The Damned Princess

Every second that was passing felt like an hour, it was getting harder to control me. Jay pulled me closer to himself and I buried my face in the crook of his neck. Liam asked again “so Daniel, I’m sure you must have an explanation, we would be glad if you could share”.

My senses were so heightened right now, I could hear every movement he was making. He shifted in the chair and cleared his throat. “Would you give me a fair chance to explain my whole story”, he asked. My brother gestured him to speak.

He cleared his throat again and began with his story, “everything began when you guys moved out of Italy and started living away from your palace. I also moved out of Blanes when I turned eighteen. It was the early 1960′s and you guys were in Dominica and coincidentally I was there too”.

“That was the first time I saw the royal lycans and only then I found out about your reasons for not living in Italy. There were a lot of rumors, many stories about you guys but I was too deep in my sorrow to care about that”.

“Then one day, the news of Heracles’ men coming after you spread around. We were in such a small country, every lycan living there was talking about it. That incident lit the fire of revenge in me. I realized that if I stay close to you guys maybe I’ll have a chance to reach to him”.

“I tried my best to stay close to you guys and find out every little piece of detail about you. After some time, you decided to move out of Dominica to the nearby islands, and then you went to Brazil. I followed you guys everywhere hoping I would somehow find my way to him”.

“In Brazil, I finally got an opportunity. I found the guys he sent after you before you did. First I thought that I’ll fight them and ask them about his location but then I realized that they are much older and stronger than I’m and I’ll never be able to defeat them alone”.

“So, I came up with my plan. I approached them and told them my sob story, of course leaving out the part about the death of my parents. They were really hard to convince and at first, they beat me so much that I thought I’d die”.

“But I didn’t give up and I finally convinced them that I just want to work for Heracles because I think he’s the most powerful lycan on the planet and I want to be a part of his army. I told them about how you would always suspect his men coming after you but I can stay far enough for you guys to not know of my presence but close enough to send details about you to him”.

“After a lot of effort, I finally got a letter from Heracles. It said that he wants me to do exactly what I said I’ll and in return, I get to call myself a part of his army, and eventually if I prove my loyalty to him, I’ll get to meet him and be promoted”.

“After that, I followed you guys everywhere. When you started moving to countries with less or no lycans at all, I did back and forth from California so that you never suspect of my presence but then you moved here only”.

“I was going to move away from here, at least to a different state but then I bumped into my beautiful mate one day. Before I could even manage to make my way into her life, she made herself best friends with the lycan princess. I kept low for some time because I couldn’t understand what to do”.

“I thought I’ll never come close to her and keep doing my job like all these years. But you know how it is for us when it comes to our mates, first I thought I’ll just look at her from a distance once in a while and that’s it”.

“But I couldn’t stop myself from wanting her more every day. Finally, I made a decision to claim the love, the light of my life, and to send wrong information to Heracles until I have something better figured out”.

I listened to his story patiently for the sake of my mate and my sister in law. I looked at them, my chest was burning with rage and Daniel’s blood is the only thing that will stop that fire and I am sure they would have figured out by now what I am thinking.

I turned towards him and got up, “I let you in my house, in my life and this is what you give me in return”, I hissed at him. He also got up, “listen to me Sienna”, I threw a punch straight to his face, “have I given you the authority to call me by my name”.

He took a few steps back, “I’m not here to fight you” he said looking at my brother. “You want to avenge your parent’s death right, you want to kill Heracles, let’s see what you have got”, I said and kicked him out of the glass doors of our back yard.

The door shattered and glass flew everywhere, cutting both of us but I was not in the mood to stop. He got up and said, “I don’t like to hit women Sienna, don’t make me”. I looked at my brother and he looked like he was holding in a laugh.

I smirked, “he’s warning me, brother”. “Stop it Enna, there’s no need to fight”, my brother said half-heartedly, I knew he wanted to kick his ass as much I did but he was holding back for the sake of his mate and mine.

I turned towards Daniel and just looking at his face fuels the fire burning in me. I gestured him to make a move but he didn’t. “Come on boy or are you scared to get your ass kicked by a woman”, I said mockingly which was enough to hurt his ego.

He charged towards me and started throwing punches and kicks but was unable to land even one. I was just defending myself and did not make one move yet because I wanted him to realize that he might be strong but you can’t defeat centuries-old lycans with just that.

I had enough of this, “you’re going to kill Heracles with this boy, let me show you what’s actual fighting” I said and threw a punch to his ribs and I heard the sound of his ribs cracking and he groaned in pain, it felt so soothing to my ears.

I heard my brother stopping Jay from coming in between us, I tried not to glance back at him because I knew he will be very unhappy with me right now, so I focused on my prey instead. Daniel took a moment to get himself back instance, “you know I’m giving you time to get back in form but this doesn’t happen in real life, right” I smiled at him.

A low growl left his throat and he channeled his lycan, he looked at me with furious red eyes making me smirk. He ran towards me and threw a punch to my face; I fell a few feet back. I did not make any move and let him hit and pretended like he was winning. There is no better feeling than shattering their lycan’s pride.

He grabbed my throat and pinned me to the wall, choking me. He growled, “I told you don’t make me do this Sienna”. I laughed and he looked confused, “for the last time, I didn’t give you the permission to call me by my name”, I said and kneed his stomach.

He lost his grip on me, I threw back to back punches on his face, his chest, his shoulder. I heard every bone that cracked with every punch of mine and I heard his cry of pain, it worked as fuel to me, not letting me stop. He fell down, I went on top of him and continued crushing his face with my fist.

He was bleeding now; his blood was everywhere on him and on me. “You put my mate in danger and you put yours in danger” I growled at him, “I came to you, you bastard. I came to you and talked to you and you lied to my face and you expect me to understand you”. I kept venting out my anger with my words and with my hands.

I heard voices yelling at me to stop but it was like I had no control over myself for that moment. Someone grabbed and pulled me backward, I turned around ready to charge at them as well, it was my mate.

Jayson looked at me with so much anger but also hurt. I was breathing so heavily and I could feel the adrenaline rushing in my veins. I slowly brought my hand down and he took a few steps backward, he looked like he was disgusted with me like he could not even look at me and it hurt more than any fight could ever.

“Jay” I whispered, he pretended like he didn’t hear me and shouted for Becky. They both did not even look at me once and had all their attention on Daniel. “Help me take him in, I need to a patch him up before his bones start healing”, Becky said to Jayson.

They both picked him up and took him inside, not glancing at me once, like I was not even there. Liam came and grabbed my hand; he took me to my room and asked me to clean myself up. “I’ll talk to them sorellina, you clean yourself up”, he said to me softly and left.

I went to my bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror, my face was covered in dried blood. I could not look myself in the eye and kept repeating to myself that he deserved it because he betrayed us. I stripped out of my clothes and stepped into the hot shower.

The water was so hot, I felt like my skin was burning at first but when I got used to it, it felt really soothing. Redwater was flowing into the drain and at the back of my head, there was a small voice telling me that my mate saw a glimpse of the real monster in me today and he might not ever accept that part of me.