ARABELLA POV It was the Parent-Teacher meeting. I smiled to myself as I lay back in my seat, eyeing the Luna who sat three seats before me. It pleased me especially that her husband was there with her; I was sure she pressured him to come so she could gloat about him to others. Nothing pleased Mia more than gloating about her husband. I was still stung by the blows he dealt me the other day, but it didn’t discourage me. For all I know, he could have been lying and being defensive. Someone raised her hand and stood up. The woman looked around to make sure she’d gathered enough attention before speaking. “I think we should have a leader in this Parent-Teacher meeting so we could hold more gatherings like this.” Everyone looked at her. It was obvious they had all been thinking about it before she said it, but none of them were brave enough to say it out loud. It was my chance to shine, as usual. The moon goddess was surely looking out for me she kept bringing out these opportunitie
ARABELLA POVI followed his tracks and came upon Rhys with one of the parents amongst us, Devon. I waited for a moment and arranged my dress, making sure the cleavage was very much in view before I continued. When I reached them, I smiled my signature seductive smile. Rhys rolled his eyes, as though he couldn’t believe I was here. We were playing a game, the both of us; a dangerous game that would either swallow us or kill us. Either way, we would be buried underneath.“Emma!” Devon said with a smile. He stood up and gave me a side hug. “Wow, you look so pretty.”“Don’t I?” I tugged at my hair, imitating the act of innocence. “Why, Devon, thank you.”“Don’t you have like three kids?” he asked.“Yes, I do.”Devon’s eyes were as wide as saucepans. “Wow, that’s… no one would ever believe that you’re a mother of three kids. Isn’t that right, Alpha Rhys?”Rhys dragged his eyes away from me and looked at Devon. “Uh…I guess?”I knew what he was playing at. He wanted to act like I didn’t exi
RHYS POVThe cold shower was not enough. I needed more, but all I could ever think of was her. How did she do it? How was I able to be completely drawn to her in that way? The only person I had successfully done that with was…I shook her image out of my head. I did not want to think about that one either. There was something at play here, and I wasn’t just getting it. What did she want from me? She obviously had to want something, if she was so comfortable getting naked in my presence and touching herself like that. Like she was waiting for me to brew my cool. I hurriedly dressed and headed out of the house. Maybe if I dig my head into work then it would turn out just fine and I would stop thinking about her.When I got to my office, however, she was still in my head. I immediately downed myself into work and contacted the financial manager in my office.“Tell me, Elliot, how is it going? Have they started the tathe construction of the tapElliot was in charge of all the money that
MIA POVI woke up feeling fulfilled. I stretched and bumped into Rhys, who was still asleep. Then I turned on my side and watched him while he slept; his beautiful eyelids and oh-so-beautiful body. The way he touched me last night, the way he set my soul ablaze as he ravished my body was quite an experience I won’t let go of easily.I felt girly, like a teenager. A giggle escaped my lips as I continued to watch him. Last night was the best, and he was fully into me. We haven’t had sex in two years, much less had that kind of sex. It was rushed, powerful, mind-blowing. I felt heat in my center just thinking about it.“Oh, Rhys,” I muttered, raising a hand to adjust a strand of hair from his forehead. He sniffed, wrinkling his nose. Another giggle escaped me, and this time it woke him up. He looked at me openly for a moment, as if trying to remember where he was. My heart refused to break; he had come to me himself, and he was not drunk. He was very much conscious, and he agreed to sp
ARABELLA POVI smiled tightly, reining in my disgust and dislike. It wasn’t like I was disgusted outright, but the whole scenario was just unsettling, especially the fact that Rhys had to sleep with her after the little episode with me. Was he smitten with me, or was the whole charade just too much for him to handle and he was trying to hide his feelings by sleeping with his wife? Not that it should be any odd, but…Anyway, while I liked the idea that he may have feelings for me and I could get under his skin—which means my revenge taste would be stronger, I still did not like that I had to conform to Mia’s needs to get what I wanted. And she was a very needy person; too needy for my liking, too needy to chase after a man who seems not interested in her, but her wickedness won't let her see the right things “What do you want, Emma?” Mia asked, breaking into my thoughts. “Just name it and I’ll have it sent to you. Anything for this top secret of yours.”I sighed. I almost forgot that
ARABELLA POV“Emma, please can you bring Bruno back home?”I recoiled from the phone and turned back to see Bruno playing with the triplets. He seemed happy and more himself with his peers. I wasn’t sure I wanted to hand him over just yet to Mia, but the distress in her voice when she called was disturbing.I turned back and spoke into the phone. “Is anything the matter? Aren’t you supposed to be having some alone time with your husband?”She hesitated, and in that small time frame, I knew something was wrong. The children squealed as they played but I was already standing from the sitting room sofa and mouthing to the nanny who stood nearby. “It’s alright,” I added quickly. “You don’t have to say anything. I’ll be there soon.”Mia exhaled shakily. “Thank you, Emma.”I hung up the phone and quickly changed into my clothes and grabbed my car keys. She sounded distraught, as though seeing her child would somehow reassure her. I wondered if anyone from the hospital told her. Not that th
RHYS POVI was in my office when I heard her voice. I stilled, listening to Craig vaguely while I tried to pick out the chords that were Emma’s voice. After that specific encounter with her and that embarrassing night with Mia, I just haven’t been myself. And to think that the Luna wore some stupid clothes to try to seduce me. Not that she even had the chance to, as my scowling face set her off the minute she saw me. Still, to think that she had the thoughts and put in the efforts were laughable. That night was a mistake, and even if I hadn’t told her yet, she should know that my now.“Give me a moment,” I interrupted Craig and his relentless ramblings. “I heard Bruno so I think he’s back from wherever Mai sent him off to.”Craig smiled. “Yes, Alpha. I’ll leave you to have some time with your son.”“Good.”Immediately Craig left, I stood up and walked to Bruno’s room, which wasn’t far at all. It wasn’t like I won’t see him any other time, but Mia had told me when I asked that he was
ARABELLA POVThe dinner party was a blast. It was more than I expected, of course, given the short notice. Mia had made me drop my kids off with hers and the nanny, which gave me the upper hand to go to their house and spy on Rhys again. He did not like that I came. I saw it in the way he growled at my attire—a green sparkly short dress that had a slit by the side and a long V in the front. It was perfect.Craig had agreed to easily be my date, but I suspect that Mia had a hand in it. she must have convinced him so nicely for him to have agreed in the way he did.“Enjoying the dance?” the devil of the topic asked.“Yes!” I replied to him. “Yes, it is most marvelous with you.”Craig smiled, but his eyes lacked the enthusiasm of someone who was dancing with him. That was his business; I did not care if he was happy with me or not. All I wanted to do was get his blood, which was my sole purpose of asking him to dance with me… and to make Rhys green with envy.Rhys’ jealousy was the seco
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