Chapter 26 News about Gray

Regina’s POV
Nigel slipped his hand into my shirt and worked it all the way up to cup my breast.
My stomach swirled with disgust as he did that.
I would rather be licked by a snake than have him touch me.
“Look at me…” he breathed heavily with a grin, “I am fucking a godman princess… fate really treats me well…”
No, you wouldn’t.
I said icily internally.
I wouldn’t let you have it.
He bent down to kiss me on my lips. Yet I avoided him.
“I want you to please me,” I said in a condescending sort of way. “With your tongue.”
He froze.
And then he burst out laughing abruptly, “Wow you really know how to boss people around, don’t you? But I have got to say…you look pretty hot like this.”
He moved his hands to my jeans and undid the buttons.
“Anything you want, Your Highness.” he grinned and buried his head between my legs.
And that was the moment I had been waiting for.
I abruptly lifted my legs off the bed and wrapped them around his neck and clamped! He parted his lips to gasp but I didn’t allow that sound to escape his mouth. My legs were tightly wrapped around his neck and throat, suffocating him like an iron clamp.
This was actually a trick that Gray taught me.
A self-defense tactic.
It allowed me to strangle an opponent with just my legs. As long as I got the posture right, I could take down men larger than my size.
I felt Nigel’s muscle flex underneath my body. He was doing anything he could to break free. But I wouldn’t allow him. This was my only chance!
I gritted my teeth and mobilized my whole might. This was a silent, yet intense right.
After what felt like an eternity, Nigel’s eyes rolled to his back.
His body crushed down to the bed.
He passed out.
It worked!
I panted heavily. But this was not the time to celebrate. I got more work to do.
I reached for that empty milk glass on the nightstand. Grabbing it with my tied-up hands, I gently knocked it against the wall.
The glass broke, creating a sharp edge.
I quickly used to cut my hands free.
When that was done, I immediately slid off the bed and headed towards the window. My heart was thumping wildly against my chest.
Please. Please don’t let anyone walk in at this moment! I prayed desperately and lifted the window shield with both of my hands.
Luckily, nobody found out about anything. I successfully climbed out of the window and jumped off to the front yard.
The light in the living room was still on.
When I slid swiftly past the living room window, I heard Melany’s voice from the inside:
“Honestly, Sir Hover, my son is good enough for a princess. He is my baby boy, handsome, charming, masculine…he can have any woman in the world, even a Queen if you ask me! I just don’t see why Regina ran away. Are there any other men better than my son? …More tea, Sir Hover?”
That old bitch.
I let out a cold snort internally and dashed across the yard quietly, exiting through the back door.
As soon as I was out, I dashed right into the dense forest and shifted into my wolf.
I didn’t dare to take the main road. Forest at night was a much better place to hide my tracks.
My heart was pounding in my chest. My wolf’s paws thumped against the ground as I ran. I tried to keep the noise down at first. But the further away I got, the quicker I went, and I couldn’t care that much about the noise anymore.
My eagerness to be free, to be with my family and Grey again, conquered everything.
It was extremely quiet in the forest. I could only hear my paws hitting the ground, the gushing wind, the occasional sound of birds flapping their wings and flying into the night sky.
Yet gradually, my ears caught another noise coming from the distance.
Something large and heavy, crashed through the underbrush behind me, getting closer and closer.
I glanced over my shoulder urgently.
My heart almost stopped at that very moment.
A massive, snarling wolf was gaining on me! Its grey fur gleamed under the silver moonlight, its yellow eyes as large as the lanterns!
It was Hover!
Fuck! FUCK! When did he find out? And how did he find out?!
How many failed escapes had it been? 2 or 3? Was this attempt going to be in vain again? Was I going to be caught back to that shithole and let Nigel rape me again?!
I felt a surge of fear, anger, and adrenaline.
Letting out a furious howl, I pushed myself to run even faster. But I suddenly felt an extreme wave of exhaustion washing over me. My eyelids were getting heavy. I felt very sleepy all of a sudden.
Fuck.
That glass of milk.
Nigel must have added a little something into the milk, something like hypnotic perhaps.
My legs were giving in. I tried to jump over a rock in the middle of the path but tripped. I landed hard on the forest floor and Hover had caught up to me from behind.
I backed away urgently and my back hit against a tree trunk.
I was trapped.
Hover shifted back into his human form and loomed over me, his face deadpan.
“Time to get back, Princess Regina,” he said calmly as though all I did was go out for a walk after dinner.
I bit my lips. Tears were welling up in my eyes.
I picked up a rock and threw it at him. He didn’t dodge. The rock landed on his forehead, leaving a bruise.
“WHY!!” I roared to him with angry tears streaming down my cheek, “I…I am a nice person! I have never done anything wrong in my entire life! And what did I get in return? A…An abusive husband. A fucking failed marriage! And I couldn’t even get my peace even after I left him! They tracked me down and brought me back here as a fucking sex toy and baby-making machine! Tell me Hover! What have I done to deserve all this?!!!”
My furious voice echoed in the air.
Hover stood there in silence, holding his head down. He didn’t say anything.
I wiped my eyes and looked at him, my voice choking, “Can…Can you just let me go? Nobody will know about this…You can just say that you tried to chase me down but couldn’t find me in the woods…Please? I—I know that you are a nice person. Please!”
He remained in that deathly silence.
After a long, long pause, when I was beginning to think that he might agree, he raised his head and uttered a single word:
“…No.”
I looked at him numbly, feeling that my heart had just died.
“Alpha Torres saved my life. He saved my village. All my friends and family are alive because of him. Since that day, I have sworn to pledge my loyalty to him and follow his order no matter what,” he said deeply. “So sorry…I can’t help you, princess.”
“So you are doing all these shitty stuff for him out of gratitude?” I laughed icily. “Then have you considered the people you are hurting? Is it fair to them?”
Hover walked up to me.
I thought he was going to yank me up and tie my hands again.
Yet instead, he sat down on the forest floor next to me, leaning his back against the same tree trunk as I did.
“I can’t disobey Alpha Torres’s order. He asked me to watch you. So I can’t let you go. But there are certain things that he didn’t specifically forbid me to do…”
My heart jumped to my throat, “Like what?”
He looked at me, “Do you want to know how your brother has been?”