Princess Sophia''s POV
It''d been two long hours since I was brought into that stupid dungeon and I was so full of anger. It was already getting dark and my hopes of being allowed to spend the night elsewhere were vanishing into thin air with each passing second.
As the guards brought me inside, I noticed something. The cell where my mother was kept was just opposite that, which they put me inside. I did my best to plead with them to put me in another cell but my pleas fell on deaf ears.
"So bold of you to try to pick out the cell you''d want to be locked up in, Princess," one of them mocked as they dragged me into the cell and began to chain me up.
"She still thinks she''s a Princess," said another, as they allughed in unison. "The earlier you realise that you''re no princess, the better it''ll be for you. You''re just like us; the daughter of a maid. You should have spent all these years working with us and helping out with so many things but you were up there in the Castle parading as the Princess..."
"Hopefully," the first man cut in. "If she''s set free; and that''s a very big if, then she might be quite useful as a maid in the pce. At least, she''ll be able to have some relevance."
Theyughed and left the ce after properly chaining me up, while I thought
hard about what I was going to do to them. "You''ll regret this, all of you," I swore in my heart. I was determined to make them pay at all costs. They had written me off too soon and they were going to be sorry. I was so sure about that.
As I stared at the ceiling, I was quite happy to know that luckily for me, there was a wall demarcating my cell and my mom''s. Although we were close, there was no way she could have been aware that I was just in the cell opposite hers. She''d have been so ted if she was aware. She''d probably think she''d won some sort of a lottery.
Ever since I arrived at the cell, I did nothing else but cry. I didn''t try to hold back the tears. I let them flow freely from my eyes as I was overwhelmed with pain and anguish.
It hadn''t been so long since I was freed from the dungeon in another Pack. Now, I was being held in chains in yet another dungeon in my Pack. I wondered how I let my life move from being a respected royaldy to a prisoner.
If only I had just stayed away from that woman that called herself my mother. If only I didn''t visit her in the cell to convince her to make a sacrifice for her child whom she imed to love. There was no way that I would have been exposed. I regretted my every act. Perhaps, it''ll have been better to pay someone to do it for me. That way, no one would have suspected.
I didn''t know what next I had to do to escape my predicament. There was no way that I was going to let myself stay there for far too long. It was almost a certain death or banishment; two oues that were unfavourable to me.
In a few days or weeks, a judgement would be pronounced by the Alpha to determine my fate. That stupid Aurora and Alpha Bane would be there to witness the fate that they had brought upon me. I had to do something to prevent that. I needed to find a way.
I growled angrily at the thought of Aurora. She was the cause of all that was happening to me. She was nothing but bad luck and I wished for nothing more than to have her taken out.
As I growled, the chains in my hands and my feet rattled heavily and I felt my inner wolf fight its way out as ws sprang from my fingers. With them, I scratched at my arm unfazed by the blood that oozed. To me, they were the blood of my enemy; Aurora, who I was going to take out.
As I was thinking, I heard a very soft knock on the cell door and I began to readjust a bit. I lifted my swollen red eyes very slowly to see if I could spot who it
was.
I had no clue whatsoever and the harder I tried to guess who the visitor might have been, the more confused I got. A lot of thoughts ran through my mind at that moment.
I thought about screaming aloud or just asking who it was, but before I could even say a word, the cell door opened gently and although the lighting was quite dim, I noticed the silhouette of a guard and my brows furrowed.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" I asked as fear began to capture my soul.
I wondered if Aurora had sent someone to my cell to kill me instead of waiting for the judgement to be passed. Maybe she got scared that my father was eventually going to have mercy on his beloved daughter; she and Alpha Bane alike. I had this feeling that she had used some sort of witchcraft to blind Alpha Bane, preventing him from seeing that she was no good for him. He was more like herckey, going through all sorts of trouble just to please her. It was so pathetic!
Each time I thought about it, I almost lost some respect for him. He was an Alpha; the strongest Alpha in thends, even stronger than my father whose praises were sung in every single Pack. Yet, for Aurora, he had be a little man who had no will of his own. He spent most of his time chasing after her when it was her who should chase after him. That was how things always worked. The Alpha was chased by thedies and not the other way around. It didn''t look normal to me.
I sat silently with the footsteps of the guard ringing in my head as I watched him approach me. I struggled to free myself from the chains so that I''d be able to defend myself but there was no breaking free. It was so tightly fit that I could do nothing to escape. I had to sit there and resign to my fate. I just hoped it wasn''t what I had in mind.
The closer the guard got, the more visible his face became. I gazed intently in his direction so I could make something out of his face. Then, all of a sudden, he was standing right in front of me, and I could see a face that I could certainly recognise. What I didn''t know was what he was doing in my cell at that time and how he knew that I was locked up there.
"Ivan!" I called out with a gasp, very surprised to see him there.
"Princess Sophia..." He called out too on seeing my face.
I smirked.