Forged in the Flames by Karima Sa'ad Usman

Chapter 33

Voices came like a torrent in my sleep, and I thought I was having a nightmare. I woke up and looked at the clock. It was eight in the morning.

“Alpha,”

“Alpha”

“Alpha”, I heard eight voices at once. Qusack and Ania’s representatives were the most prominent, and I knew something was wrong.

“What is it,” I asked.

“Nikolas, you have to come quickly! The Queen is beside herself with grief! She is hysterically calling for her little boy,” Qusack said, and I gently got off the bed so I did not wake Aliana up.

“I am coming,” I linked back and hurried to sl*ip on something. I wore shorts and a T-shirt and sl*ipped out of my room.

I was quick on my feet, eager to get to my mother in time. My heart was pounding really fast. I felt the adrenaline of excitement and fear course through my veins.

Could this be what I had hoped for nineteen years? Was it possible that she was no longer feral?

I wondered what must have gone wrong to make her hysterical. Did all our efforts go down the drain? Was she worse off than she was yesterday?

Although all through the years of her on- and-off feral episodes and the final one that kept her in that state for nineteen years, she had never spoken a word, so asking for me was a huge sign of improvement.

I got to the door, and there were people there, something I had prohibited because I did not want anyone to see her.

I growled, and they all dispersed, living Qusack and the maids. The guards weren’t there.

“Where are the guards?” I asked.

“Holding her down. You know she isn’t in chains,” Qusacksaid, and I rushed in.

My mother was growling and trying to break free from the men holding her. Each guard held on to an arm, and they held on tight.

She struggled on the bed whilst sitting and seeing her suffer like this was heart-wrenching. Her eyes were shut tight, and she tried to break free with all her might.

My mother looked at me and was silent, then started growling. I wondered what had gone wrong. Her eyes were still feral, but I could see the redness fading gradually. I could not believe my eyes.

“Where is my Niko?” She asked, and I was in shock.

That was the first time she would speak to me in nineteen years.

“Where am I? Where is my son?” She asked, and it was logical that she would ask those questions, but still, I was frozen on the spot.

strength draining with every struggle getting weaker and tears streaming down her cheeks whilst

shock and advance towards her. Her eyes were normal. They were brown, as I remembered them, not red but brown.

could not waste time just in case it

at me with confusion.

argued, doubting herself as she spoke, and

I said, touching her cheek gently and

me so you do not go feral

lucky again,” I told her, and I could see

Momma,” I said, afraid the insanity would

you, Alpha ….”

lying to her. She stopped giving the guards a

be forever loyal and serve you as yours until the day I die,” She said, and I felt the bond snap into

the red-eyed beast were finally over. I felt like a little boy again. She touched my face and ran her

listened to you and gone back to our cave,” she said, remembering our conversation before she went feral. She would remember that because she was stuck at that time. Although nineteen years

at once while I held her, and I heard them recede and close the door. Bane was mainly silent. He

and began

head. Was her hatred so entrenched that

Niko,” she

forest as promised and took it all back,” I said, telling her what I had done, and she widened

if it were an unbelievable

will talk about it later; right now, I think you should rest,” I said,

pay for their crime Niko?” She asked, and I

Telling her of Aliana

aren’t you answering my questions?” She asked

the Lycans over, but mind you, it was halfbreeds and a werewolf that

in, she would have

the inevitable. There was a point when the food would no longer be enough again, but the goddess had been kind enough to make Aliana offer her services. This was all thanks to her. But how will I balance

began

the reasons we were cut off from the world. The reason why we had to hide Niko? Or

because I

It was normal for someone

and that the werewolves weren’t the ones hunting us in the woods but her brother, but I held my

the past with you until you are all right,”

meant we had all the time in the world. It also meant Fredrick would not win and would have no choice but to give me my

to keep my promises. It had been an empty and lonely life for

stood up, and she held onto my hand and looked

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