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
Axel PoVI was scared of very few people. In fact, the list of those I feared was so miniscule you could read it one breath, and Klaus was slowly wiggling himself into that list. When I noticed Klaus’s strength many years ago, I had big plans for him. The plan was to use him to expand the pack, and make the pack legendary. I never imagined that his strength, which I had greatly nurtured and refined over the years, would be directed at me.“And it’s all because of that bitch,” I snarled, tightening my fist. Aurora would ruin everything, and I greatly regretted not slashing her baby throat twenty-five years ago. In hindsight, killing a baby would not make me more monstrous than I already was. I’d already murdered my Alpha and his wife, would adding their baby to the list made any difference?“Stupid, Axel, damn stupid,” I scolded myself, “you should have killed that bitch when you had the chance.”If I’d killed her, she wouldn’t be causing me problems. “If only I had the nerve,” I mu
Axel PoV“I didn’t think you would come,” I said gently as Klaus entered through the front door.Before Klaus came, I’d freshened up. A hot bath had a way of making me seem friendly, and for my plan to work, Klaus needed to see me as his friend. What’s betrayal without gaining the trust of your mark? To add to my layer of betrayal, I’d changed into a clean, celebratory suit to make it seem like I’m in a mood to celebrate. I’d matched the suit with an equally expensive pair of black, suede shoe.The last touch I added to my illusion of friendship was to dim the lights in the living room. Werewolf had acute senses, but it would be difficult to see the fine specks of dust scattered around the left glass cup in such low lights. I’d carefully prepared my plans. It was a last-ditch effort and I desperately needed it to work. If it didn’t, everything would collapse, and things would get super ugly.“You’re still my Alpha,” Klaus replied, and I detected a twinge of respect and regret in his
Klaus PoVI watched as Klaus tenderly poured the wine. It was difficult to believe that he was a cold murderer who’d murdered a lovely couple in blood. Worse still, the couple he murdered turned out to be the parents of my wife. It was too wild to believe, and it almost sounded like a fiction, horror story told to scare children around a bonfire.Yet, it was so real. Axel hadn’t murdered just any body, he’d murdered his Alpha. The same person he had sworn to protect. He must have taken an oath of fealty to his Alpha, like betas do. Yet, he had no problem breaking that oath in the cruelest way possible. Axel hadn’t just committed murder, he’d committed the worst crime any beta could ever commit, murder their Alpha.“I remember that time we went on our mission to Paris,” Axel had a slight nostalgic expression on his face as he spoke and poured the wine, “you were barely eighteen, but legal enough to taste alcohol for the first time.”“I remember,” I replied as the memories flickered