[Nivera’s POV]I grovelled before him, wailing in immense sorrow. I couldn’t die just like that. I needed him to change his mind.“Please, Alpha Tyler. Please, spare my life,” I pleaded.He looked at me, with plain disgust written visibly on his face. “Spare your life? For what reason? You lied to me, you deserve nothing but death,” he said in a firm tone, and the people hailed him for that statement.“I didn’t lie to you. Okay, maybe I did, but trust me, I didn’t do it with a bad intention,” I said, as tears dropped from my eyes. “It is true that I did see Lucien, but that was just me bidding him farewell…”“It doesn’t matter if it was the last time you were seeing him. I was worried sick about you and went against my people to ensure you were searched for and brought back here. I thought you had been kidnapped according to that lying guard, Ryle, but you were perfectly safe in the arms of that lowlife called a vampire,” Tyler stated.I shook my head repeatedly, denying his allegatio
[Lucien’s POV]It was evening, and the sun had begun to set, slowly making the once blue sky turn red. The people were still at the Palace of their Alpha. As for me, I was walking through the empty streets of the Crescent Pack when something caught my attention.I walked towards it, and gave a small smirk. Tyler Jefferson had implemented his words already. It was a notice instructing members of the Pack to report either Celeste or I or even both of us if they came across us. According to the notice, we were great enemies of the Pack and the reward for reporting us was 500 pieces of silver, and the punishment for being associated with either of us was death.I was surprised that he had remembered my face and Celeste’s face very well for him to be able to give a detailed description of us to his painters as sketches of both of us had been placed next to the notice.“Are you Lucien O’Hara by any chance?” a husky voice asked.I looked beside me, and that was when I saw the guard, Ryle, wh
[Nivera’s POV]I had never felt so alive as I did presently. It was like I had been born all over again, but actually, that wasn’t a lie as I had indeed been reborn. I felt revived, strong and for the first time; free.At Lucien’s house, there were many sachets of blood which he had stored in the refrigerator, and I tore them up one after another, gulping them all down as soon as they touched my lips. They each tasted differently, but still had that ultimate satisfaction that probably only a hybrid could understand. As satisfied as I felt, I wanted more; I yearned for more. It was the only life I knew now after all.I looked at the corner where I had dumped all of the sachets earlier, and saw that I had finished them up.“No, no, no,” I muttered, rummaging through the refrigerator like a lunatic, looking for at least, a drop of blood to satisfy my hunger. I needed it badly.Lucien had said he was going to have a discussion with Celeste and he wasn’t home. He had told me to wait for hi
[Malia’s POV]Just a day ago, Nivera had been the one sitting in front of this mirror and admiring herself. Today, I was the one who sat down there, touching the crystal beaded necklace around my neck as a smile clung tightly to my lips.“You are the most beautiful bride I have ever seen,” my father said as soon as he opened the door of the dressing room and saw me sitting all alone, as I had sent away the stylist, maids and makeup artist since my dad wanted to see me.“Of course, I am. I have all the beauty and elegance of a Luna,” I agreed.“The people are overjoyed. They can’t wait to see you by the side of the Alpha and bow down to you,” he said.“That’s how it should be. Why must anyone rule the people against their will? It’s a good thing we got rid of that peasant. She never once did fit in,” I said.“That’s what I wanted to talk to you about. Are you sure those maids can be trusted? I hope they won’t end up saying the truth about how we planned the whole thing,” my dad said.I
[Nivera’s POV]From outside, I could hear the jubilation going on. They all seemed so happy and excited that the Alpha King was getting married to Malia, whom they all desired to be the Luna. It was as if they didn’t even remember that just yesterday, an Omega called Nivera had almost been their Luna, but died. In fact, it didn’t even seem like anyone remembered me, and it was too soon for them to just move on happily with their lives like it was an animal they had slaughtered and not a werewolf like themselves.There were no posters of me in the streets, no one held a funeral ceremony in my honour, they didn’t even have the little decency of burying me in the sand at all, and there was no such thing as a one-minute silence to observe that someone had truly left the Pack.I was boiling with so much fury and it was erupting, but I didn’t even try to hold it back. Anyone in my shoes would have felt the same way as well; I wanted to rip their hearts out all at once, and I didn’t care if
[Nivera’s POV]“Celeste, what are you doing here? I was in the middle of something,” I said, walking down to meet her, brushing off the initial fear I had felt.“I know, but I won’t waste your time. I just want to speak with you. This magic doesn’t hold for long anyway,” she said.“You can even stop time? I’m jealous,” I said.She gave a small smile. “I’m not called the greatest witch to have ever lived for nothing. I was in the middle of a ritual when I found out what you were doing,” she said.“From the look on your face, I can tell that you do not approve,” I stated.“From the look on your face, I can tell you’re rethinking your actions,” she said to me.I heaved a sigh. “Well, maybe I am, but it is just because I’m beginning to feel weak again. They deserve to die, all of them, and if you came here to stop me, then you won’t succeed,”I told her.“Child, I am not here to stop you. I just came to tell you something I should have said the moment you were awakened as a hybrid. No one
[Lucien’s POV]Before Celeste had left, she had handed over to me a towel filled with ice, which I now used in pressing against the back of my head which ached badly. The pain from falling hard on the ground should have gone by now, but it persisted.Ryle snickered as he turned up the volume of the television which had a wrestling program going on. Apparently, he had moved in with me on Celeste’s insistence against my wishes, and had been watching shows to build up his fighting skills so he could have revenge on Tyler.“Weren’t you supposed to be a powerful vampire? How is it that a newly born hybrid defeated you so easily?” he asked in a scornful manner.“For someone who just lost his family, shouldn’t you be grieving somewhere? How is it that you have the time to sit here and annoy me?” I retorted.A frown appeared on his face as I had reminded him of something he had been desperately trying to forget. He couldn’t even respond to me; he just wallowed in deep sadness, but no, I didn’
One month later[Lucien’s POV]I kissed her, gently at first , then with force, until she had no choice but to kiss me back. I held onto her tightly as if I might fly away into space and never see her again. My lips moved against hers, over and over in slow motion. And it was wonderful because, even though we had had sex many times since we had been together for a month, it was the first time that our love felt whole, solid, real, and not like a dream or an illusion.She knew it, too, and her hands were everywhere on me, holding onto my hips and shoulders, stroking my face, pushing my hair back from my eyes and pressing kisses all along my jaw, down my throat to my chest, which was pressed flat against hers. She didn't need me to tell her where to put her tongue. We both could feel each other's passion, so close yet so far away at once. My hands found their way under her shirt to touch skin that wasn't clothed, and she shivered in response.I ripped off the shirt, whispering to her th