RAVENNA POV Anticipation and excitement had me smiling as Mia and I packed. For over three weeks that I've been brought here I haven't left the pack house—except to the woods, but that doesn't count. And now I was finally able to see the territory!And all thanks to Mia. We were talking about the beautiful places we've visited, but since I haven't traveled much and neither has Mia, we mostly shared stories about our packs. I told her about the two packs I’ve been to, and she began describing hers. She spoke of how the water was so clear you could almost see the bottom, how the trees bore the sweetest fruits, how the grass was lush and green, and how the breeze was always light and refreshing.And that was when I knew I wanted to explore this land that has been my prison for close to a month.I haven't thought Darius would agree so easily. I was ready to give him hell if he hadn't.And the way he had looked at me… like I was his favorite snack and he wanted to devour me, it still
RAVENNA POV I sat in the passenger seat, gazing out the window as the landscape shifted around us. The road stretched ahead, winding through dense woods, the kind that seemed to stretch endlessly, thick with trees and the scent of earth and pine. Mia, focused on the road, hummed softly to the music playing in the background. The hum of the tires on the asphalt was calming, the rhythmic sound blending with the soft murmur of the car’s engine.We passed the edge of the forest, and the trees began to thin out, revealing a quaint town nestled in the valley below. The buildings were charming—old stone cottages with ivy climbing the walls, colorful flower boxes hanging from window sills, and cobblestone streets that curved around like a maze. Why does every house in this place look old? It was as if the territory was built in the old era.It felt like something out of a dream, so picturesque and peaceful, it seemed untouched by time—nah, that was a lie. Time touched everywhere. Mia slow
REVANNA POV I most definitely gave a fuck. Hiking was not as easy as Mia said it would be, or perhaps it is because Mia seems to be doing just fine. My breath came in ragged bursts, my legs screaming as I pushed forward, my boots crunching against the rocky trail. I glanced at Mia ahead of me, who moved with a grace that made it look effortless—it most definitely was not. Mia paused briefly, waiting for me to catch up."You good?" Mia asked, her voice light, but with a glint of concern in her eyes.I wiped sweat from my brow and gave a half-hearted smile. "Who me? I'm doing just fine." I took a deep breath. "I didn't realize hiking meant I was going to need a second lung."Mia chuckled, adjusting the strap of her backpack. "It gets easier once you get used to it. The view at the top makes it all worth it.""I’m starting to think you’ve been lying to me this whole time." I shot her a mock glare. "Do you have a plan to kill me, Mia? This plan is most effective, I should tell you."
RAVENNA POV We walked back to where we had packed the car, me walking slowly, scared that the pain might just come back. But it didn't. We continued our climb down and I picked up pace but still no pain came."I'm still trying to wrap my head around what just happened," Mia said, now walking beside me. "You're human. No offense," she quickly added with a strained smile.I shook my head. "None taken.""A normal human would have taken weeks, even a month to heal that," she continued. "Even a wolf wouldn't have been able to heal that quickly." I hummed and kept walking, my mind faraway. Strange things have been happening to me since that full moon. First that day Darius and I had our second fight and the sudden burst of energy had surged through me and I had almost dislocated his shoulder. That wasn't normal. Then that fight we had when we were training with the pack, I had also felt that energy. And then the one that has left me baffled till this day was that day when the rogue wol
DARIUS POV If I continue to tap this particular spot on my desk I might tap a hole into it. But I couldn't bring myself to stop. I glance at the clock again for the hundredth time in an hour and it was already noon. Where the hell were they? Had Mia betrayed the pack and helped Ravenna escaped? No, she wouldn't do that. I have known Mia right since she was just a pup. She loved her pack, despite them not returning that sentiment, despite what her father did. So she wouldn't betray me like that.But what if Ravenna had overpowered Mia and slipped past the border? Mia was strong but Ravenna was stronger.My foot joined in the tapping, and I glance at the clock again. "For fuck sake, Darius, calm the fuck down!" Lucian snapped, his hands thrown up in frustration. I leveled a flat look on him. "Lucian?""What?""Leave me the fuck alone."He got up immediately. "I thought you'd never ask." I resumed my tapping once he was out the door. My wolf has been restless during this longest
RAVENNA POV Yes. I felt everything, from how wild and hard my heart was beating, to how heated my body was, to how warmth was pooling in between my legs.I fucking felt it all. I looked back into Darius’ eyes and there was a vulnerability that shouldn't be there. "Yes, Darius," I whispered, my voice barely audible. "Yes, I feel it."The vulnerability cleared from his eyes only to be replaced by something I couldn't name. He leaned forward and kissed the tip of my nose softly, before he pulled away and my body immediately missed his warmth. He rubbed his face before he turned, his back facing me, his shoulders tense. I heard him inhaled before he turned to me again, his features composed but only just a little. "There's something I need to tell you," he said, his voice hard. "Fuck, there's a lot of things I need to tell you."I watched him curiously. I keep seeing a new part of Darius everyday but I wasn't complaining. It was fresh to know those talks I've heard of him being compl
DARIUS POV Ravenna has been silent for too long. I resisted the urge to put my shirt back on and just stood there. Let her see what a lovely man my father was. Eventually I heard her move. She took a few steps forward and stopped, before she took another step and then she was standing behind me, just a few feets away from my mutilated flesh. I clenched my fist to stop them from shaking as she just stood there and observed. Lucian was the only one that has seen me like this. All my lovers over the years have never. When I fucked, I fucked from the back. That way they couldn't claw at my back. And sometimes I stay fully naked. Showing my back to Ravenna was like baring my soul to her. "Your father did this to you?" Ravenna whispered, her voice small.My anger had left me, leaving me empty. "He did." I inhaled deeply when I felt her finger tracing my back. "Ravenna." Her name was a warning, a plea, a call. I wasn't sure. "God," she choked out. I could hear the tears in her voice
RAVENNA POV Today has been one hell of a day. It had began with an emotionally love confession—that I'm currently trying not to think about—to revealing of plans to rule the wolf world, to judging, to another emotional series.Now, I was drained. Darius and I sat on the floor, our backs resting on his desk, my head on his shoulder and our fingers interlocked.He must also feel drained because he hadn't said anything for ten minutes, or was it an hour? Who knew. "Will you tell me about it?" I asked, not knowing what I wanted to hear. Everything. "Where would I start from?" he asked, more to himself than to me. But I answered regardless. "Anywhere." He didn't say anything for a while. "My mother was a lovely woman," he began, his voice calm. "She always had a smile on her face, always looking out for others more than she did herself. She was loved by the pack, dea
DARIUS POV Ravenna sat up and looked down at me, her eyes wide, her hair sticking in every direction, face flushed and lips swollen. She was fucking perfect. "After the feast?" she asked, her hands resting on my chest. "That's a week from today. I'm going?""We are going," I said, adding enough emphasis on the ‘we’. "If we could go tomorrow we would, but we have to be here for the feast. The pack would be bringing gifts and want to see their new Luna so we can't leave yet." Ravenna said nothing and just threw herself back on me, drawing a ‘oooff’ out of me. "I thought you wouldn't want me to go for a while," she said, her voice muffled against my chest. "Why wouldn't I?" I traced her spine with my fingers, making her shiver.She shrugged. "I thought maybe you would want to spend more time with me.""I'm still going to spend more time with you. I'm coming along a
RAVENNA POV The drive back to the pack house passed in a blur. Even though Darius was driving he couldn't take his hands off me, and me him. It felt like I was burning, and if Darius wasn't in me in a moment that fire would consume me. Just a brush of Darius’ fingers on my inner thighs were enough to make me moan loudly like a dying animal. And when that finger finally entered where I needed them I nearly exploded.I had told Darius to stop the car and forget about getting home but he refused, claiming this was a special night and I should be treated, even though his hard dick was nearly tearing through his pants, the spot where his head was already damp from per-cum. I admired that control he had. I was a raging mess. When I had asked him why the hell this was happening he had explained it was because of the wine. "It was no ordinary drink," he had explained, his voice rasped, his pupil di
RAVENNA POV "God, Ravenna, you look beautiful," Mia breathed, her bottom lips trembling. She shook her head. "No, beautiful is too small a word to describe you. You look heavenly." I could only nod, all words failing me as I stared at the girl looking back at me from the mirror. It was the night of my ascension ceremony, and I didn't recognize myself.The white dress clung to my body, the fabric soft and flowing, falling in gentle waves to the floor, covering my feets. My silver hair, usually wild and free, was now tamed and twisted with delicate accessories—silver beads and tiny braids woven with precision, each one pulling at the roots of my hair in a way that felt like a reminder of all the eyes that would soon be on me. I lifted my gaze to meet my own reflection. My gray eyes stared back, wide and uncertain. Was I ready? Ready for these new responsibilities? If it would mean a lifetime
DARIUS POV Each time I believed I had reached the fullest depth of my love for Ravenna, she effortlessly showed me a new layer, a new reason to love her even more. In every moment, she proved that my heart was capable of loving her beyond what I ever imagined. And so since I wasn't good with the skill of words I kissed her to express my ever growing love for her. I will make love to her so my body could speak that language which my tongue couldn't. I would worship you so my soul will be bare for her to see the depth of my love for her. She will see that there is no me without her. I took off her clothes and mine followed. I kissed her slow and deep as I positioned myself on her entrance. She looked up at me with soulful eyes filled with love and it felt like I was going to burn under that love. But it wouldn't be the type of burns that hurt.I was about to push into her but then a thought occurred and I had to pull back
RAVENNA POV When I had finally managed to pull myself together, Dalian pulled away and held my face, a small smile on his face. "It's still looking at a female version of myself," he said softly, brushing a lock of hair out of my face.I scoffed. "I said the same thing." "Grandmother had said we would be identical twins but Mother didn't believe her. She said we looked nothing alike when we were still infants and so we would grow to have different looks." "What was she like?" I asked. "Mother." That sadness returned to Dalian's eyes and he pulled me into his arms again. "She was a wonderful woman. She was soft but tough when she wanted to be. She trained some of the best warriors in our tribe. She was well respected and loved. If she lived to grow old she would have become one of our tribe's elders. Half of our tribe even voted her to be our leader but she wanted nothing to do with that life." "How…" I swallowed. "How was she killed?"Dalian's arms tightened around me and he too
DARIUS POV I wanted to drag this Dalian away from my mate. Him holding her filled my tongue with the bitter taste of jealousy, tightened my chest to the brutal feeling of possessiveness.I wanted to be the one holding her, confronting her while she broke down. I wanted to be the one kissing her hair, whispering words to her. Even though this man claimed to be my woman's brother I still wanted to kill him for touching her. Nobody should touch my mate but me. My wolf seems to agree with that because he was becoming restless, already rising to the edge.I felt a small, warm hand on my arm but I still didn't look away from Ravenna. "Come on, big guy," Mia said softly. "Give them space. They both need it." I clenched my jaw so hard I could hear my teeth grounding. "No.""Don't be like that, Darius," she persisted. "She had just found out that she has a family out there. She has a grandmother who loves her, and a twin who came for her. Don't you think she'll need time to be with him?"W
RAVENNA POV A jolt that shot through me was sharp and sudden, like the shock of touching a live wire with wet hands. The eyes staring back at me looked familiar because they looked like mine. The same shade of gray, like a stormcloud. I broke eye contact to look at the other features and my breath hitched. "What the hell?" I whispered to myself. That finally got Mia's attention. She stopped bubbling about jewels and turned to look at me. "Are you o–" Her voice cut off and I'm sure she was looking at the same person. "What... " The man standing a few feets away from me, looking intensely at me, was like a mirror I was standing in front of. Except the reflection in the mirror was male, six-foot-something tall, broad, and striking handsome. We shared the same silver hair, though his was cropped short, skimming his jawli
DARIUS POV Later that night I lay with Ravenna beside me, her head resting on my bicep, her hand stroking my chest lazily.Despite the fact that we've gone another round after we came back to our room none of us could sleep. Thoughts come and go in my head, pushing sleep away anytime it comes near. I'm sure the same went for Ravenna.So we just laid there, content to be in each other's arms. My hand went to her belly where I just drew lazy circles, before they went up to her chest. Since none of us could sleep maybe we cou–My hand touched a rough skin on her chest, just below her breast and paused there. I trailed my fingers there and she shuddered.The few times I had seen her naked I was either consumed by lust or fear, so my head was far from me. But now that none of those things were clouding my senses I could think straight."This is an interesting scar," I said softly, my finger Ms trail
DARIUS POV I could feel my pack's happiness as if it was my own. It was pulsing in the air, beating around me, making my throat tightened and my eyes prickled. Ravenna might have once been an outsider to them but at one point they had taken her as their own even if they didn't show it. And I knew now they wouldn't have a problem with Ravenna being their luna. Except…I looked around the hall and my eyes met Lucian's. He held my gaze, his expression unreadable, but then he dipped his head ever so slightly.The relief that flooded me was strong. I haven't lost my friend. He was still here. I dipped my head in return and he broke eye contact. The cheers continued, growing louder with each passing beat. After my mother died I have never known true happiness. I had forgotten what it felt like, how it tastes, and what it does to your heart. If this feeling that was sq