CIARA's POVI shuffled my feet for the umpteenth time. The elders sitting before me bore on their faces great sadness and the atmosphere was tense. I wondered how my face looked next to theirs as I was very sure that none of them was as sad as I was . Of course, why would they be ?. The great elder's death is my fault and mine entirely. I sobbed once more and let the tears run down my face in torrents ,as though they were athletes in a race , trying to outrun each other. I felt bile rise up in my throat and I swallowed my saliva. Sorrow overclouded me and I could think of nothing more than this death which was my fault. When a messenger came in , wearing an indifferent look , I felt anger course through me . Every member of the pack were supposed to be sad , or so I thought . Why not ? Only a person deviod of feelings would feel otherwise. As my eyes made their way to the Messenger's shoe , I couldn't but smile as I thought he deserved the lowliest state of squalor he was in. Hear
CIARA's POV**********************She still read books and asked questions from other doctors who knew more than she did.As if that was not enough, sometimes she left it to the moon goddess to treat or she would bring someone to work on the body themselves even without interfering.Ofcourse , she would think of me as a quack, one whose negligence had led to the demise of her beloved father.“What happened, Ciara” she asked again , tears gradually gathering in her eyes.Now I wanted to be on my own because the whole world was slowly crumbling in and around me and I did not know what to do or say than just look.I felt great pity for her ofcourse she was the who had lost the best thing that had happened to her. She was still in between the guards who did not even care how she felt while she fixed her teary eyes on me , waiting for an answer “I had tried to call you for a long time to get across to you, I tried reaching everyone and they said you did not want to be disturbed so I decide
Calebs POVI really did not expect seeing Lucian at my door. The fact that I had just come back from meeting with Titan and then Lucian comes knocking at my door was one I didn't deem to be coincidental. Maybe he knew about my meetings with Titan and Alana and had come to confront me about it. Or maybe I was overreacting. "Can I come in?" Lucian asked, shaking me from my thoughts. "Uh, yeah," I muttered as I shifted from the door and gestured for him to come in. He smiled and walked inside as I closed the door. "Your room hasn't changed much," he said as he walked over to a wooden chair and sat on it. "You know how much I like my things same," I said as I leaned my back on the door and crossed my legs. "What are you doing here, Lucian?"Lucian looked at me with a smile as he began twirling his fingers around each other. I could notice he was nervous and both anxious at the same time and he was trying his best to hold it in. I know Lucian right from when we were little and I know
Lucians POVI walked over to Harolds room with anger in my eyes. Anger that Caleb had lied about where he had gone to and anger that he might know where Alana was and had been hiding it from me. As I reached Harolds place, I heard moanings coming from within. That of a man and a woman. Why was I hearing moanings? Was he having sex? But Harold was not mated. Was he having sex outside of mating? Angrily, I pushed down his door and met him on the bed with a naked woman on top of him. She saw me and immediately came down from Harold, struggling with the blanket she wanted to use to cover her self. I recognized her immediately. It was one of the pack omegas, Dana. She pleaded and apologized as I walked towards them. I had no interest in her so I told her to leave. With fear, she immediately packed her things and ran out of the room, not bothering to cover herself. Harold on the other hand, was breathing heavily as he crawled to a corner of his bed, with his back against the headboard.
Calebs POVI groaned and growled in pain as Lucians claw dug into my belly. I could feel his sharp claw getting deeper and deeper and it hurt by the second. I didn't know when he threw the punch at me and it was way too fast for me to dodge this time. I and Lucian had practiced a lot when we were younger so I knew almost all of his moves but this time, he wasn't attacking with clarity. His punches were just random and sudden, sending me off guard with every blow that he struck on me. My mouth was now badly bloodied and I felt about six holes where I knew my teeth used to be. Some o had swallowed from his punches and some I had spit out. His punchings didn't seem to stop and just when I thought it was going to, he shot out his claws and dug it into my abdomen while pinning me to the wall. I knew me making any move to escape was only going to cause more damage to me as that would only cause his was to dig deeper. I held his hands and tried pulling it out but his grip was way to stron
Nixies POVI watched in silence as they carried my fathers body out of the room. I had already cried my eyes out and I was sure I had no water left in my body to pour out. I and my dad had not been that close as I had just gotten to know that he was my dad but the little time that we had spent together was much more precious than the time we spent apart. Lucian and Alana stood by me as I began sobbing again, even though no tear came out from my heart. Seeing the guards carry my fathers body into the woods for the burial rites sent pangs of pain to my heart. The person who felt much more pained by his death than I did was Clara, who just stood with tears pouring out of her eyes as she watched them carry my fathers body. She blamed herself for his death and I felt pained that she felt thay way. I didn't blame her though. I too would have felt the same. All the while I had been in tears, Jacob had been by my side, comforting me. I won't lie, I felt a certain kind of draw to him. And
Lucians POVThe elders and Iago had kept asking me why I had stripped Caleb off his rank as gamma and made him an omega and I told them everything. Right from how I had seen Caleb come down from the chariot suspiciously to how he head confessed of his whereabouts and I removed the part where I had met with Harold so as to spare him of the punishment for having sex with an omega outside of mating. The elders commended me for my actions but Iago refused to believe me. He said that there was no way Caleb, the leader of the warrior pack, would go against his oath and work for the alpha of our rival pack. I explained that I too had felt that way but when I used the alphas eyes of compulsion on him, he confessed the whole truth to me. Iago could not believe his ears. Caleb was working with the Silver Stone pack? It sounded ridiculous to the ear but that was what had happened. Iago asked me, with fury in his eyes, that we deal with Caleb but I declined. I knew Iagos way of dealing with pe
Lucians POVI walked out of the meeting room with Iago following closely behind me. I knew he had lots of questions to ask me concerning the meeting but with the aura that I gave off, he knew to dare not ask my any question. The meeting with the elders had gone as a downslide because of Elder Derrick. He asked questions that I didn't want to be asked and I had to give answers that I never wanted to give. The way he asked those questions though was suspicious as he gave me a knowing look as he spoke. I felt like he knew something that he wasn't supposed to know and I made a mental note in my mind to ask him about it later. "Did you perform my order as I asked you to, Iago?" I asked as I and Iago walked out of the meeting room. "What order are you talking about, Lucian?" he asked, confused and I stopped on my tracks. I turned, glared at him and said between clenched teeth, "it's alpha Lucian to you, Iago. I think it's high time I receive the respect that is supposed to be accorded t
Titans POVI stared at the open field in front of me. Vultures screeched above me and some poured down to the field to devour the deer carcass that laid there.Kargo and Jacob stood by my right side, staring at me and speaking in whispers. I did not mind. They could say whatever they wanted. My mind was pretty occupied at the moment.We had moved from the valley of death to the open field a little bit far off north from our pack compound. Jacob and Kargo had pleaded for me to go to the pack compound with them but I refused it. I decided it best to sit here in the pouring rain and think everything that was happening through.What the shaman had said to us still stuck in my head, unable to leave. No matter how hard I had tried to wipe it off my mind, it still stayed. I wanted so much to not believe what he had said but I didn't find a reason not to no matter how hard I tried.I had wanted to ask him who the wolf prints that we had seen belonged to but he disappeared just as fast as he h
Lucian's POVWe marched into the pack compound, waving at the people who had gathered at the gate. The elders too had gathered and they bowed down as I passed by, having the knowing look in their eyes. I knew they were mad at me for my behavior recently. Now that I didn't have any reason to go after Alana again, I made a mental note to speak with the elders later and apologize to them for my behavior. But first, I had to meet with Diana."Where's Diana?" I asked one of the guards that was standing beside my horse. I immediately recognized who I was talking to and rephrased my question. "Where is your Luna?""I do not know, Alpha, Lucian," the guard responded as he bowed down slightly. I tapped his shoulders and gave him the reins of my horse before walking away to look for Diana. I walked over to the infirmary to search for her, thinking that's where she would be since Flora was taking care of her and the baby but I didn't find her there. The whole place was empty. It was then that I
Diana's POVI sat on my bed as hot tears poured from my eyes. Lucian's actions now we're beginning to hurt more than before. I didn't know why he couldn't acknowledge the fact that my daughter and I were more than enough for him. Whenever I asked him why he could not do that, he would always denied it and tell me that he did know that I and his daughter were enough for him. But then if I asked him why he was still going after Alana, he would keep mute.His behavior was beginning to sicken and annoy but it was also beginning to worry me. I didn't know what would happen if he wins Titan in the fight and brings Alana home. If she does get pregnant, Lucian would begin to prioritize her over I and his daughter. She might even give birth to a son which would make matters worse."Arrrrgh," I mumbled as I pulled at my hair. Thinking about everything was draining my energy but I still had not come to any conclusion that would be of help to me. I knew if Alana came back to the pack, she would d
Lucians POV"We went after her but we didn't see her," Titan replied me. "All that we saw were wolf paw prints where she had landed.""I do not fucking believe you, Titan," I said with a growl. I could not believe Titans word. There was no way he did not have Alana with him."I give you my word, Lucian, I am notlyinge," Titan said with a frown. "I am most definitely not with Alana." As Titan said those words, I felt a cold rush over my body. If Alana was not with Titan, where then was she? Had she gone missing? Was she killed? And the wolves paw prints that Titan had seen where she had landed, did that mean that a rival pack had taken her? Or had she been killed by wild wolves? There was no way she could have been killed by wolves as she was a Luna and was powerful enough to bring any wolf to their knees. And if she had been captured by other packs, either I or Titan would have been alerted. If she was not killed and was not taken hostage by other packs, where then was she? As if r
Titans POVI walked into the weapons room and wents straight to the inner room. I picked my battle armor that I had hung on the wall and put it on. I then took Alana's cloth piece and tied it around my sword handle. With a loud sigh, I sheathed my sword and marched outside.Jacob and the twenty warriors were already on their horses and standing by the compound gate, waiting for me. As I walked towards them, I turned to my side and saw Clara and Charlotte standing and watching me as I walked by. I could see the pain in their eyes as they put their gaze on me."What conclusion did you come to after meeting them?" I asked Jacob as I walked up to him."Meeting who?" he asked, handing the reins of my horse to me."Clara and Charlotte," I replied, grabbing the reins. I put my legs on the saddle and pulled myself until the horse with a groan."They blamed themselves for what Nixie did," he said with a croak. "I told them not to. Nixie is a smart grown woman so she knows and understands the c
Alana's POVI stepped out of Johnson's car with my son in my arms and stared at the huge mansion in front of me. The building was so huge and I was confused as to why a man would live in it alone.As if reading my thoughts, Johnson said, "I, my wife, my daughter and my two sons used to live here until they died in an accident.""I'm so sorry," I said as I noticed his sad face.He shrugged and said, "that was four years ago so I'm over it. Still hurts but it's best one takes their mind off somethings because continuously thinking about it can cause more damage than the first pain." As he spoke, I could hear the pain in his voice. He immediately suppressed it and wore a huge smile on his face. "They asked for me to sell the house after they died but I could not," he continued as he closed his car door and locked it with his key. "Couldn't let go of it so I refused to. Now I live in a house with five rooms all alone. Well, at least today will be different," Johnson said, giving me a wa
Lucian's POVI had no trust in Titan and I knew that he would be coming with his army. That was why I decided to come with mine.I walked into my weapons room and began to select my weapons that I would use for the war. I picked up a sword and spear before heading into the armor room.I picked up my armor and stared at the scratches that were on it. I remembered the battle of yesterday and how close I had missed a spear that had been thrown to me. The spear had just missed my side by a hairs breadth but had scratched my armor, giving it a mean mark.I ran my hand over the engraved mark and sighed. I was going to battle again in just under twelve hours. I sighed and placed the worn out armor back on the wall.I then walked over to another that laid on the table and picked it up. It had my packs insignia engraved on it's chest plate and had claw marking by the side.I wore the armor, fully dressed and grabbed my weapons from the table where I had kept them. I then walked over to my helm
Titans POVI sighed as I watched the crow fly away, my letter tied to its feet. I have heard Kargos advice to me but I took the other. He had explained to me why I should let Alana go but I knew not to do that. There was no way I could let Lucian have her after all the evil that he had done to her. There just was no way.His other idea of proposing an Alpha to Alpha battle was good and I decided to go with it. If I was to win, I would have Alana to myself and Lucian would not have any reason to interfere in either I or her affair again. I sighed and stood in front of my room door. The cold wind blew against my face and from the dark clouds that were beginning to gather, I knew that a heavy storm was coming. I looked up at the sky, waiting for Lucian's reply. I knew that there was no way Lucian would deny my request as his pride was too high for that."Has he replied your request?" Jacob asked as he walked up to me. I looked to my side and saw him walking towards me with a small dagg
Alana's POVI woke up to the sound of a beeping monitor. I opened my eyes slowly and looked to my side. I saw a long tube running from a bag hung up on, just like before, a pole was passing the liquid from the bag down into my wrist. I tried to remove it again but my bandaged hand could not do anything.Suddenly, I heard a slight noise.I turned to my side and saw a small stroller standing beside my bed. The stroller shook and a small crying was coming from within. I raised my head slowly and looked inside. A small baby laid within, tossing and turning as it cried.The baby suddenly stopped crying, as if noticing my presence and began to coo happily. I stared at the baby and I didn't know why I felt so inclined towards the baby. I raised my injured hand and touched the side of the baby cheeks. Feeling their skin against mine gave me some kind of peace that I had never felt."You look so beautiful," I said with a smile as I rubbed the baby's cheeks. The baby cooed happily and gave me