Chapter 2

Elizabeth

The men showed hostility, they would take him as a sacrifice, and I could not stop. Thor drew his weapon, and we managed to get out of there, we knew they would never accept us again in the village. When we got home, we took only a few belongings and would run away, but it was too late, and the church bells rang... We all knew that when that happened, someone would die.

— It’s the lycanthropes, they’re coming for Thor! — David shouted outside, leaving everyone vigilant and scared.

— Go away, son, enter the woods and run away without looking back. — Elizabeth opened the back door of the hut.

— No, mother, they will not stop until somehow he pays for what he did. — Eugenia replied, it was certain that they would not leave him alone.

— My sister is right, I will not hide. My father did not raise a coward! — As soon as Thor finished that sentence, we heard a loud howl, that was an announcement of the terrible fate that awaited us as Thor dressed, knowing that he would be confronted.

—Thor is his name, a dead man who still breathes, but not for long! — Alpha screamed outside the house and the villagers walked away in terror.

— He’s calling me, and I’ll die like a man, stay here mama don’t want you to see them and hurt them later. — Thor feared for the women of the family, knew the fame of that monster.

He left the house while Anthony was holding me there, I knew that no matter how much he cried out to Thor not to give himself to him, he could not stop. Eugenia I went out, I let them see me, and nothing else mattered to me. If that monster wanted my family’s blood would have to prove mine too, as soon as I came out wearing my blood-red dress that green-eyed man on a black horse, looked at me from head to toe as if he knew me suddenly from somewhere else, space or time. His gaze exercised a magnetism that I had never contemplated before. I thought they were always monsters covered with hair and huge claws, but according to legend they only transfigured at the fall of the full moon. He followed me for every step I took, as if his eyes were stuck to mine.

— Please take him, but spare the lives of all of us innocent people in this village. — Bryana wanted them to take Thor and have their revenge by leaving the remaining residents free, at least until the next spring sacrifice. Beside him, Lilith covered with a black cloak on the horse. With an empty expression of who was not caring what would happen to my brother.

— Condemn my brother to death while the female who betrayed you walks beside him. Not ashamed of your battles? — Eugenia was filled with courage to say what her heart commanded. He smiled and licked his own lips.

— I do not condemn the amusements of Lilith who is just one of my countless concubines, but humans who dare to challenge me as if they were of our level. — Alpha didn’t seem to fear anything in this world, he knew he was at the top of the chain.

— Enough of listening to him, if he came to get me, here I am, and I am not afraid. — My brother Thor opened his arms in front of his horse, I hugged him.

— Get away from your husband, or you’ll pay with your maiden life! — Said Alpha to see the two hugged and willing to surrender for each other’s lives. He went around with the horse, in his hand there was a triple golden dagger that would be used to kill us.

— Do this… I will not abandon my brother, you and your race only know how to bring death and pain to this world. — Eugenia cried.

Eugenia I closed my eyes, Thor did the same, and we prepared to die embraced before all our people. I heard the sound of the blade being stored and the macabre laughter of him and his followers, and opened my eyes.

— Right, female, let’s make a trade. — Alpha looked into her eyes and saw no fear inside.

— What kind of exchange? — Eugenia asked.

— We got a deal sealed years ago that we don’t mix our blood, and your brother broke the deal by laying with that stupid bitch right next to me. I’ll trade your audacious brother’s life for yours.

— No way, Eugenia is not to blame for what I did! — Thor clung even more to his sister’s body.

— I accept! — Eugenia surrendered to fate in exchange for Thor’s life. He reached out to me, Thor wouldn’t let me go and let me go with him.

— Swear that you will not come after me, or our whole family will suffer the consequences. — She asked for her brother, knowing that he would not comply.

— No, please! — Thor begged.

All the monsters that accompanied him wielded their daggers, and the blood of the whole village would be shed if I did not go with him. In tears, Thor let me go, and I looked at him, knowing that this could be the last time. I was caught by the waist and captured by that beast, mounted in front of him on his horse and feeling his warm breath shake my black hair. He loosened the reins of the horse, and we quickly left the village, felt as if the ground came out from under my feet, because now he had me prisoner.

I saw all the trees of our woods become dry and morbid at every step the horse took toward that place named after the name of darkness.

We arrived at the castle, everything was black as night, and opened a huge gate. I looked all over that place and asked for strength to resist all the pains that were to come.

— The master brought a prisoner, how much honor gave her by entering our gates still breathing. — Radesh was surprised to see his leader with a prisoner.

— She is especially intrepid and beautiful, guard her and do not let them feed on her until I allow. — Alpha ordered, looking at her face was always a new challenge.

— Yes, my master. — Radesh agreed and left.

That man whose teeth were of gold tied my hands, and I was taken to a dungeon under the castle, everything was very dark and there were prisoners in saddles around me, but the sounds emitted were not human. He pushed me into a cell that fortunately was empty, I looked in all directions seeking an exit... I cowered in a corner where the light still focused, even if very little. The smell was of decaying flesh, since I arrived in that place I saw nothing have color or light.

Alpha

That young woman, though in her innocence she had challenged me before all those lowly mortals, I needed to give her a taste of all my power. I entered my room, Lilith was coming towards me... I took off all my clothes and went to wash myself in my bronze bathtub.

— Please my master, forgive my sexual instincts. I promise I will never sleep with a mortal again! — Lilith cried my forgiveness on her knees.

I pulled her hair hard, bringing her face to mine.

— It is lowered to another servant and will never be mine, from now on the werewolf who touches you as a woman will have his head cut off, and his body delivered to the pigs!

— You cannot condemn me to live without master lust, especially after having tasted all the pleasures in your bed for all these years.

— You made your choice, Lilith, now get out of my face before I cut your head off myself.

She ran out, I went to bathe, and I was thinking of my most illustrious prisoner. I put my clothes on, went down to the dungeon, my eyes are trained to see in the darkness. She was lying in the corner in a fetal position, I took a deep breath to smell her fear, and it gave me pleasure.

— Open the cell! — I ordered my subjects.