HarlynThe man looked at me in confusion, I let go of his hand and forced a smile.“You look familiar, I think I have met you once before.” I lied, trying to hide my outburst. I couldn’t let him suspect a thing as he might make a run for it. Then I remembered that I could actually tell my mate what I wanted and why this man shouldn’t be let go if they wanted to find the bears that had been attacking our pack.“You should arrest him. He made the order.” I said in my head, Bernardo turned to look at me and I nodded.“What order?” “To kill the couple in their sleep. He knows where the bear hides. If you want to find those bears then don’t let this man leave this place.” I warned him.“That’s Damien’s father’s younger brother.” Bernardo revealed. Well, another uncle playing dirty games. Maybe it was an uncle's thing to want their family members gone. I wondered what his reasons were.“I saw what I saw. If you let him go, you won’t find those bears.” I told him and forced another smi
Bernardo On the ride back to the palace, I kept thinking about what Harlyn had told me. About Damien’s uncle. I spoke to Damien about it and he didn’t even look surprised that he would do something like that. We didn’t want to alert him that we knew what he was up to so we decided to have him followed in secret. In other words, had him bugged. Damien being a tech guru was a blessing to us all because we didn’t need to have him followed physically. Damien told me he would handle it. But I kept thinking about how Harlyn knew. She seemed to be able to tell bad from good people. She found out about who Sean really was before I did, she also found out who Gius really was. That’s his name. “How did you know?” I couldn’t resist asking. “I don’t know, I just did.” She responded, shrugging her shoulders. She knew a lot of people that regular people wouldn’t even know. She wasn’t an ordinary wolf and Grandma knew that’s why she did her best to keep her within the palace. I couldn’
HarlynI made my way towards the room I shared with Bernardo because I saw him get back on the helicopter and watched the helicopter leave again so I knew I would have the room to myself. It was past four am in the morning and I didn’t want to disturb my sister nor did I want her to see me crying.I closed the door behind me and dropped to the ground and let the tears flow. I felt sad and angry. We have been together for more than a month now and still, we couldn’t talk or disagree on something without fighting.This fight wasn’t my fault. I just wanted to know why Bernardo had bad thoughts about Hillan. He refused to let me know what he met by what he had thought and shut me out of his head. I hated that we were fighting but I couldn’t let him paint Hillan as a villain. No way did he think Hillan wasn’t showing his true self. The man literally saved me when he didn’t have to.He gave me a home even though it was only for a week. He was the first person that showed me kindness after
Harlyn “Fine, don’t tell me.” I said and he laughed. Nothing changed. I still felt just as comfortable with him as always. His tone didn’t sound different and he still had his sense of humor so Bernardo was out of his mind for thinking Hillan would be a villain.“Why did you call me?” He asked me.“Nothing, Bernardo is away and I just wanted to hear your voice. Do you have a problem with that?” I asked him.“Not at all. I am glad you can call me whenever you feel like it. Don’t worry, when I return, I will give you a present.” He promised.“I will wait. Take care of yourself and don’t find a woman while you are there.” I warned him. I didn’t want him to come back taken. I wanted him for my sister. He would be the perfect man for her.“Why? Do you have a woman ready for me?” “Hmm, what if I say yes?” I responded. There was a moment of silence.“I don’t want a woman right now. The only woman I want can’t be mine and I am okay with that. Don’t worry about me.” I don’t know why h
Harlyn“Are you sure that we are going in the right direction?” Harry asked, I resisted the urge to roll my eyes because it wasn’t the first time that he asked the question. He has asked more than three times already. Helaine warned me that he was good at playing around and I shouldn’t take his goofy questions seriously. “Harry, shut up and drive. The GPS says we are in the right direction. We should have left you at the palace with your mate.” Helaine scolded. It took a lot of effort to get Harry to separate from his mate. We initially wanted to surprise but he kept saying no to our offers so we had to spill why we wanted him to come with us. He finally agreed when he found out and offered to drive.We took one of the king’s cars. I didn’t bother to call him to ask for permission, if he has a problem with me using the car then he should take it up with me when I get back. I waited to hear from him or Damien before my siblings and I left the palace but neither one of them was back
Harlyn “It’s okay, Lyn, you were just a child then. You don’t have to force yourself to remember.” She assured me.“Yes, she’s right. We barely have any memories of our mom. If we didn’t find her diary and if our relatives didn’t show us her photos, we would probably have forgotten what she looked like too.” Harry added. We strolled together to the front door. Whoever has been taking care of the house must have been really dedicated because everywhere was clean and even looked like someone recently tended to it.“Here goes nothing.” Harry said and inserted the key into the front door. It worked at once and he pushed the huge door open.“Whoa.” Helaine said, we both looked at each other. Harry stepped in first before beckoning us to do the same. The first thing we noticed was the huge family frame on the wall of the entrance. “Our mom and dad.” Helaine whispered. We were still holding hands. I looked at my mom. I have seen her from the photo Helaine had shown me but she looked m
Harlyn “What do you think happened to them?” Helaine asked, for the first time since we met yesterday, she sounded sad and emotional. I could feel myself tearing up too just looking at the room my father had set up over twenty years ago. Frozen in time. It was an emotional sight to behold because it just showed that my parents wanted our family to be together but they couldn’t stay together for reasons that we still have no idea about.Seeing photos of me from when I was literally a baby, knowing that I once knew the love of my father and once had a mother who constantly thought of me but couldn’t be with me made me teary.“Whatever happened, they clearly hated being away from each other.” Harry responded. I wish we would be able to find a clue, anything that would lead us to know what happened and why it all happened. I don’t know but I couldn’t stop the feeling that everything is connected somehow, the reason our parents separated, the reason my Dad and Bernardo’s father were k
Harlyn“What did you find?” I asked when I got to the room but I didn’t see her or even Harry. “We are in here.” Helaine called out from within the photo room. I entered and looked around only to find that there was a hidden door. “What’s this place?” I asked when I got in. Helaine had her phone light on but the place was still relatively dark so I turned on my touch too.“A secret room.” Helaine said. I already knew it was a secret room but I wondered why there was a secret room inside the photo room of all places.“How did you open it?” I questioned. Harry was too busy looking around so I only had Helaine to answer my question. “I moved the big portrait and saw a push sign. I pushed and viola.” She explained.“I found something.” Harry said. We both looked at him. He waved something at us.“What’s that?” I asked and walked towards him. “A recorder. Not just that. There’s a bunch of papers in here too. Plus, that safe over there, I think there’s something in it. I will o
Harlyn “Sure, I will do that once I arrive. I can’t believe your mate’s family members are the ones against him. Don’t they know the importance of family? I can’t imagine our aunts and uncles hurting each other. Our family have lived together for decades and still care about each other.” “Maybe because there’s no throne to fight for.” I said even though I knew that wasn’t a good excuse.“We have treasures, fortunes that go way back to centuries ago. We have generational wealth too yet no one is fighting.” “Tell me about our family's generational wealth.” I said with interest and Helaine laughed before diving into a story that got us talking for hours on the phone. I didn’t even realize how much time had passed until Bernardo walked back into our room looking worn out and ready to crash for the night.“Laine, I have to go. His majesty is back.” I told Laine who made a face that made me smile.“Are you picking your mate over me right now? I am your sister. Your blood. We met in th
Harlyn“It doesn’t matter.” I told Laine.“I know. It doesn’t. You will be just as gorgeous. Wait, even more gorgeous. Once the pregnancy glow hits you, you will be more breathtaking. I should watch out for my brother-in-law.” I laughed at her words and she laughed too. We both went silent and just stared wordlessly at each other for a minute before she spoke again.“I went to see our relatives and we talked about you. They are all so eager to meet you.” Same. I want to meet them too. All of them. I wanted them to hug me and welcome me into the family.“Me too.” I told her.“I found out something from our aunt and would like to try it out once I arrive back at the kingdom.” Helaine told me.“What?” “Triplet power. Apparently, the birthmarks that we carry aren't just there for fancy. Something is supposed to happen when we join hands in the right order.” I stared at her with interest.“In order?” She nodded.“Yes, in the order that we came out of mom’s womb. Harry, me and you.
HarlynI don’t know how long I slept after Bernardo left me in our room but when I woke up, it was lunch time so I had lunch alone in our room and then went right back to bed. I felt exhausted and knew it was a result of the strength I used to heal that bastard.I fell asleep again only after a few minutes on the bed and woke up to my phone ringing loudly. I reached for it and picked it up without looking. I placed my phone on my ear and almost lost the ability to hear when Helaine shouted out my name.“It's a video call. Move your phone away from your ear, your majesty.” I sat up immediately and rubbed my eyes to clear the sleep off.“Hi, Laine.” “Hi sleepy.” She greeted me back. She was wearing a lab coat which took off immediately. She looked so much like me that for a moment, I thought I was staring at myself. Even her smile. “That’s us!” My wolf chirped in. glad, I wasn’t the only one who thought so. It must be the sleep getting into my head. Laine went off the screen and t
Bernardo “I can’t imagine my father’s brother or his children fighting me for my position as alpha either.” Hillan added.“I can. My father’s brother almost killed my parents. If not for our Luna, he would have succeeded.” Damien chirped in, reminding me of the good deed Harlyn had done for his family. I smiled proudly.“That’s fucking sad,” Harry said and both Damien and I nodded in agreement. It was sad because families are supposed to have each other’s back. I wanted so much for my family to be that way. That's why I did my best to keep a close relationship with Sean and his family but that turned out to be my biggest mistake.“Guys! I think we should take a break. You guys go to your mates and have a good time and we will come back tomorrow, refreshed and ready to hatch out a plan to end things fast and clean so that we can go back to our normal life.” Hillan suggested. It was a nice idea so I nodded in agreement and then felt bad when I remembered that he didn’t have a mate
Bernardo“Bastard,” He was truly a bastard in many ways. How could he be so ruthless? My grandmother took care of him after his own mom passed away. My father became alpha king because he was more deserving. It was a unanimous decision and not because they stole anything from him.I still couldn’t bring myself to accept that that bastard killed my grandmother after everything she did for him. Lyn told me how disrespectful he had been towards her from the beginning.“Hey yo! King!” Hillan’s voice brought me out of my thoughts. I gazed at him in confusion wondering what he told me. He snapped his finger in my face as if to wake me up.“What?” “Where are you? Why are you glaring at the screen? We can go check it out if you want.” Hillan suggested. I shook my head. We have been through enough today already. No need to rush into some hideout without plans.“Is Theo still coming over?” I asked, remembering that the witch had said earlier that Theo was heading back to the Crimson Moon.
Bernardo“What do you mean why? You are the king of the Crimson Moon and you got shit to do.”“Yeah? But I am your mate and I got shit to do here.”I said pointing from myself to her.“Whatever you want to do with me can wait. The kingdom needs its king during the day. I will take the nights for now.”Wow, I couldn’t believe her.“What if I don’t want to leave you? After what happened, I don’t feel okay leaving you on your own.”She sneered at me.“I am not a baby and what happened before won’t happen again. You have a lot on your plate. The sooner you are done; the sooner we can spend more time together without you worrying. I am doing this for myself. Small sacrifice for the bigger enjoyment. I love you.”She added the last part and I couldn’t argue.“You are literally driving me away and doing it lovingly that I can’t even say no.”“You are right. Now go be king. I love you.”She brought my face close to hers and kissed me. I let her kiss me for a while before I took over and kisse
Bernardo“Bern,”Harlyn whispered my name. I looked at her, my only reason for still being sane after everything that I had just heard from her. If she wasn’t with me. If not for her presence. If I had been hearing the things I heard from her from someone else, I would have lost my sanity.Heck, I wouldn’t have even believed those words if they came from someone else. The fact that he was so fucking close to me. We ate together, we did things together for years and all those times, he was plotting to take over.No, even before I was born, he was already plotting. From the moment he found out he wasn’t going to be the next alpha king after my grandfather, he started plotting. His plans worked. At least halfway. He took out my father and many other pack members just to get what he wanted.If Harlyn hadn’t come into my life. If I had let her go and stubbornly not tried to look for her, I would probably have died, and not just me. Every member of my family would have faced the same fate.
HarlynDenial.That was the emotion he settled for. He didn’t want to believe it and I really wanted to tell him that I was mistaken but I wasn’t. Sean said it himself and I saw the flashes of his plans too and how he went about it.“I am sorry, Bern.”I told him when I saw how the news affected him. He shook his head and held my hand again.“It’s not your fault. It's just that, I never thought he would go that far. Grandma didn’t like him. I was the one who went out of my way to get them to meet. I should have listened to her. She raised him. She knew him and yet I didn’t listen and because of me, he got close to her. Close enough to do something to her.”He lamented bitterly. I hugged him, wanting to give him all my strength and take away his pain.“It’s not your fault.”I tried to console him but he wasn’t having it.“You know damn well that it was.”“No, it wasn’t. I am sure he would have found another way. He had his eyes set on her and everyone in the royal family who wasn’t on
Harlyn I woke in a bed. I jerked up in fear. Two strong arms wrapped around me, holding me in place and I almost screamed out in fear until I heard Bernardo's voice.“Lyn, hey. It’s me, don’t be scared.”He told me and I breathed out in relief as the event that happened a while ago came rushing back to me. I fell asleep inside the helicopter and must have missed our landing. He must have carried me back to our bedroom.I didn’t get any sleep last night after what those bastards had knocked me out with fazed off. I leaned into Bernardo, feeling relieved that I was no longer in that place. His warm arms wrapped around me reassuringly. I felt safe in his arms and closed my eyes again letting the familiar feel of him envelop and surrender me.“Bern.”I whispered his name after a while. I have so much to tell him about the things I found out from Sean but I don’t even know where to start from. Where would I start listing the things that evil losers did? There was so much that he should be