Before Your Queen

1

I was falling.

It seemed as if it were an eternity before my body slammed into the cold rocky water taking my breath and exchanging it for blinding pain.

I might not have been able to move, but I felt it all. The sharpness, the cold, the fear, the cuts and I tasted my own blood taint to the waters of the crystal lake. The lake which shines every color of the rainbow from the rumoured crystal underneath.

No one knew for sure as whoever touched the crystals died and never lived to tell the story, but now I have a clear view of the shining death stones.

Black dots clouded my vision and before I lost all consciousness, something cold and rough wound itself around my dying form and began to pull me out. Blackness took me in just as I was able to breathe again.

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My eyes shot open the minute I came to.

Of course, my body didn't think of the fact we're still alive and we were rescued and we should listen to their conversation faking sleep as any other normal person would.

"She's awake!" a voice beside me yelled causing me to wince as my head pulsated. "Sorry," he said in a quieter voice.

I looked to my left and saw a tall, brown-haired, grey-eyed god. His eyes were almost the same shade of grey like mine, I felt like I had seen them somewhere, probably the mirror.

"How are you feeling?" why did he care?

"My head is having contractions and my body is covered in cuts and acid. I'm perfect," sarcasm dripped from my tone and he frowned slightly before bursting out of laughter. My hands immediately flew to my head as if it would stop the pain, but wires dotted my arms stopping me.

"Good." Idiot.

"Where am I?" I asked as my wolf became unsettled at the faint smell of ginger that was in the air. I hate ginger, but the smell was slightly intoxicating. "And please get that smell out of here. Don't you have air freshener or, I don't know, incense?"

"You're in the hospital," he replied bluntly.

I moved in his direction and sniffed his arm. Coconuts. The door burst open as I continued to sniff the stranger's arm like a creep. Lime. Delicious.

My attention moved to the growling man who stood in the doorway. Mate, my wolf said happily.

His eyes were pitch black and they were partially covered by curly blonde locks. He was taller than 6" clearly, but estimated height...tall. "Mine," he growled as my wolf started prancing around, barking in my head causing my migraine to grow.

Suddenly, the smell of ginger hit my senses and temporarily paralyzed my body. Ignoring the laced intoxication in the smell, all I could focus on was the ginger, and felt nauseous. "Bucket!" The man beside me put a bucket by my face as I emptied the lunch I never had. "Is that ginger?"

I continued to hurl as I caught the two men glancing at each other before my mate took a step closer, "What do you mean?" he said, his voice sending shivers down my spine in a bad and good way.

"I mean, can someone take the ginger out of here? I hate ginger!" I felt like a baby, but the smell was giving me a headache as if I didn't have one already. "Please."

Never in my 18 years of living have I begged anyone besides my parents for anything, unless it came to ginger. "No, you don't," the ginger guy growled. "Now get up."

"Alpha Abigor, I don't think she's ready to-"

"Did I ask for your opinion, pup?" the Alpha growled.

"Listen, Alpha Abigale," my nose scrunched at the weird name. "I think I'll just leave you be and go home, I don't want to bother you..." and you stink...

There was a brief silence as they looked at me in shock, then Abigale's eyes blazed in anger and his friend tried to hold in a laugh. "What did you say?" he asked taking daring steps towards me. Fear silenced my wolf.

"I-um," I cleared my throat. "I'll just go home, I didn't mean to bother you." What was wrong with what I said?

"No, what did you call me, pup?" Wow! You called me pup, now I feel so weak and pathetic. Good job! Do you want your diploma now or later?

"Alpha Abigale?" Was that not his name? I hope not. I mean, it is a girl's name, right? Or am I being sexist?

"Alpha Abigor," the guy next to me mumbled. My cheeks flamed as I looked back at the angry Alpha and I chuckled nervously.

"Sorry, I meant Abigor." Wasn't a mate supposed to be peppering me in kisses or something? Or checking if I was okay?

"It's Alpha to you, pup," he growled before turning to the guy beside me. "Take her up to my room and ensure she does not escape. Do you understand me?" Que frightened nod and uncomfortable guest.

With one last glare, he was gone and I almost pissed my pants.

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The walk up the stairs was excruciating and awkward.

The coconut man beside me tried to help me as much as possible without touching me which did nothing. And this man's room was about two hundred flights of stairs up, at least that's what it felt like, and we were only halfway through.

"So..." I dragged clearing my throat. "I'm Accalia, you are?" Silence. "This is where you say your name."

"Tona."

"Nice to meet you Tona, I'm Accalia," before I could even think about what went wrong, my wolf, Evangeline, face palmed herself and I felt a blush creep up on me. "Sorry, I said that already."

He chuckled as we turned the corner and began climbing another flight of stairs. "That's alright. Where are you from?" he asked and I felt happy that someone was actually talking to me like a normal human being.

"I'm from..." my smile turned into a frown as I thought long and hard. My mind went in circles from the moment I almost died to now, there was no past. "From..." I felt frustrated before my wolf mumbled a random name, "The human village?" What the hell, Eva?

You try to think of something then.

"The pack that was hidden in the village...Dividers?"

So smart. she said clearly in a sarcastic tone.

"So you came from a pack called Dividers which was hidden in the human village which is about 400km away? So how did you end up in the lake?" he asked, suspicion dripping through his words.

"Uh..." I couldn't think of anything so I pushed Eva and she took control. "I tripped." Oh my gosh, we're such horrible liars.

"You tripped into the lake from four hundred kilometers away?" Tona asked trying to stop his laughter.

Just tell him the truth!

And what is the truth?

Silence.

"Truth is, I don't remember," I sighed and groaned in frustration as I tried to think of how I got to the lake in the first place. "I don't remember my parents, my pack, what I was doing, who I was with. Where I was going it's just blank?" I held in another groan.

Tona gave me an apologetic smile before he burst out into laughter. "I have never heard anyone so openly disrespect that guy."

"Which guy?" I asked as we began climbing the last flight of stairs.

"Alpha Abigale," the reminder made my cheeks shine red as I looked away and started holding in my laughter as he wheezed his way up the stairs and stopped at the landing. "Anyway, this is the place."

My eyes zeroed in on the plain brown door that leaked heavily of ginger and I felt myself get nauseous. "Isn't there any other room I can go to? At least on this floor?" I asked as I glanced warily at the door that promised death.

Tona gave me a sorry look before shaking his head. The door opened wide and the smell of ginger rushed into my nostrils and I threw up. Great now I have to stay here.