Chapter 56
Third-person narrative.
When the triplets woke up in the morning, they were surprised to see that Gina was no longer in bed with them.
At first, they thought that she had gone to the kitchen to make their breakfast, but after checking the kitchen and every corner of the house, they could not find her.
They were so alarmed as to how Gina could have left the house without telling any of them, considering that they spent the night together.
They called Lucia to ask her if Gina had told her anything, but she said “no” and that she hadn’t seen Gina since last night when she went to bed.
The triplet decided to go and check on her parents’ house, perhaps to go and visit her parents.
But on getting there, they were told that Gina was not there.
They went back to the palace and searched everywhere that they felt they could find her, but she was nowhere in sight.
It was difficult for them to believe that Gina had been kidnapped, considering that they all slept in the same bed.
After searching the entire palace and not finding anything, they decided to tell their father about Gina’s sudden disappearance.
At first, the alpha king felt that Gina may have run away because she feared that she might not make it through the Luna Ritual.
But the triplets were adamant, as they told their father, that they were sure that Gina did not run away and that they suspected that she had been kidnapped.
The alpha king then told them that they should search every house in the pack and across the borders for her. And that they should make sure that they find her before the Luna ritual commences, which had been scheduled for midday.
And that if they are unable to find her, then they will be left with no option but to be mated to Gwen.
The triplets sent emissaries to every house in the pack to search for Gina.
As the news of Gina’s disappearance spread around the pack, people gave different accounts of what they thought may have happened.
While some people believe that she ran away out of fear for her life, others believe that her disappearance was somewhat connected to the strange person that they heard singing early in the morning.
When they had searched every house, it was still that of Lucas Amel.
The triplets, who had suspicions about Lucas’s involvement with Gwen’s disappearance, took it upon themselves to search his entire house.
They started by searching his dungeons and farms, but they could not find anything.
But as soon as they moved into Lucas Amel’s property, they could pick up her scent, though it was very faint.
Positive that they might find her there, they began searching every room before coming to the sitting room.
While they were in the sitting room, Gina could hear her mates talking and giving orders to people to search for her.
She screamed at the top of her lungs for her mates to hear her, but because the dungeon she was in was soundproof, the triplets could not hear her.
After tirelessly searching the house, they were pretty disappointed that she was not there. Nevertheless, they left a few spies around to monitor Gwen’s father’s movement.
Left with no option, they moved their search elsewhere, and after hours of searching everywhere in the kingdom and not finding their mate, they were asked to return to the palace.
On getting to the palace, they found out that the priest and the elders of the pack were present, along with Gwen, who was elegantly dressed for the ritual.
The priest moved to announce Gwen as the one and only mate and future Luna of the pack in the absence of Gina.
The triplets bluntly refused to have Gwen as their mate, insisting that Gina would come back to them.
The Alpha king gave them a seven-day ultimatum: if Gina does not come back, then they will have no option but to be mates with Gwen.
Lucas Amel was very pleased with the king’s verdict/as he and his daughter secretly celebrate their victory.
After spending enough time with his daughter he decided to return home happily.
Thanks to his guards, he was able to spot the spies that the triplet had implanted around his property. He paid those that agreed to work with him and secretly killed those that did not agree.
As soon as he got home that evening, he went straight to the dungeon to see Gina sitting tiredly on the floor.
Right when she saw him, it began to make sense to her that he must have orchestrated her being kidnapped.
Even though Gina was feeling exhausted and a little dehydrated, she was not going to show any of those weaknesses to this evil man.
“So it was you, how did I get here?” she questioned as the realization hits her.
She had been wondering where she was and how she go there, the last thing she remembers is going to bed with her triplet mates.
She just could not remember anything else no matter how hard she tried.
She tried springing up from the floor she was seated on, but the rope that was tied around her legs and wrists deterred her from doing so.
“What are you planning to do to me? you know my mates will not rest until they find me,” she said to him.
He stopped to look at her, and hatred was the only emotion he could feel toward her.
“It is true what they say, you are a feisty one, which makes me wonder if truly you are an omega like you have made everyone believe,” he said to her.
“Let me go, you have no right to hold me against my will,” Gina ranted to him.
Lucas Amel wore a devilish grin as he walked around his weapon of torture that he had secretly invested a fortune in.
He picked up a metal whip with spiked edges and casually walked over to where Gina was seated.
“The first lesson you have to learn while you are here is that you don’t speak unless you are spoken to,” he said to her while raising his hand to whip Gina harshly.
The mental whip burned her skin with its forceful contact, and the spikes clenched against her skin.
He forcefully pulls out the whip, making her skin tear and bleed in the process.
“Oh, in case you haven’t heard, my daughter will be Luna, just like the gods have always ordained her to be. But as for you, you will be here until the very minute you take your last breath,” he said, taunting her.
He raised his hand and was going to whip her again when Gina said,
“You are such a coward, so you think kidnapping and killing me would stop the triplets from loving me? No, it won’t. They are my soulmates, and we have been destined to be together for life. Beat me for all you can, but remember that when I die, you cannot wipe out my memory from their hearts; you know why, because I am their true mate, something your stupid, uncouth daughter can never be,” Gina ranted to him.
“You stole my daughter’s right, and I will make sure he gets what is truly hers, he was saying when Gina started laughing.
“You’re good for nothing, imbecile; I will teach you to know your place and never to talk back,” he said, whipping her harder this time than before.
B***d kept gushing out from Gina’s body, messing up the surrounding floor.
“If you are so certain that your daughter was indeed picked by the gods, then why did you not follow through with the ritual? You self-centered peacock,” Gina said, throwing spit at his face, and that irked him even more.
“How dare you?” he growled.
WHIP!
WHIP!
WHIP!
Every stroke of the whip on her body tore her flesh and sent pains over her body like nothing she had ever felt before.
B***d started spilling from every place the whip made contact with, but despite the intense pain she was in, she tried to hide it by breathing or making a lot of growling sounds.
“By the time I am through with you, death will be the only luxury you can ever afford,” he said as he stormed out of the dungeon to bring two slaves that were working on his farm.
He instructed them to continually flog Gina until they got tired and to resume after taking a little rest.
The slaves were a bit reluctant at first because they had come to know that Gina had been searched for all over by the triplets.
But when Lucas Amel threatened to kill everyone in their family, they were left with no choice but to do as they were told.
For every pain that was inflicted on Gina, the triplets got their fair share of the intense pain in their hearts that wouldn’t go away, making them aware that Gina was alive and in trouble.
Only if they could communicate with her through the mind link if only she could just tell them where to find her,
As minutes turned into hours and hours into days, the triplets became paranoid.
The triplets had monopolized men to attack and invade rival packs searching for their mate.
Every effort proved futile, and the triplets decided that they would only accept to marry Gwen if they could find Gina’s dead body.
They told their father their new decision, and even though the alpha king did not entirely agree with them, he couldn’t help but understand their plight.
The King, in turn, told his pack elders and chief priest and asked that every one search everywhere for Gina and bring her back to the palace, dead or alive.
While the entire pack kept searching and searching for Gina, Lucas Amel decided that it was time to finally give the triplets what they wanted.
That night, he went into the dungeon and saw Gina barely hanging on to life. The fact that she was still breathing amazed him. But she wouldn’t be alive for long.
He grabbed a baseball bat and started hitting Gina on the head until he was sure she was completely dead or so he thought.Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.
He then shifted into his wolf form and used his paws and canines to tear her body apart and make it look like she was attacked by a wild beast.
Once he was satisfied, he had his servant tire her up, and they carried her body to the pack borders in the dead of the night.
But as soon as they abandoned her body and left, a bright light engulfed Gina’s body, and slowly Lucia appeared.
With the swipe of her hand, the ropes and clothes that Gina was tied off slowly melted away, revealing Gina’s badly beat-up body.
She carefully sat beside Gina on the floor and placed her head on her lap.
She started singing a melodious lullaby, and as she sang, Gina’s scars started to gradually fade off, until there were little or no scars on her body.