Tangled Destiny

Chapter 5

Sasha's POV

I woke up the next morning after the son of the alpha had returned on the day of the death of his father. I don't know if someone called him or not, but he is here, and that's what mattered.

After my name was mentioned in the palace, I didn't know where his mom took him to. She might have probably brainwashed him about me so that she could get her way through and maybe send me out to the streets.

I got out of my bed and got to the hallway, only to meet Luna crying. Anyone could be in that position and crying like that because I know what it feels like to lose something important to them. I mean, I've lost my parents before.

I went to console, ‘maybe this might be a chance for the both of us to connect and bury the hatchet' I thought mentally to myself.

I got to her, only for her to hold me in a manner that looked like we were engaged in a physical combat. Before I knew what was happening, I was struggling to go free from her tight grip and that was when the late alpha's son showed up.

He looked very angry and I could feel myself burning from the inside. I was about to melt on the spot.

Without wasting any time, he has already got to where we are and separated us. The next series of events that would follow this separation is what I did not see coming.

“I reject you, Sasha, as my mate, and I banish you from this pack”. I felt my heart rising and falling vehemently and I couldn't take it anymore.

I did not know when I ran out of the palace and into the forest. I kept running as tears were running out of my eyes. I kept reminiscing my good moments as I ran towards the forest.

I ran to a point where my leg could not carry me any longer. The last thing I could remember was falling down on the ground of the forest before darkness enveloped me.

***

It seemed I was not so lucky after all, as I woke up and met hungry-looking werewolves staring at me like they had been searching for me for a very long time. As if I was their meal tonight.

I didn't know how it happened to that point, but it was already in the night, and the sun had hidden behind the clouds. I could see the crescent moon emanating light from the sky.

I am sure I'm a ready meal for these hungry wolves tonight. But, what did I do to deserve a fate like this? I can't be this unlucky in life; banished from the kingdom for nothing, and now to be devoured by rogues.

A sharp lounge from one of the wolves immediately jolted me out of my thoughts. I regained consciousness on a higher level and it felt like my spirit just left and returned to my body.

Before I could make it to my feet again, I was sent flying into the forest by a heavy blow from another rogue. This is getting real and more intense.

I was still on the ground–trying to get up, of course–when I was overpowered by multiple wolves. I didn't know how it happened, I screamed out my life on top of my lungs.

The last thing I could remember was being lounged at by one of the wolves.

***

I slowly opened my eyes to see if I was still alive or if I was already in the afterlife. I could hear some machines beeping, and this place smelled like drugs. Could this mean I am in a hospital? But how?

I was contemplating how everything happened when the door suddenly opened and a man stepped inside the room where I was.

“You are awake, how are you feeling now?” He gestured to me, his words laced with concern and care–something I had not experienced in a long time.

He sighed, seeing I did not falter nor answer his concerning question. My attitude was weird, but yes. I don't know where I am and I don't know what I am doing here.

“I can see you don't want to answer; maybe you are scared”, he said to me, and I appreciated his understanding.

He turned, about to leave until he stopped at the door and turned back after he heard my voice. “Where am I?” I asked him.

“You were saved from the rogues by our alpha prince, and that's all you need to know”, he said straight and left the room, leaving me to my thoughts.

‘What type of weird life have I got myself into?’ I asked myself, and I kept asking myself many questions until I no longer knew what to say. That was when I fell asleep again and the darkness was quick to welcome me.

***

“You have been sleeping for four days, wake up!” I kept hearing… in my dream or reality? I don't know. I was feeling quite comfortable with the way I was and I liked it. Why would I want to stand up and go back to the reality I was trying to escape? The reality that my parents no longer exist in. If I can find my parents in this dreamland, I will be more than happy.

“I said, wake up!” This time around, the voice sounded so real, and it sounded more like that of Luna Margaret. Immediately, I jumped out of bed only to find myself alone in the same room.

Was that a nightmare… again? I used to have nightmares after the death of my parents until the alpha took good care of me and made all those terrible experiences disappear.

I went to open the door when I jammed someone on my way. It looks like he was coming to the room. Maybe to see how I'm faring.

“Go back to the bed” he shouted at me the moment he sighted me. I rushed back to sit on the bed, and he was following me straight into the room.