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.

with every struggle getting weaker and tears streaming down

snap out of the shock and advance towards her. Her eyes were normal. They were brown, as I remembered them, not red but brown. Had she not worn silver bracelets, I am sure they would have been black.

waste time just in

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

boy,” she argued, doubting herself as she

was, but I am grown now,” I said, touching her cheek gently and sitting before her. She flared her

to pledge your allegiance to me so you do not go feral again. You have been out of

doubt we will be lucky again,” I told her, and I could see realisation and

insanity would come back. This was all I had ever hoped for, and I would be damned if I let

Isabelle Kowalski, swear to you, Alpha ….” She said and searched

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

I die,” She said, and I felt the bond snap into place.

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 streamed uncontrollably, and she grabbed onto me and hugged me

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, 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 little

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

the hug and began to sniff

head. Was her hatred so entrenched that she could remember

we, Niko,” she

and took it all back,” I said, telling her what I had done, and she

asked as if it were an

will talk about it later; right now, I think

you ensure Gabriel and his cohorts pay for their crime Niko?” She

say. Telling her of Aliana now would be

why aren’t you answering my questions?” She asked me, and I shook my

all right. If you do not like Halfbreeds tending to you, I will send the Lycans over, but mind you, it was halfbreeds and

stepped in, she would

no longer be enough again, but the goddess had been kind enough to make Aliana offer her services.

began to

did to your father and me. They 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?

hurt, 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

go. It was normal for someone who never really liked

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

avoid discussing the past with you until you are all right,” I said, standing

was happy that she would not go feral again, which meant we had all the time in the world. It also meant Fredrick would not win and would have no choice

keep my promises. It had been an empty and lonely life for me, but finally, there

up, and she held onto

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