“She’s been gone for an hour and you’re just now telling me?” People turned to stare as my voice raised.
“I came but – but they didn’t let me in -” He shivered from whatever he saw in my eyes. It must have been his death.
“You have no excuse. Gather all the wolves in this darn pack and find her!”
‘She can’t have gone far,’ my wolf muttered, hiding his distress. ‘She can’t shift so she’ll be easy to find.’
“Noah, what’s the matter?” My mum walked over from flirting with another Alpha.
“Red Lake is going into lockdown. No one enters or exits the borders no matter who. Find Carrot!” I shouted at the people gathering around. “Find that fucking whore.” My heart pounded loud enough for everyone to hear.
“Baby, what’s the matter?” Bella rushed over to me with her infamous pout. “Is anything -“
“Don’t touch me.” I shoved her away from me and someone gasped. “This little -” I calmed my temper and exited the banquet hall.
Where the hell did the wench go and how did she escape the dungeons?
“Noah, Noah!” Bella rushed towards me. I was about to snap when I noticed the man beside her. “He’s the one! He let her out of the dungeons!” He was an enforcer assigned to the dungeons.
“Why -” I cleared my throat, swallowing the question. “You’ll be hanged first thing tomorrow morning.” The guards standing with me bundled him up.
“You are cursed already!” The man shouted. “I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it all. You’re going to die like a chicken with an unmarked grave!”
“Do you still pretend to be a seer, Andrew?” I remembered this bastard from my childhood. He used to ‘prophesy’ about the future but no one ever took him seriously. He dropped out of school one day to become a low-level enforcer and no one questioned him. He was nothing but the pack lunatic.
“And Carrot!” He shouted. “She will be the one to bring about your end!” A smile bloomed on his face before he burst into laughter that chilled my blood. “I’ve seen it all, Noah and I don’t feel sorry for you.”
“Find her,” I muttered to the man standing beside me. “Dead or alive, find Carrot.”
‘Noah,’ My wolf growled and I sighed. That wench was worthless but my wolf had a soft spot for her.
“No, find her alive. I’ll kill her with my hands.”For putting me through this hassle, I wanted nothing more than to strangle her to death.
It was a long and bumpy ride filled with dread. I didn’t know these men or where they were going but as long as they took me far away from Red Lake, I didn’t mind. It may be foolish and impulsive but desperation blinded me as I hid among their luggage. They had a means of transport and I needed a means of transport. I was prepared to take care of anything that happened after that.
Squeezed between piles of luggage in an unventilated box while holding my breath for fear of being discovered, it did not take me long to pass out.
“What in the name of the goddess is this?” That shout dragged me back to consciousness. I’d been found out.
I opened my eyes and raised a banging head to see ice-blue eyes. A light-haired man with a sneer on his lips stood next to the quivering coachman who held the luggage compartment open.
“Hello,” I spoke in the calmest voice I could muster despite my heart beating loud enough for them to hear.
The aura around this man screamed power and he carried himself with an air of importance the kind of which I’d never seen before. His scent reached my weak nostril and I perceived the sandalwood scent peculiar to betas. Despite being a beta, he oozed more power than all the alphas I’d ever met.
“Hello?” Amusement flitted across his cold eyes. His light colouring gave him a pretty boy look yet his aura warned against underestimating him. “Is that all you have to say?” Although his presence stifled me, I nodded my heavy head. I’d gone over the details of everything that happened so far but I foolishly did not think of what to say when found hiding amongst someone’s luggage.
“I don’t -” I didn’t know what to say. Thrust into the world for the first time in my life, I was confused and apprehensive.
“Even if you’re Killian’s admirer, don’t you think it’s a bit much to hide amongst his luggage? You could have suffocated.”
Despite this man’s overpowering aura and imposing personality, he had a smirk tugging at his lips that put me at ease. Mere seconds ago, he’d been glaring at me but it wasn’t every day people opened their carriage to see strangers hiding inside.
“Killian?” That name came up again. “Who is Killian?” Just as the words slipped from my lips, goosebumps rose on my skin.
“Orion, did you -” A man taller and more menacing than the one interrogating me rounded the side and then stopped when his eyes fell on me. “There’s a girl amongst the luggage.” His voice and words were calm but the aura around him had me fighting to breathe. His eyes and expression hardened in the blink of an eye and my instincts to flee jumped out.
“Why is there a girl in my luggage?” The intensity of the annoyance in his gaze catapulted me into lockdown mode. I couldn’t move, couldn’t speak and could barely breathe.
Black hair the colour of midnight and eyes so red they looked like rubies. Red eyes. Red eyes. There was only one man in the kingdom with such an appearance.
“Killian, you’re here.” The blonde man said to the newcomer. He rummaged through the luggage compartment while the coachman helped me out. Then he took a small pouch and slid it into his pocket.
Alpha Prince Killian. The famed murderer. He was staring at me with those blazing red eyes that were a symbol of the royal family, a gift from the goddess that signified they were the purest-blooded alphas.
Stupid, stupid Carrot. How did you not know the name Killian? I may be a bush girl from a little nameless pack but it was impossible not to know the name of the Alpha Prince. He was a lunatic. A lunatic that killed his brother for the throne. I hid in the luggage of the future Alpha King and from his darkening gaze, he wasn’t impressed.
“You.” Realization dawned in his eyes and the rubies turned to flames of fire. “Did you faint in front of my carriage for this stupid stunt?”
“Oh, it’s you.” The man beside him faced me with a face full of recognition. “Ah, I totally forgot about you.”
“Who are you?” Cold and callous words. The twin embers of fire burning in the prince’s eyes made me recoil.
The rubies burned brighter and I swallowed. Black dots spotted my vision again. It was the worst time to faint but I would welcome any reprieve from the gaze burning into my skin
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