Page 172 of King Alejandro

An Awakening

Enrique

“Iwill kill him!”

My heart was thumping in fear. I was terrified. I had returned to my pack in Puerto Rico, but when Padre found out I was back, he demanded I be brought back to England because he wanted to see me. I hated this place. It was nothing but a nightmare for me. My entire body hurt, but Father didn’t stop. He kept kicking me. Again and again. I wanted to ask him why he didn’t come for me. Didn’t he love me?

“Tell me, youhijo de puta!Tell me!”Father screamed.

Father…

“I don’t know anything.” I coughed as he kicked me again.

“There is no way he would have let you go without something in return!” He hissed. “Tell me, what did you tell him?”

“Nothing, Padre, I don’t know anything to have told him!” I cried out fearfully.

Another kick to the head. I had pleaded for the last hour, yet he didn’t believe me. He kept hurting me, and the memory of how I was always in pain returned to me. But why did it feel so much worse?

Will I die?

“You won’t speak? You won’t tell me why he let you go!”

“Because he isn’t a monster!” I shouted.

He fell silent and I felt the unease in the room grow. Through the blood and haze of pain, I looked up at my father. A darkness emanated from him, and it filled the room, filling me with fear and dread.

“Want to see a monster, son?” He hissed. His burned skin looked even worse than normal. His eyes were glowing terrifyingly. Father wasn’t well... the thing inside of him was killing him and making him angrier. “Bring his mother.”

Mother? No…

“No! Padre, please! I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to say that!” I cried out.

“I think this is a lesson you need, son. A few days in his hold, and you think he’s better than me?”

“No, Padre, I swear! He isn’t better than you! I never said that! I just said he let me go because-”

He kicked me across the room just as I heard mother enter.No, Mother, go!

“Alpha Sebastian…” Mother murmured respectfully, looking at Father. The evil look on Father’s face was scaring me. Mother’s attention fell on me, and her eyes widened in horror. “Enrique is back!” She cried, breaking away from the two guards who were flanking her and ran towards me.

“No, Madre, run!” I shouted in horror the moment I saw father raise his hand, and before my very eyes, the blazing fire engulfed Mother’s body instantly. A shriek of pain left her lips, her eyes widening in horror as they stared at me. Then, Father was behind her, his hand ripping through her chest and tearing her heart out.

“No!”

No. No.No.This can’t be true.My heart was hurting so much.

The smell of blood and burnt skin filled the room. Mother’s lifeless body fell to the ground, and I couldn’t stop the tears from falling from my eyes.Please, don’t let this be true.Was this it? I didn’t even get to hug her…

The way she ran to me when she saw me… it meant that she did care for me, but… did her death not affect Father?

“Nowthat’sa monster,” Father hissed as he came over to me, kicking me in the stomach once more. Maybe I was wrong... maybe I had always been wrong…

No, not maybe. I am wrong; Father is evil. I won’t speak. I’ll never tell him what I told the Alpha King.

I didn’t move. I didn’t react as he kept kicking me. I just stared at the burned body of my mother lying a few metres away. All I could do was look at it. I didn’t even get to say goodbye.

I closed my eyes, praying to the Goddess, if she really existed, to save me. Did she not love us? Why was she letting this happen to us?