Chapter Sixty Elsa's POV "Why's Murray not here?" I asked as I sat in the carriage awaiting his arrival. It had been almost an hour or even more than that, but he was nowhere to be found and I began to get a bit worried. He said he wasn't going to be long but it had already taken so much time. I thought about leaving the chariot to look for him but on the contrary, I didn't know if he'd like that, especially if he was having a very confidential meeting. Even if he did, the other party would definitely not appreciate that. So I stayed put and just spent some time thinking of the things I'd eventually say to him when he gets back. "He'd better have a good excuse for this," I said to myself. "Else I'd kill him for letting me stay out here this long." I began to hum a song. It was a song that my mother always hummed when I was little or so I was told. I couldn't quite remember hearing her do it but somehow, the song was stuck in my memory and every time I felt a tad anxious, I alw
Chapter Sixty-One Elsa's POV "We were attacked on our way to the Silver Moon Pack," the guard yelled. "We didn't expect any of that and the men that attacked us are certainly not from that Pack. They're a group of Rogues and some other people that we couldn't identify. We did our best to fight them off but they were much bigger than us and we also didn't travel with much weapons, just so it wouldn't look like we wanted a war with the Silver Moon Pack." "Damn it!" I cursed in frustration. If only they knew that they'd be attacked, they'd probably have gone with more men and more weapons but those things normally stayed hidden until it was too late. "What of the Alpha? He's still alive, right?" Prince Murray asked. I thought he was uninterested. It was good to know that he did care about what was going on. "He's alive, my Prince, but he's in a very critical state," the guard replied. "He's currently in a very critical state so we hope to get to the Pack healer on time. We cannot lo
Chapter Sixty-Two Alpha Davon's POV "Mmph!" I grunted on opening my eyes. I felt so tired and puzzled too, as I wondered where I was. I looked around a bit, even though I struggled to move my head the way that I wanted to, trying to find out what was going on. My vision was blurry, but soon enough, it began to clear up and I recognised where I was. I was in my room. My portrait which was hung on the wall was all the proof that I needed. All that I didn't know was how I got there. The last thing that I remembered was that I was on my way to the Silver Moon Pack, and then… And then– "Oh, damn it," I cursed, recalling what had happened. I remembered that we were attacked by a group of fully-armed wolves that I couldn't recognise. They ambushed us and attacked from every side and we did our best to fend them off. It wasn't just enough. They kept coming at us at full force as we tried to fight back with our weapons which weren't so much. I remembered killing several men of thei
Chapter Sixty-Three Prince Murray's POV "Damn it! How did you let this happen?" I yelled at Stam, pacing around the room. He just sat on a chair with his head bowed and I kept ranting at him over and over for his very costly failure to deliver what he pledged. After what happened, I was very certain that my brother wouldn't want to leave the Pack soon and even if he wanted to, he had to recover first and that could take quite some time. "Danny's dead too," I said to him, lamenting the demise of the guard we sent to get rid of him after a bit of blackmail. I heard it was Elsa who rescued my brother, killing the man in the process. I was only glad she wasn't harmed. I'd have struggled to forgive myself for putting her in harm's way. "I'm sorry, my Prince. I…" "That's it. This is exactly what I'm talking about," I rudely cut in as my anger got the better of me. "You still call me Prince because you failed. You should be calling me Alpha by now. I should be the Alpha and the Prince
Chapter Sixty-Four Alina's POV "What am I going to do about this?" I repeatedly asked myself as I sat quietly on my bed. It had been several days since my husband returned to the Pack and only a few times had I gone to see him. I couldn't stand to behold him the way he was looking but I planned to visit him since I heard that he was finally awake. But that wasn't the problem that got to me the most. Not even close. Ever since Murray returned to the Pack with Elsa, there has been a strange aura about him. Each time we crossed paths, I couldn't help but halt my movement as something in me reached out to him very strongly. His smell got more and more intoxicating and after the last meeting we had where he told me about a meeting with the elders that was to be held by the end of the week, I was convinced that he was my mate. It felt so strange. We had been around each other for so long and yet, I never took notice of that. Nothing about him suggested anything like that. I had hea
Chapter Sixty-Five Alpha Davon's POV "Elsa, in front of the entire council of elders, please tell us what you just said to the Queen and me," I ordered Elsa, sitting on my throne due to the grave nature of the issue at hand. After Elsa's presence in the room and her revelation that my meal was poisoned, I took it upon myself to call a meeting with the elders and make my way to the throne room. If it was indeed true that the food was poisoned, it would be the second time that an attempt would be made on my life and I couldn't let it go on. Elsa was never going to always be there to save my life. They both helped me get to my feet, Alina and Elsa, after trying in vain to counsel me against going to that meeting. Then they led me out of the room to the throne room where I sat on my throne and awaited the arrival of the elders, Murray and Raymond. I had them bring the maid who served me to the throne room so that she, too, could also hear the accusation that was being levied at her
Chapter Sixty-Six Alpha Davon's POV "Ah," I yawned as fatigue got the better of me as soon as I was made to sit on the bed by Elsa after such an exhausting meeting. "I think you should lie down. You're clearly very tired," she said to me and I didn't need any further persuasion to do just that. I lay on the bed quickly, stretching as much as I could as I yawned one more time. I needed to get some sleep and I knew it, but I couldn't pass on an opportunity to talk to Elsa even if it was for a short time. I shut my eyes for a while just to reminisce all that happened earlier on in the throne room. I wondered if I had made the right choice by asking a guard to bring the food to the throne room and leaving it very close to Linda. If only I had kept it away from her, maybe she'd have still been alive. Perhaps, I'd have been able to find out who was behind those attempts on my life because after spending so much time and energy, I was still left with nothing. The only thing that I ach
Chapter Sixty-Seven Murray's POV "What the hell is happening to me?" I said to myself over and over again, struggling to get a grasp of the way that I felt within me. For a whole week, I had barely spent any time with Elsa, save the few times when I went to see my brother and at night when we both got back to the room too tired to say anything but a subtle goodnight before dozing off. It was a weird relationship but I could understand that she was very busy tending to my brother during the day. It was normal for our time to reduce because of that. What wasn't normal was that I wasn't just spending time with Mandy while she was gone but with Alina. It was so bad that even Mandy had begun to suspect me even though I always denied it and shut her up each time she brought the matter up. I knew she was no fool though. We used to meet every day before that time. But I reduced it to once in two days so that I could make room for Alina who had no problem with that, seeing that she knew
Chapter Hundred and EightElsa's POVI ran to where they were and stabbed him in the back with my dagger, causing him to yell. "Get on with the fight, Dad," I urged him, seeing that he got distracted by my decision to fight Murray. "I can handle this.""What is this?" Murray asked, looking surprised. "Why won't you let me fulfil my destiny? You know that you can't beat me, right?""You think so?" I raised my right brow."I didn't think that you'd be here, Elsa. I felt you'd be inside with your child in your belly or your arms," he explained. "I have not stopped loving you and I'd hate to kill you. Step away or you'll leave me no choice but to take your life.""You can try," I chuckled, gripping my knife very strongly. "I taught you everything you know, Elsa. Without me, you'd have been nothing," he reminded me. "Now, I didn't teach you everything I know. Just the ones I felt you should. I'll teach you now. I'll make you learn by experience. Some things are better learned that way."H
Chapter Hundred and SevenElsa's POV"Where's my baby? Let me have my baby," I said to the Pack nurse as she stood over me. "You'll have her soon, my Queen," she calmly replied. "He's being cleaned up by the maids."I stared at the ceiling feeling so exhausted. The pain that I felt and the energy I had to muster during my baby's childbirth had begun to take a huge toll on me. "Did you just say, 'He?'" I asked, as it suddenly struck me that she was referring to my child as a boy."Yes, my Queen. It's a baby boy and he looks so handsome," she gushed."Oh. Here he is," she said as one of the maids walked to my bed with my child in her hands.I managed to sit up with my back pressed against the wall for support and the maid handed my baby over to me. He was beautiful; so beautiful that I felt a few tears drop from my eyes as I stared at him. He had blue eyes, just like his father and he took my hair. My boy was a blondie. I bent and kissed him on the forehead, very happy to have him.
Chapter Hundred And SixMurray's POV"Hold," I screamed at my men as we got very close to the borders of the Stronghold Pack. I had sent three of our men to head over to the borders to find out what was going on and they were yet to return. So, I felt the need to hold on until they did, instead of rushing in blindly. I paused to look at the army that I had with me. I had managed to convince two other Rogue Kings to join us with their warriors in our quest to take Davon out. It wasn't that easy as they didn't trust me at first. Just like Alpha Grim, they thought that I had come to lead them to their demise and if Alpha Grim didn't intervene, they'd never have joined us. They weren't that large but with more than 15 carriages full of our combined warriors, I had no doubts that we were going to overwhelm them with ease. I also believed that the Rogues and I were the perfect match. I had trained the Rogues in my Pack for several months and I knew they were ready. But more than that, t
Chapter Hundred and FiveAlpha Davon's POV"The men from the Runway Pack have arrived, Alpha," one of the guards said to me as he rushed into the throne room. "Is Alpha Duncan with them?" I asked the guard but he just gawked at me, looking very clueless. "I'm sorry, I didn't look, " he confessed. "I just ran here as soon as I saw their carriage approaching the borders.""Thank you."I stood, headed out of the throne room and began to make my way to the borders. I wanted to welcome Alpha Duncan myself. I felt it would mean a lot to him if I did that, and encourage his people to give their all in the fight.I was a few metres away from the Pack Square when I saw them approaching. They were massive; even more than I had expected them to be. I tried to count but stopped when I was at ten carriages, only because they had gotten to where I stood and came to a halt. So I had to give my attention to the Alpha King who was making his way out of his carriage to meet up with me. "Greetings,
Chapter Hundred And FourAlpha Davon's POVEight Months Later"Alpha, we've got a letter," a guard walked into the throne room with a piece of paper in his hand. Two other guards walked in with him and just stood beside the door as he approached me with the paper. "From whom?" I asked, stretching my hand to take the paper from him. "My apologies, my Alpha. Good morning, Sir," he greeted. The urgency of what he had seemed to have caused him to forget that he was to greet me once he saw me. The other guards with him also did the same. They all bowed and greeted as they ought.I just nodded curtly and went back to my question. "Where did you get this from?" I asked again. "It was delivered to us by a Rogue. He came to us with a white flag and when we asked him to approach us, he came to us and handed the paper over to us. He said it came from your brother…""It came from Murray?" I asked in shock."Yes, Sir. It did."As I stared at the paper, I wondered what he wanted this time. We ha
Chapter Hundred and ThreeElsa's POV"My Queen, you're awake," Abigail remarked as my eyes opened slowly. I turned to my left and saw her holding onto my left hand with tears in her eyes and I wondered what happened to me. There were others in the room; the Pack nurse and two of her trainees. One of the guards was there too. They all had their gazes fixed on me when I woke up and it felt so overwhelming. Slowly, I began to recall what had happened. I remembered how I was talking to Abigail close to the garden before I felt weak and my eyes got hazy. It became clear to me exactly what had happened to me…I had fallen to the ground, unconscious. That must have been why I found myself in my room with no knowledge of how I got there. What I couldn't tell was what caused me to lose consciousness in the first place. "What happened?" I asked, trying in vain to sit up. "You must relax, my Queen," Abigail said, seeing that I struggled to get up. "You don't need to exert yourself at the mo
Chapter Hundred And TwoElsa's POVThree Months Later"It's morning again," I sighed as I slowly opened my eyes. I yawned and then sat up on the bed to stretch. The previous night was a very busy one as I had to put a few foodstuffs together so that I could send them across to my mother. It was exhausting, yet it was worth it.I looked to my side and Davon was still fast asleep, even though he went to bed much earlier than I did. I thought he was beginning to get too lazy."Get up, sleepy head," I teased him, shaking him a few times to awaken him from his slumber. "It's morning already. Didn't you say that you had a meeting to attend?"He grudgingly turned as he stretched, yawning so loudly that I wondered how he became that tired. He finally got himself to sit up and he just stared at me like he was going to hit me. It was so funny. "You should have just let me sleep a little more, honey. The meeting is not until another hour," he protested. "You just didn't want to watch me enjoy
Chapter Hundred and OneElsa's POV"We got in as soon as we heard what happened, dad," I said, walking into the throne room alongside my husband. A few elders were already seated there when we walked into the place. My mother was there too. She sat on a sofa just opposite the elders and I didn't expect to see her there. I felt she'd be right next to my father instead. The previous night, news was sent to us that Melissa and Alina had broken out of their cells. We were told that they managed to get out despite the presence of several guards who were stationed in front of their cells in the dungeon and I couldn't help but feel surprised. I had thought something like that couldn't happen, especially because it had never happened before. Somehow, Melissa and her daughter were able to do the impossible. Davon suggested that we wait till the next morning before making our way to yeh Pack but I swiftly objected to that. I wanted to get to the root of the matter, especially since I was th
Chapter HundredAlina's POVAs we got off the carriage after arriving at the Rogue Pack, I looked around at my new surroundings and it wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. For sure, it was nothing compared to the Runway Pack. The brown leaves on the floor left a lot to be desired. The flowers grew wildly, no one bothered to trim them, but as I walked past them with my mom by my side, those were the least of my problems. I wondered how Murray was going to take the loss of his dear Mandy. I had lied to the other guards that she was killed by one of the guards in the Runway Pack. The good thing was that I didn't pull out the knife that I used to kill her and it belonged to Ronnie. Nothing about her death pointed to me, except that I was supposedly with her when it happened. Well, I shut off those thoughts as we continued to make our way to the throne room. I wanted to know what it looked like. "It must be the size of a mushroom," I laughed in my mind. Yet, I knew not to write it off, s