Ashley/Olivia's POVI ran and refused to stop even when I was tired. I made sure to cover every track or trace of my scent even while I escaped.Lola was too tired but she refused to stop. She had been running the whole night and it was just a little past dawn."Lola, please rest a little. We are far away from Silver Tail now and so it will be hard for anyone to come for us." I said to her, trying to take the reign from her."Just a little bit more. Let me run a little bit more until I am sure we are in a safe zone." She said, still running.I felt bad for letting her do all the running. I would have done part while she continued. I do not have that much stamina as her to run for eight straight hours without stopping to rest."I just feel bad and want you to rest. I have been resting here all night while you take all the stress of running to escape on you." I said, my voice laced with concern."Don't worry about me. I will be fine." She assured me.I gave up on trying to persuade her
Lance's POV"Did you find her?" Eloise's voice greeted me as I entered the house with my head down and heart heavy."Tell me exactly what is going on here Lance? Why would Olivia suddenly disappear again? I know she was not attacked and taken away so how is she missing?" she yelled, her voice breaking.I was tired, too tired to talk. I had been in the woods for almost all the day. I had screamed and shouted her name in every corner I could comb but there was no answer.Jason and Damien had returned to the pack earlier than I after hours of futile search. When they saw I was not coming back, Jason came to look for me to bring me back to the house and here I was."I don't know why she left. She did not give me any reason." I said, throwing my almost lifeless body on one of the couch."Left? She left on her own? You didn't tell me any of that this morning." Damien who was patting Eloise to remain calm stopped abruptly and rushed over to where I was lying."I knew there was something fis
Ashley/Olivia's POVI woke up to stinging pain in my stomach. "Ouch!" I yelled. "Stop whining like a child. Can't you endure a little bit of hunger and why didn't you pack things we would need properly?""Aren't you hungry? Stop saying it like I am a weak human in this form. I just didn't have enough to eat before I slept so I am a bit hungry this morning.""Were you feeling guilty about leaving Lance and you did not even pack enough food for us? Gosh! This is bad! What did I do to deserve this from my mother half? She's starving me. Don't tell me you were also thinking about Lance all through the night and you didn't sleep.""You! Is this now a one sided blame? Were you thinking about Martains because you don't feel any mate bond with Lance? Stop whining and nagging like a child. Let's look for something to eat.""Hmph! You always find a way to counter me. I don't know why you brought Martains into the picture. Now you speak on him, don't you think you should be a lot more considerat
Ashley/Olivia's POVI ended up in a stream and across the stream was an inhabited land. It was not Oakstone but somewhere close to Oakstone.Now, the problem was that I did not know how to get across and pass by without having to pass within the land.On the map, I had to pass inside to get through to Oakstone and that meant crossing their territory."Should I charge forward? How exactly do I pass through? I do not want to be mistaken for a rogue." I thought deeply, trying to figure out a way to overcome this obstacle.I could tell Lola wanted me to just charge forward as she was pacing about in my head."We can't charge forward rashly. We are on another man's land." I stood behind a tree before the stream watching the view of the land when I heard the sound of a broken branch.I turned around swiftly to duck from whatever was coming my way and then catch a glimpse of it later."Another rogue?" I held my breath thinking it was a crazy rogue that was lurking around. It was too late
Ashley/Olivia's POV"Does he know something else about me? Has he seen me in Silver Tail?" My mind brought a lot of possibilities of questions but I managed to maintain my composure in front of me him without looking shocked or taken aback with surprise."There is nothing more to know that what I have told you, sir. I am a lone wolf and my name is Emily." I repeated, stressing the words for him to hear."I know. I heard that. I just could not help but ask because I felt attracted to you and I do not know the reason. Please don't think of this negatively. The kind of attraction I sensed is one of pack membership.""By any chance, do you have anyone who comes from any of the pack in Oakstone?"I felt relieved to hear that he had not seen me anywhere before. It was just his hunches giving him a sense of likeness as related pack members between the both of us."Is that part of the reason you decided to help me?" I asked, connecting the line on why he would easily decide to help a stranger
Ashley/ Olivia's POV"Are you up now?" Ray asked me as I opened the door."What time is it? I am sorry I slept over. James said he would prepare breakfast for me but I did not know when I slept off or when he left." I said to him."It's fine. Come down to eat. The whole family is around now and so you should come down and meet them.""Okay. I will just wash my sleepy eyes and come down in a bit." I washed my face which was still looking drowsy from sleep and hurried down to meet the other members of the family."Oh dear, look at you! You look so tired. I would have sent a servant to bring your food up to your room instead of you coming down if I knew you were this fatigued. The tiredness is written all over your face." a feminine voice said immediately I stepped into the room. I scanned the room and they were about eight people minus I and Ray who came to call me.The lady, no, woman who spoke looked really young but I could tell at once that she was the commander's mate. She look
Ashley/Olivia's POV"The Luna just informed me that she needs some personal maids for the alpha. She does not like the other set so she dismissed them. Fortunately you are here now and I can't find any other place to fix you in but there. You will be working as one of the alpha's personal maid." the elderly woman who Erica had referred to as the head of the house affairs, said. "Me? I question, looking at both of them in doubt."Yes, you. Is there anything wrong? Or don't you want to work?""No,no, I did not mean that. I'm just a little bit startled as I'll be walking directly for the Alpha."Raising a brow, she eyed me before giving me a warning, "Don't go beyond your boundaries. Behave yourself. I do not want to hear any complain. If I do hear just one complain, you will be dismissed. Do you understand?""Yes ma.""Erica would show you to your room. She has explained your situation to me and that you need somewhere to stay so you'll be living in one of the rooms in the servants' q
Martains's POV"You are here already." I said as I saw beta Carl come in."Yes. I just saw your Luna downstairs. Did she come here?" Carl asked, looking over at me skeptically."Yes, she came to see me." I replied him."Why? That is unusual. What did she come to do?""Nothing. I said she came to see me. Is there any other thing you should know?""Well, I was just surprised, alpha. She has never been fit for the position you put her so..." The steely look in my eyes made him refrain and change the subject."The alpha wanted to see you but since he could not come, he asked me to relay his message.""Father? What did he say?" I asked."Well, em..er..""Why is your tongue failing you to speak? Do you have some speech disorder now? Or is the message too difficult to pass across, beta Carl?" I said, my words laced with sarcasm. Squinting his eyes from side to side, he said, "Should I say it or write it down instead?""Say it. There is nobody in here except for you and me so why are you be
Ashley/Olivia's POV"No, you should go alone, Martains. I won't be coming. I have to go back to the house and do my chores.""It's alright but thank you for always being by my side, Emily."He did not disagree and just allowed me to go home. I left him while he went to pay a visit to Ashley.There was no way I would go to my own grave. Wouldn't that be like digging another grave and opening up a soft spot in my heart?Martains was convinced that I was just Emily who was sent to help him. It was better at this instead of revealing anything further that I was Ashley."You can finally return to the man who makes you smile like a fool." Lola teased me, jumping around in my head."Oh please, don't tell me you aren't excited too." I replied to her."I am but I am only excited because I would see my cute little baby, Adrian.""Hehehe, I know you miss him but you would not agree to it." I got to the house and then to my room. I quickly arranged the little things I had. I would be leaving for
Ashley/Olivia's POVThe wood was silent once again, the only sound being the heavy breathing of Martains and the warriors.I watched as Martains and Carl stood still even when his warriors had taken Luciana's body and kicked the dead Greg's body somewhere far.He was not a member of any pack in Oakstone so his body could only be left there. As an alpha, he would have deserved better but he choose the path of a traitor. His pack members would look for him and take his dead body back to Silvertail if they wanted to.The expression on Martains's face was that of pain and devastation."You found the truth and brought an end to it all. You can break from the hard truth but endure it, man." Carl said, tapping on his shoulders before moving to join the other warriors.It was just me and Martains now. I moved closer, closing the gap between us.My hand found its way to his shoulders and tapped on it continuously. He held my hands and bent his head, letting the tears flow.It was the first tim
Ashley/Olivia's POVGreg charged forward at Martains with a fierce battle cry, his claws extended and his teeth bared.The warriors around Martains rushed at him before he could even get closer and then they pinned him down.One of them raised his hands to hit down on Greg but Martains raised his hands for them to stop."Just pin him down first and don't let him move a bit. I am surprised why he is charged at me and wants to kill me. I need to understand everything going on here before I lay a finger on him."So they pinned him down as he kept struggling to free himself.I cleaned the dirt that had gathered on my body from rolling around and stood where I was while Martains and Carl walked towards me.The expression on his face showed he was confused seeing Luciana on the floor, the crazy wolf who wanted to attack him and then his personal maid, Emily in the woods."Why are you here, Emily? Why was he attacking you? And why is Luciana lying half dead on the floor? Tell me what is happ
Ashley/Olivia's POVAs I turned to leave, a massive figure emerged from the trees and pounced on me, making me roll over. Luciana's eyes widened in surprise as Greg, his face contorted in rage, pounced on me.I was not expecting to meet Greg here. I was surprised but he would be more surprised. However, this was an opportunity to end it all. Martains and his men would be here soon.As an alpha, Greg was strong and he poured in all his rage on me. Our strengths were at the same level.I was below him so he did not see my face until I rolled him over and he caught sight of my face, my full appearance."Greg, no!" Luciana croaked, her voice weak from the poison."Olivia? What...why.. are you...? And what is the meaning of this? I mean, you, Luciana.""Are you surprised to see me here, brother-in-law?" I smirked, standing up and he took a step backwards."Don't listen to her, Greg. She is not the real Olivia." Luciana said, almost in a whisper, forcing herself to speak."Shhsh! Don't str
Luciana's POV"You have to escape now, Luna. The truth is out and the alpha is blazing with fury. They would come to arrest you soon. You have to run away now!" Mary burst into the room, panting hard."What? Those two brats already revealed me too soon just because I could not get rid of them last night?" I sprang up, my body shaking with fear."Why are you still staying there talking? You have to run now else there will be no way out. Time is not on your side." Mary moved closer and dragged my hands, shoving a small bag into my hands and, a veil and a clothe to disguise.The reality hit me hard and I threw on the cloth immediately and covered the veil.I sneaked out of the room with the lead of Mary through a secret passageway we had created in the house for emergency.The passageway led directly to one of the borders of the pack."Hurry up, now Luna! You can't get caught." Mary shouted from the top while I entered the passageway, running as fast as I could.I was now like a fugitive
Alpha Martains's POV"Guards!" I bellowed, my voice echoing through the halls. "Arrest Luciana at once! She is a traitor and a murderer!"My hands tightened into a fist as I thought that I had lived with a murderer all these years. I have lived with the person who backstabbed my mate and I, deceiving me with her innocence.My guards scurried off to carry out my orders."How dare you, Luciana? How dare you? You've fooled me big time. I am angry at myself but my anger for you is overflowing." Her face in my memory no longer looked like the innocent Luciana with all smiles. All I could see was a devilish smirk and smile.Some dots at this point however connected in my head but I was too foolish to pick up all these loose ends too soon and accuse her. Probably I felt that would be accusing another innocent soul based on my emotional judgements but see where it has led me.Ashley would never have died. She would have been alive, taking care of our child.Why would she come for me immediat
Ashley/Olivia's POVI returned to the house from the dungeon and made my way straight to Martains room.My mind still shifted back and forth from my encounter with Sam and Morris in the dungeon. I felt something was off when I left the dungeon. It was as if something evil was lurking around and it had to be from Luciana.I knew I had to act fast to ensure their safety, and so I increased my pace to Martains' room.I met beta Carl still in the room with Martains."What is it, Emily?" Martains asked in a soft voice."I need to speak with you, alpha."Carl and Martains exchanged glances and Carl stood up, about to leave."You can stay. It is something you should also hear."I came up with something quickly to make him do just as I would say without looking suspicious."I could not sleep. It always happen this way to me when something not so good is about to happen.""And do you have any idea what that is?" the both of them looked at me expectantly.It was believable and I got them hooked
Ashley/Olivia's POV Sam and Morris were arrested and that was it. Martains was not going ahead to arrest Luciana, imprison her and torture her."What the heck did those two tell him? He is supposed to be in a rage now and should be dealing with Luciana." I pondered on my head, pacing about my room."Or did they lie to him about who the person is? Or did they even leave that part out?" "Argh!" I screamed in annoyance as the possible hit me. It was either they lied or did not tell Martains that it was Luciana."Just what did they tell him?" I mumbled as I made my way out of the door to Martains's room.The tensed and angry lines on my face relaxed when I got to his door."Don't wait to knock, come in, Emily." Martains voice from inside startled me. I had not even knocked and he knew I was outside.I turned the knob open and entered inside. Martains stood before a small door leading to a small balcony in his room with his hands in his pocket.He had an unreadable express on his face.I
Luciana's POV I sat down in my room, my mind filled with thoughts of how to push forward my second plan to get rid of Martains and make Oakstone mine and Greg's."I must work this time. I won't allow anyone to ruin it this time." I mumbled as I sat on the bed lost in my thoughts.I tried to free my mind of whatever would weigh me down but my mind kept traveling back to Martains and Emily. Emily was the only pain in my neck but Martains had decided to join sudes with her and was also becoming a pain in the neck."Damn! How dare he do that in my face? I could have done worse if not that I am trying to be on his good side so my plans do not get ruined. Does he think I am the docile Ashley?" I said, scoffing."I thought they had finally gotten rid of you, Emily but you are back, stirring up more trouble and threats to me."Just as I was starting to calm down from the rage and frustration I was feeling, one of my loyal servants burst into the room."Your highness, I have urgent news." he s