Forged in the Flames by Karima Sa'ad Usman

Chapter 3

I bowed my head to show respect, but I hoped Nikolas would stop calling me ‘Little girl’ and just use my name instead.

“What are you looking at down there?” he asked me, and I looked up.

“Nothing, Alpha,” I said, and just then, two ladies came up the stairs. They bowed to the Alpha and then looked at me.

He must have told them something I wasn’t privy to. This was the disadvantage of the mind link.

“Link me if she causes any trouble,” he said, and I knew that part was to my benefit.

He walked away, and the crowd of women in the foyer bowed to him as he walked down the stairs.

“Let us go,” One of the Lycan women told me, and I did not want to cause any trouble, so I followed them quietly.

We returned to my room, and they closed the door behind them.

“The Alpha said we should prepare you for tonight. We will go through the beauty regiments and then dress you up. When we are done, You will be taken to his room,” One of the women said, and the horror of her words struck me.

I gasped, and the women giggled.

“It is an honourable thing to be the Alpha’s mistress. He has never taken a werewolf before. You will be the first.

Appreciate his kindness and focus on showing your worth tonight.

It will determine whether or not you will be one of his favourites or a mistake. Many women would do anything to be in your position right now,” One of them said.

I was disgusted by what she said but did not want them to report me, so I held my tongue.

We spent a while scrubbing, cleaning, waxing, and scenting. Name it, they did it all, and my body felt sore when they were done.

The women were pleasant and told me about their first time. The savagery they practised made my stomach churn.

Werewolves did not mate with Lycans; why would he want me?

I kept the women’s names.

The blonde one who seemed to be in charge was Ania, and the one with red hair was Lisa.

Ania told me they had been assigned to serve me when I was alone and with the Alpha.

They were the only Lycans I was allowed to interact with.

When I moved back to the packhouse under Nikolas’s orders, I thought I would serve people; I did not know it would only be the Alpha.

“We will take you to his room now,” Ania told me, and I became nervous.

They dressed me up in revealing clothes, leaving nothing to the imagination.

The moment we stood by the door of my room, Ania touched my hand.

“Alpha is a hard man; try to make things easier for yourself and your people by not aggravating him,” She said, and I could see a haunted look in her eyes. I wondered what Nikolas did to her people, seeing they were of the same kind. The look disappeared, and she replaced it with a smile.

“I know you are defiant; I can see it in you. Please be careful so you do not end up with a brand for general use,” she told me, and I gasped.

They made me inhale and exhale and led me to the Alpha’s quarters.

I was taken to his room and left there.

to run

not want

me would be dishonourable, but he had told my father that I would have no honour, so I should expect the

he comes, I will take over, so you won’t deal

now my turn to

the Alpha returned to his room. I was hungry by then,

look. He just

he was doing in the bathroom, and when the shower came on, I knew

and I tried to

my father had

but I

happened

Isreal and met the same silence. I knew then that

little girl, I determine who links who around here,” I heard Nikolas’s deep voice in my head, and I shut my eyes immediately. I knew Lycans had abilities that werewolves could only dream of, and sensing who was trying to mind link and blocking

out in shorts and

tattoos, but I did not look long enough to know

sternly, and I looked at him. He had covered his

wolf,” he said, and I

to touch me, and I knew

made me stand up, then lifted my chin and gazed into my

eyes were cold, and I felt

shit. You aren’t important to this pack or me. Got that? If you aggravate or defy

would determine my hospitality towards your father

all, do not fall in love with me or anyone and do not

are not allowed to fall

the mistake of getting pregnant by me, you will

make me change my mind. I will

people will be dealt with. Am I clear?” he said,

with him was impossible. I could

not have that hold on me, so he had nothing to worry about

I be given birth control?” I managed

he said coldly. It was unfair because he was putting me in an impossible situation. I

wanted to step back, but the wall wasn’t

the cage that was brought in. She is to be fed and cared for at all times. On no account should anything happen to her under your watch. Ania and Lisa will help

remembered the wild growl coming from the cage and became scared. How was I going to care for a wild

history of caring for wild

I

me

from my body. My eyes stung.

crushing my windpipe, and

a wild animal again,” he warned me, and the pain was so much that unwanted tears streamed down my

that cage? I managed to nod while blinking the tears away,

coughed, trying to

was it, but he began huffing and puffing from rage as if his actions

their temper, and

against the wall wishing I could sink into

was shaken and

tried to touch me, and

want his hands on me after he had almost crushed my

trapped me between his arms and hit the

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