LILITH’S POVEverything she mentioned in the first minutes of conversation is viable information, more important than the scraps I’ve been able to gather.But, there’s something about her sudden appearance and everything that’s going on that doesn’t sit right with me.“Lilith…” I introduce myself now. “Just Lilith.”“Yeah, I heard of you. The concubine he bought from an underground human auction house and brought back suddenly. You caused a stir the day you arrived.”My eyes widen at just how much she knows about me, down to a bit of the details. It doesn’t seem like she had figured it out on her own too. Someone must have told her.My eyes move briefly to the maids and guards, chattering freely behind her and a few of the pieces fit together.So, they’re already spilling information to the newcomer just because she’s friendly and appears chatty. I begin to see this woman in a new light.She’s the kind that knows how to squeeze out enough info from you during a conversation, I bet.
LILITH’S POV:I groan groggily, finally climbing into my bed after an eventful and yet boring day, and after being stuck by Kain’s side while he worked because he wanted me to.I’m convinced that he sees me as some stress ball to poke at.Then there’s Ariel who has locked herself in her room all day, refusing to see me or anyone else.I’m only grateful that the night has finally come. Hopefully, I will be able to catch up on some sleep tonight.Just as my head sets on the soft comfy pillow and my body rests in the perfect position to achieve optimum comfort, a knock resounds on my door.For the love of the gracious goddess.There’s no way I’m opening up again. I decide to ignore it at first but the knock comes again after a minute of still silence.“Lilith, it’s me.”I can recognize the voice to belong to Lady Rebecca.Now, there’s no way I can’t open it for her. I press my face against the pillow and scream out my frustrations till my heart feels lighter.Then I get up and open the d
LILITH’S POV:Her eyes turn cold, staring at me with enough killing intent that a shark would give the first meal it sees after starving for a month.If looks could kill, I’d be six feet under in only seconds of her stare.Maybe if it had been someone else on the other end of her deadly gaze, they’d piss their pants and hide for a year, but she still doesn’t inspire a bit of fear within me.Maybe discomfort, but that's it.I gulp down the rest of my white wine, dropping the glass and turning away. Today has already started out good, no way am I going to let a spoiled psychotic princess ruin it for me.The moment I turn around to walk far away from her as possible, I bump into someone else, luckily without the wine in my handThat would have been a disaster.“Ouch.” She mutters, rubbing at her arm.“Ariel?” I recognize her voice and watch her familiar face contort slightly in pain.Her doe-eyes look up at me.“Hey.” She greets almost shyly. From the way she stands there, I already kno
LILITH’S POV:Rebecca shrugs casually, not in the slightest bothered by the fact her dearest brother had quite blatantly ignored her without bothering to make it less obvious.“Well, that’s fine. It’s you I really wanted to talk to.”“Me?” I point at myself, wondering why she was looking for me.Her eyes go over my entire attire with a warm smile.“I love the entire you, simple and chic. You look gorgeous.” She compliments me and it doesn’t sound forced in anyway.My cheeks go red from the unexpected compliment that takes me off guard.“Uhm, thank you.”“No, thank you for coming.” She says, taking a hold of my hand and staring deep into my eyes.I can almost feel her gratefulness glowing off her skin. Her niceness is heavily overwhelming and I begin to second guess myself for ever suspecting such a blatantly kind soul.“I wouldn’t have missed it.” I feel compelled to add.“Today would have been more than perfect if Kain wasn’t such a stick in the mud though.” She adds, dropping my ha
Kain’s POVI’m already fed up with this godforsaken party by the time I’ve kept more than a reasonable distance away from the rest of those people.And that woman…I refuse to play along in whatever game she’s concocted this time, although it does bother me a bit knowing this time, she seems to have a little interest in Lilith.Something about that puts me on the edge, wanting to take her away from the scene entirely, but she’s such a stubborn woman and it would entirely have the opposite results I intend.So, instead, I sit by the fountain all by myself.It stays like this for minutes, still silence all around me until I hear footsteps slowly approach me.“Alpha Kain.”I look to the side and spot Ivan dressed in an all black suit and blazers with both hands in his pocket.He sits casually right next to me, letting out a tired sigh.“Shouldn’t you be watching my sister?” I ask with a raised brow.His secret job was to watch, figure out what her real motive is here besides gossiping wi
LILITH’S POVMy body feels heavy as though a heavy weight rests directly on my chest, keeping my breathing slow and labored.I open my eyes for the first time, taking in the new environment around me; the white walls and dreary grey painted walls, the strong smell of disinfectant and spirit hanging in the air.The last thing I remember is puking out that red metallic fluid before passing out… I guess that was more serious than I thought.I move my eyes around and spot Ivan by my bedside, staring specifically at nothing while lost in deep thought. His facial features seem too rigid as well and next to him is Ariel dozing off on his shoulder.Well, that’s something you don’t see every day. I try to sit up on my own but feel the piercing pain running down my back from using my own muscles and groan.The sound I make alerts Ivan immediately. He turns to me, eyes widening like saucers and filled with instant relief. He quite literally bolts over to my side, forcing Ariel awake in the pr
LILITH’S POV:The new information Rebecca leaves me with has me shaken to my core.Knowing Kain had all his previous siblings and father murdered all in one night is chilling and though he had managed one act of mercy, Rebecca’s life has been drastically affected still.It’s not like I haven’t heard the rumors about him though, yet I’m torn between believing the cold yet gentle Kain I’ve seen with my own eyes or the bloodthirsty man that had ruined his sister's life.All her dislike and resentment towards him makes so much sense now.My thoughts leave me awake through most of the night while I’m left alone on the clinic bed, a part of me waiting for Kain to pay a visit as well — but he doesn’t.Even if he decides to show up, will I be able to look him in the eye properly?Eventually sleep takes me. The fatigue deep rooted in my recovering body doesn’t let me stay up and worry for as long as I planned to.Not long after, as though the back of my ears are being tickled by something, I
Kain’s POVFrom the other side of the door I can hear her sobs echoing through it right before she mutters.“… I hate him.”My chest feels as though it's being dissected into two and my beating organ ripped apart.Why had I done that in the first place, overreacting over minimal body contact when he seemed to be helping her?In that split second, I had lost my cool, all sense of reasoning escaped me and I took action without thinking, which is nothing like what I usually do.Worst part is, I can’t get this annoying feeling off my chest after doing it.I’m the Alpha here, I have every right to throw a fuss right or wrong. I can do whatever I please to whomever, but being around Lilith gives off that bitter taste of bile in my mouth.It’s like I can’t be myself around her, rather I lose my basic settings in her presence to the point where nothing else matters besides her comfort.Every single thing about this emotion bubbling up in my chest screams danger and warning.She slapped me and
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