Chapter two: I will rather than die.
~ Lyra's POV~
"Wake up, little wolf."
The deep voice pulled me from the darkness. Chains made noise as I tried to move. My whole body hurt from lying on the cold stone floor. The air smelled terrible, like old blood and rotten eggs.
I looked up and saw dark pitless scary eyes staring down at me. The man standing over me was huge and looked dangerous.
He was very tall with wide shoulders, black hair, and white skin that looked like it never saw the sun. This was not a werewolf like me. He was much more frightening.
"What do you want from me?" I said with anger, showing my teeth like a mad dog.
He got down on one knee next to me and lifted my chin with just one finger. His touch felt soft, but his eyes were as cold as winter ice.
"Someone gave you to me. You are a gift from people who wanted you to go away forever. You will take the place of what they took from me."
My stomach felt sick and twisted. Lewis and Allora. Those two evil souls had sold me like I was an old car they did not want anymore.
His thumb touched my bottom lip very slowly. "You will share my bed. You will do everything that the woman they stole from me used to do for me."
Hot anger exploded in my chest. I pulled my head away fast and looked at him with all the hate I could show.
"I will never do that. Never!"
A dark laugh came from deep in his throat. "Oh yes, you will, little wolf." He moved his face close to mine until his hot breath touched my ear. "You will share my bed and put that pretty mouth of yours around my cock."
My skin felt sick and crawling, but I did not back down or show fear. Even with these heavy chains and feeling weak, I would not let him see me scared. "I would rather die than do that."
His smile got bigger, and I could see his sharp teeth. "That can happen too if you keep fighting me."
"I do not care what was stolen from you," I said with anger. "But I will never, ever share your bed. Never in my whole life!"
His dark eyes crinkled with amusement. "We will see about that, little wolf. We will see." And then he walked out.
Hours passed in that cold, dark place. I was in very big trouble! My hands hurt so bad from the iron chains that cut into my skin and made it bleed.
I sat on the freezing floor that made my whole body ache. I looked up at this monster whose name was Ragel with the most angry eyes I could make. I would never bow down to him like he wanted!
Ragel stood in front of me with his big, strong arms crossed over his wide chest. His dark eyes looked happy and hungry, almost like a wolf that wants to eat a little rabbit.
This made my wolf Lauren growl with hot anger inside my head.
How dare this man treat me like I was nothing! I am Lyra Ellis. I was going to be the Alpha leader of my father's pack until I married Lewis like a stupid, silly girl.
I was so dumb and told my father to join our two packs together like it was some beautiful love story.
My father's pack was the biggest and most powerful pack in all of Manhattan. We had more money, more land, and more fighters than any other pack in the whole city.
I grew up living like a real princess. Everyone treated me special and brought me expensive gifts.
But Lewis forgot who made him strong and rich! If it was not for me and my family's money and land, his tiny Stone pack would still be just a small, weak group of wolves.
My father did not want to join our packs together at first. He was smart and could see that Lewis was not a good man.
But my father loved me so much that he gave me valuable lands and beautiful houses with businesses that stood their own grounds in Manhattan.
I was so stupid that I gave all of these properties to Lewis as wedding presents. I was a foolish princess that believed in a fairy tales, giving away my trust funds and properties because I thought I was in love.
Looking at Ragel's mean, smiling face makes me hate myself and hate everyone who put me in this position.
But one thing, I know is, I will never bow my head down to him! This man looked like a wild animal who thinks he can make me scared. Even if I was scared, I will not show it.
Evil people like him do not get my respect. I will not bow to him. I will not bow to anyone else ever again! Those days where I was soft and trusting other people are gone.
"I wonder," he said slowly, moving his head to one side like he was looking at a bug under a glass, "do you even know why you are really here in my home?"
I made an angry sound and threw my messy, dirty hair out of my face. "Because you have nothing better to do with your sad life than to steal girls who cannot fight back against you?" I said this in a fake sweet voice.
Ragel threw his head back and laughed loud, and that sound made unwanted shivers go through my whole body even though I tried to stop them.
"No, little wolf. You are here because your darling mate..." he said that word like it tasted bad and rotten in his mouth, "gave you to me like you were a piece of meat he did not want to eat."
My stomach felt sick again, twisting with new pain and shame, but I did not let any of it show on my face.
I have learned how to hide when I am hurt. "Oh? And you are so lonely and sad that you had to take his leftover scraps?" I said back to him with all the mean words I could think of.
Ragel's smile got bigger and more scary, showing those sharp teeth again. "Your pack killed my mate," he said very quietly, but his words made me grip the chains.
My heart started beating fast with fear. No! That cannot be true! If it really is true, then I might die in this place.
I will have to give up and do what he says to save my life, or I will die fighting him. However, Lauren and I would rather die than to submit to this monster.