Ella's POV
I was running through the jungle again. The branches and vines whipped me just as usual but this time, the pain was more excruciating. The fear too came in constant waves of intensity and the pounded of my pulse in my ears wa
Leo's POVI could feel myself drifting out of sleep. I don't know what brought me to. Whether she made a noise or if it was just pure instinct but thank the Goddesses I did.
It had been two weeks since they since the nightmare that nearly led to me overdosing. Four days of that time had been spent in hospital being slowly and painfully withdrawn from the medication before the Doctor stopped giving it to me altogether.
Two months later...It was a sunny Sunday morning. The sun shone into the library and there was a gentle breeze through the open windows as I sat on the carpet playing with Stefano and Zacharias. Leo was out working but Max sat on the other side of the room with the twins on his lap reading to them as we listening to the crashing of Cato, Mathias, Silas and Lili playing in one of their bedrooms.
That night I hardly slept. I couldn't stop thinking about the ring and the letter and how it got to the doorstep.Leo was right next to me and had promised not to fall asleep until I did. But I felt terrible keeping him up, especially as he was so busy with being Alpha at the moment, so I had closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep until I heard his gentle sleeping breaths.
The second I was sure Andrea and the gun were far enough away, I woke Leo up."What's the matter, Ells?" he asked. "You look like you've seen a ghost. And why are you shaking?"
Leo's POVI marched into my office where I knew Blair and my head army commander, Ollie, wou
Leo's POVTwo days later Luca and I were stood in the streets of Seattle.
Leo returned home late in the evening. The kids were in bed and it was just Max and I downstairs.I got up straight away to see him, the anticipation killing me. But as soon as I came into the hall and set my eyes on him as he stood by