~Ariadne~I hate it. I hate everything now, the juice I thought was clean and sweet had become tart with different emotions.I couldn't even look my mate in the face, just suddenly he is now treating the one woman he said he hates with warmth and trashing me even more, I can't say I don't deserve it.I hear the door creak open and a tall slender leg blurry to my tears-filled eyes walks in, the menacing presence filled with scornful glares forced me to raise my head at her."What are you doing here? Again Cindy?" I ask her without moving my head.She bends claiming my chin in her hands, only… if only I wasn't beaten up and confided in this chain, her soulless smile would have turned to clouds of rain."You should be grateful I'm sitting before you, but you look angry and not happy. You look so tart even after acting so smart, your mate, oh I'm sorry my mate now finds you as the woman he wants to get rid of, you must have provoked him." I twitched my face hitting my chin against the pa
~Ariadne~Without hesitation, I turn my eyes around to avoid seeing my tears.While she unlocked the shackles and chain I was confused and thought rummaging in my head that I didn't see coming, but I should save my energy for when I have fully recovered.With a sigh, she shifted back and glanced at me. "I will aid you out of here, be gone before dusk, Alpha Henry will be here but him not finding you will raise a security alert, I can't help you by that time anymore."I rubbed my finger circularly in a round spot on my wrist where the shackles had turned red."What are you waiting for?!" She emphasized and I rolled my eyes."You brought about this plan so you will have to see me through to the end how I'm I sure you are not leading me into an ambush." She scoffs and I snorted at her unresolved expression."What do you say?" Her eyes twitched, certainly she had some hidden motive aside from me getting lost."Fine, I won't do that now, come if you don't want to be stuck in here."When w
~Ariadne ~"Since you have nothing to talk about I shall be on my way." I don't know why I have to sound so rude without resolving any of his questions but the only thing that got me acting on my full adrenaline is the urge to fight for the only thing that my parents didn't fight for."Mother shouldn't have taken me to the Abyss," I said walking out with my heart tearing, no feelings in the world could be compared to what I'm feeling.It wasn't a raid that made it hard to find all this crazy revelation. It was one of the reasons I wished I had died along with those other girls that perished. My mother apologized for her misdeed after making me believe in what I thought was the truth. I lied to myself that they were killed, would I have done the same to Brenda? The fear that the bad gene that runs through my vein would one day end up complicating Brenda's life. That she had to live without a pack, a rogue and happy life were better than being treated like some crap, then it occurred t
~Ariadne~"We are sorry but only acting out of the Alpha order." The patrol group leader said to Ares his hand combing through his hair. He gazed at them with intent and he stepped to one side letting them in."You can search for her if you think she's in here." In what stance he was speaking got me concerned. Like a pillock or a pet which I practically hate, I curled around my pub under the bed. This was nowhere to hide a two-year-old baby, the chances of not getting caught was overly slim, how their footsteps kept scratching the ground as they searched every corner every angle for me."It's clear once again we're sorry to search you out like this." He nodded his head over to the table and filled the glass with water."Then you should leave. I deserve some privacy soldiers." He said boldly. The single travel in his voice was his battering attitude.But there was this silence that got me concerned, hearing a sound which was slim. One bent over to check under the bed. With this situ
His eyes moved up and I quickly snapped back to keep measure. "Can you please tell me?" "You said it yourself, you want to find a new dawn, why bring the burden of what you want to set aside with you."The pain they said doesn't heal with time. I have witnessed it, and I know what it feels like to hunt the very thing that haunts you. To want to get rid of you but instead, it finds a root to settle within you."Do you still find peace with yourself? Even when you're here?" He looked down gulping hard at my question," damage is not healed you see, I have touched the darkness, it carves into hunger inside of you..""You have a child to cater for, that way you can find a purpose in your life." He was right but knowing that my mate was dead is far better than sticking my nose in and sniffing his scent. Feeling all the lost moments find their way in just one moment, I got attached again."What have you got?"He started desolately. "I invested my energy here.""She must have given off somet
~Ariadne~"Why should we help you?" He kept circling it on my neck like I was going to die. My breath slowed as the calm sea at night and the only thing visible was my pleading gaze, the one that squares into his seeking aid."I'm from the Abyss, I know the witches are losing their powers." I managed to let out.Yes, Abyss, that is what it is. They clamoured and without seeking into their mind I know what is going on there. The panic when one knows the secret you think you're licked underneath the ocean."What are you doing here?" Elrond asks. "An abyss wolf should stay in her lane and why on the land of the socialite, away from their confinement,"My face looked at Brenda with my hand to my throat grasping so damn for a whisper of air. "It's because I ran away." Harsh enough, bitter, my hand trembled with anxiety and fear the fret I will have crawling my path now that I have announced myself.It wasn't my intention to reveal my identity, I have kept this side of me, my selfish side
~Ariadne~I stared up at him like a crucial part of his surfaced when he was making that statement."You must be mistaken, I have got no fruit for you to rely on me nor I'm I a witch." I flung casually.I flung and wrap a finger around the crystal glass that was sitting on the table not too far from me.The sound of his phone breaks into the silence like a singing penguin. Literally, my dream mind incorporate it as a penguin, that was how minute my thought had completely gone awash.Now I'm being implored to spend some Chinese cuisine among the witches as some saviour I had no idea of.I try to say something but honestly, I have no idea what freaking going on inside of me. I'm freaking out, having a total meltdown."This is crazy Elrond."He looks up at me, he was way too serious to admit if this could be anything then a joke, obviously it isn't."Say something." He instructs."I… don't know what to say." I can't believe this. All my life I was termed as a ruin. What makes these small
~Ariadne~"I refuse to believe any of that which you've said, I'm not some piece of land you can own anytime you want," I said with every force I can even as it sound bitter in my throat."No you're not but not until you're from the Abyss." He said. His voice sounds so firm and cunning like he's raining threats on me."Will you please just go?" I beg him."You don't mean that you knew what you were doing by coming here and begging for asylum.""No, I didn't," I whine. "I was too encompassed in the gleam you will offer that I didn't know what you were doing last night."Immediately I slammed my mouth shut. I didn't want to let this man get to know me far more than he had. I did not just say that out loud. But by the way, his jaw clenches and his eyes pop out I knew I just did. Who cares what matters is that I don't get into this shitty hole of their coven.It irks me to think I would have been seeking an alliance with them through marriage."We hate the Abyss too, and as an Abyss, you w
Ariadne POV, Two years later. . . "He isn't here yet. Wonder what might have kept him." I checked the screen of my phone for either a call or anything from my husband. I turn the floor and unwrapped the glove with a smile tucked on my face leaving the chicken sauce in the care of Rachel. There is a permanent smile etched on my face. By the door Bryson's eyes shot up to the line and my heart nearly burst, I know he loves me. It would take hard work and time but the man was able to express himself better, after all, he held in his hand bouncy red flowers. I don't have to be told to know how he felt. "Been weeks and yet it feels like years without you Chirp." Letting out a chuckle, I take hold of his hand and pull him into the house. Once we're inside my hand wrapped around the flower and fusing his mouth with my own I taste his happiness it multiplies with my own. Then he lifts his head his eyes meeting mine. "What of Brenda." "She's grown enough to take care of herself." I joke
Bryson POV, Standing at the edge of the verandah with Aiden we all enjoyed a drink whole music filled the air. We're having a celebratory party at the Packhouse, Father finally atones for his sin before deciding to join kind, he wasn't much of a hero but his action proved him as a man of valour. Out of the bloodbath, fighting for everything I have raised a new empire one entirely under my control. My eyes move between Williams and Aiden. "I thought you should hear this." Auden sighs. He's been away at Grandville only for him to be forced back to take an insight into everything that had gotten in place. "Aiden," I say. "Alpha Henry." "You're being promoted, Ares had chosen a quiet path which I honour, working alongside him will bring more progress now that we're done with Grandville." Aiden stares up at me first with surprise then a huge ass smile spreads across his face. "I couldn't be more excited, Williams never gave a hint, would be delighted." "It wasn't negotiable." I let
Ariadne POV, After I figured out that Chris never truly loved me I was excited, one side of me had been relieved of the past weight I have been bearing while the other side ached to find out that those I thought were there for me weren't actually friends I got to feel. Chris turned out like this and had never loved me. I stare up at Williams after he's finished sticking up my wound. "Thank you." I lower my eyes and whispered. "I'm sorry I was stupid." "It's okay you're safe and that is all that matters." I peered deeper. "I put your life at risk." The word shuddered from my mouth. I was so overcome with my emotions, I put Bryson in danger today, again if anything had happened to him I wouldn't have had the courage to forgive myself. "Tell me," Bryson demanded residual tightening his features. "He was a nice friend of mine." I didn't think straight I was too clouded by my emotions. "And I thought the memories of the past with him will kor leave me unless I figured out he was tru
Bryson POV, Never trust her, ever again! again I felt I was tricked repeatedly by the one I have found live in. She sees me as an option, a pushover to heal her absconded moment with the Fucking Chris that stood yards away from me. But I can't it's not like I could, she's every part of me. I wanted to pull her towards me, but the very fact that she hide the truth from me made me pull and fall back. "But don't worry Alpha Henry, you offered a truce, I figured I might use that instead of Lucas that had proven himself useless, we can't have everything, " Alpha Creed notes the word out and he stares at me. "Well, that sounds intriguing. Ariadne has found her peace." I say my face hammering into hers and that of the man pulling her in for a deep hug. Meredith scowled but was silent and short of words, she kept her face blank. "My father won't be so stupid to listen to you." "You're yet to know him aren't you?" He coughs and I gave him a hard look. His word makes me frown. "What abo
Ariadne POV, I don't know what Alpha Creed is going to narrate to Bryson, the cocky smile on his face aligns pretty much that it's going to be something that will go out of court in his favour, stressing to his face, there are some of the nerves I felt while we were preparing to tie the knot, not after almost killing myself to make him happy. My mind is clouded with my desire for my mate, seeing him in distress just to get me out of there only made me heartburn. Hunger unadulterated lust love. It's all I see in Alpha Bryson's eyes. There is no cruelty no depravity no hatred. He sets down his knife and reaches for my face, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear, a frown instantly forms on my forehead. "There is something you seem to have been missing, the Abyss is not entitled to mates." He jerks his hand backwards. "That is not a story, what are you driving at?" My temper flare. He glances at me and a smile shoots on his face. "While I wait for you to realize it you were stuck in
Bryson POV, With the way things are going, I have been left with no option, In hard times like this when I am forced to choose between my pack and my mate, who is the mother of my child. I watch as Christy storms out of me Rachel follows after her and I turn my attention to Aiden. It was my full intention to take after the Abyss, but I can't afford another war right now, they think, my bride-to-be had been taken away from me, she is nowhere to be found, I promised to be a better man and it would mean I'm breaking my promise should I sit arms relaxed. Williams look smug, Father standing beside him made my lip curl in anger. Williams offers to take a walk with me while we talk about some things to ease the tension. Hopefully, I will see reasons too, it's either my pack or Ariadne. "Your father had never for once stopped caring about you and your Alpha position is uncracked because of the decisions he had made countless times." It didn't sink in. "I never asked for his closed-door
Ariadne POV, "You knew about it all along don't you? " I ask as I stepped closer to him he let out kicking laughter. "As I said, Fucking tell me it was part of your ploy, the heart disease, you knew I was going to die in five years why did you have to make me suffer through this." It was like this I can't let everything happen to me that readily, I held my hand on the counter, the yelling was silly enough to make me want to lose myself to the bear of the click, it was ticking rapidly the beating was abnormally hitting differently. "I wanted you to live that is why I gave my daughter's heart to you, you were the most potential assassin I have known and I wanted to keep you by my side." By his side? Killing everyone that was living was the most important thing to him. "Who was your daughter, u have no idea what you want with me, now that you want or back to what I was your slave. " "You state in the Abyss but you have a vague idea why I took you. The letter in your hand explained
Bryson POV, Betrayal? It couldn't have hurt this much with what gathers had aid to me. Was supper fazed that I let my hand slip into my shirt to hide the feelings I feel inside of me that are making me clench tight by my side I let myself cool down. "You of all people know that Ariadne couldn't have lied to me." I saw my hand and my leg trail to the window side. "It's pathetic how you're trying to obtain your anger with me." He said running his hand through his collar and realigning it. "What do you think us for?" I turn to him. "We wouldn't have been this close if there was no bond between us." That's not a lie, and u didn't bother you break eye contact with him either, he let a smile creep on his face, while he walked over to me. "You don't have to do this and split us apart, I just want to remind you that Ariadne is my mate and nothing will change not even your flashy desires, Ford," I call him he looked down and up at me. "That hurts on so many levels but you weren't shocked
Ariadne POV, I stood by the door, Bryson and his father must have had a wounded relationship he does kind distancing himself from me for that. No matter how wounded he was I was more petrified by the incident of their action, the shock run through me making me be like I was going tongue my heart out but I still let myself a little hope thus with this I stand, my heart skip a beat and I could feel my valve stop, the crook of my neck shallow inside and all I could do was to hold my hand to my chest, with each passing day my condition worsen but that wasn't what bothered me, Bryson had been a closed book, making it hard for me to tell him about my condition, I swallow hard on the bile threatening to push to my throat. I know what is wrong with me and I have chosen to stay with Bryson to the very last if that is the case. "You're practically insane I thought that you love Bryson but you let this Ford in here are you going to let him ruin him." A voice roamed into my head and I turn to f