The Hollow Alpha

Chapter Six

A day after Lord Xavier’s birthday party I waited for Alpha Rocco exactly where he asked me to wait for him but he never showed up. After waiting aimlessly for hours, I finally left feeling so devasted. “What was I expecting? He clearly told me not to get my hopes high”

From there I went straight my old house, I’ve been so scared to go back there because I thought I would see bones and all that but to my surprise, I saw nothing like that. “What could have happened to their body?” I asked as I kept walking round the compound. I went to the backyard and it was no longer the backyard that I and my siblings used to play in, it had been turned into a cemetery, I walked around for a while before I found the tombstone that had my mum’s name and next to it was my dad but I couldn’t find where my siblings and best friend were been buried because there were a lot of nameless tombs there.

I sat in between my parent’s tomb, crying so bitterly, hoping and praying that they are now in a much better place than this cruel world. Begging them to come take me with them because I was tired of been here and I missed them so badly. I just kept on reminiscing the good old days, at a point I began to hear our laughter, I could hear me bickering with my younger siblings. “If only I could take back the hand of time, I wouldn’t have requested that they throw me that dumb ass birthday party, if not for that stupid party, they would all still been alive” I said letting out a loud cry.

“Who’s there?” I heard someone ask and I quicky got up to my feet and went to hide somewhere.

Few minutes later, I heard footsteps drawing closer to where I was hiding. They kept asking who was there but I kept quiet. All I wanted was to get a look at the faces of these guys that seemed to have moved into my home.

“Could it be Alpha Alexander’s oldest daughter? I heard she is still alive” one of the guys asked leaving me in awe “Like how did he find out that am still alive?” I thought to myself.

“No, that can’t be possible, I personally slayed her with my sword” the second guy replied.

“What if she survived it?”

“There is no way anyone can survive that kind of injury not to talk of a teen”

“But I am very sure of what I heard, she is still alive”

“That person must be drunk or something”

“Let’s leave here, I don’t like the energy around here”

“Me too” the second one said as they both left.

I stood and watched the guys leave, “This can’t be happening, I know that I’ve always wanted to find out the killers of my family but I never expected to find them here, like how heartless could these guys be? Lie they killed the house owners just to occupy the house, noooo, that can’t be the reason” I said to myself before leaving the place.

“Come back here” I heard someone scream at me immediately I stepped out of the gate. I quickly started running into the woods and the person continued running after me till I got to a dead end.

“You should have just stopped when I asked to you to” the guy said as he kept coming closer to me. “What are going to do now?” he asked in a mocking tone. “It’s either you jump or you come with me now that I’m asking nicely”

“What do you want from me?”

“You are about to find that out” he said, carried me up and placed me on his shoulder.

“Let me go!!!” I kept screaming and kicking him nonstop. He puts me down and gives a really resounding slap that left me speechless for a few seconds.

He put me back on his shoulder and took me back to my family house. When we got inside, he dropped me on the floor and in between two other hefty looking guys.

“I found her lurking around this compound” the guy said as he picked up a rope and tied my hands at my back.

“What do you want from me” I asked trembling.

“Who are you? And what were you doing here?”

“I was just passing by; I didn’t even come inside the compound”

“This little brat thinks I’m here to play games” he angrily said after hitting me really hard on the head. I fell down and he pulled me back up.

“Bro are you sure she was in this premises?” another guy asked

“I clearly saw her leave the compound and immediately I called out to her she began to run” he said in his defense.

“What were you doing here?” he asked again, this time in a fiercer tone.

“I was only passing by”

“Where are you from?”

“I’m from the Dark Moon Pack”

“And whose daughter are you?”

“I really don’t know, I’m an orphan and I’m Lady Charlotte’s personal maid”

“You are Lady Charlotte’s personal maid and you wondered off alone by this time of the day”

“I literally got lost and that is how I ended up here”

“This girl must think we are fools” the guy that brought me in said. “By the time I go out and come back, if you don’t start talking, believe when I say that you will not leave this place alive” he said and stormed out.

“Please help me out, I didn’t do anything wrong” I said to the other guys seated there.

“That’s for him to decide, we have no business with you” one of them said, got up to leave while the last guy followed suit.

After a few minutes the first guy comes back in and immediately a million and one things started running through my head. “What if he went to bring what he would use to end my life? Why did I even come here in the first place? My mum would be so disappointed that even after I got a second chance to live, I still ended up getting myself killed.”

“How are you related to Alpha Alexander and his wife?” he asked as he sat down opposite me.

“I don’t even know who that is” I lied

“What did you say?” he asked pulling my hair really hard

“I said I don’t know who they are” I said while struggling to set myself free from his strong grip which only made the pain worse.

“Then who placed a flower on their tomb?”

“I really don’t know”

“Young lady you better start talking now that I’m being nice to you”

“I really don’t know who they are neither do I know who placed a flower on their tomb.”

“If you say so” he said and got up and untied the rope that was on my wrist.

“Thank you so much” I said, thinking that he was finally letting me go.

“Not so soon” he said and pulled me by hair to one corner of the living room. I still couldn’t believe that they converted this living room that used to look like paradise into an unrecognizable mess.

He spreads my two arms and ties them to each end of the hanging pole.

“Why are you doing this to me?” I asked crying so hard and begging him to set me free

“You will be hanging there till you decide to tell me what I want to hear he said and stormed out.”

It’s been two days and my hands are still hanging up here, I haven’t had even an atom of food and water, the guys only come in to ask me the same question and each time I denied, he would hit me to his satisfaction before leaving to come back few hours later. Honestly at this rate, I really don’t see myself being alive for more than twenty-four hours.

I was so exhausted to even think straight, my vision was already becoming blurry, my throat felt so dry and hot, I could feel the worms in stomach already feasting on each other due to lack of food. At this point all I wanted was this guy to just kill me and end this torture for me because I could no longer bear it.

He walks in few minutes later, picks up one of the dinning chairs, places it in front me and seat like he usually does whenever he come in to see me.

“What do I have to do for you to kill me?” I managed to ask

“Kill you? I have absolutely no intention of doing such”

“You think at this rate that I’ll be alive for more twenty-four hours?”

“You don’t have to worry, I’m not here to hit or torture you, I’m here to feed you”

“What’s the need? So that you’ll keep hitting and torturing me?”

“Exactly”

“Please just let me go or just kill me”

“I’m sorry love, but I can’t do any of the two”

“Why wasting time? Just end my life now, I know it’s nothing to you and your friends. You all massacred an entire clan, so why can’t you kill me and let your work be done here” I angrily said

“Now you are talking, I knew you weren’t from the Dark Moon Pack”

“Who asked you to do it? My father was literally the nicest man to ever live on the surface of this earth”

“So you are an Alpha? This is really getting better than I expected, so tell me how did you manage to escape?”

“Who asked you to kill my father?”

“I was only doing my job”

“Who sent you”

“Girl take it easy, you be sounding like an investigator”

“I really want to know”

“Why, you’ll soon be dead so that piece of information is totally useless”

“That’s the more reason why I want to know”

“If you insist, the person behind it is Lord……” then there was a gunshot, someone just shot the guy as he was about confessing,

“No no no no!!!!!” I screamed as my voice could permit. “You can’t just die like that” I said as I watched the guy take his last breath in his own pool of blood. “Why is all these happening to me?” I asked crying so bitterly.