Chapter 463
Leysa:
I heard Oriana scream, cry for help, and beg them, but no one helped her. In that moment, I realized that everything I had ever known about the people around me was not what it seemed.
People change. People go from good to bad, from bad to worse. While I was trying to be a good person, there were people around me who had drastically changed, one of them being Yorick.
Then I thought about Clementine’s life. She had surrounded herself with the alphas who turned out to be her mates. That was shocking.
I had found out just a few hours ago from Yorick’s mother that Clementine was also his mate, and that it had all been a lie that they were never going to keep me alive.
I mean, I had figured it out the minute they brought me in and told me they had brought me for his other brother and not for Yorick.
But thinking about why his mother had been constantly talking about Clementine over the last two days made me uneasy.
I hoped and prayed that somehow I would get the word out and let everyone know that this family was up to something bad.
They had a monster locked in one of the rooms, that was all I could think about.
Then, finally, I was dragged out. I looked at Yorick and screamed for help, again and again, but he turned a blind eye to me.
That was when anger rushed through my veins, and I cursed him with loneliness. I cursed him to never be seen with love or affection by Clementine ever again.
That angered him. He yelled at his brother, telling him to eat me. And suddenly, everything made sense.
They had been preparing me as food for their brother, for reasons I did not yet understand.
Then his brother came at me.
“Stay away from me,” I screamed at him.
“Do not listen to her. Just go and eat her. And once you are done with the mission, you will be back to who you are, the young, handsome prince, just like your other brother p>
As his mother started speaking again, I began to piece things together.
This was some kind of ritual to turn him back into a human. I still did not understand why they had chosen me and Oriana.
“Please listen, do not listen to them. If you eat me today, you will never turn into a human. Only a monster would eat someone innocent, or even their own kind,” I said, trying to reach whatever part of him could still understand.
He began to growl, snarling as he jumped at me. I noticed the marks on him and could tell that Oriana had put up a good fight.
Of course she had. She was a crusader but I was not. I had never learned to fight before.
So when he attacked me, I could not push him back. He lunged forward and bit my shoulder. The moment his teeth pierced my skin, he growled, stepped back, and began howling, almost as if he was about to throw up.
“What is happening?” Lady Rimi panicked from the other side of the bars.
I gently touched my shoulder, feeling the pain spread through my body as blood ran from the bite mark. But it did not seem like he had chewed on my skin. The impact alone had caused him to recoil in disgust.
“What is happening?” Yorick asked his mother, who was panicking as she watched the monster throw himself against the wall, as if my blood or my skin had disgusted him.
He started to howl and throw himself around, even scratching at his own arms. I began to panic and dragged myself into the corner, hugging myself and trying not to get his attention. But the way he kept throwing himself around and crying in pain caused me a lot of anguish.
“It did not work,” I heard his mother say to Yorick.
“What?” Yorick questioned her. “Why would it not? Charles was supposed to get better if you fed him my chosen mate and my fated mate’s sibling, correct?” Yorick asked in panic as they opened the bars.
“Come here and drag this filth out of here. Put her back in the room,” his mother shouted at the warriors.
They started to enter the room along with her, and I noticed Yorick’s mother holding a needle in her hand, probably to sedate the one called Charles.
I had picked up on a few things throughout this time.
The first thing was Yorick repeatedly asking if it meant the sacrifice had been rejected, and that gave me hope.
But then again, it was not like they would release me into the open world. My fate would be the same. Either I would be eaten alive by the monster, or I would be killed.
One of the warriors rushed in and grabbed my arm, dragging me out of the room so the family could take care of Charles.
As he dragged me back toward the room, I noticed that all the warriors were busy watching what was happening inside Charles’s room.
That gave me enough time to turn around and kick the warrior between the legs.
“Ah!” he groaned in pain, dropping to the ground. He could not even scream to warn the others.
There was so much screaming and shouting from Yorick and his mother, and from Charles that the warrior’s cry of pain went unnoticed.
With that, I bolted downstairs.
I went straight downstairs, but instead of heading toward the exit, I turned into the hallway, the large hallway lined with offices, the offices that were supposedly filled with nothing but secrets.
I could go toward the exit and get caught, or I could find their secrets and expose this family.
Looking at the layout of the house, I could tell that this area, every office or lab, might have a window. If I wanted to, I could escape through one of them.
I moved quickly. I picked up a bit of blood on my fingertips from my shoulder and ran toward the exit, touching the door with it to leave a hint that I had left the mansion. Then I returned to the hallway.