Kiara's POVIt felt surreal coming back here. I still couldn't believe that I had come back. To the pack that had disgraced me so thoroughly.I was missing Damien so much already and it had just been a few hours since my departure. I had to leave while he was asleep because if he had begged me to stay, I would have.Even now I questioned what exactly I was doing here. Right. The prophecy. I had to pick the right mate whoever that was. Not the person I was crazy about. There had to be a reason that Dorian was even in the running at all. "Hey." I saw him coming towards me to welcome me and I smiled. He embraced me and looked at me with poorly disguised surprise. "Hey. You came.""I did." So even he had not been expecting me to come. At least he wouldn't have unrealistic expectations of me. I took in his features. "How are you holding down the fort here? How is your Dad?"He ran his fingers through his dark blond hair looking frustrated. "Still out. The doctors don't know when he
Ashly's POVThe dread that filled my veins at the sight of Kiara had yet to leave me. It consumed me from the inside out and I didn't know which way was up or down. She was back. She was back to snatch my happiness. To kill my joy. No. I wouldn't let her. Not now that everything was finally going well for me. I wouldn't let her take what I had worked hard for. "Take her to the dungeons." I ordered the guards and her jaw dropped. What else was she expecting when she came back here? That I would welcome her with open arms. She could continue dreaming. The guards seized her by her arms and that was when she came to her senses realizing what was about to happen to her. "Ashly. Ashly, what's going on? I–"I ignored her. "What are you waiting for?" I questioned the guards. "Get her out of my sight!"They bundled her away amidst her protests and pleas that I listen to her. I kicked the servant on the ground away from me feeling unnerved."Get out of here you worthless creature."She bo
Damien's POVKiara missed her check-in call. I called her again and again before I finally deduced that there were two options. Either she wasn't with her phone or she didn't want to talk to me.Both options drove me to distraction. We had been fine before she left. Better than fine in fact. I was still angry that she had left without waking me up first. Perhaps she had known that I would never have let her leave. I had already started contemplating going to Dorian's to bring her home more than just once now and I was tilting towards that direction. The vision could go to hell for all that I cared. I would keep Kiara here with me by any method necessary.I know the only reason she has been bothered going there after how much we had connected was because she felt bound to the promise that she had made to Dorian. No matter, I would break that promise. I stepped into my room only to see Keturah on my bed with nothing on. Goddess, it was too soon for this could I not get even a moment o
Kiara's POVI don't know how I couldn't put two and two together until she asked the men to arrest me. My childhood friend was Dorian's mate. The one who had drugged him with whiteshade. The one pregnant with another wolf's child that had made it his in order to take the throne. The one that made her maids and anyone else that she felt was a threat to her and Dorisn disappear. That mate was supposed to be Ashly? Ashly who had celebrated with me when Dorian had chosen me. Ashly who I told about my first kiss and we laughed about how his life almost covered my nose as well. Ashley who always knew what just to say to make my mood lighten up. How could they be the same person? How? Had she always been this person that I didn't know? What did that say about me that I had not noticed that she had two distinct attitudes and behavioural tendencies like that?The door creaked open and with each downward step I was certain it was her. Then she stepped into full view with her brown hair pul
Kiara's POVI struggled against the men that held me dragging me out of Dorian's pack house. They were fully outfitted in their own pack and black and wire nose masks to preserve their identities. "Let me go. I said let me go!" I struggled moving from side to side. I couldn't calm down not when Ashly had told me on no certain grounds that I was going to die.I finally closed my hands around the cell phone I had seen one of them slip into his pockets as I swayed yelling at me to set me free and when I moved away, the phone was finally in the sleeve of the jacket that had been placed on me to mask the presence of the cuffs in front of me. One of the guards grabbed me by the back and my hair tangled around his finger yanking me up before giving me a tight slap that made my ears ring and my vision blur. I let my body hang limp in their grasp but I maintained a strong grip on the phone and one of my abductors tossed me over his shoulder and then into the boot of their vehicle. The mom
Kiara's POVWe were in bed the following morning when Damien began to question me about what had happened. I knew that I would eventually have to tell him about it but I was dreading it because Damien was very good at overreacting. And now that he had a good reason to do so I worried for anyone even remotely involved. "Tell me." He demanded, his eyes on mine. I licked my lips and looked away slightly before looking back at him. "Do I have to?"His features sharpened. "My mate's life was at risk. Yes. I need the details."My body tingled at the sound of him calling me his mate. His. I liked it. I liked being called that so much that I wasn't sure if I wanted to entertain the thought of being with someone else much less actually being with them when he was an option. I had to pick the right mate to live longer than my birthday but what was the use of a long life in it wasn't going to be with him? Unaware of how far my mind had travelled, Damien continued speaking, trying his best
Dorian's POVI had checked every possible place she cod have been but there was no use.She was gone. Kiara was gone. Normally I would have assumed that maybe she had left because of Damien but she hadn't taken anything when she left and I knew Kiara. At least I felt I knew her to an extent after staying with her for a time. If she wanted to leave me she wouldn't sneak off, she would leave with a hell of a scene especially since I had made her stay in the servants' quarters. It had been two days. This was something else. "Shaun, I can't believe she just up and disappeared without a trace. I hope something bad hasn't happened to her."If something did, I would never forgive myself. Shaun paced Dad's office. Now my office. All this was so fucked up. "The maids saw nothing?" He asked. I resisted the urge to yell at him. Did he think I had been playing all this while? Who would I have asked for her whereabouts if not the maids?"You don't think I have questioned them already?"My v
Dorian's POV"Dorian." Damien replied after an extended silence that put me on edge no doubt as he wanted. And while his tone was jovial, friendly even, there was an undercurrent that immediately put me on edge. "This is a surprise," I said, borrowing Ashly's earlier words. "Why did you call?"Damien chuckled darkly. "Are you telling me that you don't know why I am calling you?""If I did, I wouldn't be asking you." I said pointedly trying to deflect his attention from what we were saying. There was a slight chance that he already knew that I was looking for Kiara and he was messing with me but if he didn't I wouldn't just out myself."Dorian," This time when he spoke all levity was gone from his voice. "Don't you have something to tell me? Something about Kiara?"He knew. A chill spread across my skin and I wondered how he could have found out so quickly.I rushed to apologise, to assure him. "Damien, I will find her, I–"I heard static from across the line and a slap as though so