ROMAN“Ethan, stop dragging the dog's chew toy with it! And-”The baby's loud wailing distracted me and I ran out of the room to his room.Okay, so maybe I couldn't handle things by myself. It has been two days since Eden left and I have no idea what I'm doing.Not like I didn't know what to do but I was doing too much at the same time. I felt that since Belle and Ethan were grown, they wouldn't require as much attention as Roman did.How wrong was I?It turns out that it's them who always need to be watched all the time. I picked the baby up, rocking him in my arms and apologizing for shouting and waking him up.It was like the slightest noise woke him up and at one point, I wanted to make his room soundproof but then I won't be able to hear him when he's crying.After taking his bottle, he thankfully quieted down but he refused to go back to sleep.Now I understand what Eden goes through.Speaking of Eden, I haven't been able to get in contact with her. At first I thought her phone
ROMANActually, there was no need to ask Alicia.“Quinn, I need to start looking for her. I had no idea that things like that were that serious. What did I do? Where do I even start looking?”Actually, I knew what to do and where to start looking but I was panicking too much to even put two thoughts together.“I feel so stupid for not knowing that something like this happened. Why did it have to be that day? I got back yesterday, Roman. You didn't deem it fit to tell me?”“As I said before, Quinn, my mind wasn't there back then. I mean, I have two kids and a baby to take care of and my wife is probably dead so where. Right now, my mind is all over the place."She stopped packing and turned to me.“Don’t say that."“Don’t say that she's dead. She's not.”I don't mean to say that, I was just scared. She's never done something like this before so I know that anything that would make her leave the kids just be very strong because she would never do so. Right now, I don't even know whether
EDENI was running. What I was running from, I had no idea. As my heart beat fast in my chest, I looked behind me to see whether whatever it was that was after me was still chasing me but it wasn't. So why was I still running? I tried to slow down but my legs won't stop moving on their own. “What the hell?” I thought to myself. My leg hit a stone and I fell in a puddle of water. As I lifted myself up, my eyes met with the image in the water. That was it. I was running from myself but whose face was that in the pool? Whose face was I wearing? I woke up with a jolt, the same way my heart had been beating in the dream was the same way it was beating right now.What the hell was that?And what the hell had happened?More importantly, where was I?Different objects hung from the ceiling, some of them shaped like birds and some shapes like things I hadn't seen before.How did I fall asleep and end up here?Last thing I remembered was seeing the dead man and running away. The fact that
EDEN“What do you mean? There has to be a way to get her out of me. I want no part in this so why am I forced? What does she want from me? I have nothing to give her!”A huge lump formed in my throat and I tried not to cry in front of this woman.“You were warned, weren't you? She warned you not to get injured. She warned you not to let your blood be exposed. What did you do?”I tried to think back to that day but it has almost been two months. I could barely remember anything that happened. Roman had barely been born and I was still in the daze of all that.Yes, she'd warned me about the blood but I think a lot of things were happening back then for me to remember. I had no idea that I ended up getting injured.“So that was how she got into me? Through my blood?”She nodded.“She enjoys blood sacrifices and seeing as her sister has taken an interest in you, she saw you as a good host.”“Her sister? Who's her sister?"“The Moon goddess. The Moon goddess is her sister.”There were a lot
ROMAN“Come on, baby. Go meet your aunt.”I had to send the kids away so I could get some work done. I've been trying to make some calls to get Eden back but no one seems to have seen her.Just.yy bylike we agreed to do, we checked her phones location and the GPS in the car she took but nothing came up.We even checked the cameras that may have caught her on her way out but nothing showed up. All the cameras were on maintenance that day.I felt very weak about the entire thing but I didn't want to lose hope, mainly because I knew that I had to get her back. I just had to.Eden was everything to me, I wanted to marry her and that was why I made sure to propose to her before she left so she'd know that I was serious about her.Quinn was also helping in every little way that she could. The fact that she wasn't around when Eden was leaving made things worse.I had to send Lucian back to the pack to take care of things. I didn't want to leave it unattended like before again because of what
EDENIt was another day in this hell.I had no idea what to do. All I did was wake up, walk around their damn house with no doors and windows and then go back to sleep.The woman barely said two words to me. All she did was stare at me like she wanted to remove my soul.”You know that's how you will continue to stay here for the rest of your life until you decide to stop being greedy.”What the hell.“Greedy? Am I being greedy? Who was the person who asked that bitch to enter me? Not me? So how am I the one being greedy? I'm not the one who gave up everything to summon her so why is she after me?!”“How dare you speak about her like that?!”My blood was boiling. I was sick and tired of this whole thing and this witch woman acting like it was my fault that all this happened.“What will happen ? You'll kill me? Go ahead, death is better than living this kind of life anyways.”She dropped what she was holding and walked closer to me.“Be careful what you wish for.”This was the closest s
LILITH“Where have you been?”I ignored her and put my flowers and fruits away. Today has been a very fruitful day, don't mind the pun.“Where have you been? Didn't you hear me?”I looked up at her slowly.“Are you speaking to me? I hope for your sake, that you're not. I'm in a good mood today and I won't want to kill anybody today."“You are not sticking to our agreement. We had an agreement before you came up here and you're messing things up.”I went to take a seat across the room.“What are you talking about? What agreement? I seem to have forgotten.”“What did you come up here for? Tell me.”I knew I was aggravating her but I didn't care. She couldn't force me to do anything I didn't want to do.“You came up here to kill Roman Floyd. What have you done regarding that? I thought we had a deal. I thought you kept to your promises!”“I would advise you to reduce your voice when you're speaking to me. I'm not your friend."I only came up here because I needed a break. I didn't care ab
ROMANI'd been on the phone with Lucian all day. Not being there to handle your pack was proving to be more stressful than it was supposed to be but I was glad that Lucian was there to do a good job.It gave me time to focus on my company and family here. Speaking to family, Alicia said we should go to the police to report Eden missing.She knew me better though and she knew that I would never do such a thing because I was capable of finding my wife myself.The last thing I wanted was for this issue to gain more attention than it was supposed to.I had no idea where Eden was and if it ended up being one of my enemies who took her, then I would have made a very big mistake by going to the police.Henry had sent a message this morning, telling me of his travel plan. I didn't know that it was going to happen this soon so I had to go out to see him.“How did it go?” I asked, referring to him telling Alicia about it.He looked so tired and stressed. Well, that'll make two of us.“I told he
THIRD PERSON POVWhile everyone back home was looking for Roman, he was on the other side of the town, looking through his pockets and swearing that he carried his phone.The minister noticed that he was distracted.“Is there anything you need? Are you looking for something?”Roman looked up.“Yes, I'm sure that I carried my phone but now, I can't find it.”Roman knew that he would have gotten so many calls. He'd left the house very early and no one knew where he was.He didn't take any guard with him either.“Maybe it fell on the way."Of course, it did. With all those bullets raining on his head, why won't it fall out?It had been pure luck that he had escaped. He was almost at the minister's house when he noticed a car that he was sure he'd seen when he got off the highway.He'd rolled his eyes, not wanting to be involved in any of this today.“Can we do this in a week? I have something to do today.”What should he do now? He knew he couldn't avoid them.To make sure that he was ri
EDENIT was already seven pm and I still couldn't find him. I was ready and so was everyone else but he was nowhere to be found.I'd called him and so had Quinn but he wasn't picking up his calls at all.“Edem, are you sure he didn't tell you where he was going?”I thought back to last night and scrolled through our conversation.“No, I don't remember him saying anything about going anywhere. After I told him about the officiating minister, that was where the conversation ended. Nothing more happened.”Quinn came back.“His phone is switched off.”Wonderful, just great. Roman was missing on no other day than our wedding day.Where could he be? Even if he was stuck in traffic, he could at least pick up his phone.Or maybe he truly wasn't interested in getting married to me.But then he would have just said it then when I brought it up. Why didn't he say anything? He had the choice to reject me last night but he didn't.”Eden, don't worry. We'll find him in time for the wedding.”Alicia
EDENI woke up early that morning.Well, we didn't sleep after that.. we stayed up the entire night talking about everything we'd been through and it touched me.Eventually, I fell asleep on his shoulder and I didn't even know. I was sitting in his lap and I woke up on the bed.Alicia was standing above me .“Hey, wake up. Let's get you ready. Roman left the house really early this morning and I have to go back home to get a dress for myself. I mean, I can't wear this.”She had eye bags and her face was very dim. She has started crying again sometime during the night.”Alicia, sit down. We need to talk.”She was avoiding my eyes.“Eden, there's a lot to be done today. I mean, you don't even have a makeup artist or a hairstylist either. Your dress isn't here yet and the food isn't ready. There's a lot to be done.”I knew that all that wasn't truly her concern. She was just trying to avoid talking about me.“Alicia, please -”“Eden, there's no time. We need to get ready."I had to get
EDENWhen I finally got into the house later that night, I couldn't sleep so I just stared out the window at the stary night.Alicia had fallen asleep while feeding the kids so I would break the news to her tomorrow.I'd had to tell Quinn what had happened.“Really?! Was that why you were staring into the dark?””Yes, she was standing there. I'm not going to die, Quinn. I'm going to be here with my kids.”She pulled me in for a hug and held me tightly.“I'm so happy, Eden. You don't know how terrible I felt when you told me that. How can you die without watching your kids grow up?"I was just happy that I hadn't rushed to tell Roman anything that was going on.He was clearly exhausted because he didn't even wake up when I entered the room and when I got in the bed. I was equally so tired because I had spent a lot of time getting things ready today.My body was tired but my mind was still awake and buzzing.I was going to get married tomorrow. I should have told Quinn that we should ju
EDENWe got back home late that night.Mostly because we needed to pull ourselves so that we won't show that we've been crying.Everytime we finally stopped crying, Alicia started again and we started another whole process of consoling each other.“Please stop crying. I don't know what I'm going to do if you're like this.”She finally pulled herself together and we got into the car and drove back home.“Are you really not going to tell Roman?"“I don't have a plan to. I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to tell him. He will be shattered, Alicia.”She still wasn't fine with it but she didn't say anything else until we got home.Alicia went into the house to check in on Roman and the kids while I went to the back of the house to check in on what Quinn was doing.She was actually on a chair and table with her legs up while eating everything she brought from the restaurant.“You seem to be enjoying yourself.”My voice frightened her.“Sorry about that.”“You guys surely took your time..
EDENWe'd ended up at a restaurant because the bar we wanted to go to was closed.Roman had already called me four times to ask Alicia questions about the twins and he sounded like he was about to lose it.“Let’s eat so much that we won't be able to walk again.”And that's what we did. I think we ordered everything in the menu and we basically had the chef at our call to make anything that we wanted.That was the first time I would be eating so much food in one day and it felt so good.“I don't think I can eat anymore. I'm so full.”Quinn had been the one to bring us here and now she was already full. Alicia's mood had changed and she wasn't speaking anymore.Quinn's phone rang and she stood up to answer it.“Alicia-”“What’s going on, Eden? And don't even tell me not to ask questions. Because you can't keep doing this. I'm your best friend. You have to be truthful.”What was sj to do at this point? I had no other choice than to tell her the truth.She deserved that much.“Balari came
EDENAlicia did come over that evening.And we stayed in the room throughout.“It’s fine. I'll take care of the kids. You guys just do what girls do. Whatever it is that you do.”Roman took the twins and left us.“What in the world happened? Why did you faint?"I acted like I had no idea what was going on.“I mean, I don't know. I just felt weak and tired and next thing I know, I'm waking up in a hospital.”“Woah, that is crazy.. but you're fine right? I mean, yorie okay?"“Yes, I'm fine.”I needed to change the topic.“Hey, about Henry, I've spoken to Roman about it and he had no idea that Henry wasn't home. He said he was going to help track him down.”I actually hadn't spoken to Roman about it but I just needed to say something that would make her forget about the previous topic.“Thank you. I just hope we won't have to go through everything we went through back then. He'll surely come back.”Surely, he will. He's probably just busy.Speaking of Roman doing things, I still needed t
EDENI'd come home the day after that. The doctor said that I was free and healthy to leave but I didn't feel free.“Why the long face? Aren't you happy to come home?”I turned to Roman who was driving.”Oh no, it's nothing like that. I'm just tired."What was the point of being happy when I knew what was coming? And I couldn't tell him. I didn't want him to feel responsible for it.Roman is very quick to blame himself and I didn't want him to. I should just die peacefully so that he would have the guts to move on from me.If I told him that it was because of him I was going to die, then I would mess things up.I recalled my last conversation with Balari.“Are you sure it's what you want, Eden? Men are not worth it. You can live with your kids and raise them in your own way. You don't have to do this.”But it seemed like the more we spoke about it, the more determined I was to do it.“I do, actually. I love Roman, I can't let him die for something he has no hand in.”“And you have a
EDENWhen I woke up, it was dark.Why was it dark and where was I? I knew this wasn't my room, and it surely didn't smell like this.I tried to move my hand and when I saw the IV line shake, I sighed. The hospital.How did I end up here and why didn't I remember anything?Me being here meant that something had happened to me but for the life of me, I couldn't bring myself to. I felt so weak so I just relaxed in my bed.I didn't even have the strength to call for help and eventually, I slept.The next time I woke up, the sun was out thankfully and my eyes didn't feel as heavy as a boulder.My stomach was hurting badly, partly the fact that I hadn't eaten in a day and half. I needed food or else I might actually die this time around..I sat up in my bed, clutching my stomach tightly. I also needed to pee. I've never been to the hospital before.Roman was born in the pack and Belle?Well, Belle was born at home because I had no idea I was in labor and since Alicia and I had never been mo