Chapter 58

Aria

When Knight hung up on his call with Hunter, at first I did not have any idea what was I going to do and what was going to be Hunter's decision when Knight intentionally put him in the middle of such a dilemma. Knight has no intentions to kill, he has told me by himself even though his intentions were far worse than killing me.

Knight's agendas were so vicious and tricky. It was impossible to learn what was going to be his next move going to be.

And that was why I did not want Hunter to reach here. Yes, I did not care or give a damn about what was going to be my state but I did not want my mate to get hurt or injured. Only because of that, I tried to send Hunter a signal to stop him from trying to reach where I was, taking Sierra's help to convey the message.

I still had no idea if I had succeeded in doing that because Hunter's mark on me was still fresh and raw. But at the end of my attempts, I began badly regretting my decision.

I did not know how that signal went, I did not have a single idea of what message Hunter has derived from it, and I did not know if it reached him or not. Either way, this entire situation was fucked up in so many ways.

It has been more than half an hour, my anxiety kept getting more and more.

I knew till now the rouges have pounced on our pack like hungry animals and the attack must have already caused a lot of damage, maybe taken the lives of many. And here I was trapped in Knight's mansion, unable to fight for my pack and kill those rouges.

Suddenly the door opened and Knight entered the room, "Seems like your mate couldn't find out your location." he said and walked closer and removed the gag from my mouth, and began to open the ropes.

I tried to take the opportunity to run but he grabbed me by the waist and threw me on the bed like some rag doll.

"I knew you were going to try something like this, after all, such a feisty little thing you are," he hovered me before I could get up, his menacing grey eyes looked through my mine and it disgusted me to the extreme.

"Move away from me." I pushed him to get him off of me but he did not budge.

"And what makes you think I am going to listen to you?" He snickered and leaned closer to my neck taking a whiff of my scent before he raised his head to look at me once again.

I felt nauseous because of this forceful closeness Knight brought. I hated his smell, I hated seeing his face, I loathed everything about him.

"This attraction isn't made to stay away from," He grabbed my jaw, "It's made to make the best use out of it and I know how to do that very well."

"I'll cut you into pieces, Knight. Don't even think you can claim me in any way." The rage took over and I am sure my eyes had darkened because of Sierra who resided there.

I wasn't able to shift all this time because of the sliver emollient Knight used on the ropes but now I had no restraints keeping me trapped the want to kill this werewolf was more than anything.

"This is what I like about you," He smirked, "A boring sniveling she-wolf is something I never wanted."

"Consider it your bad luck that you have not chosen some weak she-wolf, because I know how to put men like you in their place." I let my claws out and with a swift move, I reached for his neck to dig my claws into his flesh.

But before my class could meet his skin, he grabbed my wrists stopping them midway.

"Very predictable move, indeed," He chuckled and pinned my hands over my head using one hand.

Without wasting a second I tried to knee him between his legs but with his free hand, he prevented this move of mine too.

"Your efforts will bring you nothing, little girl," He leaned closer to my face, tightening his hold on my jaw to the point of pain, "So just stop and learn to submit because that is what you are going to be doing from now. Understand?"

This was it. I did not bother the slightest but before I spit on his face because that is what he deserved, "Fuck yourself, you piece of shit!"

Finally, some sort of anger managed to flame in the knight's grey eyes. His jaw clenched and his hand from my jaw moved to wrap around my throat.

"I have decided not to kill you but that shouldn't give you the misconception that I can't show you worse than death," He growled, "Don't get this idea in your head that I will be going any easy on you if you keep disobeying me like this."

It was hard to breathe because of his tight his grip was, it was bone-crushing making it almost impossible for me to intake air.

"I am not scared of you nor I am unaware of how low you can stoop," I managed to speak, "So try using these threats on someone else."

I knew what I said definitely triggered his beast and the darkening of his orbs was just one mere sign of it which my eyes did not fail to notice

"So let's make sure that from now you remain scared of me for the rest of your life," He shoved his hand inside his pocket and pulled out a sharp pocket knife.

He brought the edge of the knife to the side of my face, keeping it dangerously close as he looked into my eyes searching to see any signs of fear. But I refused to let him have the satisfaction.

I was not going to let him see through my scars or fall weak.

I was not going to let him win.

"Say hello to your new memory because it's going to stay with you forever," He spoke and angeled the knife to draw a sharp cut on my face but suddenly his eyes fell on my neck where the collar of the shirt had slipped away and exposed my skin or perhaps.....Hunter's mark.

If what I'd seen in his orbs previously was anger, then this time the darkness that roofed over his eyes was a deadly storm. He looked deranged.

However, among all the chaos his reaction did not make it through as I'd presumed.

"I see, the Alpha has put his mark on you," It was a smile, a smile that did not look like one instead seemed like the silence that gave away the omen of the upcoming storm, "Quiet interesting that you let him mark you so soon just because he quenched your thirst during your heat. I didn't think you would turn out to be such a slut."

The insult hit me like a destructive tsunami. Amidst the rage I felt, the feeling of humiliation became prominent.

"Don't you even dare to question my character, Knight! Just don't!" When I remained unsuccessful in getting my hands out of his grip, a sense of helplessness hit me.

"Why wouldn't I? It's evident that you acted like a slut on Hunter's bed," A smirk spread on his face, "Let him fuck you like all the other whores he has fucked."

Whether Knight knew it or not, he hit my weak spots with those insulting words.

"He's my mate, you moron. And if sleeping with him makes me a slut then I'm better with being a slut rather than being someone of value in front of your damn eyes."

"It's not about sleeping, Aria," He knew how much he was affecting me with his words because he was using those same wounds of mine to break me all over again, "It's about giving in so easily. It's about how easily you forgot everything every he did just because you were desperate for sex and attention, or maybe you too were running behind the position to be the Luna of the pack? Was this the greed for the respect that made you forget your oh-so dignity?"

I could bear every pain in the world but not such tarnishing insults.

"Shut up! Just shut up!" I wanted to cover my ears but I could not, I was forced to hear him spit shit and talk about me like this.

"Don't cry, sweetheart," He wiped my tears, I did not even know they slipped from my eyes and managed to slide down, "I haven't even started yet."

"Okay, let's make it easy for you," He suddenly spoke, "First I'll cover your mate's mark with the marks I'll give you with this knife, and then we'll go back to crushing your pride once again. How does that sound?"

He moved the knife closer to my neck and pressed the edge over Hunter's mark. A slight pain cut through as he pressed the knife over my skin, adding pressure so that he could draw a cut over my skin.

I knew blood has managed to seep out even though the cut was really small because I felt the cool liquid slide down my skin.

"Brace yourself for the pain, Aria," He whispered, "Because here comes the most interesting part." He raised the knife and angeled it to dig it into directly my flesh but before the knife could touch my skin a loud sound broke through that left the entire mansion shaken.

Knight's movement halted so did my inner battle to get through the upcoming pain.

And then I heard it.

A very familiar howl.

The howl was of none other than....Hunter.