His Prisoner

Chapter 16

I lick my lips as my false explanation comes to an end, hoping he would believe me I stare at him, strictly studying every individual emotion releasing off from his face. I let out a long-held sigh of relief when his eyes narrow down, accepting my words.

Puzzled, a second passed and he immediately looked up at me, "So...why didn't you say that before?" He asked, he didn't sound exactly right and this wasn't the solely question he wanted to ask from me.

Questions were stored in his metallic gray eyes and I was allowed to see and read most of them but I was forbidden to answer any of them.

"Well....Helen never asked from me and....yeah that's all." my swollen lips muttered, sounding weak like usual. Hoping he would be satisfied from my lies and just simply leave me alone for some.

"So did you meet the king....or any alpha. Because you had an alpha's scent on you before...a really strong one." He inquired, he glared at me from the corner of his flaming eyes.

My mouth went dry, worst than a desert, the water had long passed down my throat and now I was once again desperate for that water.

My excitement for peace was dissolved away when I repeated his snippy questions in my mind once again. I should I have at least showered before walking out of the castle, I must stink at this moment and with those alive red marks painted on my back, blank proof for my dreadful moments in the castle...more of with Erik. And his scent must have been all over me...oh god.

"Yeah I did." I said the truth because there was no way I could lie in this, hoping he wouldn't drag this topic, I looked down and started to swirl a piece of my clothes around my fingers.

A weird tight feeling started to gnarl up my stomach, I pulled the belt a little loose to stop this suffocation on my abdomen but it didn't.

"The castle?"

"Yes, only once." I replied, knowing exactly what he asked.

His face brightened up as rare spark of hope gushed in his eyes at the moment I answered his question.

"Really?" I shrugged.

"Did you meet the girl?" He asked. My fingers froze at the corner of my shirt, a scowl look appeared on my stiff face, dropping the clothing down I looked up in confusion.

"What?" His eyes undoubtedly hoped for an proper answer instead of a another question.

"The girl who killed the king-" instantly cutting him off when the word king drove in the blunt conversation.

"The girl has a name and she never killed anyone. It was her mother," I yelled, making it clear. My heart thumped with every truthful word I repeated from my lips.

My body relaxed when I finally said something true instead of constantly adding lies and burning my throat more than it has been already damaged. I sighed heavily, closing my eyes once again as tears collected around them.

Screaming to myself, I repeated two clear words in my mind. No weakness, no weakness, no weakness.

"Okay okay I'm sorry," he mumbled from my sudden attack. Inhaling in sharp, heavy breaths, I shook my head with extreme disappointment from myself.

Regret the way I said my words, I apologised. "I am sorry, I just-"

"Yeah yeah, do you know about her, did you meet her?" He asked. Sniffing his anticipation for my answer, I was left quite thrilled. Who would take that much interest in me?

"Yes I did. She is nice and also really good, she doesn't hurts anyone but everyone hurts her and she also loves someone but he doesn't love her back but I know he is lying." I said with a smile. Speaking of myself wasn't quite hard as I thought but I shouldn't have said anything about Erik.

He looks away when I finish, his eyes are depressed from what I just said. Wasn't I good enough to explain myself, maybe I should've told something much better about me.

"Why do you want to know?" I asked dumbfounded, should have has questioned this before he even asked anything about me. And how come strangers know about that girl-me. I had never stepped outside neither I have met anyone in my entire life...well except for greedy, selfless people....they are surrounded around me.

His lips tighten into to a thin line, his perfectly groomed eyebrows raise up, creases form around his forehead as he closes his eyes.

"I just...wanted to ask." He said after a long pause. Still not telling me the truth, I decided to repeat myself again, this time with a little more information.

"How do you know about her? She wasn't allowed to step out of the castle so how come anyone knows about her?" I spoke quietly.

My head started to throb from some uncertain reason, my crooked nails dug deep inside my skin of my scalp, brutally scratching the agony away.

I Instantly looked up when he laughed, "The whole world knows about that girl and what her mother did to the king." He said.

I never did anything...the gruesome screams in my mind only increased the pain.

"Yeah...yeah. Do you think she is bad? What do you guys think about her?" I asked about myself.

I wasn't ready to hear the answer at all because everyone around me sees me like I am the murderer, like I stabbed the king to death but I didn't, I was the one who was left behind and my mom was the one who successfully escaped from this society.

"My father was a great friend of henry, the moment he was murdered everything turned to the wrong path. Friends become enemies, my father was killed soon after that, there was a war between the humans and the wolves. It was never completed, no one ever won but after that day...basically everything was ruined....so you can imagine how much we despise that witch and her bitch." he explained.

A painful sting crawled up my heart when I heard his last words. The feeling of poisonous spiders violently digging their legs inside my heart spread across my body, I shivered in disgust, I was ashamed of my own soul.

I couldn't explain myself anymore so instead I asked something more important, I needed this to be answered immediately because I couldn't risk my self into another painful hole of darkness.

"What do you think will happen to her if she is free?"

"She'd be probably be dead the second anyone sees her whether it's a he or she, weak or strong, in one swipe moment she will be extinct. Trust me her ashes will also been never seen in the air." He stated, looking at me. I looked away because his words at this time were scaring the hell out me.

My fingers shivered with the rest of my body, I flinched when he continued. "That is why she is kept in the castle not even in the dungeon or a cellar because there are worst people living in there." He continued.

My throat tightened up and blocking most of the oxygen away, nearly drowning me to death...until he didn't continue.

"She should be thankful to the Erik because without him I am sure she would be rotten by now." He added, scaring me more and more. I never knew what everyone thought about me could be this horrifying and brutal.

And also I never knew Erik was protecting me from my death....

"What would you do to her if she was like standing next to you." I questioned. Waiting for his answer I started to count my irregular heartbeat from my wrist, the pulse raised by every second but his answer never came.

He face went silent, not even a single word he spoke about my question. "Hello," I waved my hand in front of his eyes, pulling him out of his imagination, he looked up at me and abruptly shook his head.

"I don't know..." He said.

"Nothing? You wouldn't kill her like everyone else?" I asked with a smile.

"No," I relieved after his unexpected answer, at least I was safe from one person in this world.

"Have you met her?" He licked his lips and nodded with a grin.

I choked on my own saliva while staring at his smile, what did he mean by that. Did he find out I was the one? I knew I shouldn't have asked so many weird questions about myself but I needed to get some information of how the world thinks about me.

"A long time ago....." He trailed off. Hello, when??? I am perfectly sure I haven't seen this person in my entire life.

"She was just three years old, when I saw her. I was ten, me and father went to the castle for the treaty with the wolves and that's when I saw her. Her mesmerising blue eyes, her baby skin and....everything about her was so innocent that I would believe her mother would do such dirty deed." He ended his lines with an angry look on his face.

The first few words were quite surprising for me. How do I not remember anything except for Erik.

For a moment he stared in my eyes like I was the only one, I could see endless love in his eyes but I could no longer keep looking at them or else I had to reveal myself which now had become impossible for me.

"What would you do to her if you saw her again?" I asked.

"I don't know..." he shrugged. "Maybe keep her safe.....or listen to everyone and kill her." He whispered in my ear, sending shivers down my body, every fibre of body quivered with his words. It's like he knew who I was but he moved back quickly.

"Why do you want to know about her?" He inquired suspiciously. I let out a breath when he asked that question at least it wasn't 'you are that girl right?'.

For a few seconds I keep muttering under my breath in loss of words but I finally spoke, "I met her and she looked sad so I wondered what happened to her."

His eyes once again dropped down depressingly as he nodded before getting up from the floor, a loud bang made its way into my ears, we both looked around for the voice to only see Helen walking inside.

The corner of her lips curved up into a smile as she shot daggers at me and him, never expecting us to talk especially after the first encounter with him.

"I was finding you everywhere and here you are. I thought you didn't like her?" she said, giving an fake confusion look at him.

"I still don't..I just wanted to make sure she wasn't any harm to us." He cleared his throat before speaking, sounding more manly rather that soft and sweet, he was a minute ago.

"Oh really? Well if you haven't noticed the train has stopped and it's a lot far from Lotrich so I texted Philip to come and pick us up....until then we are just staying in this motel at the corner." she spoke quickly, before her words could settle in my mind she spoke again but this time to me.

"Do you want to stay with us or-" before she could complete she was cut of by Theo.

"No she is staying here, it's too dangerous for her to be alone." he stated his opinion before rushing out of the room. Helen turned around shockingly, her mouth dropped open when she looked down at me.

"Did you just put a spell on him?" She asked, I smiled and shook my head.

Rage rushes through my veins as she pulls me up by my shoulders, every part of my dead body starts to feel alive....like I am finally living again but I don't know when this wild feeling is snatched away from me...as for now I know I am safe and secured but for how long....no one knows.