ENSLAVED BY THE ALPHA

Chapter Eight

(Home sweet home?)

Lizzy

“Why did you bring me here?” He had come to the guest room I had been taken to after an hour or so.

He looked at me but his face was unreadable, there was no warmth in his eyes, only a dullness that made him seem more machine than human.

I struggled to find traces of the man who had sold me dreams of a better life and new beginnings, but there were none; just this cold creature looking back. His presence seemed less real than any other. The air around us felt heavy with emotion and the silence between us was deafening. It wasn't even comfortable in the small room.

“Take me back” My voice came out hoarse, sounding foreign in my own ears.

“It's too late for that now” His voice was low, raspy, almost mechanical.

What did he mean by that?

“I want to go back to Maggie and the girls!” I was trying to hold back the tears that were beginning to well up in my eyes as I fought against the numbness I was feeling.

“I can't Elizabeth, you are fated to my twin brother and me, and until then prophecy is fulfilled”

I swallowed hard and blinked rapidly, my eyes stinging from the tears that were streaming down them in rivers. “It's Lizzy! What prophecy are you talking about? You didn't mention this to me; you said the people here would like me and that I would belong, but I have only felt even more out of place! Please take me back, I wouldn't tell anyone about this place please! I swear on my life” The sound of my pleas was muffled by the blood rushing through my ears.

“You have nothing waiting back there for you, this is where you belong” He smiled at me, the corners of his mouth twitching upwards. But it didn't reach his eyes. “This is your fate”

Anger hit me, a white-hot rage that consumed every inch of my body in an instant. How could I have been so stupid to believe his words? I let my guard down one time and now this?

I stood up straight, glaring at him. “You are not the judge of that, I decide what I want, please take me back” I demanded, anger rising with every syllable.

His smile disappeared, and his face darkened. “No.” He tried to hold me.

“Then don't f*****g touch me” My hands balled into fists. “Let me make this choice for myself”

He stepped closer to me, a dark look spreading across his features. “What choice? To continue selling your body for money and sleeping with men who will do anything for it?”

Something in my heart broke the moment I heard those words, a painful sob escaping my lips as fresh tears rolled off my cheeks and fell onto the floor.

His look of disgust didn't vanish, he just kept looking at me. “You feel a pull towards don't you?” His voice was still monotonous, but there was a hint of something underlying it that I didn't understand.

“No” I lied.

His eyes narrowed as his lip curled up in an almost sneer. “You heard a voice inside of you that called me yours, didn't you” There was a slight mocking note to his voice.

My mouth fell slightly open, how did he know that?

“No” I mumbled weakly.

And he began to walk towards me, and I moved backward in fear.

“Liar” He spat while still walking towards me and I also continued backwards, it was only when my back touched the wall behind me that I realized I was backed into a corner and that there was nowhere to run.

His hand shot forward and lifted my face so that my eyes were staring right into his. A chill spread through me, it was an icy sensation. It froze the blood in my veins. His eyes were glowing amber now , they shone with some kind of eerie firelight.

But that wasn't what scared me, it was the fact that my wolf howled deep inside of me, begging me for release, demanding that she get close to him, not to consume him but to be consumed.

“You feel it don't you” His grip tightened on my chin so that our heads were touching. The heat radiating off his skin was burning me where we were touching, causing sparks to fly wherever it made contact with my skin and hair. And all the while my wolf howled. She wanted him to get close to her. “The pull of the wolf, it's pulling at your heartstrings”

Then he let go and everything vanished except him standing before me.

I shook myself free from the trance he had put me under and glared at him, my breathing coming out in shallow puffs that barely covered my lips.

“Don't act so innocent now Elizabeth, this is why you can't leave. We are fated and even if you try to leave, my beast will look for you, it knows your scent. When my beast smells you it is like a magnet attracts another magnet, it will find you” He spoke calmly but I sensed the threat underneath the surface of his calm facade.

“I'll see you later” He said cryptically before turning away.

I collapsed to the floor, my legs gave way and I sat there in a fetal position unable to move. My chest heaved up and down rapidly and my arms wrapped tightly around my torso, trying to warm myself. But I couldn't stop shaking and shivering.

I stayed like that for hours until I heard that scream again.

It was louder this time, filled with desperation. As if I were possessed, I got up and began to walk towards the door, I opened it and stepped into the hallway. I know I shouldn't have but I couldn't stop myself.

The screams continued, they seemed to be coming from somewhere upstairs, I followed them as my legs shook with each step and my head screamed warnings.

When I got closer, the screams had stopped.

“What are you doing?”