods of the pack. Aides could easily invade others' minds and pick up their thoughts. Most importantly they were so rare that only an Aide could give birth to an Aide, so not every pack owns an Aide. Given that her mother, who had the same gift as her, had mated with her father and had no other child, Glen was so freaking hung up on the idea of possessing her
.
That's how Reyna got to know Glen was a lunatic rather than an honourable Alpha. To the entire pack, Glen was a saviour, saving them from the oppression of the ex-Alpha, his own father, by ripping off his throat. Only she knew he killed his father just out of ' boredom', not for justice. But no one believed her. Even worse, they hated her for she was unwilling to submit to their great Alpha.The only reason why they didn't kill her was Glen needs her.
While she tried to disentangle the handcuffs, the door was pushed open. Amber, a curvy blonde who was fake from head to her toes, sauntered inside with a mocking grin.
" well, well, well look who is it? Glen's bitch"
Reyna rolled her eyes and smiled at her just as fake as hers" I don't know anything about being Glen's bitch why don't you tell me about it? Oops, I forgot you have been trying your best to be his bitch but he never so much as glanced your way?"
“don't be so smug, you are just his toy, a blow-up doll, aren't you? If he really cared about you do you think anyone would have dared to so much as touch you?"
Amber stretched out her fingertips with acrylic nails to touch the mark on Reyna’s neck.
“Oh yeah, I’m often ‘touched’ by you.” Reyna was not just referring to Amber’s daily harassment, “As an unneeded one, your loyalty to him is really touching.”
"I am the beta female of the pack and no one ever tries to talk back with me!"
"He made you the beta because I rejected his proposal of working together with him, in other words, you were given what I didn't want! "
Amber was riled up just as Reyna wanted her to so when she tried to scratch Reyna's face, Reyna took advantage of her pace and bit her nail off.
Amber screamed, holding her bleeding hand.
" was it hard enough to wake you up? Now get out. " Reyna used the nail to open the handcuffs it was tricky but not impossible . " or I swear the second I get these off my wrists, I will shove your head so deep in your ass, that you will see the light through your mouth. "
Amber was scared off by the determination in her eyes.
" sure... I think I will ease up Glen since you couldn't do the job. He will need comfort tonight. Remember to tell me whether or not you liked how I taste after I'm done with him. "
What did it mean by tonight?
As Amber marched out, Reyna finally managed to get herself free, frowning at Amber’s prediction. But all she cared about was going back home. Her parents must have been worried. Last night Glen made her stay by threatening her with her parent's safety again.
On the way home, all the wolves stared at her with hostile eyes. Reyna was used to it, but after walking for a while, she noticed that today was not quite the same, and there was much more resentment in everyone's eyes.
"Ouch!" Reyna shrieked as their resentment was poured onto her. Their acid-like gazes stung and almost made her nauseous enough to vomit. Reyna turned around but couldn't find the culprit because everyone here looked the same like they were her enemy.
"You deserved it." An enforcer in the pack said coldly. "If you cured Glen, he wouldn't have lost control of his temper on the battlefield and made the wrong decision. We lost. "
She was taken aback, surprised that Glen lost. he had been fighting for years and hardly ever lost, and she wasn't even sure which pack they were fighting against now. But losing this battle was not going to bring any good news, if anything she was in for another rough night.
Reyna ran home amidst the abuse and curses of the crowd
. When she pushed open the door of her house, her mother was in the kitchen making medicine for her sick father.
" what's wrong? Don't tell me Glen did something to Dad last night --"
" He is fine, Glen didn't do anything. Not yet." said her mother quietly.
That was only a half-truth. Reyna could tell that and her mother knew it. Valentina Aniston was once the most respectable Aide in the pack, but when Glen forced Reyna to submit to him, she and her family were almost ruined.
Glen used her father first, who was much more submissive than Reyna and Valentina. A submissive wolf in a pack generally balances out the power; they don't fight wars. But Glen still sent her father to the war. The result was as everyone predicted her father's leg was severely clawed and her mother had to give up her position as the whole pack's healer to take care of him. So Reyna 'understood' her family was in Glen's hands.
"Come, clean yourself, you stink of him ." Obviously, Valentina has been used to her daughter's circumstances now. But once she was full of vitality, confidence and pride. Now her Arctic blue eyes only glazed with worries and concern for her husband and daughter twenty-four seven. Her mother had lost herself in the long run of protecting her family.
"There must be something we can do." murmured Rena as she watched her mother sigh heavily, "I can't let him hurt my parents anymore ."
But the fact was, she didn't even know what to do.
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At night, Reyna forced herself back to Glen's house
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The second she opened the door, her eyes met with a pair of familiar ice-cold eyes, even though the person in front of her was smiling, his smile never reached his eyes.
"I didn't see you at dinner. Guess you've eaten with your parents?"His mild tone showed nothing but apathy, which felt like hundreds and thousands of wasps were stinging her skin.
"How was the battle?" Reyna responded as calmly as she could as she followed him inside.
Glen turned around abruptly at her question and reached his hand out to touch his mark on her neck, making Reyna shiver. "You tell me." without a warning, he grabbed her neck and drew her close to him, "Read my mind. See what kind of lurch we were in without your father as bait."
Reyna could feel his wolf fighting for control. His bloodthirst was hardly reined in and her skin was blistering for feeling his emotions.
"Calm down. I'm here." She said in a rare soft tone, holding his wrist to pacify his fury. "Don't harm yourself. You're the Alpha. We need you to be steady."
Glen smiled in surprise although it didn't ease his cruelty. "How sweet, you are being real tame tonight. Does it mean you're ready to be mine?" he slammed his lips on hers so hard that he drew blood.
Disgusted Reyna moved back, provoking him to ruthlessly bite on her lower lip making her wince.
"You should have made a better effort to be nice to me, sweetheart." He sighed as he patted her cheek, "Do you like being spat on? Being beaten up like five times a week? I can put a stop to all this...just say yes to my proposal be my mate, those who are bullying you will rush to suck up to you."
Glen narrowed his eyes, forcefully yanking her hand in his pants and making her rub his balls. The rape-and-resistance game was gonna start again. Not only the humiliation of being his sex slave but also the growing fear of losing her parents made everything
more unbearable now."In your dreams," said Reyna through gritted teeth.
Her response infuriated Glen, worse than ever. He chuckled in a low voice then tightened his hold on her throat until she started to suffocate, clawing on his hand.
"I am your Alpha, remember? Would you like me to send your father to the battlefield again? And what if he loses his other leg as well?Your mother will have to be degraded to an omega. Because the only job I gave her was to heal her husband and if she can't, what use is she to me !"
Enough! Reyna's wolf lunged at her surface. With a roar, sheexerted her power on Glen - an Aide can not only clear away the negative emotions but also terrorize their enemies by enhancing their fear, anger and frustration.
Glen's hold on her loosened as she expected. Reyna unsheathed her claws and stabbed into his chest before knocking on his face with her knee mercilessly.
She never used this power before because it was a lot more taxing to terrorize than heal and in case Glen found out and did more crazy things to her family, that would have been bad . But now, she decided it was time to put an end to it .
She was going to leave him right now. Leave this pack that gave her nothing - With her parents.
" Reyna hurry" ushered Valentina as she ran with Daxton on her back. Her father's leg still haven't recovered letting him run in such a condition might do more harm than good, fortunately, her mother was strong enough to run with her father on the back.Reyna rushed in the direction her mother had run off to. With her sensitive hearing, she could hear the howls of a dozen furious wolves coming after her. Reyna was certain that Glen wasn't with them because even though she pulled back her power that subdued him, his emotions must be in a jumbled mess. If he really came after her then there was a high chance of him losing control of his emotions and wolf if that happened, it was likely that everyone in the black moon pack might die or at worse get seriously injured to be tortured by the Hades of their pack.
As soon as Reyna woke up, She couldn't help but gasp. Her extremely tired brain was able to give her some pointers - one the smell in this room belonged to a person who caught her before she fainted, the same delicious smell of spicy musk and cinnamon bark that she smelled just before she fainted. And the scent most definitely belonged to a male because there was no way for her wolf would react so strongly like this.She sat up straight and looked around, Her eyes scanned around warily. Though her saviour was good someone else was standing in place of him." well, well, well," said the shifter in a melodic voice " you are finally up huh?"It wouldn't take a crystal ball for you to know w
Cain regarded the female in front of him curiously. He knew that she was entrapped by Glen, the reason was currently unknown because- he couldn't investigate everything about her in just nine hours.For the first time in his life, Cain felt as if he was thrown off his loop. Every time he faced someone the only expression they had was of terror and fear, whether it was an ally or enemy they all feared that he might lose whatever control he had over his dire wolf, and maim them to death, all thanks to the rumours and his past.Reyna came as a surprise, and if she was born just to torment him, Cain found that he was becoming awfully hard as primal hunger swept through his system, building small cracks in his self-control.
As a pair -Cain and Reyna made way out of the room all the way to the main gate.Reyna couldn't help but be awed at how Cain was able to make himself look so leisurely as well menacing at the same time. He was wearing a scowl that made him look like he was a grim reaper, who promised death wherever he went, and her wolf howled in appreciation, another note that she was broken in the head by Glen's sadism.Nearing the gate, Reyna caught sight of the eight SUV's that were parked outside. Glen stood in front of the mob looking like a dog that needed a shot of rabies, he was scowling in rage with his clenched fists trembling at his sides.When they came to a halt the other wolves from the Cypher pack joined the
Reyna acted without thinking, her reaction was based on her instinct, Glen had her parents in his clutches and she couldn’t let Cain hurt him while he still held her parents in his hands, she was scared, anxious and nervous and when she got nervous she would act impulsively like right now. She only wanted to distract Cain but once her mouth landed on his, Cain pretty much took over. His mouth crushed against hers, Thalia gasped when he nipped on her bottom lip, once her lips parted he forcefully thrust his tongue inside her mouth sweeping against hers. The kiss was dominant and possessive just like him, he meshed his lips with her demanding the response he wanted from her.Cain collared her throat possessively while the other skimmed down her side encircling her waist, Reyna didn't even know that she was itching toward his body planting herself against his solid chest. He was like a goddamn drug and she had no doubt about getting addicted to him, his warmth me
“No” cried Reyna she tried to step forward but Cain pulled her back, his gaze strolled to Glenn who was looking a bit too smug, Cain felt his wolf rumble inside his head, his lips curled “ You really think that this kind of trick is going to work?” “ Trick? What nonsense!” Glenn repeated tonelessly “ what the hell are you talking about, Covington ?”Cain sneered, his gaze fixed on Glenn “You will not hurt Reyna’s parents, much less kill them, you know why? Because they are your biggest bargaining chips, if you hurt them you will lose Reyna forever and the chance to get her back, so who the hell are you scaring ?”Glenn clenched his fists but he didn’t retreat “ then let her go, if she does not come with me she will never see her parents . Do you want her parents to forever be confined ? I guess not” though he said it with utter confidence, Cain coul
After a quick stop to the infirmary of the pack, where Cain had treated his injuries. Not that he had needed that but Bree, the pack’s healer and Cain’s best friend had insisted that he should have his injuries treated no matter how small.Bree had come off as someone sweet, safe and timid … a female that Reyna despised and it was safe to say that the feelings were mutual. The healer had chatted with her like she was her long lost sister or something but Reyna wasn’t fooled.Mainly for two reasons first, she could smell someone’s bullshit from a mile away and secondly, no matter how much that healer tried to sweet talk with her. Reyna could sense her wariness and the thick jealousy rolling off Bree’s body.
“Oh you are done?” Reyna didn’t want to talk to Cain much less recognize his presence but the way her wolf sat up straight at his touch made it almost impossible for her to ignore him. “I thought you will be busy for quite some time.” She raised her brow at Bree’s who was following behind them.Cain tipped his head to look at Bree who smiled at him with a hint of professionalism and friendliness. He didn’t think much about it.Bree had always kept a good distance away from him. Swayer was the only reason that brought them together. Between the two of them and even their conversations mostly revolve around his sister.So he wasn’t quite sure why Reyna was prickly towards Br