Venus's POVMarissa is now sleeping. She claims that having ribs for a meal makes her sleepy like nothing else. She's been eating ribs for lunch for the last two days and she's been sleeping until evening. Alonso and I left Linda and my mother to themselves to catch up on everything they've missed. They both are the kind of best friends I always wanted to have. But the thing is I have Alonso who is a male and my mate. And then Dorian who is trapped in a male body. So sometimes I don't know how the girl bestie thing works. Maybe Marissa will grow up to be my best friend in that way. Now that things have settled that she is not a Rogue and definitely not the one with ill intentions, I can safely let her take time instead of shoving her into the pack. The real world. Alonso and I walk outside, holding hands. No one says a word. They smile and bow their heads. It still feels surreal how Linda made everything seem possible within ten minutes of arrival when Alonso and I had been ponderi
Venus's POVI finally decide to walk in, and John Adams's eyes land on me. His face is already so serious and there is nothing to change in his expression. Usually his face hardens and his glare towards me changes a bit whenever Alonso is not around. "Before jumping into conclusions, what the heck is the link between those both?" I ask him directly. He might be the Alpha but I am The Beta of The capital pack. If I want to take him down right now, I can and I will. Usually Betas can never be above any Alphas but the power system in the capital pack works in a different way. The Alpha King is the supreme power so to be a Beta and a Gamma to him is equivalent and even more than being an Alpha to another pack. So in terms of power, I can easily beat John Adams but I choose to stay down until the Alpha King asks me to do it. "My daughter's reputation is tarnished! Alpha King being the King, does whatever he wishes. Marks one but sleeps with another. Tell me how that is being fair here,
Monica's POV Six full moons. It is not Alpha King Alonso against his anonymous enemy anymore. It is also me and my own daughter. My own blood. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that she is still alive. And she found me. She not only found me but she seems to be doing a lot better at witchcraft than I am doing. I sat at the table that I collapsed two days ago. I don't move an inch. I might be stinking at this point but I physically cannot move. It has been almost a century by now. I know that she is my daughter because I know mine when I see. She looks like a perfect blend of me and Stefan. It's the hatred in her eyes that's making me hate myself even more. I would have stopped right then and right there if I knew my daughter was alive and in the midst of chaos. But in her mind, I am now a mother who chose to run away with her human lover instead of taking her child with her. What was wrong with me back then, you ask? I was a fool in love. I was a goddamn fool. And I am st
Theo's POVI am back in the dungeons again. I don't know if my fate is a better one than the others or worse than the others. Because the ones in the dungeons often meet their fate quickly. They get tortured until they spill what they know and once they do, they get killed. As easy as that. Which is why the people who were thrown in the dungeons often spilled everything faster. Sometimes they just want to meet their end. But I have been here for the past ten days and all I am doing is just laying here on the cold floor, waiting for my end to come to greet me. Venus is such a stubborn head. She is just not letting me leave this world in peace. When I chose not to eat, she was asking, commanding, demanding and even threatening the doctors to give me energy shots. The shots help me at least stay alive but without my wolf, I am already dead. I saw the sunlight for the first time in the last ten days. And it felt different. The way it was touching my skin felt different. The way I had t
Edna's POV"You are my mate and I wouldn't let you go" Ezekiel whispers, and I cannot help but stare at him. I just shake my head at Ezekiel, my gaze falling on Theo. Great. Now he knows that I actually found my mate and that's Beta Ezekiel. Ezekiel then follows the line of my gaze and notices Theo. His eyebrows are knitted in confusion as he walks closer to Theo. Theo's eyes are on me and Ezekiel, glancing between us. And they finally settled on Ezekiel when he sat down in front of Theo. Now they are at eye level, Ezekiel still looking at Theo totally confused. "Have we met already?" Ezekiel asks and Theo nods, ever so slowly. "Former Beta Theo, The Ocean Howlers Pack" Theo says, with his voice still rugged. And the word Former added to his name leaves a pang in my heart. No matter what, he will now be a former Beta. I would have helped him if I had a chance but things are not in my hands anymore. "Why the fuck are you in here?" Ezekiel asks again and before he talks more and
Venus's POVI came back home after a long and tiring but happy day. And I am greeted by a pretty sight where my mom is teaching Marissa how to bake bread. "It's a lot of hard work for something that I can probably finish eating in one sitting," Marissa says to which my mother just laughs it off. It is heartwarming to see Marissa this way. With my mother. Who knows maybe she will become like a sister to me, now that we have all established that she is not a Rogue. But one thing that bothers Linda and Alonso and even me at times, is that no matter what we do or what we say .. she is not at all giving out any information on where the camp is. Dawn says that it might be because she herself doesn't know the exact location. She is fourteen and she is often used as a dumpyard in the camp. She was raised by rogues to a point that she doesn't even know that she is not a Rogue. How the fuck will she know where the camp is? And partially, that theory has a point. "What's cooking for dinner
Alonso's POV"What if I want to know?" I ask my father, still unable to shake the feeling off. I saw my father just stand there in front of John Adams and not do a thing while John Adams was verbally attacking my entire family. Not just my family but a few things as well. My father defended when it came to my mother, thankfully. "It has nothing to do with you, Alonso" my father says through his gritted teeth and now I feel my blood boiling. "How does it justify when you put my life on line? By announcing my engagement with someone I didn't even know? And now her father walks around verbally attacking you and the Royal family for not standing up to our words and you are still here refusing to tell me about it!" I almost scream at him but I stop screaming even more when I catch my own scent in the room. I turn around to find Venus and she is just standing at the door, waiting for me to notice her and ask her to come in. My father takes a step back from me and gives her a forceful sm
Alonso's POVThunder and Dawn shift almost at the same time and set off running to the woods. Thunder is a tad bit faster than Dawn. But the black and red wolves are faster than ever as they race towards the clearing. Thunder blocked me entirely and by the look on the face of dawn, I guess she blocked Venus as well. Venus and I are totally laying back and watching our wolves have the time of their lives. This is the first time they are together after the marking session. And judging the response Venus and I have been getting, I guess Venus can mark me soon as well. After Thunder and Dawn are done playing and cuddling with each other, Venus and I shift back. And the moment I shift back, I mindlink everyone in the pack at the same time that the clearing in the south west is off limits until I say so. It is already midnight and the moon is right above our heads. As if The Moon Goddess is watching over us. Venus and I are naked and on the grass now. The air is a bit colder than the d
Third Person's POV..Three years later. ..."Oh come on now! It's time" Alonso screamed at the top of his lungs but no one seemed to care what he wanted to say. And he was only growing more frustrated with each passing second. Venus agreed to mark him back after three years of solving all their problems. And today is the day they killed John Adams three years ago. "It's Dorian's birthday tomorrow. I am just wrapping up a present for him," Venus screamed back from their bedroom. "Is that really necessary, love?" Alonso asks her even though he knows that she misses her best friend."Of course it is," Venus said, finally opening the door so Alonso could get in. Cole and Dorian are now the Alphas to the Ocean Howlers Pack. Cole is the Alpha by his right after his father passed away. He still doesn't know how his father died. He only knows that he died. And the fact that he never tried to know told everyone pretty much the backstory of it. There was a huge ruckus about the Alpha
Alonso's POVI sit before John Adams who doesn't have any idea that I cracked the code. Or he knows but is not ready to act so. I instantly understand I am standing in front of the man who is probably the most dangerous person I have ever encountered. He was right in front of me all the while and I never knew. He was right in front of my family and they never knew. Because he made sure he touched the topics we were supposed to think about. About the wedding. About the political alliance. About the life debt. He successfully dodged the subjects of everything else. In a way that no one had a doubt. When Venus and I were talking about the camp and attacks and everything, he offered his help. So no one could doubt him. How would someone even doubt him when he just offered his freaking help? So did Edna know all the while.? "How is my daughter?" John Adams asks me and I raise my eyebrow at him. "Are we talking about Edna or Marissa?" I asked him and just like that, he stopped reading
Venus's POVThe rest of the journey to the Ocean Howlers Pack went by a blur. Because no one said anything. No one spoke anything. The story Michael said spoke volumes and I guess now everything is falling into place. That was why Michael was forced to give his word. The life debt. The one John Adams used to get his daughter on the throne. I never knew John Adams had a son before Edna and Cole. So for the last two years, we had been celebrating the life of John Adams's son. Not Alonso's brother. And Alonso's memories were wiped of because he stared into the red fire. His memories slipped out of his body through the blood tears that day. Now that is a lot to take in. And before we knew it, we were in The Ocean Howlers Pack. We all stepped down and people were partially shocked to see Theo without the chains and everything else. Because technically he was taken as a prisoner. They half expected that he would get executed as soon as he reaches the capital pack. And people bowed to A
Theo's POVMy eyes go wide when I realize that the hen was Edna. I didn't know when it happened. The last time I saw Edna was when she was in the clearing along with everyone else. And then Roger or whoever the fucker he was, struck Marissa with a silver knife. I rushed to the hospital along with Alonso and then I was shifted to the prison again according to the rules and regulations.I didn't know Monica turned Edna into a hen. Why did Edna even get down from the carriage in the middle of a fucking war! As soon as the carriage stopped back at the same spot again, I got down from the carriage and looked for the hen with white feathers. I feel Marissa behind me probably searching for the hen too. It didn't take us all ten minutes but Monica found the hen. The hen is sleeping under a tree with her beak so red she might have eaten berries or something. Typical Edna things for sure. I smile as I take the hen in my hands. I honestly can't believe this is Edna that I am holding. We all s
Alonso's POV "John Adams?" My mom asks me with shock clearly written on her face. Now this is something even she did not see coming. Everyone in the room is shocked. Except for Monica and me. Because this is something we both knew from the beginning. "Are you going to hide things or are you going to tell your kid about that man now?" Monica asks my father and I look at him. What is there about John Adams that I should know about?"Get the carriage ready. We'll go there and we are going to talk about it on the way," My father says and his expression is something else as he looks at me. "Is there a carriage that fits like ten people? Because we are all going to go as we get to know about the past. And it is going to be one nasty ride," Monica says. ....We didn't have a carriage that fit ten people. But in the short time that we have, all we did was join two carriages as one and break one side down so it's open. And then joined the two sides and made it into one big carriage th
Alonso's POV I sit with Venus and watch her fall asleep once again. Give it to her to fall asleep at any time, and any situation. Marissa is with Monica and even I didn't see it coming that she could be a witch. Even Monica seemed to agree with me when I told her that I see John Adams in her. I tried bringing up that topic with Venus but she just didn't see it that way. For a while I thought maybe I was reading too much between the lines. Venus stirrs in her sleep but I keep her head on my shoulder so she can still sleep conveniently. Her drool is on my shirt now and I smile a little. Apparently Monica restored the spell again and she said she made a few changes. I don't know what kind of changes, but I only hope she is sure about them. When the doctor finally walks out of Dorian's room, that's when Venus wakes up and is on alert mode. The doctor bows to me first and then her. But there was a smile on his face when he was bowing to Venus."Gamma Dorian is awake. And he is perfectly
Monica's POV I sit at the table again, with the hen in my hands. Venus didn't want to let go of the hen only because she doesn't know who this actually is. A bowl with rice grains flies out of the kitchen and lands in front of the hen. The hen starts eating the rice and I look at the kitchen, waiting for it to give me something. "Oh so now you are disrespecting me again?" I ask her and there is no noise. And when I am about to scream once again, a glass with cold water lands in front of me. I raise my eyebrow at it and look at the kitchen again. "Where the fuck is my morning tea you stupid!" I scream and a cup of tea flies out of the kitchen again. I roll my eyes and take a sip of my tea. The hen is about to finish the entire bowl. And I realize the entire pack might not have eaten dinner. Because the ruckus has happened during the dinner and everything stopped after that. I take a few deep breaths as I get rid of the papers strapped to my thigh. And I pull out the potions I stu
Monica's POVI flip through another page of my spellbook when someone knocks at the door. The time is odd and I would usually sleep right now, but somehow I chose to stay awake to go through the spell books. I need to find a way to get to Renee. That bitch is my daughter but she is just as powerful as I am. I can't even get a grip of her. If she does the blood rite, it brings greater evil into this world and I am so not ready to face all of it once over again. I looked through the orb when I heard the knocking in this unusual time. And I see someone from the capital pack. Not the Alpha or The Beta or Michael themselves. I ask them to come in and they walk in but in their wolf form. I am at least happy that they remember, I am not fond of humans or the human side of the supernaturals. "What is it?" I ask him in a deadly sick tone. The wolf just moves his head a little. And I see a note hanging in his neck. I carefully grab it, being careful not to touch the wolf. "We need you, Mo
Venus's POVAlonso holds Marissa as she falls down while I rush forward to grab Roger. He fucking turned into a mist. It's like I am trying to hold the air before me. I scream in frustration and turn around to find Alonso already throwing Marissa on his shoulder. He is rushing towards the hospital with a team of doctors running behind him. Everyone is here and probably a few nursing staff stayed behind at the hospital to nurse the already existing patients. I stayed back at the clearing. Now it's dark but the werewolf sight is helping me look at everything in a clear way. Linda and Michael are standing in the middle, scanning the surroundings again. "If Roger took Dorian's form. Then where is Dorian?" Dawn asks me and I look around once more. Where is Dorian? And how long did Roger stay around as Dorian? "When was the last time you talked to Dorian? Did he sound or seem suspicious??" I ask Cole and he thinks for a moment before shaking his head. "I was talking to him an hour ag