It's Alpha!
I hurriedly ran towards him and embraced him tightly as I began to cry.
He lifted me by my waist in which he stared into my eyes as I continued to sob.
His eyes are filled with tears as he brought me closer to him in which he embraced me tightly.
He asked me if I am ready to go back as the portal might close anytime soon.
Hearing that, I told him to put me down as I'm planning to bring some stuff back in the other world.
After that, I hurriedly packed a lot of things and placed them inside my largest expandable travel backpack and on one of my biggest expandable travel duffel bag.
Alpha looked bewildered as he saw me pulling the bags with great difficulty towards the portal.
He carried both of them with ease while carrying me in his other arm in which I wrapped my arms around his neck.
I glanced around for the last time as I felt being sucked into the portal with Alpha.
Farewell.
....
When I opened my eyes, I was inside in an empty room with Alpha.
I was about to ask him some questions in which he signaled me to be quiet as he covered me with a cloak.
I can feel myself being carried to another place as Alpha whispered under his breath, telling me that he will answer my questions as soon as we arrive in a safe place.
Um.
Something seems to tell me that what Alpha did is done out of secrecy.
I'm back in the world where there's no concept of time so I have no idea how long he carried me as I can't see anything since he covered my entire body with a cloak.
After what seems to be more than an hour or so in which I dozed off several times, he suddenly stopped.
I can hear a door being opened and closed in which Alpha took a deep breath and removed the cloak from my face.
He nuzzled my neck again as he placed me on the bed.
I glanced around and saw that the room is a bit fancy in which I suddenly had a feeling that I'm inside his bedroom at the palace.
Still, I'm happy that I'm finally back in this world that I stretched my arms towards him in which he immediately went towards me and embraced me in which we fell on the bed because of his weight.
He's heavy!
His tail begins to wag as he kept nuzzling me on the neck while I tried to push him away to no avail.
This is the first time I saw him act like this.
When he licked my throat, that's when I cleared my throat and told him that I can't breathe properly in which he hurriedly placed me on top of him.
He embraced me tightly as I tried to squirm out of his embrace.
He chuckled as his embrace starts to become tighter.
Sigh.
I told him that my back hurts and I don't mind being embraced by him as long as we are sitting as it is much more comfortable.
With that, he sat up and placed me on his lap as he embraced me tightly while nuzzling my ear.
He suddenly licked my ear in which I started to feel strange that I tried to ask him why he covered me earlier in a shaky voice.
He continued to lick me towards my neck as I closed my eyes since I'm starting to feel really weird.
Weird since this isn't the Alpha I used to know.
I know that he has desire for me but he always kept his distance.
But right now, it seems that there's nothing to prevent him from....
Wait a minute.
In a calm voice, I asked him if something happened to Lion.
I can hear him take a deep breath in which he finally stopped licking me though he didn't let go of his embrace.
....
It turns out that 3 years has already went by.
3 years in this world is equivalent to 30 years back on earth.
Huh. So I'm 135 years old now.
Anyway, the point is that I've been gone for a very long time since their days and nights lasted longer than the Earth's.
After I got sucked into the portal, Lion went mad with rage.
Even though Bahar was wounded and was too weak to use most of his powers, he managed to put up a difficult fight in which everyone lost their minds and it became a deadly fight.
During the middle of the fight, Orm got seriously wounded in which suddenly, several high leveled magic users surrounded them as a magical cuff appears on each of their necks that made them suffer with pain until they lost consciousness.
They were brought back to the palace in which they were made to kneel in front of Chieftain Monarch.
Bahar was destroyed immediately with a deadly magic that came from the leader of Chieftain Monarch's council.
Alpha told me that it was a good thing I wasn't there as it was so terrible since the Chieftain Monarch was furious because the magical stone was destroyed and the betrayal of Bahar.
Numerous high leveled magic users were present at the time as the Chieftain Monarch gave them punishment.
Orm was spared of the punishment as he is severely wounded but was placed under house arrest until now.
Ghost suffered from several tortures before being released.
Alpha himself wasn't spared of the punishment despite the fact that he is the heir as he was also being tortured in a much longer time than Ghost since he failed to do his task properly despite his position.
Sly was imprisoned and tortured for a longer time since he tried to fight back against the magic users instead of going with them peacefully.
Then Alpha stopped talking.
I suddenly had a feeling that Lion's punishment is much worse.
With a huge sigh, he asked me if I wanted to know what happened to Lion.
Of course, I wanted to know as I desperately wanted to see him as soon as possible!
I told him that I wanted to know if he is still alive.
Alpha took a deep breath as he told me that Lion is good as dead.
....
I began to sob as I listened to Alpha telling me what happened to Lion after they were captured by the magic users.
Despite the fact that the magic users warning him that they came from the orders of the Chieftain Monarch, Lion became out of control as he tried to attack them and Bahar as he lost his sanity after seeing me got sucked into the portal.
He managed to wound most of them until the leader of Chieftain Monarch's council arrived, hitting him with a strong magic that made him went wild instead and transformed into his ultimate form. During the intense fight against each other, all the magic users began attacking him together in which the leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council made a strong cuff around his neck and extremities that made him unable to move and transformed back to his regular form.
Lion was sentenced to stay in the dungeons for unknown amount of time, making him stay in his ultimate form until now as the Chieftain Monarch told him that since he acted like a beast, he should stay as a beast.
Which is a sentence that is so terrible as your mind will eventually lose its sense of reasoning and self awareness.
Like what the Chieftain Monarch said, you will eventually stay as beast if you are stuck in your ultimate self for a very long time.
Until now, Lion is still in the dungeons, acting more and more like a beast as he kept thrashing around in which the cuff in his neck was attached to a chain that will send lightning sparks towards his body whenever he went berserk.
Oh Lion.
I sobbed for a long time after that.
....
I have to rescue him.
Alpha looked horrified when I told him. He said that the Leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council is searching for me and that is why he covered me with a cloak earlier.
Also, I can't just go there in the dungeon as it is full of high ranked magic users and special elite warriors of the Chieftain Monarch.
He's right. That was impulsive of me.
I have to calm down and think of a way.
Of course! I remembered that I brought a certain bottle of liquid that will knock them unconscious. I was planning to use it for later in case I might meet a pervert or a demon but I want to see Lion as soon as I can.
Wait, I remembered I brought several bottles of it so using one won't really matter.
Alpha told me that the difficult part is to get out of this room as it is filled with creatures that will alert the Leader of the Chieftain Monarch's council.
Unless.....
Unless what?
When I saw his eyes blazing with passion towards me, I stiffened.
Seriously?
Alpha must have read my thoughts as he hurriedly told me that he's not suggesting that we have intercourse BUT to perform a secondary mating ritual in which a mark will show on my body.
He told me that I would cover my body with a cloak, showing only the mating mark i have with him in which the creatures won't bother us as they have been nagging Alpha to take a mate for quite some time.
That's actually a good plan....
Except for the fact that he forced himself to be one of my secondary mates just to help me instead of having a mate of his own choice.
Alpha interrupted my thoughts, telling me that I was wrong with my thoughts and that he wanted me to be his mate for a long time.
What the.
Is he a mind reader or something?
Alpha chuckled in which he told me that he cannot read my thoughts but he can guess my thoughts because of my facial expressions.
I should practice having a poker face more often.
To my horror, blood suddenly dripped from his mouth that I was about to get something from my backpack when he kissed me.
Oh.
Oh!
He's performing the secondary mating ritual by biting his tongue.
I closed my eyes as he continued to kiss me in which his blood dripped towards my mouth (please don't copy this in real life). I was soon engrossed with the kiss as he is quite good actually. Our kiss soon turned passionate in which I wrapped my arms around his neck as he slowly laid me down on his bed, kissing me hungrily.
Time seems to pass slowly as we kissed, in which he told me about his feelings towards me in between kisses. He made all sorts of promises, in which he told me that he will be devoted to me and that he will follow me wherever I go, to the afterlife or to the Netherworld.
Tears fell from my eyes as my chest hurts in hearing him say that.
Yes, I'm fond of him but I loved Lion and like Sly, I cannot love him the same way I loved Lion.
I sobbed as I felt that it is unfair that I cannot give him what he deserves.
Alpha wiped away my tears and told me gently, how he knows that Lion is the one that I loved but it won't change his feelings at all as all he wanted to do is to love me without any reservations. He wants to stay by my side until the end of eternity.
That was deep.
Feeling a surge of emotion, I pulled his face towards me and kissed his forehead, thanking him for the love that he gave me and that he shouldn't distant himself from me as I enjoyed spending time with him and that I want to know him better.
A tear fell down from his eye as he nuzzled my neck in which I embraced him tightly.
Okay. That's enough hugging, I need to get up now as he is getting heavier.
....
Good thing that Alpha's secondary mating mark appeared on one of my legs in which we made a dress that has a hole that showed my secondary mating mark with him. The dress covered me from my neck down to my feet in which my head and face are covered with a thick veil.
As we are about to go, Alpha gave me a magic satchel bag in which he placed both of my bags inside as he told me that I won't feel any weight at all.
That's quite helpful.
But for some reason, I get the feeling that he wants me to go somewhere without him.
I asked him why he is pushing me away in which he embraced me tightly and told me that as much as he wanted to go with me, he has to do a job in which he cannot refuse.
My blood turned cold when he said that as there's only one reason why you can't turn a job down.
He formed a contract.
With horror, I suddenly realized that the reason why I managed to come back in this world is because of him forming a contract with someone.
Intense anger seems to rise inside me as I vowed to take revenge someday and break all their contracts.
As I cannot tell him what I know because of Rahab's spell, it is only up to me to plan revenge against this being.
The being must be powerful as he managed to open a portal in another universe.
I must be careful.