KALILA’S POV I woke up the next morning with a warm feeling, I had wrapped myself up in a blanket after showering the previous night. It was still very cold, the chill of the morning and that of the night hardly had any difference. I was checking my time now with each passing day, I really hoped the goddess of the moon was on my side, otherwise I would be sunk. I stretched on the bed like a wild cat until I felt my bones fall perfectly into place. I felt so tired, it was probably because of the walk of the previous night. I had to contact Melissa soon, I didn’t want to meet Jahdiel just yet, maybe she could get his own side of the story. Ares’s was pretty palpable and after hearing what he had said yesterday, I couldn’t blame him completely. I sighed heavily, it was going to be a long day, I still had to talk to Jeremy later on. I felt so lazy as I crawled off the bed, I stopped suddenly as I saw Ares seated on his desk. “Oh shit! He had heard me groaning while I was stretchin
ARES’S POV I couldn’t say I was happy with Wendy’s presence at the pack, I wasn’t at all. Dahlia had complained about the discomforts Wendy’s presence brought to her to me twice, but there wasn’t much I could do about it. After all, I was the goof who had promised Wendy’s father that I would do anything within my power to help him during hard times. When I said that, I didn’t mean him bothering me with the task of harboring his beautiful yet very annoying daughter. I hadn’t seen her all day so I decided to stop by and check on her on my way to the pack office. “Dolph hold up, stop the car here.” He said and the car was brought to a stop. I walked in and met a servant, she bowed at the sight of me, there was no sign of Wendy. “Where’s Wendy?” I asked impatiently. “She left the house not long ago, Alpha Ares.” The timid servant replied. Where could she have gone to? I thought as I left the house and got into the car. I arrived at the pack office about ten minutes later,
KALILA’S POV “Oh no! Get that diary away from her!” Nova exclaimed with panic in her voice. I still couldn’t believe my eyes, I was so scared and everything in me was trembling. Wendy probably knew everything by now, about Dahlia, about me. She might even know that my name was actually Kalila! I was freaking out but I was too shocked to even do anything. “Don’t just stand there like a goof, go and take it away from her, Kalila!” Nova bellowed in my ears and suddenly jolted me out of my frightened thoughts. I cleared my head, took a deep breath and walked over to her. She heard my footsteps and raised her head, she was quite startled but didn’t bother hiding the diary. “What the fuck are you doing with that?” I asked in a stern voice. “And why are you even in this room?” She shrugged, “It’s Ares’s, isn’t it?” “It’s both Ares’s and mine, hand over the diary, now.” I said, stretching out my hand. She regarded me silently for a long, uncomfortable moment. I was so tensed
ARES’S POV “Don’t say another word, Wendy, it will only annoy me more.” I said sternly, walking down the stairs. Leo had to be right about what he had said, it had to be Wendy’s fault. For one, what was she doing in the room? She has no business in the house to begin with. “Oh common, Ares, you really think it’s my fault that she was throwing a tantrum and screaming like a deranged woman?” She asked, walking briskly after me. I stopped and glared at her, she always tried to escape from something she was fully a part of. She had a habit of that, even when we were younger and we all got into trouble, she would maneuver her way out and only Jeremy and I would end up getting scolded. I thought she might have dropped the attitude by now and probably learnt how to accept and take responsibility for her actions. But that wasn’t the case, she was as childish and blameless to herself as ever. “I heard your voice too, Wendy. Don’t start that thing where you try to shift all the blame
ARES’S POV I had no idea what my uncle was saying or why he was saying it, but nothing was going to make me believe that Dahlia was the one who had tried to poison me. No way, that was just absurd thinking from my uncle! “He's got to be kidding me, that’s the lamest thing I’ve heard in a while.” Leo remarked and I couldn’t agree more with him. Although I didn’t react how I felt, something was off with my uncle. I could just feel it, maybe he wasn’t in the right state of mind and the person he kept seeing in his head was Dahlia. Or maybe it was a dream, maybe he had dreamt about Dahlia and interpreted it as her being the culprit. Whatever it was, I wasn’t going to believe him so easily, no way. “Oh common, uncle. What are you saying? Dahlia?” I asked with a bewildered look on my face. “Of course, everyone can be a suspect, can’t they? But you haven’t gotten closer to the truth because you haven’t included your so called Luna on the list.” He replied, dragging on his cigar
KALILA’S POV I was still confused by uncle Lawrence’s attitude towards me when I felt a tug at my arm, it was Jeremy. “Common, forget about it, let’s go.” He said, taking my hand in his and pulling me behind him. “Where are we going, Jeremy?” I asked, trying to keep up with him. “Just for a walk, to ease that angry mind of yours.” He replied.I followed him and he led me away from the pack house, we walked for a while in silence before he finally said, “You can’t stand her, can you?” “What?” I asked, not hearing him clearly the first time as I was still engrossed in my thoughts. What if she had actually flipped through the last pages? She would have noticed that the handwriting at the beginning and the end were different. That would have compelled her instincts to read through it thoroughly, what if I hadn’t gotten there in time? I needed to be more careful now that Wendy was here, if she managed to furl out my secret, I was doomed. What was she even doing in the r
KALILA’S POV While I sat on the bed in the evening thinking, I noticed something very disturbing. Ares was staring at me in a very suspicious manner and it got me wondering if I was a suspect to him. How could he even think of such a thing? I was the one who had saved his life after all. As I was about to ask him why he stared at me like that, he suddenly said, “Dahlia, come over here. We need to talk.” His voice wasn’t friendly at all. I obediently got up from the bed and walked over to his desk. I sat down on a chair and he rose and sat on the table right in front of me. “What’s the matter?” I asked. “I feel like I’m being interrogated.” “You are.” He replied with all seriousness. “I want you to be completely honest with me now, answer all my questions the way it happened.” He waited to see if I had something to say, I didn’t and he continued. “How did you find out that my drink was poisoned?” “Why are you asking me this all of a sudden?” I asked accusingly. “The
KALILA’S POV Something very peculiar happened the next day, it was one I couldn’t forget in a hurry. Before leaving Jeremy’s office, we talked for a while and I asked him what a blood moon was like here. “Most times, I do feel the effect, but I’m always indoors. This is the first blood moon I’ll be experiencing outside my pack.” I lied. “What's it like here?” His face became thoughtful, then a cheeky smile crossed his face, “Terrible, the men are advised to keep away from women because of the strong sexual desire that infects everyone during that period. The Blood moon's influence is crazy here actually, you can never sleep on the night one appears. Well, except if you sleep like a log and you can sleep through loud howling of hundreds of wolves.” He replied. “Why do you have that incentive smile on your face?” I asked, squinting suspiciously at him. “Because I should have a mate by tomorrow if I’m to get horny under the influence of some moon.” He laughed and I did too.I w