FREYA’s POV ———————

Sitting in his room where he kept me, I looked out of the window with my eyes heavy with crying too much.

I couldn't believe everything that happened to me in the past few days of me knowing him. The rumors about werewolves are real, they are evil and bloodthirsty animals.

My father was right when he told me to avoid them at all cost, they had caused him a lot of pain.

From killing his mother to killing his mate and now kidnapping his daughter. Soon he will lose me to them and he couldn't do anything about it.

I wondered what he would be doing by now, he would probably be worried sick of me. He would believe I'm dead already by now.

I hated him so much that I would drive a dagger straight into his chest without a second thought.

I hated the fact that my body reacted to him in such a way and I wished I could stop it. My body definitely has a mind of its own.

I stayed at his place for three days but he wouldn’t allow me to go out of the room, talk more of stepping out of the house and it is killing me.

I wanted to jump down from the window but there were huge dogs under there giving me a feeling that he had placed them there to frighten me.

I looked down at them with contempt in my eyes wishing I had my sword with me.

I couldn’t do anything but wait for him to come to my room so I could ask him some questions.

As though, he was reading my mind, he opened the door filling the room with his powerful aura and I stood up immediately leaving the bed or any area he could trap me.

“Don't come any closer to me.” I said, rolling off the bed keeping my eyes on him at all times.

I won't let him get me when I was off guard, keeping my distance would give me the liberty to think.

He looked at me with hurt in his eyes but I rolled my eyes at him ignoring the sad expression in his eyes.

I haven't seen his face but I could tell he was incredibly handsome from his green eyes.

“Don't come close, stay where you are. I want to ask you a hundred questions and I want you to be honest.” I said, looking at him with anger in my eyes.

“Go on.” He said, looking at me with longing that made me question his sanity.

How can he claim to love me when he had made me go through, during the course of the past few days? He's definitely crazy.

“What are you and who are you? Why did you kidnap me? Where am I? And are you going to kill me?” I stopped, panting as I stared at him waiting for my answer.

“Out of the hundreds of questions in your mind, you only asked five questions. Freya, I might have brought you here without youe consent but l won't kill you no matter what you do.”

“You are my life and I can't do without you.” He said, waiting for a response but I stared at him blankly.

“I'm Damian, a lycan, I'm not a werewolf. Werewolves are beneath me. You are in the blood moon pack. And I can't let you go because I can't afford to lose you.” He said, walking towards me and I shrieked.

“Take me back, please. I don't want to die now, my father loves me so much.” I said, crying my eyes out.

“I'm sorry but I can't take you back just yet, you are mine and I will wait until you love me.” He said, I could see anger rushing through his veins at great speed.

“I want to go back, you are a monster. You can't force a woman to love you, especially not me.” I said, screaming as I held my head with my hands.

He finally removed his mask, and I beheld the most beautiful image right in front of me. He is so handsome that I felt ugly in his sight.

I swallowed a huge chunk of saliva at the sight of his face, why would he want someone like me when he could get others.

He walked towards me and I moved back wondering what he wanted to do to me.

“Please, I'm sorry if I said anything to annoy you. I will stay.” I blurted out the words that first popped in my head.

He looked at me with complete pain in his eyes.

“I won't hurt you Freya stop being scared of me. Take this.” He said, throwing a silver dagger to me.

I moved away from it and he smirked, raising his hands up in surrender.

I have heard about the silver dagger and I knew it was dangerous to wolves.

“What if I stab him with this and get myself out of this mess.”, I thought.

“You can stab me with that if you don't trust me. Silver dagger can't kill me since I'm a lycan king but it will keep me bedridden for weeks and you will have enough time to escape from me.” He said, soberly, looking at me confidently like I won't hurt him.

“You know I can stab you with this and be free right?” I asked, and he nodded.

Him nodding his head made it more scary for me to do as I almost went crazy in my head.

“Yes I know that and that's why I gave you something to protect yourself from me. It would hurt me but I would feel much better if you hurt me instead of me hurting you.” He smiled, and I looked at him in disbelief.

Stabbing him won't stop him from looking for me again but……it would stop him from getting me.

I didn’t want that, I wanted to be out of his sight completely.

“Thanks for ruining my life.” I said, and I stabbed myself with the dagger knowing fully well that I won't be able to survive it.

His face mortified with horror and fear as he ran to me pulling me to his arms.

“How dare you try to leave me, Freya? I would tear everything down.” He said, and there were fury flames in his eyes as he carried me up.

“I hate you.” I said, before falling into my death.

Chapter 6

DAMIAN’s POV

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“Maybe she needs more time alone”, I thought to myself as I watched her sleep from the CCTV screen that was connected to her room.

She slept peacefully and I couldn’t help but admire how calm she was, she always acted defensive towards me.

“Do you want me to get her for you, sir?”, Beta Stace asked me, and only then did I realize that I was staring at the screen for so long.

“No, don’t bother”, I said, putting the screen off. “Make sure she never gets to leave her room and ensure she is fed well”, I ordered as I moved to my desk.

“Yes sir”, Stace replied with his head down.

I stared at the picture frame on my desk; it was a picture of my late Mate and I, whom I lost to extinction.

I took a deep breath and muttered “trash this”

“Yes, sir”, Stace replied and bowed his head.

“Okay?”, I asked, I expected him to leave already to ensure that my order was being effected.

“It’s Alpha Lea, he wants to see you”

“Lea?”

“Yes sir”

“Let him in”, I said, as I picked a stick of tobacco from my desk.

“Okay, right away”

Stace walked out of the room and in no time, he was back, with Lea walking fearfully behind Stace.

“Good to see you, Lea. Care for a stick?”, I said, stretching forward the stick to him but he shook his head.

“You must know I hate been rejected, yes?”, I stared at him as my eyes pierced into his soul.

“So-sorry”, his voice trembled.

“You don’t have to be scared of me, you have fulfilled your own part of the bargain so I won’t hurt you”, I finally said, after staring at him.

He was getting soaked in his own tears and he looked like a lost puppy.

I didn’t feel a single empathy for him; a picture of my parents being murdered in cold blood by humans flashed through my mind which triggered me more.

He was mute and only bawled his eyes more.

“Why are you here?”, I yelled, angrily.

I was done seeing him bawl like a little baby.

Lea sneezed and managed to say “I have to get married to her”, he said, trembling.

“To who?”, I feigned oblivion.

“Freya”, he trembled, shutting his both eyes as if expecting me to react angrily but I didn’t respond.

“She’s mine and we already agreed to all these, and you have fulfilled your own end of the bargain”, I said, my voice got lower.

Not like I was scared or anything, I wasn’t even sure if Freya wanted me but all I knew was that she didn’t want this old looking man.

“B-but..”

He paused.

“Yes?”, I urged him to say more.

“My pack is being attacked by her father’s pack, they think I intentionally had their daughter abducted during our mating ceremony. I don’t know what to do”, he burst into tears “my life, my family, what my father had struggled to build and leave behind for me is about to crumble down and I can’t do anything about it”

“I will fix that for you”, I said.

His eyes lit up as I said these words.

“Will you?”, he asked, he probably wanted to be sure I wasn’t playing tricks on him.

I wouldn’t even do that.

“Yes, but under one condition”, I said and his face fell, I could read disappointment boldly written on his face.

“What is that, sir?”

I took a deep breath as I contemplated saying the words in my mind.

“Get me to meet her father on a good note, I don’t want to appear as a bad guy to him”, I finally said.

What did I just say? Was I seeking the validation of a HUMAN!?

This could only mean one thing- I was beginning to lose my powers.

I shook my head as I was almost drowned in my thoughts, I was brought back to reality when he said “Okay”

“You can go”, I said, ignoring his answer to my request.

He obediently left the room with no questions asked, even though it was evident on his face that he wanted to ask a series of them.

This is bad, it was already bad enough that I fell for her after losing my mate but now seeking her father’s validation.

“Stace”, I called.

“Sir!”

“We are leaving to the Water pack, I want to oversee the matters there”

“Okay, I will get everything ready so that by tomorrow we can leave as early as-”

I interjected “Now, we’re leaving now”

“Now? Okay, right away sir”, he accepted without thinking twice about it, I wasn’t one who liked being questioned.

I have the final say over the affairs.

Arriving at the water pack was more therapeutic and a complete break from the decisions I had made in the past days.

I was impressed by how matters had improved in the pack and more importantly was proud of Alpha Cun who I had placed in charge of the pack.

“What do I owe this your unexpected visit?”, his voice interrupted my thoughts.

I turned to face him and his head was already facing the ground.

“Nothing, I’m here to see how the pack is operating. You don’t have to pay much attention to me”, I said, waving him off.

“Okay, please let me know when you need me”

I nodded.

“I will leave you to it then”, he took a bow and strolled off.

Alpha Cun was one of the Alphas that I trusted so much. We spent a couple of days in the pack overseeing the matters in the pack.

One morning, Stace had come to me with a worried look on his face, bowing his head.

“There’s a problem in the pack”

“A problem? What’s that?”, I asked, taking a sip of wine from the glass in my hand before placing it on the table to give him my undivided attention.

“It’s Freya”, he said and for the first time, I felt my heart beat really hard.

What could have gone wrong with Freya, I thought as I allowed myself to get drowned in my thoughts.

“What’s wrong with Freya?”, I managed to ask.

“She tried to escape a couple of times and threatened to kill herself if they didn’t let her go”, he said.

On hearing this, I chuckled. Freya was a fierce lady and it made me even want her more. For a minute, I was jealous of those who got to see her in that mode, her fierce mode.

“We’re leaving to the pack today, pack our things”, I instructed,

“Okay, sir”, Stace nodded, bowing his head and he left the room, closing the door behind him.

“Oh, moon goddess”, I heaved a deep sigh and smiled.

I knew at that moment that I wanted nothing more than to see her, I had already spent days without seeing her and she already had a chance to think about it all again.

Stace shows up again “we are set to go sir”, he said.

“Okay, off we go then”

I stood up from the chair and we all left the pack.