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He stirred and by the way he was feeling, he knew he had displayed his madness. He sat up and touched his forehead. He frieked when he saw the figure on the settee
Elrani, how did she get out?
He see’s the flute and he knew that she had saved him again.
“Aren’t you scared of death”
“I lost that the day you tore my brothers apart in my presence”
He looked at her
He’s killed her siblings and here she is, helping him, saving him. Why is she doing it?. Does she have a reason why she’s here. He stood up and walked up to her
Is the L mark real
“Are you stupid Lervian, of course it’s real”
“But it’s too early”
“who cares, it’s turned golden”
He bent and gently raised up her skirt. Even if she felt it, she didn’t react.
“Do you want to rape her”
“what!, No. I’m not a bad person”
Vicenzo scoffs
“Says Mr Lervian”
He examined and admired the mark
“you like it”
“shh, she’s asleep”
“you like her, admit it”
Lervian almost slapped himself
“You will only hurt yourself”
“Will you just shut it”
He stands up and goes to get a blanket
“I thought you wanted her in a cage”
“I’m protecting her”
Vicenzo almost scoffed
“I’ll want my woman beside me not in a cage”
“Don’t blame me”
“I blame you quite alright”
“suite yourself”
He goes to cover her with a blanket before going to his office
“What are we going to about Azra”
“I need 10 more of her pictures to get her location”
“don’t you think she’s in this castle”
“where”
“I don’t know”
“I can’t have a vision of her if i don’t get 20 different pictures of her”
and you have only 10. Where do we find the rest. Azra isn’t someone that walks the street, she’s a spirit
“I know but I won’t give up, i will not give up”
The next day
She rolled and smiled
Soft, thick
“when you done romancing my bed, get up and get out”
She then remembered where she was. She sat up
“How are you feeling”
“what are you doing in my room”
“alpha mother said that I should look after you”
“Didn’t you see my wife, wasn’t Adarna there?”
She stood up
“I only followed orders”
“or you took a chance to seduce me again”
“I know you’re an ungrateful SOB but my B means beauty. I’ll return to my iron containment. You can turn into a scarecrow for all I care”
She left.
He wanted to call her back but he had to hold himself.
She met Adarna on her way to the cage
“Do you think he’ll let you stay on his bed after all the stunts you pulled?. Soon, he’ll kick you out not caring about the L on your thigh” she says and walked away
I want to remove those lips and make a sauce for crows. May the goddess have mercy, cause I will so beat her.
She kept on walking but a door caught her attention. The 'A' on it signifies “Alpha”
Is this his office
She went over and pushed it open
“I was right”
She admired it
“Wow, this guy has taste in designs”
She looked at the pictures on the wall
“Queen mother, the late Alpha king, Sven, Lervian”
She smiled at the family picture and moved on to the board where pictures where pinned.
The lady looks the same but In different location and attire
She ran her hands on the pictures
Who is this?
She counted the pictures and it was ten. When she placed her whole finger on a picture, she had a vision of Azra.
What was that
She did it again and saw her lighting candles
The woman in the pictures
She placed a hand on each of the pictures and saw her placing a picture of Lervian in a bowl then she cleaned her bleeding nose.
A ritual, she wants to start a ritual
Why is he gathering this woman’s picture?, Who is she to him?, Why is she about to perform a ritual on him?.
She placed her hand again and saw her coughing out blood
She’s bleeding, she’s in pain
Blood began to trip down Elrani’s nose and she removed her hand and wiped it off
“Stop using my vision, Elrani, it’s affecting you”
“I know”
She was about to unpin one when a growl stopped her. She turned and came face to face with the devil.
What she didn’t know is that he’s been watching her for a while before letting out a growl so that she won’t go further. Vicenzo felt her pain and told him consequences if Elrani uses the vision without shifting into Alena.
“what are you doing here”
“Who is she”
“None of your business”
“I need to know”
“Why?, do you care”
“stop”
She snapped at him
“I just saw that same lady about to perform a ritual on your picture”
“She saw Azra, Vicenzo. She saw Azra without using more than 2 pictures”
“I told you, she’s our Angel”
“But Sven..”
“That’s a sucker and you know that”
All through the exchange, he didn’t show any reaction to Elrani
“Guards”
They came in
“Take my prisoner back to her cage”
“Yes, your majesty”
They took her away and he turned to the picture
“You are using a ritual to torment me”
Azra coughs as she fell to the floor. She can’t perform another ritual in this condition, she needs to heal or she’ll die. She can’t use her powers, she’s starting to grow weak.
Summoning the 42 demonic bodies will take a lot of power and she’s been doing it for five years without a bounce back. But now, another magic has risen against her and no one needs to tell her that’s it’s a white witch magic cause she knows. She and the witch elders wiped them all out. All the white witches were killed and no one escaped.
Now, there’s one out there that is working against her and she won’t go down without a fight.
Azra has been the omnipotent dark witch cause she was born during an eclipse, even the elders respected her. They’ve been creating terror and wrecking havoc for decades, trying to prove how powerful they are. They wanted to be great and the only ones standing, they took down the white witches at their vulnerable moment.
Then, the vampires, bats and demons, having the wolves as the last magical creature alive. They launched war at them and that took the life of the Alpha king and his brother. At that point, Lervian was just 4yrs old and Sven was in their mother’s womb but the wolves didn’t let the witches go without leaving their paws on their lifes.
After that, Azra led the witches again and they attacked the wolves in a fuller force. Elrani knew that the only way to weaken the witches was to spill a strange blood on the elder's altar and she gave her blood for that. This destroyed the altar and all the witches but it’s effect wasn’t so much on Azra but it took most of her powers. She bounced back on Lervian by using her last power to summon the elemental demons on him and that made her more of a spirit than a human.
“This is where we all stay”
“Its really hidden, it’s hard to notice”
“yeah”
“Let’s go please”
“yes, sure”
He led her to where the people always gather and blew a whistle
“Mother, Mateo is here”
Wolves of different colors came out instead
“Calm down people, it’s just alpha mother”
Alpha mother could spot Amihan's wolf amongst all of them. The wolves went back into their huts.
After a while, humans came out
“Amihan”
“Alpha mother”
Alpha mother dropped her staff and went to hug her. The people were shocked cause they know that the Alpha mother will only drop her staff in front of a woman if she’s the next Alpha mother. So, that means, Amihan is the next Alpha mother. Mateo spotted Arla, she was hiding
Arla, my Arla
Arla chuckled when she noticed that he’s seen her
“when was the last time you entered this office”
“Gary, don’t mock me, you’re my beta and the only friend that didn’t run from me”
“Cause I’ve wiped your ass so many times”
“She saw her”
“Who”
“Elrani, the girl I told you about”
“Your mate”
“Shush it”
“already doing it”
“She placed her hand on those pictures and she saw Azra”
“and how did you know that”
He groaned
“she told me”
“you locked your woman, your real wife, your Luna, your mate in a cage that was created for you”
“I had no other choice”
“you do Vian, you do”
“I can’t make her known to the world”
“Crescent already knows that you have done what was supposed to be the last as first with your mate”
“she had me under a spell”
Gary laughs
“spell!” he laughed again “you can do better, Vian”
“I’m serious”
“that’s the dumbest excuse I’ve ever heard”
“Look, I want her safe, I really do”
“then make her known. Show them all that you can handle your life better than what they all see”
“Everything and everyone wants to kill me. To my people, I am the enemy”
“prove to them that you can be the king they’ve once loved, the king they’ve always known. Prove to them that Lervian is in there. The playful, taunting and pissing off Lervian who will eat my food and hand me the plates. With so much guts, he will ask me for more and won’t brush his teeth until his mother gets a whip.
Show them the Lervian i know, the one I grew up with, the one I trained with to be a good ruler for crescent. Not the beast that woke up five years ago”
“I’m sorry”
Gary huffs
“This is no time to be a cry baby, man up. Azra is using blood to bewitch you, she’s sacrificing against you”
“Yeah”
“you have to bring your Luna up and find her”
“Not yet, I don’t want her in that position yet”
“Then make her comfortable in the position that she is, change her position and make her feel at home”
He nodded
“I’ll need a new cage”
“Again!”
“no, not a cage like a cage but a cage like my cage”
“So where will it be situated”
“in my heart, I’m going to cage Elrani in my heart”
Gary smiled
“she’s going to be in your cage”
“THE ALPHA’S CAGE”
“Arla”
“Yes Mateo”
He hugged her, then kissed her
“You’re awake”
“yes, it’s a miracle”
“I was really scared of loosing you, loosing our baby”
She smiled
“Mother Amihan told me about you and Elrani”
“there’s nothing between us”
She chuckled
“not that silly, about the castle”
“yeah, right”
“is there more that I must know”
“Yes, a lot”
“I’m all ears”
Sven twirled the liquor in the glass. He isn’t happy about the turn of events. Lervian is resuming his royal duties, Lervian is getting better, Lervian can eat again and it’s all because of Elrani. He emptied the content in his mouth and broke the glass which tore his palm.
He rose up, not minding the tear and how much blood he was wasting. He remembered the scene of Lervian nails in their mother’s tummy and he scattered things.
“Why moon goddess?, Why?. You like to favor the guilty over the innocent, this is partiality. He’s alive and kicking because of you. He’s been blessed with a mate, he’s resuming his old life. He has blood on his hands, he’s guilty and he needs to pay.
What of all those lives he has shortened, all the havoc he has caused in the kingdom. He has killed more than a million in five years and yet, you allowing him to be normal again, he doesn’t deserve it. He’s going to pay for his sins, I’m going to make him suffer, I’m going to lock him up in his own ALPHA’S CAGE”