~Bryson~"Do you think I deserve all this?" I ask Aiden."God question, he rolled his eyes." I wave his snarky movement with a string hand."I can't tell, I don't even know who among them is my mate anymore."He snapped suddenly and his face became serious. "Well I'm stuck up here and I need to go home. Come on Cindy is not that bad of a choice, choose her and. . ." He stopped himself from sputtering any further.Choice? He should know there is no choice for me other than ARIADNE, she is the start of what I felt. When I lost hope in love I met her.His words break my heart again. I can't believe he's advising me simply because he's fed up with seeing all this mystery relationship. Good things don't come easily and I can't sit still even though she hates me now."Can you please be serious, set aside what you feel towards Ariadne just for this split-second and be straightforward with me?He spun around, and Williams and Area continued to the site. The way his eyes were scanning me got m
Bryson POV, I curl my fist tight by my side staring at her, my mind not in the right state as it should be. My mate, even though there's confusion in what I feel right now I couldn't simply neglect my heart. I glanced at my running car and back to her.Her scent wafted to me, the smell was odd and I could tell she wasn't mine anymore for whatever reason that made me turn on her, I have missed my chance. I was still drawn to her. I see the sign I am looking for and stride towards her. Seize her by the side. Pull her toward me.Then, I pause, just for the briefest of moments, so slight that as she was me might not even notice."Fuck off! Don't come near me.""Ariadne don't go any further. As I said, I'm not here to cause you any harm." Slowly her leg tiptoed. Following behind.There was no other option. It's either I act now or never."Fucking leave us alone! Bryson." Tears pooled in her eyes and her heart sank. "I can't believe you find pleasure in torturing us."But there are emoti
Ariadne POV, My heart skipped beats, my knees spasming and my leg wobbling the minute my orbs bounced up at my baby flying in the air thrown like a ball. Brenda doesn't deserve this. What on God's green Earth is this? I heard her screams every sound of them breaking me. "Brenda!" I let the cry but a strong arm pinned my back and forced my knees to be buried in the ground. I flipped my gaze to Alpha Bryson, the sadness in my eyes tells of my swoop, my incapability. I groan through my throat struggling, the instant I flipped the man my legs rushed for Brenda. She kept falling and I kept praying to the moon goddess to tighten the tension in the air and give me the chance to save her. The strong arm launched forward and with a firm swing, the one from a mother that had gone through a lot and was scared to lose another of her loved ones yet in the brutal hands of these forsaken douchebags that Alpha Creed sent I knocked off the bridge of his nose with a fist. "Bastard!" I yell. He choke
Ariadne POV, I don't have enough quarter-mile lead on them. "Her scent is strong, she can't be far away!" One of the men shouted. The urgency of my situation demanded focus. I have to deprive myself of the overwhelming thought of Brenda, for now, I'm sure they might have found a safe spot and Alpha Bryson has gotten her out of there, far from here, besides his car was in a good shape. He will take her to safety I know he would. Focusing and resisting the temptation of mind linking with him I veered right, I was running strangely on the whims of my instinct and the scent that wafted to me, my hunter's own mixed with the forest earth. I didn't know the end where this path leads that too made my decision of distraction a very stupid one, yet it was worth it, I kept going with my breath itching and my heart beating. Staying deep in the woods I kept on a high pace avoiding the road so that I wouldn't be seen if they drove the road. I ran in a sporadic route hoping they wouldn't guess
Ariadne POV,"Let go of me! You are one of them aren't you?" That fear crept in and I can't tell what I feel but the thought of being dragged back to the Abyss and portrayed as a betrayed and tortured to death burned down my throat. "Bastard!" I threw my leg in the air. "You won't get me!" I latched. The pain I felt, the rush I had endured and how I managed through wouldn't have been in vain could it? Yet I felt useless, completely. "Don't move an inch." He pinned me to his side. "Isn't she the girl you've been looking for?" My eyes raised, tears rolling down as I faced the man in his covering his head with a hood, I had no inkling of who he was, his scent didn't come to me either and I became overwhelmed by my fear. "Coward! Show yourself!" that is what I could do, shout I was helplessly in their grasp. "Easy Ariadne, we're not your enemy." The familiarity of the tone made me shake my head in anticipation to knit the face behind the mask. He slowly moved his hand and linked it
Bryson POV, I thought about how I sought assistance from the people I know especially Ares, there wouldn't have been anyone better at getting Ariadne to a safe spot, he was a witch and a vampire, a hybrid, and he had a tendency of hiring his scent so that we would go off the trail of those from the Abyss till we have decided something to do to sort this mess out, but here I am stuck up in the middle of a pack meeting because Cindy set them up, it was her pull to have me back on Oak Borough. In some sense I think it's better this way that I stay here, I shouldn't show my sulked-up stupid face to Ariadne, I was a coward there's no better thing I would ever be. I can't call this love, my hands are swelling up with the clarion call to have her handled in for punishment. "We heard your action to meet demands and supply in Grandville was a huge success." Alpha Samuel let out in a more concerned warm voice. Lucas still hadn't changed and he doesn't care about pack meetings
Ariadne POV, My mate. He pulled me towards his body, his hand rippling with veins and his eyes rugby red, the glint in them. I can't tell what I felt but I know he was hurt by what I said. Tears rolled down burning my cheeks until there was nothing to mutter from my mouth, it was as if I was shot with zero feeling. Why does it have to be like this between us? I swallowed hard, my ear hurting from the lump, and my eyes then slid shut causing more water to pool out. "Say you want me, say you will stay with me and stop acting stubbornly!" It hurts me, maybe he shouldn't have done what he thought was best for me and asked for my opinion first. Maybe if I had stayed back in the woods and let Alpha Creed men lay their hands on me instead it would have been a lot easier for me. I'm finding it hard to tell him how I feel. I shook as his grip tightened it made me too well up my chest rising, I was short of air. His eyes hovered in between mine demanding fur answers. "I-
Ariadne POV, I couldn't muster up the courage to knock again. My hand raised balled into a fist ready to dig into the door and pound on it. How we've grown apart over the years, Hannah must be having a stable life, grown mature over the years and learned some chores of taking care of what is hers. I gazed down along the patio where the soil was laid into pots and flowers of different kinds and tea trees were sprouting. Some flowers blossoming in the summer. I smiled down at the bright colour and how their kaleidoscope butterflies were flying along and finally managed to settle on it and pollinate it. The bond between flower and butterfly was beyond science for me to understand but it was different from the soil in Oak Borough. . . beautiful and warm for the flowers, how I had felt with Bryson. I heard a crackle and the front door creak moaning slowly, my gaze darted towards it only to find Hannah standing her hand crossed above her breathing point almost to her chest, i
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