Erika’s POV It’s been about a week since the incident happened and to be fair, I think I was doing quite great with dealing with the trauma. Knowing that Ciro had ensured that no one saw my body, and the girls that had been dealing with me had been punished gave me some type of satisfaction that I couldn’t explain. At first, I had been scared shitless at the thought that Diana would come back after finding out that I was with Killian later on but she never did. And as much as I didn’t think this was possible, I was lonely. For the last week, it had felt like Anita had been avoiding me. The very moment I’m back in the room, she’s heading out and when I’m out to get lunch or some other thing, then she’s heading back in. She was totally difficult to get a hold of which made me completely suspicious. Even though I had so many questions, I had as much work as the questions I had. Today was going to be the displaying of the pieces I had made. All through the week, Luke had been
Erika’s POV Just as I thought I was going to spend the rest of my day in hunger, I heard footsteps behind me and I turned back with only one thought in my mind, Anita was here for me. Unfortunately, I was met with Ciro’s familiar face. “Heyy!” he drawled out in his signature lazy voice and as much as I was disappointed, I didn’t want to push my aggression on the one and only person that had helped me in this pack. “Hi, what brings you here?” I asked, looking at his hand that held a bag while his other hand was in his pocket giving him an overall relaxed look. “Was making a trip to a friend’s place, seems like you need the company more though.” “Why? Did you see me just now?” I desperately hoped he hadn’t, after all, that would be the second time he would be meeting me at my lowest point. I would have fainted if I had any idea there was any more time. “Well, let’s just say you don’t need a friend like that,” he said with a shrug and then took two more steps until he was di
Killian’s POV It was almost as if from the moment that Ciro had forced me to confess the still-existing bond between me and the human girl, all I had thought about was her. I had even allowed myself to head over to the clothing and design unit of the pack like some hopeless man in love. Yet, the sight of her as she made those dresses that Luke couldn’t stop babbling about and how serious she was, was etched in my mind. I had to confess that it had made me see her in a slightly different light, after all, I knew that there were very few girls that were willing to work that hard. Surely she could handle the pack, right? “What has your pants in a knot?” Ciro said as he settled in the seat beside me. My brows furrowed as I picked the scent of my mate on him. “Where are you coming from?” I asked as I shot him an accusatory glare. “I know you can smell Erika on me. I initially planned to stop by Luke’s place with his portion of the food I made but then I saw your ‘mate’ being bullied
Erika’s POV I was perhaps half a foot from utopia in dreamland when I felt my covers being yanked from my body and the evening’s chill air wrapped around me, forcing me to open my eyes. My eyes widened in surprise as I saw Ciro’s familiar face right in front of me. “W..why are you here?” i asked nervously as I hoped that this wasn’t one of those evil things I had read in books in the past. I was certainly defenseless around a male shifter. “Relax, Killian asked me to bring you over,” he said and then stretched his hands so that I could take it and sit up. “The elders of the pack would like to meet you,” he added immediately as I stood up. The pack had given all of us from the previous pack three clothes that was for all the seasons and I was planning to make some for myself as soon as we got to sell the dresses we had made. For the meantime, i carried the woolen sweater and pulled it to my chin as I followed Ciro. my mind swirled with thoughts and questions of why the pack e
Killian’s POV Alek growled with wild abandon in me and I clenched my fists to restrain it from causing havoc. At the sight of our mate being kicked and slapped by John, I felt weak for the first time in my twenty-eight years. I had ruled the pack and this world for the past fifteen years. And for the first time, someone was touching what was mine. Trampling on what was mine. I wasn’t scared of John. I had allowed him to act as a tyrant all these years because he meant to threaten me, my Alpha suppression was enough to take a man like him down. However, if I took him down now in front of everyone here, all of them would know. They would know exactly how I felt about Erika and how important she was to my wolf and me. And as soon as they knew that, the pack and she would no longer be safe. As soon as the enemies outside and maybe even inside know that she was my weakness and growing reverse scale, the attempts on her life would be even worse than this. If she had a wolf, perhaps
KILLIAN’S POV As the alpha, I had never knelt in the past twenty-five years of my life. My mother would always scoff and tell me that I was born with pride that was beyond my age. And uncle Paul had done well to foster it. Not for once had I ever bowed even my head to someone. Yet now, I knelt in front of Erika as my heart bled with her. I hated that fate did this to us. I didn’t want to hurt her. But the first responsibility of an alpha was their pack. So was mine. And Erika was no Luna for this pack. She was too weak and brittle for this role. And so despite how much I had stalled, I knew I had no choice at this point. I had to reject her, and take her far away to where she could live her own life to the fullest. “Killian, don’t you dare!” Uncle Paul’s voice boomed from downstairs and I rushed out of the room that Erika had been placed in wondering what was wrong. Paul released his suppression as he glared at all of the help until everyone had gone as far as they cou
ERIKA’s POV it was like I was on some long journey to nowhere, my entire body was heavy and in pain and I was struggling to open my eyes so that I could see. It was so hard, so painful. And then, at some point, something had come and helped me make the journey less painful. I still couldn’t see but at least, I was no longer in pain. Eventually, my eyes opened and I looked at the unfamiliar room around me. One more night again and I was in another room. As I tried to move my arms, it felt heavy like something was pressing down on it and I turned to see what it was. Killian! I don’t know how I was able to know it was him from his mess of black curls that was on the bed beside me but I just knew. This was a first, usually, I would just wake up with Ciro there, but never had it been Killian. More importantly, he looked like he was still sleeping. “He was up all night, please let him sleep,” I heard Ciro’s familiar voice from a corner in the room and I saw him leaning on t
ERIKA’s POV True to their words, the whole thing had changed and so when I made my way down after lunch to the clothing factory, only Luke and his assistant were busying around. “Erika!” Luke called out as soon as he saw me and I smiled and waved at him even though I was eventually going to where he was. “Are you okay?” He asked as soon as I reached where he was. Half of the front was already full with clothes on all the racks and he was currently arranging some more. “I heard all the rumors so don’t think of giving me some perfunctory reply,” he added immediately and I smiled slightly. “Nothing I’m not used to really, I’m fine,” I said and then squirmed when he looked at me deeply for close to a minute. “Okay, if you say so,” he said with a shrug and then relented. The corners of my lips raised a little as I watched him leave to do other things. In truth, yesterday was embarrassing and terrifying. But maybe it was because I knew that Killian was trying to prove that t
ERIKA'S POV"This is the last baby, Luna Erika! Push!""Push!" "Push!"I swallowed hard and bit back tears as the nurses encouraged me to push out my last baby. I could feel my whole body getting numb already.Childbirth was really painful. I was still hurting from the expansion of my uterus during the first push. But there was still one more to go.However, the majority of my pain came from the things I sensed happening outside."Concentrate on pushing!" The doctor tapped me when he noticed my senses were detecting things happening outside.Soon, the head of the last baby had come out and the doctor was gently pulling him out."Yes! Almost there!" He shouted, "Keep going! Keep going!"A loud cry left my mouth and I squeezed every last ounce of strength in me and pushed out my last baby."Yay!" The doctor cried.The whole hospital became a parade of joy amidst the battle going on. I fell back on the pillow and listlessly watched everyone as they cheered and danced. I thought I'd hav
KILLIAN'S POVThe Sloane before my eyes was nothing like the Sloane I knew. Even my wolf, Alek, could sense it."This is a bad idea, Killian," my wolf growled.But that wasn't the point where I'd care about it being a bad idea or not. I'd sworn on my life that not a single pregnant lady would get harmed. It didn't matter if the rest of us would die."I'd advise you shift immediately because you won't be able to scratch me with your human form," Sloane said to me.I smirked nervously."Don't get cocky! Sloane!" I yelled, rushing at him in my human form.I leapt into the air and came at him with a heavy punch. But the moment I swung my punch, Sloane had vanished from where he stood.My eyes widened in shock."Killian, behind you!" Ciro shouted.I turned around in midair and Sloane was coming at me. Quickly, I ducked left and barely managed to dodge his punch. But he grazed my cheek before I could completely dodge."Focus on your battle, Ciro!" I roared at him, "I'll send this bastard ba
ERIKA'S POVThree months had passed after the battle with Aldres. The petition had been filed against the Congress and presented before every region of the supernatural world. Thus, the Congress became careful with their actions.The barrier had remained on since that day I set it up. It constantly drained my energy, but I barely got engaged in activities, so I didn't worry about it.Killian brought my food to the bed. He'd take me to the bathroom whenever I needed to use it. Whether I wanted to bathe or poop, he'd assist me.The doctor visited more frequently than usual. All the pregnant women were almost due. We had less than two weeks to give birth. But some of us had gone into labour already. More doctors were brought from But for the past three weeks, there had been news of constant killing and kidnapping in the supernatural world. Due to that, and added to the fact that my pregnancy was almost due, Killian stayed back in the pack more often than usual. He postponed every meetin
KILLIAN’S POV“Don’t tell me you’re so weak, Alpha Killian. What was all that hype from the Congress about you? Look whom they told me to be careful while fighting,” Aldres spat. I could barely see with my eyes as I lay on the warm floor after receiving countless blows from the vampire.“Stand up,” he said to me, “stand up and fight! I want to give you an honorable end!”I staggered up and spat blood out of my mouth. My spine had shifted when Aldres dropped me from the sky, but I was able to squeeze it back in form when he was punching me on the floor.I took in a deep breath and closed my eyes shut, concentrating blood on the nerves of my ears, making my hearing ten times sharper. I needed to last longer in this battle so as to buy the pack enough time to escape.With my sense super-heightened now, I suddenly sense Erika in the house. What was she doing there? But my panic eased a bit when I sensed Trevor’s presence there as well. Whatever they were doing there, they needed to be fa
ERIKA’S POVThe battle between Killian and the Vampire Lord had begun after Killian saved Edward from his head being blasted away by the vampire Lord. The vampire looked like he was still in shape like it had taken him nothing to beat Edward Blue and Black.In the first few seconds of their battle, they were evenly matched. Killian was even able to land two blows on the vampire lord.“Your moves aren’t as fast as they should. What’s wrong?” Killian asked him after landing the second blow.“Who’s going to go down first?” Lord Aldres said to him with a smile.Killian shook his head, “I overestimated you vampires.”With that, he launched himself at the vampire lord with full force and landed him with a kick. But Aldres was able to catch that kick with his arms.“Not quite heavy,” he smirked.Wing emerged from his back immediately and he flew into the air dragging Killian by the legs. Ascending to a very high altitude, he let go of Killian, and Killian came falling from the sky.Aldrs had
KILLIAN'S POVAfter making out with Erika, I slept soundly that night. But when I woke up the next morning, I had a whim that something was not right. The soldiers who had been on watch the previous night hadn't alerted me of any enemy presence. But inwardly, I kept feeling like the enemy had already come.I stood up from the bed and walked to the wardrobe, pulling out a black shirt and black trousers. I looked back at the bed, Erika was still fast asleep. Dressed up, I gently opened the room door and sneaked out of the room. My plan was to go to the outskirts of the pack and wait there for the Vampire Lord's arrival. If the battle commenced there, that'd give my pack enough time to make the escape preparations. However, when I stepped outside of the house, I sensed someone's pain come over and over again. It suddenly flashed through my mind that the pain I sensed was Edward's. It was then that I realized that the Vampire Lord had already arrived and Edward was doing the exact same
ERIKA'S POVThe next day was going to be the day that the Vampire Lord would come to battle Killian. The Elders knew nothing about this. Killian had found it difficult to rest throughout the day.In the evening, Killian went to the bar and kept drinking until I sent a servant to tell him that I needed his attention at home.He came back home, half drunk, his hair messy and his mouth reeking of liquor as he spoke."What are you doing, drinking when there's a battle to face tomorrow?" I asked him, "Is that what we should be doing by now?""Is it wrong to drink my last wine?" Killian countered my question with his own."Not actually. But you're overdoing it. What if the enemy shows up before then?" I asked worriedly."Aldres is a man of his words. He won't even come close to the perimeters of this area until tomorrow," Killian said, sounding so sure of someone whom h barely knew anything about."Please, there are better things we could do now," I beckoned on him."Like what? Pray to the
ERIKA'S POVThat night, Amiel visited me in my dream. She summoned me to the top of a rocky hill that had water running out from every rock on it. We sat on two rocks, discussing, while water rushed below our feet. The sound of the running water became somewhat of a distraction. Amiel waved her palm over the water and every drop froze where they were. Even the tiniest drops in the air froze and hung there."Wow," I gasped softly, "you're amazing.""Thank you," she said with a chivalrous smile."So, what happened with the mermaid queen?" I asked her.She giggled softly, "We no longer fought.""Ah... Why?""She submitted. We were two and she was all alone," Amiel said."I heard the mermaid queen is very powerful. I heard she controls the whole ocean," I said to Amiel."No. She's not that powerful. She doesn't even rule the whole ocean," Amiel said. "There are other beings in the water whom she is terrified of. And that's why she seeks more power.""Hmm... Really," I said. "So, would yo
KILLIAN'S POV I took to my feet immediately, rushing back to the house. I only knew little about pregnancy, but I had kept an accurate record of how long she had been pregnant. It was just six months. Was it normal for the baby in the womb to start moving? I couldn't tell for sure. But her voice seemed disturbed.When I got to the house, I barged into the room to see Erika's belly bulging up and down."What is this?" I gasped.It looked so outrageous like the baby was kicking her from inside. But what was more outrageous was that Erika wasn't feeling any pain from that."He's talking, but I can't hear him," Erika said to me. How did she know it was a "he"?"I think his Father will be the one to understand him," she said to me.Curiously, I walked closer to the bed and placed my ear on Erika's belly listening."Father, you're in danger!" A shriek flew into my ears.I shuddered back immediately, falling on the floor. That was when the kick suddenly quieted down."What happened?" Erika