**LEILA**

I woke up panting heavily as I stared around me, am I in the brambles? Had my evil uncle who already killed my mum caught up with me?


Why was I locked up in this place? That was when reality hit me and I calmed myself.

It was just a dream, it was all just a dream and nothing more. Actually no, they were more than dreams and I knew it.

I kept panting heavily as dawn creaked in while I stare around my surroundings. It was like every tiny little sound scared the shit out of me.


Why didn't I remember all these before now?

I have a feeling it was all the handiwork of the liquid that mum had given me to drink and I was sure as hell that though it appeared as a dream, it wasn't.


Those were memories, fragmented and almost forgotten memories that decided to surface.

From mum's statement, ' I don't want you remembering this till the time is right, baby' she didn't want my little self to drown in those memories. She didn't want me to remember for a reason but also for some reasons, the memories were returning because somehow, the time was right for it to.


Antonio killed my mother? And he also killed my father? He made me an orphan. Fucking deranged man.

I heard the door to my cell creak open and I jerked as a guard rolled in food for me while leaving immediately.

I had better eat now because I don't know what's waiting for me, I would probably need my strength. That's Amelia's advice I was taking.

At least that was better than having Amelia try to threaten my life or remind of the fact that I had no one on the surface of the earth.

I guess the guard didn't know I was awake as he didn't just spare me a second glance before I heard footsteps thudding and approaching my cell.

Instincts told me to shut my eyes and act like I was still in deep sleep and for once in a century, I obeyed my instincts and shut my eyes.

"She's almost ready and the time is so close, everything seems to be working perfectly." That was an unfamiliar voice and my body shivered at the thought that they were talking about me.

"When is the full moon?" The voice that I recognize to be Antonio's asked and the man answered in four weeks time.

"Four weeks? I can put up with her outrageous behaviours for another weeks, surely I can try." He breathed and my mind went back to my memories, the one I had seen of him slashing my mum and digging that sliver into her spine without any remorse, was he humane at all?

Few minutes later, they had left because I wasn't hearing their conversation again and I slowly opened my eyes and perked.

They were really gone. Thank goodness and thank my stars. If they had wasted another minutes here, I wouldn't have been able to hold in and listen to them rain insults on me and my descendants, I would have acted on impulse.

Options for running flooded my head and I regretted not leaving with Liam this early morning but it was for the best.

I wasn't skilled as Liam was so I couldn't pick the lock. I didn't know the limits my powers had and if it was possible for me to steal the guards key from their pocket without them knowing?

"You can have this." I heard a voice whisper as I heard the clanking of keys right in front of my face and I yelped impulseively, jerking backward as I almost humped out of my skin.

It was Damien, the one and only.

The Damien I thought was in love with me, turns out he was banging Amelia all these while.

Damien I thought was in love with me not knowing he was working for the people that wanted to kill me .

"What are you talking about?" Those were the dungeons keys but I couldn't try to take it from him and give myself freely away to them that I was plotting on escaping.

"Leila, you need these keys and I can't hold on to them for so long so take it." He coaxed and I refused it vehemently.

"Why would I need the keys? It's not like there's any way I would be able to escape all of you with your soldiers always on alert and standby." I grimaced as he stared at me.

"Leila, I'm trying to help you out here. Your brother almost got caught too but I helped him escape tis morning, now take these keys and I'll explain everything you need to know later." He said and tossed the key into my hands while he motioned for me to keep my eyes on him.

He went to an exact area in the dungeon and pressed the floorboards hardly and they creaked. He pressed his hands and finally pushed them out creating room big enough for him to creep into.

"This is a tunnel, you can go through it by the time your brother told you is the safest. I'll be waiting at the other end. These keys are for the lock you'll encounter." He stated and let himself in as he disappeared out of sight.

"Close the floorboards once I'm gone so no one else notices." He instructed and I found myself nodding. I should be nodding. That reminded me that he didn't pass through the door so it must have been this floorboards.

And he knew my brother too? What was his motive because I would be dead before I think that Damien would be the one to help me out in this dire situation when he helped get me involved all along?

I didn't know what to believe but taking this chance was way better than sitting in the dungeon all day knowing that death is coming in few days.

I couldn't help myself to anticipate for nightfall but as night fell and it was time for me to creep into the floor boards, I began to ponder on the situation.

What if it was all a plan orchestrated by Antonio to see if I was thinking of escaping?

Okay, Leila! Act now, think later.

I let myself and realized that it was actually a tunnel. Who puts a tunnel entrance inside of the dungeon? And was it a coincidence that I was in the exact same room?

I don't believe in coincidences so I was skeptical as I crept into the dark tunnel. It was so dark that you might think you've gone blind just being inside but I kept crawling anyways till I hit an iron bar.

The lock that Damien was talking about.

I quickly groped around for the lock and unlocked it and kept crawling till I was hit by fresh breeze, the scent of sand, the scent of nature.

I was really outside of the Blackpool pack.

I felt a presence approaching me and I readied myself, whoever it is would either take me back in dead or alive.

I swung a punch and it would have landed on the person's face if he hadn't ducked in time.

"Leila, calm down. It's just me." Damien's voice pierced the darkness.

"Yeah right! Like I shouldn't be scared of your presence." She rolled her eyes as she kept her hands to herself again and he chuckled lightly.

"You shouldn't be scared of my presence, I'm the one who's to be scared of your presence, you wierd one of the strongest powers in the werewolf clan entirely. A power that made Amelia burn so why should you be scared of my presence." He was right but that didn't mean that he was trustworthy either, I needed to know what the fuck he was up to. What was going on in his sleezy mind.

"You promised to tell me all I wanted to know once we were outside of the Blackpool pack?" I mentioned and he nodded.

"Why don't you tell me why you helped me escape now? Isn't that treason and breaching your loyalty to Antonio?" I questioned and he stared at me.

"Leila, let's continue this conversation while walking. The day is breaking and the pack would be alive soon, before they find out that your gone, we need to have a lead on them." He stated and I nodded.

He had a point, it was better to argue on why he decided to help me when we were inside of the forest.

And so we began journeying!

"And where exactly are we going?" I questioned as he walked confidently along the paths.

"I heard a tiny little rumour that hasn't grown yet that Alpha Xander might be in a small village nearby and recuperating, that's where Liam is headed and that's where we are headed." My heart gladdened that I was going to see Alpha Xander again. My Alpha!

I have no idea what this feelings are that just fluttered in my belly but I was happy that I was finally out of Antonio's clutches.