Chapter Four

Lola's POV:

Though it had merely been some hours since I got tossed like some sort of rag into this overly dirty, and dark dungeon, I considered it to be months.

My life was filled with… Misfortune.

After I became aware of the false allegation in my head, I wasn't even given a chance to run away.

Some guards caught me and brought me here.

Curled in a humanoid ball, my back kissed the walls while my face was buried in between the space of my folded kneecaps.

The unceasing rumbles of my belly rented the empty dungeon, and it was accompanied by low sobs.

They were tears of regret – regrets of being birthed in the first place. My life had been nothing but pure suffering after my parents' demise, and frankly I… I'm tired of living.

But at the same time, I don't want to leave this Earth pathetically. My parents' killer is still there.

Roaming around while I'm in here rotting.

My tears and depressing thoughts came to an end thanks to the creaking sounds – the dungeon door was being opened.

Numerous footsteps were soon heard and once I slowly lifted my head, my eyes met with three figures.

Since I was too weak to utter a word to defend myself or speak about the true events of yesterday's happenstance, the guards unbolted the cell and then marched in.

“Take her to the execution ground. Now!” one ordered, the wrath in his voice was lethal, and their glares dissipated the courage to speak in my soul.

“Wa-wa-wait, please! Hear me out !- I beg of you! He tried to rape me, so I did that to defend myself – it was an act of self-defense! Please! Hear me out! I'm begging you, for Moon's sake – please!!”

I knew my plea, no matter how genuine and pitiful it might sound, would always fall on deaf ears.

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I was taken to the amphitheater.

Every Pack has one, and ours was incomprehensibly spacious and wide.

Usually, it was used during an Alphas' Enthronement or anything that held high essential.

And I think my execution was also considered one.

“Kill the murderer already!”

“She killed her parents, and tried to kill Master Brian!”

“Death!”

“She deserves death!”

“She's a slut! How audacious of her to try to rape our future Alpha!”

Uncountable yells fell from the lips of the jam-packed wolves. The amphitheater bore so many seats, and not one was left empty.

My eyes, trembling so hard in their sockets that one would think they'd fall, darted to a tower-like building close to the amphitheater.

There, two grand large seats could be seen, and accompanying them were the Alpha and his son.

“Brian…” my eyes met with his, and the floating mischief in those brown eyes of his poured fuel to my burning fire of hatred for him.

He lied that I tried to kill him. This bastard! I began struggling, but the three guards holding onto my arms were hellishly strong.

As we proceeded further on the sandy ground, my teary eyes spotted a large circular platform.

Truly, it was an execution ground.

Waves and waves of cold chills ran through my spine, and my mouth became void of words as I was led towards the circular tiled ground.

The Palace was gigantic – definitely, yet its execution ground reeked of hellish anguish.

While the rest of the large area was covered with sand, the spacious side which had bloody tiles and twelve hefty executors that held elongated, thick, horsewhips made my soul tremble in fright.

I practically shivered like a drenched cat in the rain and while my mind screamed madly for me to run away, my body was too weak to move.

Even if I managed to break free, how far would I run? — I was a mere omega whose wolf had a freaking mood swing

I tried to awaken her again, but it seemed like she was dead — she was painfully unresponsive!

So, I resorted to pleading. I had to change their mind — no, I needed to change their effing minds before my blood wrongly flowed.

“Pl-please, listen to me! Please!” In an attempt to save myself, I tried to wriggle out of their grip as I drew forcefully closer to the execution ground.

“Please!!” my eyes met with the Alpha.

“Alpha Sullivan, please don't do this. Brian attempted to rape me. Everything I did was to save myself. Please believe me. Please!” innumerable drops of tears rushed down my eyes, yet the Alpha's countenance remained stoic.

“Please!! I… did it to save myself! Please believe me! Please!” tears streamed down my cheeks unceasingly, and it seemingly heightened everyone's hateful rage towards her.

Painfully, my feet soon stood on the execution ground before my head was groped by a hand. My shoulders were also held, and aggressively, I was lowered to my knees.

Since my wrists were encircled with silver-laced wrists, I could do nothing but cry.

My rapidly thudding heart could be heard amid the boisterous yet heartless demands from the Pack's members to kill me.

My face was drenched in my tears, and as the tall guards towered over me with their horsewhips, Alpha Suvillan arose from his seat.

“I, Alpha Suvillan Wilson, declared Lola to be killed by Deaths By A Thousand Cuts for attempted treason on my next heir, Brian Suvillan!”

His declaration was accompanied by an ear-deafening roar from the masses; they were supporting it. Fully supporting this shit!

I bit my lower lips: I bit it so, so hard that it bled yet none seemed to mind.

“T... Treason? I didn't… do that! I apologize for harming Brian, but he almost raped me! He tried to rape me!” My tears multiplied once the guards surrounding me lifted their horrid horsewhips and disgustingly enough, the masses roared harder.

My eyes were insanely reddened and glistered with unparalleled rage, and I loathed the sight of Brian smirking.

I can't die — not now. I haven't avenged my parents' death. If I get killed, then…

“Please!!!” The boisterousness of my voice reached every angle of the Palace, yet everyone ignored my pain.

“I'm innocent! Spare me, please!!!” My soul was literally begging as the guards who stood by my side each lifted their gleaming leather horsewhips high in the air.

“Do it!” Brian's voice commanded, and I took in my last breath.

Or was it?

Seconds went yet nothing happened. I did feel a splash of liquid on my shoulders, and face and gently opening my eyes, I acknowledged how silent everywhere was.

The masses were stunned. The Alpha and his son were equally too, but their frozen eyes were gawking at me. No… At something behind me.

Slowly, I swerved my head behind, and the headless bodies with blood seeping greatly out of it terrified me.

Those were the guards that were about to execute me. But lifting my shaky eyes upwards, I beheld the most terrifying being ever.

His face was dripping with blood and was his lengthy sword. Our eyes met, and smirking, he declared:

“I, Tyler Reigns the Lycan King will be taking my mate, Lola Williams out of this Pack! Whosoever dares to oppose, step forward!”