Mila’s POV
“Her name is Tina” I said firmly trying to control her emotions rushing through the bond and my own bloody body’s response.
It's not that I didn’t like how I was feelings things I thought I would never get to feel again that bothered me, no. It was the fact that these feelings won’t be enough to heal me back to my own self and make this work between us. It will only lead to him having false hope for things to work out and hurt him in the long run.
Doesn’t it bother him really? That every time he looks at me he sees my ugly eye patch? That he knows the horrible, disgusting things I have had to do every night with all sorts of men? How can he even look at me so warmly? Think about having a future with me?
Urgh! It’s all because of the damn bond! It’s masking the way he should really feel about me, about my dreadful past. When will it wear off? When will he begin to realize that his feelings ar
Andrea’s POV His voice, his scent, his violating touches, and his disgusting taste was invading all my senses. Alpha King was domineering my subconscious, twisting reality with my nightmares and filling them with pain. I knew I was stuck inside my own head, somehow I could sense it that I was just reliving my trauma and not experiencing a new session but I just couldn’t get out of it no matter how much I tried to. I thought I would never wake up, I thought I would be stuck in that hell forever but eventually I did. And if I thought waking up was going to end all my nightmares, I was extremely wrong. I opened my eyes to dim lights and the face of the second person I fear the most, Alec. He was hovering over me while I was laying naked on the cold, hard floor. It was too much for my tortured soul that I lashed out at him, My mind conjuring twisted sick images of him raping me too and I reacted accordingly. I pushed him away from me with all my might and was about to scream at him
Andrea’s POVI stood my ground, not letting him intimidate me with what he said as I said back coldly “What more could there be? You think avenging my brother’s death is not enough cause for me to go after you? I don’t know about you, but family matters to me”He shook his head in determination “No, you’re hiding something else. You know me. Like really know me. That day in the forest, that wasn’t the first time we met. I am sure of it”There is no chance he knows who I am. I was eight years old the last time he saw me, and even then he paid me no attention at all because I was merely a child in his eyes. There is no way he recognized me.But what made him sure that I know him?“You’re wrong. If we met before, trust me, you would have remembered me. I am quite unforgettable” I said bitingly.“That’s what frustrates me the most. I can’t seem to remember meeting you at all. But still, you’re hiding something else. For the last time I’m asking you, tell me the whole damn truth before I a
Alec’s POVI fucking hate her!She is everything I did not want in a mate!Stubborn, disobedient, ungrateful, resentful, and so full of anger it is no wonder she got herself in so much trouble.She can’t see right from wrong and it will not make this end well for her. Her hatred is blinding her from seeing what’s in front of her.Because here she is, scared out of her mind that I was about to hurt her or worse rape her when I already told her I would never do such a thing! Everything I said back at that cell passed right out of her other ear and she refused to believe a word out of everything I said to her.She was gazing at me with eyes that held so much pain and agony for what she thought was about to happen to her, My heart screamed at me to do everything I can to wipe that look off her face permanently. To never have her look at me like that again. But I know that’s not just my heart, that’s the mate bond be
Alec’s POV“Making her clean the entire place is such a nice thing to do, that’s how you think she will believe you’re actually a good person? You’re doing this all wrong! She needs assurances and softness, not this! You ruined all our chances to be with her by being a cold dick!” Maddox growled angrily at me.“Watch it! I am not being a dick, She’s making me treat her this cruelly. Because even if I show her kindness, she still won’t trust me enough to tell me anything. She already has her mind made up about me for some fucking unknown reason!”“And you just confirmed she is right to think that way by telling her She’s our slave!” he shot back dryly.I ignored him, he wouldn’t understand even if I tried to explain it to him.Kindness goes both ways and I won’t be the first one to display it. She hurt me first, she made my heart bleed and darkened it, it was h
Mila’s POVAfter he left me to rest in the morning, I didn’t do much.I went to the room he indicated and as soon as my eyes landed on the huge, super soft looking bed, a long yawn escaped me.I climbed into the bed and as soon as my head hit the pillow, I was fast asleep. It was like a magic spell my body needed to give in to the five years of built up lack of sleep and tiredness from sleeping on the hard, cold ground all this time.It felt like minutes when a loud knock woke me up again.I sat up and looked at the window in disorientation. It was probably the afternoon, making me realize I slept so deeply, I lost track of time even though I told myself I was only going to have a short nap because I need to start exploring the pack house on my own and figure out where 300 was being locked up.I got up and walked towards the door, not knowing whether it was Ryan or someone else. The thought of a stranger made me a bit nervous but
Ryan’s POVI was running like crazy with my heart up my throat from panic I am not usually used to feeling, even during the many battles I joined in on with Alec in his attempt to rid the world of rogues. I never felt this amount of dread as I did now at the thought of not finding her or losing her before I got the chance to help her heal.I can’t find Mila.I came back to my place an hour before dinner and have looked everywhere for her in my quarters but she wasn’t there. So I started searching the entire pack house looking for her, asking anyone if they saw her at all.“Calm down! You’re the one who told her she can wander around. She must be here somewhere” Sword tried to calm me down.“I didn’t want to make her think she’s a prisoner again but I didn’t expect her to really wander around on her own in an unknown place. I thought she’d be too reluctant because of her past! I shoul
Mila’s POV“I do owe you Ryan. You paid a fortune of your money to get me out. I owe you my life, my freedom but….”“You don’t owe me anything Mila! You’re my mate” he said in a hard, emotional tone “If you’re doing this just for me…”“It’s not just for you. It’s for me, it’s for Tina too. It’s for all of us, believe me. I’ve thought about it after you left at noon. I will hate myself so much if after what you did, I turn my back and just leave without giving this a chance. You did something so….heart touching and admirable for me, something I know not everyone can do in the same situation. And it is because of that I want to try for real. Not just because I owe you, but because you proved you’re worth trying to heal for. I’m not really good at expressing myself Ryan, it’s been a long time since I was asked to explain my feelings
Alec’s POVI groaned in agitation as I turned from sleeping on my stomach to resting on my back while my eyes fought hard to open up.I could tell and feel that I didn’t sleep as much as I wanted to. My muscles were still tired and my head was complaining through a fierce headache telling me that it wasn’t done resting yet.So why did I wake up?The damn bond.The girl was in distress. I could feel her struggling with something deep and painful. I don’t know why though. She was supposed to be out cold after all the chores she did last night.Finally my eyes complied and opened up. Everything was blurry at first but after several blinks, things started to get more clear.I buried my hand under the pillow next to me and pulled out my phone.I unlocked it and opened up the cell feed to see her.I spared the clock on the notification bar a second to check the time and stifled my yawn when I saw it was