Kayla POV
I ran as fast as my legs could carry me. I knew I had to escape else, I could be killed just like the first prince had said. I rather kill myself than become a breeder for the royals who had ruined my life. I ran out of the royal home even though I had no idea where I was going, I knew that there was a turning back.
If I could get away from them then I would be able to rewrite my fate and help those who could fall victim like me. The shouts of the guards chasing after me echoed through the cold night but I didn’t stop. I managed to run around the gigantic mega-mansion and hide behind the trees hoping that I wouldn’t be caught and luckily for me, the sky was void of the moon.
‘’Find her!’’ I could hear the voices echoing in the dark near me and sooner or later, they would find me and if they did, then I was bound to face a quick death and all of my efforts would be for nothing.
‘’I have to escape,’’ I muttered to myself and turned to run away but I bumped into someone. I felt a surge of electricity through my body as I collided with the person. The unusual scents that I couldn’t describe filled my nostrils and I knew that I had collided with one of the princes or even worst, the first prince. The scent was appealing and I wondered which one of the princes was around me.
I could barely see anything but I felt his hands around my waist as he pulled me into his chest. He was not the first prince because I couldn’t smell blood on him and even though I couldn’t describe their smell, the way I reacted to them was quite different. With the first prince, I hated that he had touched me but with this prince whose face I couldn’t see, I liked that he has his hands around me.
‘’You are supposed to be serving my brother but you are out here escaping,’’ he whispered into my ears and chuckled lightly. His voice sounded flat with no emotions, unlike the first prince who had a husky voice that was hard to resist.
‘’your highness,’’ Someone spoke beside him in a silvery tone. I had no idea that he was around us because the prince was close to me. ‘’She had escaped and according to what I heard from the information passed across through the mind linking, she had stabbed the crown prince in the neck!’’
Mindlinking? The royals were lucky to be able to use mind linking unlike us who had no wolves and it was shocking to know that they had sent messages across so fast.
‘’You seem so different from all the rest of the girls and I wondered why you are trying to escape when you can’t even get away from this place! Ace must have gone pretty soft for you to escape him like that’’ The prince chuckled and then let go of my waist pushing me away from him. It was then that I noticed and heard the footsteps heading toward us and the flashlight pointing in our direction.
The royal guards had found me and it was because of this prince. If not for him, I would have run away and maybe rewritten my fate just like I wanted. ‘’Prince Liam,’’ The royal guards bowed their heads as they reached our side.
At the mention of the prince’s name, I turned around and realized that he was the third prince. The flashlight shone on his face and for a moment, I took my time to stare at him. Just like the rest of his brothers, he wore a stoic look that made me want to crawl away from him.
How did hell was I even mated to them? This was the way of the moon goddess to punish me because I couldn’t protect my pack and none of the princes had even acknowledged me as their mate. It made me wonder if it was because I was a rankless wolf or if they don’t want their pride and names tainted.
‘’Take her,’’ The prince said and turned to leave but I moved to his front before he could and spread my hands wide stopping him from walking any further.
‘’How dare you stop the royal prince!’’His guard shouted at me and tried to push me out of the way but the prince stopped him.
‘’what is it, little breeder?’’
‘’little breeder?’’ I scoffed. ‘’I thought that you were going to help me but instead, you pushed me into danger!’’ I yelled at him not scared that he was a prince. I had done much more to the extent of stabbing the first prince in the neck so I didn't care about the outcome of shouting at one. ‘’I see how you all act all big with no remorse for your actions! Werewolves are dying because of the royal's orders and…..’’
‘’And what?’’ he moved closer to me and lowered his head to my ears. ‘’if you had just kept quiet without causing any problems then you could have died a silent death but you prove to be different and now, you are going to risk the lives of those around you!’’The prince chuckled as he walked past me. ‘’what do I expect from a foolish rankless wolf?’’ he scoffed as he walked away.
I remained where I stood thinking about what he had told me. ‘’you are going to risk the lives of those around you!’’ His words resounded in my head as I was dragged back into the building. I was taken down a long hallway and they stopped when we reached the front of a door made of silver. I noticed that Lady Kira and the priestess were at the front of the door waiting for me.
‘’how dare you!’’ lady Kira's annoying, high-pitched voice sounded as she moved towards me. With a raise of her hand, my face was whipped to the other side and she grabbed the remaining piece of my clothes and tore it in fury. I was practically naked before but now, I was completely naked.
I used my hands to cover my breast and private area because the guards were around us. Lady Kira didn’t care about that but instead, she was focused on the sin that I had committed. ‘’how dare you act on your own to the extent of stabbing the crown prince in the neck!’’ she grabbed a handful of my hair and pushed me against the wall. ‘’if you had just laid down and played dead then it would be all over before you know it!’’
‘’All over?’’ I bite my lower lips enough to draw blood. Even though I was slammed against the wall naked and being watched by the perverted Guards, I didn’t let it stop me from speaking my mind. ‘’if you know how to play dead then I guess you could have acted in my stead. You could have become a breeder in my stead!’’
Lady Kira burst into laughter and slammed my head against the wall. ‘’you stupid wolf!’’
For a moment, I couldn’t see anything and I heard a bell ringing in my ears. I had thought that my skull was damaged and I was going to die but after a few seconds, my vision became clearer and I could feel the warm liquid from my forehead trailing down my lips followed by a splitting headache.
‘’Lady Kira!’’ The priestess shouted her name. ‘’she is the prince's breeder and we need her in good condition so I plead that you don’t play rough with her,’’ she warned.
‘’Don’t tell me what to do priestess! You know how the Luna Queen is and I could be punished for not properly taming her.’’ Lady Kira retorted and grabbed a handful of my hair and turned me around to face her. ‘’how dare you!’’
‘’what the hell did I do so wrong!’’ I yelled back at her. ‘’I don’t want to be their breeder! Find someone else to do it,’’ I told her and yanked her hand from my hair. ‘’I am ready for any punishment since it is what the royals are good at,’’ I grinned at her and spat out my blood. ‘’I don’t regrets stabbing the royal prince because he deserved it and they all deserved to be killed!’’
Another slap resounded in the hallways and this time, it was the high priestess's hand that made contact with my face.
I faced her with tears welled up in my eyes and ready to spill out but I held it back in by biting my lower lips.
‘’stop acting like a child! This is your destiny! You can’t escape it.’’
‘’if being a useless breeder for the princes is my destiny then I rather die!’’
‘’it is such a shame that those who act like they have backup are always the first to die a shameless death!’’ Lady Kira laughed out loud. ‘’if you have any shame…’’
‘’shame? I don’t have any!’’
Lady Kira laughed and wrapped her hands around my throat. Her grip was pretty tight and enough to choke me to death but I didn’t flinched and kept a straight face. I was never going to allow the enemy to know my weakness.
‘’seeing you acting tough like this makes me wonder if you had forgotten about your mother!’’
My eyes widened at the sudden realization that my mother was at the royal home. I had forgotten about her and thought about only myself. The tears that I had been holding streamed down my face at the mention of my mother.
‘’my…mother. where she is?''
Lady Kira lets go of my neck and beckoned to the guards around us. They walked to the silver door and opened it without touching the handle. When I saw the inside of the room, I gasped and grabbed Lady Kira’s hand.
‘’no! ‘’ I shook my head as I was dragged towards the room. The room was covered in silver known to be lethal to werewolves. I wondered why they would go through such extremes. Dying was much better than staying in a room with silver. ‘’kill me instead,’’ I yelled as I was pushed into the room.
‘’I thought you were tough but you are only acting as if you are,’’ Lady Kira rolled her eyes. She stood at the entrance of the room and grinned wickedly at me. ‘’I wondered what you were thinking when you stabbed the prince. Anyways,’’ she cleared her throat. ‘’The Alpha king has released his orders and that is to kill your mother!’’ she announced.
‘’My mother?’’ I stopped crying and moved towards the silver but it was shut in my face. ‘’wait!’’ I screamed and hit my hand on the door paying no attention to the pain that comes with touching the silver door. ‘’wait!’’
I heard Lady Kira laugh outside the door and then she said, ‘’Don’t worry, you won’t die from the silver as they are not toxic but I hope you learn your lesson once your mother dies in front of you tomorrow!’’
‘’wait!’’ I continuously hit my hand on the door but I got no response instead, I heard the footsteps receding as they all walked away. ‘’wait!’’ I continued to scream while hitting the door. My palm had turned red and was extremely painful from touching the silver forming a large bruise. ‘’Mother!’’ I stopped hitting the door knowing that it was useless and no one was coming for me but I couldn’t stop thinking about my mother. how could I have been so selfish by forgetting about her?
Because of me, she was going to die.
''How could I not remember my mother!'' I hit the ground and let the tears stream down my face but they were not enough for me to express how I felt and so, I shouted at the top of my lungs hoping that I could be heard and maybe a miracle would happen even though I don't believe in such.
‘’Please,’’ I cried as I clutched my chest. ‘’please,’’ I muttered and lay on the silver floor not scared of the pain because I was used to it.