Treason.

MORGAN

as soon as he uttered those words I knew I was done for. Demetre beat me up worse than last time and left me begging for death.

I couldn't understand it, why? Why did he obsess over me when at the same time he wanted nothing to do with me?

His words replayed in my head, "you are my queen, my woman and you had the audacity to embarrass me in such a vile way!"

"I'll make you regret the day you came into this world and into my life!"

He beat me up some more and had guards drag me to the cells under tge castle. There was everything down there, rats, roaches and even rogue wolves.

I had been beaten so badly that even wolves who are supposed to be mindless killers and traitors took pity on me.

I wasn't given food, or water. I only survived off of the scraps the others managed to spare. I lost track of how many days I'd been down here. No one believed my side of ghe story.

Not even Julie. She hated me and said that the sight of me was disgusting. She called me a whore and a traitor.

No one but the other captives were willing to believe that he had disgraced me by sleeping with countless women in our bed, that he had bitten ke with the intent to kill me.

To them, I was just a loose woman. I missed Malachai, I missed my parents. I didn't know how much time had passed down here, all I knew was pain and humiliation.

The door opened and two guards dragged me out. I couldn't even walk so my feet dragged along the stone floor. It was like the tunnel was never ending and when we reached the outside my eyes were momentarily blinded by the bright sun. It was just a small field and at the other side was a forest. They dragged me until we had reached the royal family, palace officials and elders.

They all looked at me in disgust. And among them was Demetre, smirking like the bastard he was. His beta, gamma and delta held three massive rogues in there wolf forms. My eyes widened, "what is this?"

"Morgana Irisville, as Luna queen you committed a grave sin by being bedded by another man," Julia said. " You as the king's chosen mate have brought shame upon our entire household and you will pay for your atrocity with your life just like your parent have with theirs."

I could have sworn my heart stopped beating in that moment, "what do you mean just as my parents what did you do?!" I yelled and he waved for someone to come forward, in his hands he held a bloody picnic blanket, laid it in front of me and opened it revealing two severed heads one of which was my mother's and the other my father's.

In that moment time stopped moving and the world froze into place as I stared at the lifeless eyes of my parents frozen in terror, an image that was not my own flashed my my memory as clear as day but I was too engrossed by the fact that I was staring at the heads of my parents. "you killed, them..." I said still looking at that horrifying sight.

"The law is the law now you better start running if you don't want to end up like mummy and daddy I'll even give you a five minute head start," he cooed and the growling of those mutts brought me back to reality and I bolted.

The adrenaline pumped in my veins making me forget how badly I hurt, the only thing on my mind was survival no matter how hopeless it seemed. I ran in the woods twisting and turning on to a new route every few seconds.

My legs hurt and my lungs were on fire but I had to keep running if I had any hope. All too soon I heard the sound of leaves being crushed and barking. My fear rose to new heights but I kept running no matter how many times the sharp pebbles broke the skin on my feet, no matter how much my body begged me to stop.

While trying to switch to a new path I tripped over a root and my body was sent tumbling forward, when it came to a stop all the adrenaline had worn off and I found myself looking up at three huge wolves. At least this way I would see them again, I was so mad at them that I forgot they probably had no say in the matter.

My entire life flashed before me as I accepted my fate when suddenly one of the wolves had it's neck snapped and fell right next to me, while I watched the life drain from it's eyes I had not noticed that the other two had been taken care of.

A man knelt down in my line of sight and smiled in relief; his appearance screamed vampire with his crimson and black veined eyes. "You're lucky I was close to the border and found you when I did because the King would have gone more insane over your death than he is over your disappearance," the stranger said and picked me up; when his arm came into contact with the wounds on my back I hissed earning an apology from him then he started to run.

The trees became nothing but a blur as he ran in the direction I was previously headed; within a short time we were in the outskirts of the city that I had never seen before and in no time were at the castle gates where he slowed to a jog. By the time we reached the door Malachai and Cassandra burst out, "Daniel where did you find her and who did this?" he seethed and moments later I was delicately placed in the warm arms of someone who smelled like orange blossoms and damp earth, my favorite scent and I tried to snuggle in to him, "thank your for saving me," I said to Daniel, "and thank you for looking," I told Kai and Cassy as I was sucked back into the darkness I had grown so fond of.