“W-What are you doing here?” I ask hiding the scroll behind me the second I realize I have been caught.I hadn’t even heard his footsteps or the bed creaking when he had gotten off it.I pride myself in being able to spot even the lightest sounds while high on alert but he proves more formidable than anyone I’ve come across.“Is that what we should be focusing on right now? How I got into the hidden space in my room?” He addresses coldness in his voice while he marches up to me steadily. “Or why you’re holding that in your hands.”He reaches behind me grabbing the scroll and ripping it away from my clutches only to hang it in front of me as evidence that I cannot even hope to hide.Now I’m shaking, trembling on my two wobbly legs that struggle to hold me up again.“K-Kain… Kain I can explain.” I stutter, fumbling over my words while choking on my own fear.The intensity of his anger though the mate bond doesn’t do to well for me either. It pressure weighs down on my chest.I try to to
For the past days the four walls of my room have been my only companion. Since Kain ordered a lock down on me.The only faces I get to see or have been able to have just been the maids bringing food three times every day, but since my fall out with Kain.Since he started at me with dejected and hurt eyes a reflection of the pain I had caused him, my appetite has been none existent.I mean, what’s the point of nourishing the body?Four days gone out of the week I had to save Jonah and Kain’s not even willing to talk to me.He doesn’t even want to see my face and I can’t blame him for that or for locking me in here, this fancy prison.I’m no better than a criminal, betraying him every chance I got and wanting to run away while he was deep in sleep.I’ve got nothing to use and appeal to him anymore.I lay motionless on my bed as I have been for a while waiting for nothing in particular, having lost all hope left.The knock on the door pulls me away from my thoughts but even then I don’t
Kain’s POVI knock three times on the door feeling my hands shaking a bit from nervousness.Why should I be nervous though, she was the one who lied and tried to steal from me and runaway? Yet my heart does series of cartwheels from just standing outside her door.Seconds pass without a response, of if there is I don’t hear.I push into the room impatiently, walking in and closing it behind me.The second I’m fully in her room, a rush of relief washes over me through the mate bond. Something like a signal blares on in my head the moment she’s close enough to me.From the bed she lays on facing away she looks up instantly staring at me with wide hopeful eyes feeling me before she sees me. I pry my eyes away from them before I’m too moved.“I heard you haven’t eaten anything.” I say simply, stepping closer to her bed side with the food tray in my hands.I drop it on her bed side table gently sitting right beside her on the bed.My plan is simple. Stay until she’s finished her meal and l
Lilith’s POVThe searing flames burning everything in sight around except my clothes or flesh, is the first indicator that this is another dream… no; another nightmare.Like every one of them, it begins with fire.Angry flames that eat every single thing in its way, purging all forms of life in its wake, including our old house and our parents.I stand alone in a pillar of it all where there’s nothing else in my range of vision.“Lilith!” A voice screams to me from afar.I immediately recognize Jonah voice riddled with fear and terror.“Jonah?” I call as well looking round for him but not finding him anywhere.“Lilith, save me!!” He screams even louder, with much more agony laced in his voice; slowly being drowned out in the flames.Panic fills me instantly while I desperately search but he’s not here, no one’s here but me.“Jonah!” I yell out to him but there’s no response this time indicting that he’s gone.And now it’s just me left, all alone. The pit of fire has everyone I love le
My dreams shatter instantlyAll hopes of getting out of the pack to night lay to waste right inform of me, just like that.There’s nowhere to run to anymore, we’re surrounded both by the men in front of us and the men in front, and even Ivan sees this as well.Fighting back will only prove useless especially now that Kain already knows.The speed of our pace drops until it’s just Ivan jogging up to the front where Kain is waiting.He stops at a considerable distance bowing a bit for me to slide off him, which I do.Kain passes his cigar to the first man standing right next to him and begins walking towards me with confident steady strides and I do the same, walking up to him until we meet half way in the middle.We both stop once we’re standing in front of the other, silent for the seconds we stare each other in the eye, though I myself just barely stands.I try to hide my wobbly disposition.“Since when do you smoke?” The irrelevant question leaves my lips.I know it’s not important
By the next morning I’m almost completely cured; the pain in my joints almost gone and my own strengths slowly returning to me.I’m finally let out of that accursed room to roam through the halls aimlessly for a bit of exercise to aid my healing.Now that Kain and I have reached a compromise, there’s no reason for him to feel paranoid and have me locked up inside my room and I’m grateful for that.I had always thought Kain finding out my secret would be a bad thing and possibly the end of my own life, but instead there’s a new transformation.More honesty, I’m able to react and behave as I want without the fear of rejection. I’m able to believe and trust in his love for me more comfortably without doubts nagging at me.I’m able to raise my head high and unbothered and with more confidence. There’s a subtle glow in my features that I’m definitely not mad about.I strut down the hallway taking in the lovely air and scenery around that I have been deprived ofI didn’t realize how much I
I ignore her screams despite how desperate they sound without looking back to her even once.To some I might look like the real villain here walking away without honoring her final request from me knowing she might never see the sun’s light again, but truthfully, gone are the days when things like that bother me.I walk happily with a spring in my steps climbing up and out of the basement and waiting just outside, leaning against the wall is Kain.He’s as gorgeous as I had left him just last night.His black mad of her slightly messy from a hard day’s work I guess and gorgeous green eyes that only see me.“Kain?” I say after shaking off the initial daze his features always leave me in for the first few seconds of eye contact.He leans off the wall walking over to me once I’m out.“You done?” He asks, leaning closer to me and dropping a gentle kiss on my forehead as a form of greeting.I like this new style of greeting.“How did you know I was down there?”“I can feel you, remember? I
Everything is finally coming to an end.An end to my long journey to find my own place, to save my brother from the clutches of Arden… a man I had once thought of as a father figureTo finally be free and happy.I smile every time I think about it these days, to the point that I can almost taste it on the tip of my tongue.But…Coupled with those feelings of hope is that dreary feeling nagging at me continuously, that bad feeling in my gut warning me against what’s to come.The sacrifices that lay in my wake.It’s terrifying as it is relieving. The question of will I succeed, will I make it isn’t too far from every one of these thoughts.I hope I do. I hope both Kain and I can truly be happy.The sad part is, I can’t tell Kain about either one of these feelings. Knowing him he’d cancel the plan at any sign of doubt from me.The second I spot Ivan walking up the corridor I’m in I lean away from the wall standing erect.He’s just been released from his cell on Kain’s request and I’ve be
Kain’s POV2 YEARS LATER…A lot has happened over the years, I’ve lost some gained some; most of it changed my life completely in ways I never knew I need.Now standing over the grave of a child that never got the chance to see the light of day I mourn it as I’ve always does, though I never got the chance to meet him for the split moment I knew of its existence where one of the best moments in my life.Even while everything around us burned and we were bruised the news of his arrival brought a smile to her lips like nothing else could.And though it’s taken more than a few years to get over our loss, we’re still taking small steps to get there.I drop a flower over the small grave.To little sesame, the name Lilith calls it, because it didn’t grow old enough to have a gender.A child’s laughter echoes from behind me while a little girl turns out of her hiding spot rushing for me.Her little feet don’t take her too far before she stumbles and falls face flat on the ground and burst int
Jonah’s POV5 YEARS LATER…Hiding behind the pillar beautifully decorated with flowers by the fountain I stay hushed, pursing my lips together while still covering them with both my hands to stay hidden.I do this all the time and still she still seems to always easily find me when we play this insufferable game.Hide and go seek.An hour at it and she still hasn’t found me yet, which is the longest times he’s taken to find me.Which lead me to think that maybe, just maybe I’m the only one playing this damn game.The thought of just giving up seeps into my mind until I hear footsteps approaching from ahead and stay quiet again.The gentle sound of feet slowly approaching lets me know it’s a she-wolf. Months of training from Beta Ivan comes I perfectly handy in moments like this.Hopefully in a few more years I’ll be able to join brother-in law’s guard, that is if he will let me. My sister’s hold over him has dictated far too much in my life.It’s been years since I’ve fallen ill and n
Kain’s POVI’ve finally found her, my mate but the sight of her sets off every bit of my anger I’ve been trying to put on check.Her face bruised and her clothes ripped to the point that she’s almost left bare and naked. Nothing matters anymore. My rage takes over me and all sane thoughts dissipate.I look at the fool I had tossed across the room desiring nothing more than to tear him apart into pieces of flesh lying around and feeding it to the dogs.“You bastard.” I seethe, seeing nothing more than red.I shift into my wolf in the next second lunging at him without restrictions.Or every scar on her skin I add five more on his, every bruise on her body five bones crack under the force of my attacks.I slash at him continuously with my claws while he screams in agony just barely managing to change into his wolf to have even a fighting chance but that changes nothing.He had a death wish the moment he decided to mess with my woman.He tries to attack back but it’s a puny attempt from
Kain’s POV“Riverstone pack has looked down on us for the final time. They have injured our beta and gone as far as kidnapping the Luna and we will not be silent anymore, will not seat idly and take any more of their insults. Whoever dares cross our paths to victory or slanders our name will incur the wrath of Deathstone!” I yell out to the group of men before me, my army set and ready to be thrown into a fully fledge battle, waiting just at the borders of Arden’s pack.He has bitten more than he can chew this time angering not just me but everyone else and sadly for him the only leverage he has over me is gone.“Yes alpha!” they response is thunderous and echoes loudly.“Today we walk into battle but this time to finish what we started and make our enemies beg for mercy that will not be given, for our fallen brothers and for our own legacy to go down in time as the gretats pack in all Wolfdom!” Ivan steps up yelling as well.He leans against a cane to help him stand and walk with his
The sound of the loud slap takes me by surprise and the fact that it isn’t me this time.Arden strikes his accomplice across the face in a split second, in the exact moment the announcement rolls off her lips.She falls unto the ground clutching her cheek and looking up at Arden with utmost surprise equally not expecting such an actionBut he stares back at her fuming, if steam could puff out of a person’s ears no would be the perfect time for that.He visibly trembles from the emotions moving around inside him, but none of that is any of my concern at the momentThe news takes me off guard, it isn’t even the last thing I was expecting because the thought has never crossed my mind before.“I’m pregnant?” I mutter under my breath stuck in a daze.My hand falls down to my belly that I thought was bloated due to an illness.Inside me right now is a tiny person, a little version of a mix of Kain and me in one person?How could it be?Could it possibly be a mistake somewhere, maybe she had
Lilith’s POV“Get away from me, you pervert!” I kick and scream at him desperately trying to keep more distance between me and this psychopath that’s too sick to realize just how much he’s lost his mind.All those years he had called me ‘Lili’ so fondly I begin to wonder if it had been me his eyes stared at with so much care of someone else.If the nickname little rose had been because my mother’s favorite flower was a rose.All those times she had just a passing thought of how weirdly interested in her was just in fact her instincts screaming at her to keep distance away from him, warning her that he would ruin her completely.“Get away!”Kain! Kain please help.I cry continuously begging him not to come even closer while silently praying Kain can hear me where ever he is.Arden’s rage returns again and he smacks me the other way trying to shut me up and he doesn’t stop with his assault attacking over and over again trying to get me to shut up.“You should love me and not tell me to
Kain’s POVEvery time I close my eyes it starts out with a nightmare where I lose my love, Lilith.This time she falls over a high tower and I’m running to catch her but the floors turn into quick sand that sinks beneath me and I can’t reach her before I’m thrown out of my own dream.I wake up jump right up drench in my own sweat and with my drawn out wolf claws ripping into both sides of the bed.It takes a second for the new reality to sink in and I can calm myself again.The two day mark has already been reached, she should be back soon but something feels deathly wrong.The bond feels already weak from the large distance between us and even then I can feel bits of her own despair seeping through my own end.I can’t help but be on edge and paranoid constantly.Was she not successful in saving her brother?Whatever the reason of her sadness maybe, I will fix it when she gets back, all that matters is that she returns to me safe and sound without a single scar on her bodyI will rage
For some reason his words make me feel dizzy.The room spins and swirls around me like a dull illusion manufactured to twist my mind and unravel it.I’m lost in a hazy dream that I might forget all about the second I open my eyes again, but the dream has morphs into a never ending nightmare that feels way too real and taunts me.Hot tears prickle my eyes painful while I stare back at the mad man in front of me in horrified shock that steals my ability to even speak, or utter a sound and yet he’s smiling.Somehow he’s smiling in the middle of all this, in the middle of confessing his part in my parent’s death.I shake my head slowly choosing to doubt this reality that plays tricks on me.“No…” I whisper under my breath, denying it.“Yes.” He responds nodding his head firmly with a wide grin.“No!” I scream out suddenly feeling my entire reality crumble. “You’re lying. You’re saying that just to mess with me. You know that if that’s true that I’ll… that I’ll—“”“That you’ll never forgiv
My consciousness seeps into my body for the third time, I think in one night.This time my eyes don’t open at will though.My body feels too heavy, like logs are resting over each limb, and if they aren’t neither of them respond to the signals I tell them but I’m awake just unable to control my body.From whatever paralysis I’m having I can hear mumbling in the background that lets me know that I’m not alone.A female giggling from something.Must be that bitch and then a new voice, deeper and bolder.Finally my eyes open but very slowly and takes way too much from me causing me to groan from exhaustion.I can make out two figures that remain blurred from in vision while I try so desperately to look at them.“Ah, she’s awake.” The male voice speaks.I recognize his voice s Arden’s immediately.Rage feels me in the next second followed by the desire to fight back but I’m still paralyzed.Footsteps drawn closer and I’m lifted up from lying on the cold floor and put in a seating position