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.

her strength draining with every

as I remembered them, not red but brown. Had she not worn silver bracelets, I am sure

could not waste time just in

said, and she looked at me with confusion. “Momma, it is me, Niko,” I said,

a little boy,” she argued, doubting herself as she spoke,

I said, touching her cheek gently

so you do not go feral again.

again,” I told her, and I could

afraid the insanity would come back. This was all I had ever hoped for,

Alpha ….” She said and searched my

to her. She stopped giving the guards a h*ard time and relaxed. “…Alpha Nikolas Kowalski,” She said, tears streaming down her cheeks and staring at me with

you as yours until the day I die,” She said, and I felt the bond snap into place. I did

my face and ran her fingers over the scar on my left eye. I dared not tell her she was

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 had passed, to her, it was like a moment ago, the only traces of time passed was that I was now a grown man and not a ten-year-old

her, and I heard them recede and close the door. Bane was mainly silent. He had never

and began to sniff the

I bowed my head. Was her hatred so entrenched that she

are we, Niko,”

the forest as promised and took it

as if it were

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

their crime Niko?” She asked, and I tried to avoid the

I did not know what to say. Telling her of Aliana now would be too much. I needed her to be all right

you answering my questions?” She asked

you, I will send the Lycans over, but mind you, it was halfbreeds and a werewolf that nursed you back to health,” I said, letting her know who was responsible

stepped in, she would

again, but the goddess had been

mother began

are the reasons we were cut off from the world. The reason why we had to hide Niko? Or did they feed you lies and tell you otherwise? Nineteen

and it got to me. She looked at me as if I had betrayed her. It hurt because I had lived my life trying to accomplish her goals, her revenge and recover what she told me

look on her face broke my heart, but I let it go. It was normal for someone

the werewolves weren’t the ones hunting us in the woods but her brother, but I held my peace because she had just come

with you until you are all

would not go feral again, which meant we had all the time in the

relationship with Aliana, I plan to have it all. I deserve joy and happiness. I have lived all my life trying to make my mother happy, pursuing her dreams and trying to keep my promises. It had been an empty and lonely life for me,

stood up, and she held onto my hand and

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