The Alpha Prince And His Cursed Mate

Chapter 1 As I changed back into human form, I tried to stand up straight, but staggered a bit like somebody that is a little bit tipsy, though I was not seeing clearly I could still perceive the delicious smell of blood, I gently flipped back some of my hair that was still covering my face and just then the sight of spilt blood all over the place in the classroom, made me staggered backwards a bit in shock and stepped on some of the blood on the floor and slipped but before I could reach the floor, Riccardo rushed in and caught me ”what happened? what happened? “I shouted, like almost immediately what happened appeared in my mind in a flash, I remembered when I shifted as I saw blood dripping down from the leg of one of my classmates named Desmond, and I also remembered the appealing smell coupled with the strong desire to quench the taste that ensues within me. And not quite long the loud uproar in the class brought me back to the present situation, in that tempestuous state, I heard the siren from the police vehicle then it dawned on me that the police have been called on me. I ran out of the school building and saw pocket of students in the school compound discussing, obviously they will be discussing about me I thought, so I decided to sneak out on them, I covered my face with my jacket and walked gently beside the school’s fence, mistakenly I stepped on one of the student, she shouted in a loud voice with fear writing all over her ‘help, help, monster’ as she ran away from me and others joined in and started running away from me and shouting at the same time ‘monster, monster’, I quickly ran outside the school’s gate and made a right turn to the direction of my house but stopped abruptly and immediately turned left when I saw the police vehicle approaching the school, clearly the police men must have suspected something was not right with the way I behaved, so they started beaconing on me to stop, but I continued walking pretending not to hear them and increased my pace so when they reached my school instead of entering the school compound they continued following me with their car, that was when I started running with all my strength. before they could catch up with me I ran into the forest, though my first thought was to run home, that was out of the question now because I don’t want this to rub off on my family members, but still the policemen did not relent, instead, they got down from their vehicle and continued the chase, I ran through the dense forest, my heart pounding in my chest, I could hear the footsteps of the policemen chasing after me, I knew they would not stop but I had to keep going this time they started shooting sporadically at me as well. In no distant time, one of the bullets hit me on my shoulder, and immediately I felt like one part of my body was paralyzed, still, I tried to continue running by moving my leg, but instantly I fell to the ground helpless and full of pain. ‘Oh the end has come’ I said wondering what will happen to me if they catch me, who knows they may lock me in a cage and treat me like an animal, with that thought I summon up courage and quickly crawl into a dark cave nearby not minding the danger that may await me in there but just hoping that I will not be seen by the policemen. In no time the policemen were close to the cave I was hiding, I raised my head as I heard the footstep of one of the policemen trying to enter the cave I am hiding, as he was about to use his baton to remove the graces covering the cave, a huge fear gripped me and I thought it was all over, the next thing I heard was fast movements with shouting and screaming outside the cave as if a big animal was after its pail picking them one by one, in fear I quickly reached out to a big stone beside me in self-defense but after a while, a great silence befell the forest, I was now in a dicey situation, not knowing what was coming for me coupled with the fact that I had lost a lot of blood and was feeling dizzy I heard footsteps approaching the cave entrance, I knew it was a matter of time before I would be found, just then a man’s voice called out ‘ Seraphina where are you?’ I immediately recognized the man’s voice and I shouted with all the strength I had left, ‘Riccardo I’m here’ and immediately I lost consciousness. Riccardo is in the same class as me and my good friend as well. However, I thought that our relationship would take a new dimension today because I felt he was about to ask me out in the presence of all my classmates before the unfortunate circumstances happened, looking back I am still wondering how we became close, amidst girls glowing with beauty, I won’t really say I am as beautiful as some of the other girls but I have a great shape like that of a model. And Riccardo has that appearance that could make him stand out in a crowd, his enigmatic, golden green eyes complement exceptionally with his light-toned face. His eyes are so captivating that one could get lost in them if one stared long enough. He was muscular and huge with 8 pack abs. The kind of man girls swoons over. On top of that, he is a simple and honest man that does not like cheating or oppression, and maybe that was what drew me to him, I had loved him for some time now and had thought that the feeling is mutual but I don’t know why he has not made a move towards me all this while. Getting any of the beautiful girls as his girlfriend would have been a piece of cake for him but rather He was always protecting me from bullies, as I will never fight back. The first and last time I could remember I fought was when I was eight years old, I hit my seatmate because he took my snack and refused to give it back to me, and he fell to the ground and broke his hand, the luck I had then was that there was no grown up around who would have been able to explain vividly what happened, though the boy did try to explain to the teachers and his parent that I was the one that broke his hand off cause nobody would believe him because it sounded impossible that an eight years old broke his hand by just hitting him. When I was confronted with the issue I could not say a word as I was still in shock and I knew the boy’s hand broke as a result of my hitting him. Lastly, they concluded that perhaps he fell down and broke his hand, that very day I decided not to ever fight again and gradually I became withdrawn from the other children in the bid to prevent such from happening ever again but rather took a new lid to which is to help people in need even at that people still see me as a weirdo. I opened my eyes and was trying to sit down when I saw Riccardo standing at the extreme of the cave, he gave me this disapproving look and walk up to me, and said “Lie down and rest, you have lost a lot of blood” as he gently moves me back to the bed with one of his hand below my head and the other on my shoulder moving back to the position I was before. I looked at him with a great desire to have him as no one has ever cared for me the way he does, even in the unexplainable dangerous situation I found myself in, he still came around to help me without fear of being misunderstood or perceived to be in conniver with me, indeed he is truly my friend. The mere thought of danger took my mind back to what happen earlier, it was my eighteenth birthday, a day I have waited eagerly to come, the light of dawn seeped into my room, and the chorus of melodic birdsong drifted in, I liked it, it gave me a beautiful start. I woke up feeling good about myself, I was not expecting much from my parents as they have barely enough money to take care of my sister named Rose and myself, still, I was not perturbed by the thought of that because I know they are trying their best to make us happy and comfortable, that was the reason my mom decided to stay at home and give us the best home upbringing. My father Mr Bill is a clerk at my school; Alessandro high school, which is not very far from my house. My house is located at the extreme of the street while my school is on the left of my house, and as such, I always trek to school. I woke up and I flipped my duvet away from my body to the other side of the bed just like flipping to the next page of a book when you are done reading it, I jumped out of the bed, ran to the door and open it, surprisingly I was splashed with a bucket of water, and before I could get my footings right I had a resounding happy birthday Seraphina from my younger sister, I was feeling like I was on top of the moon as I rushed towards her and embrace her. I ran to the sitting room and saw my father preparing to go to work and my mother was assisting in getting him ready. “Hello! Daddy, hi! Mummy”. Happy birthday they both said with smiles on their faces and to my surprise, Daddy reached out to a birthday pack beside him and handed it to me, “wow, thanks Dad" I shouted and embrace him and my mom joined in the embrace. I opened the pack and saw a beautiful black jacket I had wished to have the last time I followed my mom to the market. I happily put it on and walked like a model around the house, suddenly my eyes reached out for the wall clock and I screamed as I was almost running late to school, so I quickly dashed into the bathroom, brushed my teeth, had my bath and dressed up then I head straight to the dining table and had my breakfast. After which I took my school bag and my jacket and I dashed out of the house. As I walked out of my house, I felt more refreshed by the nice aroma of freshly cut grass, the sounds of birds chirping and humming reminded me of a birthday song “happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy…” and later I switched to a love song “it must have been love…” and before I knew it I was already in my class and all my classmate stood up and happily sang a birthday song for me, I was feeling on top of the world as I worked towards the centre of the class were the cake was, immediately I saw my cake decorated with red coloured icing dripped unevenly from the top to the sides of the cake, I felt drawn to it as my best colour has always been red before I got to where my cake was I saw another captivating sight, blood was dripping out from one of my classmate’s leg, I immediately started thinking of the blood and suddenly I felt different my big eyes turned red and my nails grow longer in an instant. All I was thinking about at this moment was how to consume blood, and before I knew it I was already attacking them, that was when I had two heavy dirty slaps on my face, and immediately I came back to my senses apparently, it was Riccardo that slap me as he was standing in front of me unafraid when I shifted back to human form. Who am I?, that was a one-million-dollar question I could not answer, but I always know that I am somehow different from most people around me. Judging from my strength level which is three times more than those around me, the taste of food which I do not really like, but I love eating meat a lot, I also heal faster-than –normal healing compared to other people, on one occasion I got seriously injured as my upper left arm was cut deeply by a broken windscreen from a bus accident during one of the school’s excursion, I it was treated and bandaged I was supposed to go to the hospital the next week to dress it, the next day when I woke up, I noticed I could not feel any pain again from that area, so I decided to check, lo and behold I was totally healed so I became afraid and ran to my parents, they were surprised as well. They took me to the hospital and the doctors could not believe what they saw, they carried out different tests on me and at last, I was confirmed totally healed. And so many other differences I had experienced. As I silently ponder my head on these issues coupled with the one that just recently happened. Riccardo who had gone out for a while walked in with some locally made medicine in his hands. He walked towards me and said “How are you? As he untie the clothe he tied around my shoulders to stop the bleeding “I knew it, who are you?” he screamed as his body twisted in an unnatural manner and his bone reshaped and he grew excessive body hair and huge eyes that glow hallow and a large shape tooth like those of a monster with an elongated monstrous brown nails . I was so afraid that before I could move he had already pounced on me, screeching and snarling so loud that I could hardly hear anything else because everything was happening at almost the same time, as he was about to use his claws to rip off my troth, I closed my eyes in fear and quickly raised up my hands in defense and I shouted “No…” and all of a sudden there was salience.