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Alicia
The Nyx wolves were at our gates; it only meant one thing–we were five steps away from heaven’s gate.
For the past six years, we’ve lived in peace. It actually baffled me as to why the Nyx wolves were at our gates, ready to march into the pack at all costs.
The Nyx wolves had existed for as long as wolves had existed. They were a rare species that were feared by the werewolf world for their ferocity, heartlessness, and evil. They feared no one, not even the werewolf king. If they wanted his throne, all they had to do was move in, and it would be theirs.
I knew my father had committed a lot of atrocities before and after becoming the Alpha. But he never did anything without reason. Whatever he’d done to bring the Nyxes out here must have been so bad.
“Go into your room, Alicia,” my mother yelled.
“What’s going on, Mother?” I asked.
“Maybe you should listen for once,”
“If you tell me why I need to run into my room like a five-year-old child, maybe I’ll listen to you,”
“The Nyx wolves are here,”
“That much I know, and why are they here? What do they want? What did you and Dad do?”
My mother looked away from me. Something was going on. Something they wanted to hide from me.
“If you had listened to me and your father and gotten married to one of those men we arranged for you, you wouldn’t be here right now, and I wouldn’t be so worried about my only child dying along with me,”
I smirked.
She wasn’t giving me the answer I needed or wanted to hear. Instead, she had to remind me of how they’ve been trying so hard to get rid of me.
All six men they tried to arrange me with, I rejected at first sight. I wanted to find my fated mate. I wanted to wait for whoever it was I was destined to spend the rest of my life with.
“Stop being stuck in the past, Alicia, and move on,” she spat in my face before walking away from me, ushering some little kids into the safe dungeon.
Angrily, I walked back into my room.
Past? Did that ever exist? I never understood why my mother believed I was stuck in the past.
After the death of the preceding Alpha, I got sick for two months. My parents tried their very best to bring me back to my feet and in the end, I woke up feeling as though I’d forgotten something. Something very important. My father told me it was nothing. Nothing special and I needed to move on because I’d been given a second chance at life.
As I looked out through my window, I saw the Nyx wolves, walking into the pack, they had their faces covered with a mask.
Their leader only had his nose covered with a piece of cloth and his eyes were covered with a dark shade of glass. Something about him was different. Something that pulled me to him like a bee gets pulled to a flower.
Suddenly, I saw some of the pack warriors running towards them and I watched as they got slashed one after the other. My legs wobbled and I fell to the ground.
We are at war!
Within a few seconds, my door was thrown open, and two of the maids who worked for my parents rushed into the room.
“What happened?” I asked, panicking.
“They’re looking for you,” one of them answered.
“Me? Why?”
Before they could give me an answer, the door was forced open from outside, and two Nyx soldiers rushed in.
They didn’t ask any questions, they didn’t say anything. They just grabbed me by my arms.
“Where are you taking me?” I demanded.
“I’d advise you to close your eyes as we walk down the stairs,” one of them advised.
I thought it weird and I didn’t give much thought to it. I was more bothered as to why I was being held like a criminal and being dragged to God knows where.
As I walked past the staircase, I saw my mother, lying there, lifelessly, almost like a doll. My heart vibrated against my ribcage. I didn’t know what to make of the events.
Drew, the pack’s Gamma, and my former friend were on his knees, bleeding from a wound on his face while two Nyx wolves held him down.
“Let me go!” I demanded silently at first.
“LET ME GO!” I yelled, commanding.
One of the wolves grabbed me by my chin so tightly I could hear my jaw almost breaking.
“Your father has refused to surrender and is locked inside his office. You, fussy mouth, are our way in. You either allow us to do this the easy way or we take the terrible way,”
My body suddenly became soft and I didn’t bother fighting them as they dragged me away.
While his warriors were being slain, Father locked himself away like a coward and didn’t bother fighting for the people.
By the time we arrived at the pack’s office, I could see the door of my father’s office opened ajar. The Nyx leader I saw earlier was standing close to the desk. His body frame was so large it blocked out my view of my father.
“She’s not needed here anymore, The Beast broke in,”
One of the Nyx wolves waiting in the office announced. The two warriors let go of my hand and I fell to the ground.
A scent suddenly wrapped around my senses, sapping my pain away from me for a minute. It was of the wild forest mixed with blood and it was fucking distinct. It picked me up to my feet and made my heart a raging mess.
It was coming from inside my dad’s office. It was coming from ‘The Beast’.
As if he felt what I felt too, he turned towards me and I caught a glimpse of my father, soaked in his own blood as his head lay peacefully on his desk.
I sucked in a deep breath just as I felt the tears gushing down my eyes in rhythm.
Large footsteps came from the room and I watched as The Beast closed the door behind him.
“Why?” I mumbled, not strong enough to ask why he had to do that to my family.
The cloth covering his mouth as well as the glasses came off. He looked awfully familiar like I’d spent my entire life with him somehow.
“An eye for an eye, Alicia Rose…..”
There was only one person who called me Alicia Rose. It’s been a long time since I heard someone call me that.
But why can’t I remember who it was? It was as if the memory was lodged somewhere in my head that I couldn’t reach.
Those blue eyes called to me like a siren but I was dead to the memories of who he was.
