CLAIRE's POVMy mind raced with several thoughts as I walked back towards the pack from seeing off my friend. I knew i could not be with Alpha Enzo because I had found my mate, even though he clearly liked me more and treated me better than my mate. But now that I really thought about it, I could not help but think of the possibilities. What if Enzo could fight off Dominik if I went to live with him? Because I definitely knew that Dominik would fight till the ends of the earth to get me back if I went with Enzo.Even if my mate did not care about me, I was still his mate and I doubted the moon goddess would just allow a mated man be sane without his mate by his side. It certainly did not work that way... did it?I was still thinking of all the possibilities when I walked into the pack house. I was too slow to grasp what was happening at first. Maybe it was because I had been spending too much time in the fighting arena that seeing people fight around me was somehow normal.It was
DOMINIK's POVI looked straight into his eyes as I snapped his neck, ensuring they closed shut. I stood up and looked around, seeing some of my men down. Grief filled my heart when I saw some were lying still on the ground. Carlos would pay for this big time, I was going to make sure of that. He was going to pay for what he had done to the little clan of children, and for having the fucking guts to attack my pack with dumb ass witches. The fool actually allied up with the witches? He wanted my attention? Well now he was going to have it. “Alpha!!" I turned to see one of the men that I always saw hanging around Claire. Pete, I think."Alpha Dominik!" He stood in front of me breathless from running over, a panicked expression on his face."Speak!" I commanded him when he would not speak up. "They took her, they took Claire." He said and subtly took a step away from me.I felt a sort of blinding rage rush through me, bursting with full force."What?!" I growled loudly. "Where is s
CLAIRE's POVThere was only one reason I knew I was not dead. And that reason was because if I died, I was sure I would go to heaven because I had always been such a good person even when the whole world was against me. I did not need anyone to tell me that, and considering the fact that I had been weak and bullied all my life, I doubted the angels would want me to go and suffer after death again, if they cared at all.And if I was in heaven, I knew I would not feel such deadly pain in my head like I did at the moment. I frowned and then groaned softly at the pain that little action seared at the back of my head. Oh fuckjng goddess, did you lie about heaven too? Or maybe you are not dead at all, I heard Elide’s snide remark. I almost smiled. I had not wanted to admit that I was actually scared that she would be absent.So… I was alive?I tried to open my eyes and groaned again, clutching at my head in pain. What did those rascals pummel my head with? A fucking tree? A mountain? Wha
CLAIRE's POV As the days went by and I spent more time in the cold, damp, unliveable cell, I came to a painful realisation that my mate, Dominik was not coming to rescue me any time soon. At the first week of my capture, I was feeling hopeful, ever eager and ever patient as I waited for Dominik to burst through the cell doors and scoop me into his arms. I recalled having dreams about it. Every night I would see Dominik hovering above me, smiling at me and reassuring me that everything was going to be okay. Even though I knew Dominik was not one to smile at me, but at this point, I was grasping at any little hope I could get. But I was once again taken away from my dream and faced with the pitiful reality I was living in. As I sat at the corner of the cell on the bare floor, I raised my knees up to my chest and wrapped my arms around myself to produce as much body heat as I could. Why had Dominik not come for me all this time? It should be evident now that I was missing. Why did h
CLAIRE's POVI stared at the back of the witch, who was leading me down a narrow hallway. I trudged after her as my eyes wandered to the brown muddy walls that lined the hallway.Just where was she taking me to? I had not seen a single soul since we had started our journey. I assumed this was not the main clan house.We entered into an open door and all I could see all around me were prison cells. Shrivelled and malnourished prisoners sat in the cells, looking lifeless, and some of them even looking dead.Beside them lay dry bones, bones that I presumed belonged to the former prisoners. A chill ran down my spine. Was that going to be my fate? Trapped down her until my flesh dried up and I became nothing but bones?I swallowed at the thought. As I turned my attention back to the witch, I caught her staring at me from a distance and I soon realised that I had stopped walking.I blinked and jogged towards her. We kept walking and I could feel my legs tire out slowly. My lack of food and
CLAIRE's POVI thought that I would not encounter the witch again after that night, but I was clearly mistaken. After that night, I began to see her more often that I wished too.She would always bring me food at night, when the wolves guarding my cell had gone to get a good night’s rest. As much as it puzzled me, I accepted her kindness without question.I was famished after all.I stared out the small window that had iron bars on it absentmindedly as I had nothing else to do. From the restricted view on the window, I could see the moon standing boldly in the dark blue sky, its light illuminating the land below.Those beasts were finally tired of inflicting pain on me as their regular visits had come to an end, at least I hoped it did. I could not imagine what would happen if they came to torture me once again.I closed my eyes and clasped my hands together and began to pray to the Moon goddess, in hopes that perhaps my situation would turn around and maybe, just maybe, my mate would
CLAIRE's POVI squinted my eyes to make out the face of the person that had called out my name. The voice was familiar, all too familiar.“Claire!” The feminine voice called out to me again in a hushed tone.I instantly knew who it was. It was the strange witch. I rushed over to the barred up window and gazed at her wide eyed.“Why are you standing by my window? Is something the matter?”“I told you that I would come back for you.” She said in a hushed tone.Come back for me? What was this witch going on about? By her side, I could see two more people. Their faces were hidden underneath cloaks so I could not tell who they were. I looked back at the witch and cocked an eyebrow at her in confusion.“I am bewildered by all this. What is going on?” I quizzed again.“I am here to help you escape from this place and you will do well to follow me, except you want to rot and die in this cell.”I gazed at her with shock and awe. This witch, wanted to rescue me from this cell? I found it hard
CLAIRE's POVThe words the empress spoke were hard to take in and process. I sat there, pondering and mulling over her words. My mother was a witch?“I know this will come to you as a surprise, but it is true.” The empress reassured me.“But how are you so sure she was my mother? Maybe you have the wrong person.” I said.I could not believe that I was the daughter of such a powerful person. Me? A weakling? I could never be her offspring.“There is no doubt that you are her daughter. The birthmark is solid prove that you are.” The empress said with conviction.I moved my shirt aside and stared at the weirdly shaped pattern on my skin.“Hmm, there is no doubt. That is definitely the same birthmark your mother possessed and on the exact same spot too.” I turned my gaze to the beautiful witch in front of me and she smiled, her pretty set of teeth bare.“From that sparkle in your eyes, I can tell that you are eager to learn more about your mother.”I nodded rather quickly and a throaty ch