TRIGGER WARNINGS
#EWTLOPH is a dark Reverse Harem romance novel consisting of some sinister triggering elements that you might want to look out for. There is occurrence of rape, graphic violence, bondage, assault, explicit sexual circumstances and particular kinks such as breath play, impact play, blood play, masochism and more so watch out.
You know what to do it ever gets too dark and dirty.
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THIRTEEN YEARS EARLIER
ALYSSA
I couldn’t cry.
Even when a big scary man with kingly robes on, an ugly scar running thru his eye, and a crown on his head sauntered toward me, I didn’t run. I just stayed there, staring hopelessly at my mother’s dead body from afar and hugging my dead father, heartbreaking tears refusing to wash down my face.
A large bow as dark and vile as the murderer’s heart was latched across his back and the darkness surrounding him made it clear that he was the one who fired those shots into my parents.
It had been hours since then but it felt like a different lifetime… a different world.
I was playing hide and seek with daddy when the house suddenly collapsed on us. I thought I would die under the crushing weight of the roof, I thought my parents were already dead, but the goddess spared us and daddy pulled me out of the rubble while mommy hugged me. They said we couldn’t wait here, that the bad men could come back. The bad men couldn’t get us, mommy kept repeating.
And so daddy carried me and placed me against his chest as we ran into the forest. I was sad because I didn’t want to leave all my toys behind but I was sadder when mommy stopped running and fell to the ground, an arrow gored into her head.
I thought daddy would go back to help her, I thought he wouldn’t leave her there, but instead he kept running. He ran faster than I ever thought he could run and just when everything looked like it’d be fine, an arrow flew into his chest, and I slipped, rolling onto the ground. Daddy tried to reach me even then but when another arrow went through his head, he dropped and breathed his last.
I went to him, terrified, and did the only thing my frightened mind could think of. I started pressing my little hands into his chest, trying to wake him up because I had seen daddy do it to others many times before and it had always brought them back to life. I wanted to bring daddy back to life, then I would bring mommy back too, and we could all go away together.
But the big bad man that killed my parents’ showed up… smiling evilly like the monster he was. I was too angry to cry or run when he pushed mommy’s body away like she was a discarded road kill and only stared at him in anger, imagining so many ways I could drive the same arrow into his chest.
“What’s your name, princess?”
His dark predatory voice made me shiver and I hated the way he looked at me, I didn’t understand it because no one had ever looked at me that way before but I answered, “Alyssa.”
“That’s a beautiful name,” he said sweetly, grabbing me instantly and dragging me away from everything I knew.
Away from my once beautiful and peaceful pack, a pack that he cold-heartedly destroyed.
I didn’t know why he kept me alive. I didn’t know why he decided to drag me to his castle after he had already killed everyone I loved.
James would be dead too. James was the Alpha’s son and my very best friend. He always joked about how we would be mated in the future, and sometimes I’d hear mom and dad whisper to themselves that we were betrothed. I didn’t know what that meant but it always sounded funny to me.
Now… everything was gone and I was following the evil man to the underground province of his castle. I hated him, I didn’t know why I let him take me. I didn’t know why I followed him behind like his good little slave.
There were so many other women and children in the castle who would look down at me sadly, and shake their heads in pity as I followed. Some of them greeted him as the Alpha King, I had never heard such a title before. In the South, there were only Alphas, no Alpha Kings.
But he destroyed my pack. He must’ve destroyed others too.