Bound to the Lycan king

Chapter5

I lay in the dark damp dungeon, my heart heavy with despair.

It was only yesterday that not only had my mate broken my heart, he had also made my journey to meeting the lycan King a waste of my time and energy.

Each time I remember what happened last night, tears come to my eyes and my heart clenched painfully.

I was crunched up in a corner, my arms wrapped around me and my head pounded in excruciating pain.

I tried to connect with my wolf but it was as if I was blocked. There was no connection and I was unable to feel her presence.

Morning came rushing like the wind and I knew that today was the day I would be executed.

The sound of footsteps echoed through the cold stone corridors and my heart skipped a bit as I recognized through the bars that it was Oliver.

Hope rushed through me, he was now the new Alpha and I still held some hope that he had come to his senses and would listen to me.

But when he came, his expression was cold and distant, his eyes void of the love I once saw in there. It was as if he was looking at a stranger and not the woman he had professed love to.

My heart broke again into a thousand pieces.

I kept staring into his eyes but all I could see was disgust and anger.

All my hopes were crushed. It was all over for me.

"My true mate has told me how you plotted against me and stole my powers ."He accused his voice, firm and unyielding.

“As the new alpha of this pack, I will see to it that you pay for your actions” he threw at me.

I tried to defend myself and plead with him but he refused to listen, his expression as hard as stone.

"Please Oliver, I wouldn't harm you. I didn't… It's not true,'' I pleaded desperately but he wouldn't pay me any heed.

He snapped his hands from my grip and with a final look, he turned around and left me.

I sank to the floor and the world crashed in on me.

This was all too much to handle. Tears swelled in my eyes and my vision was clouded.

The pain and betrayal I felt was suffocating and I couldn't help but wonder how a man I had loved could be so cruel to me.

But I had little time to process my heartbreak before another visitor arrived.

It was Meredith, and I could see a sinister smile stretched across her face as she walked into the dungeon.

"Well, well, well, look who we have here, the traitor herself ." she scowled.

"Meredith, please. I'm innocent. I didn't do anything. I beg of you don't let them execute me " I pleaded desperately.

“Oh I know” she laughed delighted at my misery.

“Why are you doing all this to me? How can you put your sister through all this?” I broke down, I just couldn't understand why Meredith was hell-bent on ruining my life.

"Oh shut up! You pathetic little fool. Can't you see? We are not even sisters, you are adopted. Honestly, I just wish whatever took your parents took you too and you had died alongside them” she spat venomously.

Meredith’s words cut deep into my soul. My world spun as I tried to comprehend the revelation. All my life I had believed I was part of a family but everything was a lie. So this was why Mother and Father never loved me. This was why they always picked Meredith over me every single time.

The pain and betrayal I felt was suffocating and I became breathless at once.

What other secrets had my family kept from me?

"I wish you would die immediately and leave our lives alone. Ugh!”

She screamed and stumped on my hands so hard that I heard my bones c***k. I screamed in agonizing pain but she pressed down even harder, balancing her entire weight on the foot on which she stumped on me.

When she was satisfied, she scoffed and walked away.

I had no more strength in me to cry or plead anymore and so I just sat there, awaiting my fate.

Soon enough, I was escorted outside, where I would meet my end. Just as the execution was about to begin, chaos erupted, and the guards announced the arrival of the lycan King.

It was Alexander and he was demanding to see me immediately.

My heart skipped a beat. Alexander had come for me? In a daze, I let the guards drag me to the main hall. The room was so thick with tension, that you could cut it with a knife.

The Alpha and his parents stood to one side, their expressions a mix of anger and suspicion. My adoptive parents huddled together and avoided my gaze. No wonder, they treated me like a miserable pest this whole time. I was nothing to them but they raised me though and I was grateful to them for that.

Alexander snapped me out of my thoughts, his eyes burning into mine with an intensity that made my heart beat rapidly.

"You didn't keep to your promise, for the second time” he sighed at me. I didn’t know how to respond and so I just stood there, lost in his eyes.

Everybody around me was confused, murmuring to themselves but tears rushed to my eyes and a strange warmth enveloped me.

"I will need to take you with me.” He announced.

But immediately, Oliver stepped up and strongly opposed Alexander’s declaration and the room erupted in a rush of reactions.

"I will not let you take my girlfriend away from me. "

Alexander rolled his eyes looking very bored. “The same one your Luna is about to execute?”

Soon enough, words began to fly. I stood at the center of it all feeling like a pawn in a game I didn't understand. Oliver’s eyes bored into me, a mixture of hurt, anger, and confusion.

Alexander didn’t look affected. If anything, he looked bored.

My adoptive parents seemed to shrink away and Oliver looked at me, his eyes seemingly pleading with me to stay. Why was he looking at me that way? Over the last twenty-four hours, he had thrown away all we had shared, trampled over me, and let others do the same to me. In place of the love I once had for Oliver, a burning hatred for him ran through my veins.

The room fell silent with everyone waiting for me, waiting for what I had to say and the air hung with tension and anticipation.

With a rush of determination, I made my decision. Although I hated Oliver with everything in me now, I couldn’t leave. I had so many questions and there were still many mysteries that had not been solved and would never be if I left.

"Say something Seraphina ."

I heard Oliver snap, his voice waking me up from my thoughts.

I could see Alexander’s eyes narrow at Oliver’s tone from where I stood but he did nothing. I did notice his hands ball into fists and I couldn't help but wonder why Alexander cared about me so much.

Taking a shaky, deep breath, I tried to get a hold of myself. Although the decision I was about to make was a tough one, I knew this was what I had to do.

“I will not leave”

The room erupted with a cacophony of emotions at my declaration. The whole hall bursted into disarray but I could feel a gaze burning into me more intensely than others.

Daring to look up, I was met with Alexander’s piercing grey eyes. There was no readable expression on his face but instinctively, I knew he was not happy with my decision.

“ I'm sorry” I mouthed at him, the tears blinding me.

With that, I turned away and ran as fast as my legs could carry me.