chapter 6 **Tiana**

**Tiana***

The person who called me was no other

than Jastun. I really hate the guy. He led me into the main pack house, going straight to a very luxurious foyer.

'Better behave yourself,' he scolded. As usual, I ignored him. He knocked at a bedroom door, glancing at me.

'Who's there?'

'It's me, Jastun,'

'Come in,' he opened the door slowly, glancing at me each time. He inclined his head that I go inside which I did. He shut the door behind me. The room was more of yellow than any other colour, it was sickening. Her bedroom would have been beautiful if the colour wasn't irritating.

Anything she do, say, touch will always be sickening to you because she's the one who is taking our place in Lucian's....

La la la la la... I sang, to ignore what she was going to say.

'Come, the Luna is in the bathroom,' that witch always following Kimberly said. She led me to the bathroom, as yellow as can be. Kim stood there in a yellow towel...

Geez! Obsess much!

Her face was full with mischief and ecstasy as she stared at the bathtub which was filled with dirty smelly water. 'The drain is clog,' she said plainly. I tilted my head in confusion. 'I unclogged it or had someone do that and this happened,' still didn't get it.

She wants us to clean for her? Never!

Shut up, you.

I have a name.

'You haven't taken your bath since you got here, right?' She asked, turning her head to face me, her eyes sheening with mischief. 'Jump in and bathe.' My eyes widened.

Is she kidding me! We'll get tons of infection if that gets to us! More than the ones we already have.

'Do as the Luna says,'

Do as what! Urgh!

Well, I didn't have the time to object because I was suddenly picked up and thrown into the tub, my head banging against it but that was little to no care. The water immediately flowed into my ears, nostrils and mouth. The smell was death's kiss, the dirt burnt my slowly healing eyes. I tried to get up but I was pushed back down, my head pushed in. I gargled as I struggled, the water was leaking into my brain!

That's enough!

Agreeing to the voice, my body's reflexes activated and with one spin in the water, I pulled whoever was pushing me down into the water too. I jumped out, wincing as the pain of hitting my head and rib against the tub. I couldn't see but I knew it wasn't Kim I threw into the sewer water. 'You insolent...' She reached out for my hand. Feeling her heat getting closer, I yanked her forward and threw her in as well. She let out a very loud scream. I jumped out of the tub, falling on the ground.

Don't cry tina, don't cry... The voice sobbed. I call her Halona, Lona for short. It makes it easier to identify her. She's like this good voice that always... Mostly lead me to the wrong direction.

Hey! I heard that!

Anyways, I was still on the wet floor, struggling to move my muscles. I was passing out, I knew that. 'Strip her! I want her stark naked and whipped in the warrior's ground, let all eyes see her rotten body. Then after she is given her one hundred strokes, tie her there under the burning sun. This punishment is to be repeated for three straight days!'

'Yes Luna...'

'Kim, I plead that you don't strip her, if the alpha finds out we disobeyed his orders, that's enough...'

'Leave the alpha to me,' Kim snapped. 'I want her stripped... No! Let all the warriors take joy in pouncing on her...' Lona started laughing in my head, they try it and I'll kill them all.

To hell with the vow! If they try to defile what belongs to Lucian during, I'll kill them!

Excuse me?! I shouted back.

'Leave her out in the sun but don't strip her, my instinct is clawing against that idea.'

'No...'

'Don't Kim, have my instinct ever been wrong?'

'I gave an order to have her stripped, whipped and tied under the sun! No men is to touch her, not one finger but leave her out to dry and keep the teenagers out of the ground until her three days expires.'

That was the order given and that was what was done. Whipped every morning and left out to dry, for three straight days. Yes, naked but that wasn't my major concern. By the time it was the third day, I had gone completely blind with almost deaf ears. My body was almost useless but I could manage. Two more strikes was all there was, two more strikes and I'll die. That was what I wanted. I missed mom, I needed to be with her.

What about Lucian?

What about Lucian?... I flared... What have he done for us than cause us pain!

He isn't aware of what is going on!

Nuance!

'Are you sure you can manage on your own?' Rina asked anxiously. She led me to a river to bathe since I literally smelt like the biggest rotten flesh in the history of...of...of...I don't know. Giselle was sent out with some other maids to go clean up Lucian s lakehouse. Rina was called by her sealed master to come see him. Eventually, I had to manage on my own.

'Yes Carina, I can manage, I promise.'

'Don't stay too long or any wolf can come out here and rape you. Many of them have seen you naked and are all wanting you, be careful.'

'Nakedness isn't a new thing to them,'

'Amongst their kind, not humans like us. Please be careful.'

'I will,' it took me three minutes to convince her but she left. She helped me fetch a bucket of water. I wasn't going to get into the river and pollute it. I used my hands to feel, it was like bathing in the dark. I successfully sponged the filth out the way I could, three good times before rinsing the soap off.

When I was sure my body was almost clean, I walked into the river to cool off. The water was very cold but I loved it, it reminded me of the hill water. I remembered the time my mother first showed me the hill, the magic it formed in my heart.

I'm tired, I want to die.

tina, please don't... I sank deep into the water, letting myself go in deep... You can't die! Not without avenging mother!

I swam back up, agreeing to that. I could hear ruffling of leaves. I ducked my body in, leaving my head at nose level. 'Is anybody here? I can smell something odd.' That voice. I raised my head up, making sure my chest remained in the water.

'Rick!' I shouted. 'It's me, Tiana!'

'Tiana?!' He shouted. Remember the youngest son of the she-wolf I saved?

'Don't come closer, I'm naked.'

'Oh,' I swam out of the water, ready to change. 'How have you been? Have you been taken good care of here?'

'So good I look like an empress,' I said sarcastically. I found the gown I was wearing.

'tiana what have they done to you?'

'How's your mother?'

'She's fine.'

'And baby?'

'Healthy, they will come in three days. I ran away, I'm tired of them. Uncle Lucian promised to return in five days...' My heart flipped when he said that. Questions started flooding my head, questions pushed in by Lona.

What if he saves us?

Would he care?

Would he search for us?

Will he be angry when he sees what they have done to our body?

I know he won't do anything to them but would he protect us? Would he stop our torture?

What if...

What if what!... I snapped. I wore my dress and looked for my underwear. Rick was talking but I wasn't paying attention. When I was done, I called out to him.

'Rick, can you come now?' It didn't take him more than ten seconds to find me.

'Tiana! What happened to your face?! And your body?!'

'Can you help me? I can't see.'

'But...'

'Please Rick, ignore my sight.' I could tell he was crying due to the soft sobs that left his mouth.

'How could they do this to you,' he cried. 'You saved us,'

'They needed to pass their hate, I was open for service.' I smiled.

'No!' I heard him scream before he ran off. I sighed and shrugged, I would wait for Rina then.

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Two days after my wonderful nine days, I was dragged to somewhere. Remember I'm still blind and one ear gone completely deaf. I was forced to sit down, I could tell there were lot of wolves in there. 'Welcome,' Kim chirped. 'I heard you haven't eaten since you got here, not a single bite. I decided to make you food out of my generosity. Before you is the nicely fried flesh of one of your people, one of the wolves were nice enough to have collected them from the hounds. According to what I was told, this is your king's body...'

What?! Father!

'You will eat it, know how it feels to eat flesh...' I clenched my fists, sinking my teeth into my lips. 'Eat it!' I refused. I felt a hand on my jaw, they wanted to force me to eat it. I clamped my jaw shut, refusing to open my damn mouth. 'Urgh! She's irritating! Eat it!!!'

'She won't eat it!' Before I knew it, I was hurled across the room and landed somewhere. I let out a sob, I wasn't going to cry. I knelt up and started feeling the floor, tears falling down from my eyes. I kept feeling, looking for a way out. The door flew open, the wind carrying a particular scent, a familiar one. I didn't pay any attention, I only focused on trying to get away as my tears betrayed me.

The silent in the room was strange, I could feel the sudden fear of all the wolves, why? I kept feeling until I touched a shoe. I felt the shoe up to a leg. I heard a soft whimper before my two shoulders was grabbed and I was tugged to my feet..