Burning tears seared my eye sockets and poured like streams down my cheeks as I stood naked in front of the mirror looking at my reflection. It made me start to cry as I couldn't recognize myself anymore.My arms, belly, back region, and legs all had red stripes, which blemished my skin and made them so ugly and sore. Due to how much I was starving, my healing ability had diminished so badly that it now takes 24 hrs for a single wound to heal.Pain was blazing my body like a lake of fire, which left me with no strength to dress up. That whip was like a nightmare as it hurts deep into my bone marrow and even causes my skin to bleed, but I don't think Nana cares.Aurora, who I thought was my problem, doesn't disturb me anymore, and it just seems like she handed power over to Nana, who has become crueller than she was.My eyes went to the slave mark around my neck, and I felt a sharp ache in my heart, recalling that it was my father who turned me into this. He really made his daughter a
My eyes became teary, especially when Aurora gave me a mischievous smile. My eyes flashed to the clock, and I hissed angrily.In a few minutes, I would be leaving with Nana to go to school, not as a student but as a slave. After years of wishing to attend school like my peers, I would finally be going, but would only be bullied and scorned by everyone.I was dressed in a brown outdated sleeveless gown that was tattered at some parts of the edge and also had a patch at the back. The length was slightly above my knees, giving a clear view of my straight legs smeared with stripes of whip."Slave, let's go!" Nana's voice came in through mind link, and I wasted no second in running out of the room just so I would avoid being beaten. She carries that whip around, and I dread a strike.I caught up with her at the garage, and she gave me a scornful laugh on seeing how bad I looked."I just hope you don't come back naked because that gown seems to be ripping thread every second," she mocked, a
"What are they trying to do?" I gasped as it all seemed unreal to me.As I stared at them, I couldn't help but doubt my vision. I sat there on the ground peering at them with my mouth agape.The lash of Nana's whip that just landed on my neck was still burning my skin, and I was feeling the wetness of my blood cascading down slowly.The pain was so unbearable, but I couldn't cry yet as I was trying to recognize what was going on. Maybe I was having hallucinations."Start saying your last prayers because you won't come out alive!"Five girls were standing in front of me holding a skin-made whip like Nana's own, but the difference was that I could feel the heat of wolfsbane around it.There were two guys also with them, holding the trashcan of the school with a naughty smile on their faces, but the girls seemed very angry at me, as if I had offended them before."What did I do to you all?! Leave me alone, please!" I bawled, crawling back in fear as sweat covered my face while my heart h
Ava's POV The pain was so unbearable and was like a hellish fire consuming my entire being. I couldn't stop crying over one hit while wondering if I could survive another.The girls were ready to force me into killing myself, and with this wolfsbane whip, I could tell they were very close to achieving their victory over me, because there was absolutely no way I would be able to bear it.The first strike came like a thunderbolt that pierced deeper into the marrow of my bone, tearing my flesh in a streak with my blood spilling freely.My mouth was left loose as I screamed for life as the excruciating even seemed to have seized my breath. It was the most painful experience, which would actually drive me to destroy my life core to escape another lash from them.As I rolled around the ground with my eyes shut tightly, screeching and shaking vehemently from the overwhelming and heart-wrenching pain, I suddenly heard someone say something shocking.At first, I thought my ears were deceiving
Jaden's POV She fell into my arms like a log of wood, tears rolling down her eyes while I stared in terror and panic. I was breathing heavily as my heart stung like it was pierced and ripped apart with a sharp sword.Her blood was gushing from her chest where she had stabbed herself, and I wasted no second in starting to transfer my inner energy to her so it would help her heal faster and stop the bleeding.I had never done this for anyone before since I valued every single one of my powers, but there was no way I could sit back and watch her bleed.The blood stopped after a few minutes, and I could hear her breath flowing normally again, but those eyes were yet to open and there was no movement in her body.My inner energy transferred to her would help her heal faster, but to make it out of the coma alive depends only on her decision. If she decides in her heart to die and never return alive, she will be dead in some hours.My eyes were getting tearier, which was so weird to me as I
Carl's POVMy blood was boiling in rage as I stood right there waiting for the fools who turned Ava that way. The picture of her scarred body was still stuck in my head, and all I could think of was to destroy everyone who had put her in that condition.I was breathing heavily as the anger kept hitting me hard. I was becoming impatient. The footsteps of Ava's oppressor were getting louder as they approached, but it seemed like they were walking slowly, and it irked me the more.I can't wait to see the faces of the cruel wolves who could treat their kind so wickedly. How could someone with conscience whip a poor girl like Ava with whips soaked in wolfsbane, which hurts terribly?Even the strongest warrior will cry at a strike, not to mention Ava. It is obvious that they wanted her dead at all cost, so I will fulfill their wishes in their lives instead.I dropped the whips right beside the tree where I was hiding behind. They will come over to pick it up, which will make them stand clos
Nana's POVI was staring straight into his dark eyes that appeared darker as they stared back at me with a devilish smirk curling up his lips. The whip in his hand was gripped tightly, and I needed no soothsayer to know that he would use it on me, but what I couldn't understand was why I was unable to run while watching him kill those girls like animals.My heart was beating so hard inside my ribcage that I thought it would fall out, and all that filled me to the brim was guilt and panic over what I had just heard. I thought I wanted Ava to die so much all this time, but the moment I heard Carl say she killed herself, I felt a sharp pang in my heart and my stomach was churning.My eyes were wet as I kept forcing myself to doubt Carl's words. I don't want to believe Ava really gave up and killed herself. It sounds terrific to me, knowing fully well that I just caused her death."You dare to ask me if she is really dead? You are really funny. Is this the last prayer you should recite as
It wasn't long before I realized she was a demon, and now she just talked about taking over the pack. Was she talking about our pack? And why did she just make this statement now that Ava just died? Does it mean that Ava was the one holding her back all this time?Different scary thoughts kept running through my mind in a rush, making my breath hitch in my throat as I kept swallowing hard while staring at Aurora. She was smiling all the while, and those eyes that had always been cold and angry were now brightened, shimmering with excitement and victory.She was running with great speed without shifting into a wolf, and her demon scent was still hitting hard inside my nostrils. Her feet were as if they weren't touching the ground. Beneath her legs was something that looked like dark fog as she bolted through the forest path that leads to the royal palace. I was in her arms, but wasn't comfortable at all.Fear was eating me up, so I couldn't breathe again. Even as I found out that Ava w