Axel PoV“It’s impossible,” I murmured to myself as I walked back home, “there was no way she knew. There was no way anyone knew.”Her words sent a cold, fearful chill down my spine, but I shook it off. As far as the world was concerned, they’d died in an ambush by bandits. “Bandits killed them,” I repeatedly said to myself.Bandits killed them.To sell that lie, I had to convince myself that it was true. I’d lied so much to myself that I believed the lie to be true, but Aurora’s words had crashed the façade right in front of me. I was living a lie. But I knew the truth, and so did Maximo. And for the past twenty-five years, the truth had haunted me.I’d just been named beta of the pack, and I was ecstatic. Being Alpha was all ever I wanted. It was my dream, my ambition. It was the reason I woke up in the morning, and I aspired to nothing else. I wanted to be the Alpha, and I was one step away by being the Beta. I worked my ass of, and I finally earned it.Usually, betas don’t beco
Melina PoVRamona and I already spent the entire night coming up with a plan.In the end, we decided that I had two missions. Gather more information on the attack on the shrine in order to figure out who was behind it, and to find a way to end the war once and for all. “The only way to end the war is through the prophecy,” Ramona said as she handed me an old, moldy scroll.“What’s this?” It contains the prophecy, but only the prophetic child can open it. That’s how you’ll know it’s the real deal.“This prophecy was made, like what, a hundred years ago?”“A hundred and fifty years actually,” she chuckled.“Are you kidding me? How do we know if this prophetic child is indeed a child, or if she’s alive, or if she’s dead? How do we know anything?”“Calm down, Melina,” Ramona teased, “and don’t forget to breathe. We don’t know anything, and that’s why you’re going out there. But, luckily, we got a report a couple of months ago about the whereabouts of the prophetic child. The informatio
Melina PoVRamona didn’t have to tell me to keep running the moment I exited the gate. Who knew what tricks the Elders had under their sleeve?I wouldn’t be surprised if they had some sort of system in place that in situations like this when the defenses of the academy were breached. And I definitely do not want to wait to find out what those contingences are. The moment I stepped through the gate, I ran as fast as my legs could carry me.The academy was located at the top of a steep hill which I meant I had to run downhill with a considerable heavy backpack on my bag. And that was definitely not an easy thing to do. By the time I reached the base of the hill, I was breathing faster than a goat who’d just escaped the grasp of a mountain lion. My heart pounded so loud and fast it felt like I was going to explode and splatter my brain all over the grass.“Gosh!” I wheezed as I slowed my steps down to a walk, “I really need to exercise.”I was headed to the small village a few distance
Melina PoVIn all my preparations, nothing prepared me the bone-freezing cold in the wolves’ territory. The cold was almost as fierce and dangerous as the tip of a werewolves’ claws. And it got worse in the night.“You’re shivering like a leave in a stormy river,” Guo scoffed as she led the way back to her house. “You…don’t seem…to be feeling the cold,” I stuttered, rubbing my palms together.Even though Mrs. Guo was almost four times my age, she walked as though she still has another hundred years of life to churn out. With just a thin gown and a shawl covering the upper half of her body, Guo walked as though there wasn’t a freezing wind blowing furiously.“I’m a werewolf, silly,” Guo snorted, as though she was offended by my words.That was the beauty of being a werewolf. We studied all about them in the academy. Sometimes, I even wished witches aged as well as the wolves or have durable skin, or our men were as hot as theirs. Ramona would often regale tell me tales about the wer
Marco PoV “Don’t pretend, Spock,” I sneered at my father’s servant, even though he’s more of a friend than a servant to my father, “you’re not here to join my team, you’re here to spy on me.” He’d met me in my chambers as soon as I left my father’s presence. I’m pretty certain my father sent him. “Marco,” he sighed, “I won’t pretend that I won’t report the progress of the mission to my father, but I really am here for you. I’m here to stop you from repeating your father’s mistake.” “And what was his mistake?” I scoffed, “apart from being weak and undeserving of the throne.” “Bleeding on those who didn’t cut him,” Spock replied gently. “Sometimes,” Spock, I shook my head and went to pour myself a drink, “I wonder how my father manages to understand your words. Want a drink?” I offered him a cup. “Thank you, your highness,” Spock replied, bowing gently before he accepted the cup from hand. Spock saw me through my childhood. In the absence of my father, he played the role of fathe
Aurora PoVMy hatred for Axel had almost ruined my entire plan. The plan was to catch him unawares with my revelation. I would unleash the lethal information right in front of everyone where he wouldn’t have time to form a defense. The plan was to shock him so much that he would admit to the gruesome crimes he’d committed against me and the entire pack. It would be the ultimate blow that would ultimately drive him away from the pack, leaving Klaus to take the rein.“My big mouth almost ruined everything,” I muttered as I slid against the squalid floor. The dungeon seemed to get worse every time I glanced around. The walls were so shabby that I wondered if it had ever been washed. The ceiling, once white and sparkling, was the color of the dirty floor. Dark brown. Cobwebs littered around the corners of the wall made the dungeon seem like a haunted, abandoned attic walls. It was quite easy for anyone locked in this desolate place for a long period of time to lose their mind. Little w
Klaus PoV“What?” I murmured, “did my wife just claim to be the daughter of the previous Alpha?”Initially, I thought I misheard. I struggled with the pain spreading through every part of my body to following the proceedings of the public trial. And then she said it again. Louder, with much conviction.“Could this day get any weird?” I groaned.First, Kyle had pounced on me like a vengeful spirit and gave me a thorough thrashing. That bastard was lucky I was chained, or I’d have bitten his head off. Still, I owed him a beating.Second, Aurora was claiming to be the child of the previous Alpha. From what I heard when I joined the pack, the previous Alpha and his wife were ambushed by bandits near the headless valley. They were on their way back from delivering their baby when the attack happened, and no one survived. “Could it be that Aurora was the child that was delivered?” I wondered, “is that why she wouldn’t tell me anything about her past? Or about her parents?”Anytime I asked
Klaus PoVAfter weeks of locked up in a dungeon, a hot bath felt like paradise. And when Aurora joined me in the bath, it really was paradise.I’d never been away from her for so long. Even when I went away on missions with Axel, I always made sure I never stayed away for long. Guess, that’s what love does to you.“It’s been a rough couple of weeks,” Aurora whispered gently as the hot water from the shower slowly cascaded down our body.“More like a rough couple of months,” I chuckled softly and pulled her closer to me.I ran my hands through her hair, washing away the dirt. And that was when I noticed. “You’ve cut your hair,”“Well,” she smiled gently, “you were not around to help me braid it.:Her short, wavy hair was matted to her shiny forehead by the hot water flowing down out combined body. We took turns washing our body, and I spent longer than necessary on her pair of buxom breasts. Her nipples responded to my touch. They stood erect and proud as I gently ran my finger throu