A war was fast approaching.Marlon hadn’t expected his son, Bob to return home from school with Deonna by his side. She was discovered by some students; despite what Bob told them about not saying anything to anybody, he knew that it was unavoidable. They will talk and word will get around the kingdom; eventually, word will reach the duke and get back to the king and queen.Even Marlon had to admit that Bob was smart in his thinking back at the academy; telling them that he’ll deal with it and then taking her into the woods. That would buy them a little bit of time so they could figure out what their next plan of action was.He was even surprised that Bob wanted to help.They had to figure out where to hide Deonna and Mateo; however, there was only one place he could think of to hide them without raising suspicion around the kingdom.Marlon paced back and forth around his study; Bob and Deonna stared at him with wide worried eyes. Once he had an actual idea, he stopped pacing so he co
My body was numb as I watched Mateo disappear with Bob. Letting him go was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. I could hardly contain my heartbreak for I wanted to fall to the ground and begin wailing like a child. I had to maintain a strong stance though; I needed to be strong for my son. I knew Marlon made some good points about keeping us hidden. I didn’t agree with the tactics, but at the same time I didn’t have any other options myself and I definitely didn’t have a better plan.If the duke was approaching with an army, we needed to be as prepared as we possibly could. Marlon wasted no time in taking me into the dungeon area; I didn’t even realize he had a dungeon at the manor. Although, I expected as much.It smelled of mildew and old bodily fluids; I could still smell the lingering odor of some of the wolves he had kept down here at some point. I could feel my wolf stirring uncomfortably as we made our way through a couple of cells he kept in the dungeon. In the distance, I
Bob thought Alex was stupid and wouldn’t know what he did. Alex saw the entire thing without Bob ever knowing about it. He saw Deonna and as soon as Bob took her away, Alex knew he wasn’t going to kill her. He followed them and watched as Bob took her into the woods; he didn’t go in the woods with them, but he knew Bob would have to reemerge eventually.Once Bob reemerged, he came out with a woman wearing a headscarf; right away Alex knew that had to be Deonna. He was stupid; Bob took her back to the house and their father. Alex, of course, followed them home and overheard their entire stupid plan about hiding her in the dungeon and taking Mateo out of the kingdom.They were ridiculous to think that a plan like that would ever work. Marlon also expressed how he didn’t trust Alex which drove a knife into Alex’s chest upon hearing that. Alex wasn’t as dumb and naive as he was thought to be, and he certainly wasn’t as weak as Marlon thought him to be.Alex hears and sees everything; prob
I lost track of the time as I remained shackled to the dungeon walls. Seconds turned into minutes; minutes turned into hours. I felt like I was delusionally talking to myself, or my wolf. I couldn’t tell who was talking and who was responding.As time went on, I found myself beginning to doze off. I was so sleep-deprived that it didn’t matter where I was or how uncomfortable it was. Maybe if I slept, I would forget about my current state, and it wouldn’t seem as bad. By the time I woke up, everything would be over. Which meant, I would either be dead, or the war will end, and Marlon would have won. Which, honestly, I wasn’t holding my breath for.I wanted to have faith in Marlon and believed him when he says he wanted to protect me and Mateo. But I couldn’t bring myself to do it; despite the protests from my wolf. I was terrified about what was to come and I couldn’t stop thinking about where Mateo was.As I slept, I began having this delusional dream about these voices. They were fam
Bob couldn’t believe they were actually gone; Alex took Mateo when he wasn’t looking and left. Granted, Bob could probably find Alex, just as easily as Alex found him. But what about Deonna? It was either save the baby or save Deonna.Bob had to admit, at one point he couldn’t have cared less if the slave died. She was just somebody he enjoyed toying with. When she first appeared on the farm, he was instantly attracted to her weirdly. She wasn’t somebody he could be seen with, or even grow to love, but she was somebody who looked interesting enough to want to fuck.Despite the rules that the Roessler family had about not having sex with dirtball wolves and other forms of help, Bob still wanted to have his way with this creature. She was timid and frightened, yet beautiful in her own way. She was supposed to be the weakest on the slave farm, but she was outspoken, and it didn’t seem like she cared what happened to her.Alex was always the level-headed of the two and told Bob to leave t
The kingdom’s army was getting ready for battle; they obviously had no idea that the war was because of a slave and the slave’s baby, but they were ready to fight alongside Marlon. He even managed to get some of the kingdom’s strongest wolves to join the army in battle. The kingdom had heard rumors of a slave, but Marlon managed to convince them that they were just rumors and that the only slave there was ended up attending the noblemen’s school in disguise and was caught. Bob was seen taking her into the woods and killing her; there’s been no sign of the slave since so nobody questioned anything more.However, the duke is arriving with his army and is wanting to overthrow Marlon, the highest-ranked nobleman. The kingdom won’t allow that to happen; especially because some of the nobles in the kingdom want that ranking and don’t want the duke to end up with it.With Deonna being a prisoner in his dungeon, this should steer the duke, or at least the king, away from the idea that Marlon
I was gone before he could say anything more. I wasn’t sure if I even knew how to turn into a full wolf, but I knew I had to try; I needed to find my son. I could feel him, and I knew he was still alive. My body was shaking as I ran; I couldn’t remember the last time I actually ran like this. I hadn’t had the willpower to run this fast in a long time.I spent so long being trapped by chains and now I was free; I was actually free. I felt freer than ever. My wolf was exploding with excitement as we stepped outside. I felt the cold breeze on my features, and it felt different than it had since I left the commoner village. This was the air that now belonged to me; I was free.I leaped through the garden, I took in a breath and told my wolf to come forth to me. I felt my body transitioning messily. I felt my bones forming into the shape of a wolf and I braced myself for the pain that was about to come with it. I screamed and stopped running as my body transformed itself.The first transfo
Marlon watched as Deonna went towards the woods; he had already told the guards to let her go. He wasn’t sure what else to do; as soon as others around the kingdom saw her, they would know she wasn’t a prisoner and that he let her go. That would confirm the rumor of the relationship between them.But he didn’t care; Deonna was right when she said that she needed to protect Mateo. He wanted to protect Mateo as well; he would never deny Deonna the opportunity to protect her son. He just wished he could be there to protect Deonna, but he needed to be prepared for when the duke arrived with his army. His army was getting ready for battle, but he was afraid it wasn’t going to be enough.He needed an alternate plan, and he think he knew exactly what he needed to do.But first, there was something he needed to take care of. He trusted his maids and the help around the manor; he didn’t think the ones he currently had would betray him. Beatrice had been his head maid for generations and even t
My water broke right in the middle of Marlon’s proposal to me. It couldn’t have come at the worst time, but the contractions were awful and gut-wrenching. Pain coursed through my body, and I screamed as I tumbled onto the bed.It felt like the baby was about to break out of my stomach at any moment. I could feel the sweat trickling down my features and rolling down the nape of my neck. My breathing had come to rasp and my body trembled uncontrollably.Marlon tried to get me to lie all the way down in the bed.“Aaaahhhhhh!” I screamed as more pain went through my body like an electronic shock.I wished more than anything that I could have Kamala by my side, but she was still unconscious. I held onto Marlon’s arm tightly as the pain went through my body, nearly paralyzing me. I couldn’t believe this was happening right now. It was too early to be having this baby; I wasn’t due for another few weeks.“I have Dr. Lovewitt on the way,” Marlon assured me as he placed a warm cloth over my he
Bob carried Kamala back to the manor, and Deonna and Marlon walked beside them. As they returned, the maids were scurrying around the foyer, looking shocked and Winston also looked worried. Bob said nothing as he passed them to the grand stairs to bring Kamala to bed. She still hadn’t woken up and it was worrisome.Marlon felt complete to blame for that. He couldn’t believe he didn’t realize that her magic was no longer light and that she was using dark magic. Then again, how would he have known unless they told him?None of this made sense to him and he felt a knot in his stomach. He knew Deonna was upset with him for making Kamala come here to use her powers. Especially considering it nearly killed her the first time she used them. But at the time, Marlon felt like there was no other choice. There wasn’t any proof that they had won; though from what Marlon could tell, almost everyone including the king was dead.He hadn’t seen Alex’s body though, so he wasn’t sure if his other son w
I ducked and covered as the battleground exploded. Bits and pieces of the king’s ground flew all over the place; smoke filled the air so I couldn’t see if there were any survivors. I was lucky enough to be a distance away, so I wasn’t hit or hurt, but the ringing in my ears was surreal.I couldn’t hear anything, and I could hardly see anything. The smoke filled my lungs quickly and coughed to try to remove it from my lungs. I pushed my way through the smoke and stumbled across some bodies of the dead. I grimaced at the blood as I came across these bodies; they all looked burned to a crisp and blood soaking through the dirt that surrounded us.My breathing grew shaky as I continued walking through the battlegrounds; praying that I could find some survivors.As my hearing started returning, I heard some screams of the injured and some screams of terror from some others.I screamed out for Marlon.I screamed out for Kamala.She was in the air a moment ago, and now she was completely gone
The gunshots and the yelling were getting louder as Kamala left the forest and entered the town of Mooncrest. The battle was nearing as she ran closer toward them; she wasn’t sure what her game plan was, but Bob and Marlon seemed so sure that she would be able to stop the battle by using her magic.Though they didn’t know how deep her magic goes and how different it was. She wasn’t sure she was going to be able to control it once it started working. Once she came into view of the battle, she turned back into her human form.Or more like her body rejected her wolf form. She wasn’t sure which it was, but it was unsettling.The battle was going on around her; as she walked through the fighting, it was almost as if nobody could see her. None of them paid much attention to her; she realized that nothing was able to touch her.It was amazing; she was wrapped in a bubble of different energy. She couldn’t believe it. It seemed as though the dark magic was working around her without her tellin
I couldn’t believe she had just left. We discovered that her powers are darker than what meets the eye. I’m starting to think it wasn’t Nyx who had this plan; maybe she planned to give Kamala the power to use it for good and not drain her of her wolf and life. But maybe whatever dark magic Petra used was what took that light magic from Kamala and started to fill her with its dark magic.I feared that when she arrived and used those powers to stop the battle, it was going to do worse than good.I couldn’t just stand around and watch my friend and everyone I know, and love meet a fatal end. I had to somehow stop it from happening; I told her I was going to let her go alone. I made a promise that I would stay behind and get some rest, get Mateo in the morning, and wait around for Kamala to send me word. But I couldn’t just do that; I had to go back to Mooncrest to help them.But first, I couldn’t just leave here without seeing my son. This might be the last time I see him, and I needed h
“He wants what?!” Deonna asked, staring at Kamala with wide and worried eyes.Kamala sat at the edge of Deonna’s bed, playing with her fingers nervously. She felt the urge to cry but no tears would leave her eyes. She wasn’t sure what to do or what to think. She couldn’t believe that Bob was asking her to do such a thing. Especially after knowing what happened to her the first time when she used this power.Bob didn’t even know the extent of it, and he was wanting her to return to Mooncrest and defeat the king’s army using the light magic that Nyx had given her. He had no idea that her light magic was gone, and it was only replaced with the dark magic the castle’s shield had soaked into her.She was like a sponge, and she wasn’t sure she could handle such a task.It would put everybody in danger and probably kill her in the process.“I have to,” Kamala said softly, looking at Deonna. “I must help with this battle. If there’s a way to defeat the king’s army and fight for our freedom, t
Marlon was taking cover; he remained in his wolf form, but he feared no good would come from that. the king’s army decided to fight dirty and was using firearms. He managed to get a glimpse of Deonna and Kamala running toward the forest and it didn’t seem as if anyone was following her.Alex’s eyes never left her though he was growling as he too remained in his wolf form. He was obviously furious that she had gotten away but with one wrong move and he would have gotten shot so he couldn’t go after her.It pleased Marlon to watch Deonna escape and once she disappeared into the forest completely, he knew she was going to make it to the village and make it back to Mateo.He refused to die here though; he wasn’t going to let Deonna give birth to their second child without him. He couldn’t bear the thought of her raising their children alone. She wouldn’t have the proper resources needed to raise these children on her own.However, there was no doubt in his mind that she would manage just
I nearly dropped the letter as I continued reading it; it was a letter from my birth mother, Elianna, to my adoptive mother. it was all here; every bit of truth about what happened the night I was born. It was Frederick that told the duke about Elianna giving birth to me. It was Frederick that basically caused the manhunt for my birth father Robert and caused him to either die or run away.I wasn’t expecting the duke to forgive Elianna so easily though after she had an affair and a child with Robert. But he forgave her until she was sent my information and then she was never trusted again.Considering the journal entries were no more and this seemed to be the last letter that I know about; there was no doubt in my mind that the duke had his wife killed because of my birth.What hurt more than knowing about my actual past, was knowing that my adoptive mother knew about it. Everything was written out for her; I’m not sure when she received this letter, but she received it and read it. S
I wanted to write this letter because you have something that belonged to me a long time ago. I have lost everything, and I continue to lose so much even as I write this. I don’t know how much more time I have before they find me. But if nothing else, I want you to at least know the truth about Deonna. I know you adopted her in an orphanage up North. I know this because I was the one who put her there, and you might be wondering who I am and why I would give up such a beautiful child, placing her in a location as cruel as that orphanage. It’s because where I come from, I couldn’t take her with me. It’s not that I didn’t want to, it’s that I couldn’t. if she were to be found out, I would be put to death. But I made some miscalculations, and it seems I will be put to death anyway. Her existence is known, and I only have myself to blame. I’m sorry for writing this in a letter and I’m sorry you adopted her without knowing the truth about her. She will grow to always have a target on her