“I find you, Hope Embers, guilty of treason, and I hereby sentence you to death by beheading under the full moon in two days' time.” *** Everyone thinks Hope is dead after her father was assassinated, even her best friend, Orion. Hidden far from the world, deep underground, 19-year-old Hope has been held captive by her father's Beta, Lucian, the mastermind behind the assassination. The night Hope escapes, there's only one place she can run—her former best friend’s pack. But what if Orion, once her closest ally, isn’t the friend she remembers? What if, instead of a warm reunion, she finds a cold reception, as he is now in love with someone else? Amid this turmoil, a hidden puppet master pulls the strings, keeping secrets that could shatter everything Hope thought she knew.
View MoreHope's POVI grabbed on to the rope that was holding the weight of the dumbwaiter and pulled it down with all my strength. The contraption slid down once more but I wasn't satisfied, whoever was tugging at it, needed it. It was safer here in the box than outside.I held on to it and looked up for where the exit was. It rumbled again and I felt the rusty rope quiver before it moved upward again, I tried to pull it down, but my hands slid across the wound rope and it burned into my palms.“Fuck!” I winced in pain and yanked my hands away from the rope, wiping the raw skin on my underwear. I didn't know who was at the other end of the dumbwaiter, it could be anyone. A maid, a warrior, or fucking Orion.The thought of him being at the other end made my heart constrict with a feeling of fear and I swallowed. The box continued to slide up, like an elevator without the awful form of music that tried to persuade people's minds.It felt like an endless and tortuous ride, a slow accompaniment t
Hope's POV“Hey! You can't leave me in here!”I shouted at the receding footsteps of the man as he left, the echoes of the steps began to fade into the shadows of the room, leaving the feeling of fear once more.“Fuck!” My voice bounced off the walls, so did the thumps from the men above.I yelled, searching the entire room for some sort of exit, I had done this before,but maybe I had missed something. My eyes could only see as far as the bulb stretched and that wasn't far enough.I began to pant as the shuffle above became slightly more audible. They were coming fast and I needed to be out of here. I wiggled in my seat and shuffled the ropes binding my wrist tightly together.The friction tore the skin on my wrist causing me to wince at the sharp pain that raked my entire arm, but I couldn't stop. If I did, they would find me and God knows what they would do to me.I couldn't just sit here and wait for them to capture me again, throw me into that dingy cell and wait for the biased le
Orion's pov“We activated the system and we located the tracker you inserted in her dress and we found out that she's here.”What is he talking about? Where is here? I can't help how taut my face becomes at the lack of coherence.“Here? Where? I don't see her?” I turned toward my back to add flair to my position, she wasn't here.He shifts the tablet toward me and the an array of map lines intersecting is displayed. A steady red dot beeps repeatedly at a point labelled pack house.“How?” My face contorted in confusion. How was she in the pack house when she had apparently fled after committing her heinous crime.Kaia said she saw her drive off in her car, one she had stolen as well. Her charges were increasing with each thought of the entire scenario that crosses my head. Had she come back? She probably did because she has nowhere else to go, and no money either. But she could have easily pawned the car to start afresh, what is she doing here?Or is she that stupid? Does she think sh
Hope's Pov “It should have worked by now,” the masked man pulled the gloves from his hands revealing the watch he had on. He stared at it for a bit before covering it once more.“What are you talking about?” I asked quickly. My body was starting to hurt again from the position I was sitting in and the rope was chaffing my wrists and my forearms.“The big man upstairs, the drink should have worked by now,” he pointed to the ceiling above and I followed his finger. All I saw was dirt covered ceiling and viscid webs from crawling insects. Who was upstairs? He was speaking in parables that got me so lost. I swallowed as my eyes followed the cracks on the ceiling and fell toward him again.“Who is upstairs?” I choked on my question, afraid that my life was slowly coming to an end. The knife still stuck out from his pocket, a silent warning that anything could go awfully wrong at any point.“You don't know?”Was he seriously asking me after he threw me into the trunk of car like some pie
Orion's POVI felt my entire body run cold immediately after the words left my mouth, I knew I shouldn't have disrespected him in the presence of everyone, but I was so angry. Why was he blindly following tradition when the evidence was glaring?His attitude was the reason my mother was no more, he had killed her!My father didn't reply to my words and his silence was becoming unnerving as each moment passed. He moved slowly toward a warrior who was holding his chalice on a silver platter, picked up the cup and drank wine content in it.“All of you, leave us,” he said it so calmly that the words drew goosebumps from my skin. He was never this calm, I was used to him shouting and demanding things to be done his way, but not this. I would prefer if he shouted and demanded I apologized in front of everyone, but not this.The people in the room bowed slowly and left.“You too, Kaia.”I turned behind and saw Kaia still standing by my side, her eyes flicked toward me as if asking if she sho
Hope’s POVI stared as hard as I could through the dim lighting into the mask of the man in front of me, I needed to know if he was joking or serious about what he had just said. He shouldn’t even be saying such out-loud, no matter how upset anyone was about the rulership, speaking ill about them was tantamount to treason, but I had a feeling that this man didn’t care.“Ki-kill the Alpha?” The words stumbled out of my mouth, it didn’t make sense, what had he done?“Yes, and you will help me.”He had done a lot, I know for sure but…was it even sensible for me to feel some sort of pity for him or some sadness for the fact that this man wanted to kill him? The same man that had pronounced that I should be killed without the opportunity of a fair trial? A trial that they had conducted without hearing my side of the story?The father to a son who hated me with so much passion? I wanted nothing more than to punish him, to make him feel what I had felt all those years ago when I lost my fath
Orion’s POVThe noise from the crowd drowned as soon as the last person who walked into the inner chamber slammed the door shut. The door reverberates as it seals and the attention of everyone turns to my father who looks uneasy.I could hear the heavy breaths of my father as he took calculated paces, his vibrating hands alternating between his lip and his hip. His eyes, burning with fury, would occasionally wander toward me and then Kaia, but stayed longer on her like hebhad things to say butbwas willing himself to keep quiet.Then, like a rubberband that had been stretched for far too long, he snapped.“How dare you embarrass the entire royal house like that!? Why didn’t you show it to us privately first before causing an uproar in such a deplorable manner!?” My father’s voice tend to deepen into an almost guttural growl when he was angry, and right now, he was livid.I understood why he was angry, he was saying that it wasn’t a smart move that Kaia made to rouse the entire crowd li
Hope's POVA frigid substance drenched my entire frame, yanking me from the clutches of darkness. I gasped awake, my eyes fluttering open as my skin tightened due to the drastic shift in temperature. My eyes burned harshly as the light from the single bulb swaying carelessly above, invaded it.I winced in pain as the water seeped into my eyes, causing me to blink rapidly to wad the feeling. A stinging feeling rode up my arm as I flexed my wrist to try and rid myself from the entrapment. I rocked back and forth but the stinging sensation ravished my torso and my feet.When my eyes didn't hurt as much, I squinted through my eyelids, getting accustomed to the lighting: my hands were tethered with chaffing ropes to the arms of the chair, round my midsection and my feet. My heart raced in my constricting chest as the cold seeped into my skin. It felt almost impossible to breathe and the more I forced the air through my nose, the more I felt it clog.My eyes focused on the room, but I could
Orion's POVStanding by the altar and waiting for the ungrateful human, anger coursed through my veins like it was being pumped by my heart. The entire pack and I had been waiting for over an hour, but Hope still hadn't shown up . How dare she? What audacity did she have to keep all of us here? To keep my father waiting!?Inasmuch as I was livid at such outright disrespect to my father and the entire pack, there was a bud of happiness springing at the base of my chest. If she didn't show up in the next few minutes, then the rite would be shifted and the thought of not being tied to such a being was relieving and very freeing.I clenched my fist around the seat I was sitting on, my eyes darted toward the right where my father sat. From the grim expression on his face, I could tell that he was unhappy as well. I didn't want to be the one to tell him that this was his idea in the first place, I knew from the very start that it was a bad idea. If we had killed Hope for her treachery, it w
Hope's POVI ran through the bushes, not caring that I was barefooted. I was running for my life so every other thing didn't matter. This would have been so much easier if I had my wolf to help me. My body was aching, but I knew if I stopped even to breathe, that he might catch me again.It has been six years since I was last outside, since I was able to smell the fresh night air. I had been kidnapped and chained in a dungeon since I was 14 years old by this very person chasing after me. Now, I was 19 years old, two days away from my birthday.Because of how I had been kidnapped and chained in the dungeon, I never had the goddess' help in transformation. I needed the power of the full moon for my first transformation.I could hear his wolf pouncing toward me, I needed the goddess' help now more than ever. If anyone had told me six years ago that this man would be chasing me through the dark bushes, I would have laughed at them.But here I was. I was running from the man who had assass...
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