| CHAPTER 27 : PAIR MADE IN HEAVEN |

Cold.

Freezing.

Dark.

That's what I felt in this room. The shackles around my wrists were cold like ice, freezing my skin. I should have been used to being chained up, but I wasn't. It gave me the same feelings; lonely, scared, shivering.

After the counter with Arsenio, I woke up to find myself chained up in an empty cold room with doors made of metal. The moonlight poured in from the window, but that light did nothing to comfort me.

My knees were pulled to my chest, with my arms around it, trying to cuddle with myself to ease the cold. I wanted to cry and even scream but did neither.

What are they going to do to me now?

My body shivered once again and I closed my eyes, putting my head down on my knees.

For a moment, nothing happened.

Everything was silent.

Extremely silent.

Then images flashed in front of my eyes with voices ringing in my ears. ...Burn it all!... I want every one of their heads--This will be the last day for them. Tonight...we reign terror- I gasped, snapping my eyes open, head jerked up.

What...the hell was that?

My thoughts seemed to be all over at the place. That voice. It seemed too familiar. Really familiar. Loud, angry, cruel.

Another gasp came out of my mouth when my eyes were blinded by sudden images.

A small boy, looking no older than twelve, kneeled beside a larger body. His hand clutched around a dagger embedded in the larger body's chest. The boy's eyes looked empty, void, and so dull it made me want to go and hug him.

He slowly pulled the dagger out of the dead man's chest, letting dark blood pool out. He watched the blood with no emotion, and it ached my heart for him to watch this. No kid should ever watch something as horrible as this.

He looked the very bit of dead, void. His eyes slid to the dagger in his hand and for the first time, something flickered in his eyes.

Anger.

The images blurred for a while before it showed me another scene.

A man, wearing heavy armour in the middle of a huge crowd with a sword lifted towards the air. Blue eyes filled with rage, power and darkness glazed around every single person standing in the crowd surrounding him. Their heads were bowed down in respect and surrender.

"Tonight, we battle!" King Alpha's voice boomed throughout the entire crowd making them growl in resentful agreement.

"They have taken enough of us! It's our time to rise up and fight!" He looked...dangerous. A viper ready to strike, ready to poison. His expressions were laced with every bit of venom I've ever seen. At that moment, it seemed as if he could break mountains, shake the earth and rain meteors. Power radiated from him like a tsunami, engulfing everyone in, "Who's ready to fight?" He demanded.

The crowd roared.

"Who's ready for revenge?"

The crowd roared again.

"Are you with me?"

This was the moment he became King. I knew it. The crowd roared louder in submission, pledging themselves to him. They knew he demanded their alliance. It was either give it or force it. He was the king now.

"Are you with me?" King Alpha demanded once again, his voice impossibly louder.

And the crowd roared again.

The lights went out and I was back in the cold empty room, frozen in my place with tight muscles. My eyes were wide, gazing ahead into nothing.

A small pain started in my stomach and my eyes snapped to my abdomen.

"Oh shit." I mumbled.

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The doors to the cemetery house flung open snapping every demon's eye to the intruder standing at the threshold. Their first reaction was to go wide-eyed but then remembered that he was the intruder and not them.

"What a pleasant surprise," Arsenio spoke from the dais raised high, twirling a ring around in his slim fingers, looking at the intruder with amused eyes.

"Missed me?" King Alpha smirked wandering in as if it were his own home. The demons near him moved away not wanting to be within his reach, "Hell yeah you did. You always try to get my attention."

"I don't."

"No shame in admitting you're gay. This is the 21st century."

"I'm not gay." Arsenio frowned.

"Tell that to the guy you kissed."

"He was my brother."

"You still kissed him."

"On the cheek."

"Again," King Alpha spoke, "you still kissed him."

Arsenio was close to face-palming, "Why are you here?"

"So now your gay and dumb?"

"I'm not gay!"

"Then dumb it is," King Alpha shrugged, "do I need to tell you why I'm here? Or should I give you time to figure it out?"

"You're here for your mate."

"Bingo. And here I thought I would have to give you an hour."

"You're not getting her."

King Alpha raised an eyebrow, "And why is that? Don't tell me you've kidnapped her to take some sort of revenge on me?" King Alpha scoffed, "kidnapping young teenage girls to take revenge on a sexy beast? You should be ashamed of yourself."

"You killed my brother!" Arsenio gritted his teeth.

"The one you kissed?"

"I'M NOT GAY!"

"Bi then?"

He gave him a flat look.

King Alpha shrugged nonchalantly, "Just here for my human."

Arsenio furrowed his eyebrows at that, "Human?" he asked, "Do you seriously believe she's human?"

"Nope but until I figure out, that's the title she's getting. Now excuse me while I go find that idiot."

"She killed six of my demons." Arsenio gritted his teeth recalling how Ezlynn shot out like lasers, killing each demon in a second.

King Alpha blew a small whistle, visibly surprised, "I always knew she was rad. Gotta go congratulate her on her success now. Ezzy, where are you? Come out, stupid human." He moved in the direction of the stairs.

Arsenio flicked his finger and there were ten demons quickly planted in King Alpha's way.

King Alpha stopped and tilted his head to the side.

"Is this so?" He questioned.

"This is so." Arsenio replied, "you've taken my only family away from me. I'm gonna make sure you feel his pain."

"Not to brag or anything, but your demons can't take me down. Also, your brother tried to kill me first. I just played a game and won."

"You do talk a lot, don't you?" Arsenio narrowed his eyes, "just like your mate."

"What can I say?" King Alpha unsheathed his dagger from his thigh belt, smirking up at him. "We're a pair made in heaven."

Arsenio nodded his head. That's all it took for hundreds of demons to rise from their place. They all rose up like Dracula, swarming their way towards King Alpha.

King Alpha's eyes scanned around at the demons who were closing in on him. He shook his head at them, an evil smile curling on his lips, "Fine," he ran a finger over the blade of his dagger, "let's play."

The demons charged.

Twenty of them got close to grabbing King Alpha. He was quick to swipe his dagger around, cutting a few hands off and the rest got stabbed in the chest. There were grunts, cries and sounds of bodies colliding with bodies in the air. A demon pounced on King Alpha's back with ten more demons nearing him from the front.

Arsenio watched with anxiousness as King Alpha made his way through the demons, tearing their heads off, ripping their arms, stabbing them with his dagger. King Alpha jumped in the air, tilting his body so he fell backwards. He fell onto five demons, crushing them beneath his weight to the ground. He then crouched down, swiping his leg around, tripping a few more demons to the ground. He wasted no second, pouncing on them like a dog with an animalistic growl, and biting into their necks.

The demons gurgled, shouted, and cried but didn't stop to attack King Alpha. King Alpha's body shifted just a bit, enough to show his wolf side. Long canines, sharp nails, eyes glowing wild. He growled and attacked the demons in the same way they attacked him. He jumped from demon to demon, claws swiping their heads off, canines biting into necks. There was no stopping him.

The demons were failing miserably. One after the other got put down and King Alpha was close to winning.

"Stop!" Arsenio yelled suddenly, breathing hard.

Everyone paused.

King Alpha, whose claw was raised in the air, let a smirk slowly curl on his lips. He lowered his claw, dropping a demon whom he had clutched in another hand and slowly turned around, looking at Arsenio's troubled face.

"Go get your mate and leave," Arsenio spoke sternly, clasping his hands behind his back.

"Sure you don't have any more attacks for me?" King Alpha asked, his claws and canines withdrawing as he gazed up at him, "I'm not tired if that's what you're worried about."

Arsenio gritted his teeth hard, "Get. Out."

King Alpha raised his hands in the air, "Not the one who ordered hundreds of demons to attack a sexy war machine."

Arsenio only averted his eyes, glaring.

King Alpha smirked, turning and striding towards the stairs. Behind him, he could hear Arsenio barking orders at the demons to aid the ones who got injured by King Alpha.

Demons were immortal too and could only be killed by something holy. The only thing was, that they take a longer time to heal compared to werewolves.

King Alpha strutted downstairs. He knew where she was before even having to search for her. He could smell her. He felt the block he had on their bond since the first day they met, wanting to break.

His jaw clenched as he got nearer to the cell they put her in. He peered through the small window on the metal door.

There he saw her, small and shivering.

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Date: 31 July 2021