AKIRA'S POV Immediately after I woke up the next morning, I was ordered by Cara to dress up so I can properly meet the Alpha of their pack. Alpha Pierson was nothing I expected. I didn't even know what I expected but it was not an old, well-built man with the kind eyes of a father. Alpha Pierson exuded warmth and kindness. And he listened patiently as I told him the same story that I told the guards at the border. I mastered the act of crying and made sure my tears were nonstop as I begged him to take me back to my family. "Where did you live before you were kidnapped?" Alpha Pierson asked. His voice was authoritative and firm, almost fatherly-like. I sniffled as I wiped my tears. "Lake-town. I don't know how far it is from here but I really just want to go back home to my Nana, Alpha Pierson." He nodded thoughtfully. "I'll have Eli and Lucian find more about your town and by dawn tomorrow you should be with your family." The thumping of my heart couldn't have been any lo
ARES'S POV "You need to stop turning the whole house upside down, Ares," Czar warned immediately after he stepped into my office. The wooden desk was divided into two and part of the glass windows was broken. Even after destroying my study area, the rage I was feeling still wasn't quenched. My Lycan was thirsty for blood and it was taking everything in me not to give in to his demands. Akira fucking ran away. She left ME. How dare she? She promised to stay by my side, so what changed her mind? We both couldn't believe she left us. It was almost laughable. A human escaped the clutches of a Lycan. It was impossible. But knowing Akira, everything was possible when it came to her. She fled in the middle of the night with no trace, not even her scent. Even the most trained wolves have been sent to search for where but it was as if she vanished into thin fucking air. I had tried to reach out to her through our mind link but she seemed to cut every part of her life from me. How
AKIRA'S POV The pounding of my head woke me up from unconsciousness but it was the pain in my shoulders that jerked me up. The pain was like needles that had been dipped in alcohol had been jammed through my skin. I winced– trying so hard to contain my sobs– as I tried to study my surroundings. I was on a bed, it was small and I was covered with a soft quilt. I looked around, my pounding head was trying so hard to figure out where I was. The room was scanty, with only a bed, a wardrobe planted next to the wall and a mirror dresser in the corner of the room. The room was really small. I struggled to stand up and once I did, I made my way to the small window in the room and peeked outside. I couldn't contain my shock once I saw what was outside and a gasp escaped. It was so green outside, the small compound was filled with plants and beds of flowers. It almost looked like a fairytale with the way the sun was shining down on them. The owner seemed like they were really obsessed with
AKIRA'S POV It has been four days ever since the witch saved my life and it turns out that pain infliction, telekinesis and element control were not the only powers I was blessed with. There was also channelling, spell casting, mind compulsion, healing, superhuman strength and of course, longevity. Elizabeth mentioned earlier how the powers of a witch don't just come at once and how she was sure I still had a long way to go. Living with Elizabeth has been much of an eye-opener for me. She didn't just teach me how to control my powers, she also thought me how to fully nurture them. I was seated on the porch outside her house. Apparently, Elizabeth was an old witch. She has been in existence way before Ares was born– during the reign of his father, the Alpha King– and I knew Ares was thousands of years old. She was an ancient witch blessed and cursed with immortality, she had said. I sighed out loud and stared ahead. All I could see were plants and flowers, from where I was seat
AKIRA'S POV"Shit!" I cursed out loud for the seventh time in an hour. It was making it a week since I've been living with Elizabeth and so far she has taught me a lot. But today wasn't going as planned, I was outside our little bubble today and I was trying out chlorokinesis on my own. I had urged Elizabeth that I needed to learn how to master chlorokinesis on my own. Of course, Elizabeth had taught me how to revive, wither and accelerate plant growth but I had begun to realise that I couldn't perform the power without her help. It wasn't just that Elizabeth wanted me to learn it on my own, I was also particularly interested in it. Telekinesis, pain infliction and the others had been very easy to learn and control but chlorokinesis was killing me. Perspiration lined up on my forehead as I huffed and tried to concentrate. I looked at the dead vines on the ground and sighed, Elizabeth had taught me how to uproot them and manipulate them at my will. But now that she wasn't here to e
AKIRA'S POV I woke up a few minutes later, my head began to spin as I tried to blink my eyes open, my limbs felt like jelly and as I attempted to raise my hand, I realised that I was paralysed. All of what happened a few minutes ago came back in a rush and fresh tears began to stream down my face. Why did Ares not tell me all of this? Why did he keep this away from me? I gasped and turned around, trying to find the one person responsible for this. "What did you do to me?" I glared at Serena who was sitting on Elizabeth's favourite couch without a care in the world. She giggled. "It's a little something my mother gave to me. I knew it would knock him out really fast but I was told it would only last a few minutes for witches." As she spoke she was sneaking glances at Salvatore whose hands were bound to the table behind him. "Why did you do that to him?" I questioned suspiciously. "Aren't you guys accomplices?" Something wasn't right, why would she go behind Salvatore to do
AKIRA'S POVI was alive. Where was I?I inhaled deeply, trying to figure out if I could place the scent. My heart started thumping hard and I quickly opened my eyes only to be welcomed by the harsh light. I squinted, taking in my environment. King-sized bed, royalty bedroom, and a fresh and woodsy scent. I gasped. I was back home. Back to Ares. I tried to regulate my breathing and concentrate on the variety of emotions going through me. Most of them were from Ares. They ranged from anger to disappointment and then sadness. Where was he?My hands quickly flew to my bump only to be met with a flat surface. And pain. Suddenly everything began rushing into my memory like a damn flood.How I ran away from Ares, Alpha Pierson, the rogues, my powers, Elizabeth. I gasped. Elizabeth!I remembered how Serena and Salvatore killed Elizabeth and how Serena made me grant my powers to her. Where were they?How did I get here?I tried to control my breathing but it refused to cooperate. The
THIRD PERSON'S POV.Alpha Ares was proud of his doings. He has grown up to become a very strong and powerful Lycan and Alpha who was widely known around the world. But lately, he had been feeling really... empty, putting it lightly. He looked at the sky, the Moon Goddess was really testing his patience. It has been thousands of years and still she hasn't given him a mate. It was really getting to him. He looked beside him to find his Beta, Czar, looking as sullen as ever. Czar had lost his mate but it was almost a damn year and he still hasn't gotten over her death. Was this how he was going to be for the rest of the damn year? Ares thought with pity.But he didn't say it out loud. Probably because he didn't know what it felt like to have a mate, hence he kept his mouth shut. They were both sitting on a bench in the garden with a bottle of Cheval Blanc between them. While Czar was still nursing the loss of his mate by getting drunk every single time, Ares was nursing the absence of