Alpha Kian And His Captive Mate novel Chapter 6

~Nyla~

"Where are you going?" Maya asked the midwife in a surprised voice.

She stammered, "I-I'm sorry but I have to g-go. I don't want to d-die today."

She looked at me with a guilty face and continued, "Your baby is the heir to this kingdom and a potential threat. He will kill the baby the minute he gets here. Trust me when I say that today would have been the proudest day of my life, helping birth the future king, if things were different. But the kingdom has fallen and most people are either dead or taken prisoners. I hope you can forgive me."

Maya pulled out a dagger and stopped the midwife from leaving. I asked her to let her go. I told Maya to leave as well, run for her life while there was still time, and not worry about me.

"I'll never leave your side, Nyla. I'll protect you until my last breath, even if death is inevitable for us both."

The pain took over, and my eyes were soddened with sweat trickling from my forehead.

"One last push, Nyla. Don't forget what a strong woman you are," she said, with tears escaping her eyes.

Just when I was about to faint, I heard my baby's cry. Strong and resonating through the empty palace walls.

"It's a girl! And she looks beautiful." Maya wiped the blood off her forehead.

I took my precious little baby into my arms, held her near my heart, and closed my eyes. Her cries felt like music to my ears. Just then, we heard a loud crash somewhere far, raucous voices and footsteps approaching our way.

I waited quietly, listening to the men's voices, while Maya climbed up to open the trapdoor hidden in the roof. We let the baby cry because it was a soundproof tunnel. The door was hidden and hard to find unless someone knew where to look. I double-checked that it was locked.

"Fuck this, I can't!" Maya let out an exasperated sigh.

"Is the door stuck? We can't be in these tunnels forever. Those damn werewolves might smell us even if they can't hear us." I started panicking again, holding my baby close.

"I don't know what's wrong. We just opened it two weeks back, didn't we?" Maya tried again and failed.

"Let me help." I put my baby down on the thin mattress that Wyatt dragged into the tunnel for me. I reached for my dagger to cut the birth cord when a sudden pain pierced through my heart.

"Can none of you smell it?" His voice appeared closer than before.

I ran back immediately.

"Is he able to smell one of us?" I asked Maya, wondering if the moon goddess blessed her with another mate because Wyatt's cousin and beta, Vance, was her true mate. But he rejected her and chose his girlfriend Riley, who he was with for years before he met Maya.

"We can only smell blood and piss." I heard someone say with a chuckle.

"I think it's coming from here. Dang it, you see this? There's a door here."

"Fuck! The fucking Alpha found us," Maya said and ran to the trapdoor again as the men started banging against the tunnel door, trying to break it.

I climbed up to help Maya, feeling dizzy and scrambling for footing. We used all of our strength, but it won't budge. The banging got louder and more persistent.