Chapter 1 Chapter 1

Selenas pov The truck comes to a halt and my body rolls into someone else besides me, I'm too weak to move and can hardly open my eyes from the swelling in my face. Hearing some voices I know it's the king's men and I'm guessing we have arrived in his kingdom. The doors back in the truck open and I hear some screaming before bodies are dragged out of the truck, hands comes and grab me, lifting my body up and tossing me to the ground. I hit the hard concrete with a thud, biting my tongue to prevent myself from making any sound. I feel blood oozing out of my tongue and spit it out in front of me, blood pouring down my jaw. Trying to take in my surroundings with my ears, I know we were about fifteen people on the truck and I heard more than one truck when we arrived here. "Get up on your feet rogue!" A guard stops by my body and kicks me in my stomach. All air leaves my body and I have to clutch my arms around my stomach in pain, trying to open my eyes I look around and in the corner of my eyes, I see a gorgeous man in a dark grey suit walking closer to us. I have a feeling I know who it is! He has three more men beside him and by the aura around him I can already guess who he is and the men beside him. Trying to sit up I lean forward and keep my head down, whatever happens, my true identity can't be revealed. The man walks closer and I have to keep my raising heart down, I know they will pick up my heart rate if I don't keep it steady. I see his feets walking closer to where I am sitting on the ground before he stops a bit in front of us. I just breathe slowly and focus on keeping my head low, hoping he won't notice me. " is this all?" I hear him say and that's all I need to know, it's him. I will never forget his voice as long as I live... My mate! " yes my king! " comes a guard's voice to answer him. Keeping my eyes locked on the ground I wait for what's to come. " take them to the dungeons and start to interrogate them!" He orders out and guards start to drag people down a stair. A pair of arms come and grab me before I'm being dragged over to the stairs, he doesn't stop and my body bounces down every step. I'm already badly beaten up and for every step down the stairs, I try just to hold in my whimpers. I will not give them that kind of satisfaction. Coming down the last step the guard drags me inside and I have to just try and breathe through the bad stench of blood and body fluids that hits my nose the moment we come inside the building. The guard stops outside a cell and opens the door up before he tosses me inside and I land on the floor. smacking my head on the hard concrete, feeling my head crack up by the impact and a warm substance running to my cheek. I have no energy left to move and my wolf is dormant from all this wolfsbane they have ingested us with, I can't heal from my wounds and black spots start to dance in front of my eyes. I don't fight it right now! Just letting the darkness suck me down and take me away from this place. I think back on the moment I saw my mate all those years back. I followed a mouth-watering scent and it lead me to the cemetery. It got stronger when I walked a bit further in, and I couldn’t resist it. That's when I saw him! He stood beside a new grave with his back towards me, I didn't need him to turn around for me to know it was my mate. I stopped In my tracks when I saw whose grave he stood by. Cursing to the moon goddess in my head! How cruel could she be? My mate is the Alpha king... Kian! The king over all werewolves and he just lost his mate, they said she was pregnant and to week, she couldn't survive a pregnancy and died just a month into her pregnancy. He buried her yesterday! I try to slowly walk backwards without making any sound when I see him take a sniff in the air and slowly turn around. His eyes meet mine and my breath hitches in my body. He is so handsome! tall, and very muscular. Black hair and in the darkness I can se his glowing amber eyes. He is breathtakingly handsome! "MATE" the words just slip out of my mouth before I can stop them. -NO !! He roars at me, taking long strides toward me. He comes to stand right in front of me and I am too afraid to even breathe. He takes my chin in a firm grip and tilts my head up to look at him. He looks me deep in my eyes, sparks shoot out from his touch and I gasp from the feeling. ” You are not my mate! And you never will be! ” Hi spits out the words to me. He’s so angry, that his alpha aura slips out of him and I can barely breathe anymore. ”you will leave my land and never come back! If You ever set your foot at my lands again I will kill you and your whole family! Is that understood?" He says with such hatred in his voice. I can't move, can't look in his eyes, the pain I feel almost has me falling to the ground. I think I would have if his grip on my chin wasn’t that hard. A whimper leaves my lips. " I said is that understood!" He barks out to me and a tear slip down my chin. I have to hold back a sob from the pain I feel. His grip on my chin tightens and all I can do is nod. If his look on me could kill, I would be dead right now. He let go of me and I fall to my knees. Trying to gather myself from all this heartache I feel. "Now get the fuck off my land!" He booms out and his alpha command washed over me and I can’t do anything else than obey. I scramble to my feet and start running.

Chapter 2 Chapter 2

Selena pov I'm jolted awake by some cold water being thrown at me, I suck in some air into my lungs and try to move my arms and legs but every limb in my body hurts. Right now I'm nothing more than dead weight and all I can do is move my fingers. " get up rogue whore !" I hear one of the guards yell at me and even if I wanted I can't get up. A foot come up and hit me in my stomach, the pain takes my breath away and I try to gasp for air. " just pick her up and taker her to the room!" I hear another voice and my guess is they will take me to a torture room. The guard bends down and picks me up, I get tossed over his shoulder and I have no resistance in my body at all. I feel how my blood travels down to my face and the swelling only makes it hurt more. It starts to pulsate in my ears and I will faint if they don't let me down soon. " place her in the chair and make sure she is properly fastened!" A voice boomed out and I feel his aura, I know he is a higher rank wolf and probably the beta or gamma to the king. I get tossed in a chair and the guard takes my hands and fastens them to the chair, my arms get locked with some ropes and all I could move right now is my legs. I feel the guard squat down and start tying my legs, he is done with one of my legs. " you can skip the other! This bitch won't put up with much resistance she is almost dead anyway" the voice says again and I don't try to open my eyes just let my head hang down. The guard let me go and I hear some tools being placed on a table, I can only guess what they will use on me. " bring the hammer! Let's start with breaking her fingers" I hear him say and some feet move over the floor before I feel his presence close to me. His hand comes down and grips my face only to force my head back. Keeping my eyes closed I just breathe for what's about to come. " Tell me where your leader is!" He says to me and even if I knew the answer I couldn't tell him with how swollen my tongue is. His pressure on my cheek increases. " you won't tell me? Let me make one thing clear! I will get it out of you in one way or the other!" He let go of my cheek and it only takes seconds before I feel the hammer on my pinky finger, crushing it under his blow. I can't hold back a whimper and I feel how tears form behind my eyelids. I try to breathe through the pain and feel how my stomach turns upside down and I have to empty whatever I have in it on the floor. My puke run down my legs and I get hit in my face so my head whips to the side. " that's because your puke hit my shoe!" I almost faint from the blow and don't know how much more I can take without my wolf. I hear more men walking closer and the second his scent hits my nose I know my time is up if he finds out it's me. They come closer and I hear them walk into the room, stopping a bit away. My head is hanging down and I hope with how bad I have been beaten he won't recognize me, he might not even remember me after all these years since he forced me out of his kingdom. " got anything out of her!" His voice comes to my ears and a shiver runs down my body. I know my scent is hidden from him with help of a potion but at this rate, with all this beating I don't know how much longer it will hold. " no, this bitch is barely alive! I don't think we got much use for her! I can just finish her off!" The voice says and I just sit here and listen to them. "Let me have a look at her!" I hear my mate say and fear creeps up my spine, I can't let him touch me and find out. I will rather be killed than let him know it's me. Forcing my eyes open a bit I see the man in front of me with his legs on each side of my legs, giving me the perfect shoot to kick him in his crotch with my foot. I know it will probably hurt ten times worse with his anger and I might not survive this, it's a long shoot and one I have to take. Muster up every ouns of strength I have left I kick him with my free foot in his crotch. Earning me a furious growl before his hand comes to my face and he hit me so hard I fall to the ground still tied to the chair. My head cracks open on the floor again and this time I can't even whimper. Feeling how my life leaves my body, slowly darkness starts to suck me in. My mate's feet come to stop in front of me and I hear him squat down to me. He sits there and I hear him sniff in the air. " Kian what's wrong?" One of his men says and I don't care anymore. This is it! I'm not going to make it out of here alive. " I don't know! Something is off with her! Take her to the cell and se if she makes it through the night." He says and gets up from the floor. I hear them start walking out of the room and I try to listen to where they are going before darkness takes me.

Chapter 3 Chapter 3

Kian pov Walking out of the room I get this feeling I need to go back to her, push the feeling aside and keep walking. something is off with her and we need to get to the bottom of it. " What did you pick up about her?" My beta Declan asks me the moment we step out of the interrogation room. " That's just it! I didn't pick up anything. She has no scent at all. " I tell him when we make our way down the hall. " strange! She came in with the rogues we caught, none of the guards picked up anything different about her" he says when we come to the end of the hall, looking around almost every cell down here is occupied with rogues, we have been fighting off outside the kingdom. They have attacked our alliances and everyone is trying to find out what's going on here. " find out who caught her and beat her up! I want to know the smallest detail!" I say to him before walking up the stairs. " I will go and talk to the patrol who caught them!" He says and walks the other way once we come upstairs. I make my way over the yard and head to the castle, coming inside I get straight to my office. his rouge problem we have been facing lately none of us can get to the bottom of. Looking through some files in my office when my dad comes walking inside. " hey, son! I heard you caught some more rogues yesterday. Anything new?" He asks before he takes a seat in front of me. I place my files down on the table and sit back in my chair. " No there isn't. None of them says a word, even when they are beaten to death they keep their mouth shut!" I tell him. "Something is off about all this! And you haven't found anything on the disappearances?" I drag a hand through my hair and look down at my files. We have been missing several people over the last year and no pack has found any trace of them. "Right now there is nothing new," I say when there is a knock on my office door and Declan opens the door. He walks right to the chair beside my dad and takes a seat. " found something?" I say and he sits back in his seat. " I found the guard that captured her, but none of them have anything to say about her. It all went down so fast! When they shot them with wolfsbane they started to fight each other and once they got them most of them were already beaten up!" He says with a frown on his forehead and I already know there is something more. " and what?" I say when he doesn't continue. " Well, several of our guards say they saw the white wolf in the fight!" Looking at him he looks as puzzled as I. The white wolf is extremely rare and we haven't had any in several hundred years. That's how rare they are! We can only read about them in books and all it says is that every white wolf has different gifts, some have several and some only have one. About three years ago we started to hear rumors about a white wolf being spotted, what has us more puzzled is there are reports from all over the country and not a specific place. "How could it be and where did it go?" I ask him " no one saw what happened to it" he sighs and leans forward. " Could it be their leader?" He asks the question I have been having on my mind for a while. "Could be" I just state, I will have to go down tomorrow myself and start interrogating everyone who has made it through the night. Several of them were in bad shape and might not make it through. " We are going out tonight! Why don’t you join us?" Declan asks and looks at me. " I don't have the time!" I just state to him. " son I think you should! You don’t know maybe you have a second chance mate out there and you won't find her in here" my dad says and I look at him for a brief moment. I never told them I already found her three years ago at the cemetery when I just had buried my first mate. I chased her out of my kingdom, I don't want a weak mate again and that little girl in front of me was just like my first mate. I'll rather be without a mate than be mated to a weak one again. I have never regretted my decision! " No I don't have and I don't want one" I just tell them and start going through my files again. "Well think about it, we can just grab something to eat," Declan says before he rises from his chair and starts walking to the door. He opened it and walks out, leaving Me and my dad alone in my office. " son you need to come outside of these walls, it has been three years since she died! It's time to move on." I just shrug my shoulders at him. None of them will understand if I tell them about her. I guess my parents will have the hardest time understanding why I did it. " alright I will let you do it your way," he says and raises from his seat. I give him a nod before he walks out of my office. When I am alone I open my drawer and take out the file from the bottom. I haven't looked at it in several years. Placing it on my desk I open it up. Her beautiful blue eyes are the first I see, she looks so fragile and innocent in the photo. After I chased her out of my kingdom I learned she was the daughter of my head warrior and they searched for her day and night for almost six months before they gave up. She left without a trace once she stepped out of my kingdom. I even helped to search for her, a part of me just wanted to know where she went but there was no trace of her. Closing her file I put I back in the drawer and turn off the lights in my office before walking out.

Chapter 4 Chapter 4

Selena pov Laying on the hard floor in my cell I have no idea for how long I have been unconscious, I remember my mate squatting down in front of me, and later when the big bulky guy tossed me over his shoulder and carried me in here. When he threw me to the floor I just managed to try and shield my head but that was it. My body was already in a tremendous amount of pain so the impact on the floor didn't make things worse. I start to feel cold, I only got a shirt on me and nothing else. It's what I manage to put on before I ended up in the fight, I wasn't supposed to be there in the first place and right now I regret going there! This was another stupid mistake I've made, I got warned before I went over there but still couldn't resist going. I know if I make it back I will be hearing about this until the end of the day. I sigh and try to roll over to my left side, everything in my body hurts. I just hope the wolfsbane will leave my system so I can heal up a bit. Laying there I listen to my surroundings and hear several other prisoners, some are in pain and others are just quiet. I'm not sure how many of them are going to survive the night. Trying to open my eyes I wait to my eyes have adjusted to the darkness, without my wolf my senses aren't that quick to adjust. Looking to the side I see a bunk and it would probably feel better laying on it but I don't have any strength to move over there. There is a bucket in the corner of the cell and I guess if I ever need to use the toilet that would be it. Trying to wiggle my fingers I feel my pinky finger is still crushed and I just sigh and place the hand down. There is no point in trying to do anything. All these years I have been avoiding even coming close to his kingdom only to end up here by a stupid mistake, I promised myself the day I was forced out of his kingdom to never look back leaving my family and friends behind. The day I was ordered out of his kingdom was my eighteen birthday and when I ran I was forced to shift on my own for the first time. I never got to say goodbye to my family and friends, I just left without a word. I have had the opportunity to contact them after but never have, a part of me wants to and I miss them more than anything. I just know if I did I would have to give them an explanation and I don't know how to explain without telling them he is my mate. To be honest, I don't want him to ever find me and couldn't risk him getting a lead on me. I have been good at hiding my tracks through the years and up until now I haven't made a mistake. I don't know if he even have tried to look for me but I didn't dare to take any chances. Through the years I have thought about rejecting him but I already know he won't agree to it, since I'm his second chance mate it would probably weaken him to the point he would die and if he finds me I would certainly be locked up in a cell for the rest of my life. I sigh and try to move my legs up to my chest, I just need the wolfsbane out of my system and I will have a good chance to escape this place! Before he finds out I'm here in his cell. A shiver runs down my body just the thought of what he will do if he finds me here. Hearing the door down to the cells opens up and several men walking down the stairs with heavy steps, I can only guess they are here to check the prisoners. Rolling back slowly to my back I close my eyes and try to even out my breathing, hoping they will just peek inside and leave me alone. Hearing them walking closer and going through every cell they stop behind mine and open the door. One of them walks inside and stops beside my body on the floor! Feeling how the person start to hit my leg I just lay there and keep my breath and heart still. I'm not intimidated by them and with just a few more hours I hope to heal up. "Still alive!" Says the voice beside me and another pair of feet comes inside. " Kian is right! Something is different with her, she doesn't have any scent" hearing them booth discussing my scent I have to keep myself from moving a muscle at the same time I dread his wrath if he is on to me. "Let's wait a few hours, he wanted to see if she will survive the night! " one of them says to the other before they start to walk back out of my cell. Hearing them close the door and lock it I take a deep breath and open my eyes again. This is going to be a long night down here, just anxiously waiting to heal up before Kian comes down and finds me. I hear the men walking around in every cell and I hear them saying at least two prisoners are dead. I'm not surprised by the amount of wolfsbane they have given us and I guess everyone has been interrogated similarly to what I have been. I feel exhausted and I know if I get a bit of sleep it will help me heal up, I'm going to need all my strength tomorrow if I'm going to have any chance of escaping this place.

Chapter 5 Chapter 5

Selena pov I'm woken up what I guess is early in the morning by the top door being opened up and several heavy feet are walking down the stairs. Trying to move my mangled body I feel a bit better but far from healed up, if I could get a half day more I know there would be my chance to escape. I don't get that lucky when a guard stops by my door and turns the lock. Hearing him open the door and taking a big sniff in the air I feel fear running up my spine. Fuck! I bet my scent is coming back. "Cannon you better come in here!" The guard says and now I know my time is about to run out. " what's the problem?" Comes a deep voice and I recognize it as the man who interrogated me yesterday. I hear him sniffing the air before he walks inside and hovers over my body. I don't dare to open my eyes when I feel him grabbing my shirt and lifting me up. Jolting me upright " where the fuck are you from!" Comes his voice and I snap my eyes open to stare into his angry face. He is holding a tight grip on my shirt only for it to rise up over my butt, leaving my naked body on display for them to see. I try to calm my raising heart down. He is a big and bulky guy! I look like a child next to him. "Answer me or I will have to force it out of you," he says and I keep my mouth shut. His fist comes down to my face and hit me hard. My head falls to the side and I feel how he broke my nose, blood starts to pour down. " I'll give you one more chance before I start breaking your legs!" I still don't give him any answer, there is no way I will give away what I have been fighting for years. "Get me the syringe!" I hear him say to the other guard before he quickly walks out of the cell. I know my time is up and all I can do is fight for whatever is left of me. Hearing the guard come back I try to gather all strength I have. When he comes into the cell and is about to hand the syringe over to the man called Cannon I quickly shoot my hand up and snatch it from him before I stab it in Cannon's neck. Earning me a furious growl before he drops me to the ground and pulls the syringe out of his neck. Scramble to my feet I take a few steps back and keep my eyes locked on him. Seeing how his chest rises and falls I know he is furious! " get Kian in here now!" He barks out to the other guard who rushes out of the cell, leaving me alone with this furious man. Looking at him I see how angry he is and all he wants is to kill me. Mabie, it's the easiest way for me to go, I doubt Kian will be nicer when he finds out. "You're going to regret doing that!" He says before he lunges for me. Stepping aside he manages to grip my shirt and I swirl around to face him. I slip my claws out and scratch him down his chest. It's only making him angrier when I see blood oozing out of the wound. He rip my shirt off my body before his fist comes up and hit me in my head, falling backward my head hits the floor with a thud and I see black spots in front of my eyes. My ears start to ring and I can't focus on my surroundings! That's when I feel him step on my leg before his hands come down and break both my legs. I cry out in pain and feel him kick me in my stomach. "I told you! You're going to regret it. Now tell me where you come from and I might end your life quickly!" He says and I just try to breathe through the pain. I wonder what he will say once he finds out he has beaten Kian's mate up. " from here!" I say and spit out some blood on the floor while I hold my arms around my stomach. That's the only answer he will get out of me. " trying to be funny are you!" He says when he kicks me in my back and I can hear how my spine breaks. Screaming the pain out it takes me a moment to come back to my surroundings. My body can't heal and I feel how it's getting harder and harder to breathe. Mabie, it's my time, I can't take anymore! I'm just laying there on the floor, unable to move my body at all. Staring up in the sealing I feel how my body slowly shut down. Starting to cough out blood when several heavy footsteps come walking down to us. Right now I don't care anymore, I'm as good as dead anyway. I don't need to hear him when his scent hits my nose! The men comes to stop by my cell door and I hear him take a large inhail. Slowly turning my head to the side I'm met by his gorgeous face. " Nice to meet you again Mate!" I say and hear several people gasp in the room. I don't take my eyes off him and see shock all over his face. "If you came to see me take my last breath, I won't disappoint you!" I say when I start coughing up blood. I know this is it! My time is over. Turning my head I look up in the sealing! I don't want his face to be the last thing I see before I go! My breath rasp in my body and it starts to get really hard to breathe before everything becomes black.

Chapter 6 Chapter 6

Kian pov I was in my office when I got a mind link I needed to go down to the cells right away. Getting out of my office I headed over to the cells and are met by Declan and my father standing outside and talking. Walking by them I hear them coming behind me. " what's wrong?" Declan asks " I just got a mind link I needed to go down here right away," I tell them and open the door down to the cells. It doesn't take me many steps before I smell this mouth-watering scent. Coming closer to a cell where a guard is standing outside and waiting, the scent is stronger. The moment he opens the door I recognize the scent and the chock I get when my eyes fall on her heavy beat up body on the floor and Cannon my gamma standing over her with blood oozing out of a wound on his chest. I hear her soft voice speaking and everyone around me gasps in shock when she reveals she's my mate. I keep standing there when she turns her head back and look up the sealing before I see her cough out blood and have a hard time breathing. I don't move! Just standing there and looking at my little mate dying on the floor in front of me. Declan rushes by me and bends down to pick her up. " stop !" I bark out to him when I see him scramble up on his feet and walk over to me. " that's your mate! Either you rush her to the hospital or I will pick her up and carry her there right now!" He starts yelling at me. I look between him and my mate on the floor. I see her lips turning blue and slowly walk over to where she is laying on the floor. I won't be taking her up! Don't want her body close to mine. "Take her to the doctor's room in the castle and have a nurse and doctor over!" I tell him and he quickly walks over and bends down to pick her up. I get a pang of jealousy when he picks her up, and have to push the feeling aside when he rushes out of the cell. " son it might not be enough! She needs the hospital!" My father says and I ignore his words. Looking over at Cannon he just stands there. " I'm sorry Kian! I didn't know she was your mate!" He says " Why don't you heal?" I ask him. I see him looking down at his chest and hands. "It doesn't matter!' He answers and my father comes over and grabs my arm. " we can talk about this later. Right now we need to go after her and Declan. Now!" He says before he starts walking. I sigh and start walking behind him. Cannon walks beside me but doesn't say a word the whole way. I know he has a lot of questions and will probably start to apologize again. When we come inside the castle I hear my mother yelling at the nurses and I drag a hand down my face. She is the last person I want to deal with right now. Standing outside the doctor's room I see several nurses and a doctor hooking up her body to different machines and fluids going in her system. She looks so small and fragile in the bed, a part of me wants to be close to her. Keeping her out of harm's way. At the same time as I hate the fact, that she is that small and fragile. "Kian it would help her if you gave her some of your blood" my mother comes over and talk to me, turning my head to look at her I just shake it no! I will not help her! " For fuck sake she is your mate!" I hear Declan's angry voice. " We don't know why she is here! All we know is that she was with the rogues and I won't be helping an enemy!" I just state the fact before I turn around to walk over to my office. Coming inside I hear Declan walking behind me. " if she doesn't survive we can never ask her what she did with them" I just ignore him. She wouldn't be there if she wasn't with the rogues. Inside my office, I walk over to my desk and take a seat, my father and mother with Cannon come inside. I guess they want some answers. " When did you meet her and why haven't you told us about her?" My father asks the moment he comes inside my office. I sigh and take out her folder from my drawer, handing it over to him I see he and Declan start to look at it. A moment goes by before he speaks up. "you're telling me this is her? The girl who disappeared three years ago!" He says with an angry voice. Looking over at him I guess he is prepared for hearing something he doesn't like. There is no point in hiding it from them anymore, telling them the truth I see them all looking at me with anger. I didn't expect anything else. " Kian! How could you? We didn't race you up like this!" My mother says with anger in her voice before she starts walking to the door. " I'm really disappointed in you!" She says before she walks out and slams the door shut behind her. I just look at the other three in the room. My father points his finger at me for a moment before he shakes his head and walks out of my office. I will have to deal with them later. " I don't get you at all Kian! This is your second chance mate and you tossed her away! " Declan says and sits down in a chair. Leaning back in my chair I look up at the sealing. There is no point in trying to explain to him my reasons.