Winston's POV"How is that any of my business?"Angelina was angry.I could tell from the tone of her voice. I could also see that she was mildly concerned and confused about why she was feeling angry. I also couldn't understand why.I had a lot of things on my mind this morning, I still do but hopefully settling this gets that out of the way. I thought heavily on this plan before I settled on it.I couldn't really go after Angelina and do what that maid girl had been expecting me to do. Humiliating her was not an option and punishing her wasn't one either, and that was because of the fact that I was also guilty of the same crime.It's normal to feel the need for someone else.When I had been with Christine we were basically inseparable the first night after the consummation of the mating, we went at it like rabbits and it was always something that made her sad that she wasn't able to conceive as quickly as she should have.Everyone was expecting it, they were all waiting for it even
Angelina's POVDid I really do that?"Do you think I really did that?"Winston simply shrugged his shoulders and handed me the cup of tea he had been making.The lady and the other guy had both left the room and hopefully that would be the last that I would be seeing of the both of them.I was feeling so confused and in awe of myself right now.I, Angelina of the law school, dry humped someone until they came?First of all ewww and then what??How was that even possible? I couldn't even touch men without feeling a bit of repulsion.A small voice at the back of my mind scoffed at that statement and I rolled my eyes at that small voice.Okay maybe I was now comfortable around one man, and maybe ultimately they were two because no matter what I wouldn't deny the fact that I also felt comfortable around Marco.Where could he be doing at this moment anyways?Winston was here acting all nice and good to me, and even if I still didn't know why he was doing that.It couldn't hurt to be his fr
Angelina's POVWinston left after he said those words to me.He left me feeling enraged and angry, but then at the last moment he sent a gift and that sort of solved everything that I had been feeling all along.Some would say that a girl's best friend is diamonds, well that didn't apply to me really.My idea of a best friend would be a nice book, wrapped in beautiful wrapping paper and almost as beautiful as the words in it would be.That was what Winston sent me, a whole trunk full of books."What do you think he's trying to do by sending me all these books?"Ella simply smiled wryly and shrugged her shoulders"I don't think I have any idea what the Alpha might be trying to do with this but it's nice that he's giving you books isn't it?"I cocked an eyebrow up at her because of her statement and I smirked. She always likes taking sides with Winston, always making me want to see the better side of him and always trying to show me that he's at least worth my time.And I guess he is, a
Marco's POVThe road to Tatiana's place always disgusted me.It always felt eerie and creepy, and considering that the house which this path led to was also creepy and eerie, I would say that it was more or less expected at this point.But that didn't mean I'd like it or just get used to it."You know I can feel your emotions through the bond right?"I whipped my head around and let a growl escape my throat as I looked at her.Jokaste Highton.The same person Winston had fucked barely two days ago and my mate."You were the one who ordered me to sleep with him!""You don't need to remind me of that, I know what I did."I could hear myself, I sounded calm and rational, two things I wasn't at the moment.I could feel my plans crumbling around me, I could feel all of them unraveling and trying to turn into dust right in front of my eyes."Look at me, Marco."I couldn't afford to simply let them go down the drain like this. I have to do something and I have to do it now."Marco!""What!"
Angelina's POVWinston had to be one of the most awkward men on the planet.Who gave someone else an in depth journal his wife had personally written herself and then ghosted that person for the rest of the day, and the next.He just gave me something that should be wildly personal, something he wasn't even supposed to hand over to me at all, and he expected me to come to terms with that, just like that.'"Hey are you really going to keep on sulking and hiding in here?"I turned over to look at Ella and I could see she already had an eyebrow quirked up at me. She's always like this when she wants me to tell her something."I don't think I'll be leaving this room today. I can't go out."And why is that?"My answers would have probably been something along the lines of "because I am confused and traumatized and I hated the fact that this was my life now."I had no hope of getting back home. Ella had told me that well enough already, plus there's also the fact that I knew these people we
Winston's POVAngelina was sitting on her bed by the time I got to her and she looked shaken.I had to resist the urge to walk over to her and pull her into my arms. I had been notified of the attack on my way back to the border. As the Alpha I had the ability to open a pathway back to my home whenever I wanted to.I hadn't really gone far though so I simply decided to jump into the forests of Arizona and get back as quickly as I could."How did this happen?"I could already feel Marco shaking his head and it grated on my nerves."Don't just shake your head Marco, that doesn't help the current situation at all. I asked how this happened and I expect an answer?"I could feel the tension from my body rippling in the air, along with the annoyance, the confusion, the anger.I couldn't tell if I knew what I was doing anymore. Well of course I still had an active recollection of whatever activity I carried out through the course of the day, and I still succeeded at what I set my mind to.Bu
Angelina's POVWinston didn't leave my side for the rest of the night.I couldn't tell if I was to be happy or sad at that. Being near him always made me feel calm and settled but maybe it wasn't such a good thing.When that crazy Claudine had come in here with murder in her eye, I didn't know what to do honestly.I literally just froze up and tried to hide myself deeper into the bed.She would have killed me. She would have murdered me in cold blood if Ella hadn't hit her on the head with a vase, and it was actually the alarm that I felt at the sound of the vase breaking that got me out of the bed and into the fray.I had thought Ella had broken Christine's vase, the one Winston gifted to me even though it represents such a sweet memory for him.I was reading the journals. I liked reading them.I wasn't even finished with the first one and I was already this engrossed.Christine should have been a writer. A professional novelist.She had such a way with words and each and every line
Marco's POV"Is it all set?"The guard at the gate nodded his head subtly and I nodded too as I walked past him.I couldn't afford to dilly dally any longer.Tatiana had proved helpful in a very useful way and I would have to think of that later.The rebound from the effects of the modified bond had subsided and I was feeling a lot better now, better than I had felt last night when that foolish maid had tried to attack Angelina.I have yet to speak to her after our last encounter together. Winston thinks I hate her and I am simply playing her to show him that she wasn't worth the effort that he was putting in to please her, and she believed that I was a charming man who would kiss her if she needed him to and who was unsatisfied with his current lonely life and who was looking for the other half of his soul.They were both wrong of course. I was much more than that.I would be the end of one era and the beginning of the other.I would lead this pack to glory and slowly we would infilt
Winston's POVAngelina slept for five days.In the space of those days, we had her father and her friend buried.I quite liked Leslie, she seemed to know a bit more about werewolves than her friend did, and if all Angelina had told me about her was true, then she would have loved to see the wolves herself.She would have loved to see us transform and she would have loved to see us run. She would have wanted to see the borders and she would have loved to see where the sea went to.She would have loved to know about the creatures she read so much about, but she didn't get the chance to.I still couldn't understand how Marco had managed to get to them so quickly. Angelina had said they would take one of the secret passageways Ella had shown her.Only the omegas knew of those passages, and seeing as one of them attacked me, I would say one of them had been in league with Marco too.After I had led the wolves on the run, I came back to meet Angelina passed out on the floor, her father dead
Angelina's POVFather and I were more or less forgotten outside for the night.We heard the wolves had their run in the woods and we heard the distinctive howl of the biggest one. Like a lead singer who directed the voice of all the others.My father and I watched as the body of the witch caught fire as soon as the rays of the moon touched it.I could almost hear screams coming out from those flames, and I would have felt pity for the soul that was being extinguished, but I knew all the things she had done.I was aware of how she had deprived another woman of the joy of having kids and I knew of how she had practiced her infernal magic in a wolf pack for almost two hundred years.Her magic was what kept her alive. Her magic was what made the pack remain so low in population and her magic was what gave her the power to forge alliances with people like Marco and continue their streak of evil.Her magic wasn't needed anymore. The world was better off without it.I turned my head to see m
Angelina's POVMarco was winning.I could see what he was planning to do. Winston probably wasn't aware of the amount of damage that had been done to his wolf, but it was a lot.Winston's wolf wasn't looking good, it wasn't in good shape.I couldn't speak to him anymore. We couldn't talk to each other lest I distract him, but if I could I would have told him to take some time to just circle Marco so he could heal up a bit.The despair had already started to set in and my thoughts had become dark. I was already considering death and what it would be like to be dead.This had to be the most awful thing to ever happen to me in the history of awful. To think that I had happiness at my fingertips, only for me to see it being yanked away from me by some evil guy and his disgusting witch lover.People would do anything for power and Marco was a clear example of that.I couldn't die though.If I died the baby I carried in me would die too and that would bring an end to Winston and his lineag
Winston's POVI felt the bond pull at me the moment Angelina did whatever it was she did.I saw Marco shrink and bare his teeth at me, the light in his eyes glowing violently and a crazed look appearing on his face.I howled and launched myself at him.The wind rippled around us and with it came the leaves of the forest. I felt them set the bounds of our battle.The duel was on.Marco launched himself at me with speed and precision, an attack of teeth and claws and his eyes giving off that aura of danger and confusion.Werewolves didn't feel things the way people did, we were connected to nature in a way no other creature could be and we felt things a lot stronger than any other creature.So when Marco placed his eyes on me and attacked, the dark magic that fueled that glow in his eyes made me falter.Marco struck with aim and precision, going straight for my hind legs and slashing for my throat.I dodged his slash but I felt his teeth sink into my hands.I howled and gave in to the w
Angelina's POVThe rules for the duel were simple.Well, it wasn't really simple, but it was our best shot at this.No matter what happened, I wouldn't be losing Winston anytime soon.When an Alpha challenged another Alpha to a duel, the power that ran through the forest, the same power that made them Alpha would listen, and the moment the other Alpha agreed to the duel, it would be sealed and locked in place.Anyone who defected or violated the rules of the duel would have the magic of the realm to contend with, and that was exactly what Winston was planning on.Marco wasn't a true Alpha, but for now, he was. I had to explain that to Winston last night. He said he had heard me all through the night. He had heard my bones cracking and he had heard my screams. He said he had smelt me too.I still couldn't figure out how that happened or exactly what had happened.I also didn't understand why I heard the word Mate in my head but that wasn't the issue at the moment.The wolves returned
Marco's POVAngelina and Winston escaped.'"How did they escape?"The fool I had put to guard the entrance to the cells looked away as I asked that question. I hadn't been expecting anything else.How did two shackled people, two chained and shackled people manage to get out of their chains and out of their cells? How could that have happened?Well, I could think of one way. One solid way that would leave me so annoyed if I found out it was true.I looked at the door as it came open and she walked in.She didn't look scared of me, at least not anymore. Siblings had to stick together after all and she was my sister. I had always thought she was my mate, but we had both known that wasn't true. "Did you let Angelina out yesterday?"She shook her head and I took a whiff of the air. She wasn't lying. I could feel a lot of things coming off her though. Like fear, desire, and maybe remorse.Was she starting to feel guilty now? Because of a human?I chuckled at that and gestured for her to
Angelina's POVMarco had his men take me and Winston to the dungeons.He gave orders for us to be separated.I could feel Winston in my head. The same way he could feel me in his and neither of us said a word. We simply sat there. feeling each other through the bond but not saying anything. I could tell Winston wanted to say something to me though.I knew he wanted to.But he didn't, and so we both sat in silence, so close to each other but yet so far away. Two thick walls separated me from him.Leslie's death was making me feel things I didn't want to feel.I heard the creak of the door as it came open and soon I was no longer alone.Ella was with me. In one of my dresses and with that sickly green look in her eyes. The light illuminated the sneer on her face and an identical sneer was on mine."Come to gloat?"Ella only chuckled and walked closer to me. I had my hands and feet in chains and I couldn't move. The slap she gave me was crisp and loud.It stung.My head whipped to the si
Angelina's POVSorrow.That was all I felt.I couldn't scream and I couldn't hear anything that was going on around me. The only thing I felt was sorrow.Deep and undeniable sorrow.Leslie was dead. My best friend was dead.Face down on the floor and unmoving, I could see the blood seeping into the shirt she had worn.Leslie was dead.Why?Why did he kill her?I could barely register the voices that were speaking in the room. I knew that Winston and Marco were talking, and I knew Marco was asking for something that could never be his, but I didn't care about all of that.The only thing I cared about at the moment was the person who lay on the floor. My best friend had been alive a few moments ago but was no longer alive now.Why did I bring her here? Just for her to meet an untimely death? No. I wouldn't have offered to bring her with me if I knew she would end up being killed. We had been captured because of my short-sightedness. I thought no one else would be using the servant pass
Marco's POVI watched as the door to the office swung open and in walked my old friend.Winston. Alpha of the werewolves, and protector of the realm.I scoffed.Angelina stood beside me, bound in rope and mumbling words that weren't actually words.Winston was too predictable. Angelina even more so.I knew she would try to use the secret entrance into the manor, and I knew she would try to use the one the maid had shown to her.But what I didn't know was that she would bring yet another human with her, into werewolf territory and the werewolf world.I could feel anger pulsing through me at the thought of that and I smirked as I leveled my gaze at him. His eyes still had that faint glint of gold in them.The gleam confirmed to me that he had been the one who opened the barrier.I was worried that I had been sidelined by the witch. I wouldn't put it past the two-hundred-year-old crones to actually have some trick up her sleeve that would give her the power to do that.We had trust issue