MIRANDA’s POV“You will kill Ms. Caroline and everybody else if I don’t go back with you?” I asked him as I slowly walked back toward him“Yes I will kill them all and you know I can do that,” he said and I shook my head in disbelief“Is that supposed to make see that you have had a miraculous change of heart and you really want me back? “ I asked him“It’s supposed to show you I will do anything to have you come back home with me," he said and I laughed sarcastically“And as you drove here it never crossed your mind that I don’t want to come back with you, it never even once crossed your mind that the hurt you caused me was way too deep for me to forgive and forget? Tomas, you can’t control and manipulate me anymore and your threats mean nothing to me, I am not going back with you” I said“Then I will kill them all,” he said and I laughed“No you won’t,” I said challenging him, I suddenly felt very confident and I was glad that I could talk back at him and stand up to him, I had had
MIRANDA’S POV“Miranda honey where have you been, I was beginning to get worried about you,” Ms. Caroline asked as I entered through the back door“Oh I am sorry, I was out swimming in the lake the water was so nice. I also sat and watched the sunset it was so beautiful I must have lost track of time” I said“Oh I see but you must be careful the water tends to get a little too cold in the evenings and I don’t want you catching a cold,” she said and I nodded, I was touched by her concern. She reminded me a lot of my mother.“What’s for dinner?” I asked changing the subject and looking over at the pots she was busy with“I made some beef stew, I thought it would be nice to have with some rice,” she said“That’s a simple but perfect meal,” I said sitting down as she started dishing “I hope everything was ok at the shop today,” I said it was a perfect meal for me because I was feeling a little cold.“Oh everything was perfect, I even had some help from a helpful young man but I do hope yo
MIRANDA’S POVI woke up the next day feeling a little refreshed, even after I had spent half the night thinking about the suggestion that Ms. Caroline had made the previous night. I wondered if I was at all capable of befriending William and if I would be capable of trusting him after what happened with Tomas. But that was just it, I had to remember that William wasn’t Tomas, and thankfully so.But I had to be careful with the kind of ideas that I entertained especially with Tomas thinking that he had some kind of claim over me after the way he treated me. The last thing I needed and the last thing that this little community of humans needed was two wolves turning their town into a battleground and fighting over me. Not to mention they would expose me and how I have deceived Ms. Caroline by making her think I was one of them.Despite the negative thoughts that I had concerning giving William a chance for friendship and seeing where that friendship could lead us, I decided to give him
MIRANDA’S POV“Let go of me or I will scream,” I said as soon as we were inside and I reached for the lights to switch them on. After I switched the lights on my captor immediately let go of me and I took the opportunity to turn around and give him a very big piece of my mind“William?” I was shocked “what are you doing here so early in the morning, I haven’t even opened yet,” I asked as I backed away from him“Ms. Caroline asked me to come and keep an eye on you, she said you had been very jumpy lately because you felt like you were being followed,” he said and I felt like he was lying“and she decided to ask a stranger who came around here at the same time I felt like I was being followed, I mean for all we know you could be the one following me, especially after the way you just grabbed me from behind,” I said“I think you should be grateful that I was here, I mean I noticed that you were being followed and that is why I reacted the way I did,” he said and shifted uncomfortably“I
TOMAS’S POVI never thought the thought of Miranda moving on and forgetting about me would hurt me so much, in fact, I never thought a day would come when she would choose to forget about me and all the things I put her through. But seeing her with William broke my heart and made me want to kill him.What made it worse was the fact that he wasn’t just any wolf, he was my brother and he knew that he was messing with my mate. I followed Miranda in the morning when she was making her way to the bakery. William saw me and got in my way, how could someone be so energetic in keeping two people that were meant to be apart?I had noticed the way he was looking at her and the way he was trying to flirt with her, he was no longer treating this like a task that father had given him, I started feeling like William genuinely liked Miranda and wanted to be with her. That idiot, he was only going to hurt her when he found his true mate and I couldn’t and wouldn’t let that happen. I wanted to speak t
MIRANDA’S POVI had to snap myself back to reality and get my mind back at work, what was Tomas trying to do and why was I allowing him to take advantage of me like that? I was stronger than I was acting and I had to show him that his days of taking advantage of me were a thing of the past.“What were you doing back there? I have been calling out for you” William said as I emerged from the kitchen and as I fixed my apron“Nothing, you are also a customer here William so stop acting like my boss,” I said and he raised his hands in surrender and walked back to his seat I took my attention from him and focused on the customer that was before me.I walked around like a zombie the whole day, I couldn’t get my mind off the kiss Tomas had given me and how it made me feel, and how I hated myself for it. I had to do something to force myself to forget about him. I couldn’t continue being his little puppet in his little mind games. I looked over at William who had been glued to his laptop almos
MIRANDA’S POVI found myself opening up to William and the fact that he was so easy to talk to and such a great listener made it even easier to talk to him. William was the opposite of Tomas, in fact, he was everything that my mother told me a mate was supposed to be and yet he wasn't my mate. I found myself wishing Tomas had broken the mate bond that we shared so that I could be with William.No matter how much I liked William being with him and being fully committed to him was close to impossible because I was still mated to Tomas and it seemed to me that Tomas wanted me back at all costs.“Thank you so much for tonight,” I said as William drove me home“Don’t thank me, it wasn’t a favor to you, I did it for myself” he said“Why are you so nice to me?” I asked him because I couldn’t understand how and why he would be so nice to someone that he had never met.“I like you a lot Miranda, in fact, I like you more than I thought I would like you,” he said“What do you mean?” I asked him
MIRANDA’S POV“You closed the shop late today.” Ms. Caroline said in an accusatory tone and I wasn’t sure if she was asking me a question as to why I arrived late or if she was simply concerned.“I was With William,” I said in an attempt to feed her curiosity, she was not going to let it go until I told her and I could see I was right by the look on her face.“Oh I see you listened to me and gave him a chance,” she said and I couldn’t help but blush, even though nothing was official between me and William. I was still willing to try with him.“I think I should go to bed now,” I said trying to escape“Yes it’s getting late but sit down here and I would like to talk to you,” she said patting the empty space on the couch next to her and I immediately sat down thinking it was something important.“I want to talk to you about William,” sh
ELIZABETH'S POV“Did you really have to be that rude Liam?” I asked“Lizzy sometimes you tend to be too kind and too trusting” he snapped and he was right but I really believed that Ashley was being genuine I could see the grief and the pain in her eyes. Her father might have been a bad influence in her life but she was clearly fond of him and she loved him very much.“I know that but I think we should have been nicer to her,” I said“if we had been even a little nicer to her she would have asked us if we could let her sleep since it was already dark and she would have asked if it was ok if she slept with us in the same room and in the middle,” he said and I laughed, now he was just exaggerating“Just stop Liam,” I said through my laughs and he joined me“I am serious they say once bitten twice shy and trust me I have been bitten by Ashley so I am not allowing her to fool me so easily this time, so you need to stop trusting people that you shouldn’t trust and stop being so easily fool
ELIZABETH’S POVThe following day I woke up feeling very tired and I was feeling like I had spent the night running a marathon. Liam told me that I had passed out right after drinking the wolfsbane and that he had to carry me home after that. I was glad that we were done with the crowning part of the rituals and now the next thing would be for Liam to drink the wolfsbane.I didn’t understand why Liam had to do that because he was already part of the pack and therefore he had no former tied to break and I also felt like there was no need for him to prove his loyalty to the pack because they already knew him. He explained to me that he wouldn’t be swearing his loyalty to the pack only but also to me. and he said that the ritual was going to be important in proving that his intentions for the pack were not selfish and we're nothing like what his father had done.When I woke up I had to attend to Ryan who had grown a lot in the past couple of days and he was now crawling, I just couldn’t
ELIZABETH'S POVThere was a note that was left on a rock and Liam recognized the handwriting as his father’s, the message on the note was that he would wait for us in the mansion since we wanted to be pack leaders and live in the mansion so badly.Liam, Anthony, and I immediately turned and started running to the mansion immediately, none of us cared that our clothes were ripped off as we turned. Liam and I just wanted our baby back and Anthony was just after his mate. At this point, we were all aware that Liam’s father was a danger even to his own children and he had to be stopped from causing any more harm to anyone else.We raced to the mention afraid that we could be too late and Liam’s father could have done something to Anna and the baby. The thought of him hurting my baby just made me angry and made my feet very much lighter. I got to the mansion first and I immediately spotted Liam’s father in the garden with the baby in his arms and Anna was tied
Liam's POVAfter dinner, we all went to our separate rooms and I was very happy to finally have Liam all to myself. There was a lot I wanted to discuss with him and most of it involved his father and I couldn’t hold out any longer.“Baby, are you ok?” I asked“Yes why?” he asked as he put on his pajamas“I mean I just killed your father and I would understand if you need a little time to mourn his death,” I said sitting on the huge king-sized bed.“Lizzy are you feeling bad about what happened?” he asked and I wasn’t sure how to respond to that question, of course, I felt guilty about killing his dad despite his crimes. If I felt nothing after killing him that would mean that I was exactly like him.“a little bit, I mean your father had it coming that’s no doubt but that doesn’t make me feel any better about the fact that I killed him and the impact of what his death did to you and I wouldn’t blame you if you felt some type of way about the way
LIAM’S POVWe stayed up the whole night listening to Denis as he filled us in on the plans that my father had for us. We had to keep in mind that they probably didn’t tell him everything out of fear that he would come and give that information back to us. What I didn’t understand until now was why Anthony had decided to join us and not run his small pack himself, I mean he was next in line to be Alpha after all. Their presence here with us made me very uncomfortable but I also had to admit that we needed them, but there was no way that I was going to agree with Lizzy if she decided to let them stay here for good.After Denis told us everything we needed to know we had to change the plan of our plans because they already knew our plan of attack. Lizzy was right when she said that she would heal herself and be strong enough to fight, as I watched her take the lead in the plans I could see that she was a natural-born leader and that was probably the reason why she cou
LIAM’S POVI woke up in the middle of the night to find the bed empty on Lizzy’s side. I knew that she had been restless because I allowed the wolves from the diamond pack to stay with us but I had to think on my feet and it was best that we had them with us rather than with my father. They probably chose to come to us because they were impressed that Lizzy had killed their Alpha. Even after I had accepted their request to join us, I was still worried about the true intentions of their new Alpha, Anthony had been known to idolize his father and I knew that he probably wanted to seek revenge against us.The only thing I could do now was to make sure I keep an eye on them and make sure they never got up to any good or even tried to betray us, as hard as that was going to prove to be.I got out of bed and started searching for Sabina around the house and she was not there, I even went to Anna’s room and she wasn’t there. I thought maybe she was in her mother’s room as she n
Elizabeth's Pov The following day Liam, Anna, and I woke up a little late because we were all tired from the events of the previous day. We were not going to be getting any form of rest for the next coming days because of all the training that we had to do. Liam woke up and went to the mansion to meet with the elders and his father because he had to find out when they planned for this challenge to take place.Anna and I prepared the backyard for all the wolves that were going to come for the training. It was a pure blessing that my mother had chosen a corner house with the biggest backyard that was big enough to accommodate a lot of wolves. I still couldn’t believe that all those wolves had actually chosen my side and I didn’t even know most of them. But I assumed that they chose me because they already knew and trusted Liam and they were like his followers.After we were done preparing the grounds for training Liam returned from the meeting and he seemed like he h
LIAM'S POVI had known from the day that I found out that Lizzy was the rightful heir to the throne and the rightful Alpha queen that there were things that she would have to do and I wouldn’t be a part of them. I knew that she was more powerful than I was and that all the Alpha duties that I had been training for my whole life would be taken over by her. But right now I felt like a wimp and I found myself struggling to find my place in the entire kingdom.Don’t get me wrong I wanted the best for Lizzy and I felt insulted when she suggested that I was power-hungry and motivated by my hunger for power. For her to say that was like her saying that I was like my father and that I would easily kill and take someone’s life simply because I wanted to be in charge of the pack. But imagine growing up and being prepared for one thing only to grow and realize that that thing you were being trained for was never yours, to begin with, having Lizzy as my mate made it easie
LIAM’S POVI wasn’t in full support of Lizzy tying our lives to that of the pack but I had to trust that she had a plan. I knew she was probably right when she said that the elders were up to no good. There was an upside to all this and the upside was that if they had any intentions of purposely placing her life in danger along with mine, she had successfully destroyed that plan.When we got home, Lizzy and I were both so tired that we just headed straight for bed and fell asleep immediately. We were supposed to catch the other pack by surprise and attack them before they attacked us. The plan was that we would meet at around three in the morning and then we would all run to the neighboring pack. The elders said that they had gotten a letter that we would be attacked anytime during that day. My main concern was that the pack would be attacked when we were gone and there would be no one left to defend those that were going to be left behind. Beta John told me that a few