Chapter 9: Chapter 9

Ava's POV

I found myself bursting into a loud cry, and the moment my mouth opened a bit, the fluid found its way in, and that instantly set my belly on fire. It was so extreme that my skin began to bleed.

"Open that box and bring her out. It is already past an hour! She hasn't shown any signs of being a demon! Why is she still left in there?." Stan's voice echoed inside my ears, and it made my heart burn in rage.

So it had passed one hour, yet those cruel souls still left me here. How much more wicked can they be?

After a few minutes after Stan's words, the box opened and I was pulled out, feeling sore all over my body. My entire skin was hurting me like hell, so I had to gnash my teeth to avoid crying like a baby in front of them all.

I really have to be strong before they push me to my death.

My blood from the bleeding part of my skin was mixed with the liquid as they both drenched my body from head to toe. It was like I was injured in almost every one of me, both internal and external.

There was absolute silence for a minute as everyone fixed their eyes on me. It seemed they were all surprised and disappointed that I was a normal wolf like them.

Or maybe they expected me to die in there.

"Take her away for first aid to hasten her healing and stop the bleeding." My father ordered with a heavy breath, like he was finding it hard to talk.

I raised my head for the first time, and my father quickly looked away, avoiding my eyes. He seemed to feel sorry about what he had just done to me, but was good at hiding it with his grim expression.

My eyes roamed around my environment, and even as my vision was blurred, I could still recognize the disdainful looks on the face of everyone staring at me.

I saw Aurora standing at the back of the throne, massaging my father's shoulders and smirking at me, and just immediately, the vision I had just had inside that confinement flashed back into my head.

I carefully examined her hair, body size, and shape, comparing it to the woman who murdered my mother, and there was no doubt that they were identical.

There was no single difference. Does this explain why she has been cruel to me? Was there something my mother did to her in the past? My mother's death in labor is strange because I have no power to kill. Was that vision trying to tell me that Aurora killed my mother?

As my eyes met with Aurora's wicked eyes, I felt pure rage building up inside me. That usual fear was gone and replaced with a kind of courage that I can't explain. I felt an urge to confront her, and seeing as she was massaging my father's shoulder, I found myself breathing roughly as my entire being craved to kill her.

Even Stan was looking at me in surprise when I glanced at him. He seemed not to recognize the new me as he kept staring at me like I had grown wings.

"Why are you guards still wasting time? Take this filthy thing out of my sight!" The Beta's daughter snarled from her chair, leaving me stunned as I stole a glance at the young girl who had begun to abhor me so much even when we had just met today.

Although it was normal for someone to hate me at first sight, there seemed to be something different about her attitude towards me.

There was no strength for me to say anything as I was drowning in immense pain, but I knew something had changed about me.

Three guards took my hands reluctantly as they aided me out of the palace with hatred in their eyes. No one liked coming near to me, and touching me was like a punishment to them.

I couldn't help the irritation that began to build up in me seeing the grimace on the guard's faces while helping me walk through the hallway by holding my arms side by side.

With a hiss, I paused my pace abruptly, forcing them to turn to me with a sneer.

"You can't walk again? Or do you expect us to carry you on our back like we care if you die?" The guard on the left huffed, but I wriggled my arms free from their grips, swallowing the pain that swept through me.

"You both should get your fucking hands off my body and leave. I don't depend on your help because I can walk myself!" I shunned them after seeing how they were acting like I was a leper, but they both scoffed.

"We are only following orders. Who will want to touch you?" The punk guard at my left added with a hiss, and I felt the greatest urge to laugh at my miserable life. How bad can it be?

A mere bodyguard spewing insults on the Alpha's daughter, despite my Alpha bloodline and royalty.

"How did you even get to survive that torture? Something isn't right about you. Even if you aren't a demon, you have always been a weak wolf and should die off after thirty minutes of being in that confinement." The other guard at my right, with a bald head, snorted, and it really got me riled up.

"I am not as weak as the hairs that refused to grow on your head." I scorned with a scoff, and it came as a shock to them as they both flinched and stared at me with wide eyes and a dropped jaw.

"You could have died in two minutes of being inside that wolfsbane and silver. Weak asshole!" I chuckled in mockery and could see his cheeks flush red instantly as he growled in shame.

"How dare you say that to him, you filthy monster!" The other guard snarled, clenching his fist like he would hit me, yet I wasn't afraid a bit.

"I don't need any of you to help me get to the royal pack clinic. It isn't far from here, so you sissy can go back to standing inside the palace like a carved object. What a pathetic job to do." I snickered scornfully, and found myself flinching at how those words poured out of my mouth so easily.

What is happening to me?

I took a deep breath and began to limp away, wondering what would happen to me after I had hurled insults at the hefty guards. They can easily beat me without any punishment for them since I am hated by everyone.

A few steps away from them, I began to hear their laughter from behind. Those laughs indicate evil intent.

"I think this is our chance."

"Yes, let's get our way into her as a punishment for her insults to us. The whore might even be craving sex after being abandoned by everyone. "

"The Alpha won't believe her if she says that we raped her, isn't it?. No one will believe a word from a garbage like her, especially when we deny it. "

All these words were from the guards behind me as I struggled to hasten my steps and get to the last room where the nurse was.

My body was in so much pain and torment as my legs were already finding it hard to carry me at the fast pace I was moving. I was feeling sharp cramps on them, but couldn't stop walking faster as I also began to hear the men scurrying towards me.

"You can't run any further." I heard their voices as they sped towards me, and the next thing I felt was their strong arms grabbing my waist and covering my mouth tightly.

They bundled me up and cornered me into one of the empty rooms, pushing me to the ground so hard that my sore skin ached much more as they hit the floor. The bald guy slipped out his belt and whipped me with all his might, but instead of feeling pain, I got overwhelmed with fury.

I suddenly felt a strong urge to shift and devour him. It wasn't to transform into a wolf, but into something else that appeared to be that sleeping beast within me.