SOPHIA'S POV
Throughout the rest of the day, I'm nervous. Jumping at the slightest noise and being totally careful. I'm on edge and nervous, I don't know why. Then I remember the manner and tone I used to speak to my Alpha earlier today. After my chores, I spent the rest of the day in my room avoiding everyone.
NEXT DAY
"Sophia wake up!" A voice whispered.
I jerked off the bed, looking around for who might have called me.
"Who's that?" I whisper, my voice still a little dull.
"You forgot what today was, Happy birthday!"
I hear the voice again.
It's my birthday! The thought lingering.
"Thanks, who are you though."
"My bad, I'm Tonith, your wolf."
My eyes widen with shock. I've gotten my wolf already?
I'm bubbling with excitement, A feeling I haven't felt in years.
"Well, I'm... "
"You're Sophia Blake, I know." She interrupts me before I can speak. My mouth forming an 'o'
"Do you have any idea who our mate is?" I ask with excitement. I've always wished my mate to be someone powerful, at least he will finally take me somewhere, away from this harsh treatment.
Tonith goes awfully quiet.
"Tonith, are you there?" I ask.
"I'm always here, Sophia." She replys, but there's a change in her voice and I know immediately something is wrong, cause am feeling sad all of a sudden.
"He won't like us, right."
"No, it's not that." She's quick to shush me.
"You're perfect, Sophia and the fact that he doesn't like us just makes his standards very low."
I almost chuckle at her sassy statement.
"Thanks though, that's the nicest word have heard in years." I display a sad smile, getting off my bed and standing in front of the mirror in my room. Instead of my reflection, I see a white pretty wolf.
"You're pretty, Tonith."
"Well, so are you."
I smile again and this time it's an happy smile, seems I'll be doing a lot of that with her around.
"I better get on w-"
I'm interrupted by a bang at my door.
"Who is it?" I ask going for the door. Just as I open the door, 2 guards force their way in. I'm knocked to the floor.
"W-what a-are y-you d-doing here?" I stutter crawling back.
"Go away!" I keep crawling back and they keep walking towards me. My back meets the whole and I snap my eyes shut, I have no where else to run.
"She's pretty, I wonder how she would taste."
"There's only one way to find out"
One of them reaches for my legs and pulls me forward, so I'm now laying flat on the ground, my gown slightly raised.
I'm hitting and kicking, but it has no effect.
Wait! I'm not weak. What's happening?
I'll be damned before I let them have their way with me.
I close my eyes, I don't know what am doing.
"Not fighting again, huh?"
"The whore finally decide to enjoy this." When I feel their hands on my underwear, that's when it starts to happen.
The anger, and the other thing, I don't know what to call it yet, but it's rising.
I block my ears with my 2 hands and then I let it go, I release a loud scream. Snapping my eyes open, in time to see them being thrown across the room.
I crawl back adjusting my clothes and hugging my knees. The guards are not getting on their feet, they just lay there looking lifeless.
Did I just commit murder.
I'm still shaken up, tears streaming down my cheeks. My eyes are shut, so I have no idea when someone else makes their way in.
"What's going on here?"
I hear his voice, our Alpha.
Without thinking I run into his arms.
I feel him freeze, probably not expecting it.
I couldn't care less I just needed someone to comfort me.
I tune in to Tonith and she'd purring, and I wonder why.
LEONIDAS POV
I woke up feeling very uncomfortable. I couldn't place what it was. Then from feeling uncomfortable it went to feeling damn scared. I know it wasn't me, I've never been scared of anything in my life, so why now and there's no impending danger. Then it struck me, what if it's not me, but my mate. I waved the thoughts of, only mated wolves can feel each other's emotions. I left my room heading to my study, maybe a little distraction will take my mind of it. That was when I heard it, the loud piercing scream. It sounded like someone was in pain. My wolf became troubled, scratching and unsettled, it wanted out. No matter what I did to calm him, Raynaz he didn't stop.
Only my mate should be able to make my wolf this anxious and she's nowhere in this pack.
What if she is? I went pass my office, I didn't know where I was heading to, but one thing was sure. I needed to find whoever it was that got my wolf this anxious. And that's how I got here.
"What's going on here?"
One minute am asking a question, the next a petit female is hugging me, like I'm all that she has.
My wolf goes from baring his teeth and clawing to purring.
"Mate!" He keeps saying and I pay no attention. What's the moon goddess trying to do. Why didn't she pair me with Nally, why her? Why a slave that has nothing to offer. I need someone strong to rule alongside me, my pack are already weak because of a half a century curse that I still don't know how to break yet.
My eyes roam the room and I see two guards laying motionless on the floor.
Are they dead?
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was just terrified." She says moving away.
I nod, my eyes going back to the men on the floor.
"Are they dead?" The first question I ask.
I shut my eyes abruptly. Raynaz is baring it's teeth in rage.
He's not pleased with the first question I asked.
"I don't know" She shakes her head, taken another step back, bowing her head.
"What do you mean, you don't know? 2 guards are passed out, probably dead in your room and you don't know?"
"That's the first question you ask? A concerned alpha, and that's the first question you ask." She raises her head and there's another look she has on, it's no more pitiful, instead it's bold and daring.
Where does she get her boldness from? My people quiver in fear when faced with my presence, why is she different.
"What? If you expect me to shiver in fright in your presence, think again." She snorts walking past me.
"Get back here, Sophia!" I growl.
She stops, her back turned to me "they tried to rape me, one minute I'm scared and uncomfortable, the next, I'm screaming and then the next they're on the floor. You can check if they're breathing."
I walk to the body and check for pulse, but there's none.
"What the hell!" I cuss.
She's arranging her clothes and is about leaving the room, "if they're dead, be sure to tell your girlfriend that her lackeys didn't make it alive... "