RUNNING FROM THE LYCAN KING WITH HIS TRIPLETS

CHAPTER 2

Chapter 2

Hernandez fell on his face as he realized who threatened his life. "Forgive my insolence, my Lord," he implored, shaking like a leaf as he spoke.

Instead of a response from the deadly man, a fat sack fell from Hernandez's head with metals jiggling in it. "500 gold coins. It's the only thing I will offer for the girl," the man said with a voice so powerful that even if Hernandez wanted to reject it, he would think twice. He then stepped forward and stared into Hernandez's eyes, a silent message of 'no negotiation' hanging in the air between them.

Hernandez shot up his head because he was appalled by what he was saying. "500 gold coins?" he asked as though he was deaf when the man said it.

He felt a foot crushing his head into the mud which caused him to start trawling his hands due to lack of breath. He desperately clawed at the dirt in a desperate attempt to escape, but he was completely powerless against the crushing weight.

Janet fell on her knees and clasped her palms together pleadingly. "Forgive my husband, my Lord. He didn't mean to offend you, he was just shocked by the girl's price. She doesn't worth that much, my Lord."

"Hahaha..." The man erupted in surplus laughter that his men joined in. Then he lifted his feet from the head of the barely breathing Hernandez and looked at Aurora with his head tilted with a wicked, taunting smile on his face. "Hear that? Your mama doesn't think you are worth that much."

Aurora also shared the same reasoning with her parents. However, that was not what left her frozen on the spot but the realization that she was sold. She stared at thin air, frozen in shock. However, she was brought back to reality when the sound of her mother's cheek being assaulted reached her ears.

"How dare you, a common lowborn human," the assaulter started but paused to spit on Janet's face with pure disgust on his scarred face, "a worthless w***e like you speak to the most divinely lycan king?!" The brood-chested man raised his voice on Janet.

Aurora subconsciously looked at her feet afraid of getting caught staring at the declared Lycan king. Her legs shake under her dress. The urine she had been holding all this while dropped a few times in her undergarments as fear tightened its grip on her bladder. Her heart pounded so loud that all the Lycans looked her way, drawing unnecessary attention to her.

"Kareem, do not frighten my new pet like that. Leave her mother to be," the devilishly handsome said, eyes still fixated on Aurora. He smiled at Aurora, his fangs glinting. "Let us leave, my sweet," he said in a low voice. "I promise you will be safe with me."

Poor Aurora wanted to be anywhere but here. Since the man started speaking to her she could not lift her head out of fear that she would see another monster.

She didn't mind being confined to the pig pen with those flesh-eating pigs her parents had. Anywhere is better than this place. She had been locked up numerous times by her siblings and the experience was always life threatening. Never in her wildest nightmare did she think she would wish to be willingly locked up?

She also never anticipated that her parents' hatred would drive them to sell her to lycans who were practically beasts. She knew nothing about their kind but the few things she knew were enough for her to know that she is doomed.

She had heard of parents selling off their stubborn daughters to the Lycans and never hearing from them again. She tried her wits not to be stubborn but it seemed she had failed because the sale was already done.

What she didn't know was that the Lycan king never received his human slaves himself but this one was special. Even before their carriage stopped he was already here waiting for her. This is because his witch told him that she was the one, the one that would finally fulfill his innermost desire.

Hernandez's face was covered in mud but he was much better. He emerged from the mire, relieved the ordeal was almost over. He picked up the sack the lycan king threw at him and hugged it to his chest. "Thank you, my Lord, you are too kind," he bowed several times in appreciation.

Aurora's gaze moved to her father who was bent like a lizard. She looked at her mother and the same look of gratitude was on her face. She didn't know when she sneered. She didn't care if it angered the Lycans, she was too broken to care. Streams of tears poured from her eyes, each droplet trailing closely behind the other.

She knew her parents and siblings hated her but the worst thing she expected they would do to her was marry her off to some old gizzard and not sell her to a beast that would feast on her flesh.

She had always been seen as a curse since she could remember. She was constantly maltreated by her parents and siblings but because she felt she was indeed a curse, she never complained.

Her partners weren't financially stable but they were farmers so food was not a problem for them Aurora suffered from malnutrition it was later her mother started feeding her well even more than the rest of the family, then she thought her mother was changing. How wrong she was.

She was just fattened for slaughter. At this point, she already accepted her fate, she was sold by her parents for 500 gold coins, not once in her miserable life did she expect it to be worth that much. She smiled at herself in self-mockery assuring herself that her life was not as worthless as her parents said it was.

With the gold they got, they could afford to move to a big city and live comfortably. They didn't deserve it but to her, her older brother who was the only member of the family yet to be corrupted would have a blissful life. He wouldn't need to be manipulated into hating her since she is dead.

"It is already dark out, you and your wife are invited to spend the night in my palace," the lycan king smiled perfunctorily. Even though he had no reason to entertain them, the lycan king offered hospitality to the couple, something he rarely does.