Chapter 6

Chapter Six

He possessed a look Mia had never known in all her life. An inexpressive look was stuck on his face—unyielding and unsmiling. His formidable aura ruffled Mia a bit, but his warm green eyes soothed away any form of fear that was beginning to levitate in her. This was not the case for many people, for they were unable to see the warmth his eyes bequeathed. Mia had looked beyond the stone-cold face of the man before her and probed into him to see those shimmering lights in his eyes.

“What the hell are you doing here?” He demanded, keeping his tone under control to keep him from getting angry that his quiet time had been ruined.

“Oh, I’m sorry... I wasn’t watching my steps, and I fell into this pool. I had no idea anyone was in here. You see, it was very dark, so I couldn’t see. You wouldn’t blame me for that, right, and,” she began to waggle her tongue, getting him irritated, and he stepped out of the water.

He saw her as an outsider and perhaps even a spy. “Come out, now,” he ordered, and Mia walked out of the water without a single thought of him harming her in her heart. Before she could blink, Alex had her hands pinned behind her back as he threw her on his shoulder like a big bag of oats.

She gasped in surprise. “What are you doing?” She asked him.

“Taking you in as my prisoner,” he said, as he walked away, clad only in his trousers.

“What? Why? What have I done? I’ve only come out here for a good purpose. I’ve done nothing wrong. Put me down at once!” She ordered him, but he turned a deaf ear to her.

She kept ranting till they got to the pack house. “Put me down!” She insisted, and Alex dropped her unceremoniously on the floor, and she hit her behind on the hard floor.

She grimaced and stared at him. “That was quite rude,” she said.

“I obeyed your orders,” he replied cockily, as he called for Jeff, one of the gammas in the pack house. “Lock her up in the dungeon,” he said, staring at Mia as her pupils enlarged in shock. “She’s a spy,” he added.

“Yes, Alpha,” Jeff obeyed, going over to Mia and picking her up. It dawned on Mia that this was the man she was set to marry in three days, Alex Heartman.

“You’re mistaken." "I’m not a spy.” “I’m Mia, the daughter of alpha Jayden,” Mia said as Jeff dragged her.

Alex scoffed. “Imposter. “Alpha Jayden can’t have a talkative daughter like you,” he replied, and Mia huffed in shock. “Take her away,” he said to Jeff.

“Come on, let’s go,” Jeff said, forcing her in the direction of the dungeon.

“You’re making a mistake!” Mia yelled at the top of her lungs as she was taken away to the dungeon.

“Imposter,” Alex scoffed as he walked away.

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The next morning, Lauren went over to Mia to call her down for breakfast, which was quite an unusual thing for her because Mia always walked down the stairs in her bubbly manner, with a face filled with joy, a smile as bright as the sun that lights up a room and warms up the coldest of hearts, and with eyes that were like the color of the moon and with iris that were like the colors of a filbert.

“Mia?” She called as she popped her head through the door. “You’re late for breakfast today,” she added, as she walked into the room, getting no response from her daughter.

She got closer to the bed and noticed that it was well arranged, which indicated that Mia had not slept on it. Lauren panicked but decided not to think outrageously about the worst things that might have happened to her daughter. “Perhaps she has done her bed and is in the bathroom,” she thought out loud as she walked over to the bathroom door. She knocked softly. “Mia, are you in there?” She asked, but there was no response, and there was no sound coming from the bathroom that someone was in there running a bath.

She opened the door, and indeed, her instincts were confirmed. Her daughter was not in the bathroom. She walked briskly out of the room, her heartbeat accelerating in panic. She met some of the omegas on her way down the stairs. “Have any of you seen Mia today or been in her room?” She asked.

“No, my lady," she said. “The last we saw of her was her going to her room,” was their response, and Lauren nodded, letting them go about their various choices. Even her peers among the omegas had no idea where our daughter was.

“What’s with the worried look?” Jayden asked as he noticed Lauren walking to the table with a look of anxiety on her face.

“I can’t find Mia, and the Omegas haven’t seen her either.” “It seems like she hasn’t gotten out of her room today, but still, she’s not in,” she explained worriedly.

“You’re worrying unnecessary, Lauren,” Jayden said to her, shaking his head.

“Do not tell me that, Jay.” I can’t find my daughter in her room, and no one has seen her; do you expect me not to worry? “I am her mother, for crying out loud!” She replied, her tone slightly over the edge.

Jayden exhaled. “There’s no cause for alarm.” You know how Mia is. Check around the pack house. “Send some of the omegas to ask her other friends, the elder grandchildren, if they have seen her,” he said, and Lauren inhaled and nodded as she walked out of his presence to find her daughter.

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Alex walked into the dungeon and over to Mia’s cell. “Has she eaten anything?” He asked one of the guards standing by her cell.

He shook his head. “No, alpha. She has refused to eat anything since last night up until this morning. “All she did was talk and rant about how she is the daughter of Alpha Jayden,” he replied.

Alex stood in front of the cell and saw Mia sitting close to the cell bar, her head on her knees that were pulled up to her chest. “What is it, young lady?” Alex asked her, and Mia opened her eyes and noticed it was him. She kept quiet, refusing to answer him. “You have to eat.” “No prisoner of mine starves,” he added, and she stared at him. “Especially if that prisoner claims to be the daughter of an arch enemy,” he continued with a blank expression on his face, yet his eyes twinkled in amusement.

Mia got up from the ground and walked to the bars of her cell. “What makes you think I’m lying?” She asked him.

Jayden is a reserved kind of man, and you... He said as he looked at her from head to toe. “They are the complete opposite of him,” he added.

“Didn’t it occur to you that I may have gotten my traits from my mother?” She asked him with a wide fake smile on her face.

“Women are not in any way associated with this kind of behavior.” “It’s unusual and uncultured,” he said, putting his hands in his pockets.

Maya gasped in shock. She grabbed the cell bars. “Release me at once, and I’ll show you what an uncultured girl can do,”

“I have no doubts,” he replied, and shrugged. “Do endeavor to eat your meals,” he added, and walked away.

She stood at the cell door, watching him go. He acts so cold and yet is concerned about me eating. Who’s unusual now? She huffed.