Ashly's POVIt was time for the duel and while Damien was in his spot, Dorian was missing. We stood for close to thirty minutes waiting for Dorusn to appear while I knew fully well that he would not show. The moment that Damien realized that he had been had, he turned to me immediately, his teeth bared in rage. "Where is he hiding?!"I didn't shake. Not when the entire pack was watching. Besides I felt that the moment I showed an iota of weakness, Damien would rip me apart."I have no idea."A more vicious growl left him and he was even closer to me now, his face a mask of fury."I said where is he hiding?!"I stepped up to him, my voice climbing almost as high as his was. "I don't know! Yelling at me will not make him appear."This seemed to cow him or maybe he just realized how much of an asshole while looked like shouting at a woman whose mate was missing. Then he snarled almost derisively. "I should have known, wolves like you have no sense of pride. Of course he would disap
Dorian's POVShe betrayed me once more and maybe it was foolish of me to have expected her to turn over a new leaf in the first place when I knew the extent of her depravityThe moment that Shaun entered the dungeon's and the realization dawned on his face I saw something I could only call regret on Ashly's face. I think what stared me was the fact that I could gave swirn that emotion was the most genuine that I had ever seen on her because it only existed in that fragmented moment between him calling out her name and her taking to her heels. I had not realized thst they were close to the extent where Shaun's beliefs about her mattered so much that she would feel even slightly bothered about what he would think after he found out that she was behind my abduction. Immediately she bolted, Shaun hesitated them he went after her. From the moment she bolted to the moment that I heard his approaching footsteps, thought about that moment of hesitation, that hint of regret…Was there somet
Damien's POVThe letter crumpled in my fist and I fumed with anger. There was a rogue attack. A rogue attack that had left our borders and reached the palace? There was something wrong. I shouldn't have come here. Then she wouldn't be alone. Dorian with his absolute disregard for his life touched my arm."What is wrong?"I brushed off his hold as I gestured for my Lycans to prepare for our departure."We will continue our meeting later, I am needed in my palace."I began to leave, but Dorian continued to follow me dodgely. "Damien what was in that letter?"I turned and growled at him. "None of your business!"Did he not realize that I needed to return as quickly as possible to Kiara? It wasn't his business anymore. I was her mate. She had chosen me not him. He paused at my growl, his eyes analyzing my features then his face went slack and pale. "Is Kiara fine?"I growled at him again but this didn't dissuade him as he took a step forward. "I know she is your mate but she is als
Keturah's POV"You got caught?"This was the reason that I preferred doing things myself. Wolves were incompetent, they were not just incompetent, they couldn't be relied upon for anything. The worst part was that she didn't even seem to understand the gravity of her mistake. Her green eyes were blank as she gave a careless shrug. "I didn't exactly have all the time in the world to think of a better hiding place with your cramped calender."A place to hide? My orders had been for her to kill him not to good him histage is that anyone with a wonderful sense of direction would find him!Ashly looked at me something flickering in those evergreen depths and I knew then she was waiting for me to bring it up for me to puck a fight with her. Fool. Killing her would be as easy as snapping my fingers but it wasn't something that I wanted to do now of all times when I still needed her help somewhat. She would pay later. I shook my head as I thought of our situation. "It doesn't matter any
ashly's povreturning to the pack was easier than i anticipated. with thick cloaks that held the scent of my pack members, keturah and kiara were in. they weren't exactly in hiding since no one really knew kiara or how she looked like but it was precautionary in case someone remembered her from her execution. and i didn't want any questions as to what a lycan was doing here after the duel with the lycan king had fallen through. one thing i hadn't accounted for was shaun. that was a lie. i had accounted for him. in my accounts, he looked at me like i was the devil spawn and ignored me by all means necessary. in my accounts, he went with dorian his bestfriend to the lycan kingdom. in my accounts, he didn't ambush me on my way out of the section of the castle that i had prohibited servants and anyone else from going into that housed keturah and kiara. had housed kiara. she was moved to the dungeon when she argued with keturah too much. she would be without food or water until ketu
Ashly's POVMy chest hurt. Maybe it was because Shaun had betrayed me. It maybe it was because I knew I was deserving of such a betrayal since I had betrayed him first. The guards hauled him away and I turned to leave only for Kiara's sharp judgemental voice to pull me to a stop. "What are you doing, Ashly?"What did she think I was doing? Playing? Kiara always asked the wrong and dumbest questions.I continued walking and she raised her voice so high that the guards escorting Shaun away would no doubt catch a hint of her hefty words on the air. "You care about him yet you would do this?"Do what? I found to face her as she finally hit me where it hurt. Where I had already been sensitive about to begin with. She was no one to judge me. She had grown up surrounded by the best of everything. She got chosen to be the most of Dorian out of all the other eligible she wolves because of the incidence of her birth. The only unlucky stint she had was when Dorian had rejected her and once
Keturah's POVI was suspicious. Before recruiting Ashly, I knew of her predilection to be a traitor and it didn't bother me not when I planned to use her and dispose of her as soon as possible. But now that she had gone out of her way to help me when I was.certain she was like me only counting the hours until our alliance fell apart. Leaving the dungeons after acquiring the blood and lock of hair that had somehow quelled my blog odlust with regards to Kiara, I had gotten a whiff of Ashly. I had felt doubly suspicious. I was certain that she would go into the dungeons to sabotage me in some way so I left and doubled back after dropping off my possessions. That was when I overheard her telling that wolf that always hung around Dorian to warn Damien.. Smart. So that was what she planned. Selling me out to Damien to keep her hide. It was a good idea. If I had not gotten to overhear this it might have even worked. But now…I heard the wolf speak again, his voice intense with a quie
Kiara's POVShaun was dead and I didn't know a thing I could have done to prevent it. Keturah had come for me and I was ashamed to admit that I had been scared. Scared after she smiled at me maliciously and had me held down while she took my blood and a section of my hair was noticeably smaller than the rest if it. She wanted to use me to bait Damien but I.saw that she had gotten way too much satisfaction from what she did.She would hurt me just for the fun of it. She wanted to hurt me just for the fun of it if I would but give her the excuse. Hearing her approaching footsteps along side a shuffling one awoke fear inside me and told me that it was possible she was back for more.She unlocked the door gesturing for me to come out of the cell with that same mocking smile that said she was just waiting for me to resist her so that she would break me. I stepped out unwilling to give her that chance only for me to see Shaun barely on his feet as he bled from what had to be at least a