Mated to the Enemy's Alpha

'Mom,' Cynthia used a mind link to call her sleeping mother inside the cell.

Adelia was awakened upon hearing her daughter's voice. She could barely open her eyes. A year living inside a silver prison cell was nothing for her. But a decade and a half of living in it was enough to make her body weak. And she didn't know if she could still survive after another decade here again.

'Mom,' Cynthia called her once again.

'What are you doing here, Cynthia?' Adelia asked. She did her best to stand up and walk towards the prison cell bars where her daughter was.

Cynthia gripped a bar, forgetting that the material used for that was harmful to them. "Ah!" She groaned in pain and then pulled her hand back.

'Careful,' Adelia reminded. Tears pooled her eyes immediately after seeing her daughter through the torch, Cynthia was holding.

She was used to the darkness inside. The only light source in the place was the ray of the sun that would enter the small hole on the dungeon's roof during the day.

'I have brought food for you, mom.' Cynthia showed Adelia the animal flesh that she wrapped in a banana leaf.

A warm sensation embraced Adelia's heart. She knew that Cynthia was prohibited from visiting her yet she always found her way to come here. 'Didn't I tell you not to come? What if your father finds out? He'll punish you for sure!' she exclaimed in her mind.

Cynthia smiled innocently at her. 'Don't worry, mom. I will not get caught. Trust me.' She winked her eyes on her to ease her mother's worry.

Adelia sighed in defeat at her daughter's affirmation. She was just as hard-headed as she was before.

Cynthia handed the food in a wrap carefully so as not to touch the bars.

Adelia's eyes feasted after she opened the leaf. Since when did she last eat a flesh of an animal? She couldn't remember it. For the years she had been living here, she was barely eating. There are days that she wouldn't eat because the alpha said so.

So, when Cynthia learned about her situation, she didn't hesitate to come here secretly every night to send her mother some food.

Cynthia felt something pinched her chest while witnessing how hungry her mother was. She was biting the meat harshly with trembling hands. She covered her mouth using the back of her palm to stop herself from creating a sob. Her heart was crying because of her mom's situation. She hated her father for doing this to her. But she couldn't remove to her heart to do everything he said because she was hoping that maybe one day, the alpha would be awakened from the cruelty he was doing to her and her mom. And she was wishful thinking that she would get her father's trust soon.

She knew the chance was little because he saw her as a demon like Adelia. But she would hold onto it.

'He's my father. I know that inside of him, he loves us,' she marked in her mind.

Adelia felt that she gained strength after eating. The trembling in her body a while ago was gone. She stood up straight and stared back at Cynthia.

'Thank you so much, Cynthia. But you don't need to do this again. I am afraid that you'd get caught one day and be punished for doing this,' she thought worriedly.

Cynthia shook her head. 'Don't worry about me, mom. I'm used to pain. They couldn't hurt me anymore,' she lied.

Who would get used to pain? You could get hurt a million times, but the intensity of pain that you would feel would always be the same.

Adelia smiled with tears in her eyes. Her daughter didn't deserve any of these.

She was not the devil the alpha was thinking about. Her soul was so pure. It was the purest of them all in the pack. But the alpha was too blind to see it.

Cynthia gasped when her mother reached out for her face. 'Mom! Your arms!' she exclaimed upon seeing the bruises that the silver bars made.

Adelia shook her head.

'Stop worrying about me, Cynthia. This is nothing compared to the pain that you're going through for a sin you've never committed. I'm sorry if mom cannot protect you from all the danger and pain you're getting from them. I'm sorry for being weak.' Her tears were endless.

Truth be told, a mother would be hurt more if she saw that her child was in pain.

Cynthia couldn't stop her tears anymore. Her vision blurred because of the tears in her eyes. She caressed her mother's hands and kissed them.

'I miss you so much, mom. I'll be fine. Just promise me that you'll stay strong while I pursue father's trust.'

Adelia nodded her head even though she didn't know if Cynthia could get the alpha's trust. But she promised to survive here as long as she could for her daughter. Once she got out of there, she would make sure that she would make all those who had wronged her and her child pay.

Cynthia noticed that the burns on her mother's arms were getting worse. So, she heaved a deep breath and hid her scent. She removed her grip on her mother's arms and bit her wrist, which made her blood ooze out.

'What are you doing—' Adelia's eyes widened when she saw how Cynthia squeezed her blood on her bruise. She didn't blink while seeing how Cynthia's blood entered her bruise and soon healed it. "H-How—"

'Shh, mom. They can hear you,' Cynthia stopped her from talking.

Adelia looked at her sharply, still shocked. 'When did you find out about this?'

'When I was 18, mom,' Cynthia replied.

Adelia's bruises were healed, but her body weakened again.

How didn't she see this coming?

Why didn't she think that Cynthia might inherit her magical blood?

Her heart was torn into pieces. Then she started to ask the Moon Goddess sorrowfully once again.

'Why did you let this happen? Why did you let my daughter get the cursed blood that destroyed our lives? Am I not enough?!'

Little did they know that there was a being who was watching them the whole time from the hole in the roof.

The crow flew away and made a loud caw in the middle of the sky.