Wolf under an oak tree.

My eyelids felt like someone poured concert on them, and my head was pounding against my skull, and with a lot of effects, I slowly opened my eyes, to see that I was in kept in a dark room with only a small bulb over my head that was doing a poor job at lighting this place up, and the smell of dried blood, urine, and stale food made me nauseous, and the little food that I had was almost up, but I tried my best to not vomit.

While I looked around the room, I couldn't find anything that would help me get out of this hellhole. The walls were bare, the paint was peeling off the wall, and there was no window in this room, so I was not able to know what time of the day it is.

After looking at my surroundings in vain, I tried to pull at the ropes, that are tightly tied around my hands and legs, but the more I moved, the ropes just got tighter, so I stopped my attempt and just sat there, waiting till someone comes inside. And I think the God above likes fulfilling my wishes today because just then, the door opened, and in walked Zander with a bottle of water.

“You know you should have made some noise, Luna. So that I would have come to check on you.”Zander said. And opened the bottle and emptied the ice-cold water on my head.

“You fucking bastard! When Jace gets his hand on you, I don't think you will have the best death around here.” I spat and struggled more with my ropes.

“Alpha Jace must be busy trying to find me right now, but you don't have to worry about that, I guess before he gets to us, we will be long gone, and you will be long dead,” he said in a sinister voice, and came closer to me and bend down to my eye level in front of me, and I spat at his face for even saying that.

“You bitch!” Zander yelled at me before he wiped his face clean, and he slapped me so hard that I had whiplash, and I think I might have dislocated my jaw.

“You better behave. Or else, I will make sure...” “Zander! I think that is enough.” an authoritative voice said from near the doorway, and Zander glared at me one last time, before moving away from my face, and that is when my heart nearly stopped.

“Midnight! Once you are done with her, I too want to have some fun.” Zander spoke, and Midnight or should I say Alan nodded his head before he gestured for Zander to leave the room, and he bowed his head, before leaving.

“Didn't I tell you, my sweet Iris, that I will get you one way or the other?” each word that he spoke made my heart beat faster, and I felt an adrenaline rush. “But I must say, that I never imagined you to be the key to unlock all that power. At first, I thought, maybe I should give you the slowest possible death for what you did to me, but now, I have other plans for you,” he whispered in my ear and lightly touched my face, and I moved away, but then he came forward and grabbed my cheeks.

“Alan, let me the fuck go.” I sneered, but he let out a malicious laugh and backed away from me.

“Is Alan even your real name?” I asked him, and he laughed at me before shaking his head.

“No, my name is Jason. But darling, I think you know why I kidnapped you?”

“I don't think you can do anything great with the powers I have. The rumors that you heard were not true, the only thing that I can do is heal someone. “ I tried to persuade him, that I am not that powerful, but it looks like he doesn't want to believe me.

“Of course, you can only heal people for now. But do you know when your full powers will be released?” his face was only an inch away from me, and I can clearly see the crazed look in his eyes.

“When your destined mate or your chosen mate marks you, the final hidden power will be unleashed. And Rachel too had her hidden power that no one knew, do you know what that is?” he left a dramatic pause before he continued again. “She was able to influence anyone’s decisions, and no one knew about it.”

“How did you find that out?” I asked him.

“The night we attacked her, she influenced a few of my guards to let her go, but thank God, I was not in front of her, so I was able to kill her easily, and that is the time when I realized that I wouldn't be able to have her powers because it is not the ring that has the power, it is a person.”

“And do you know something? I thought maybe I will have to Mark a stranger, but now I am more than delighted since I will be spending the rest of my life with my sweet Iris,” he said and kissed my cheek, and I moved my head away from him.

“I do rather die than spend the rest of my life with a vile person like you,” I said with disgust, and he looked at me before moving towards the door.

“Don't worry, Iris, you wouldn't be talking like this when I mark you as mine. But before I do that, I have a few presents to give you,” he said, and right then Jennifer came towards him with a box and handed it over, and I stared at her in shock.

“Oh, I completely forgot. Meet my sister! Jennifer. I think you guys must have already met?” this was like someone poured a bucket of ice water on me.

“Hello, Luna. It's nice to meet you again,” she said, and I had my blood boiling.

“Alright, Jenny, if you could step outside now. Iris and I have a lot of unfinished business to deal with at the moment.” Alan said and stepped inside, and she nodded her head before leaving the room and closed and locked the door once she left.

“How come she is your sister? She looks nothing like you!”

“She is my stepsister.”

“So you marked her too so that she can fool me? How low can you stoop?”

“I would never do that to my sister. And the irony of the situation is that she did find her mate, who was one of the trusted members of my group, and since he has the initials JE, it was just perfect.”