Second Chance: The Lycan King's Cursed Bride

Past

Eric's POV

"Thief Sammy! My righteous brother raised you with all his heart, I didn't realize that you are actually a white-eyed wolf, you, how dare you bully my clan like this!"

Father angrily rebuked the man in front of him with blonde curly hair and blue pupils, and even though his hands were tightly braced at this moment, and even though the guards kicked his knees to force him to kneel down, his waist remained straight.

My father was once the bravest deputy general beside Wolf King Samuel, and he accidentally injured his leg during a battle, Wolf King Samuel, in order to express his gratitude, turned into a sworn brother with my father and granted him a mountain villa to heal his wounds.

I was playing chess with my father when Sammy arrived, feeling the birds and flowers on the hill and the laughter of the girls that could be faintly heard, my father gave a bright smile and said,

"Boy, you lost again! Better go play with Grace, the little girl."

Losing to my father was the norm and I had always modeled myself after him, I wanted to be him, to surpass him.

"No no no! Dad, I'm going to have another go at you!"

I huffed, my eyes determined.

My father nodded in satisfaction, and just as we received all the pieces on the board to one side, we heard messy footsteps coming from outside.

"Haha uncle, long time no see."

Seeing the visitor, my father pushed me behind his wheelchair as soon as he could.

"What are you doing here! Does my righteous brother have something important to discuss with me?"

"Uncle, there's nothing important, can't I come and sit with you?"

"You are not welcome here! Get out of here." Father said angrily.

"Uncle, I will leave, as long as you hand over my righteous sister, my righteous father misses her so much that he specially instructed me to come here in person to take her away."

"There is no righteous sister you are looking for here, besides, Her Highness died long ago, don't talk nonsense." My father tightly guarded me and loudly reprimanded.

"Search!" Sammy gave the order and the guards spread out to search.

Father's hands were clenched tightly, veins constantly showing on the backs of his hands.

"Unbridled! You will not be tolerated here!"

The man let out a cocky laugh, "Hahahaha, this is the funniest thing I've heard, the whole world is mine, not to mention this little mountain village of yours, I'm afraid you still don't know it, rightful father has already passed away last night, and now the successor of the Wolf King is me, hahahaha."

"You, what have you done to my righteous brother!" Father tremblingly slapped the armrests of the wheelchair, thinking that the Wolf King might have met with an untimely death long ago, father only hated that his legs were crippled and he could not avenge his righteous brother.

"I didn't do anything, but I just revealed the secret that my righteous father's strength will be greatly weakened on the night of the full moon to the vampire clan, who let him occupy the position of the wolf king for so long, his strength doesn't see any increase, once the full moon comes, he looks like a waste of space without it, how can such a person deserve to be the king of the wolf clan and be respected by all people, he should have given up his position a long time ago!"

Sammy came up and kicked over the chess table I had set up with my father, black and white pieces scattered everywhere on the floor.

The guards came up and yanked me out of my father's aftermath, holding me tightly.

"Old thing, let your son feel the dungeons of the Misty Forest."

Said the guard as he took me into rough custody...

"No!"

My father fell out of his wheelchair, Sammy had one foot on his father's hand

"Since you don't want to send him, let your son send you!"

With that he pulled out a knife and cut off his father's head in front of me."

"No!!! Father!"

I roared and woke up from my sleep, after so many years, the scene of my father's murder is always vivid in my mind, I know that nowadays I have only one meaning of living, and that is to find Sammy to avenge this blood feud.

In this cold dungeon, time seemed to become incredibly slow. I knew I couldn't let the abuse continue any longer and had to find a way to escape.

"Creak."

Shortly afterward, the door to the dungeon was opened and several palace guards walked in. Their faces were cold and they held whips and spears, seemingly taking pleasure in my suffering.

"Get up!" One of the guards droned, whipping my body with a leather whip.

I fought back the pain and tried to stay calm. I knew that if I wanted to escape, I had to find a way out.

Thinking about the miserable end of my father and loved ones, I knew that none of this was anything, I had to hold on, and only by doing so could I avenge my father.

The guards continued to abuse me. Suddenly, I felt something squirming in the corner.

I realized there was a rat that was sniffing the air over and over. This rat could have come in from outside the dungeon, perhaps there was a hidden passage.

I purposely let the guards drag me closer to the rat while tentatively feeling towards the dungeon's walls. The walls were hard as hell, there shouldn't be a passageway, I was a bit disappointed, but amazingly a drop of cold water dripped on the top of my head, I felt a faint wind coming from the top of my head, my heart was happy but I couldn't show the slightest hint of a break.

The guards continued to whip me, kick me, and spit on my body, but I felt elated beyond belief, as long as I found the passageway, I could get out, and father, I could avenge you.

The guards vented all their grievances on me, I closed my eyes, my flesh had long been numb, my soul was invigorated.

Until they finished the routine and kicked me back into the corner, as usual they slipped me a pill.

It was a poison, on the day my father was killed, in order to curb my powers Sammy had forced me to take a pill of this poison every so often, it curbed my wolf's powers, it was a chronic poison and slowly my wolf would pass away with me.

It wasn't long before I started to get a splitting headache, the guards finished slipping me the pill, kicked me in the face, and closed the door again cursing and leaving.

I began to gasp in pain, something inside me seemed to be desperately trying to get out but couldn't break free, I was like a trapped animal, letting out growls of pain and rolling back and forth on the floor until I lost my last ounce of strength and slowly passed out.