Theo“There’s nothing you can do right now. We messed everything up already.” My wolf growled. Fucking right. What else can I do? I had no other backup plans. Everything was ruined. Unless I want to take the risk and go back to the Crimson Moon which would only lead to my death. I refuse to die. I refuse to lose. I refuse to give up after years of planning.“I spent so many years on this. I can’t lose.” I can’t lose. It was a win-or-nothing situation. I hated my father so much for ruining the plans that I had back home. If he had been careful, he would have known when they taped the house. He would have known when Bernardo found out that he wasn’t on his side.He was dumb and stupid. Old fool who couldn’t achieve something and now that I wanted to achieve what he couldn’t, he just had to go ruin it all and even hurt himself in the process.“I have to find a way out of this. I have to find a new plan.” I told myself. I hated not knowing what to do next. This was genuinely the first
Bernardo "Okay, that will be all for today, time to get ready for my date."I let out and did a stretch. I made my way out of my office. Yes, my main office. Now that I don't have to pretend I don't know what Sean has been up to, I removed the bug and got my office back. It's good to be back. I already feel like the king again and I actually got a lot of things done today. I made a few calls that have been pending for days now and did a lot of things that weren't Theo and Sean related as I delegated the duties to the right people giving me the chance to focus on other kingdom matters that needed my attention.So far today, I feel proud of what I was able to do. The dragon spy was already on her way out of the kingdom. I located her kind and found her people. It wasn't hard to do and I wasn't surprised when I found out that she left home and they had been looking for her. I just warned them that next time, I might not be as lenient as I was this time and that was it.As for the other
Bernardo"I got a call from the witch."It took a moment for what he said to sink him because I kind of forgot who the witch was until it clicked."She must be in love with you."I joked and heard him curse at me. I pushed my room door open and looked around for my mate. She wasn't in the room."Can you give me a moment?"I asked Hillan."Sure,"He said, I put the call on hold and walked around the room but there was no sign of Harlyn."Where did she go?"I expected to see her in here getting ready for our date. I didn't want to panic for no reason. I connected our mind-link and thankfully, she was there."Baby? Where are you?"I could feel her smiling."Somewhere in the palace, getting ready for our date, why do you ask?"I smiled."Nothing, I came around and you weren't here,""Yeah, I had to do a little makeup, and Princess Leah offered to help."She explained."Cool, I have to go, I put Hillan on hold."I said and was about to end our mind link when she spoke again."How is he? Ha
Harlyn"You look gorgeous, Luna." Leah said to me. I smiled and looked at my reflection in the mirror. She wasn't lying. I look really good. I didn't expect the makeup she applied to turn out so well. I couldn't do it myself. I got a text from her so I got her input. She asked me to come to her and I am glad I did. I know it's just a date within the palace but I wanted to look my best as I know that Bernardo put a lot into our small date night. He had a lot going on yet he still made time for us to have a little fun that wasn't in our bedroom. Don't get me wrong, I love all the fun we have been having in our bedroom and don't mind that we never get to go out on dates or do things that other couples do. I am grateful for what we have but at the same time. I am open to all the things we could do too. That's why I gladly accepted when he asked me out on the date.I found out from Sophie when I called her to get her input on the dress that I had picked out that my mate employed both
Harlyn "Hey, baby." He greeted me when he saw me watching him. Goddess, he looked so good. I mean, I know already that my mate is a gorgeous man, I just didn't expect to be hit by his beauty when I opened the door and the way he was smiling at me. "You lucky bitch," My wolf chirped in. I mentally rolled my eyes and smiled. I wasn't the only lucky one here, she was lucky too. The moon goddess picked the most beautiful man in the whole world as our mate. "Why are you just standing there and looking at me as if you haven't seen me before? Come here, my love. I want to hug you." Bernardo called out for me and I didn't wait to be told twice, I walked the same distance and went into his open arms. "I am just amazed at how beautiful you are. How can such a gorgeous man be mine?" I let out and smiled when he laughed out loud. Even his laugh was beautiful and addicting. Okay, maybe I am just too in love with him and that’s why everything he does makes me giggly inside. “I am glad th
Harlyn“Let’s go make sure that her efforts weren’t wasted.’’ I told Bernardo who smiled and kissed me one more time before leading me out of our room. I expected us to just walk to wherever it was that we were going within the palace but I was wrong because Bernardo led me to a waiting limo.“We are taking a car?” I asked him. He looked at me, smiled, and nodded before ushering me into the waiting vehicle. After which he got in too and the car pulled out of the place immediately.“We can’t have the king and queen walking all dressed up, can we?” I smiled and nodded in agreement. He pulled me close to himself even though there was a lot of space in the car.Am I complaining? Not at all. I like being in his arms. It was my favorite place of all time. The ride didn’t take more than five minutes and we could have easily walked but like he said. Can’t have the king and queen walking all dressed up. “We are here.” He said and got out of the car, he reached for me and I got out too. I
Harlyn“You broke him.” My wolf whispered when a hot minute passed and Bernardo still looked too stunned to say anything. Maybe I should have said other things. An orgy party was a bit too much but he asked for the truth and to be honest, there were so many stances when I thought he was indeed holding orgy parties.I didn’t know him then and thought it was something he could do based on the kind of things I had my coworkers gossip about. They made it seem like he had different women every night and the gossip where juicy. Even though I never contributed to any of them.“Babe?” I whispered when he still didn’t say anything.“Did you really believe that I had orgy parties? For real? Do I look like the kind of man who has orgy parties? I mean, yes, I did have other partners but never once did I think of holding a sex party. Do you even know that orgy parties are sex parties?” I started laughing because did he really think I was some innocent virgin before I met him? Okay, I was a vir
Bernardo“Beautiful. So beautiful.” My wolf moaned inside, I was so tempted to roll my eyes but I knew very well that he wasn’t lying. He has been going at it since Harlyn opened the door and walked into our room earlier. It wasn’t just me who was in love with Harlyn. My wolf was hopelessly in love with her too I understand him being so smitten by her because I was too. I couldn’t stop looking at her as she sat opposite me, eating the steak that her brother had cooked himself. I was surprised when Sophie sent a video of him doing the cooking.I didn’t expect them to go that far with my request and they did better than I expected. From the decoration to the food. A really good team and now, I feel at peace knowing that my little sister found the perfect mate and I am also glad that I listened to my mate that day.If I had not listened to her, I would have killed not only Sophie’s mate but her brother too. I let out a sigh of relief and smiled when my mate did. Fuck, it would have ki
Bernardo “That was easier than I predicted.” I let out on the drive back to the palace after spending hours giving out orders and making a list of intruders in my kingdom that I hadn’t been aware of. Funny how they all gave in without a fight. I expected them to fight back or try to escape but it went the opposite way which was okay by me. I might have the strength but that doesn’t mean I want to fight all the time. They were all leaving my kingdom tonight. Not one of them will be left. I already warned them that if they ever tried to come back, it would be death on arrival. A total of one hundred and thirty intruders. Seventy of them were bears and the others were made up of different breeds. I don’t know how Sean was able to gather that much and hide them away in the pack without being noticed. Who was I fooling? I knew how. I just hated how much freedom he had to do those things and get away with them for years. “It looked easy to you because you didn’t have to beat those
Harlyn“Don’t even bring that up, I don’t want to hear it. It won’t work!” She warned me. I sighed. Both my clients don’t want to know each other. Such a loss.“Fine, I won’t bring it up. You both are not fun. I just don’t want Octavia to get him.” Helaine stared at me in confusion. “Octavia, the witch. It’s clear that she likes him and wants him. He told me that she kind of became a friend and he only sees her as a friend but I don’t think that will last. They are bound to get together at some point.” I lamented.“So?” “So? Is that all you have to say? The man might be your mate. Don’t you care that there’s a witch out there, out to get him?” Helaine shook her head, eyeing me as if I was crazy.“Do you really want me to be worried about that? I don’t know this man and you seem to be forgetting the keyword in your sentence. ‘might’ I can assure you that he isn’t my mate. He can get on with whoever he wants.” Helaine said firmly, leaving no room for argument.“Just give up.” M
Harlyn“Helaine!” I yelled and ran into her arms. Crazy girl. She scared me. I pulled her into the room with me. I hugged her again. “Laine! You scared me!” I scolded her and pulled out of the hug to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. She was really here. I didn’t expect her to be back already. She didn’t even say anything when we spoke on the phone.“Baby girl. Surprise.” She cheered. “Surprise? You didn’t even tell me that you were coming! I thought it was another fucker trying to trick me.” I let out and hugged her again. “Sorry, sis. I didn’t think of that. I just wanted to surprise you. I didn’t mean to scare you.” She apologized. I didn’t mind anymore. She was here. She was really back to the Crimson Moon. I eased out of our hug again and looked her over. She dyed her hair black and now, we looked so alike that it would be hard to tell us apart.“You dyed your hair.” I pointed out. she nodded and smiled.“I wanted us to look exactly the same. Do you like it?” Do I like
Harlyn“There’s no one here.” I whispered to myself, looking around again. I must have hallucinated the movement. Maybe I was seeing things that weren't there because I was worrying so much. I can’t even talk myself out of worrying because there was literally a war going on in my kingdom right now and it could get worse.I really don’t want it to get worse. I don’t want the pack members or others in the kingdom to be affected by what’s going on. So far, no one in the kingdom except the people involved knew what was going on. I wish we would resolve it without it escalating to the point that everyone else would be affected.“Please,” I whispered to myself as I turned and made my way back to the room. I could only wish and pray for safety now. There was nothing else I could do. If only I could fight. Maybe I should learn how to fight too. “That’s not what a Luna does!” “Bernardo.” My heart sang when I heard his voice in my head. I thought of using our mind link but I didn’t want to
Theo “Shit!” I cursed when I heard her walking towards me. Yes, I came for her but I didn’t want her to see me yet. Not yet. I don’t want anyone to know that I was already in the Crimson Moon. It took everything to escape that witch. She had been on my tail every day and made it hard for me to leave. I caught her off-guard and left when she least expected it. If my hunch was right, she already called that bastard and told him that I left. Fuck her for choosing to be on his side when I found her first and even gave her my mark. When I am done here, I will surely go back and make sure to pay her back. Even when she had been helping me, I planned on disposing of her when I no longer needed her but now, she made it so much easier to do away with her. I hid behind a pillar and held my breath as Harlyn's footsteps grew closer. I didn’t want her to see me until I was sure I could get her out of the palace without anyone finding out. It didn’t take long for me to find out that my stup
Harlyn“What happened again?” I asked him as soon as he dropped the call. He looked at me worriedly. Well, it was definitely bad.“He found it.” I stared at him in confusion.“He found another den of bears.” Of all the things I expected him to say, bears weren't one of them. Bears? For the Crimson Moon, bears were as unwanted as vampires and witches. They were the worst because of the history the Crimson Moon has with them. “What? In this pack?” I questioned even though I already knew the answer to that.“Yes, I found a map that day at the underground hideout of Sean and I gave it to him. That’s what he and Damien went to check out and I have to leave right now.” He explained and started walking away. “Are you going back to the Orange Moon?” I asked him. He turned around and shook his head.“No, I will call my pack to let them know just in case Theo shows up there and I will call my parents too. I am needed more here.” He told me and started walking away again. “Let me come
Harlyn “Why did she call you this time? Does she have new information?” I asked him. He nodded. “Okay, is it bad? Do you not want me to ask?” It was clear by his body language that he didn’t want me to know but I wanted to know. It was important that I know as I am the Luna and Queen of the Crimson Moon. If it concerns my kingdom, then it concerns me. Unless, maybe it’s not about my kingdom. Either way, I still wanted to know. “I would much rather speak to the king.” I resisted the urge to curse at him. Really? It wasn’t the first time he said something like that to me but for the first time, I felt offended. What did he see me as? Did he think I couldn’t handle whatever news it was? “You will tell me because it involves my kingdom and my people. I am Luna and I deserve to know. You have no choice!” I told him firmly. I could tell by his reaction that he didn’t expect me to react the way I did. “Lyn I sh---“ “No! Tell me. It’s a command!” I let out. I didn’t mean
Harlyn “There’s a handbook. I asked her and she told me she has a lot written down in all the years that she has known about her powers. She is willing to give all that she wrote down to you. She also wants to meet you but I told her that you can’t see her now. Hopefully, soon.” Hillan explained. I wanted to jump on him. I wanted to hug and kiss his cheeks. It was the best news ever. I really wanted something as some form of guide because right now, it feels like I am using my powers without knowing the depth of it. “I would love to meet her too and yes, I really need the handbook.” I told him enthusiastically. “I will have it sent down to the Crimson Moon by tomorrow.” “Wow, so soon?” I let out. He smiled and nodded. “Yes, I told you. I already asked her before. I was going to get it down here anyway. I just have to make a call and someone will send it over. It should arrive in two to three days.” I really wanted to hug him but I didn’t. Instead, I reached and touch
Harlyn I woke up the next morning alone. I was used to waking up alone now so I didn’t think much of it, I just went about my morning routine before breakfast. After the events of the past two days, I actually hoped that today would just be a normal day for me. I really didn’t want to deal with any negativity. I knew I was reaching out because as long as Theo and everyone associated with him and his father are still out there, there will definitely be negative things happening. I just hope it doesn’t affect those I care about and all the good people of the Crimson Moon. Even though I knew the chance of it being a peaceful day was low, I still made a mental note to make the most of today. I didn’t even notice Bernardo had left a note for me until I finished getting ready. I only saw the note because I went to pick up my phone from the bedside. I smiled when I saw the note. “I didn’t want to wake you because you were sleeping so peacefully. Out for my daily kingly duties and w