Rendall's eyes were on the window as he sat on his bed. He had been in the position — the same position for three days, without eating food, or even drinking water.He turned to his right, raised his arms, and took his face to his armpit. He moved away from it in a jolt immediately, wrinkling his nose.Rendall heaved a sigh. His smell meant nothing to him now. Helia had rejected him as her mate. He had expected to feel nothing for her but he still did. He had expected to feel the pains felt when the mate bond is broken but the only pains he felt were pains of rejection.He had not expected it to happen after her rejection but he wanted Helia to be closer to him than ever."Did it not work?" Rendall muttered to him. If Helia's rejection did not work, was he supposed to be happy or sad? He had no idea. Rendall just stared into space reminiscing on every moment of Helia's rejection."I don't think it worked," Rendall muttered to himself. He furrowed his eyebrows when he realized that the
"My Lord," a guard cried out as he barged into Rendall's room."How dare you come into my room without knocking?" Rendall snarled."I'm sorry your highness, but something really tragic has happened.""Get out!" Rendall snapped."Leander's daughter is nowhere to be found," the guard pressed on."I asked you to get out!" Rendall growled, surprising the guard. The guard had expected a different reaction from Rendall. He expected Rendall to get pissed at his enemy for escaping, but here he was, acting like the news meant nothing to him. "Are you still standing?" Rendall asked coldly as he noticed that the guard was still in his room."No. I'm not," he replied and ran out of the room.Rendall sighed in relief. He was relieved to hear that she had escaped from the dungeon and had gone with Montague. Montague was the only person, aside from himself, that he could trust Helia with. Hopefully, Montague would take her out of the wereworld before his father has been notified."Hey," Rendall cal
Montague swallowed hard as he opened Rendall's room door to see Rendall pacing up and down the room."R— Rendall."Rendall turned to him sharply and Rendall gulped."What took you so long? Have you escorted her out of the wereworld safely? Where is she now? Do you know if she is in a safe place?""Well—" Montague's voice trailed off. He wondered how he would tell Rendall that she had made him sleep off and when he woke up, he could not find her. He had searched for her for hours but she was nowhere to be found."Well, what?" Rendall asked at the top of his voice. He took a deep breath. "I just want my Helia to be safe," Rendall added with a mellowed voice."I know and that is why it's hard to tell you this.""Tell me what? Did anything bad happen to Helia?" Rendall asked with concern. He wondered why he still acted lovesick when it came to Helia. She had broken their mate bond by rejecting him. Why did her safety still matter to him?"I don't really know?" Montague looked at his feet
"Your Highness."Alpha Janus frowned at the guard that had dashed into his room. He needed to rest but the guard had stopped him."Why are you in my room?" Alpha Janus snapped and the guard shuddered in fear."Y—your h—highness—""Do you want to die?""No, your Highness. I just have something important to tell you.""Then talk.""It was my shift to guard Leander's daughter and—""Go straight to the point," Alpha Janus snarled, interrupting the guard."I got to the dungeon to see that Leander's daughter is missing.""What are you saying?" The guard gulped. Alpha Janus' voice was cold and intimidating. His Alpha aura got stronger."I—I had no idea how it happened. I just knew that I was to guard her dungeon, but when I got there, I saw it open with no guard in sight."Darn it." Alpha Janus clenched his fists. "That goddamn daughter of a feline. How in the wereworld did she escape? The goddamn dungeon was witch-proof. There's no way she'd escape without the help of—" Alpha Janus' eyes w
"You're joking, right?" Rendall frowned as he heard Alecto's words."Joking? Should your father killing Alpha Leander surprise you? You of all people know the kind of person your father is.""But he promised me that he would not kill Leander and Ariela told me she did. Why would Ariela tell me she killed Alpha Leander when she did not.""He he. All I know is that your father has a hand in Helia's father's death.""How do you know the things you know? Who are you?""He he! You'd be the first were-creature to ask who I am. The rest assume they know but I can assure you that I'm not what they think I am.""Then, who are you?""You would know how with time," Alecto smirked. "All you have to know now is to go to the human world to Nyx's house.""Nyx's house? But we—""Helia is on her way there," Alecto chipped in and Rendall did not bother to argue again."Did my father really kill hers?" Rendall looked down at his feet and Alecto heaved a sigh."I warned you not to ask me that it'll hurt.
Helia closed her eyes. Her greatest nemesis had caught up with her without her seeing any way of getting out of it. So, Helia stood, expecting an impact.Suddenly, she heard the sound of a bullet striking flesh. Helia froze. She wondered where the bullet had struck. She wondered if she would die anytime soon. Helia placed her middle finger under her nose to know if she was still breathing. She was. She placed her hands on her chest. Her heartbeat was normal."Does death come this slowly?" Helia asked herself and immediately she felt something lift her. She snapped her eyes open and as she did, she screamed.Peering down at her was a blue-eyed white beast. She batted her lashes as it dawned on her that it was Rendall in his wolf form. She was in the arms of Conri, Rendall's wolf."From frying pan to fire," Helia muttered to herself. She looked away from his face to their surroundings and gasped. Lying on the floor were Alpha Janus and his warriors. They looked lifeless and Helia wond
"Please, don't send us away," Helia pleaded and Damien's grandfather scowled at her."Get out," he growled. "Daughter of a witch. Heaven knows if she's a witch like her mother. These things must exist in the genes. Your mother killed my only son and my daughter-in-law. I have almost nothing left. You probably want to take all I have away from me.""But—""If you don't leave now, I'd make sure I kill you with my own hands," Damien's grandfather threatened. "It will be fair enough anyways. Nyx kic cflled my son and I killed her daughter.""Sir, we—" "You're pushing me," he growled, interrupting Helia again."We're here because we need to break Nyx's curse," Rendall said quickly before he'd get interrupted by the old man."She cursed you?" "Yes, that wicked witch cursed the both of us and our families too," Rendall answered and Helia glared at him for calling her mother wicked."She did?" The old man's hard expression was beginning to melt."And a demon called Janus too. He is also cal
"Werewolves and witches have a history?" Rendall was shocked."A painful one at that. Haven't you heard any folklore concerning it? Or at least a myth? You werewolves are good at telling fake stories anyways just for storytelling's sake."Rendall scoffed and looked back at the book. "Let's check out what is written in it. Do you think it's because of the history that Nyx cursed Wulfe too?""My mother did a great job by cursing the werewolves. I would have done the same," Helia said."Let's just check the book," Rendall said. He was tired of hearing Helia's complaints.She rolled her eyes, removed the book away from his face, and opened it."What's written in it?" Rendall joined her in checking the book and they both turned white as they flapped through the pages. The book was telling a story.It was a story of how the werewolves had forcefully taken the land of witches away from them.A long time ago, werewolves had no particular land. They formed packs that were ruled by an Alpha. A