I sat in the stinking dungeon
Listening to the rats scurrying around Their tiny claws echoing off the stones.Betrayed by the ones I'd adored,
Their smug faces haunting my mind.
The dungeon was is everything but a peaceful sanctuary. Tortured screams rang across the walls, blood hurling. The smell of blood and mold engulfed the air violating my nose. The place was damp and musty drops of dirty water dripping from above. Was it rain water or sewage water, I didn't even want to know.
I sat against the hard cold floor, the wall digging painfully my back. But I was lost in thought. I dint understand what was happening. My own husband could not even remember me. After all these years he can't even remember the woman who's stood by him through it all.
My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the guard's boots thudding on the stone-cold floor. He unlocked my cell door and motioned for me to stand up. My heart raced when Julian emerged from behind, and frowned when Lysandra followed suit.
“Julian? Do you finally remember now?” I asked hopefully that he was here to take me out of this.
“I don't know who you are and why you are claiming to be wife. And no one here is telling me what's going on. But I'll find out, and when I do, you'll be sorry.” He spat out coldly.
I glared at Lysandra, hatred blazing from my hazel eyes. “I see you haven't told your ‘mate ‘ how you rejected him and forced me to be your substitute bride while you ran away,” I spat out, venom laced in every word. “Julian know you just woke from a coma, but you wouldn't be stupid enough not to see I'm the luna in this pack,” remember me” I ended softly.
Julian c****d his eyebrow and gave me a once over."I think you've had enough of these dungeon fumes. I don't know who or what you are, but I suggest you start explaining yourself before things go south for you." His voice was cold, completely devoid of any emotion, as if the years we'd shared together meant nothing to him.
Lysandra smirked, her green eyes dancing with glee over my misery and humiliation. "Oh, my love," she purred, wrapping her arms around Julian's muscular bicep and batting her eyelashes at him. "She must be delusional. I've been by your side the whole time, nursing you back to health. And you know how my sister has always tried to hard to copy me. And I'll tell you exactly what happened,” she sneered glaring at me. “Baby you've been in coma for five years. And yes I did leave, trusting that my sister will take care of you whole I'm gone. But I was wrong? How could you even try to marry a man who's in a coma just because you wanted to steal my husband? She tried to trick you and it's all my fault I couldn't stop her sooner
. But I'll do better I promise." My knees buckled under me now I knew I was screwed, her well rehearsed story would convince any one including the man I once loved more than life it self.
. I'm so sorry my love" she whimpered.,
." Lysandra managed to sound so hurt and innocent that even I wanted to strangle her.
Julian's expression hardened as he stared at me, slowly believed her every word. " Is that true? And you have () to call your self my wife? Tell me why i shouldn't kill you right now? ” He growled out, betrayal laced in his voice.
I stepped back, my hands trembling with rage and hurt as the realization set in that they were right, he didn't remember me nor our life together .“No Julian please you know I I wouldn't do that to you or anyone else." Tears starting to spill down my face.
“Even though I'm angry and hurt she's must sister and I dint want to kill her. And I believe she deserves to suffer for what she put you through, “ Lysandra
hissed out through gritted teeth “ So I suggest we give her a taste of her own medicine, keep her locked up here for the rest of her life, alone in this dungeon and for every second she spends here and each day that passes take away something from her till there's nothing left of her old self but a shell of who she once was.
Julian's face softened slightly as he looked at my sister. I could see the love and adoration he once had for me now reflected in darker shade in his eyes whenever he looked at my sister. " As you wish my love," he said, before turning to the guards. "Take her away. And make sure she never sees the light of day again."
The guards grabbed me roughly by my arms and dragged me back into the darkness of the dungeon, slamming the door behind them with a resounding clang. I collapsed onto the cold, damp floor, my sobs echoing off the stone walls as I came to terms with a stark, terrifying reality: I was trapped in a living nightmare, and there was no escape in sight.
Tears streams down my eyes, sobbs filling up the cell. I had no chance. Everyone was willing to go with the lie that my sister had fabricated.
Why would Julian believe me? Why would he listen to me? I had lost all hope in this world.
“Marcelene we can not give up now. We have to fight this,” my wolf Nyx sounded in my head. My wolf was hurt too drown in pain. She sobbed and whimpered.
Everyone here believed I was weak and wolfless, but that couldn't be further from the truth. No one knows that the moon goddess gidted me one of the most talented and strongest wolf.
But there's a reason I had to hide. I can't let anyone know about my wolf. Not until the time is right.
Nyx has been a constant support in my life. She's the only reason I stay and keep going. She's the only reason I've endured this long. She gives me hope that one day, everything will workout.
“But he can't even remember us? And no one is willing to fight for me? He would never believe what I have to say,” I cried the pain in my heart multiplied. Julian's face flashed in my mind, his eyes dark and cold with no emotion. “ He doesn't even recognize Me anymore, “ I whimpered my heart constricting in pain at the thought.
“They've brainwashed him," Nyx growled through gritted teeth. “They’ve been planning this from the start. Don't you think it's weird after Julian went to a comma, Lysandra appeared all of the sudden. And Julian had to specifically forget the five years you were there?”
“I know Nyx. But what can I do from here? Everyone hates me. That's why they going with Lysandras lies. What chance do I have?”
“What ever Lysandra is up to. She won't win. We won't let her. And as for Julian? He'll never choose Lysandra over you. And I know you can fight and flight this whole world upside down.