SWNOVELS Chapter 196
191 -The Cries Of The Broken Alpha.
"Beatrice!" he said my name before approaching me but then instantly stepping back.
"There is a dead body," I stuttered in tears, avoiding the fact that we have met after almost a month. Akin followed my finger pointing at the dead body and frowned.
"Oh Goddess!" he yelped, reaching the dead body and kneeling beside it, "Whoever did this is an animal. You are not safe here." he got up again and turned to speak to me.
"I am very safe here," I composed my posture and said, holding back a whimper. His sight was a reminder of Helel.
Only I knew how I was able to look at his face and not cry out loud, missing Helel.
"Beatrice! Please stop pushing me away. Let me help you," he requested, not carrying the usual confident posture he used to have.
"I am not. I just want to move on from everything. What your brother endured because of me was too much. I wouldn't want anyone of you to face the same terror again for helping me," I said, keeping my eyes to the side and not looking him in the eye.
"Flynn is crowned as the alpha king?" I asked s I changed the subject, feeling this fit of rage that I couldn't describe in words. He had taken over what belonged to Helel, I will not forget that.
"I am not here to talk about anyone else but you," Akin whispered, trying to step closer.
"Did they find hi- did you find his body?" I asked Akin, not strong enough to say his name.
"They had his body for a few days. The elder of the council wanted to make sure our father was not lying. So they kept his body and after making sure he is dead, they discra—," Akin stopped talking and rubbed his face in his hands.
"If you don't want to end up like him, please leave me alone." I requested him and this time I even begged him with my palms met before him.
He was watching me with mixed emotions.
"Please," I repeated myself, "I am much happier here," I lied, turning my face to the other side.
"I will call the guards to take care of the dead body and also look for the monster who did that. I will make this place safe enough for you, Beatrice!" he stubbornly stated and let me know that no matter how much I request him, he will not back away.
"You can follow me to the out and find your way back to your home from there," he murmured as he knew I have lost my way in the tall grass. I followed him to the road in an awkward silence. Everything about us being together made me fear for his fate.
I was responsible for what happened to Helel, I would die if anyone else faced the same fate.
"There," Akin said, stopping on the road.
"How is Maddox?" I asked, stealing eyes from him. I have not heard his name in a while. He didn't try approaching me either so I was worried for him.
"He is trying to get through this hard time," Akin said, watching the guards and the cops arrive. The moment I saw so many cars, I bolted into the fields. I even heard Akin express his shock at how afraid I was to be seen with him.
I made my way straight into the house where my mother was resting the whole day like every day. She saw me panting and gulping down water like a thirsty crow and rushed over to see what had happened to me. "You are supposed to be at work," Mom said, trying to scan me.
"I am not returning to that job again," I informed her, drinking from the glass when she suddenly snatched it out of my hands and threw it in my face.
The water was cold enough to make me lose my breath for a second. She then grasped my arm and pulled me closer, her other fist holding my hair from the back of my head.
"Enough with this bratty attitude. You are the reason we are here today. If you had not spread your legs so wide for all the brothers to fit in, this wouldn't have happened. Now go to work like a good bitch or if this is not your choice of work, go be a prostitute," she muttered on my face, spewing so much hate that I was left frozen for a moment.
"Let me go," I screamed at her, freeing myself from her grasp and it pissed her off.
"I have enough of your attitude missy. You should be ashamed of yourself and be in my feet for ruining my future with Lord Vasquez but here you are, giving me glares?" she lunged at me and slapped me hard to knock me down on the floor. I got up again to push her back but this time, she held a knife to my throat and surprised me.
"Disobey me again, Beatrice! Just try me," her eyes changed colors, making me aware she could do way more than what I was expecting from her.
"I am not those people who you beat around and act like a queen with. I am your mother, I know things that will control you and make you my bitch so you better be grateful I am treating you nicely even after everything you have done." She pushed me back after scratching my neck with the knife and throwing the knife in the sink.
"Now go, sleep with any rich guy and bring me money. Or else-,* she waved her finger in my face, making me wonder what else she had been hiding from me.
When she turned around and left for the bedroom, I let out the breath I had been holding in and raised my head to watch Markus hiding in the stairs and staring at me.
I forced my back straight and forged a smile for him until I remembered the last night and the cries of the girl.
How was he able to survive in the fields with such a deadly monster roaming around?