"But now she is pregnant, you have to give her respect," Mrs. Heller raised the same topic once again, and I sat back."But how? How is she pregnant when she has claimed to never be able to conceive again?" Aramis stood up and yelled at Layla, when talking to Mrs. Heller. Everybody was stunned once again, even me."She told us she could not conceive. This was the very reason Phoenix selected her for the babies, because she knew how a stepmother would prioritize her own kids. And our kids will suffer." Aramis was shaking his head and refusing to believe the news.I shared a glance with Silver, who had a frown on her forehead as if she was trying to solve this mystery.‘Something doesn’t seem right here,’ Nix mumbled. ‘You need to jog your memory. You must remember everything, Phoenix!’ She was right.Aramis would never cheat on me. So whatever happened when I was gone must have another side to it."I—I don’t know how it happened, but I think it is because of the alpha king. He is a po
After a little chat, I was left alone in the room to pack my stuff. Aramis didn’t ask me to leave the kids behind. I knew he wouldn’t do that to me."Hey!" I sensed Layla before she even spoke a word."I didn’t know you would want to leave so quickly." There was a hint of victory in her voice."I came back from the dead, Layla. Don’t try me," I turned to her and spoke confidently."Well, you had a family waiting for you. But now that you have heard the truth about your mate, I bet you are already regretting coming back here." She made sure she stayed out of the room when taunting me. She wasn’t as confident and fierce as she was trying to portray. "Since you are so confident, I’m leaving him behind. If you can make him fall for you, he is yours," I challenged her, too confident she could never make Aramis fall for her when I’m still alive. "Look at you. I feel bad for you, Phoenix. You couldn’t even hold your babies and watch them grow. Isn’t it sad that you were stripped of all tho
"Are you a ghost?" Veronica asked, sitting on a sofa with a nanny holding her son. After they saw me, Hassel called Aramis to tell him he saw me alive. Little did he know that Aramis was the one that brought me back. They were all shocked when they heard how Aramis sneaked into the wailing world to bring me back to the world of the living."You wish," I commented. Both my kids were sitting in my lap, refusing to get off. Evelyn was already in a poor condition. She had become so timid and afraid of everything that everyone freaked her out."So why didn’t you stay there? Oh! I forgot. He got a new Luna Queen. She must have kicked you out." Iris had not changed at all. The smirk across her lips while her eyes shone with anger after seeing me alive reminded me of old times. The pack was still in shock. There were members coming in and out to sneak a glance at someone who had returned from the dead. I sarcastically nodded to myself before adjusting in my chair and looking at her again."No
"I can try to get in contact with him. I will find him for you," Markus followed me briskly to the exit, trying to communicate with me as much as he could."Oh, look who decided to come out of his cave. It is my sweet brother," I bet Veronica was waiting for him to show up so that she can be bitter with him. I don’t understand where she got the nerves to taunt him when she had done the same to me. When had she ever taken my or anybody’s side? But she was mad at Markus for not taking her side."I don’t want to talk to you, Veronica," Markus, who had been keeping himself locked for so long, didn’t want to speak to anybody else but me."Veronica! I don’t get why you are so mad at him when you have done the same to me. When have you ever considered somebody else’s feelings in question for not considering yours? That shows you are still selfish and mean," I said, just because I wanted to. I watched her look down and then gulp in guilt. It was true, they were still just selfish and mean. I
Author’s POV:‘Huh! I was worried about nothing.' Layla sighed when entering her room. She couldn’t get over the fact that she was able to shoo Phoenix away so easily.‘She is so stupid for leaving the place for us,’ her wolf said. She was a little worried in the beginning when they first saw Phoenix walk out of the car, but now that she was gone, the two felt like they were truly invincible.‘I bet she couldn’t tolerate seeing me pregnant. It must remind her of her painful pregnancy. She couldn’t even enjoy it,’ Layla scoffed, walking over to the closet and looking for a sexy gown for the night.‘So what’s the plan?’ Ayla questioned Layla since she looked like she had already decided to take some steps.‘It is Aramis’ first night back. He must be devastated. I want him to feel like I am the only one who truly loves him while his precious Luna Queen took away his kids and left him alone. I am here for him,’ Layla told Ayla all about her plans while preparing for the night.‘That sound
Author’s POV:‘Phoenix loved wearing this scent. This is what drove him close to me that night.’ Layla sprayed Phoenix’s favorite perfume before she adjusted her hair and prepared to leave. The dinner didn’t get served that night. Silver ate alone in her room, and so did Layla. Aramis didn’t eat anything; he didn’t even walk around the mansion like he used to."Ah!" Layla had a bright smile covering her lips when she walked around the mansion and reached Aramis’ room. The room seemed locked, so she couldn’t welcome herself inside."Aramis!" she knocked on the door, calling for him sweetly."Aramis! Let me in. The baby wants to be around his father," she said, giggling to herself, too proud of how she had kicked Phoenix out."Aramis! Open the door," her smile started to disappear when he didn’t answer the door for another few minutes."I don’t think he had fallen asleep. Why isn’t he opening the door?" She frowned, glaring at the door while gritting her teeth."How can he open the door
Phoenix’s POV:I was happy to see Evelyn so excited and full of life after hearing all the heroic stories I told her. Especially about the war her father and I fought against the draugrs."I am going to tell Roman that I am sorry and that I am not afraid of anything anymore," Evelyn ran ahead of me to meet her brother in the room.I heard her giggles intensify when she reached the room, but I thought it was due to her being back to her normal self. However, the instant I walked into the room, I saw Aramis holding both babies and hugging them tightly."Mommy! Look, Daddy came!" Evelyn cheered, hugging Aramis tightly. He got up from his knees with both babies in his arms and watched my face with a defeated look on his face."Why don’t you two play around a little while your mom and I talk?" Aramis said, putting them down. I left the room first, and he followed me. I didn’t want to speak to him around the kids because I kind of knew Roman was nosey. Once we were in the Royal Garden, I st
That night, we went to bed with a lot of plans for the next day. I wanted to stay awake because it devastated me. After Aramis told me that the only way Layla could get pregnant was if she had used that potion, I just couldn’t calm down. She was the reason I missed everything and would have never survived if Aramis hadn’t come to rescue me. “I called Silver; she is coming over,” Aramis announced, slipping into a grey jacket and getting ready for breakfast.“I don’t know how I couldn’t see how evil she was.” I was still in shock from what we found out about Layla last night. “You were only focused on me and your babies at that time. No one can blame you. The good thing is that you are back now, and together we can punish her very well,” Aramis said as he handed me the black jacket and waited for me to get ready to meet the others outside.“Let’s keep our chins up for now,” I said, walking hand in hand with him to the breakfast table. Everybody had already met Aramis when he went out
"Oh! And the kid who used to steal her candies?" Zion excitedly said, reminding us of a little quarrel Veronica used to have with this little kid because he would always steal her candies and would not even eat them. "Yeah! Keep bullying me," she playfully rolled her eyes and then looked my way. I gave her a smile of reassurance to brighten up her evening. It had been a year since we last fought with the wailing brides. The bodies were released, and it took us time to say goodbye to everyone and give them a proper burial. Aramis finally let go of Tanner’s body. I cozied up in his arms, sitting around the fireplace with the others and enjoying a beautiful evening. We gathered around to celebrate my baby shower. I heard from the doctor that I was having twins, a son, and a daughter yet again. We were all sitting on the floor with blankets wrapped around our bodies and shivering in the cold. Markus had found a mate, while Veronica was not ready to date anyone. She wanted to focus on h
Phoenix’s POV:As planned by Aramis, Morine was executed, and her body was thrown at the wailing river to get picked up by the wailing brides. Morgana was left injured. She woke up to the wailing bride getting attacked by the warrior. The horror she witnessed was compared to nothing when she died their slow and painful death from her wounds. She kept yelling for the guards to not leave her body here after she dies but they didn’t care. This was the first time in over a year that they had received a body. So the wailing brides came to collect the body, and that’s when Aramis attacked them with the sword he made with graphite.Since we had collected a lot of it before returning to our world, Aramis was able to make a few swords. That was the basic problem. Most of our guards were only going to protect and delay their attacks. After the wailing brides were killed, we knew they were coming.Since Aramis and I knew where they would be coming from, we had prepared our army to stand on the g
Author’s POV:"I don't understand why they're accusing me of all this nonsense," Hassel had been on the verge of tears since Mr. and Mrs. Heller read the case Aramis and Phoenix had prepared against him."So you don’t remember?" Aramis scoffed. "Let me jog your memory a bit with these text messages and audio recordings." He held Iris’ phone up and played the audio. Iris had deleted everything from her side.Silver had been staring at Zion, who was holding Iris close by. She didn’t think he would get fooled by her so easily. But then again, she remembered her own beliefs. It was true that the Alphas only want a she-wolf, not some witch like her."That is---," Hassel felt his throat drying up, "I do--- this is a huge conspiracy against me," he claimed, trying to get up from the seat when two guards pulled him down and held a gun with silver bullets to his temples. He was frozen in shock. It was happening. His downfall has arrived. Veronica and Markus were standing behind Phoenix’s couch
Author’s POV:Misty’s rejection caused an uproar because she denied leaving the pack and accepting the rejection. She wanted Markus to promise her he would accept her, and only then would she reject Hassel and leave the pack. Unfortunately for Iris, she had lost her baby. Hassel accused her of not taking care of his heir, but he didn’t reject her yet."He is going to reject me soon." She whispered to herself, crying for hours in her room and getting angry at her sister for her loss."If Phoenix’s siblings can betray her, how did I ever think mine wouldn’t do the same? She took my mate first, and now she's taken my baby." She broke down once again."What the heck was I thinking when I closed the door that day? I wish Zion had survived and was still the alpha of the pack. He used to treat me with so much respect. I was able to brainwash him so well, but this Hassel, he is only hungry for power and sex. I will never be able to win his heart and neither do I want now," she scoffed at the
Author’s POV:"You are becoming so difficult to deal with. Why do you have to question my every action?" Misty finally yelled at Hassel after listening to him for a few minutes, complaining about her spending most of the money on shopping and then coming home to sleep and not even looking at him."I’m the one who is difficult to deal with? You barely pay attention to me. This isn’t why I married you," Hassel yelled louder, walking back and forth while she kept sitting on a couch, texting her friends."You have other mates. Why don’t you go spend time with them so that I can be left alone for a few minutes?" Misty muttered, not even raising her face from her cellphone.Hassel was shocked to hear her say that. It sounded like she didn’t even care who he sleeps with anymore."You wouldn’t be jealous if I slept with my other mates?" He asked Misty in confusion and shock. He was slowly beginning to realize that while he used everyone else, Misty used him."It’s not like I can keep you with
"Hassel had offered me a good amount to get rid of Savia. When I arrived on the scene and tried to harm her, Tanner appeared out of nowhere. He started fighting for her and saving her. That’s when I started shouting at the top of my lungs that it was Tanner who did all that to her. Since she was bleeding and in his arms, the nearby pack members started accusing him. I realized he had some trauma from his childhood because he began to sob instantly. It wasn’t our plan to trap him, but it fits perfectly." Kian said while tied to the chair. Aramis had beaten him up really badly in order to make him take us seriously. He was no longer joking around or beating around the bush."So you accused my brother!" Aramis grunted. "Do you have any idea you killed two people that day?" Aramis punched him as he lost his temper. I just stood in the corner, remembering Tanner and feeling bad for him. He did not deserve what happened to him. His best interest was to save Savia. "You will be tortured a
Phoenix’s POV:"The memory came back when I saw her in the wailing world. It terrorized me to my core. I can’t believe I forgot about it. I am sure it was the Moon Goddess trying to save me from the painful memory of that night." Aramis had tears streaming down his eyes while he kept staring at his mother’s portrait."I am so sorry." I instantly got up and wrapped my arms around him. He sobbed in my arms like a little baby who never got a chance to mourn losing so much that night.Not only did he witness his mother kill his father and Naira, but he also saw her attacking him. She didn’t only take away his father from him, but his mother, too."I saw my mother turn into a monster and leave," Aramis bit the inside of his cheek as he broke the hug and held my hand to put it on his chest. "I always thought about why I felt this weird feeling whenever I heard the wailing brides cry. It is because they all imitate my mother’s cry, the cry I grew up listening to every night." He was shaking
Author’s POV:Years Ago:"Hush little baby, don’t say a word--- moma’s gonna buy you---," her eyes teared up when signing to her little baby boy Tanner. She was nicknamed Majesty after her beauty and elegance were noticed by many others. She was a Luna queen of Alpha King Nicholas Knight, but sadly, her life was not royal because her mate wished to reject her."Jocelina!" she cried for the attention of the nanny they had brought in. Jocelina walked inside and bowed down to Majesty."Where is Alpha King?" she asked, and Jocelina bit her tongue. She knew very well what interests her alpha king had."Majesty! Why do you want to know?" Jocelina sighed, feeling bad for her because it was like a routine now. Majesty will see her mate with that chosen mate of his, and she will not stop crying the entire night."He is with her again?" Majesty asked, feeling this weird anger bubbling inside her."Where else would he be?" Jocelina didn’t understand why the Alpha King couldn’t just love his true
"This much is enough." Silver held the bottle of blood in her hand and stared at it with hope-covered eyes."Silver! I know you are doing a lot already, but I need your help with something else." I watched her put the bottle down and turn to focus on me."Is it about finding Ezekiel?" she asked, and I smiled at her intelligence. "I am already looking for ways to break the protection spell. Once I am able to do it, it will be a lot easier for me to track Morgana down. The only reason she is able to hide from us is the magic Morine is using. However, she is old and very sick. Using so much magic can lead to her demise. If that happens, it will leave Morgana unprotected. I will try my best to keep looking for them." After discussing her plans and ideas with me, she nodded to herself and then smiled once something else popped up in her head."Thank you for coming back," she said."I couldn’t stay away from here. I just wanted to keep my daughter safe. The Moon Goddess gave Layla a chance