Carnivals: Claimed By The Deranged Alpha Prince [BL]-Chapter 268: Trapped

Blaze’s pov

"You remind me of your mother, do you know that?"

I let out a loud groan while willing the ringing in my head to cease. I could hear my father’s voice, which means he was here right now, and which also means that indeed, he was working with that wretched man who happened to be labyrinth’s father.

Everything had been alright this morning. We had spent three days with that kind woman and throughout those days, I watched my mate slowly get better and better at controlling his magic and doing impeccable things with it.

We had been planning to leave this morning when people suddenly poured in and opened some sort of chemicals on us. It was so strong that it instantly knocked us out, however, all that was all in my mind was my mate as I blackened out.

When I first came to, my hands were tied and I was in a room with my mate’s father and a bunch of men in sight, while my mate was absent. That instantly sparked a deep rage in me and I lost it, raining havoc everywhere and demanding that my wolf be brought to me at once.

Everything was hazy to me in that moment and all that had been on my mind was my mate and if he was alright. I was too focused on killing the men all trying to attack me at once that I didn’t notice when my mate’s father shot a needle in my neck. I instantly stiffened and tried pulling the needle out but it was too late because next, I collapsed on the ground, completely paralyzed.

I lost consciousness after that, and on waking up a few minutes ago, I met myself tied up tightly with chains too strong for me to break out of,

I let out a low warning growl as I blinked my eyes open, and at once, my father came into my view. He had a flat look across his face as he regarded me and I sneered at him in anger.

"Where the hell is he? Where is my mate?"

"If he gets hurt, if something happens to him, you’re all gonna pay for it!" I swore angrily and tried breaking out of the iron chains to no avail. I was beyond pissed right now, I’ve never felt confined in my entire life before until right now but I was trying not to dwell on that for now.

My father rolled his eyes with a scoff, and then he waved at my two arms. I glanced down at my arms after a few moments and realized that they were swollen and darkened, like when a fruit get spoilt and the particular spot which get spoiled would darken color, and then as the spoilt part contaminate the good part, the darkened part would begin to grow bigger and that’s exactly what happened to me right now, right from the tips of my fingers, all the way to way past my elbows.

And that was when pain shot through me from both arms when I tried shaking them.

"You definitely have a lot of your mother in you." He drawled and I let out a scuff of disbelief.

"Why are you suddenly talking about her? You never talk about her." He snapped out in irritation and he let out a thoughtful hum.

"You’re right. That’s partly because you reminded me of her and I hated it."

I bared my fangs. "Good for you then."

"Anyways, I’m here because I have a deal to make with you." He continued like I hadn’t said anything and I let out a scoff, wishing I wasn’t restrained right now, then I’d have definitely attacked him right now.

"Keep your fucking deal to yourself and fetch me my mate." I growled out angrily and he let out a loud, exasperated sigh.

"Ugh, fucking relax. Nothing happened to him, he’s just speaking to his dad."

"That’s supposed to be a good thing? It’s supposed to make me happy?" I snapped at him in irritation and he folded his arms.

"The earlier you calm down, the earlier you can get together with your mate again." He spoke firmly this time. I wanted to scream at him right now and demand that he release me but so far, that hadn’t really worked out, and so I had to force myself to remain silent.

"I have a deal to–"

"I don’t want to hear it. I’m not interested." I responded flatly and he rolled his eyes.

"You’ll hear it either way. If you must know, Your mate’s father has been lying to him this whole time about the fact that he won’t get hurt when his powers get taken from him. That’s a lie. He’s gonna get hurt, he’d end up losing his life. Here’s the thing, he’s gonna end up losing his life either way... and at least you can come out alive."

"Your mate’s father is planning on convincing him to kill you right now and let me tell you that your mate is seriously considering doing that in order to save himself. Selfish little thing." He paused for a moment and I didn’t let a flicker of emotion cross my face.

"I also believe you’ll want to save yourself too, so I can help you come out of all this alive, If you’d willingly give your mate to me. I want you to agree to this and do it willingly. You clearly already know that I want your mate. He’d make a fine sex slave, don’t you think so?" He laughed this time and all I could see was red, but I still remained motionless.

"So, if you agree to all this, everyone would escape this alive. You’ll take over my throne whenever you’re ready and you can take as many sex slaves as you want. So, what do you say?" He asked once he was finally done and I let out a long exhale.

The urge to laugh right now was so strong within me but I had to control myself, and I forced myself to let out a hum indicating that I was actually considering his offer, and I noticed him fighting a smirk.

Oh, how dumb of him to think I’d fall for this.

Did he think I was stupid?

Scratch that, he clearly did.

I don’t know why he thought I’d believe him when he claimed my mate was actually considering betraying me. That’s the last thing he’d ever do. He wasn’t present right now, but I was aware of what he was capable of. Some people in my shoes might begin to doubt him, especially after witnessing him start to actually murder people, but I knew that even though he was starting to get ruthless, he was still a bunny underneath all of that.

And the labyrinth I know? I know he’d rather let himself die before he agreed to kill me. And just like myself, I’d rather let myself die than watch him die or participate in leading him to a fate worse than death.

I let out a long exhale, eyes locking with my father’s.

"I’ll think about it." I finally responded and he frowned.

"You’re supposed to give me a clear answer right now so i can know where I stand!" He spoke sharply and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

"This is the best I can do under such short notice." I told him and he sighed.

"You have until next tomorrow, which is a full moon night because that’s when your mate’s father plans on holding the long awaited ritual." He gruffed out next.

"So you’re betraying your friend?" I asked and he shrugged.

"This is business. Everyone betrays everyone." He informed me like I was dumb for asking that question.

"You’ll make a fine king, just so you know." He suddenly spoke up after a few minutes.

"Cut the bullshit. You never wanted me to be King." I snapped out and then I rolled my eyes. "I don’t want to be king anyway." I added and he frowned.

"Bu..."

"When am I gonna get freed from this?" I demanded, gesturing at the cold chains restraining me.

"That depends. Are you gonna keep wrecking havoc after you get freed?"

I glared at him. "What do you think?"

"Well, you can’t do anything anyway. Your hands would turn into stones in no time at this rate." He muttered, and then he was leaving before I could ask him what that meant.

~~~

I had a jacket on which concealed the discoloration of my arms and I was currently, anxiously waiting for my mate.

I was told he’d be here in no time and I’ve been unable to breathe properly even though I wasn’t confined and trapped with chains like a wild animal, because I was yet to set my eyes on my mate and confirm that he was fine.

Footsteps echoed from behind me and I turned around to stare at labyrinth as he walked towards me. He was fighting back tears as he fell into my arms and held onto me tightly, shoulders shaking and spamming and I held onto him tightly as relief coursed through every inch of my veins.