The Alpha’s Arranged Bride

Joanna’s POV

I tilted my head to the side with my eyes closed. The pain I was feeling all over my body was massive, but the pain in my head was hurting more. All I could see for a few minutes was darkness as I tried to move. I was unable to move due to the pain that radiated throughout my body.

My breathing was heavy, and I was finding it difficult to continue breathing. I turned my head to the other side again, trying to find some comfort. My mind was blank, and I had no idea what was happening. I heard sounds around me, but it felt as though it was far off from me but also close. It was a confusing feeling.

I decided to rest for a while to regain my strength. It took me some time, but I still was unable to move my body but I was regaining my consciousness. I tried to open my eyes, but I quickly shut them back, as the light was too much. My eyelids could barely stay open.

I wanted to push my body to work, but I needed to understand something. For some time I could not remember things, so I tried to remember what was going on. What happened, and what was happening because I felt lost, and that was when it all came rushing back to my mind.

Eight hours ago,

I was frightened and shaking. The clashing of swords, the snarling of wolves, the screams, and grunts of men, the flesh testing, the biting, everything made my body coil, and sent signals of danger down my spine. I shivered with fear, and I could not stop the tears that escaped my eyes.

The memories that I had kept at bay all this while came rushing back like a tornado. I could remember everything. The pain, the heartbreak, the loss, the regret, and to top it all up, my child. It was never easy to forget it, or at least act like it never happened.RêAd lat𝙚St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only

Sometimes I cried myself to sleep, thinking I had made a mistake for my daughter. I had hoped and wished that Alpha Caramel would not come for her. I feared that he was going to do the same thing that Alpha Toot did to me, and I did not want it for her.

He was a well respected Alpha, but I was deceived by Alpha Toot, and I did not want to trust any of them. Alpha Caramel changed that notion when I came here, and I saw how happy she was. Lavender was happy to be here. Lavender loved this place. This was her home now, and Alpha Toot wanted to take it all away.

He wanted to ruin her just as he did me. He killed my parents. Alpha Toot ruined my life. I didn’t want that to be the same faith for Lavender. She was my child. She was my baby. I wanted her to have the best of life. I wanted him away from her.

He abandoned her. He rejected her. He didn’t want her from the moment he knew, so what did he want now? Why did he want her now? Why was he here to ruin everything? Why did he derive joy from making things hard for us? I hated him so much, and I am filled with so much regret for ever loving someone like him. I sat on the bed sobbing my eyes out, and Axel quickly wrapped his hands around me, then placed a kiss on my head.

I knew just as much as it was hurting me; it was hurting him too. Axel took Lavender as his own daughter, and has treated her as such ever since he knew her. I knew if not for the fact that what we were dealing with was not human but a very dangerous wolf, Axel would have chosen to join the fight. He would have wanted to protect his daughter at all costs.

“Everything will be okay,” he said, trying to soothe me, and I nodded. However, I could not stop crying. It took a while until I was able to calm down, but the moment I did, I stood up, which took Axel by surprise.

“I need to be with her,” I said, and he nodded.

“That’s okay. Let’s go,” he said. I wanted to tell him not to join me, but I knew he wouldn’t listen because he wouldn’t want me out of his sight.

As much as I am a parent to Lavender, and care for her, Axel felt the same way too. I believe Alpha Caramel would have told her to stay in her room. I was not too sure if he would be pleased to have me in her room at this time, but it was only when I see her, I would feel completely calm that she was safe.

Halfway through the distance to get to Lavender’s room, Axel stopped. “I need a weapon in case of anything,” he said, and I approved.

“Go, and I’ll meet you in her room,” he added. He rushed back to get something to protect us with while I moved forward. The mansion looked deserted due to the guards out on the premises trying to ward off Alpha Toot.

When I got to Lavender’s room, I heard some noises which made me hasten my steps. I saw a man trying to pick up Lavender from the ground. “Lavender,” I muttered under my breath, and was about to approach, but the man took out his sword and pointed it at me.

I raised my head, my eyes wide as I glanced from him to my daughter. Lavender was unconscious. I knew who this man was. He was a warrior. I heard someone call him a gamma, but it did not take me long to know now that he was a traitor. “Scream for help, and I will kill her,” he threatened, and I nodded in compliance. I didn’t know what to do, but I knew I needed to protect my daughter.

I ran out thinking I could alert anyone, but I got a smack to the back of my head the moment I took two steps out of the room, and tried to raise an alarm. I placed my hand over the surface that was hit and turned to look at him. Not long after, I fell flat to the ground, blacking out.

Present,

With this knowledge, I opened my eyes quickly, darting my eyes around. We were in the woods, surrounded by tall trees, and I was lying on the ground. Lavender was lying beside me. I called out to her, but she did not wake up. I didn’t want to believe he had killed her, but I was scared. I tried to move and realized I was bound.

Wiggling my body, I tried to get myself free, but that did not work. The man was nowhere in sight, and I needed to seize the opportunity. However, not only could I not free myself, but the man arrived with blood stains all over his body that soiled his clothes and sword.

I didn’t see any blood or injury on Lavender, and aside from the pain all over my body; I had no wounds. It seemed like he was fighting someone, and had run too. “Please let us go. I promise not to tell Alpha Caramel about this.” I tried to reason with him, but he scoffed.

“You think he doesn’t know already,” he said, then crouched down beside me. “I don’t fear him either way, and I will not release you. You should keep quiet now, talk less or your daughter dies, and I promise you, there will be no need for a sword,” he told me.

It was then it occurred to me that he used something on her. I glanced at Lavender before turning to him with realization in my eyes, which made him smile, but again; I felt a hit on the side of my head, which made me black out instantly.