AURELIA~~“Get up. It’s time.” Inara announced. “They are asleep. Let’s move before Raiden shows up.” I jolted from the bed, grasping reality as my eyes flew open, quickly adjusting to the dark state of the room. I heard Katie and Hazel snoring peacefully and I quietly got off the bed, hoping to get out of the room without disturbing their sleep. “How many hours do we have till dawn?” I asked my wolf through the bond we shared while I threw on my leather training suit before slipping out of the room and closing the door behind me. “Two hours,” Inara answered. I inhaled sharply, “Two hours? How did I sleep for so long? Fuck! Jessica must have woken up to prepare–” “Relax. Jessica is still asleep. I can’t sense her consciousness in the house and I helped you sleep longer because you need enough physical strength to bring Kyle back. We only have one chance and we can’t mess it up.” Inara explained, urging me to stay calm. “You induced my sleep?” I queried in shock.“I did what I
LARISA’S POV (6)~~That sneaky bitch! Did she just yell out my name? Of course, I knew she suspected me but how could she come out here and yell out her suspicions when her son’s life was in my hands? Crazy bitch!My already frustrated aide muttered to me, “Did you reveal your identity in the note you adamantly sent to her?”He looked at me as if he was contemplating whether to rip my head off or abandon me in this dire time. “I wasn't named Stupid, for goddess's sake!” I exclaimed. “It's either she knows or she doesn't. Whatever it might be, I don't care. It doesn't make any difference.” Aurelia already made a mistake by showing up here. It shows that she cared about her bastard son but I didn't care about them. This morning, before daybreak, Aurelia and her son will be killed. I'll deal with the daughter later and there would be no one left to confuse Raiden. Love me or hate me, I'll be the one beside him when they are all gone. “This is crazy, Larisa. Very crazy and this pla
ALPHA RAIDEN~~Following Larisa was the best decision I have made in my entire life… well aside from getting justice for my daughter. I got to discover the truth about her even though I still couldn’t explain some things like how she walked out of the air. One minute I couldn’t see her and the next, she walked out with Kyle staggering and struggling weakly behind her. “What the actual fuck!” Lex gasped, shocked. Despite his suspicions, my wolf was still shocked to see Larisa drop her mask, revealing her real face as she stepped closer to Aurelia whose pain flooded my system. It took a while to get here. Larisa walked around in circles for a while before she disappeared. I didn’t know where she had entered but I could still sense her presence in the vicinity which was why I decided to hide and wait for her reappearance. I had thought to myself, “Where could she have gone? It’s an open forest. There is no building in this area.”It took seeing Aurelia after many minutes of waiti
AURELIA~~No. No. No.Jessica shouldn’t have revealed herself so that she could poke the bear. I could have handled Larisa and distracted her long enough for Jessica to arrive with help. She should have gone in search of help. Heck! We needed help. Larisa had a gun… not just any gun. A gun with silver bullets and one of those bullets could end Jessica’s life and mine… and Kyle's. Still, Jessica wore her pride like a second skin... like I hadn't been shot by Larisa's men who I failed to perceive until I crashed on my knees.This was one of the countless times I wished I could access Jessica’s mind like a pack member but spending almost six years in Black Fur Pack wasn't enough to make me an official member—“You've got guts,” Larisa mumbled, disbelief loud in her voice.Rather than keep her mouth shut, Jessica snorted, her footsteps sounding closer by the second, “What can I say?” She paused just as she stopped beside me, holding Larisa’s gaze without flinching, “I'm not a spineles
LARISA’S POV ~~ I pulled the trigger. Twice. While Aurelia screamed, “Jessica”, I cried out, “Raiden” as he held on to his side, his eyes wide open. Prior to the second shot, I was fuming with anger because I let myself get tricked by the female Aurelia called Jessica. I had seen her a few times but I never cared about her existence until she walked up to me like she had a death wish. Jessica got me with her words. There was no denying that but nothing got me perplexed like seeing Raiden race toward me as I pulled the trigger for the second time, intending to put Aurelia out like I did with her friend whose body had hit the floor like a fallen tree. “H-how did you get here?” I cried out feeling a sense of grief as I watched Raiden fall to his knees. My eyes fell to his side. I could see his blood leaking out of him even though he was trying to add pressure to the wound. My head began to ache at the sight just as my chest constricted. I shot Raiden. I released a silver bul
ALPHA RAIDEN~~My side hurt like a bitch!But that wasn’t what hurt the most. My brain, mind, and perhaps a huge part of my heart hurt as Larisa’s words sank into me faster than the bullet could have. I was groaning in pain and close to losing my life but I knew Larisa’s words would stop my heart before the silver bullet.I was an idiot. I clearly chose to trust and protect the wrong person. I was blinded. Heck, I was foolish. Even my mom– my parents knew something wasn’t right and they tried to protect me but I only hated them for their genuine efforts. Now I was alone. My warriors, who I had ordered to march over many minutes before I had to stop Larisa from killing Aurelia, were still not here for some unknown reason. The truth was glaring– I was a useless son, man, Alpha, mate, and father. I have failed in all aspects of my life and fallen for the tricks of the dark people that my father spent many years fighting. Fuck! I took us right back to the beginning. As I lay on t
AURELIA~~“Let her be!” I shouted despite the commotion around me. “Leave her to me.” I recognized them as Raiden’s men but how could I ever leave Jessica to them? “We’ve to take her so you can focus on getting the boy to the healers. There’s no hope for her but your son is still breathing and you need to get treated–” One of Raiden’s men voiced with a bit of frustration and concern.“How many times do I have to tell you that I can fix her? I can fix all of these so just leave us alone.” I barked with tears streaming down my face and I held on to the hope that despite the time that had passed, Inara and I could find a way to make Jessica’s heart start beating again.Yes, there was a fucking hole in the middle of her head and blood was leaking out of her in a way that made my heart constrict. Kyle was unconscious and my back still ached from where the arrows were of course still poking out. No one would rip them out. “Alpha! Alpha!” I heard someone screaming from behind me and th
AURELIA~~The last two days in Dark Moon pack have been chaotic. The situation in the pack is what can be described as unpeaceful due to many factors. The most important factor is Raiden’s unavailability.Yes, Raiden was still unconscious.I didn’t expect Raiden to stay unconscious for two days. It was expected on Kyle’s part because my son was malnourished and had been deprived of good sleep but since Inara healed Raiden and helped get rid of the silver in his body, I thought he would be awake by now. “I might have left some of the toxic in his body to teach him a lesson,” Inara muttered into my mind, causing my eyes to snap to Raiden who I had never seen in such a peaceful state, not even during our marriage years. “You’re kidding, right?” I queried. “Yes, Relia. I’m not a toxic wolf and since I know you are dying to leave Dark Moon Pack as soon as Kyle is fit to travel and Raiden is up, I wouldn’t do anything to disrupt your plans.” Inara retorted and I sighed. It was good t