Chapter 30. Brotherly Love

Kris 🧍🏻


"Kris...Please save..me." Her angelic voice rang out through my ears.


My eyes indeed were staring at the confident, sassy little witch from back home.


My first crush.



Hunnie....



It was confirmed when I arrived early this morning. Totally not even seeing Bahm, as he was sleeping and I didn't want to wake him just yet.

I'm sure he could sense my arrival and that was good enough for him.

I, on the other hand, couldn't sleep before seeing who The Dark Witch was that was being held captured in his dungeons.


Seeing her lifeless body tied and gagged with whips all over her naked flesh. I retrieved some clothes for what I saw fit for her curvy body, but she was much more frail now.



It broke my heart to see her body disfigured the way it was. She was bloodied from head-to-toe. Whip abrasions on her thighs, arms and even her stomach. They were all split open and I had to leave the scene.

I wouldn't dare touch her just yet. Bahm would definitely catch a fit if I had her scent on me.




Now arriving back to the dungeons after I took a small nap, my brain wasn't sure how to register all of this.


My heart truly ached.


In the back of my mind, I knew that the only dark witch that existed couldn't of been her, but here I am, staring at a once, strong, fearless, and intelligent woman.

I stayed outside her cell, staring at her. This seemed all like a dream. My body was protesting on being here. I wanted it so bad to not be Hunnie....




Finding my feet moving, I lift the latch to enter her cell. Closing the steel door behind me, I could already begin to sense how ecstatic her heart was beating.



Sigh.....


She thinks I am here to free her. I can't save you my love, but I can try.



I'm very loyal to my brother, My King and I'm here to get answers for him. Since all he wants to do is only kill her, maybe I can convince him like back then, that she means no harm.

Although I myself, wanted answers of the miracle growing inside of her womb. I can even sense a small spark of life in her body that smelled exactly like Bahm, The Demon-Wolf King that never bears any children in all his hundreds of years living.



"Hunnie?" I say taking steps up to her frigid body


Her lips quiver and she holds her robe over her chest with trembling hands.


"Kris..." She whispers.



Her red and teary eyes pleading with me.



"How do ....How do...you have a child...with The King?"


The beat in her heart went irregular. I'm not good at sensing a lie, unlike Bahm, but I know this woman.



I wondered if she could truly be hiding something. It's been years since we last seen each other.



"He says he doesn't even know you...also, why are you a wolf hybrid now?"


She breaks down to all my questions.


Not even spraying me those wide, teary, hazel eyes.


She can't even explain herself. She seems very hurt about all of this, but I hoped to get answers from her since she knows me.


After moments of her not replying , I take more steps closer to her. She watches my tall frame come into her view.


"Hunnie he thinks you've used magic against him, and he doesn't really want a child with a Dark Witch. He...hates...them...I'm sorry."


My chest began to burn forming those words.


It stung even more just watching her bawl her eyes out. An uncomfortable pull made me want to comfort her. Pull her into my arms and caress her soul entirely.




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Hunnie's POV




My heart shatters to hear Kris ask all the same questions The King has been asking. What everyone here seemed to be wondering.


Kris knows me though, I've never practiced my dark magic on anyone!



I know just crying and not answering the questions won't help, but my mind is in so much of a state of shock, I felt like I wasn't registering much correctly.


The pain in my body was stopping me from doing and saying much.



"My coven..." I croaked wiping the snot from my nose.


"My coven turned me... to a Wolf to spy on some tribe out here." My raspy voice came out. It was still burning from whatever it was The King poured inside my mouth.



"What tribe?" Kris spoke and bends down to my face.

His wavy king hair brushing his shoulders and shining under the small sunlight from the window above me. I e never noticed his features to be very similar to that of The Kings.

He's broad, tanned, and tall, just like him, except his eyes are brown. The clothes he wore didn't seem like the clothing I've been seeing everyone in the castle wearing. It looked very modern and up to date.


His scent makes me want to cry all the while more.


"I...I...don't know. I never met any. I just want to go home Kris. Please..."


"How do you know The King's name by Aldrerix?" He ignores my pleads and give me the same look the King gave me when I said his name.


"That's the only...n-n-name I know him b-b-by...we..we met before.." I stuttered out the last part accidentally.



I wanted to keep it a secret still. The secret of being The Demon-Wolf King's mate...I'll die with the confession if I had to.

It's clear he didn't deserve me. A Dark Witch whom he hates so much...


Kris seems lost in thought as his eyes begins to stare at my face in a stupor.


"Am...I r-really preg-pregnant?" I asked, breaking his gaze on me.


I would believe him more than The King and Queen.


"Yes you are. The King wouldn't lie about matters as big as that." He replies and stand back up from kneeling.


"That's the only reason you are still alive. He doesn't know what to do with you just yet." He tells me and I felt another twist in my heart that brought more tears down my face.


He wants to kill me.


He really does.


This broke me.



What happened to my mate? Why doesn't he like dark witches? Why can't anyone see I haven't done anything wrong here.



I must be getting punished for sleeping with someone else's man...



But, but Kris....



He smell just like my mate. He has the exact same sweet smell as The King. It soothes my nostrils pleasantly. I want this scent to comfort me dearly.



I burst out laughing accidentally. Looking up at Kris's eyebrows raise, I tell him, "You smell just like him. The..The...King."


My body was laughing and crying. I pitied myself in this moment. Still looking for that man's comfort, that promised to be with me.



"When did you last sleep with him, Hunnie?" Kris asked so directly between my laughter and cries.



"About...a week...ago." My body shivered at our last encounter.


The encounter when he told me I was his mate. When I found out he was Aldrerix all along. When I felt so very safe for the first time since being abandoned in this country.