“How…how can I call you by your name, your highness?”

Danielle tried to refute as she hesitantly voiced out her fears. She had no clue why the alpha wanted her to call his name. However by now she understood one thing that Cyrus was able to sense that she was in danger due to the mate mark. 

It allowed him to smell her scent and the gradual change in her emotions which in turn gave him a proper indication of her being stuck in some problem. After all, mate mark had its own perks and Cyrus was aware of them whereas Danielle had no clue what she had gotten.

"You are not supposed to counter question me. I demand you to say my name!"

The Alpha glared into her eyes while asserting his dominance as he appeared to be demanding her to say his name while giving a subtle hint. Cyrus was aware that Danielle was uncomfortable with the way he had been treating her. 

But he wished to hear his name from her lush lips which would give him satisfaction. While Danielle was unsure how to do that because ever since she had come to the kingdom Selene she had never heard the alpha’s name. 

That was why she could not say his name for being unaware about it, Danielle had no clue how to inquire or ask about his name. Upon seeing Danielle’s hesitance he repeated his demand and patiently waited for Danielle who in turn felt awkward due to the closeness. 

And the absurd demand scared her even more because nobody had ever dared to call the alpha by his name. Well not like Danielle was even aware of his name to begin with and Cyrus was aware of it deep down which made the whole situation enjoyable for him.

"But y- your highness, I don't know your n- name."

Danielle sounded hesitant when she uttered those words and that was the reaction which amused the alpha and he decided to tease her even more. Cyrus gripped her waist by applying slight pressure over her navel that this time she was tucked to his chest tightly and closely. He was aware that the possibility of Danielle not knowing his name was high because that information was limited to certain people. 

"Amusing! How bold of you to not know your master’s name!?" 

The Alpha Cyrus stared at her while intensely looking into her emerald eyes making Danielle gulp her fears. He chuckled towards her as Cyrus toyed with her hair lock and slyly threw all the blane at her that she was incompetent to not know the name of her master. 

Danielle could not afford to offend him upon knowing that she had done so many such fuck ups from the last night. Thus, she immediately grasped her senses and spoke again while admitting her mistake and slyly played with the words to get the answer too. 

"Pardon my lack of knowledge, my alpha. How could a lowly person like me be blessed with your highness' good name!?" 

Danielle lowered her gaze trying to pretend that she was ashamed upon not knowing his name. Whereas the alpha Cyrus was aware of what she just did and how a mere woman like Danielle was able to make him speak for the answer. 

This time Cyrus was genuinely impressed by her ways of tackling things and expected that Danielle might be able to fend for herself as long as she was there. Well, only if she survived within those four walls of horror and nightmares. 

"Wise words!"

Danielle was taken aback by how the alpha treated her sly move and reacted to it which was not what she expected as a reply. But she was also aware that something was surely wrong because there was no way that alpha Cyrus was unable to see through her tactics. 

Danielle wanted him to tell his name so she could potentially get to know it and make the opportunity fall under her favour. But instead of doing that Cyrus kept on holding the lady in the middle of the room by her waist and Danielle had no way to escape. The alpha’s intense and intimidating stare was making her uncomfortable because after whatever she had faced in just two days was more than enough for her. 

After all, facing near death and almost getting her blood and life force sucked, Danielle could not afford to try to escape from Cyrus or offend him. Well, finding a door to escape from Belle Morte and then hiding outside kingdom Selene, both things required perfect planning without failure which needed time. And in order to buy that Danielle must win the trust of the alpha that she would not run away or try to take her own life once again. 

Cyrus leaned in closer to her face when he recalled who she was and his treatment towards Danielle immediately changed. Although he had sent beta Curtis to find out about her past and the activities she had been doing in that brothel. Nonetheless, the very thought made the alpha despise her once again when he remembered how daringly Danielle tried to seduce him on the terrace last night. 

"I am elated that you already know your position. A lowly mere brothel whore shouldn't take my name with her filthy mouth which has dealt with multiple men." 

The Alpha boldly threw spiteful words at her as he pressed Danielle’s chin harder to make her hiss. Cyrus applied pressure on her slim waist making the woman uneasy due to his exceptional strength which was stronger than Danielle who had no wolf. 

Danielle was taken aback by the sudden change in his behaviour which did not make any sense to her. She felt insulted and disgraced for being something she was not, Danielle was not a sex worker but for mere dishwasher at the brothel. No doubt, she had to avoid getting intimate with the werewolves to keep her lethal touch secret to herself. 

She wished to speak to clarify her status at the brothel but it appeared that the misunderstanding was what made the alpha buy her in the first place instead of Martha. Danielle had no clue that she had been forced into a mate bond which was perhaps not her spot. 

It did not make any sense to her that why would the alpha Cyrus want to mark some sex worker after buying her from the brothel? Danielle felt that she had been brought there and marked on the basis of big misunderstanding. She was not supposed to be there at any cost, after hearing those words from Cyrus her determination to escape grew stronger. 

The Alpha was not sure how to process the fact which was his plain assumption that Danielle had been touched by someone else. It was all in her past but somehow Cyrus could not bring himself to forget that someone had kissed all over her body and definitely would have penetrated into her pussy too. 

Although the scents of werewolves faded after some time unless the two people had marked each other by biting which was considered the official pact. Having sex with someone was made null and void considering the possibilities of how people could abuse that. However, he was not able to grasp his mind around that thought and looked at Danielle with disgust. The woman stared back at him and gathered the courage to speak but before such could say anything Cyrus stormed out of the room. 

The shattered and half angry woman was left behind to collect her broken pieces of dignity which the Alpha had declared questionable. Danielle had no other choice but to decide her possible fate as soon as she could think something straight. Because Belle Morte was not a safe place for a weakling like her despite the fact that the alpha might be around to save her from dangers. But how many times? 

•••••••••••

The very night Lord Curus was immersed in his own reverie about Danielle while he was resting in his bedchamber. After all, her arrival at the Belle Morte was an unusual act since the alpha king never had any guests nor was anyone ever allowed to stay there. And on the top of that a wolfless dirty woman who was born as a sec slave was definitely not included in the list of those guests who might visit the castle on any occasion.

On the other hand his beta, Curtis was also equally confused about his master’s recent behaviour. He sat on the marble railing on the terrace right outside the alpha’s room. The same spot from where Danielle jumped down into the endless darkness valley. 

'What exactly is the master thinking?'

Curtis was caught in the thoughts too after he saw how his master had reacted to the emergence of Martha back there in the brothel. The rash act of getting angry over her presence and the sudden disappearance from the scene was not something Cyrus would have done in sane mind. 

Or that was perhaps an impulsively driven decision? 

'It is highly unusual how the master had reacted recklessly back there. And now he has bought that woman who is nothing but a weak wolfless baggage. It has never happened before. Is it possible that....!?'

The beta Curtis stood on the balcony while the alpha Cyrus sat on the chair back there in the room. His room had been oozing a dark aura which was inevitable due to the blood curse of Cyrus.

It was those deadly hours when nobody else was allowed into his bedchamber except his beta Curtis. Nobody knew why the time limit of those two hours was set, it was still a mystery to everyone working at the castle what used to happen each day in those two hours. 

The informant of the king could definitely feel the darkness coming from the room, the dark aura which had the tendency to ruin the whole damned kingdom was slowly crawling out of the room. But Curtis knew that everything should be fine soon that the alpha had found the cure in the form of Danielle’s touch. Even though she was wolfless the woman possessed some kind of healing which was exactly what Cyrus needed. 

'Is it possible that the master is in love with her? What!? That…that can't be possible!'

Curtis could not comprehend which was the truth since he never had seen Cyrus anxious at all. It was hard to cause an emotion in the alpha lord let alone making him uncomfortable about anything. Cyrus had never encountered a woman like Danielle before, she was an enigma, an exquisite beauty yet for some reason he despised her.

And now that one mere girl had driven the noble alpha lord crazy that he reacted harshly without considering the lives of other workers in the brothel. It made the beta Curtis reach that conclusion hurriedly which was specifically derived from his alpha’s recent behavioural changes. 

'Oh my goodness! it is impossible! How can the master fall in love with a slave?'

Curtis felt his head might explode with the thoughts which had been occupying him from yesterday, since he had no clue what had been going on in his alpha’s mind.

'No, no this can't be. I'm sure the master had brought her here for  her unique blood and touch. After all that's why he ordered me to kill Lord Hawthorne.'

The man assured himself that Cyrus had no hidden motive for bringing Danielle to Belle morte, but he could not deny Cyrus's harsh and weird reactions.

'Yes, yes. That can be the reason after all the master wanted to fund the cure to the curse. It's the only reason he would take a risk to keep a dangerous woman around him, when he knows the other half of the prophecy can kill us.'

Curtis shook his head and turned around as he focused on looking out of the balcony when he had already been sitting outside the bedchamber of Alpha Cyrus.

'Yes, yes I should not think of any such thing which can cost me my life!'

He tucked his hands on his butt while his glaring red eyes began to resume to look outside the castle. In front of him stood huge mountains and in the middle of them was the kingdom of Selene where Lord Cyrus had been ruling over a few years.

It was the previous king who was killed by the current lord and the werewolves made Selene their new homeland. And then Cyrus came there to conquer the kingdom when he killed the former alpha and seized the throne. 

And due to having Curtis as his beta in belonging which was rare among the werewolves themselves, Cyrus was immediately given the authority over the kingdom.

Meanwhile the whole kingdom and its people no matter human, rogues, wolfless or omegas had been sleeping peacefully knowing that having king Cyrus being the ruler no injustice would befall upon them. No matter how cruel he was, the man was still a just ruler and had kept his word of providing the safety and all rights to humans. 

Whereas in the bed chamber of the alpha, the man had been sitting, precisely floating over the floor that his silhouette was flying above the ground. A  visible wavey aura of red color had been surrounding him while a black snake like mist had been circulating Cyrus's body. 

'This can't be! How come she possesses that unusual blood and that scent which nobody else can detect!'

The king himself had no clue why Danielle had that aura which could drive him crazy whenever he grew closer to her body or touched her. This was supposed to be his cure but it appeared that Danielle was about to become his addiction. 

'She is definitely neither a human nor a wolf. And if she had been a mere human then her scent would have just attracted the commoner wolves who are appointed to protect them in the town.'

Of course, he had planted his men all around the kingdom Selene and there was no chance of anyone intruding. But what about the traitors inside?