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.

I could see her strength draining with every struggle getting weaker and tears streaming down

as I remembered them, not

just

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

she argued, doubting herself as she spoke, and I

said, touching her cheek gently and sitting before her. She flared her nostrils as

pledge your allegiance to me so you do not go feral again.

her, and I could see realisation and shock

She asked me with realisation. “I need you to plead your allegiance now, Momma,” I said, afraid the insanity would come back. This was all I had ever hoped for, and I

Isabelle Kowalski, swear to you, Alpha ….”

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

said, and I felt the bond snap into place. I did not know I was holding my breath until I

would never be feral again. My days of living in fear of the red-eyed beast were finally over. I felt like a little boy again. She touched my face and ran her fingers over the scar on my left eye. I dared not tell her she was the one that did it. Her tears

sorry, Niko, I am so sorry. I should have 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 had passed, to her,

her, and I heard them recede and close the

broke the hug and began

sounding confused, and I bowed my head.

Niko,”

I took it all back. I conquered the forest as promised and took it all back,” I said, telling her what I had

asked as if it were an unbelievable

later; right now, I think you

pay for their crime Niko?”

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

questions?” She asked me,

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

Aliana not stepped in, she 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 between my mother and the

began to

the world. The reason

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

on her face broke my heart, but I let it go. It was normal for someone who never really liked the werewolves and had all

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

with you until you

all the time in the world. It also meant Fredrick would not win

pursuing her dreams and trying to keep my promises. It had been an empty and lonely life

up, and she held

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