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
Kiara's POV"I forbid you from going."What had I expected from Damien? Because being objective wasn't even in the books. It had been three days with no word from Dorian. Three days after he told us that he would be confronting his psychopath of a mate and my former best friend Ashly who it turned out that I had never known. When he told me of his plan, I felt a chill go up my spine. It was something that needed to be done but if she could try to kill me, her childhood friend, who she had grown up with and shared her life experiences with then she had no limits.Damien had dismissed my concerns. She was just one pregnant wolf who couldn't even shift, he said, Dorian would be fine. And if he wasn't then perhaps he wasn't supposed to be the Alpha of the Black wolf pack. It had been three days. Three days of no news of the arrest of Ashly, no news of Dorian's disappearance. It was just radio silence with our calls to the Alpha's office being ignored. "Damien." I said, my mind was ma
Kiara's POVAs I watched both of them sit next to each other hand in hand, it felt like my eyes were deceiving me.I gawped so much that I almost didn't hear the council members asking my partner and me to move the chest. "Drop the chest there." One of them gestured to the space close to the Alpha couple. As I carried the chest close to them, my heart raced and I wondered if they would be able to see through my disguise. I shouldn't have worried as they barely glanced away from each other long enough to notice that I had even passed them by. One of the elders spoke up, his words stunning me even more than the bizarre sight of both of them sitting together like a real couple. "These weapons are all we will need to commence the war with the Lycan King."What?! They wanted to continue the war with Damien after signing a peace treaty? They had lost their minds. Damien would not forgive such a betrayal and he would rip them apart mercilessly.Another elder nodded, seeming either pleas