Love and Chaos

FIVE

DELILAH

I let the darkness consume my entire being. Peace, that is the only word for it. Peaceful bliss. I have never felt this relaxed and carefree in my life.

Sleep now, little one. I shall protect us. That voice, such a soothing voice. It is my own voice, though different somehow. I curl up into a ball in the back of my mind and darkness floods around me. How calming.

I am startled awake as tingling sensations are sent up my arms. I looked around and realise I am still in the back of my own mind. What is happening? I think to myself, hoping that I am safe. I attempt to push forward, past the blackness to the one strip of light. A crack in the dark. I push again as I feel a barrier in my way. Again and again, I push for control. The tingling in my arms growing stronger. A searing pain overcomes me, and I yell out, demanding to be in control of my own self once again. I push against the barrier again and throw in my own bit of magic.

Finally, after countless attempts, I am thrown to the forefront of my mind. I am blinded by the sudden onslaught of light. My surrounding become clear, and I can still feel the tingling sensation. I look around to take in my surroundings when I'm suddenly thrown onto my back. I realise quickly that I am in my wolf form. Dread bubbles up inside me as the secret of my wolf was free.

I quickly shift back into my human form and wrestle with the person on top of me. The person was a lot bigger than I was, so I had to put in some effort. I roll us back over and notice a mop of brown, short hair on the person. I pin the stranger's hands across his chest and bare all my weight against them so that they become immobilised.

Finally looking down at my opponent, I realise that it is a man, an angry man. I hear snarls around me and look up to see many more angry men. I look back down at the man I have pinned with confusion. What is happening?

"Princess Delilah, what a pleasure." The man speaks with a smirk. I immediately jump off of him and back away. I have not been addressed in that manner in many years. I watch intently as he stands, brushing himself off.

"Can someone please get the Princess some clothes?" The same man speaks. I look down and notice that I am indeed nude. I blush deeply and don't make eye contact with anybody, no point in hiding what they have already seen. A man approaches me with his eyes covered, holding out a black shirt. I quickly throw it over my head and let it rest just above my thighs, everything neatly covered.

I sigh and sit down, crossing my legs over each other and shoving the oversized shirt between my thighs to cover myself more. I look towards the man that I had pinned beneath me just before and scan him from head-to-toe, trying to figure out how he knows me.

His brunette mop of hair hung loosely across his forehead and covered his ears slightly, although neat, I had the suspicion that his hair gets easily messed up. His eyes were bright blue and bored into my own eyes as I continued to scan him, trying to picture who he might have been to me. His muscles contracted and relaxed as I gazed over his pectorals and abdomen. Was he an Alpha under my father?

"I am Alpha Ryker, and you have been lost for many years. How is it that you come to be here, hmm?" The man I had been assessing speaks crudely to me. I snarl at him at the blatant disrespect he so willingly dishes out. His eyes narrow as he crosses his arms over his chest. I stare him down, choosing not to answer the man. So, he is an Alpha under my father. I feel a slight tingle every time he looks at me. I wonder why. He is a handsome man, maybe I am just nervous.

"Are you not going to answer me?" The Alpha speaks again which makes me look into his eyes. I take a sharp breath in as a feeling of possessiveness overcomes me. What is this? The Alpha stares at me, gob smacked. I raise an eyebrow, but do not make any other indication that I were to answer him or move from my current position. It is rather comfortable.