This has got to be some sort of joke! What is the alpha talking about?!

He reached for my hands and slowly pulled me to my feet. The warmth from his hand sent a rush of adrenaline through me.

"Your majesty. I think you're mistaken. If... if you need a lady for the night, we have tons of ladies for you to choose from." The boss uttered.

The Alpha shot him one look of disgust before his gaze fell back on me.

I tried not to squeal out loud. He moved closer towards me until the only air I could take in was the one clouded with his perfume.

I felt his hot breath in my neck as he let out a sound that I couldn't decipher.

Could he sense that I was wolf-less?!

Then, placing his nose on my neck as if to take a whiff, he said: "You have the scent. You will be the one to bear children for the Alpha." In one instance, he let go of me, then turned to face the boss.

"How much for this one?" He asked.

"What?!" The boss asked in disbelief.

"Your....your majesty..." The boss stuttered heavily, "She....she will not be able to satisfy you as much as these ones." He let out, gesturing to the omegas that stood behind him. And as if on cue, they began to plop their breasts in front of the Alpha as though they were displaying their wares.

"How much for her?" Alpha Henry insisted, his gaze lingering now on me.

There was a long silence from the boss, as though he were contemplating his options. "She has no worth.....no value. I'll give her to you for free."

I felt my heart drop to my stomach. That was what everyone in here saw me as. A worthless wolfless omega.

Dimitri's eyes never left me as Alpha Henry took hold of my hand again and led me out of the room. I heard him mutter something under his breath, but I was much too concerned now to care about him or any of them.

As soon as we were out, he traced a finger underneath my jaw. "I knew it wouldn't be that hard for me to find you." He said with a sinister smirk.

I swallowed hard. "What?"

He ran his eyes over me, taking in my appearance. My hair was a mess and my clothes were filled with stains from all the cleaning I had to do earlier.

"Close your eyes." He ordered firmly. I noticed a slight shift in his tone. It was no longer soft as when he had first addressed me.

My mind reeled as Alpha Henry's words hung in the air.. I couldn't process my thoughts properly.

My heart just kept pounding vigorously in my chest.

The Alpha was married; everyone knew that. How could he claim me as his mate? And most importantly, what did he mean by I was going to bear the Alpha's children?

I didn't have my wolf, so I hadn't gotten my mate yet, and couldn't tell if the Alpha was my mate or not.

But....but just what if he was?

'What was I even saying?' The alpha is married to his Luna.'

Before I could gather my thoughts, a sweet, pungent smell wafted through the air, and my vision began to blur. I tried to speak, but my words slurred, and my body felt heavy.

Everything around me began to spin, and I stumbled, my knees buckling beneath me.

"What....what is happening to me?!" I managed to utter

The last thing I remembered was Alpha Henry's face, his emerald eyes locked on mine, before everything went dark.

When I finally regained consciousness, I was met with the stench of mold and decay.

My head pounded, and my mouth felt dry. I tried to sit up, but a wave of dizziness washed over me, forcing me to lie back down. As my vision cleared, I realized I was in a dungeon.

Panic set in as I scrambled to my feet, my heart racing. How did I get here? What did Alpha Henry plan to do with me? I paced back and forth, trying to piece together the events that led me to this forsaken place.

The silence was oppressive, punctuated only by the sound of dripping water somewhere in the distance. I called out, but my voice was swallowed by the darkness. I was alone, and I had no idea what lay ahead.

A faint noise echoed through the corridor. I could hear footsteps approaching. I backed away, my heart pounding louder in my chest.

The door creaked open, and a figure loomed in the entrance. I strained to see their features, but the dim light hid their faces. "Who's there?" I demanded, trying to keep my voice steady.

The figure didn't respond, instead stepping forward to reveal a guard with a stern expression. He tossed a tray of food onto the floor, his eyes never meeting mine. "Eat," he growled, before turning to leave.

I made an attempt to run after him, but he had already shut the door against me. All efforts to try to get the door to budge was futile.

"Let me out of here!" I shrieked as I banged both fists against the door.

The door opened again. Hope swirled in my chest. But the moment the door was ajar, I felt a large hand against my chest and before I could process anything else, my buttocks had met with the hard floor.

Alpha Henry....

I realized, wasn't the one who had shoved me to the ground but one of the guards who stood in front of him.

The guards stood apart, making a way for him to pass.

"Please your majesty, do not kill me," I begged him and immediately got on my knees clasping my hands together.

"I don't intend to." His voice was calm and it sent a tingling sensation down to my stomach.

He crouched until he was at my level and ran his fingers across my skin.

"You are rather beautiful. I will very much enjoy doing this." He said with a smirk.

'Doing what...Doing what?!!!' I screamed internally but I couldn't bring myself to speak.

"....and your skin. How delicate it is." He went on to say.

"Ple.... please.... please..." I stuttered heavily trying to get my words out, but it was stuck in my throat.

My body was visibly trembling from the warm feeling beneath his fingers.

He traced his fingers across the worried lines on my face before resting them on my lips.

His gaze fell into my breast and I froze instantly.

It couldn't be what I was thinking, could it?

He inched closer towards me, clouding my senses again with his scent.

That scent....

Why was it so intoxicating?! The tingling sensation traveled all the way to my brain, blocking every iota of reasoning.

I felt a burning between my legs as his fingers travelled down onto my shoulder.

I wasn't getting fucking horny from his mere touch! I've been kidnapped and here I was getting turned on by my captor.

'Focus, Elara, focus!' I screamed inside my head.

The door opened again, and this time, Alpha Henry's Luna, Chrysantha, stood at the door, radiating in her full glory.

I wanted to jerk away from the Alpha the moment I saw her but he held me in place.

"Your genes are perfect and you will bear the Alpha's children ." Chrysantha's voice rang out after she had run her eyes all over my body.

I hadn't realized that Alpha Henry's lips were inches away from the side of my neck. He hissed softly before closing the distance.

I clasped my hand quickly over my mouth, suppressing the moan.

"First, I need to mark you." His voice came out in a drunken state before he sank his fangs into my neck, marking me as his mate right in front of his Luna

It was dark again when I woke up. The pain that coursed through me was unlike any other. I instinctively traced my fingers across my neck, resting them on the part Alpha Henry had bitten.

"He marked me as his mate?!" I whispered to myself as I sat on my knees, the coldness emanating from the floors and the enclosed walls, made my body weak.

There was a moist feeling between my legs that made the inside feel very sticky. I shifted and slowly reached down, raising my clothes to reveal my inner thighs but there was nothing much that I could see save for pitch black.

The only way to know what was down there was to smell it. Carefully, I rubbed my fingers against my inner thighs, bringing them up slowly to my nose to inhale the scent, and the metallic smell of blood hit me.

My blood went cold. The Alpha hadn't forced himself on him, had he?!

The walls felt as though they were closing in on me.

It all made sense to me now. What Luna Chrysantha had said about me bearing the Alpha's pups came crashing down on me like a torrent.

"Dear goddess, I need to leave this place now!" I struggled to get up to my feet-using my hands as a guide to see what was in front of me.

My heart palpitated when I finally found the door's knob after minutes of searching. Slowly, I twisted the knob.

It was.....unlocked?!

The beating inside my chest increased.

What the hell were these people's intentions for me? They couldn't have thrown me in here only to keep the door unlocked.

But I knew I had to act fast. My heart thundered as my bare foot slapped against the cold stone floors of the dungeon's passage.

The freedom I felt after I stepped out was intoxicating, and I could taste it with every frantic breath.

I darted through a narrow corridor, desperate to find the exit. Instead, I stumbled into a vast chamber filled with golden Torchlight.

The heavy doors creaked as I pushed them open. I was wary of its occupancy until I'd opened them completely and the voices inside fell silent.

My stomach dropped like a stone, and my legs turned into jelly beneath me, sending me crashing onto the floor in a helpless heap.

There was a high council sitting in a semi-circle, and at the head of the chamber sat Luna Chrysantha. She was draped in silks of midnight blue. Her eyes were cold and they looked like venomous emeralds-locking onto me with a fury that she couldn't hide.

And by her side sat Alpha Henry. His face broke into a devilish grin the moment he saw. I'd never wished for death all my life more than I wished for it now.

"Elara!" Chrysantha's voice cut through the air like a knife. "How fitting of you to stumble upon your own death sentence."

The blood from my face had drained.

One of the elders slammed his staff into the floor, "She is already carrying the Alpha's seeds, I don't see how her existence will threaten the unity of the pack!"

His words rang in my ear like a bell. I was carrying the Alpha's children?

I held my stomach instinctively and went to my knees. My lips parted, trembling.

"Your majesty, please. I have done nothing to deserve this kind of life...."

"I'm just an orphaned omega struggling to make ends meet. I will never...."

"Enough!" Chrysantha thundered, silencing me.

"Do you think your womb gives you power?!" She asked me, but I had no idea what she was talking about.

From the previous events that had happened, I could only deduce that I had been kidnapped against my will to bear pups for the alpha because it was rumored that Luna Chrysantha was barren.

But why choose me... Of all the other females in the pack, I am the most unworthy. I don't even have my wolf yet, which makes me different from the pack.

From the corner of my eye, I saw Chrysantha place her arm on Alpha Henry's, and with a smile on her face, she let out, "If you love your Luna and you truly love your pack, you will prove it. End her, Henry. " With her elongated claw pointed at me.

My eyes widened in shock. 'Oh moon goddess, I can't die this way. Why has my life been filled with only misfortune?'

The Alpha's jaw tightened and slowly, he rose from his throne and began walking towards me.

I stumbled back, trying to get away. This cannot be the end for me.

"Your majesty, I beg of you....do..do..do not kill me!" I cried out, my face wet with tears and sweat.

He had closed the distance between us and holding my chin firmly. Our eyes locked.

His lips were moving but I couldn't make out any words of what he was saying.

"Chrysantha doesn't know it but it was my sole decision to pick you to carry my pups." He started, caressing my wet jaw with his thumb.

Even though I knew Alpha Henry was going to kill me, the look in his eyes said something different. When his fingers traced the lines across my chin, a spark ignited inside me, heat flooding in between my legs.

What was happening to me? Why would I crave him now when every moment could be my last?!

Was it madness that made me inch closer, longing for the feel of his lips on mine? Was it the mating mark he had etched deep into my neck ?... No, it couldn't be; I had no wolf, marking me as a mate would be impossible.

Yet, something inside me was drawn to him, like he was all I needed to survive. My voice trembled as I whispered to him, "Please don't kill me."

As soon as those words departed my lips, another smile spread across his face.

"It's Chrysantha's wish that I get rid of all my prospective mates." He whispered back and revealed his sharp index claw to me.

He traced it slightly and rested it just above my heart. I whimpered when suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my heart and everything went pitch black