Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Lena’s POV

“We’ve been caught!” I exclaimed.

“I am not blind, Lena. I can see that we have been caught,” she replied.

“So what do we do?” I asked.

“What do you think we should do?” She asked me back.

“Maybe jump?” I suggested.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“Are you willing to take the risk of dying?” She asked.

“Oh no, I was just being silly,” I answered.

“So what do we do?” She asked again.

“Allow them to catch us, like you said. Adrian might not want to kill us, although his alter ego clearly wants to. But since he was able to control it back there in the holding cell, I am sure he’s going to control it again.”

“Yes, he clearly needs the child to be alive.”

“Come with us now!” one of the guards’ voices interrupted my discussion with Lyla.

“Hey, could you give me a minute to settle something first?” I said.

The guard looked at me like I was deranged or something. He was about to come closer when I threatened that if he came any closer, I would just drop down from this cliff.

“We both know your alpha needs me to be alive because of this child I am carrying, so if you know you don’t want your head to be thrown to the hungry wolves of the pack, just give me a minute,” I said.

At this point, I could hear Lyla laughing loud from inside me.

“You just have to laugh at this moment,” I said.

“I didn’t know that you got so bold during this little adventure of ours.”

“Oh yeah, yeah, I didn’t have a choice but to get bolder. I am tired of being weak and a pushover all the time,” I said with a little smirk on my face.

“Hey woman, are you going with us now or are we killing you here? We could also decide to tell the alpha that we found your corpse had been eaten by wild animals in the forest.”

Yeah, that could really work out. It’s going to make Adrian spare them, so I didn’t have any other choice. Dropping down was a no.

“Go with them. While we are there, we would try to see how I was able to take over your body for a while. That holding cell is the safest place we can be right now,” Lyla said.

“Okay, that’s what we are gonna do,” I replied.

I moved closer to where the guards were, stretched forth my hands so I could be tied and taken back to the Palace.

After about an hour’s walk, we finally got to the Palace. I was kind of disappointed seeing that I came back here, but it’s actually the best choice to make right now.

We entered the Palace. Adrian was not in the meeting chambers; his Beta went to call him from his chambers. After like 3 minutes, he came.

I could see what seemed to be like relief in his eyes. For a moment, I thought it was for me, but I remembered that he already made it clear that he’s only interested in my baby.

“He just smiled at you, Lena. It seemed like he is relieved you are alive, but something still looks off about the way he’s looking at you,” Lyla said, teasing me.

“I don’t really give a fuck about that. He’s only happy that his child is alive and not because I am. Have you forgotten he said he was gonna get a black witch?” I said.

The guards on the floor forcefully dropped me on the ground. For a moment, I thought I saw him move like he was going to help me stand, but I waved it off right now.

“Something seems off here,” Lyla’s voice again.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“I can sense that something had happened here while we were gone.”

Yes, Lyla was a witch, don’t forget that. Witches have the ability to discern quickly and to sense the atmosphere.

“Lyla, it seems you are getting your powers back little by little,” I said.

“We will talk about that later. This is not the time to talk about that right now.”

“Where are your fellow pack members?” Adrian’s voice came, interrupting my discussion with Lyla.

“I don’t understand. I told you that I don’t have any pack members who would even give a damn about me. You still ain’t believing me?” I said.

“You lying bitch, how dare you lie to me? How dare you plot evil against my pack?” Adrian said.

“I don’t understand what you are saying. Please speak to me in the language I can understand,” I said.

“Why did you and your guys kidnap Claire, and where are they now?”

The question came to me as a shock. Wasn’t he thinking? How could my pack members be here and they still ended up catching me again?

“If it was true that I did that, would I still be here? Do you think they would let me get caught again?” I said.

“I used to think you were sensible and smart, Adrian, but right now I see you are just a fool,” I said angrily. I knew that my last statement could get me beaten, but I was pissed off.

One of the guards was about to hit me, but he stopped him from doing that.

“Claire came here all wounded and told us everything that happened in the forest.”

‘Oh yes, definitely Claire. That scheming bitch has done it again. Why didn’t I think that this was her doing?’ I thought to myself.

“Right now I want to just lay my hands on Claire and kill her. Technically it’s your hands or our hands,” Lyla said, feeling frustrated and angry.

“Did she tell you how she escaped from the men who kidnapped her?” I asked.

He waited for a while as if searching his head for the information of if she actually did tell him. After what seemed like forever, he answered.

“That wasn’t important as she needed to rest, and the most important thing is we got her back alive,” he said.

I laughed hysterically. I couldn’t believe that the great Adrian got fooled.

“Of course she needs to rest. She wouldn’t tell you. Seemed like she didn’t figure that out before embarking on her plans,” I said.

“What are you insinuating? Are you trying to say that she lied, she did all those things to herself?”

“It’s not like you were going to believe what I would say.”

“Throw her back into the holding cell and make sure it’s locked and heavily guarded. We wouldn’t want her pack members infiltrating and saving her.”

Claire had outdone herself.