Mated to the Enemy's Alpha

Adelia and Cynthia's eyes widened when they heard a metal scrapping on the ground from the main entrance of the barn.

'You need to hide, Cynthia!' Adelia exclaimed worriedly through their mind link. She stole the torch Cynthia was holding and drowned it in the pail of water inside the cell.

Fear ate up Cynthia. It was just now that she thought about the possibility that she might get caught after entering her father's prison. She looked at her mother fearfully. 'I love you, mom.'

'I love you too, Cynthia,' Adelia responded. 'Hide quickly!' she pushed her away.

Cynthia couldn't move as fast as a normal werewolf. She rushed to the dark side of the place and hid herself behind a post. She held her breath, hoping that the werewolf who entered the dungeon would leave soon before she lost breath.

When Adelia made sure that her daughter hid herself enough, she rushed as fast as the wind to the center of the cell where the stray grains, her bed, were. She laid down immediately with her back facing the bars. She tightly closed her eyes when she smelled a familiar alpha scent. 'Fuck!' she thought.

"Adelia," the familiar voice called her.

Adelia stayed still and tried to ignore the werewolf. 'Don't come out, Cynthia,' she warned her daughter.

"I know that you're awake, Adelia," said the alpha.

Adelia pressed her lips to restrain herself from being reckless. She should not do anything that could get her daughter in trouble. "What do you want now, Salazar?" she asked in a calm voice. But she didn't move an inch.

Salazar chuckled at the she-wolf. "Acting tough, don't you?" he teased.

Adelia remained silent. She gritted her teeth.

'Why wasn't he leaving yet?' she asked herself.

'Probably, he missed teasing you,' her wolf, Lucia, answered.

'Shut up, Lucia!' she yelled at her. She heard Lucia chuckling and that made her hiss.

"I just want to ask how are you doing?" Salazar's lips twitched when his eyes caught a banana leaf on the prison cell's floor.

'Seems like someone's feeding your Luna, Salazar,' the alpha's wolf commented.

"Don't you miss talking to me, my love?"

"Leave me alone, Salazar." Adelia heaved a deep breath. She was losing her patience for his former alpha.

He was already old, but he teased her like a teen werewolf.

"Hmm?" Salazar smirked. "You really don't want to talk to me?" His eyes went sideways before staring back at Adelia's bareback.

"Go to hell, Salazar. Stop pestering me," Adelia said with finality in her voice.

"I hope you will not regret saying that, Adelia."

There was something with the way he said those words that made Adelia’s heart beat race.

Cynthia gasped in shock when her father appeared in front of him in a swift motion.

"Hello there, my lovely daughter," he greeted with a grin on his face.

There was something in his voice that sent shivers down Cynthia's spine.

Adelia, after hearing Salazar, let Lucia take over her body. She reached for the bars in the blink of an eye. She banged those angrily. "Leave my daughter alone, Salazar! She growled.

Salazar turned deaf for the raging she-wolf. Instead, he offered his hand to Cynthia and smiled at her. "Don't you want to talk to your mother, Cynthia? Come."

He asked calmly. But Cynthia knew that behind that calm voice was a terrifying thing.

With trembling hands, Cynthia accepted her father's hand.

"Salazar!" Adelia shouted.

Salazar led the way towards Adelia.

Cynthia felt like her heart was about to go out of her ribcage. How could she forget that her father was an alpha?

Of course, it was easy for him to sense everything.

"Say hi to your mom, Cynthia," he told Cynthia when they reached in front of Adelia.

Adelia shapeshifted to her human form. She felt the worst fear she ever felt in her life. Her tears fell from the mixed anger and scare for her daughter. She eyed Salazar as she shook her head. "D-Don't do t-this, S-Salazar," she begged.

Salazar glanced at her innocently. "I'm not doing anything, Adelia," he said.

Adelia continued to wag her head. Her tears won't stop falling.

At her mother's reaction, Cynthia knew that something terrible would happen to her.

And truly, in just a blink of an eye, she was already gasping for air after Salazar choked her with his hand. "A-aack!" Tears welled her eyes.

"Salazar! Let go of my daughter!" Adelia turned numb for the new burns that she was getting from gripping the bars. She even kicked it, hoping that it would be destroyed. But the bar stood still. "Spare my daughter, Salazar!" she cried.

Cynthia's eyes bulged. She knew that in any minute, she would lose her breath. She looked at her mother apologetically. 'Sorry, mom,' she said.

"N-no! No! No!" Adelia didn't stop from kicking the bars. "Fuck you, Salazar! You're evil! Pray to the Moon Goddess that I will not escape from here! Because I swear, I will kill you!" She was panting in anger. And her veins were already showing.

Salazar narrowed his eyes and mocked her. "I'm scared, Adelia," he joked. And in a swift motion, he threw Cynthia effortlessly to the other side of the dungeon.

"Cynthia!" Adelia screamed.

Cynthia irked in pain. She heard her bones crack the moment her body met the cold wall. The impact was so strong that she could hear debris falling from the wall. She hardly lifted her head. "D-dad..."

Salazar raised an eyebrow on his daughter. "I have no devil daughter. That’s what you get for disobeying an alpha," he retorted before he turned his back and walked away from the place.

Adelia fell on her knees while seeing her daughter. "Cynthia, my daughter," she whispered in agony.

Cynthia coughed with blood. But she still managed to smile at her mother. "I-I'm f-fine, m-mom... T-Cynthia's s-strong l-like y-you." She felt like her ribcage also got broken, but she forced herself to show Adelia that she's alright. She didn't want to worry her mom.

"T-This i-is n-nothing, m-mom. I-I'm u-used t-to i-it." she almost whispered.

'That's right, Cynthia. This is nothing. You've gone through worse than this before. Stay strong. Stay alive. You still need to save your mother from here,' she lectured herself. She laid her head on the cold floor before she lost consciousness, not knowing if she would still wake up after this.