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{Ciril’s POV}“Take your dress off and lie on the plank!” The tall and scruffy-looking He-wolf standing before me throated. He was standing before me with a trench knife in his hand and his goal was to imprint his name— or any other vile word he could think of, on my back using the knife.I didn’t even know the bloke’s name but I knew he was one of the natives of RawHowl Pack— the same Pack I have been imprisoned in for twenty freaking years!True story, but I digress.I took my teary eyes off the blood-stained blade and rested it on the other person in the room. The devil herself.“Ivanka, please forgive my mistake. I promise I will mind my business and won’t spy on you ever again.” I pleaded while my tears made their escape, abandoning me in this unfortunate situation.Ivanka grew a satisfied grin as she folded her arms under her breasts. “Forgive you? Where’s the fun in that?” She said. “You want to know what will be fun?” She smiled scornfully now and replied to her rhetorical qu
{Ciril’s POV}For some reason, I was very thankful for yesterday’s turnout. For strange reasons, Rufus didn’t return and Ivanka had grown tired of waiting so she had dismissed me after dumping on me a couple of frustrated slaps and kicks. She postponed my ‘full punishment’ to today.So today, I locked myself in my room in hiding. I couldn’t go out for fear of being seen by Ivanka.Maybe if she didn’t see me, she would forget about me and her quest to punish me.I lived in a crumbling room on the third floor of the Alpha Mansion and my room was shabby enough for living in the forest to be better than it.You would think that of all the houses in RawHowl Pack, I was graced to be staying in the Alpha Mansion. But then, there was really no grace to it. I was only there because Alpha Gregor— the devilish Alpha of RawHowl Pack, his Luna, Dolores, and the rest of their miscreant family wanted to have me very close in case they needed someone to pour out all their hatred on.I was on my bed n
{Ciril’s POV}My mate was engaged in a dialogue with Luna Dolores and Ivanka so none of them had noticed me yet.Impulsively, my legs started to take me towards them while my eyes blissfully rested on this wonder in male form. And this continued until I was close enough to claim their attention. My mate was the first to look at me, and as his gaze met mine, it was pure ecstasy.His eyes were dark brown with softness and his expression was like pink clouds on blue-violet ocean waves. He was handsome. And with his appearance, I figured he was one of the important guests Luna Dolores had been talking about. I was happy with this fact because being a guest meant that he was a he-wolf from another pack far away, one who would take me away from this Hellhole.He wore a blank expression now as he stared at the file he was holding and I motioned to speak to him but Luna Dolores beat me to it. “She’s the one.” Luna Dolores told the Alpha randomly and grew a satisfied smile on her face.What
{Ciril’s POV}I didn’t stop running until my surroundings became virgin to my eyes.I slowed down my pace now and uttered a groan as my heart now seemed to be burning up in my chest. I was far away from the place of my distress but the hurt seemed to have followed me.Luckily, I caught sight of a Pub House on the side of the muddy road and I smiled knowing relief was in there. I could go over there to rest and even better, drown my pain in alcohol.I didn’t know how to drink but that didn’t freaking matter now. That’s where I’ll go! I’ll go over there and drown my sorrows in liquor and Negroni cocktails.I let out a weak smile and began trailing my way toward the Pub. After much staggering and cursing, I finally found myself inside the Pub, seated before the counter. Fortunately, I still had some of the coins Feryt had given me a day before, so I was going to use it to order.All of it!“Hey, can I…” I waved to the Barkeeper, calling his attention to the only miserable girl in the
{Ciril’s POV}The next time I woke up was due to the sensation of light pressing against my eyelids. I pushed them apart and was slowly roaming my gaze around but then I saw a foreign roof, a fan, and a nightstand and my gaze stretched.Huh?I tilted up to rest on my elbows to realize I was on a bed in a strange room. I forced myself off the bed and crept towards the window so that I could at least get an idea of where I was. I had a deadly headache bobbing in my head and it wasn’t helping matters as I moved around.I got to the window and noticed that the surroundings were foreign too. I was suddenly slapped by a gust of wind and its chill on my skin forced me to look down at my body to realize…I gasped.To realize that I was naked.What?!I panicked.How am I naked?My heart started to race— fast.I studied the room in my alarm and it was then that I noticed a figure lying on the bed— the same bed I had gotten up from.My heart skipped two beats with the sight, and impulsively, I
{Ciril’s POV}I had fixed my hair into a braided updo and staring into the mirror now made me realize it was a really dope touch. If I was going to face more torture and gloom, I might as well look presentable for it.Haha.— that was a sad laugh.Suddenly, there was a harsh knock on the door, and with it came an even harsher voice. “Hey, Plonker.” It called and I sighed. “I told my mum that I can’t travel in the same Carriage with your stinking self so Dylan and I will be leaving now in the first one while the next one will be here to pick you up in two minutes. So you better say your goodbyes to your snugly demons in there and haul your unfortunate self out here!” Ivanka voiced with a scornful volume while I just settled to stare at the door.I recalled that Ivanka had told me she would be going to the Palace to live with Dylan after they got married so with what she had just said, I figured that they just have gotten married during the time I was away. Great.As Ivanka left, I c
{Ciril's POV}The air grew quiet.And all the voices around me died down— they died down after the abrupt utterance of the Prince.I gazed at him and it was like it was only the two of us who were in the room now even though it really wasn’t the case. I stared at him and he stared back at me, his soul seeming calling on mine, reaching out to me and prompting me to just run up to him and bury myself in his embrace. It was a powerful and sublime feeling as it seemingly filled the pit of my stomach with all the butterflies in the world— but then it was a feeling I had experienced before— just a few days ago. And from that experience, I knew that it was all a scam.The intense pull was ingenuine because then if it wasn’t, then the Alpha Dylan bastard wouldn’t have rejected Metz But then he had rejected my sorry ass… which meant that the Alpha Prince could…I started backing away now.And in that moment, I roamed my gaze around the room to see the faces of those who lingered around, and
{Ciril's POV}And so as my unfortunate nature would have it, I was bundled up on the shoulder of the sentry who had been mocking me with his smirk and bobbed limply on his shoulder now.As we moved, I thought of how badly my life was going.And worse it was about to become.One question: Why do I have to be paired with people who don’t want me?I thought the moon goddess finds a soul that would match your energy in every aspect and pairs you with them. I thought that’s what she does, so why is my case different?Why am I being paired with people who would want to have nothing to do with someone like me— apparently a slave girl now.I had seen the look on the Prince’s face. He hadn’t been expecting that someone like me could be his mate— and I can’t blame him because it’s really such a weird match.And so this is me once again about to have my heart broken with another curt rejection. Great!I remained still on the Sentry’s shoulder as I ruminated over these thoughts but then, some min
{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t say a word.I didn’t say a word to any of them. All I did was walk, trek, trudge— all of them. And this made us go faster.At the pace we were going, I calculated that we might actually get to the Palace in a day— or not. After some hours of my ignorance and my fast traveling, they stopped me.By they, I mean the democratic bunch— Feryt, Clord, and Gordius. Feryt was their leader or representative this time around and she crept before me to prevent me from moving forward.I scowled at her when she suddenly appeared before me. “Ciril, we need to talk.” She told me. I shifted to the side and slipped past her, continuing onwards but then she was stubborn so that she trailed after me and blocked my trail again.“Ciril, stop! Just stop and listen, okay?!” She said with a stern tone and was immediately joined by Gordius on her right and Clord on her left. As usual, Gordius was annoyingly confident with his old face while Clord looked frightened by me but then th
{Ciril’s POV} “What?”“What?”Anika and I said simultaneously.Her ‘What’ was the first one. I looked at her just as she looked at me, and then we both looked at Gordius who had initiated the confusion.“Oh, I’m going to like this.” Clord said as he sat down on the ground beside one of the Bears. It growled at him so he shifted away to a new position before refocusing his gaze upon us and smiling.I glared at him. “Stand up. I told you we’re not stopping yet.” I said to him and then I turned to Gordius.“For the last time, stop messing with me, Gordius.” I told him and then I looked between Feryt and Anika. “Let’s keep moving.” I said and then turned to continue on my way. “I’m not messing with you, Ciril.” I heard Gordius’ voice again. “This girl right here is the one who will train you.” I halted. And then I spun around and started trudging to him with my bashful intent— I clenched my fist tight. I was done hearing his voice so it was time to shut him up… since he didn’t want to
Chapter 145 {Ciril’s POV} Morning came, and with it a new creed.A vengeful one. I got up with my heart evidently beating— it knew today marked the beginning of something significant. Something chaotic.I sat outside on a log of wood in between the guards of both of my Bears. I sat there motionlessly and waited for the rest to wake up. And eventually, they did. After several minutes, they strolled out simultaneously to see me seated motionlessly with my eyes closed. I was now meditating. I hated the concept but then yesterday had made me realize that it was an important concept and that Gordius was right. My emotions were controlling me and I needed to work on making it the other way round. I need to be the one in control. But then at the end of the day, I didn’t really care that I was being ruled by my emotions since I could still kill my enemies in that State. I only cared now because I didn’t want anything to jinx my fighting over at the Palace since Gordius said that meditati
{Ciril’s POV} I touched the twin half-love-shaped metal bracelets on my wrist now Erin just gave me the most shocking but relieving news.The Hencher Mistress was alive. All this time I had just been hoping— praying that she hadn’t died that day, but then over time, realization started to sink in and I started to welcome the fact that I may have lost her.— since I had recalled how fatal-looking the wound on her belly was, plus she had betrayed the Palace by helping me and I had left her in the hands of those wretches. All these conditions put together didn’t seem like a combination that the Hencher Mistress would survive in her condition and so I had spent frequent nights crying about it and hating myself for leaving her can there that day. … but now it turns out that I had concluded wrongly. All this while, I had grieved and beaten myself up in vain for the Hencher Mistress was alive.My mother was alive.Fresh tears glossed up my eyes now and Anika and the others noticed this a
{Ciril’s POV} “Why?”“What do you mean?”Anika had stopped me with her words and I was staring at her now, wondering why she was asking to go back to the same dreadful place she had just escaped from.“I mean that we have to return to the Palace because it will be a dire matter if we don’t.” She said now, confusing me the more. Clord, Gordius, and Feryt shifted back to our axis now, seeing that we were not trailing after them anymore.“What’s going on?” Feryt asked and I turned to look at her from my dazement. “She says we have to return to the Palace.” I said, still in confusion.“Wait. What?” Clord said now, stepping forward. “You’re joking, right?” He asked her with an odd laugh and when she didn’t respond, he turned to me.“She’s… she’s joking, right?”I returned my attention back to Anika now. “What’s your reason? I don’t understand what you’re saying, Anika.” I said to her now. “What dire matter are you referring to?”I spoke rather calmly now, and I did so because I didn’t wan
{Ciril’s POV} “Ciril, is that you?”I heard Anika’s voice and almost couldn’t believe it was her voice. It had been so long since I heard her speak.All of us were shocked by her sudden consciousness as we had really lost all hope. I had already lost hope.— all of us had lost hope except Gordius. He didn’t look shocked, and this was because he had trusted his words to the final minute, unlike the rest of us. The rest of us stopped believing him when hours were slipping past and Anika wasn’t responding. But then again, you can’t blame us for not buying his words. I personally had a beef with him and feel like he just says anything he wants to say. I focused my attention on Anika now as she slowly grew back her consciousness.“It’s me, Anika. I’m.. I’m here.” I told her softly now and she blinked before thoroughly focusing her gaze on me.With our eye contact, the roles switched— as she was the one who looked shocked now. She gazed at my face for a while and I noticed that she was
Chapter 142{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t understand what had just happened. One second, I was raging at Gordius for chewing loudly, and then the next, I was shocked from spotting a figure that bore an oddly familiar face. Anika.I didn’t know where she had appeared from and I didn’t know how she had found me, but then these questions weren’t important now. Anika was wounded and unconscious and so the question bobbing in my head as I rushed towards her was, “What I was going to do?”I crashed on the ground beside her body and drew her into my embrace with my heart now racing fast. I didn’t know the answer to my question.I didn’t know what to do. I first had to accept the fact that she was truly here with me and once this fact had settled in, I started to shake her up roughly and call her name.— and while I did this, Gordius was just standing behind me and doing nothing. I noticed this. “What are you doing?!” I bawled at him now. “She’s dying! Go get help!” I roared at him as tears gl
{Ciril’s POV} And so, with sublime anticipation and creed, I began my training… which was meditating.Crazy right?Of course, it’s crazy. Why should I be meditating when I can be doing other things that would help refine my skills?And even more seriously, what’s the fucking point?Gordius had said that I would also have the power to heal people of life-threatening wounds if meditated but never have heard that such abilities could be gained by sitting on grass all day. I should be sharpening my skills with intense training but instead, it felt like I was making them grow dull as I was basically sitting on my ass all day every day since we started. The most annoying part was that Gordius didn’t give a fuck about my concerns. I had complained to him a couple of times to communicate to him how closing my eyes and sitting my ass on grass with my legs folded wasn’t helping me achieve anything but he didn’t care to respond to my complaints. All he did was command me to meditate and then
{Ciril’s POV} Before my very eyes, the dead had risen. I was aware they used to rise before after being bit by a Feral but then seeing them rise in such huge numbers was shock and dread on a different level. And to add even more dread to it, there had been that man-best creature using dark powers to raise them up from their demise and rot.Turns out there was an update— people didn’t need to be bitten by Ferals anymore to be able to rise from the dead. That beastly Creature, whatever it is, could raise them up now, and so in that moment when it had happened, I was forced to realize that the dead had become an enemy.All those mothers, sons, and daughters I once pitied were made to become monsters before my eyes— and the most painful part was that I was forced to fight them. They had attacked us upon their rise and I was forced to kill these once innocent and resting souls.I had gone into the Superior State to do this… but then I had lost the battle.I had thought that since I cou