Before my return home, I had one final thing to do. Sonia followed behind me with a glass of wine while I held on to the poison. Inside the cramped cell in the Moon Lakes pack was April, curled up in a fetal position with bruises on her arm showing that she had tried to end herself.“You are nothing but a witch.” She did not raise her head even when I entered. “Are you here to finish me off?”On the seventh day after I woke up after escaping the slave traders, I decided it was time for her execution. As promised, I came with the same poison that I had been accused of putting in her drink.“As I am preparing to return home, I forgot to tell them to prepare you for your death but it does not matter, does it?”“This is all your fault. You are –““I have something I must say to you before you leave this world.” I threw her words right back at her.“What do you want to say!?” She snarled. “Have you not done enough? Do you still want to continue to torture me?”There was no remorse despite
Things were going well for me if it was not the small problem that I missed Koa terribly. He had promised he would be back soon but two months had passed with us only exchanging letters sparingly. Every time, he told me he was closer and closer to the end of his goal but still, he did not return.“Miss, wow,” Hannah gawked at me. “How can one person be so beautiful?”“Is it too much?” I asked, touching the jewellery hanging heavy on my neck. “I have to make a statement today so I went all out.”The time had come for me to launch my fashion brand in conjunction with Emma. I had put in a lot of effort into this and while I believed it would be a success, I could not help the anxiety I felt.“It is perfect. Miss, I do not know what the goddess looked like but I am sure you are her spitting image,” Hannah continued to flatter me like she had sugar in her mouth.I could not help but laugh. There were many reasons to laugh these days. My life was going good. No one got on my nerves and the
“When did you return?” I asked.“Last night.” He took my hand as he spoke, linking our fingers. “You are truly amazing, Persephone. I am proud of you.”“It – I worked with very talented people,” I responded. “You should have told me you were coming.” I narrowed my gaze at him almost accusingly.The back room cleared one person at a time as soon as he got in so it was just the two of us. It was just the two of us in the room but it felt like it was just the two of us in the world. He had lost weight, grown out his hair and his hands were rougher, more calloused. The dark circles around his eyes spoke of his exhaustion so no matter how much he smiled, there was no hiding how tired he was.“Did you miss me?” His words were teasing.“Yes, but if you only returned last night, you should have rested.” I pursed my lips. “Why did you have to come out today? You should be sleeping.”“It’s because I missed you.” His thumb stroked the back of my hand. “And how could I sleep when you are doing so
Cassius had done something. Even without knowing what, I knew he had done something. Suddenly, the only heir to Alpha Slater’s seat got into a fight with some men at the bar and ended up dead. It was not unusual for Slater’s son to get into bar fights since he was a nitwit just like his sister who had no achievements but liked to ride off of her father’s name. I did not know him in person but there were often stories about him getting into fights here and there, harassing women and assaulting omegas. He was the scum of the earth but no one dared to offend him considering his family name. This same man had suddenly died in a bar fight.“Cassius Raven, what are you up to?” I bit my lips as I stared at the writing materials in front of me.Even if it was a coincidence, it was one that benefitted him. Without an heir, the title of Alpha could easily be passed to him as Jennifer’s mate, Jennifer being a beta.“He has a hand in this.” Even if there was no evidence, I knew he had a hand in t
“I said I would support you through everything but what am I supposed to do about this?” I was having a very bad week and my father was not helping matters. “You assaulted her in public and her father is asking for more than I can give!”“She should not have touched him,” I responded, defiant till the end.“You should not have broken her hand!” My father countered. “Now, what do you want to do about this?” He asked. “He has asked for a whopping amount of money and a business deal that I would rather die than give to him.”“Koa will take care of it,” I answered. “Ignore everything he has to say. I will be off then.”My father shouted my name but I did not answer. When I got back to my room, I wrote to Koa. They would let the matter slide if he threatened them with assaulting a royal. That should scare them but it would not help the image I tried so hard to build for him.Then I went back to brainstorming what to do about the textile that the Luna Queen was buying up. I contacted my peo
CASSIUS’ POVI had no women in my life so I had never known that women as stupid as Jennifer Slater existed. The only woman I knew was Persephone and she was smart so it was surprising to talk to a person who seemed smart but was actually a blockhead.It was thanks to her that I found out about the bar her brother frequented and the recent incident that made her father angry. He had assaulted one of the men’s mates and went free without any punishment thanks to his father’s influence. It did not take much to send karma his way since the men were more than happy to smash his skull open.Now, I was on to bigger things. It would raise suspicion but I had to get rid of Slater. He stole from me so why could I not steal from him? It was his fault that he raised such stupid children anyway.“My father’s headache has worsened,” Jennifer came to report to me.“It must be because of what happened to Jeremy.” I stroked her hair as she lay on my thighs. “His heart must be broken. It is not easy t
“Miss, the store sold out all the new designs,” Hannah rushed to tell me.“Hmm, that’s good.”A few hours later, she came again.“Miss, Alpha Adelard has asked to see you.”“Ah, I am busy. Tell my father I will see him later.”A while later, this time, it was Sylvia who came in.“Perse, what are you working on so diligently?”“Ah, I am organizing my affairs.”The Alpha King was no help. How could there be a monarch so useless? Even when Koa told him that the Black Wolves pack would be seceding, he laughed, his face red with alcohol and then he said that it was impossible. I told him that Cassius was also thinking of seceding so if he joined hands with the dissenter of the Black Wolves pack, things would get tricky. All he had to say to that was that once Cassius returned, he would be put in the dungeons.To say Koa was pissed would be an understatement. His eyes had darkened and he had growled at his father with a voice that had the Alpha King sobering up in a minute but no matter wha
KOA’S POVI got a tip-off that Randal was in danger. That, coupled with the fact that there was a secession plot at play made me anxious.‘Are you worried about Randal?’ Anakin asked. ‘He may be your brother but he is still a strange child. Will it not be good for you if he died?’‘Shut up.’Randal was indeed a weird child. As a child of the Luna Queen, I did not believe that he was altogether good. How could he be good when his parents were both evil? There was no side that could have given him any redeeming qualities and he was a child that was no different from a stalker. There were days when I would think an assassin had broken into my home but it would turn out to be that rat quietly observing me. I used to think he was doing it for his mother, acting as one of her spies but it occurred to me later on that the rat was obsessed with me in a way that made my skin crawl.‘You want to save such a rat,’ Anakin said. ‘It is good to do this for Deimos but remember that Randal belongs to