Elena's POV
I was still trying to calm my baby down when suddenly the door was pulled out from the outside, and there I was standing face to face with the strange werewolf, who was grinning ear to ear.
"Hello, my highness," he said while approaching me, but I kept taking some steps backward, my heart pounding heavily.
"Who are you, and what do you want from me? I asked him while clutching my baby tightly to my chest.
"For who I am, I'm a friend to your mate Alpha Darian, and for what I want, it's just to repay him a favor, and the only way to do that is to bring you back to him safe and sound," he said to me while approaching me.
As I was taking some steps backward, I approached the table and immediately took the knife that was on the table. It's the knife I had used while preparing my baby's food, and happily, I haven't returned it to the kitchen.
"I don't know who you are or what you are talking about; Alpha Darian was here yesterday, and if he wanted to take me, he would have, so I will warn you; stay away from me or I will use this on you," I said to him while pointing the knife at him, and immediately he furrowed his brows at me.
"Is this some kind of joke? Are you threatening me with a knife?" He asked me before shaking his head in disbelief.
"I will advise you to keep that before you hurt yourself with it," he said to me, but I ignored him while pointing the knife at him. With that, he smiled at me, and before I could realize it, he was already in front of me, holding my hand, and without hesitating, he forcefully took the knife from me and threw it away.
"Let go of me," I said to him while fighting to free my hand from his grip, but all my efforts proved abortive.
"I don't want to hurt you, and you better not force me to," he said to me while holding my hand tightly, and just like a flash of light, he vanished with me.
Darian's POV
My soldiers and I were approaching Richard's palace when we saw a ball of smoke rising to the sky. We didn't need to think twice before knowing that the fire was coming from the palace; without hesitating, we quickly ran to the palace, and just as expected, the palace was on fire, but happily, the pack members were helping the soldiers quench the fire.
Once I saw the palace on fire, my heart skipped immediately.
"Elena," I muttered in fright while running into the palace, staggering through the dead bodies tossed around the palace.
"Elena!!!" I kept screaming while searching for her in the palace; the palace was very huge with many rooms, so it was impossible for me to know in which room she was.
As I was still searching, I started hearing Richard calling out to me, and without hesitating, I followed his voice, which led me to a corridor. Once I came to the corridor, I met him sitting on the bare floor, his soldiers struggling to push something I couldn't see.
"What is the meaning of this, Richard? Your palace is under attack, and here you are sitting on the bare floor as if nothing is going on. Is this some kind of prank?" I asked him, my voice raising in anger, but he ignored me as his soldiers kept on pushing something that I still couldn't place my eyes on.
"Where is my mate?" I asked him with an inquisitive look, but he still remained silent.
"Why is my mate?" I thundered angrily at him while trying to approach him, but I was blocked by an invisible barrier.
"What the hell?" I muttered to myself while trying to get to him, but I still couldn't pass through.
"What is going on, Richard? Why can't I pass through?" I asked him with an inquisitive look, and immediately he raised his head and looked at me with an expressionless gaze.
"Your friends came here looking for your mate; knowing that I would surely rip their heads off their necks before they would even touch her, they caged me in this f***king invisible cage," he said to me before punching the cage, and immediately he groaned in pain before looking at me.
"And where is my mate?" I asked him inquisitively.
"They took her," he said to me after some minutes of silence.
"They did what?" I asked him before punching the cage angrily, but he remained silent while sitting on the floor with his hands placed on his head.
Holding the invisible cage, I could already feel my wolf hair covering my face. All I wanted to do was lay my hands on Richard and make him regret ever trying to steal my mate.
With anger and rage burning deep inside me, I started punching the cage angrily, ignoring the pain it was causing me.
"Take it easy, your highness; you are hurting yourself," one of Richard's soldiers said to me, and immediately I turned my gaze towards him, my eyes glowing deep red.
Leaving the cage behind, I started walking towards him.
"When he saw the anger burning in my eyes, he swallowed hard and started taking some steps backward, but the two others, seeing that I was about to attack their colleagues, tried backing him up, but just in a twinkle of an eye, I dashed towards the three of them, unleashing my anger on them.
"What is wrong with you, Darian? Have you gone nuts?" Richard thundered angrily at me because of how I slaughtered his soldiers.
"I'm going to kill you, Richard," my voice grumbled, mixed with that of mine and my wolf.
"And how are you going to do that?" he asked me, a mockery smile hovering over his face.
"Watch and see," I said to him before punching the cage angrily, and immediately it became visible.
"I could see the shock written all over his face when he saw the effect that my punch had on the cage.
"I'm going to make you suffer Richard, not only for lying to me that my mate is your mate, but for also failing to protect her," I said to him before punching the cage angrily once again and immediately he smirked at me.
"So you finally found out?" He asked me with a smirk. "You are right, little brother; she was never my mate," he said to me, confirming my suspicions.
"Damn you, Richard," I said to him before punching the cage once again, and immediately the palace shook violently.