SWNOVELS Chapter 8
I wish I had immediate answers to the questions bugging me as I laid there thinking about my situation.
I am sorry Hera, I whispered.
What for? She asked.
I am sorry that you are stuck with a pathetic human like me who no one wants, I sniffed, you deserve better.
Shut up Nyx,* She said and I could tell that she rolled her eyes, I love that you are my human and you are much more than you think, go to sleep please, we need the strength for later as they might decide to torture us.
I nodded at her words and decided to close my eyes hoping to slip into Slumber's embrace.
I was awoken by a noise and I sat up to see a figure standing I front of the cell with a plate In one hand and a bottle of water in the other. The light streaming from the window indicated that it was already dawn.
"Well, are you just going to sit there looking like a lost fool?" The person before my cell said highly irritated, "Come get this thing out of my hands, I have got other things to do than to serve a good plate to a rouge!" She spat and threw the bottled water into the cell. I instantly scrambled up and grabbed the plate as she slid it under the bars harshly causing sand particles to enter as the action rose dust.
"Don't know why I got to feed that stupid rouge!" I heard her mutter as she stomped away angrily causing murmur amongst the other inmates.
I took the plate up and looked at it's contents. It was meat soup and a very meaty soup at that made my stomach grumble in delight. I had never seen a more appetizing food being served to me in my entire life and it smelled heavenly too. It was filled with meat and I could hardly see the liquid in the bowl.
Amara would love this! I smiled to myself as I set aside the bowl to go wake her up. I walked to the bed and touched her lightly, she awoke with a yawn and rubbed her eyes without opening them.
"I had a very bad dream mommy that we were put in a cell and..." She stopped talking as she realised that I was never a dream and that we were actually in a cell and with that she erupted in tears. "It's okay baby." I drew her close in a hug, "Don't cry love, it will be okay."
"Will we ever be happy?" She sobbed.
"They brought food." I said to her avoiding her question as I didn't have an answer for it.
"Meat." She smiled excitedly as I set the bowl before her. She didn't waste time in gobbling up everything leaving me with nothing. I wasn't bothered with that, I was used to the hunger and I had to make sure that my baby was well fed.
After the very early breakfast, we sat down on the bed huddled together silently awaiting our fate when we heard a familiar voice spewing curses and feet being stomped angrily.
She reached my cell and slid some blankets under it with a frown, "I do not know when rouges started being wonderfully cared for." She said in a low mumble before storming off.
I got off from the bed and moved to take the blankets. They were very soft and furry although thin, we could use them, not like we had any where we came from.
"A rouge prisoner being treated like a princess!" I heard a voice snort and I looked up to see it came from the cell opposite me, I couldn't see who was in it well enough but I knew that it was a male's voice, "You must be a special one." The person continued and this time around, he stood up and walked over to his cell bars. I could see his dirty face now with a mass of dirty blonde hair adorning his head.
"I am not special." I mumbled, "Who are you?"
"A prisoner just like you only that I haven't found favor with the king as you had seemed to have done."
"What king are you talking about?" I looked at him like he had grown extra heads, surely he didn't know what he was talking about.
"The king of course." He snorted, "You are playing games with me right?"
"No..." I shook my head, "Where am I please? Where is this place?"
"This is the Blackmoon pack." He explained, "It's headed by the Alpha King."
"What Alpha King?" I was stunned not knowing what he was talking about.
"You know, the fearless, the courageous." He snorted again, "Lycus Dardanos, the Alpha and also the Alpha king, King of all Alphas." "What's he like?" I asked taking my seat on the bed next to Amara, I have heard of the Alpha king before but I had never met him.
"I don't know." He shrugged, "Intense black eyes and his wolf is a black wolf, very huge!"
Gleaming dark eyes! Black huge wolf! The words reeled in my head as the man kept talking but I couldn't hear him anymore as realisation had just downed on me that I was in the territory of the Alpha King who so happened to be my mate.