Erik’s POV
“I, Erik”
“Clara! Clara!”
I bit my lip anxiously.
“My king?” Ivan asked.
“CHECK THE TERRITORY NOW! FIND THE QUEEN!” I shouted, and Ivan rushed outside to give orders. I slumped my back into my chair, and I facepalmed.
“What happened?” Vincent asked anxiously.
“Clara mind-linked me, telling me there were rogues,” I said tremblingly.
“Calm down,” Vincent said, but I couldn’t. I stood and rushed to our house and searched for Clara. When I couldn’t find her, I rushed back to the pack house and looked for her. I still couldn’t find it, so I shifted and ran outside. I thought about the lake and immediately ran there.
I smell some traces of her. “In the lake!” I mind-linked everyone in the pack link. I followed her scent, but her scent immediately vanished.
“Where are you?” I asked myself. I am getting scared, and my mate is pregnant. My wolf was restless, and I couldn’t think of anything, so I let Liam take over. I am getting crazy while Liam is trying to track her smell.
“My love,” I thought. I also thought about our unborn child. What should I do If I lose them both? I got terrified at my thoughts and prayed to the moon goddess for their safety. The pack members arrived and started chasing Clara’s scent, but anyone couldn’t find her. I urged Liam to return to the pack house, and the members followed. I shifted and wore a robe I found in the back of a tree. I made my way toward the throne room and sat down. All the pack members were kneeling in front of me, and I released all of my aura. They were getting crushed with pressure, but I didn’t mind.
“HOW?!”
“IS THE BARRIER USELESS?!”
“DID ONE OF YOU LET SOMEONE IN, OR ONE OF YOU IS A TRAITOR?!”
“HOW CAN THE ROGUES ENTER WITHOUT EVEN ONE OF YOU NOTICING? WHY DID YOU LET THE QUEEN HERSELF ROAM AROUND HERSELF!”
“ARE YOU ALL USELESS?!”
I shouted and just let them feel my anger. No one dared to move and talk. “FIND HER,” I ordered with a threatening voice.
Clara’s POV
I woke up feeling dizzy and was surprised when I saw that I was in a cell. “Angeline!” I called for my wolf anxiously while hugging my stomach tightly.
“It’s okay. Nothing happened to our child,” Angeline said, and I sighed in relief.
I looked around the cell, and the smell was bad that I covered my nose. “Where are we?” I asked Angeline.
“I also don’t know, and we can’t use our powers anymore since we used them earlier. I can’t even feel our mate,” Angeline replied.
While thinking of a way for us to get out. I heard the door creak, and I heard some footsteps getting closer. I glanced up at the man standing in front of me, and my eyes grew big at the sight of my abductor.
“Klaus,” I gasped.
“Hey there, Clara, or should I say, your highness?” Klaus said, scoffing at the end.
“Klaus, you bastard!” I exclaimed, trying to grab him from inside the cell. I heard his evil laugh, and I glared at him.
“Don’t be like that, Clara. It’s been a while since we have been together.”
I was disgusted by his words that I spit on him, he glared at me, but I just scoffed at him. “Desperation changes someone to the core,” I said while smirking at him.
“Desperation? Well, you can say that, but I want to have fun, Clara. Believe me, no werewolf in this world doesn’t like having fun,” He said.
“You betrayed and killed our whole pack, my family that treated you as their own and kidnapped me just to have fun?” I whispered, slowly getting dizzy at his words.
“Hmm-mm,” Klaus hummed his reply as a yes and stumbled backward, falling to the ground and crying. My family and pack got killed for fun, I couldn’t believe what I heard, but I couldn’t feel any anger toward Klaus. I just looked him straight in the eyes, my eyes full of pity.
Klaus’s smile immediately vanished after seeing my reaction. He grimaced and snarled at me. “Don’t look at me like that!” He shouted and stomped his way out of the prison.
I caressed and looked at my bulging stomach. “Oh, moon goddess, please protect my child,” I prayed in my mind. I looked around at the cell, and there were numerous cells inside. I could feel some presence but couldn’t see them in the dark. I dragged myself to the back of the cell to lean on the wall. I could feel my child moving in my stomach, and I was not feeling well.
“My child, can you do me a favor and stay inside until we can come home” I whispered. I suddenly felt a pain in my stomach, signaling that my baby is preparing to go out.
I bit my lip nervously and wondered why they would kidnap a pregnant she-wolf. Is it still about the blood of a royal? Why do they move now? What would they gain in doing this kind of thing?
I woke up hearing someone say, “Hey you, eat this,” a rogue told me and slid a bowl of food inside my cell. It’s one of the guards. I looked around and winced at the pain in my back. I didn’t know that I had fallen asleep while deep in thought. I don’t know when it was, but I tried to move toward the food.
I need to eat for my child. It was hard for me to stand because of my huge stomach, but I forced myself to move until I reached the food. I ate even though the smell in the cell was horrible, and I forced myself to gulp my food until the bowl was clean. After eating, I closed my eyes and focused on feeling my powers.
“It’s still weak, and it will take a while since we are pregnant,” Angeline said. I bit my lip anxiously and looked around one more time to find something that could help me escape.
“Erik”
“Erik”
“Erik”
I repeatedly tried mind-linking Erik hoping for a reply, but I got no response. I sighed in frustration and dragged myself back into the corner to lean on the wall. My stomach began to hurt again, and I was on the verge of tears, thinking I would give birth to my child in this place. My breathing became heavy, and I tried to calm myself while hugging my stomach.
“Are y-you okay?” Someone asked. I looked at the cell before me and saw an older man chained up.
“I can hear your breathing,” He said. “I think I am in labor,” I replied while trying to calm my breathing. I squinted my eyes, trying to look at the man who was talking. His hair and beard were long, and you could see he was chained up here for a long time.
“Who are you?” I asked while slowly standing up and walking towards the entrance of my cell to look at the wolf closely.
The wolf grunted in pain, and I heard the chains, he tried to move, but the chains restricted him. “Are you okay?” I asked, but when I saw who it was, I gasped.
“What are you doing here?” I whispered, surprised that he was in front of me, and I couldn’t believe I would see him there.
“It seems that you know me, young lady. I’m sorry, but I don’t remember meeting you,” He said while glancing at me.
I furiously grabbed the bars in my cell and snarled at him. “You betrayed us, and now look at you!” I shouted at him. His eyes grew big, surprised at my outburst.
“Can you tell me what happened? I’m sorry, but I’ve been locked here for years,” He weakly replied. His eyes told me he was not lying, but I gritted my teeth in anger, not believing his words.
“Ellie even trusted you! How could you betray her and put her in that situation!” I shouted and furiously tried to remove the bars stopping me from coming near him.
“Ellie? Is she alive? How about my mate? How are they?! Tell me! Did they survive?!” He shouted back. His eyes grew big, and he continuously tried to remove his hands from the chain.
“What is he talking about?” I was surprised at his reaction.
“PLEASE TELL ME! HOW IS MY PACK? HOW IS MY MATE? IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING, TELL ME!” He desperately asked and still tried to break his chains. I stepped back, surprised and thinking about what was happening.
“W-what do you mean?” I asked, full of confusion. “You were there the whole time,” I whispered.
His eyes grew big as if realizing something. “I see, so they succeeded,” He said and laughed. He looked at me and laughed while crying. He looked so pitiful at how he reacted, and I covered my mouth with both hands. I have an idea of what happened. If it’s true that he has been locked here for years, then all of the information we gathered makes sense. The older man continued laughing while crying simultaneously, and I just looked at him, full of pity.
In a few minutes, he calmed down and lowered his head, looking at the floor. “Tell me, young lady, tell me everything that has happened, everything you know,” He said softly.
I told him every detail that has happened until now. “Who would have thought that child would be the King of werewolves?” He said and smiled warmly. “Did you know that he used to be a crybaby?” He asked while laughing weakly. I looked at him and quietly listened to every word he said.
“His father was strict, but it was that very reason that he almost succeeded in uniting all the packs in the country. I am glad that his son became what he dreamed of. I am really glad,” He said softly. I stayed quiet and just smiled at him. He slowly closed his eyes while smiling. I moved closer to him anxiously, but when I heard his breathing, I sighed in relief.
Another guard came and did his rounds. The pain in my stomach grew so intense that my claws revealed themselves and started scratching the floor. I grunted until the pain subsided. I caught my breath and licked my lick. I need some water, but they are not nice enough to provide anything to their prisoners. I was getting weak as time went by, tired in labor. I let myself succumb to the darkness and rested.
Third Person’s POV
“Is everything ready?” The mastermind of all the incidents said while Klaus was sitting confidently on a sofa.
“Everything is set. We need to wait for her to give birth,” Klaus said to the mastermind, and the old man laughed.
“FINALLY! AT LAST!” The older man shouted, his voice full of excitement. He laughed but stopped and grimaced at Klaus.
“Don’t try anything funny,” The man said to Klaus threateningly. Klaus just raised both of his shoulders and smirked at the older man.
“How’s that witch of yours? Does she still have any use besides being your sex doll?” The older man asked, uninterested.
“Oh, that bitch? She is getting back on track, and she will be in use if someone attacks us,” Klaus said and jumped from the sofa to stand up.
“It seems that my old friend has no more use. You can dispose of him since it will not be long before we perform the ritual for me to have a new host.” The older man said while caressing his chin.
Klaus thought for a minute about who the older man was talking about. “Ah!” Klaus exclaimed and laughed.
“That stupid Alpha? Then, I’ll enjoy myself then,” Klaus said, immediately heading toward their prison.
He smiled happily, thinking that he should play with Clara and how he would torture the Alpha that they had chained up. The young lad hummed happily, not even thinking of a plan of his own now. He follows what the mastermind says, and everything else seems a game to him. He was ruined, mentally and emotionally. When he reached the prison, he smiled at Clara.
“Hey, little Clara,” He called, using the nickname he always used in the past.
“Don’t call me that. You disgust me,” Clara retorted weakly. Klaus raised both his shoulders and turned his attention to the Alpha he was planning to torture. Klaus smiled widely at the Alpha that had been chained for years, excited to torture him. He opened the cell and went inside. He crouched down and slapped the older man.
“Hey, wake up!” Klaus said and slapped the old man in the face again. “I said wake up!” He furiously kicked the old man when there were no reactions.
“Stop it!” Clara shouted at Klaus, begging him to stop hurting the poor old man.
Klaus laughed and pulled the hair of the chained old man. “Why are you siding with him? When he is a traitor? Hmm?” Klaus asked while smiling.
“Shut up! I know what you did!” Clara snarled at Klaus. He turned his back on Clara and focused on the old man. He crouched down again to level himself to the old wolf.
“He said that you have no use now,” He whispered, and the old man grunted but was still unconscious.
“Hey, do you want me to touch your mate using your face, Alpha Louis?” Klaus whispered to the old man and laughed.