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Tyler's POVI squinted my eyes at the blinding sun that attacked my eyes harshly.I made a cup shape with my head and used it to shield my face as I looked up at the cliff above me.I traced the slope from the cliff to the ground with my eyes and sighed deeply, touching my chin.After Vincenzo had told me about how he still felt Roberta’s mate bond with him, I had to carry out some studies of my own. I needed to know how a wolf could still have their mate bond even after one of the partners had died.To do that, I needed to be back at the place where Roberta had died to begin with.I had started at the top of the cliff and studied the surroundings for any strange magic or any science that could explain what had happened with Vincenzo and Roberta’s bond.I walked around the bottom of the cliff restlessly with my chin in my palm.On the floor, I could see twoCHAPTER 93 Charlotte's POV I knocked the door to Elijah's room twice and waited patiently, cursing him beneath my breath. I gritted my teeth in frustration as I waited eagerly for him to open the door. “What do you want?”, I heard him yell from inside. His voice was not as loud as it should have been because the thick walls managed to filter out some of the sound. I huffed angrily and knocked twice again, this time louder than the ones before. There was another brief moment of silence before the door flew open to reveal Elijah frowning down at me with one hand on his hip and the other holding the door for support. “Just because I asked you to knock does not mean I'll always answer. Can't you take a hint?”, he asked sassily. “This one is important. You should probably send your whores away”, I scoffed and rolled my eyes as I pushed my way into his bedroom. As soon as I got in, I saw two half naked girls sprawled on the bed. “Can you excuse us, ladies?”, I asked, shooting the
CHAPTER 94Vincenzo’s POV I stirred tiredly in my sleep as the steady sound of a raven croaking outside my window disturbed me in my semi-conscious state.I turned and glared at the window, thinking of all the many ways I was going to tear the bird to shreds if I could just get my hand on it.I took my pillow from under my head and tried to cover my ears with it.That did not work since the pillows were only stuffed with soft, light weighted feathers.I found it kind of ironic how I was using a pillow stuffed with feathers to cover my ears when I should have been stuffing the raven's feathers into the pillow.As the bird continued to yell at me, my frustration grew until my veins were almost popping out of my head.I groaned loudly and got off the bed, throwing the pillow as far away from myself as I could manage.I huffed angrily and took aggravated steps to the window, where I came face to face with the primary cause of my misery.Just as I opened the window to grab its tiny neck a
CHAPTER 95Charlotte's POV I clenched my nostrils at the smell that filled the air as I walked through the gardens at Stefans's pack.He walked quietly beside me, with both his hands appearing to disappear behind his back.I stared at him intently through the corner of my eye as his face formed a tight frown while we walked.I wanted to let him know about the disturbing smell of the place, but he looked extremely unbothered by whatever was in the air, and so did the guard who lined our paths. “You know, I ought to have you killed right this second”, he said through gritted teeth, passing me a side glance as we walked.My eyes widened quickly in shock, but everything was alright as I took a calm, deep breath and looked away from him.“You don't ought to do anything that will be detrimental to you”, I said lowly, managing to smirk teasingly at him.He looked at me critically, pausing to study my face and turning his full attention to me.I felt a streak of red creep into my cheeks as
CHAPTER 96Declan’s POV I yawned and turned away from my window as the light coming from it danced into my room, threatening to burn off my eyelids.I sighed in relief and held my pillow firmly when I felt the relief of the shadow at the other side of my bed.My breathing danced around for a while before regaining its steady pace as I drifted back to sleep.My days had become drastically shorter since I became the Alpha King. I could do whatever I wanted to do, whenever I wanted to do it, and I was basking heavily in that bliss.The peace that my sole administration had brought not just to me, but to the land as well made me wonder why any of the Alpha Kings in the past ever allowed the council to scrutinize their decisions before enforcing them.The way I saw it, the council created ambiguity in leadership. It only served to take away the legitimacy of the Alpha King, and to give selfish old bastards like Calhoun the audacity to even have demands, and then make them.I creased my fo
CHAPTER 97I looked on curiously at the man in front of me as he returned my gaze with a great vendetta brewing in his eyes.I was used to getting hateful glances. Everyone I came across usually had one to spare before they moved to kiss my ass. However, he looked at me differently. He stared at me like I had wronged him in the deepest, darkest parts of his soul.“Do I know you from somewhere?”, I asked, tilting my head at him and squinting my eyes, trying to find out if I had ever seen his face before and where.He looked even further annoyed by my question as he clenched his hands into fists beside himself and gritted his teeth, while obviously seething.“You don't even know who I am”, he scoffed, looking back at the crowd of followers beside him.Even though they felt slightly empowered by his display of strength and bravery, the people behind him were too afraid to even shake their heads in his support.I chuckled lightly as I looked at him. I sat upright once again, studying his
CHAPTER 98Charlotte's POV I yawned and stretched lightly on the bed as I could feel the last surviving bit of sleep vanish from my eyes.I stretched tiredly on the bed, I felt my hand press against a hard body. I startled awake and opened my eyes to see Elijah smirking down at me. I gasped lightly at the proximity between our faces, but then relaxed when my mind began to take note of my environment.“Elijah”, I called wearily, fluttering my eyelashes at him. He moved closer and planted a soft kiss on my lips. I stayed still, enduring the way his horrible morning breath grazed across my nostrils.“How was your sleep?”, he asked sweetly, brushing my hair away from my face gently with the tips of his fingers.I nodded lightly, pursing my lips as I stared at his face.His fingers trailed down to my cheeks and without warning, he pressed them painfully, causing me to wince in pai
CHAPTER 99I walked around Hazel, making sure that she did not tremble at my presence. I only wanted to prove to myself that whatever she was saying to me was genuine.“Good, good. He has to kill Elijah, you know. If he doesn't, then this was all for nothing and we will all die if Elijah gets back. You know that, right?”, I said, walking towards my closet.“Of course, Luna. We're not going to mess it up”, she said after me.I smiled slightly and nodded.I turned around and noticed that she was still in the bedroom. She had not followed me into the closet.“Come on in here”, I called out to her.She did not respond, but immediately the words left my mouth, I could hear her walking towards the closet gently.She reached the door and just stood there quietly, looking at me.I carefully took off the robe that I wore, leaving my bare, naked body out for her to see. I sighed as
CHAPTER 100Declan’s POV “I don't appreciate being summoned”, Charlotte called out to me as she walked noisily into my meeting room at the training arena. As I heard the obnoxious clicking of her shoes against the tiles from a mile away, I wondered how she managed to stay as crafty as she was when her shoes kept making all that noise. Her enemies had to hear her coming from a million miles away.“I'm the Alpha King. I can do whatever I want”, I smirked as she closed the door behind her.For the first time since I ascended to my new position, I was truly alone in a room with another person.I watched her glare at me while she walked all the way around the table to stand beside me at its end.“I think we both know now that that is not true”, she said with a hint of satisfaction in her tone.She looked at me with a coy look on her face. Her countenance itself was boastful.
CHAPTER 105Tyler's POV I tried to be as quiet as possible as I walked into the hallway that supposedly led to Charlotte's room.I adjusted my pace and marched slowly every time I came across a group of soldiers who were also marching around at a slow pace.I had managed to beat up a soldier and had taken his uniform as a disguise. My problem was with getting into Charlotte's room, since she was Luna and it was practically out of bounds for anyone to be in her room uninvited.I could still recall the conversation that I had held with Hazel the day before, after I outed her as Charlotte's sat.“Now you're going to tell me, is Roberta still alive?”, I asked and looked at her. Her eyes dashed up at me swiftly before darting away like I was a plague they needed to avoid.I felt my heart rate slow down as she nodded her head gently.“Yes, she is”, she said lowly, avoiding my eyes still.I sighed wearily and stepped away from her again. I stared at her with my eyes bare, letting so many of
CHAPTER 104Tyler’s POV I walked confidently into Vincenzo’s room as soon as I heard his voice inside announcing that it was okay for me to enter.As I walked in, I noticed that he was just sitting up on his bed, staring into space. His countenance made it seem like the reality of a new day has yet to dawn on him.As I walked in, his eyes followed me lazily from the door until I gently took my seat on one of the sofas in his room. As soon as I seemed to have settled down, Vincenzo looked away from me and back into the endless abyss that he had been staring into before I interfered.“You don't look so well dude”, I joked, trying to lighten the mood. He completely ignored my efforts as he continued to stare into space with no sign of a thought forming in his head.I sighed and nodded as I turned my face away from his own. As I gently dropped my head in embarrassment, I heard him let out a long, heavy sigh beside me.“Look, Tyler, I'm sorry for acting like a dick. I am not mad at you,
CHAPTER 103Charlotte's POV The crowd remained engulfed in total silence as Stefan's body fell limply to the ground.Declan let out a very loud, eerie yet victorious roar as he looked around the arena where the people sat.He flexed his muscles and yelled non stop, trying to rob his victory into the faces of all those who hoped against it. There was no stunt he did not pull to celebrate the fact that he had beheaded a person with his bare hands, and that he had also managed to put an end to the entire family line.I watched him with irritation on my face as he moved around endlessly. Before Declan even became the Alpha King, he had already begun to clear out entire family trees.I was certain that if he continued to rule steadily for about ten years without having a change of heart, he would singlehandedly orchestrate the end of the werewolf species.Just as the referee was about to walk to the centre and announce that Declan had won the duel, to everyone's excitement, Declan lost hi
CHAPTER 102Charlotte's POV The training arena was packed to its limit with citizens of the colony.They filled the seats and even more, waiting to watch in hopes that their vicious Alpha King gets beaten to death by a vengeful simpleton.I, like them, wanted to be ambitious enough to hope for that, but I knew that it was practically impossible. The duel, like everything else that involved Declan, was just a dumb display.If I was going to get Declan to fall to his knees in defeat, I was going to have to take matters into my own hands, both literally and figuratively. As I stared into space, the crowd suddenly began to roar wildly with women screaming and children jumping and pointing at the centre of the arena.There stood Stefan. He was not exactly the perfect hero. His muscles were severely underdeveloped. He was not lacking in height, but his bowed legs made it easy to tackle him to the ground, and he was definitely lacking in confidence too.However, he had the right motive, he
CHAPTER 101Tyler's POV I sighed and dropped my head on the pile of books open in front of me. I had spent a good portion of my day in the library, studying through all the books on mate bonds.I was looking to find any phenomenon where the mate bond still lasts after one mate had died, but I found none.As I felt the coarse brown paper on my face, I worked up the courage to accept what I already knew a while ago.Roberta was still alive, and Vincenzo had still been feeling her bond. I had a little skepticism about it because according to him, the feeling was shaky. Sometimes he could feel her, and other times he could not.However, in one of the books, I saw that werewolf mates going through some kind of emotional trauma could subconsciously lessen their bond with their partner.I believed that to be true because from my conversations with Darla, she sometimes could not feel anything for her mate, even though she was already marked.I sighed sadly and closed my eyes as Darla's pictu
CHAPTER 100Declan’s POV “I don't appreciate being summoned”, Charlotte called out to me as she walked noisily into my meeting room at the training arena. As I heard the obnoxious clicking of her shoes against the tiles from a mile away, I wondered how she managed to stay as crafty as she was when her shoes kept making all that noise. Her enemies had to hear her coming from a million miles away.“I'm the Alpha King. I can do whatever I want”, I smirked as she closed the door behind her.For the first time since I ascended to my new position, I was truly alone in a room with another person.I watched her glare at me while she walked all the way around the table to stand beside me at its end.“I think we both know now that that is not true”, she said with a hint of satisfaction in her tone.She looked at me with a coy look on her face. Her countenance itself was boastful.
CHAPTER 99I walked around Hazel, making sure that she did not tremble at my presence. I only wanted to prove to myself that whatever she was saying to me was genuine.“Good, good. He has to kill Elijah, you know. If he doesn't, then this was all for nothing and we will all die if Elijah gets back. You know that, right?”, I said, walking towards my closet.“Of course, Luna. We're not going to mess it up”, she said after me.I smiled slightly and nodded.I turned around and noticed that she was still in the bedroom. She had not followed me into the closet.“Come on in here”, I called out to her.She did not respond, but immediately the words left my mouth, I could hear her walking towards the closet gently.She reached the door and just stood there quietly, looking at me.I carefully took off the robe that I wore, leaving my bare, naked body out for her to see. I sighed as
CHAPTER 98Charlotte's POV I yawned and stretched lightly on the bed as I could feel the last surviving bit of sleep vanish from my eyes.I stretched tiredly on the bed, I felt my hand press against a hard body. I startled awake and opened my eyes to see Elijah smirking down at me. I gasped lightly at the proximity between our faces, but then relaxed when my mind began to take note of my environment.“Elijah”, I called wearily, fluttering my eyelashes at him. He moved closer and planted a soft kiss on my lips. I stayed still, enduring the way his horrible morning breath grazed across my nostrils.“How was your sleep?”, he asked sweetly, brushing my hair away from my face gently with the tips of his fingers.I nodded lightly, pursing my lips as I stared at his face.His fingers trailed down to my cheeks and without warning, he pressed them painfully, causing me to wince in pai
CHAPTER 97I looked on curiously at the man in front of me as he returned my gaze with a great vendetta brewing in his eyes.I was used to getting hateful glances. Everyone I came across usually had one to spare before they moved to kiss my ass. However, he looked at me differently. He stared at me like I had wronged him in the deepest, darkest parts of his soul.“Do I know you from somewhere?”, I asked, tilting my head at him and squinting my eyes, trying to find out if I had ever seen his face before and where.He looked even further annoyed by my question as he clenched his hands into fists beside himself and gritted his teeth, while obviously seething.“You don't even know who I am”, he scoffed, looking back at the crowd of followers beside him.Even though they felt slightly empowered by his display of strength and bravery, the people behind him were too afraid to even shake their heads in his support.I chuckled lightly as I looked at him. I sat upright once again, studying his