Dangerous Lycan: Claim Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Mate

Every possibility stood that it might not be anything about me. I knocked anyway.

“Ryan, it’s me Clara,” I said and the whispers stopped just immediately.

“Hey Clara,” he opened the door, “come in.”

I walked inside looking around but there was no one, every where looked pretty intact and arranged.

“I thought I heard voices,” I said, “Just surprised that there is no one here.”

“I was on a call.”

“Oh I see.”

I waited for his words, he always loved to spill the details of any meetings to me. But this one, he didn’t which only kept the curiosity afloat but I didn’t let it linger for too long because I had come in for another reason. I didn’t want him to think that perhaps I had thought that he was with someone else and I had eavesdropped on some confidential information. I knew that he was hiding something. I just didn’t know what and if it was any business of mine to worry my head about it.

“So Clara, what brings you to my Chambers?”

“Well, I wouldn’t be here if you didn’t tell your guards to lock me in.”

“Oh that?”

“Really?”

“I’m sorry but that’s just how it is.

“I don’t seem to follow. First you locked me in my room and now this?”

“Look Clara, I am doing this for you.”

“Right now, all I feel is that you are doing this for yourself, your selfish reasons. Are you sure all this act is not about something else? It is getting way too much.”

“What else could it be about? Look, I don’t expect you to believe me but let me tell you a story.”

“I don’t need a story, I need an explanation.”

“Just listen to me.”

“Okay fine,” I settle on the sofa, “go on.”

“A few years ago there was this girl, Pamela. She was beautiful and smart just like you and the best thing was that she was my fated mate. She had always wanted to go out there and study. So she got admission into a foreign school miles away from here. I had never seen her that happy the day she got the message. We were to be mated under the blood moon but that would only happen in three years so we thought it was perfect since she would conclude her studies in that time. And so she travelled with the promise that she would return just in time. I waited, with the hope that she would return. The blood moon came and went and she never returned. Rumours had it that they had seen her with the Lycan King a couple of times but he denied it when I confronted him about it. Up till today I have no idea where she is but he is back here and he wants you. I am never going to let that happen.”

“Ryan, I know what a betrayal feels like. Trust me I do. But I am not Pamela neither am I her replacement and history is not going to repeat itself because we aren’t fated mates.”

“You don’t understand.”

“What is there not to understand? Just tell the guards to let me out. I am not going to run if that’s what you think. I just want to take a stroll and I will be right back in. Maybe we can have another dinner together to make up for the other day.”

“Yeah, I know that we are going to have as many dinner as we want but not today.”

“Why? You have always wanted that?”

“I can’t take any chances.”

“What’s that even supposed to mean, Ryan?”

Two guards worked in and he pulled out a needle and a syringe.

“What’s that?”

“Tranquilliser. I don’t want you to feel like you are a slave anymore. So this is going to help you relax okay. I am not going to hurt you, trust me.”

“Trust you?”

I moved back but the guards held my arms.

“Let me go!”

“I heard the pain in your voice when you call put to me in that locked room, I don’t want to put you through that again. You’d just be asleep and when you wake up, you’d feel good as new.”

“I don’t need a tranquilizer, I’m fine. Please Ryan, can you just stop all of this? All of this is now beginning to look like some scary game.”

“You’d be fine,” he said moving closer, the guards held my arms straight. I just couldn’t struggle any more as I had lost the will to.

“Let her go,” he said as soon as he was done and just sat there staring at him.

“You are going to be fine,” he said. The tranquilizer had already began to work on me. I could only see his silhouette on the walls and gradually my eye lids fell close.

“Take her,” those were the final words I heard before it all went silent.

I sensed the lights from my eyes lids with freshly made honey pancakes rushing into my nostrils. The chirping birds that sounded a bit distanced a minute before now sounded as if they were lying right beside me.

I gradually opened my eyes to find the white curtains dancing with the wind. The windows were opened and the birds rested on it chirping even louder as I tried to stand up. A sharp pain knocked me down again. At first, my memories were all blank. Just some black empty space whenever I tried to remember how I had gotten back to my bed. Then slowly, it began to rush back to me, the guards by the door, Ryan’s secret conversation and the tranquilizer.

As much as I hated that he had injected me against my will, I saw what he meant by having to rest my mind. He was right. I held my head trying to get on my feet as it still felt like a hangover sighting the stacked up pancakes on the plate with a glass of milk.

“Now that explains the aroma,” I muttered.

There was a note beside it as I got close.

Good morning sunshine, I know today is supposed to be the day you leave so, eat up.

“That’s all?” I turned that back of the page but there was nothing there. He sure knew how to keep me at the edge. But I didn’t eat, I just couldn’t. The first bite tasted stale and a bit off, maybe it was still the after effect of the tranquilizer.

“Perhaps he could let me have that stroll now,” I said as I headed to the door but it was locked.

“Let me out! Let me out of here!” I banged continuously but as usual, no one came.

“Fuck! Ryan.” I cussed, “What should I do now? I need to get out of here.”

Ryan couldn’t keep me locked up again, not after all he had made me go through. Somehow, I knew if I spent another moment maybe I would actually go crazy. I moved towards the drawers as I searched through them, throwing stuff around searching for nothing in particular. And just at the end of the drawer, I found a hair pin.

Perfect.

“Here goes nothing.”

I had never picked a lock before but the good news was, I had never gotten a reason to try. I inserted the pin in, keenly turning and twisting and just as I had expected, it clicked in its latch and the door opened. But that was just the beginning. Ryan could have kept his guards to watch and so I didn’t open the door just immediately. I waited, pacing around the room until I could no longer hear the footsteps that passed by.

I couldn’t place Ryan whereabouts at the moment but I needed to see him and speak with him without alerting his guards. And so I sneaked into his office by the end of the hallway with the hope to find him seated in his chair awaiting my arrival but there was no one there.

“Where could he be?” I turned to leave, but just then, a thought crawled up my mind. If I truly wanted my freedom, then I needed something, perhaps a way that I could finally earn it. I rushed towards his desk, looking through the drawers and piles of files but nothing that could help. Then I searched through the few books I could get my hands on the shelf and still found nothing, once again, hoping was exhausting. And just when I turned to leave, something blue showed from underneath the shelf where it was hidden. I pulled it out. Something felt weird about it, it wasn’t dusty like the rest of the books which only meant that it had been recently touched. But why was it hidden away unlike other things?

Curiosity piqued and so I opened it.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

“Oh my God!” I gasped at what I saw.