The Lycan King’s Second Chance Mate by Sumi

ASHANTI'S POV.

Blink.

Blink again. My eyes snap open and the illuminated chandelier hanging from the ceiling above comes into view. The light rays from the beaming object burns my eyes so I turn my head in the opposite direction to escape them. My head feels like there are a hundred drums playing in it. There's a gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach which I recognize as extreme hunger. My throat is as dry as a dessert and my mouth tastes like death.

As I look around, the unfamiliarity of the bedroom drives panic into my soul. It looks too sophisticated to be the bedroom Tessa and I shared at the Harem a few months ago. It doesn't look like the bedroom we were upgraded to in the premium residence. It's definitely not Alpha Reagan's bedroom, neither is it the bedroom at the penthouse house he had locked me in.

Where the hell am I?

The last time I was conscious, I was locked up in a dungeon cell, weak to the bone and crying lifelessly for my mother to come and save me. I blacked out all of a sudden and now I find myself in this bedroom, feeling like I just resurrected from the dead.

Or maybe I'm dead and I'm in the land of the dead.

better go out

appreciate the cosiness of the matching trouser and shirt pyjamas I'm putting on. A throbbing headache nearly splits my forehead in two halves when I look down at the floor, searching for something I

out and I'm

where I am. I don't know if what I'm doing is dangerous or not, but what I do know is

another and soon, I'm at the staircase landing. From here, I can hear voices of people talking downstairs, but I cannot make out what they are saying. My heart rate skyrockets. My bones start buckling and there's this

the living room below. There are four of them and they seem to have sensed my presence because they all stop talking and look up at the staircase. I freeze in my tracks when their

beats out of control as I unfreeze and take the final steps down. The woman walks over to

confused as to what's going on. This

hell is going

now. Let's take you back upstairs and explain things

dilate in surprise when she calls