Chapter 2 Sent to her death

I scramble to my feet. Shit, shit, shit. I was about to get another beating. My uncle always finds any opportunity to disciple me, his favorite is smacking me across my face repeatedly till I bled through my nose.

“I wasn’t—I was just--”

“Come here.”

I walk over to him, even though I don’t want to.

“Yes, Alpha.”

I stood in front of him and he stood up leaving his desk. I close my eyes flinching and expecting the smacking to come but they didn’t….I opened one eye surprised. Was this another form of punishment? He just stood there looking at me from head to toe in a way that makes me feel naked. I look at the floor. He then walks around me, tugging at my limbs and my clothes with disgust on his face.

“Look at you, a useless girl with no wolf, no future, and no purpose. Your parents gave everything to bring you here, and what did they get in return?……..But maybe you can be useful for once.”

I swallowed. I was already a servant in my own parent’s house and in my pack, what other usefulness does he want?

“What do you want me to do?”

He grabs his glass of alcohol on his desk, finishes it and gets more close to me. I can smell the alcohol in his breathe.

“You’re going upstairs. We caught someone tonight. A man everyone says can’t be controlled. An Alpha who kills for fun, and who they say is part demon.”

He grinned.

“Let’s see if you can get some information out of him.”

The world tilted, I can’t breathe……he can’t possibly mean The demon king? Has he not seen how thin I was, the man will break my bones and eat my flesh before I even step a foot inside the room. I visibly shook as I remembered stories of him, some said he had face of the devil while some confirmed he was a demon with horns. I shake my head.

“Please, uncle, I—”

“Alpha! You’ll go and you will keep him happy and satisfied. He doesn’t need to know our plans so hopefully he will talk once he gets comfortable with you.”

Wait, keep him happy and satisfied? What does that even mean?

“What do you mean by keep him happy and satisfied?”

He looked at me smiling cruelly.

“You’re not a kid anymore. You’re already 20 years old with the body of a woman, I want you to use it, pleasure him and do whatever he tells you to do. That should get him talking. I can’t afford to send anyone else to be touched by a demon but since you’re already cursed, no harm done”.

No harm done? I almost laughed. I just lost my mate and here I was about to be turned into a prostitute. If this is the universe testing me, I don’t like it…..atall. Something in me cracked.

“There is no way in hell I’m going to be subjected to such treatment uncle. I’m not a prosti—“

The sentence died on my tongue as he smacked me on the cheeks, everywhere went dark for a bit and I blinked trying to hold back my tears

‘You’re whatever I say you’re and you’re going to do exactly what I say”

Beta Grayson coughed. He had been the only one to try and come to my aid a few times.

“Uh, Alpha. She doesn’t have a wolf. If Alpha Dravick has his way with her, he will break her in half. She won’t last a minute.”

“Then he’ll be doing us a favor,” my uncle growls. “Either way, one problem is solved.”

Everybody laughs except Beta Grayson who looked at me without an expression as two of my uncle’s men grabbed my hands and dragged me out of the room towards the staircase. The stairs creak and it gets colder as we went up, the air smelling like stone and metal. My heart beats faster and faster till I swore it was going to tear out of my chest.

So this was how it is going to end for me? Dead under the demon king. I wanted to weep, no….wail but the tears just refused to fall.

The two men didn’t say a word, they don’t need to. Everyone knows the stories about the man upstairs. The part wolf part demon that burns his enemies alive, a man that flay and eat children, flesh from bone. I was already a dead woman walking and they know it.

The last door opens with a loud noise. The room is a bit dark, with just one light and I hear chains rattle. Then I see the biggest man I ever seen in my life…..Dear moon goddess.

My uncle’s men captured him? How was that even possible?

He was shirtless, his muscles rippled and glistening from sweat. A big bed is in the center of the room but he was sitting on the floor, with large silver chains buckled on his wrists and attached to the wall. The chain was long enough for him to move around the room but not far.

He looks up, and his eyes glowed……silver.

He had the most striking face I had ever seen. There was no horn though, thank you moon goddess. The men push me in and one of grinned at me.

“If he gets too rough, try not to scream too loud.”

They laugh as the door slams shut. Bastards. My heart beats too loud and my hands and leg shook. The man doesn’t say a word or make a move to stand up, he just watches me. I squirmed wanting to run, but I can’t move. What am I supposed to do? What was I supposed to say? I try to talk, but my voice shook badly.

“l-I’m here to make you more…..comfortable”

I gritted my teeth as the word left my mouth. For a bit, anger pushed against the fear in my body. How did my life get to this level?

He moves his head, looking at me like I killed his mother or something. It’s quiet for so long that I’m beginning to think maybe he was dumb.

“They sent a kid to make me more comfortable?”

I jump. His voice was just like him, loud, rough and dangerous.

“I’m not a kid,” my voice shook.

He stands up, the chain rattling as he moves. He’s taller than I thought, and looks even more dangerous and intimidating, if that was possible. He grabs my throat choking me until tears threaten to fall.

“Next time they send you here,” he says quietly. “It better be with a gun, because if you come back without one, I’ll show you the kind of monster your Alpha just captured.”

He pulled me up by my throat, my legs dangling above the ground and threw me against the door.