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Sue

I was furious as hell when I went off to the kitchen to go grab the princes dinner. I barely even had time to smoothen down my hair before I was being ushered out by lady Beatrice, immediately after the princes betrothed left. I could just imagine how I look right now with hand prints over my face, my stomach growling with hunger cause I haven’t eaten a thing today, while I trudged up the stairs with the princes’ meal.

All that had happened to me today was their fault, and again, I wished I had poison so I could poison them. I was still so furious when I arrived in where they’d be having their meal, in the dining area on this floor— which is the same one Damon and I ate together in one night.

I knocked on the door before stepping in, and the sight that greeted me was one that had me stiffening in shock and confusion. Angelo and Landon were whispering something ti Damon, who was backing me, but he was breathing hard and it sounded quite labored— along with the way his shoulders were moving with each inhale and exhale. In the next moment, Angelo and Landon glanced over at me at the same time.

"I- I brought your meal..." I muttered, still feeling annoyed cause right now, I just felt a little concerned feeling course through me at the sight of Damon, one which I quickly replaced with anger.

I walked into the room and set the tray on the table, not bothering to set everyone on the table from the tray.

When I glanced over at the princes, the two of them still had their eyes on me, and Damon was still backing me. That’s when I noticed Angelo and Landon were holding Damon’s hands, almost like they were keeping him in place.

Before I could get a word out, Landon was speaking, his voice harsh and sharp.

"Who hurt you?!"

I blinked in surprise and confusion, feeling caught off guard.

"Uh... huh?"

"Your face, there’s marks all over it. Who hurt you?" He repeated again, and when I realized what he meant, anger flooded my chest because they were all the reasons those mad women dared to lay their hands on me. At least when I was still known as Damon’s mistress, I didn’t think they’d dare to do what they did to me today.

"What’s it to you?" I finally shot at him in response, feeling irritated that he dared to ask me that after ruining my life, he and his brothers.

He was about to say something else when a loud growl suddenly filled the room, it was so loud that I stumbled back as my eyes widened and my heart flew into my chest. My heart was pounding hard and my eyes quickly darted around the room, then my mouth fell open on realizing when I realized where that inhumane sound just came from.

It was from Damon!

That’s the moment I realized that Angelo and Landon’s grips on Damon’s arms has tightened even more while he was struggling to break free from their hold.

My mouth hung open in shock, unsure of what to think or what to make of what I was witnessing right now. In the very next second, another growl filled the room, one which was way louder than the previous one and I felt my legs wobble underneath me.

"Leave!" Angelo screamed at me and I jolted, feeling like I got doused with cold water as my eyes darted between them all again.

Right before my eyes, it almost seemed like Damon’s body was expanding slowly, and that’s the moment moment Angelo screamed at me again.

"Get out right now, Sue!"

The urgency in his voice was what ended up propelling me forward, and I practically fled from the room, slamming the door closed after me and collapsing against it just as a loud roar filled the air, practically shaking the ground.

A tremor wracked through my entire body and I blinked slowly, trying to make sense of what was currently happening. That roar... it was not a human sound, nor was it that of a werewolf. It was something else entirely, and at the back of my mind, I wondered if it was a monster growl, cause that’s what it sounded like.

I want to move, to run far from this spot, but it felt like my feet were rooted to the ground, and when the same roar filled the air in the next moment, as another tremor coursed through my body, I let out a gasp of horror as I realized what was happening to me.

I was getting wet...

What the fuck?

What’s happening?

With everything in me, I forced myself to move, then I ran without looking back. I was breathing hard as I ran till I arrived in my bedroom in the slave quarters, the spot between my thighs stupidly wet, which was still making me extremely horrified.

What’s happening to me?

Oh god.

As I collasped over my bed and buried my face into the sheets while trying to steady my racing heart, a particular memory made its way into my mind.

It was about a dream I had the exact night I turned eighteen.

In that dream, I was in a forest, running with everything within me, while being chased by three monster.

And as they chased me that night, they kept calling out a single word over and over again.

"Ours."

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Tonight, I had that same dream all over again. And this time, the dream felt so real, like I could taste it on my tongue.

As I raced hard in the thick forest, with my heart in my throat and my legs trembling hard, I kept falling over hard rocks and sticks, but I still forced myself to stand up and keep running. I could barely see anything, but I was aware of one thing— I was naked, and slick was trickling down my thighs as I kept running.

The loud thumps of the monsters catching up to me and their loud, terrifying growls echoing in the air was what was pushing me to keep going. Although, with each growl that filled the air, along with scents that I wanted to drown myself in, I felt myself grow even wetter.

However, at a point, I stumbled and fell, and before I could get up again, large hands were settling over my body, pinning me to the ground.

"Ours." Three deep voices echoed from behind me, right before I jolted awake.