Max's POV

I haven't had a wink of sleep. Every time I close my eyes, I see those glowing blue eyes staring at me and I get an uncomfortable chill over my body making me shiver in fear.

Get a hold of yourself Max!

I am a fully grown man. A 23 year old capable Alpha, I can't get scared of a few strange eyes and laughs god damnit! I'm stronger than that and I'm not a coward. It's not like they can harm me or anything. And it could just be a few teenagers playing pranks on me, nothing more.

I take a quick glance at the glowing red numbers on my clock to see that it is 5:30 in the morning and the sun is slowly rising. My lack of sleep is starting to catch up to me as I start to feel my eyes droop. Maybe I can just close my eyes for just five minutes...

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Darkness.

I can't see anything around me. It's just... black. It's like I'm in an eternal void of nothingness. It surrounds me.

Consumes me,

Like it's a part of my soul.

I can't even see a single speck of light or colour. How I got here, I don't know. All I know is that I'm not supposed to be here.

Suddenly, I hear a faint voice. It echoes and bounces off the form of this realm.

"Max." It says, "come to me."

My body begins to move against my will towards the sound of the voice, as I have no control over my feet whatsoever. The feminine voice keeps repeating those words as my body blindly follows the harmonious melody. After a while, I come to a stop.

"Max." I whipped my head around surprised by the closeness of the voice behind me, only to be met with more darkness. But then I see something- two pairs of glowing blue eyes- the same as the ones I saw in last night.

"Who are you and what do you want from me?" I asked them as I could not still see their faces due to the darkness.

"You know who we are, mate." The similar voices replied. Immediately they spoke the darkness began to dissolve into thin air making me identify that we are in the forest, and revealing a familiar face.

"Victoria!"

"That is correct. And this is my wolf, Verna." She proved my assumption correct and motioned to the brown wolf that was standing beside her.

"How can this be possible? Maria and I made sure you wouldn't survive and I felt your death, unfortunately. There is absolutely no way your pathetic self would still be alive. Impossible!"

"Yes" Verna said, "indeed, we are dead. You are not speaking to our physical selves, but instead our souls. Or in layman's terms, our ghosts."

Ghost? I'm definitely dreaming.

"So," Victoria rudely interrupted my thoughts. I told you she was a bitch. "We decided to bring you here to give you a chance."

"Chance? What chance?" I'm starting to get irritated by these two.

"We want to give you one last opportunity to ask us to forgive you. We want to give you your very last chance to beg us to forgive you and Maria on your behalf." Verna growled out, almost like she didn't agree with what she said.

I blinked.

I blinked again.

I stared at her, then at Victoria, then back at Verna.

Do you wanna know what I did?

I laughed. I laughed so hard my ribs hurt and tears escaped my eyes.

Once I had calmed down, I glared hard at them and growled at them saying, "Both of you listen and listen carefully. I will NEVER EVER beg you for ANYTHING! I have no regrets for what I did to you, whatsoever." Verna growled at me after I said that.

"Max, we are giving you the chance to seek redemption for your actions. I expect you to be on your knees begging for forgiveness, for us to spare you." Victoria said, shaking her head and looking at me with multiple emotions in her eyes, but I could clearly see one stand out the most among the rest. Hatred.

Who do these bitches think they are? I kneel to no one!! She can hate me all she wants, I don't give a shit.

"Son." I turned around again to see the two people I never wanted to see again emerge from the trees.

"Mom?! Dad?! Oh great, now I'm in the surrounded by people I hate, can this day get any worse?"

"Please listen to us son." My mom said. "You have to put away your pride, even for just a little while, and ask your mate and her wolf for forgiveness."

"And why should you do that, huh? Why would I, an Alpha, apologise to these pieces of crap. I mean, it's not like they can do anything to me. They're dead. In fact, all of you are dead, so why should I listen to you. This is just a dream and when I'm awake and back in the real world, you can't do ANYTHING TO ME!" I yelled at all of them.

"Can't you get it into your thick head?!" My father yelled back at me. "Don't let your pride get in the way of your common sense boy! What you did to her was wrong. Hell, what you did to your mother and I is wrong. In fact, you should thank your mother. Because of her maternal love for you, she convinced your mate and I to give you one last chance to redeem yourself, to show us your remorse for what you have done."

"Remorse? Remorse! Please, tell me why I would need to be remorseful?"

"Are you serious right now Max?" Verna growled out. "You killed your own parents in cold blood just so that you can get the Alpha title 5 years ahead of time.

You also blamed the crime that YOU committed on an innocent 36 year old woman and had her killed, only for her mate to commit suicide because YOU executed his mate with your BARE hands.

Then you banished their innocent SIXTEEN year old son and FOURTEEN year old TWIN GIRLS! Only for them to all die in the hands of other rogues only one year later. We were even supposed to bring that family here so that you can beg them for forgiveness too, but we didn't want to ruin their happy moods in Heaven by bringing them here to see your pathetic self."

Victoria didn't even give me a chance to speak before she continued from where Verna stopped. "And let's not forget what you did to me. You took me away from my home, making me think that I was going on to live my happily ever after with you, but boy was I wrong.

The first thing you did was try to rape me. I mean, you didn't even bother to get to know me, or ask me out on a date or even have the decency to introduce me to your pack.

Then you locked me up in an underground cell and tortured me for A MONTH! You chained me up in silver and whipped me with a whip soaked in my dried blood and concentrated wolfsbane EVERY SINGLE DAY! You used my body to test agonizingly painful chemicals and potions. Do you know how much pain I was in, HUH?!! Do you know how painful it is to be stabbed with a silver blade dipped in wolfsbane? AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN LET ME REST FROM IT because you gave me a stupid potion that stopped me from passing out or dieing. I STILL HAVE THE SCARS ON MY BODY, MAX!! Even in death, my soul still remains wounded and littered in scars." She was full on crying and letting out ugly sobs, but I still didn't care.

"And to put the fucking cherry on top, you cheated on me. Max, do you know how much pain you put me through? Huh, do you?" Her voice was barely a whisper now, "Do you know how much it hurt me that you tied me to a chair and forced me to watch you fuck another woman and give her the mark they was supposed to be on me? It felt so much worse than when you tortured me. And to make things worse, your actions killed Verna. You and Maria killed the only companion I had left. And then, you both killed me. You both tortured me and left me in the woods. Do you know what happened after that? My body was mutilated mercilessly by a feral rogue.

But even after all of these things that you have done to me, I'm still giving you one last chance to ask us to forgive you. But it is only because your parents, especially your mother, begged my to spare you because she loves you. So please, don't... Don't waste this opportunity. Don't waste your parents effort because they went a long way to help you, even though you were the one who killed them."

I looked into her eyes that seemed to be pleading with me, but I still felt no remorse whatsoever. And I never will.

"No." It was like those words made her snap and her face contorted in fury. Her face turned red from the anger and she clenched her fists tightly.

"What do you mean no. Son, think about this properly, this is your only chance. Just swallow your pride and just ask her to forgive you, please!" My mother begged me.

"I won't ask for forgiveness because I don't regret anything that I did. I enjoyed watching you suffer in my hands, Victoria. I enjoyed hearing each and every one of your screams and cries of pain. Honestly, I don't care about the pain I caused you when I was intimate with Maria because I loved every single second of it. I also don't care that I killed your wolf, I mean, you're with her now so there's no point in being angry about that anymore, right? And I will NEVER beg you for forgiveness because you are dead and gone, so you can't do anything. Maybe you can haunt me for the rest of my life, but you can't kill me."

Verna growled lowly at me and Victoria just stares at me, her eyes speaking volumes of her fury. My mom chokes a sob and my dad hugs and comforts her while shaking his head in disappointment.

"Where did we go wrong in raising our son Malcom?" My mom asks my dad as she sobbed into his chest.

"Shhh. It's not our fault my dear Sally, he is the one who chose his own path, and he chose to destroy himself. Come on, let's go back to Heaven, I'm sure my grandma and grandpa are waiting for us. Let's leave him to suffer the consequences of his actions like the fool he is." My father took one last disappointed look in my direction before fading away with my mother. I turned back to Verna and Victoria to see that their eyes were no longer glowing green, but are now a menacing bright scarlet red.

"We gave you a chance and you wasted it!" I heard their voices say at the same time, sounding scarily similar. Both had anger and hatred very clear on their faces. They both took a step towards me and I took a step back.

"We gave you an opportunity to beg for yourself, but you just threw it away. Do you know what trouble your parents went to, just so that you can have that chance? What they went through to help you?"

"That's the thing, I didn't ask for their help." I told her with my head held up high and I was shocked at what Victoria did next.

She walked up to me so fast and slapped me across the face.

Hard.

I'm pretty sure that slap could be heard by any creature within a 250 mile radius with how loud it was. And my cheek stung badly and I'm pretty sure that her hand marks were imprinted on my cheek in red.

"Mark my words Max, I will make you pay." There was so much venom and anger in her voice. A second later, they both vanished into thin air.

All of a sudden, I began to smell smoke. I looked up to see that the forest around me has erupted into green flames. And I was soon consumes by the flames.

"You will pay. You will pay." I kept hearing her voice echoing in the air as I lost consciousness.

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Narrator's POV

Max later awoke from his meeting with the dead in the form of a dream with a deep feeling of restlessness within his soul.

Meanwhile, his parents are speaking to Victoria and Verna about Max. They are deeply sorry for their son's actions and the duo understands them. They know that they are not at fault for the actions of their son. His parents accept the fate that will befall their son soon and they actually encourage Verna and Victoria to let their son pay.

The ultimate price.

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A/N: So what do you think will happen next?
Max is so bad that his parents have given their permission to let him be punished.
Question of the chapter ( I just want to try this out. I like to interact with people)
What is your favorite band and name five of their songs that you like?

Maroon 5. I like a lot of their songs like;
Sugar,
Don't wanna know,
Memories,
One More Night
Wait
etc.

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