RHYS POVMia’s words kept ringing in my ears. Was she right? How true were her words? I would normally not believe a single word that comes out of her mouth, but something about this felt different. When it came to Arabella, I was mostly defensive and not wanting to involve myself in anything scandalous to her name, but this felt serious.“She’s Rhys' mate?” I asked Mia and she nodded. “And how did you come to that conclusion?”She gave me such a look, I began to feel pity for myself too. Maybe she was right, maybe she was not. However, I wanted to find out for myself. Hours after Mia left, I kept thinking about what she said. Do I need to confirm this or not?She’s lying, my wolf said. She lies all the time.Yeah, I agreed, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The way Mia said it so strongly, as though she was sure of her findings and felt pity for my growing affection for Arabella. At the end of the day, there was only one person who knew the truth.“Hello?” Jack said when he answ
RHYS POVJack stayed in my house for a week. It was one whole week of torture. Of course I barely saw him as he was in the other compartment of the building, but I couldn’t help not spying on him or listening to him call Arabella and lie about how the pack is great and how everyone is just so welcoming of him.What was he running from, anyways? He should just go home so I won’t have to see his sparkly face when he went out every morning to enjoy the morning sun on his face. This was honestly my fault, really. I was trying to be heroic and score some points to myself, not knowing that it would come back to bite me at my foot.Also, I missed Arabella. I missed her so much I barely managed to sleep. Seeing Jack stay up on the phone with her and laugh made me green with envy. I was practically stopping myself from marching into her house and announcing that Jack was such a liar.My phone tinged with a notification. I checked it and saw that it was a text from Arabella“You have an appoint
ARABELLA POVEverything was absolute chaos. Rhys didn’t even spare me a glance when he got into the ward with Craig. I don’t know what happened to him, but he seemed standoffish. I wanted to hug him and hold him and assure him that everything was fine, but he was clearly under pressure. Besides, his wife kept claiming that the child was Rhys’ while the lover was the one donating the blood. I could imagine what he felt. His searing pain throbbed through me, piercing the edges of my heart. That was exactly how I knew he was in pain.“Craig, can you come with me please?” I said. “Mia has had her blood taken so it’s left for you to have yours taken too.”Rhys looked away like he was in pain. Mia kept staring at him, hoping that he would look once at her. I liked that he ignored her as well. Craig followed me to the back room where I prepped him.“I’m supposed to take just a little amount but sometimes we need more so just tell me when you get dizzy,” I said to him.He nodded, seemingly no
RHYS POVI suddenly stopped the car in the middle of my movement. Looking into my side mirror, I saw that Arabella was still standing on the road, watching the car leave. She looked so miserable I began to regret telling her about going out separate ways, but that needed to be done. I’d already promised Jack that since he was her mate, I was going to leave them alone and let them have their chance. It was the least I could do to respect their relationship. I glanced sideways at Craig and saw that he was passed out. I explored the limits of my power as an Alpha when I first locked the Rogul, and now I was expanding that power into keeping prisoners exactly where I wanted. I could be gone for hours and they would remain in that same, exact position. I looked into the side mirror again. She was gone, probably back inside that hospital and snobby office of hers. Sigh. She’s very upset.I jerked a little at the sound of my wolf. I didn’t even know when it snuck up on me.“She’s upset?” I
JACK POVI had believed him. I believed the motherfucker. Leaving the hospital premises was one of the hardest, shameful walk of life. It felt like everyone could see through me and see that I was such a shameful, butthead Alpha. There was no other way to describe the looks they gave me as I wallowed down the stairs.I had been ready for a commitment. I was planning on telling her the truth—that I never went to my pack and I was laying low because I wanted her to miss me. I wanted to tell her that I made fake calls to her every morning because I wanted Rhys to see just how much of a pair we were and leave us alone. I actually thought that was working, but look where it got us.By the time I got to the palace, my anger bubbled over, nearly spilling into the surface. I should have taken a run that would help me bleed out the anger by the time I got to the palace, but other things had occupied my mind… like how Arabella was full on kissing Rhys. She was practically begging that he take h
RHYS POVFour months later, my life had become a dull beat. I was still angry with Craig, but not enough to give him a reckless death. I’d planned everything out already, down to the very last detail. After announcing that he’s betrayed me and replaced him with my Gemma, I continued waiting for the day that Bruno would stop needing blood. Since Craig previously had authority as the right hand man to the Alpha, his body healed pretty quickly, allowing Arabella to only take blood once every three weeks for four months. We’d been expecting it to span into six months but thankfully it ended in the fourth month. He was fully healed and active; even surprised to see that he had been unconscious and in a hospital bed for months.This was better for me as I didn’t want to see Craig’s face any longer. Now that Bruno was healed, I have no use for him and would get rid of him pretty fast.“Arabella?” I called as I knocked on her door. “Is anyone home?”The door swung open and Arabella showed up
MIA POVI paced around my room, completely restless. He hasn’t been sleeping at home lately and now Bruno was gone. When he was brought back from rhe hospital, Rhys took him away and said he wanted to take him to a recovery center. How long do recovery centers usually take? Did Arabella put this idea into his head?Oh, Arabella, that wench!I laughed wildly as I continued to pace around. She thought she won this time, didn’t see? She was the lowly, stupid omega in the past, and now she’s come back a bit chic doctor who’s trying to steal my man? How are people not violent towards this act?! Do I need to start an uproar? She’s not going to win against me. The deadly wench is not going to win me.“You do not get to have the last laugh!” I roared loudly, and then fell to my bedroom floor in a beep.My hair was a mess. With everything going awry, I haven’t give my much thought to how untidy I’d been. That was fine; it didn’t matter what I looked like. I would have every single thing I’d ev
ARABELLA POVI had a plan. A grand, beautiful plan. Rhys was going to be here anytime soon and he would be solely against it, which means I have to be wise towards it. I knocked once on the children’s door before opening it. They were laughing and walking about, looking for the perfect fit.“Mom!” Delinda cried when she saw me. “Do you think I should wear a dress to the park? I can’t seem to find the perfect fit.”I smiled reassuringly as I remained at the door. “You don’t need to stress to much, my darling. You guys should all wear shorts and shirt—you can wear a skirt, Delinda—and carry a backpack too.”Damon frowned. “A back pack?”“Yeah. It’ll make you looo smart, like a professor.”I knew they would accept readily to what I said, yet I waited on high tension. When they finally agreed to dress like professors and carry their backpack, I grinned. Earlier today in the morning, I came across Bruno’s backpack and I slipped in Mia’s picture in it. At first when I saw her picture lying
ARABELLA POV“I can’t believe you’re getting married,” Lily said.I turned away from the mirror to face her. “Do you think I could be potentially making a mistake?”Lily laughed and playfully slapped my arm. “Don’t be silly, Arabella. You thought about this for months. You even went through the painful process of telling everyone your identity.”I smiled at the memory of that. “Yeah, it went surprisingly well. People took it in pretty well.”“You know the one they took in the most? The arrest and public death of Mia.”My mood dampened just a bit. My half sister was killed two weeks ago and here I was, getting married to the man she was previously married to. Rhys asked me not to overthink it as he wasn’t even hers to begin with, and I was working towards that step. I turned to Lily again.“Do you think James and Jenny would make it? They promised that they would show up today and they’re not here yet.”Lily slapped her forehead in embarrassment. She’s been slapping a lot of things lat
RHYS POVI stood outside the boys’ quarters, thinking of how best to go over this. If Jack wanted us to talk about whatever he wanted to talk about, then this was a big secret opener. I was dying to see just how much secret he was willing to uncover, and that included Mia.She was dancing when I stepped into her room. As always, it was open and inviting, as if she was waiting for the day when I would finally accept her. Was she expecting that day to be today? Had she done all this just because she wanted me?Yes, dumb ass. Yes.I ignored my wolf voice and cleared my throat. She stopped dancing and smiled brightly at me, as if I was the sunshine at the end of her tunnel.“You’re here,” she said, wiping her brows with a face towel.“And you’re dancing,” I commented. “What’s the occasion?”“You’ve confined me to this mean, smelly place and I have to get used to it, Rhys.” She gulped down a glass of water. “The fact still remains that I’m your wife and I will be until I sign the divorce p
ARABELLA POVI’ve never had so many things happen to me in the space or hours or minutes but it was definitely happening now. First my children gets kidnapped, then after 24 long, excruciating hours, I go to get them and discover they had somehow managed to free themselves. Then I stupidly went into to the cabin instead of running away with them only to get kidnapped again and have a gun pointed at me.“Your children was a handful,” the first man said. “That is not surprising. I see now where they got it from. You do know we can’t leave you alive after this?”I immediately clasped my hands together in prayer. “Please, I’m begging you with the almighty name of the moon goddess, please let us go. I swear I’ve packed all my things! I’m ready to leave now.”He shook his head. “You’ve seen our face, lady. I wish there was some other way to not kill you—”The door burst open, forcing a startled scream out of me. The kidnapper in front of me trembled. I angled my body to the side and shifted
ARABELLA POV“What are you going to do now?” Lily asked me. “Do you have any plans on how to tackle this?”I paused my restless pacing and turned to her. “I’m burnt out, Lily. I don’t know what to do! I’ve tried to think of every possible thing but nothing. Rhys isn’t even helping matters. He thinks Mia is innocent simply because she hasn’t left the house in days!”“And the kidnappers want you to leave?”“Yes! They clearly said no money, that I should just leave. Who else would not want money and ask me to leave?”She cocked her head at me as both of our mind went to Mia. She was the only sworn enemy that I had that would dare though my children and go Scot free. Thinking about it made by blood boil. I wanted to grab her hair and force her head into a hot oven…“Okay, you’re making that face again, “ Lily said. “We just need to think about what to do next, Arabella. I know this must come as a shock…”“It’s quite the shock, Lily.”“But we have better things to do like waiting for the k
Arabella PovI realized I was vibrating with fear and doom. I needed to calm down, but the thought of my children going through the most traumatic experience of their life was chilling to the bone. Why was it only them that was kidnapped out of all the children coming to school? The kidnappers had technically been aiming for me and my children. I glanced at Mia. It was her. It had to be her. There were no other logic asides the fact that Mia has a vindictive aura towards me and she was not afraid to use them.I turned my back to them and spoke into the phone. “What do you want, please? Can you just let my children go, please? I’ll do anything.”‘Of course you’ll do as you’re told, Dr. Emma, or you’ll never see your children again.”I shivered once more, bracing myself as I asked the most important question. “What do you want then? Is it money? How much would you need to let my kids go?”“You insult us, Dr. Emma. We don’t need your money. We only need you to do one thing and we’ll retu
ARABELLA POVI was very upset, and rightfully so too. I thought about Rhys every day for five days, mostly wondering if he didn’t want to let Mia go. Did he trust her enough to be sure that she hadn’t killed his father? If only I had enough time then to pressure the guy more so he would tell me the truth about Mia. She certainly had more wicked things up her sleeve and I was very desperate to reveal them to the world.“Dr. Emma, you’ve wiped that post four times in a row now,” a nurse said.I jerked back into consciousness and realized that I was in the hospital, wiping a patient’s wrist over and over so I coke inject their antibiotic for them. Murmuring my apologies, I quickly gave them their dose and stood up.“You look tired,” the nurse who had called my attention said. “You can go home; I’ll cover your shift for you. I’m not sure I want to see you dozing off the rest of your days here.”“I’m fine,” I saidSpacing out. I was constantly spacing out because I was concerned for Rhys an
ARABELLA POVI was really bumped and hyped with energy when I took Bruno back to the car. He asked load of questions about why he wasn’t allowed to see the prisoner and I said something in the lines of how his ears were too little to hear all the important details. It would really sick if he had to hear from a strange prisoner that his mother was involved in a crime.Once I left him in the car and locked it, I ran back to the cell. My heart was drumming with excitement. I imagined that prisoner holding Mia’s picture and announcing that she was the one who had made the order. Oh, that would make so much sense! However, when I joined Rhys minutes later, I noticed that he was silent and now holding the picture, having collected it back from the Rogul. The Rogul was snacking heavily on the food I brought, which I now every much regret since the mood wasn’t what I expected it to be.“What did he say?” I asked Rhys, a note of desperation in my voice. “He was holding Mia’s picture, right?”
ARABELLA POVI had a plan. A grand, beautiful plan. Rhys was going to be here anytime soon and he would be solely against it, which means I have to be wise towards it. I knocked once on the children’s door before opening it. They were laughing and walking about, looking for the perfect fit.“Mom!” Delinda cried when she saw me. “Do you think I should wear a dress to the park? I can’t seem to find the perfect fit.”I smiled reassuringly as I remained at the door. “You don’t need to stress to much, my darling. You guys should all wear shorts and shirt—you can wear a skirt, Delinda—and carry a backpack too.”Damon frowned. “A back pack?”“Yeah. It’ll make you looo smart, like a professor.”I knew they would accept readily to what I said, yet I waited on high tension. When they finally agreed to dress like professors and carry their backpack, I grinned. Earlier today in the morning, I came across Bruno’s backpack and I slipped in Mia’s picture in it. At first when I saw her picture lying
MIA POVI paced around my room, completely restless. He hasn’t been sleeping at home lately and now Bruno was gone. When he was brought back from rhe hospital, Rhys took him away and said he wanted to take him to a recovery center. How long do recovery centers usually take? Did Arabella put this idea into his head?Oh, Arabella, that wench!I laughed wildly as I continued to pace around. She thought she won this time, didn’t see? She was the lowly, stupid omega in the past, and now she’s come back a bit chic doctor who’s trying to steal my man? How are people not violent towards this act?! Do I need to start an uproar? She’s not going to win against me. The deadly wench is not going to win me.“You do not get to have the last laugh!” I roared loudly, and then fell to my bedroom floor in a beep.My hair was a mess. With everything going awry, I haven’t give my much thought to how untidy I’d been. That was fine; it didn’t matter what I looked like. I would have every single thing I’d ev