Dangerous Lycan: Claim Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Mate

Unknowing to me, the men had set multiple traps around the woods just in case something like that had happened. I ran ahead without looking back until I ran into a thin string tied against two trees that threw me backwards.

“Raphael, should we go after her now?” One of the men asked the leader.

“No, I will get her myself.” He walked in bold steps towards where I laid. Then he pulled me back up.

I winched at the pain of my hair being pulled. “Stop!” I cried in pain.

“Oh, this is just the beginning. You have no idea what I’m going to do to you. I warned you, didn’t I? But you do not want to listen. Now you will see what I mean.” He did not wait for a response as he hit me severally. I heard my parents’ voices from a distance as they cried.

“It’s about time that we show her that she is just a slave like every other person here.” Then he brought out a syringe and showed me.

“What’s that?” I was scared as I tried to move backwards but I was in pain.

“You are about to find out.”

“No stop, please stop.” But it all fell on deaf ears. He injected me with it. I could not move a limb. I watched the man bind my hands and legs again and gradually I felt my eyelids close. The content in the syringe had somehow subdued the pain.

It was noon by the time we arrived at a residence the next day. It was in the middle of a green field, there was a ranch and a stable just behind the building.

“Stand here!”

“Where is this place?” I whispered to Dad who only had an empty gaze just as Mum did.

“This is the residence of the Alpha king. You better be of your best behaviour or else, he would take off your head,” the guard threatened.

Just then, a man with a white curly moustache that matched his blonde hair walked out. He had a built-up body that I somehow admired as I caught a glimpse of him.

“Master, these were the people I saw lurking in your territory. What should we do with them?”

He walked around looking sternly into our faces and suddenly stopped as he got just in front of my father.

“You,” he said, “Do you remember me?”

“As you can see I am an ageing man, I have met a lot of people in my lifetime. If you can jiggle my memory a bit, maybe I will be able to remember you.”

“Well, I can remember you. How can I forget the face of the people who had caused me so much pain?”

“Dad, what does he mean by that?”

“Dad? Oh you have a daughter, such a beauty,” he walked closer to me.

I remained calm all through the process and did not say a word.

I watched as Mum began to sob.

“You should tell your little girl what you did to a family, twenty years ago. I can see curiosity growing in her eyes.”

“Clara, it’s okay, everything will be fine.”

“You know, those were the same words my parents said to me before you sapped life out of them. Do you know how it feels living as a kid in this part of the world without your parents to guide you through the rough patch this world has to offer? Do you know?!” He yelled.

“Dad… Mum, is this true?”

“We were on a mission and we had no choice. Darling being the pack Alpha came with a lot of responsibilities. It wasn’t intentional.”

“You know after that night, I could never take the face of my patent killers out of my mind. Everyday I hoped that I would be powerful enough to find you and finally kill my parents’ killers. That day they just got the news that they had just acquired a house in their dream town. We were to move in a few weeks but you and your wife took that away from me in just a silly quest.”

“We are so sorry.”

“Too bad your apologies cannot bring back my parents.”

“Oh God! This is bad,” I muttered.

“Master, what do we do with them!”

“Kill them! And make it slow and painful!”

“No please,” I fell on his feet as tears clouded my eyes, “please don’t harm them. I beg of you.”

“And why would I listen to you when they didn’t listen to me when I begged for my parents’ life?”

“I know they aren’t worthy of your mercy but revenge would not bring back your parents.”

“But it would bring back the peace that had eluded me!”Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“Would it?”

“And who are you to ask me that?”

“I’m nobody, but please, I know you are a good soul.”

“You don’t know me so don’t act like you do! I can’t just let them leave here in peace, no! never! My decision is final.”

“Trust me I understand your plight. I have lost a lot in the past month. I cannot afford to lose them and face this word alone. Take me instead.”

“What? Clara no!” Dad rejected me as I ignored his words. I could not imagine watching my parents being killed at this point of my life.

“Take me as your slave, or as anything that you want. I would be yours and work for you as long as I live.”

“No please darling you can’t do that. Let us pay for our sins.” Mum pleaded. I hid my eyes away from them as tears filled my cheek.

“Mmm… I would not have agreed to such a silly idea but I can see the pains in their eyes. That’s all I want to see. It’s a deal. Guards! Take these people out of my premises. But keep their daughter with the slaves. I have a better use for her.”

“Clara,” Mum called out as she was being led alongside Dad. I watched their backs as they were pulled. How the hands turn, my parents who were once the most powerful at the pack now tied arm length being pulled away.

“Seize her at once!” He backed as I turned towards him, with a wry smile.

“You asked for it, didn’t you?”

I moved aback avoiding their grasp as they pulled me along.

“Take your filthy hands off me,” I struggled but their grasp was so firm that I could feel their hands deep into my flesh.

“Move! You think you are so special aren’t you?” The guards said as he threw me with the rest of the slaves.

“You aren’t special. Stay here with the rest of the slaves.”

“I am not a slave!” I barked but his only response was a loud laughter as he locked the door and walked away.

That moment, the one I solely despised, watching the ones you love being dragged out of your life. The only set of people who were left but I had done what I thought was right with the hope to be reunited with my family someday.