AURELIA~~With every second that passed, my mind came up with my questions but it all turned into a satisfying groan as my back came in contact with a cold yet warm body of water. It was the perfect temperature yet it couldn’t be described as lukewarm. “Where is this place?” I asked, relaxing into the perfect, comforting embrace of the water while staring at the roof of this bigger hut. The foggy layer over my sight was beginning to slip away with every second I spent in the water. My senses which I couldn’t access before also came to life. I sensed Katie and Kyle in the room with me while other unfamiliar scents tickled my nostrils. Mia Lu’s voice came again, “It’s called the purifying lake, Aurelia.”“You know my name?” I asked. She chuckled, sitting on a stool beside the body of water, “I know more than enough about you, Aurelia. We all do.” My eyes shifted around the room and I noticed the figure of five other people. They all had something in common with Mia Lu– Their gre
AURELIA~~I saw myself on the hospital bed and Tristan sitting beside me. At first, I was confused because while I was seeing myself on the bed, I was also standing in the corner of the room, hand in hand with Susanna. The room was familiar. It was the same room where I saw and met Tristan properly for the first time… The room where he told me that I had two babies instead of the one I was expecting. Susanna muttered to me as if she could read my mind, “This is the past, Aurelia. I brought you here so you can see for yourself. To be honest, you led us to this present moment.” “But how? We were in the hut seconds ago and now I’m here?” I asked her, my voice barely a whisper as I feared that I would be heard by Tristan who stared at me with curiosity while I remained unconscious… well, the past version of me.“You don’t have to whisper. They can’t hear us. This is just a replay of your past.” Susanna said to me, smiling brightly before she answered my question, glancing at our lo
AURELIA~~As I watched my past self interact with Tristan, anger rose like a bile in my throat. I hated myself for crying and I swore to myself that I’d bring Dolf’s fear to life… Tristan’s plan will backfire because not only has he trained me in combat, but he has also helped me find myself.I was a blunt knife but with his help, I had become sharp. Also, with the help of the white wolves I have somehow reconnected with, I’ll break free from whatever he did to me and–Speaking of that, how did he manage to feed me the concoction every month without my knowledge? I didn’t recall taking any such thing from him willingly. I have also been in Dark Moon Pack for almost two months without Tristan. Why have the effects not worn off? I asked Susanna and she muttered to me, “Hold on tight. I’ll be taking you through the memory lane and you will get to see how he achieved his goals. It would be fast. Try not to get overwhelmed.” I didn’t take her warning seriously until the hospital room
AURELIA~~Of all the people in the world, he chose her. Of all the ladies in the world to get married to and mate with, Tristan, the same man who went on his knees and proposed to me, chose Larisa, the same woman who snatched my destined mate, manipulated our bond with dark magic, made my life a living hell, kidnapped my son and almost killed my kids and myself. Anger overlapped within me.Gosh, I had never felt this angry in my entire life. I didn’t even know I was capable of carrying this much anger in my body without exploding. Thank goddess I didn’t fall in love with this man. I did feel grateful for the gift of him but now I realized he was more of a curse than a gift. How could life be so cruel to me? How could I escape the manipulative version of Raiden only to fall into the trap of a narcissistic man? A twisted Alpha who couldn’t think straight? So the only reason he wanted me was for my power and perhaps he assumed I would help him take over the realm. But now that I
AURELIA~~I was living my best life in the hut assigned to my kids and me in the hidden pack while the rest of the realm assumed we were dead. Unfortunately, my best life came with constant anger and sadness at times. I was sad because I realized that no one was looking for us. No one cared enough to try to find us. It’s been two weeks since we got here according to Mia Lu–“Even if anyone is looking for us, we can’t be found. The pack is hidden from other wolves and we would have had trouble finding it if we weren’t brought in by the trackers that sensed our spiritual energy when we tried to create the shield.” Inara explained again. I groaned, “Not like I care but it would be nice to know someone out there is looking for us still.”My wolf hummed in agreement while my eyes scanned the area. The huts were built in rows, leaving a big enough bath between each row. Some huts were big while others were smaller, depending on the number of people that make up the family it belongs to
AURELIA~~I’d be a fool to not have noticed how the few people in this pack stare at me when they think I’m not watching. They stared at me with something close to awe in their eyes and before Mia Lu revealed some facts to me, I thought they were just trying to wrap their heads around how I survived among enemies all my life. I thought they were looking at me because my kids and I were different. My hair was still black as the dye hadn’t washed out and my kids still had their dirty blond hair, unlike other kids with white hair. But I began to doubt that after Mia Lu said to me, “She did that because she blamed herself for not seeing the evil the Black Fur members brought with them when she welcomed them into the pack with open hands and she believed protecting the last of us was her duty as–” “But she was pregnant. She should have considered the life of her child.” I lamented. “I told her the same but she said it’s her child’s responsibility to protect the survivors. Not just h
AURELIA~~The six elders of the hidden Pack; Mia Lu, Jeremy Dunns of the Beta family, Susanna Rios of the Gamma Family, Ross Hart of the Tracker family, Lori Hale of the Mender family, and Otis Bay of the Elemental family; allowed Raiden to be brought into the hidden pack. Although Jeremy, a headstrong man in his forties, and Otis whose personal ability has something to do with green life didn't stop grumbling about Raiden’s presence in the pack. “Lori can mend him. She can heal him faster than all of us combined.” Otis seethed as Raiden was placed into the purifying lake. The Menders were superior to regular Healers. While Healers and medical doctors in other packs work hand in hand to repair, sometimes leaving scars, Menders heal in a way that leaves no scar. For instance, if a wolf loses an eye, healers can just stop the bleeding and heal the wound but Menders can give the eye back. Of course, their ability is limited and takes a lot of energy as they weren’t the goddess.Lor
LARISA’S POV~~Despite getting crowned as Black Fur’s Luna, I still wasn’t a mate to Alpha Tristan. Heck! He wouldn’t even look at me nor has he tried to touch me after the last time he tortured me. Why do men have to make me beg them to make me their woman? It was easy with Jake and the mate I sacrificed to get initiated into the witches' coven when I was in the human realm.But it had never been easy to get Raiden to fuck me. The few times he took me to bed after I separated him and Aurelia, I had to charm him heavily as seducing him wasn’t enough to make him want me.It would have been easier to do the same with Alpha Tristan who thinks I’m just his puppet if my power hasn’t hit the bottom. I was low on power and I needed a charge. A boost. In fact, I yearned to have a permanent source of power and that could only happen if I killed someone and used their blood or got marked by a strong Alpha Male. And Alpha Tristan was the next available option. “How do I make him sleep with