The Alpha king's healer

Chapter Four

Chapter Four.

Yvette's Point of view.

The cell gates rattled, waking me up from my slumber, I lifted my head slowly, the floor wet and cold against my skin. My knees were weak from all that standing to stay awake last night, I didn't even know when I fell asleep or what time it is now.

I got up to my feet as the guard opened the door wide, “come out.” He ordered.

My eyebrows raised in surprise but I did as he said anyway. I stepped out of the cage, my number legs were slowly starting to pick up, the lack of sunlight in the cells made it hard to tell if it was daybreak or not.

“Where are we going?” I summoned the courage to ask the guard. He is not the same as the one who locked me in yesterday, so I feel kind of bold.

“You would find out when we get there.” He said coldly.

“Okay.” I said silently making sure he didn't hear me.

I followed him silently down the hallway to the Alpha's room. He placed a knock on the door when we got there, Alpha Zach's voice came back within a second, “Who is it?” He asked.

“Claude sir, I'm here with the…” he paused, then looked at me, I knew the word he was looking for and I wouldn’t mind if he said it, “Prisoner.” It stung but I've been stung pretty bad many times before.

There was a long break before Alpha Zach replied, “let her in.”

He opened the door and I walked in surprised to see Lindsey lying in his bed with a sickly smile. With that stunt she pulled last night, I thought she would spend at least three nights in the hospital before being discharged.

Alpha Zach walked right past me, “Don't try anything stupid Yvette, I'm right behind this door.” He told me as he slipped past me. The door closed signifying his exit and it remained just Lindsey and I in the room.

“Hi.” Lindsey started summoning a weak smile, “I just wanted to see how you are faring, you know after last night.”

“How do you feel?” I asked her instead of answering her question.

Lindsey looked taken aback at first, then she replied, “I'm fine, surprised you asked.”

“That's not what I mean, how do you feel after that stunt you pulled off last night, did it satisfy you in anyway?” I questioned her.

“Oh yes, yes it did!” She answered dramatically. “You know Yvette, Zach only now has eyes for me and you, you're going to be executed at exactly eight am this morning and look at the time, it's only seven fifty.” She smiled. I couldn't control the drop of tear that fell from my left eye, if I could, I would never have chosen to break like this in front of her.

“Oh they didn't tell you?” She asked feigning surprise. “Well you heard it from me now, so get prepared. You're never going to take my place.”

“I never planned to.” I said to her matter-of-factly before walking out with the little piece of dignity I had left. If I was going to die today, then I would rather it be with dignity than with letting an enemy have the feeling they won.

The guard, Claude, was waiting for me at the door while Alpha Zach walked back into the room without sparing a glance at me.

“Come with me.” The guard instructed. I knew my fate had been decided for me when he led me out of the pack house and not back to the cells.

None of them had the decency to inform me before hand, I just had to walk right out of the building and find out that the square had been prepared for me.

I have watched a long list of wolves die in that square and for once, it never crossed my mind that I would join that list too. Maybe this is the time that I fall my knees and start begging for mercy, maybe it's the time that I beg the moon goddess to accept me into her pack of sacred wolves. I didn't do either, I just stared and followed the gamma's instructions, he geld the axe like he had been trained to from birth. Every look at me from him bore deep into my soul but they couldn't see my innocence.

I entered the square pride first, and went to kneel in front of the scaffold block like I've seen other wolves do. It reeks with the blood of deadwolves, I guess the only time it's ever been washed is when the rain decides to pour heavily on it.

Disgusted, I bared my neck slowly and carefully, then placed my head on the block. The coldness of it made me close my eyes shut and I decided not to open it again, not until I'm sure I have reached the moon goddess’s abode safely, maybe if I prove to be a good wolf, she would grant me the gift of being reborn and I would take my revenge on the likes of Lindsey and Alpha Zachary.

I could feel Gamma Cooper closing in on me just as much as I can smell him, the chants from the pack members as he makes the announcement that I am to die here by the axe is pure ecstasy. It's simply proof that I wouldn't survive long in this pack. The microphone drop was what informed me that the inevitable moment is coming.

I gripped the sides of the scaffold expecting the axe to come… three… two… one. It never did.

My breath hitched instead when a wolf from the audience yells, “Stop!” A command. I opened my eyes to see Gamma Cooper's hands holding the axe steady above me by two inches, he looks fully aware but he can't move his limbs.