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.

and I could see her strength draining with

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

could not waste time just in case

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

little boy,” she argued, doubting

but I am grown now,” I said, touching her cheek gently and sitting before her. She flared her nostrils as if smelling

not go feral again. You have been out of it

told her, and I could see realisation and shock

need you to plead your allegiance now, Momma,” I said, afraid the insanity would come back. This was

you, Alpha ….”

the realisation that I wasn’t lying to her. She stopped giving the guards a h*ard time and relaxed. “…Alpha

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

over. I felt like a little boy again. She touched my face and ran

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

I held her, and I heard them recede and close the door. Bane

and began to sniff

I bowed my head. Was her hatred so entrenched

Niko,” she asked

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

if it

now, I think you should rest,” I said, and she shook her

crime Niko?” She asked,

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

will send the Lycans over, but

in, she

longer be enough again, but the goddess had been kind enough to make Aliana offer

began to

your father and me. They are the reasons we were cut off from the world. The reason

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 we

my heart, but I let it go. It was normal for someone who never really liked the werewolves and

her 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 peace because she

avoid discussing the past with you until

in the world. It also meant Fredrick would not win and would have no choice but

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, but finally, there was colour in my life, and I planned to keep it.

she held onto my hand and

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