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âIs she waking?â I heard the voices of two strange men while I was stuck in darkness with aches all over my body.
âWe didnât hit her. Why isnât she waking?â The other man sounded irritated. âGoddess, I donât have time to waste.â
âI didnât know you were this enthusiastic to see Scarlettâ the other man snickered.
âPick her up.â The man being teased ignored the joke. âPick her up letâs go.â
âHey, wait. W â What do you mean pick her up?â The other manâs voice pitched higher.
× While the men argued, I tried to open my eyes. A sense of urgency prevailed over me although I couldnât remember what the need for urgency meant. Even in my state of semiâconsciousness, I knew I was running from someone, from something, and I had to run faster.
My eyelids were too heavy to open and my body felt like a boulder rested atop me, crushing me to the ground and making my tight chest tighten more.
âYouâre wasting time,â my inner voice berated me.
My body temperature rose as I tried to force my eyes open to escape the blanket of darkness around me but nothing happened much as I tried.
âDo you want us to leave her out here?â A harsh voice snapped. âPick her up and put her in the car letâs go.
âYâYes, Alpha,â a third voice reached me in the darkness as hands reached for me.
âBut thatâs â Thatâs kidnapping, isnât it?â The more normal of the voices asked. âWe canât just take a random person from the roads while they are unconscious.â
âOrion, youâre getting on my nerves.â A growl that sent a shiver down my frozen spine sounded in the darkness of the night. âWe either leave her here or we take her along. I donât have time to waste waiting for a fainted girl to wake up.â
âYouâre too harsh, Killian.â After that, I sank deeper into the cold abyss of darkness.
The next time I regained a fraction of my consciousness, I was on a soft bed and someone was cleaning me with a cold rag. Strange voices sounded around me and the side of my face burned as if someone was glaring at me.
âYou said he brought her?â A strange womanâs voice entered my ears. The voice was filled with disdain and anger â a voice that could have belonged to Bella if it didnât carry the distinct power of an Alpha sheâwolf.
âYes. He carried her in his arms and brought her here then he asked us to watch over her,â another unfamiliar female voice responded. She was the one cleaning me if the proximity of her voice was anything to go by.
âDo you know what their relationship is, Scarlett?â Yet another feminine voice.
The heat at the side of my face intensified and it seared me awake. The darkness around me receded but I didnât blink my eyes. My danger senses were going off the roof. I didnât know what I would meet when I .1
Chapter 117 Book 2 His Reject: The Alpha Kingâs Hybrid
Where was I and who were these people? Last I remembered, I was fleeing Noah and his pack, then I fell unconscious in front of someoneâs carriage and they carried me. Did they take me to a clinic?
âI know youâre awake,â a voice colder than ice touched my skin.
Almost on instinct, my eyes opened and I came face to face with a girl with fireâred hair and emerald green eyes peering into my face with a harsh glare. The look in her eyes told me she wanted me to combust and for my ashes to vanish into thin air. That look was familiar, one I had seen a lot of times but Iâd never seen such a look directed at me by someone who I didnât know.
âWho are you?â The lady demanded, her emerald eyes darkening. âAnd whatâs your relationship with Killian?â
Killian. Killian. That name sounded familiar, like a name I should know, but my scrambled brain didnât attach a face to the said name so I assumed I didnât know the person, âWho â Who are you?â I asked. To my chagrin, my voice sounded broken and tired â weak.
Her eyes sparkled when she heard my voice. It was as if it confirmed her suspicion that I was nobody to be concerned about.
âYou donât know who I am?â Her expression tightened but her eyes were merry. Great. I ran away from one psychopath only to run into another. âI asked first so you have to answer me first.â Her merry words spread a chill through the room.
The other women had gone silent before but now they went still. I may not have a wolf and I may have awful instincts, but I knew danger well, had courted it often, so I recognized the power she imbued into her voice as she questioned me with a false smile and light tone.
âC â Carrot.â I stuttered my name with blood draining from my face.
âHow dare you.â My insides trembled and my heartbeat sped up at the calm question that hit me like a tornado.
This â This woman was not one to be taken lightly. I heard it in the way her tone deepened, felt it in the way her glare sharpened and saw it in the way her eyes grew cold and hard. The aura she exuded overwhelmed me. It may be because she was the first Alpha sheâwolf I ever met, but I knew it had to be more than that. It was more than that.
âHow dare you mock me.â My eyes bulged as her hand wrapped around my throat and she squeezed. She had dainty soft hands but when they tightened around my throat, my mouth dried up like a dessert and my chest tightened to the point of pain.
It was just the other day that Luna Grace wrapped her hand around my throat and squeezed with both her hands but her strength was nothing compared to the strength of this woman. She cut off my air supply and had me gasping for air, clawing at her hands taking my life.
âScarlett, is this this isnât a good idea,â someone said, My life flashed before my eyes. I thought of my plan to ruin Noah, to destroy Red Lake and to find my family. All the plans I made in the dungeons were about to be destroyed because I wandered into this strange place and met this strange woman.
No, no!
Chapter 117 Book 2 His Reject: The Alpha Kingâs Hybrid
I canât die like this! I never even lived. How can I die like this after I managed to escape Red Lake?
Did the goddess curse me? How could one person be so unfortunate!?
When Noah shoved me out of his motherâs balcony, when the Luna tried strangling me to death, when they starved me in the dungeons, when I ran into a racing carriage, none of those times brought me as close to deathâs doorstep as quickly as this girl did.
âKillian brought him herself, Scar,â a frightened girl muttered. âIf you kill her like this -â She left her words to hang.
âDid he bring this whore here to taunt me!?â Her grip on my throat tightened. I clawed at her hand but she did not budge. âWho the fuck is this hussy that has the audacity to call me carrot!?â
The fight left me. A familiar cold spread through my insides and I opened my arms to embrace it.
Black dots spotted my vision.
âScarlett, there are done with the meeting!â A boy rushed into the room and saved my life. She jumped from the bed, her hand falling from my throat as if she wasnât just trying to kill me. A smile bloomed on her face but then she caught my gaze and grew cold again.
âKillian is mine,â she snarled. âI donât know who you are but stay away from him.â I wanted to ask who the hell Killian was but I shut my mouth. âLeave this place before I end you myself.â With that she left the room with her friend, leaving me alone with the woman whoâd been nursing me.
âAh, you have to â You have to avoid him now.â The woman seemed mournful. âScarlett is a nice girl but she â you know, Alpha wolves are quite possessive and she has her sights set on him so itâs best to give up whatever thing you have together.â She gave me an imploring look that I did not understand. âYou should leave now, before she returns.â She handed me a shabby dress.
I didnât need telling twice. After escaping Red Lake, I wasnât going to wait to be killed by a random crazy wench who thought I was dragging an unknown man with her. Pushing to my wobbly feet, I exited the house and broke into a run.
âItâs a whole wilderness outside of a pack,â I thought to myself. How many hours ago did I escape Red Lake only to run into enemies?
I was about to slink into unfamiliar woods when I saw an unattended carriage.
âThis is a bad idea,â a part of me thought but the other part understood that I had no wolf. It would be easier for me to escape this place in a carriage and the goddess provided this one.
I hid in the luggage compartment of a strangerâs carriage, my heart in my throat and my clammy body sweating buckets.
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