Meet With The Alpha Guard

A sharp smell stung my nostril. My stomach made a loud rumbling sound that echoed through the dungeon.

  I tried to open my eyes and I saw I was in a cage. The smell was the dead corpse of a young girl around my age who was now facing downward.

  Her head bowed.

  I don't need to be told that she was dead.

  " Wa..t...er..." I let out as tears flowed again from my eyes.

  Only if I remembered. But each time I tried, there were blockages.

  Like something or someone didn't want me to remember. I sniffed remembering the look on my mother's face.

  I could see her pain.

  I felt a sharp bite at my feet and I yanked myself up. I could hear my chains rattling, making my wrist sore.

  [ Rat squeak! ]

  I could see them. Rats that were twice the size of my legs. I looked at my toes and I could see they were nibbling at it.

  I looked up, my gaze landing on a rat that was eating the dead girl in front of me.

  I felt like throwing up but then, there was no food inside of me.

  Only pain and anger.

  I knew I didn't do it. I knew I didn't kill the Alpha but then, I was the one being punished for it.

  " Please, somebody! I need water!" I shouted in tears.

  The more I shouted, the more i heard the squeaking sound of the rats getting much more.

  I could barely jump anymore.

  I just stood still crying in pain as they tore into my flesh. Nibbling at my blood and tearing off.

  The pain was unbearable and just when I was about to give up, I saw the flames on the wall.

  Someone was coming. I prayed silently that he or she was coming with water.

  Because I knew I won't make it until daybreak without it.

  And the rats, they disappeared like they were never there in the dungeon. It was almost like they didn't exit in the first place.

  The guard came into sight and his gaze landed on me. He opened the gaze and walked in.

  " I thought you were dead for a second. You passed out for three hours." he said looking at me.

  " Water.."

  The word left my mouth slowly. He looked at my feet and back at me. " I need to get this bandage and then, you can have your water."

  He slowly bent and grabbed my feet. At first, I resisted with the fear that he was going to rape me.

  The guard looked at me and smiled. " Yes, the instinct to protect yourself. You lack that when you are not in a cage. Things done seem as it is when you are in your comfort zone. You don't see your enemies. You think the world is fair even when you can afford only two square meals. I am not going to hurt you."

  He bent again and slowly grabbed my leg.

  I didn't fight him. I winced in pain as he cleaned my wound. My gaze went to the girl in front of me again.

  Did he do that to her too before the rats feast on her?

  " No. I didn't."

  He replied to me immediately like he could read my thoughts. " I am only doing this because I know that you are innocent."

  My eyelid raises slightly even though I was tired. He was the only first person that was going to say that to me. I knew my mother would but I didn't hear her say it before I was dragged off.

  I prayed silently that the water he was using to clean my wounds didn't finish.

  The guard bandaged my legs and got up to stare at me. " You don't look like someone who could take on an Alpha."

  He walked round me, his eyes sizing me up. He slowly moved closer and smelled me.

  " You have not even wolfed yet. Have you?"

  " No." I said silently even though my eyes were on the bottle of water in front of me.

  I wonder why he was the only one who was noticing all of this. Why didn't the rest of them see this?

  " Because someone wants you to go down for what she did." the guard said again.

  I don't need to be told now. He was reading my thoughts.

  How?

  I remembered my mother telling me about some rare Alpha wolves that could read the thoughts of other wolves. I don't need to be told that he was an Alpha.

  But what was an Alpha doing as a guard?

  That was the question I asked myself.

  He let out a smile and looked at me again. That is a question for another day.

  " Here."

  He grabbed the water on the floor and moved closer to me. " Drink up."

  I drank slowly with my gaze fixed on him. I felt my wolf drawn to him the same way I was drawn to Jaden.

  " Easy." he said slowly as I coughed. " You don't want the other guards to know that I am here or else we are both going to be in trouble."

  " I am sorry." I said with tears running down my cheek.

  The guard bent down again and brought out bread. " Eat. You need your strength for what is coming next." he said looking at me.

  I bite fast, hard. As I chewed hoping no one was going to interfere in the little favour in her was showing me.

  After I was done eating. He looked at me. " I am going to keep the torch here. It will help with sending off the rat. At least, till day break. That is all I can do for you."

  He turned and was about to walk away when my voice stopped him.

  " You can do more. You can tell Jaden I didn't do it." I said pleading. I would have fallen on the floor. If not for my chains.

  " There is nothing I could do, Miss. Your fault was trusting the wrong person. She is going to reveal herself to you with time. That is all I can say."

  [ Clank! ]

 " Can you please tell me your name?" I begged but he didn't answer me.

  The gate was shut while the Alpha Guard walked away leaving me yet again in my misery.

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