Emily
"I can see you're the calm one," The Alpha commented, raising his brow at me.
I managed a small smile. I had no idea how to respond to an Alpha like him.
I possessed an Alpha wolf, due to my bloodline. I think my late brother, Julian hated me mostly because of that fact. He might have likely hoped I'd be an Omega since I was usually too quiet and not the aggressive kind of werewolf he was.
He hated that his wolf could not subdue mine because they possessed the same power and authority. His attitude towards me baffled me because I had been trying to be a good, likeable sister.
I had allowed him to treat me as he wanted because I'd thought he'd one day come to love me but that never happened. Rather, he died with hate for me in his heart, my father included. They never accepted me as family.
Sometimes I'd feel guilty, blaming myself for their inability to love and accept me as theirs. But Reece would shake me out of it and say it was not my fault.
Their inability to treat me as family was their problem and though I finally came to believe that, I still couldn't stop musing on how a family could gang up against one person just like that.
How they'd look at their blood relative with naked disgust and irrational anger.
But maybe it was time to look forward and stop thinking about people who weren't worth my time. I'd try to take them off my head...
"What did you bring us out here for?" Reece asked. There was no longer the heated anger in his voice, just a cold steeliness coating his words.
"I thought as my mates, it was unfair to leave you both in the cell. My mates deserve better than that, don't you think?" He directed at Reece and I, but we didn't respond.
I did not think that was a question that needed any answer, it was a rhetorical question. So, silence blanketed us for a while as we stared at each other.
"Anyway, I decided to make you two work for me. That's better now, isn't it? More benevolent considering what fate would have befallen you guys if you were not my mates," He was having the time of his life toying with us.
He had the power; he still had a pack to call home. He had taken everything from us and so he thought that since he had us, he could do whatever he wanted with us.
"Work for you?" Reece chortled but there was nothing humorous about it. It was instead bitter and dry. "Work for you, you say?"
"You have a problem with it?" The Alpha stared pointedly at Reece.
"Yes, I do have a problem with it," My best friend snapped, "I'll never work for you. Not in this lifetime. Not even in the other, hell, I wouldn't even want to see you in the next!"
"You are going to work for me and that's final." The Alpha growled.
Reece growled back. "I won't! You'd have to kill me first!"
"Reece, please calm down," I implored, squeezing tight his hand I'd held.
"Reece..." The Alpha said, nodding his head sagely, "So that's your name, huh?"
My best friend didn't respond to him and our mate didn't seem to mind. Rather, he turned to me, "And what's yours?"
"Emily," I replied after letting out a defeated sigh.
What choice did I have?
"Emily," He repeated, as though he was testing the name on his lips. "Emily, have you ever told your friend here that if he does not control his temper before an Alpha, he might lose his head? Being an Alpha's daughter, I expect you to understand better what I'm saying,"
I stared at him in stupefaction. "How...how did..."
He chuckled. "How did I know you're an Alpha's daughter?" He laughed again as though he found my shock very amusing.
I frowned, not appreciating how mocking his laughter sounded. This Alpha had no conscience and was crazy as well.
"How would I not know my enemy's daughter?"
"Your enemy?" I asked, feeling confused. I never knew father to get into trouble with other packs. At least, not of recent.
He had settled his old scores and after the last war, he'd assured the pack members that there was never going to be any war again.
Not until this fateful morning!
The Alpha's face lost the grin immediately. Instead, his eyes became colder and his face became stonier than I'd ever seen it. The aura he emanated right now, chilled me to my very bones.
"You'll be working for me. No negotiations,"
"I said I won't and she won't as well!" Reece interrupted our mate with a growl.
"Please Reece, for my sake..."
My best friend whirled and faced me with a lifted brow, eyes shooting flames of deep fury, "For your sake? It is because of you that I'm resisting, Emily. You think I want you working as a slave for this bastard? What do you even know about domestic chores? You've never lifted a finger in your life to do menial tasks. You had maids. People attended to your needs, not the other way round,"
"Things have changed, Reece. I will learn how to do hard work," I whispered to him pleadingly, catching the Alpha's impatient eyes on us.
I knew Reece was buying us time and it was only for a very short time before he was losing it. I hoped he would listen to me and just agree to do anything to survive. At this point, we're all for surviving.
"Who made things change? Who ruined our lives? Wasn't it this shameless coward?" Reece pointed accusingly at the Alpha, "You deserve to rot in hell, you..."
I had to pull his hand down. "I beg you, stop purposefully making him furious. He's an Alpha, we can't win him in this fight. Please..."
Reece stared at me with clenched teeth, his body trembling still with anger, "Aren't you an Alpha wolf too? He's alone in here. Let's gang up on him and send him quickly to hell!" he proposed.
"Please, mate. Calm down," I whispered again.
Shortly after, my mate was raking a frustrated hand through his hair. I wished there was something I could do to take away the pain he was passing off as anger. I knew he was in pain and that he hated what we had been reduced to but at the moment we had no choice.
"For how long will we remain in captivity, mate? For how long?" he whispered, trying not to sound broken.
"Please, for my sake," I entreated again, trying not to let any of the impish tears flooding my eyes cascade down either of my cheeks.
"Alright, time's up. Whoever does not agree to work will be imprisoned and tortured every day until they drop dead!" Our irritated Alpha mate said in a deadpan tone.
"We agree. We'll work!" I quickly agreed for both of us, while clasping my hand with Reece's and squeezing comfortingly.
"It'll be alright, Reece," I whispered to my mate, "Okay?"
He nodded, letting out a defeated sigh and I flashed him a weak smile.
