Amelia POV.

Father and Mia were dragged away from me and all efforts I put in to try and get to them proved futile when Asher grabbed my head and pulled me to my feet.

“I want you to watch them die, so you can feel what I feel seeing my mother dead” he whispered and my eyes widened as tears fell down my cheeks over and over again like a waterfall.

“I didn't do it” I tried to tell him but he sent a sharp slap straight to my face and I yelped.

“Amelia” father cried out from some distance before me and my eyes met with his, he didn't cry. He just stared at me and then at Asher before he returned his gaze to mine.

A minute and he cracked, his eyes watering before he gave me a small smile and my heart broke.

Mia struggled hard with her bindings and her captors but she was no match for them and I felt my heartbeat start to slow as what was to come next began to dawn on me.

“N-no..” I whispered as they were brought to the chopping block and their heads were put together, my eyes met the sharp edges of the butcher knife above their heads.

The small lights from the cabins around reflecting from it, a cloud of dread seeped into my heart. My breath catching after Asher gave a signal for them to start.

“Don't do this, I'll do anything. Please don't do this. Take me instead, kill me instead” I begged, my voice hoarse as I teied to leave his hold and run to them but couldn't.

He pulled me back, turning my head to face his before he sent another slap I to my cheeks again but I couldn't feel it anymore, all I could see was my father and Mia sitting on the chopping block like some sort of animal that couldn't die under a sword or dagger and needed this to bring them to heel.

“You will watch, and you will feel what you made me feel” he said with certainty, his nose red and then he turned my head to the scene.

Dad had already resigned t his fate but moan was sobbing continuously and her eyes met mine again and again. Shifting from mine to the butcher knife.

“No, please” I pleaded once again but they cut off the rope and I had just a split second to dash forward and Asher let me go with a cruel laugh.

I fell to my knees as the butcher knife fell straight down to them, ripping off their heads from their body at the same time.

For a moment, time seemed to slow down and I knelt there with disbelief but then their heads tumbled down to the ground before me and I stumbled backwards, falling to my ass.

As a scream of pain tore through my mouth. “Father. Mia” I rushed forward and before I could grab their head, Asher kicked them away from my reaching hands.

“N-no” I pleaded as I tried to reach for them once again but his foot stomped down on my hands and pinned my hands to the ground.

Pain filled my hands from the action as he kept grinding my hands to the ground, screams after screams left my lips as my eyes met those of Mia.

She hadn't had the time to close her eyes and I could still see the look of disbelief and shock and terror in her eyes before the butcher knife has taken her away from me.

Father's eyes was closed, he must have accepted his fate.

No.

I screamed, and wailed. No longer feeling the pain from my hands anymore as I tried to go to them once again.

“Take the bitch out of here” I barely heard Asher give out that order before I was grabbed roughly and they began to take me away from them.

“Let me go” I cried, flailing my hands as I tried to go back to my father and Mia, I caught sight of Asher as he stared at me.

And what I saw in those depths made me almost crumple to pieces and die right there and then.

He smiled at me, his eyes full of glee.

What?.

He walked behind me as I was pulled away and sometime to the border, I had stopped screaming and was now in silence as I fought to accept and comprehend what had just happened to me.

How did I get into this situation? It had been so hasty that I still couldn't understand or believe that it had happened.

This could all be just one big bad dream, but the next moment I was thrown roughly to the ground and my head collided hard with the ground.

I cried out as pain flared from the spot and I grabbed it only to find blood seeping out from it.

“Oh dear” Asher's voice filled my ears as he came out bend down before my face and I lunged at him, hoping to kill him but he swatted me away like a Bug.

His punch to my jaw cracking it and I cried out as I used my hands to shield my head from touching the ground again but I had forgotten what was done to the hands and that action had me screaming with double the pain.

He laughed, cruel and cold.”You just happened to be there. I know but I need to set an example and weed out potential thorns to my flesh for my throne. It's not personal” he whispered and my eyes widened as he stood to his feet.

He has killed father because he was somehow a thorn to his throne? I didn't understand what he meant by those words at all.

“W-”

“Throw her out of the pack, if anyone tries to help her then throw that person out too” he ordered and took some steps back as I was grabbed once again and pulled away.

My eyes met with his as I was, my body somehow beginning to go numb as they pulled me to the border of the pack and before I could think, I was pushed out.

Another snapping filled my ears and I felt for the bond connecting me to the pack only to find that it had been broken.

“No” this couldn't be happening to me at all.

Asher gave me a small look before he turned around and strode away like I meant absolutely nothing to him.

“I will kill you” I screamed loudly but he merely shook his head, not even sparing me any look before he disappeared into tje woods completely.

Father… Mia. What had I done?.