RAKSHAK: THE SECRET ALPHA

Smoldering Night and the Invisible Watch

Smoldering Night and the Invisible Watch

The last quarter of the night had begun, but the silence spread inside that luxurious room of Singhania Villa was as heavy and terrifying as a graveyard. The dim red moonlight filtering through the window of the room was giving a frightening hue to the marble stones lying on the floor. In a far corner of the large and velvety bed of this luxurious room, Kavya was sitting curled up. Even the feeling of such a big and velvety bed was cutting into her now cold body at this moment.

From afternoon until now, not even a grain of food, let alone a drop of water, had gone into her stomach. That merciless order of Agni Singhania—that no one will give food to this girl—was now hollowing Kavya’s existence from within. Her intestines were burning due to hunger, and because of weakness, her head was spinning so much that she felt the entire walls rotating in circles. Due to living for years in that dark and damp dungeon, her body had already become weak like a lifeless corpse, and now this new punishment had completely drained even her remaining strength.

With extremely trembling hands, she slowly bent down and touched the ankle of her right foot. That heavy iron shackle tied there had badly scraped her delicate skin. Dried blood had जमा on the edges of the shackle, and whenever she moved even slightly to change her position, the long, heavy chain attached to it dragged across the marble floor, producing a sharp, cold clinking sound. That sound pierced through the silence and echoed in Kavya’s ears, reminding her again and again that no matter how luxurious this room was, she was here only and only as a helpless, powerless slave.

I have to get out of here. I have to escape from here somehow. Kavya whispered to herself while moving her dry lips between dry sobs. The sharp ‘lip-bite’ that Agni had given her on her lower lip in the afternoon had now swollen badly. As soon as she tried to speak, the salty taste of blood oozed again from that wound and went down her throat. Warm tears fell from her eyes and flowed over her pale cheeks. She could not fight Agni Singhania, she could not even think of confronting that beast. There wasn’t enough strength in her veins. She had only one way—run away. Cross the threshold of this velvety hell and run so far that this monster would never be able to find her.

Just then, the electronic lock of that heavy and strong door of the room opened with a faint but extremely clear ‘click’ sound in this silence.

Kavya’s heart forgot to beat in an instant. Her entire body went numb with fear. At this last hour of the night, in this dense darkness, the opening of the room door meant only one thing.

The door slowly opened, and a heavy, tall shadow entered the room. As soon as that shadow stepped in, the temperature of the air inside the room seemed to drop to zero instantly. A heavy, suffocating and spine-chilling masculine scent spread throughout the room—Agni Singhania. He was no longer in his expensive three-piece suit. He was wearing only a loose black silk shirt, the top three buttons of which were open. His broad, steel-like chest and the fierce, deep black tattoo of a sharp-fanged wolf spread up to his neck were clearly visible, moving up and down with his deep and heavy breaths. In the dark room, his golden-amber eyes were shining like those of a hungry wild predator.

Kavya, out of fear, pressed herself even more against the headboard of the bed. She pulled both her knees close to her chest and stared at that dark shadow with wide, terrified eyes. You… you… why have you come here again? Her voice got stuck in her throat. Her weakness was clearly visible at this moment.

Agni gave no answer to her words. Without saying a single word, he began moving toward the bed with extremely slow, heavy, and controlled steps. His terrifying and violent ‘Alpha Aura’ was so heavy that Kavya was struggling even to breathe. When he stopped right at the edge of the bed, his massive presence loomed over Kavya like a deep black shadow.

What did you think, Kavya? That by curling up like this, you would get away from me? Agni’s voice struck the walls of the room like a cold crack.

He took a deep breath. That special, invisible fragrance of Kavya’s body floating in the air of the room went straight through Agni’s nostrils to his mind. The scent of that royal blood flowing in her veins once again drove the ferocious wolf inside Agni completely mad and violent. The council soldiers and the envoys of the Red Moon clan were hovering outside to snatch away this possession. The words of that old sorcerer of the clan echoed in Agni’s mind—‘The secret hidden within her, if awakened, will turn your empire into ashes.’

The color of Agni’s eyes darkened even more with anger and obsession. He could not let this possession of his, this slave of his, go away from him at any cost. It was necessary to make a permanent arrangement today so that even the thought of stepping out of this villa would never enter this girl’s mind.

You won’t even be able to dream of running away from me, even in your closed eyes. Today I will place such a watch on your soul, a horrifying, narrow madness-filled cruel smile spread across Agni’s lips.

In a single jerk, Agni extended his heavy, steel-like palm forward and grabbed both the weak wrists of Kavya, who was cowering on the bed. He pinned her wrists to the bed so mercilessly that a cry escaped from Kavya’s mouth.

Ah! Leave me. It hurts. Please let me go. Kavya writhed. She tried unsuccessfully to remove the pressure of Agni’s steel-like grip with her weak hands, but in front of Agni’s heavy and powerful body, her attempt scattered like straw. Agni’s entire weight had now overpowered her weak and delicate body.

I had told you before as well, Kavya, Agni leaned right close to her face. His warm, violent and fast breaths were hitting Kavya’s swollen lips. In this villa, there is no place for your will. Even these breaths of yours cannot go in and out without my permission. If you are even thinking of escaping this captivity, crush that thought right here.

Out of fear, Kavya tightly shut her eyes. She was trembling badly, she felt that this ‘beast’ would now, in anger, strangle her neck and finish her forever. Tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, soaking the pillow.

And then—cutting through the heavy silence of the room, a spine-chilling, painful, sharp scream of Kavya echoed that shook the walls of the villa.

Without any mercy, without any pity, Agni sank his sharp and pointed teeth with full force into the delicate skin on the left side of Kavya’s neck. This was not an ordinary attack, it was his most ferocious and deadly Tracking Bite.

A terrifying, unbearable wave of pain ran through Kavya’s entire body, making her whole body stiff in an instant. The sharp wave of pain began tearing the nerves of her brain. Writhing in agony, she clawed at the white velvety bedsheet with her fingers. Agni’s grip on her wrists was so tight that she could not even move. Warm drops of blood began oozing out, tearing through the fair skin of her neck, and slowly spread over the white sheet, forming a deep red stain.

For Kavya, this was just another terrifying brutality of Agni, a deep and unbearable wound that would give her lifelong pain. She was completely unaware of the ultimate truth that behind this blood-soaked wound, Agni had left a ‘Mystic Tracking Mark’ of his alpha powers, which had now permanently settled inside her skin. She did not know that whenever she would try to cross the main threshold of this villa to escape, this mark would glow like gold on her neck and intensify her scent so much that Agni would find her from any corner of the world. Kavya was never going to know about this invisible watch, this magical trap. For her, it was just a wound given by her master to keep her a slave.

Due to staying hungry since afternoon, the severe lack of glucose in her body, and on top of that the extreme of this unbearable pain completely numbed Kavya’s mind. Complete darkness began to spread before her eyes. Her trembling fingers went limp, her sobs faded, and her weak, helpless body became completely still. She fainted in pain right within Agni’s steel-like arms.

When Agni slowly removed his teeth from her neck, his breaths were completely uneven. The redness of Kavya’s pure and royal blood was on his lips, which made the glow of his amber eyes even more violent. He looked at Kavya’s innocent face lying lifeless and unconscious on the bed. A thin line of blood was still flowing from her neck, staining her cotton kurta red.

Agni wiped the blood from his lips with his finger. There was a cruel satisfaction on his face of having captured his possession forever. He got up from the bed, adjusted the collar of his shirt, and without looking back again, walked out of the room in the same influential and terrifying manner.

The heavy iron door once again shut with a loud sound, and the electronic lock was engaged from outside.

In that luxurious dark room, now only the faint, breaking sound of Kavya’s breaths and the silence of that heavy iron chain scattered on the floor remained. With her weakness and helplessness, she had now been trapped in such an invisible web of this terrifying hell, from which there was no way out anymore.