Chapter 8

• Lilah's POV
• "I'll think about that but for now, she ought to be reprimanded at the Royal Prison." His voice re-echoed in the room with an aura of authority. I looked around and couldn't see Michael, the only one who had been friendly to me since I walked through the gates of the palace. He was nowhere to be found.
• "Even if he was here, there's nothing he would be able to do to save you." My wolf told me, desperation took charge of me. I closed my eyes wishing I would die because I saw the light of the day turning its back against me. If someone had told me that I wasn't invited for a job opportunity, I wouldn't believe it.
• "Guards!"
• All of a sudden, I found four men walking into the room.
• "Seize her and drop her at the prison!" Alpha Carl ordered.
• I thought they would question me to hear from me before grabbing and taking me away with them but I was just giving myself false hope. If I would ever forget anything, I would never forget two things, Alpha George, who sentenced me to prison custody without seeking to know more into the case he's talking about, then especially Carlen who has denied me at the moment I needed her the most, even when she didn't know what I was about to say.
• We walked through the long hallways, through the ground floor of the palace and eventually out. I was wondering where they were taking me to, then my heart was thumping like it would rip my chest and burst it open. We walked some meters which could I guess since my head was spiraling around and I was on the verge of fainting. Suffering for what you have done isn't the same as when punishment is mated out on you for what you don't even know about.
• Finally we arrived at a massive stone building, I looked back to see the distance from where the palace stood, to my shock, I saw Alpha Carl walking behind me. The gate housing the prison with bold inscriptions on it 'The Royal Prison' was opened and here the guards handed me over. Some female cops who guard the prison came out to grab me.
• I turned back to look at Alpha Carl hoping he would say something. His face was tight, anger was plastered on it but deep down in his eyes I could see pity, but the anger on his heart and eyes was more than the slightest pity he had, so it was useless. I just wished he would say something to me at this point.
• "How long will I stay here?" I asked inside of me, hoping he would hear.
• "For as long as it's left for us to decide!" I shivered in shock. This answer uncovered a strange connection my wolf had with his, the anger and revengeful spirit I had was slowly paving way to weakness, I submitted to his authority, I no longer had the mind to hold up to avenging this unjust punishment I was given.
• "Mates!" My veins arched when I heard this.
• "What's going on?"
• Prior to the way my body was shivering in shock, the cops who were holding my two hands had to release me and were staring at me with shock. I'm sure they would ask what's going on between me and the Alpha. Our eyes were locked and we couldn't shift our gaze from each other. At one point, pity was about to overcome the anger but the heat of the fury came up and swallowed the pity.
• "Take her away, she's not my mate, she can never be my mate!" My lips hung open as he said this.
• So what I thought is true?
• Immediately, the policewomen seized me, taking me in, that was the last time I set eyes on the sky and the outside world.
• When I heard about the royal prison, I thought it would be different from normal prisons in the packs, I was under an illusion. The darkness surrounding here is one I can never comprehend, here is hell itself. It's so dark that I can't navigate my way through it if not that I'm being led, then I wonder how many months or years these cops were trained for their wolf to sense through this kind of darkness. I hear cries of pains from both men and women in their cells, but near and the barking of cops, "Shut the fuck up" from a distance.
• It was clear that I had walked into hell itself, the very hell people think it's far away. I was just moving forward not knowing where I was going but my mind told me I was set in motion. The next thing I heard was the sound of a metallic protector opening, then I was pushed in with all force, I fell face ward hitting my forehead on a stone, I felt pains, then the drip of a warm liquid which was no other thing but blood.
• "You will rot and die here!" One of the cos said with sarcasm, her voice seeming like the incantations of many persons. If not that I knew where the voice was coming from, I would mistake it for an evil spirit or a possessed person.
• "I swear that I'll deal with him, the Lycan king, Alpha George," he was my target. I don't know why Alpha Carl, his son who alerted him of my presence and also gingered him to make a decision over my head, didn't come to mind for revenge. "Is it actually true that he is our mate?" I asked my wolf.
• "Yes!" She replied with all confidence. I shook my head.
• "No, it can't be. He isn't our mate." I reassured myself even after my wolf had spoken. "I can't take such a mate."
• I didn't see it when it was night outside but my mind told me, my wolf has a way of passing information to me, I yawned, all the energy in my body had died down. I was about retiring to a troubled sleep after spending all my hours here in thoughts and tense anxiety. Then I heard people whispering in the corridor, my wolf which had died down and was begging for rest sprang in a flash. I sat up, leaning closer to the protector which stood on the door of my cell to listen to what they were saying. It wasn't the police cops but some other people, upon paying greater attention, it dawned on me that it was the two Alphas.
• Alpha George and his son, Alpha Carl.
• What are they doing here? Oh God!
• I took both hands to my head, staring at the ceiling. In my heart, prayers to the moon goddess were going on. I remembered what Carl said last before I walked in that I would be staying here until they made a decision over my head. Here, there are. I also remembered how I wished something would be said in my case, because I was afraid of staying in here for how long I didn't know. Now they are here, a new level of fear was washing over me.
• "What do they want to do to me?" I asked my wolf.
• "Just listen!" It was as if I was being pushed to go closer to the protector so I would hear better what they would say.
• "What if I accidentally let it make noise and they know I'm listening to their conversation?"
• "No, you wouldn't make any noise."
• So while they were still talking in low tones, I creeped closer to the protector but not reaching it, though I wasn't seeing my way. My wolf told me where to stop. I lay on my stomach and my ears were solely focused on what they were saying.
• "She's my mate, dad. I don't know how that is going to work!" I shivered as I heard the last part of the statement. Then I knew these men weren't up to any good intentions.
• "We've got to do the necessary. You know I'm lonely without any woman in my life, offer her to me to be my sex slave, at the end of it, she will be sacrificed. That's the custom of our pack, the Supreme Union Pack."
• "What!" I screamed inside of me. I'd heard of this custom from one of my colleagues who schooled at Hilton University, he was from this pack and always narrated so many stories about this pack to us. I didn't take it seriously until now but why should a girl who has served the Lycan king as a sexual tool for pleasure be killed rather than dismissed.
• "The Dragon Pack Festival is coming soon and we need a woman to sacrifice in order to appease them for their Luna we raped and killed." I gasp, suddenly holding my mouth tight so no one would hear.