~Hazel's POV~ I took off to the room on my right and knocked on the door. She opened the door and let me in, "Lock the door, Haze." I did what she asked and stood in the corner of the room with her to prevent Nick and Axel from hearing us, "So...?" "I talked to Lexi about this last night, but she isn't picking up now. I'm worried about you and this little nugget of mine. I know Axel and Nick won't let him hurt you, but still. I know how painful all of this is for you. I don't want you to drain yourself mentally. It won't be good for you or the baby," She said with worry laced in her every single word. I hugged her tightly, "Thank you. I owe you my life, bestie. I wouldn't have survived all of it if it wasn't for you. Thank you for always being my rock." "I'll always be there for you. You would have done the same for me," She said while hugging me back. Her phone started to buzz and she picked it up in a jolt after seeing it was Lexi. "Hey, where have you been?" She
~Hazel's POV~It feels like my insides are stretching badly. It felt like every single muscle in my body was trying to pop out of its place. "Hey, what's wrong?" I heard the guy's voice from the outside but I couldn't point out what was wrong with me. The pain was increasing with every second passing, and it felt like my belly would explode any moment. "Haze... I don't know what happened," I heard Scarlett's panicked voice. Someone picked me up from the floor and took me to the bed while I kept groaning in pain. "What's wrong with her? What happened here?" I heard Nick's voice "I don't know... We were heading out and..." "I'll call the doctor," Axel said. I took my hand under my sweatshirt and my eyes widened in realization... My baby... Was he...? "Axel, wait," I told him to stop and slowly sat back against the headboard while taking some deep breaths. I pulled my sweatshirt up and a giggle came out of my mouth. This baby of mine has already started being nau
~Hazel's POV~ I took a long deep breath and opened the door of Liam's room. He was sitting at the same spot where he slept for the whole night with his head placed on the headboard. The only difference was, now, he looked in pain instead of peace. "Hey..." I whispered while slowly inching towards him. His eyes shot open and gazed at me with beautiful brown eyes which were all in confusion, "We met before... We..." Does he remember? Oh, dear moon goddess please tell me he does! Even if it's the tiniest bit. He stood from the bed and took a few steps in my direction, which made me halt in my tracks, and I stood there, patiently waiting for him to come to me. "Have we? I..." He asked. He was inching toward me slowly, but suddenly, he stopped and sat on the bed. "I don't know what's happening to me... I... I'm getting these weird... Visions..." He said while rubbing his palm on his face. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have given so much information at once," I said in
~Hazel's POV~ I followed in his footsteps as fast as I could and saw him glaring at Axel and Nick while his nose flared in anger. "She betrayed me... And you two did nothing better than her," He said, frustrated and disgusted. "Trust me, we want the best for you," Axel calmly said. Liam bitterly chuckled at his response which made all of us glance at each other. I'm sure he wasn't losing it or he was? We waited patiently for him to say anything but instead of letting his anger out, he grabbed a vase from the table and threw it across the living room, smashing it several tiny pieces. Great, now we have to pay for his damages to the hotel as well. "Trust you? How the fuck am I supposed to trust all of you? All of you have been telling me trust you... First her, and now, you. Give me one good reason to put my faith in you because I can't find one!" He yelled while radiating anger from every inch of his body. "She is your mate and we are your best friends and beta and Ga
~Liam's POV~ I wish I knew what the fuck was wrong with me. I never had such off moments with Axel and Nick but for the past so many days, our friendship has taken such an ugly turn. They both were someone whom I trusted with my life. And they even proved it right when they saved me at the cemetery. I could've died that day if they both weren't there to take the bullets directed towards me. I know I should trust them, and I would be the worst not to do it, but when I see them siding with Hazel except for me, it takes me to the verge, and I find myself losing my faith in them. They trust her words more than mine... They trust her so much that it makes me question if they are my best men or her. And Hazel... I don't know what kind of fucking deal I have with her. I don't even understand if it's a contract or conspiracy. Something in my heart tells me to trust her but then there is another part of me that reminds me of what she did with me. I trusted her with a very big s
~Liam's POV~ The relief I saw on my people's faces after they saw Hazel getting out of the car was on top of the world. Not only their faces but their relieved eyes and loosened-up posture also confirmed how badly they were affected by everything that happened in the pack after she left. "You mean with every chaos that you did in the pack in Hazel's absence," Leo lazily said. Yeah... Maybe... Now, I think of all of that, I can't point out one good reason for lashing out and scaring the shit out of my own people. I didn't mean to scare or lash out at them, but still, it happened. "After hearing all of them, it quite makes sense why we were affected by Hazel's absence. For sure, at first, we thought betrayal was doing this to us, but now... The effect of Hazel's presence does things to us that nobody was able to do before," Leo said and faded away in my mind. I don't know... Sometimes, I feel like I want to agree, and sometimes, I don't. I am not sure of things that I
~Liam's POV~ "Hey... Were your parents the same as you? Wolfless?" I asked in a soft voice while wiping the teardrop from her cheek. She shook her head, "No... They had wolves. That's why I expected to be the same as them." "So why don't we sit and talk about your family? I'm sure we can find something about your wolf if you are not lying," I chuckled. She crossed her arms in front of her chest, which made her appear nothing but a small angry bird, and she glared at me, "So do you think I wanted to be bullied for like... Eighteen months? Oh yes, I guess I did. I loved it when people barged into my house, calling me an abomination, threw stones inside my house, and chased me to the cliff. Yeah... I loved that all." They what? My pack? My pack did all of this with her? "My pack? Did they do all of this with you?" I asked, still in shock and not able to process all of that. "Who else," She scoffed and again started to walk to the door. I pulled her back to me before
~Liam's POV~ Her uneven heartbeats and withdrawal of eye contact forced me to think harder about which morning she was referring to but even after trying my best, I couldn't recall anything and kept inviting a headache. "Hazel..." I called out to her to gain her attention back. She placed her plate back on the table and sighed, "I... Umm... I don't think you should take so much information at once. I think it's enough for a day." I am done with Axel, Nick, and her telling me again and again the same thing. They shouldn't be the ones deciding it. It should be me! "Tell me. I won't let any of you decide what or how much should I know. I want to know everything." "Liam, I-" "Hazel, now," I demanded in my alpha voice. Tears pooled in her eyes after hearing the rudeness and harshness in my voice but knowing my small gesture of softness right now could spoil the moment of truth, I refrained from showing any care towards her and glared at her, "Now." "The footage... T
~Liam's POV~"I should take notes of this..." I whispered. "Wait till you see more," She giggled. "I thought it was a movable almirah..." She shook her head, "It isn't. It looks like one from the outside but it's not. The center part won't budge from its place as you already saw it's a door to this small room." The room was very small, enough only for a person to stand in, so Hazel walked into the room and turned to her right, where a giant locker was placed. She placed her thumb on its scanner and took glasses from the stand. The glasses seemed to get some... Wait... Are they scanning her eyes? "Your eyes are getting scanned?" I asked in awe. "Yup," She chuckled. What the heck? "I thought I had the best protection in my packhouse," I said, a little disappointed with the lack of such high protection in my packhouse. "Yeah, that's why Zoey was able to steal so many things," She smirked. "Hey, that's a personal attack," I said and slapped her butt which made her jump
~Liam's POV~ I knew coming back to the place that gave Hazel the worst memories of life wouldn't be easy. A Tsunami of emotions hit Hazel so bad last time we came here that I promised not to let her step into this house again, but here we are, once again, in front of the house that holds only the traumas of my mate. I tightened my grip around my mate's shoulder who was gazing at the house with a heavy heart and sighed, "I remember I promised you that you wouldn't be here again and I would get the whole house painted and repaired but I was so busy with other things that I couldn't look after it. I'm sorry." Just like the last time, her heart was racing and anxiousness was evident to feel within her without even trying. She was trying her best to control her emotions but since we were bonded, it was easy for me to see and feel every breath filled with pain that she was taking in. "Don't be. At least you asked people to cover up the walls. I'm grateful for that," She smiled at m
~Hazel's POV~ "Hazel, sweetheart, wake up! Wake up, baby!" I jolted up from the bed and caught my breath... What the heck was that? My hand instantly went to my belly, and I took a sigh of relief; my baby was with me... That... That was a dream... No... Nightmare. "Sweetheart, are you okay? Another nightmare?" Hearing Liam's voice made me snap out of the pain and grief that I was still feeling, and I cupped his cheeks while scanning his body over and over again. "I'm glad you are okay..." I cried and hugged him tightly. I have been having nightmares for days, but this was the worst one out of all. "Sssh, it was just a nightmare..." He caressed my hair and kissed my head. "I-I saw you and our baby... Dying... In front of my eyes," I whispered and hugged him tightly. I don't want even a bit of it to come true. Fuck this dream, I can't even see these two getting a scratch. Earlier, it was only a man, a woman, and a baby that I used to see in my nightmares, b
~Hazel's POV~ ***My heart was my guide and my eyes in this dark room. I didn't know where I was going or where I was in the first place... All I knew was that my heart was guiding me somewhere safe. I called for Liam every single second and steps that I took in the moon goddess knew which direction with racing heartbeats. I hate being alone... I have been alone all my life and I hated every single second of it. I don't want to be alone again... I have a mate and friends now; I want to be with them as long as I can, not in the darkness that I used to live in for most of my life. "Liam!" I called Liam, Scarlett, and others, but there was no one to hear my voice. Sweat formed on my head while tears started to pool in my eyes... It feels like I am living my worst nightmare. No one is around me... And this time, not only my loved ones but NO ONE. Not even a single person. With chaos in my heart and mind, I kept walking forward and soon smiled in joy as I finally found light
~Liam's POV~ "Is it done?" I asked Lexi, who had just gotten out of the dungeon with Nick. She nodded her head, "Don't take her out of her cell otherwise, the magic will lose its charm. Stay within the boundaries that I have created in front of her cell." "Thank you," I nodded my head and walked into the dungeon. Ethan and Charlotte were the first ones to get into my sight as I entered the dungeon. While seeing Ethan standing with a face full of arrogance in front of me, made me want to growl, my aunt's puffy face with dry eyes told me to stay put. She has been trying her best to change her arrogant son's mind but she doesn't know his mind stopped functioning in the right direction ages ago. Not wanting to initiate any conversation, I cleared the way for them to leave and moved down into the dungeon. It's hard for both of them to see their son like this but it will only keep becoming difficult if they don't accept today's truth. I walked straight in front of Zoey's c
~Liam's POV~ Nick walked into my office with sleepy eyes and a yawn coming out of his mouth which made Axel and I scoff at him. "We are hanging over a cliff but you seem to be dancing over the top," Axel scoffed. "Yeah, I was... Last night," He chuckled. "Great, now, we should work if we want to stay on top every night," I said while rolling my eyes. "Aye, aye, captain," He saluted and sat on the couch. He opened his laptop while I shared the records of my pack members with him. Forwarding my laptop to Axel, I sighed, "This is the data of the past twenty years, split up in two. List out all the names of people who have been around all the while and died the same year as Hazel's parents and mine, obviously the ones old enough to betray their alpha and Luna. And make a special note of people who were around when Lexi's mother and Adams joined the pack." While I read the letters and try to find something related to Hazle's wolf, I want them to dig into our pack's histor
~Liam's POV~ "So you are still not able to change her mind?" Axel asked as he threw a punch at me. I growled and blocked his punch, "It feels like I'm talking to a wall at times..." "It won't be easy," He groaned while pushing me back and threw a punch again at me but I ducked his attack and kicked his leg. I locked his neck between my arms and growled, "I don't want to wait." I freaking don't want to wait anymore... It's been three days since I am trying to change Hazel's mind about her wolf but she just doesn't want to listen. I am certain that whoever betrayed Dad and partnered with rouges is still breathing fresh air into my pack every single day... I want to rip that person's heart out from his body... That person snatched our parents... I want to burn him every single day till his soul begs me to put an end to his misery... Axel tapped on my elbow and I quickly let go of him, "I didn't realize I was holding on tight." "You do realize that you have to talk it out t
~Hazel's POV~ In the past few moments, I got to know so many things about my parents and our past, and every time I felt agitated on the verge, Liam was calming me down but this time... He was the one losing his cool. His palms were turned into fists and his fists were so tight that I could see his knuckles turning yellow while the nerves on his arms seemed as if they would pop out any moment. He was doing his best in maintaining a straight face with no emotions on his face but I could feel how raged he was from the inside. He wanted to rip people's hearts out... He wanted to go on a killing spree... "Nobody told me that rogues had anything to do with their accident," Liam said, trying his best not to growl while I kept caressing his neck to keep him calm. Mr Haywood looked down at his lap and sighed heavily, "I know you might think we did wrong to you, but trust me, it was for the best." He gazed at Liam and smiled, "Charlotte and Nathaniel were each other's support i
~Hazel's POV~My head was already spinning with so many things unfolding in front of my eyes that I couldn't seem to handle them anymore. But... I know I have to go on if I want to know the whole truth. "But the pack would have helped them? Why do they have to go on their own?" Liam asked Mr Haywood. "Ivy received a threat note in the same handwriting as the letter that Peter received, stating that they would be coming for both the Silver wolf and were-witch. We four believed that it was our fight, not the whole pack. Doesn't matter what the year was, we all were welcomed in this pack by your ancestors. We respected that and wanted to keep their people safe, it wasn't their fight. They weren't supposed to lose their kids or parents because of our kids so we chose to fight on our own. Also... Alpha Nathaniel doubted that someone from the inside was giving information to outsiders as Julia shifted only once into her wolf but in the depths of the forest. No one could get that deep