Absolute Possession Of The Alpha King

The girl exhaled heavily when a harsh slap landed across her otherwise immaculate face, she stumbled and lost her footing. Her forehead crashed into the solid, hard wall beside her in the process.

”You are so freaking useless! ”

A loud voice filled with resentment boomed inside that room, echoing through the walls and ringing in her ears.

This was not the first time Yara heard someone throw those hurtful words and slapped her face, yet she could do nothing but bite down on her lips hard to prevent her tears from falling down.

Nobody would be her saving grace. Not even her father. The infamous head healer across the Northern lands.

It felt horrible to be treated this way, but since Maretas words were true, which said she was the black sheep in her family, there was nothing Yara could do, except to suck it up.

A muffled cry escaped her lips when Mareta decided to serve another backhand to her right cheek before she left her alone in that store room.

”You are useless! No wonder Alpha Lucian doesn want you as his mate! ” Her words were like daggers that were being stabbed in her chest.

The fact that the Alpha of the Northern lands and the daughter of a head healer, were mates, was supposed to be joyful news.

However, the reality said otherwise, only if Yara was as good as her older sister, Lyra and she was not the useless daughter, who was not even able to heal her own wounds, her father would be in tears for having a Luna as his daughter.

Yet, even for her own mate, she was a disgrace.

Lucian had not rejected her yet even though they found out a month ago, as the pain would be unbearable to break such a bond, but he didn treat her well either …

The Alpha was even bold enough to openly take Lyra on a date a week ago.

No one would criticize him for doing that, in fact, many people supported the couple and pitied him for having Yara as his true mate.

Meanwhile, despite the pain of betrayal that ran through the bond that they were supposed to share, Yara felt nothing for the Alpha.

He could date any woman that he wanted for all she cared; Yara only wished no one would bother her again.

”What are you still dilly-dallying for?! ” Someone opened the door of the room where Yara was still crouching on the ground and gave her a deathly glare. ”Stop being lazy and help around, since you can heal anyone. ”

Yara wiped the blood from the corner of her lips and stood up, she reciprocated the scowl with an expressionless face and dusted off her blue gown.

She couldn remember the actual moment she lost their respect as the daughter of the head healer, maybe it was ten years ago, when she was seven years old … when she failed to heal her own wounds for the first time.

”The great Alpha king will arrive soon, you need to clean up the room, ” the woman named Azura spoke to Yara, while she walked away, knowing the girl was following behind her.

”Didn Mareta assign you to complete that task? ” Yara protested. She had been taking care of a lot of things that were not supposed to be her responsibility, just because they forced her to while no one came to stand up for her.

”Why? ” Azura turned around and stomped her feet to approach Yara. She was about to hit her, but when she saw the wound on the corner of her lips, she stopped herself. At least, she still had some conscience left in her system.

Azura didn want to be blamed for the wound that she didn inflict. After all, Yara was still the daughter of the head healer of this land.

This was quite complicated. They treated her like trash, yet at the same time, they knew their boundaries and didn want to overstep too much, though sometimes they walked down that path.

”Fine, you can choose to clean the room or treat the injured shifters. ” Azura folded her arms haughtily. ”You choose. ”

That was not even a choice for Yara, since she could do nothing to help the injured people. It was still a mystery why she couldn heal a single wound, though she came from a great family of healers.

…

Yara watched from one of the three towers in the castle as the great king arrived with his thousands of warrior shifters.

They made a long line through the entrance with Alpha Lucian and Yaras father at the end of it, waiting for the king.

There was a unique truth about the king. Since his life was constantly in danger, as there was a lot of bloodbath in order to get to the throne, he always wore a mask. An intricate white mask that would hide half of his face and revealed only his pale blue eyes.

Only a few elite people saw his real face.

Just like right now.

He walked in front of the army of the shifters, tall and gallant. Rumor said his beast form was very powerful and could make anyone who saw it tremble in fear.

”Even though we can see his face, but I am sure as hell, he must be the most handsome man throughout this continent, ” Lyra sighed dreamily.

Yara turned around and found her sister beside her. She was not even aware when she came. ”I thought you were dating Lucian. ”

Lyra gave her a dirty look. ”If I can have the king, why should I settle for the Alpha? Why? You don like me to cheat on your mate? ”

Yara scoffed when she heard that. ”You can do whatever you want with him. But, when you spread your legs for him, please tell him to be brave enough to reject me, ” she said calmly.

It was not that Yara couldn reject Lucian herself, since there was a tacit understanding between the two of them that they were not going to be together in any way, but it was because Yara didn have another place to go if she really rejected him one day.

As awful as this place was, this was the only home that she knew and if she were to reject Lucian, since he was the Alpha, sure enough, she needed to fend herself out of the Northern lands. In that case, that would be the death of her.

On the other hand, when Lyra heard what her sister said, she glared viciously at her and roared in anger.

”Say it again! ”

However, Yara knew that this was as far as she could do to provoke Lyra regarding her relationship with Lucian, thus she chose to turn around and leave her sister, but Lyra was not done with her yet.

Forcefully, Lyra grabbed Yaras shoulder and made her turn around to face her.

”Are you cursing me now in your mind for having the Alphas attention? ” A sinister smile adorned her red full lips. ”If only you were not useless, do you think Lucian would dump you? ”

Yara took a deep breath. She could swear with her life that what she asked from Lyra was her hearts desire. She was being honest when she said she didn care about their relationship, though at the end of her sentence, she sounded a little too harsh.

After all, it was disgusting to see how Lyra slept with Lucian just a few days after the Alpha announced her as the future Luna.

Both of them thought no one saw it, yet Lucian had intentionally invited Yara to witness that. To hurt her. To take revenge because she, the useless daughter of the healer, ended up as his true mate. He was upset because of that fact.

Yet, Yara couldn wrap her head around the way Lucians line of thought worked. What kind of reaction did the Alpha expect from Yara?

Indeed, it was hurting to see your mate sleep with your own sister, but that was all.

It was the mate bond that tied them together.

”Forget about that part. ” Yara swatted Lyras hand away from her shoulder. ”Just tell him to reject me and you can bear his mark. ”

”I don need you to tell me what to do! ” Lyra roared once again.

”Lower your voice, or else there will be someone who sees this side of you. ”

Lyra always appeared as a gentle, graceful, and noble woman from the healer family in front of the outsiders, but little did they know that in private she was nothing like that.

Meanwhile, on the street, Yara and Lyras father along with the Alpha, received the king of the werewolves warmly. They let the great king walk into the hall with his great beta beside him, while the thousands of warrior shifters that followed him, started their duty to guard the place.

The following few days would be hectic until the king left this place.

…

Yara was tossing and turning in her sleep, she seemed to have difficulty falling into the land of the dreamers. Her head was spinning. And she simply couldn close her eyes long enough to make her sleepy, though her body screamed to her to get some rest after the rough and harsh day.

Giving up, finally Yara sat on her bed and stared blankly around her almost empty bedroom. There was nothing inside that could be called valuable for her.

Her father wouldn give her anything nice except a room for her to stay, in since he gave up on her for being someone that he disliked. Someone that couldn pass down the familys bloodline.

With a heavy sigh, Yara got out of her bed and put a warm cloak over her body. The night was very cold …

Yara decided to go to the backyard of the healer tower and take a walk. Maybe she was not tired enough to fall asleep.

The corridor was very quiet during this time and only the guards on duty would be around, patrolling the perimeters. Yet they wouldn waste their breath to question Yara, since they knew her very well.

Yara walked down the hallway and passed the study room of her father, the door of which was slightly ajar, letting the words travel out from inside the room in the form of a whisper.

At first, she didn want to eavesdrop on the conversation, but when she heard her father mention the king, her curiosity got the better of her and even before realizing it, she had already stopped walking and stood behind the door, trying to hear her fathers conversation with the other healer.

”… we can heal the king as fast as the king demanded. ” The other healer spoke to Yaras father with a voice that was filled with frustration. ”We need more time. ”

There was a response from Yaras father, Julius, but she couldn hear it clearly since he stood a little far from the door.

”No, it is not a wolfbane. ” The healer shook his head. ”I have never seen such poisons or scars. ”

Yara bit her lips, she really shouldn hear such a conversation. The king was poisoned. That must be top confidential news.

However, didn the shifters have a great healing ability? Why did they need to seek help from a healer? It was strange, was the poison very noxious until their healing ability couldn deal with it?

When Yara was in deep thought, someone grabbed her wrist all of a sudden and glared at her.

”What are you doing here? ” Lucian asked Yara.

As annoying as it was, Yara felt the spark between them erupt the moment the Alpha touched her, yet it was truly painful to know that she was not the woman he wanted.

Lucians eyes then glanced at the door behind Yara, and heard the conversation as well. His face turned grim. ”Follow me. ”

Without anyone noticing, Lyra was watching the whole turn of events.