The Lycan King novel Chapter 10

"See you later, Love." He said against my lips and left the room, leaving my mind in a disarray because of his kiss.

I followed him down the stairs to see Dimitri, Andrei, Vladimir and Mikhail joining him and they left through the main door. I saw Sofiya leaving the foyer too, I quickly followed her, determined to talk to her, I didn't want to lose the only friend I had. I saw her enter the kitchen and I went behind her.

"Sofiya, can I talk to you?" I asked desperately.

"Leave us." She said and my eyes widened. Did she want me to leave? Suddenly, all of the maids left the kitchen and I released the breath I realised I had been holding.

"If you are just some slut who wants Nikolai for power and money then I do not want to talk to you." She said firmly, looking me in my eye.

"I don't want anything from him." I told her softly. I decided to tell her the truth, the necessary parts of it at least, I don't want to base our friendship on lies.

"My father was killed when I was thirteen by someone who was very close to us, he made me a captive in my own house. But his son was the worst. He raped me for the first time when I was sixteen. He trained me, tortured me, to become his personal slave, his 'pet' as he would call me, make me do whatever he wanted. He hurt me when I did something he perceived as wrong. After eight years, he sold me when he thought I had become 'old' and 'boring'. Nikolai had bought me when he had come to help his friend. So you see, I don't want anything from him, he has freed me and already given me everything." I told her quietly, my tears flowing freely down my cheeks. I kept my eyes lowered while I spoke, I didn't want to see the disgust in her eyes or worse, pity.

Suddenly, I was in her arms. "I'm so, so, so sorry Avalyn!" Her shoulders were shaking.

She is crying for me.

"You shouldn't be, anyone could have assumed the same thing." I whispered as I rubbed her back. It was true, from what I understood, Master was very wealthy and very powerful, even more than the Devil. Master was also a dangerous man but he had a good heart.

"I can't believe you have been through so much, Goddess I was such a bitch to you. I am so sorry, for what you have had to go through." She whispered in my ear. "You can live a normal life here now, well as normal as a life in a werewolf world can get but it will be good, I promise."

"It's okay Sofiya, after living like that for almost eight years has left its mark on me. It is what I want, what I need now, it has been the only constant in my life since Papa died." I whispered brokenly. I then realised that all the things that came out of my mouth were absolutely true and that made me cry more.

She just nodded at that. We talked some more while we had lunch. She told me stories of when she and Dimitri were young and used to play with Nikolai and Max, another of their friends. She also told me Andrei and Mikhail had joined the pack late. Both of them had dark pasts but they were good men and that's why they were in this pack now.

That was something Master always did, he didn't allow just any rogue, he held a court once a year for any rogue that wanted to join. He had to state his reason for being a rogue and then show that he was a good wolf now. Master gave his judgment and the were would either be allowed or be killed if he was proved to be a fraud.