DRIVEN

Chapter 45

DEMEGRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I jam the door loudly and Fall on my knees by the bedside. I cry out loudly not caring about whoever can hear me, I'm do heartbroken at the moment, it's like the world has turned against me. what'd I do to deserve this, I hate my life. I feel like ending it right now, it's better to be dead than to be enduring this.

My people probably think I'm dead now since it's been quite long they heard from me, they have no way of knowing what I'm truly going through and in a way I think it's better if they don't know cause I know my father he would risk his life just to come over and save me and at this point in time that's foolish, Damien would kill him without giving it a second thought. That damn king is obsessed with me, he'd never let me leave his clutches, and he won't respect any force that he feels can threaten his having me, stop him. Not even being my father will stop him from killing him as long as he feels threatened. And if father dies how do I ever forgive myself for being the reason. this whole situation is so confusing I don't know what to do.

I start crying again when I remember my mother, I'm the only one that can ever bend Damien enough to release that cure but I know I can't risk his conditions. if I try accepting to mate with the lycan king, I'd become an outcast to my people. My father would disown me and I'll be a reject. it has never been heard of that a vampire was mated to a lycan in history. My people abhor lycans, they see them as rabid, disease carrying dogs, and for me to be mated to one?, I hate my life.

whatever crime did I commit to the god's to get this sort of punishment, I've been a good child who didn't associate with bad kids, I did everything my parents expected of me, I steered clear of boys per my parents rules and also the laws of the land as they didn't want me tainted before I'd be paired with a mate. Or could this be my punishment for feeding my father the moon seeds which left him immobile for quite a while, but that was the only way I could leave home and join the warriors to fight, else my father would have never even in my wildest dreams accepted that I go to the Battlefield.

And look where it landed me, I laugh at myself I'm a prisoner to the one man I've hated for as long as I can remember and not just any prisoner, I'm a prisoner to his heart, The irony.

But then I always remember the witches prophecy in times like this

FLASHBACK

" blood everywhere, the beast is after blood!!, he won't stop till he has her, he's searched eternity for her and he won't stop, he wants to claim her, he has to claim her, only she can calm his beast and only then can peace reign in the valley ".

END OF FLASHBACK

I sit up with a sharp jerk as a sudden realization dawns upon me. The witches prophecy is about me and Damien, my eyes widen the more I try to process it, how come I never understood all this while

" Blood everywhere " has to do with the war I'm very sure, " the beast is after blood" must be Damien's thirst to win the war no matter what happens or who dies, " he won't stop till he has her" could that be me? it has to be me, I'm his fated mate and ever since Damien saw me it's like he's a different person altogether. " he's searched eternity for her and he won't stop " But Damien said he never wanted a mate, that much he's made clear all this time to me. According to him I disrupted the plan he made for his life or could it be he was just trying to deceive himself by denying wanting a mate, maybe he always wanted one deep down and had been lying to himself all these while. Even if he personally didn't want, his lycan did. we can control our human parts but not the other parts that define who we are, that's our true self and the most dominant part of us.

"he has to claim her, only she can calm his beast and let peace reign in the valley", well he hasn't been shy about claiming me, the guy is going to any length to have me, but the thing is do I want to be claimed, I'm not some piece of property, I'm a person and king or not, prophecy or not, I can't let myself be used as a pawn by that heartless king.

But I don't have a choice if I want to save my mother, I have to agree to his terms for now just so my mother can be well again but for every other thing I'm going to fight him tooth and nail every step of the way I promise.