WILLIAM'S POV
I was not only shocked but also hurt and disappointed in Tomas when Miranda exposed just how deep his torture went. She had never told me the full story of what Tomas had done to her, I knew bits and pieces. I knew he got her pregnant and Cindy caused her to lose the baby and I also knew that there was a lot of physical abuse but I never thought the emotional abuse ran so deep."Why didn't you tell me?" I asked her as I sat on her bed and put on my shirt
"Tell you what?" she asked her back turned to me making it clear that this wasn't something that she wanted us to discuss with me.
"Why didn't you tell me everything that Tomas did to you?" I asked as I followed her to the bathroom
"Because that is irrelevant information and I did not want to relive that horror show" she snapped
WILLIAM'S POVWhen the time for us to meet with my father came, I was a nervous wreck. I wasn't sure what to expect or what he was going to say with regard to my relationship with Miranda. In all honesty, I didn't expect the whole meeting to favor me. Tomas was Miranda's mate and I was merely a second choice for her having a second chance mate while the first mate was still alive and had never been heard of or seen. It didn't really matter how Tomas had treated Miranda what mattered was whose mate she was and she wasn't mine.Tomas had made it a point to point that out with every chance he got, he kept reminding me how I had lost my mate and how he felt like I was trying to use Miranda to replace her. The truth was that I could never replace my first mate even if I wanted to, but I still couldn't help the way I felt about Miranda. At first, I thought I just felt sorry for her but after getting to know her better I found all the reasons why loving h
TOMAS'S POVIf only I could get my hands on Cindy right now, I would squeeze that little neck of hers until life started leaking out of her. Thanks to her and her jealousy, I was now at risk of never being Alpha. She didn't even tell me that Miranda was pregnant and that she killed the stupid pups.I knew this was bad and I knew that even if my father had considered doing things in my favor, I had just lost that favor. Couldn't Miranda just tell me about this beforehand so that I could prevent the blow-up that had just happened right before my eyes?I could see that William was enjoying it when Miranda was tearing my image into pieces, he knew that the scale had now tipped in his favor and I was at risk of losing it all. Which always made me wonder why it was so important to my father for Miranda to become my Luna."Tomas" I heard my father call from my bedroom while I was in the bathroom taking a shower"Yes, Father I am com
MIRANDA’S POVEver since I had gotten back here I had barely slept. The only day that I slept properly was when I spent the night with William, being alone in my room in this huge palace reminded me a lot of the time when I was Tomas’s prisoner. I knew it was different this time and I did feel a little better knowing that the king knew of my presence in the palace but I still didn't feel very safe knowing Tomas was just down the hall and he could sneak into my room at any moment.When I woke up the following morning I decided that I would stay in my room until the king finally called us for the second part of our meeting with him. I was no longer as nervous as I had been when we had started and that was probably because I had proven to myself that I could handle Tomas and he couldn't intimidate me any longer.
TOMAS’ POVI couldn't wait for our next meeting with my father because I had noticed that Miranda and William had been getting closer and closer my father seemed to be dragging his feet in coming to a conclusion. I Was relying on him to stop this madness between my brother and my mate but I was starting to think that my father was unreliable. The last thing I wanted was to try to sort this out on my own because there was no way I was going to allow William and Miranda's little fling to get in the way of me and my throne.During the day I saw Wiliam and Miranda taking a stroll in the garden holding hands and that infuriated me, here I was worrying over my position as Alpha, and Miranda had the time to take a stroll and rub her affair in my face. The closer William got to Miranda the closer he got to taking the throne from me and each tim
WILLIAM’S POVI was devasted when my father suggested that I keep my distance from Miranda but I had to trust that he knew what he was doing and I had to put my trust completely in him and believe that he would rule justly and fairly. Of course, I did feel like it was very unfair that I had to stay away from Miranda when I was not the one who was a danger to her, I hated the fact that my father thought my closeness to her would cloud her judgment somehow as if I had been influencing her to chose me from the beginning. Miranda was a grown-ass woman who could make her own sound decisions and the very fact that she hadn't chosen Tomas should have been proof that she was old and mature enough to make her own good decisions.“I can't believe this is happening... It's all your fault William,” Tomas said as he stormed into my room as if
MIRANDA’S POVI heard William and Tomas arguing as I passed by William's room going to mine, whatever they were arguing about seemed pretty serious. I knew it probably had something to do with me but I couldn't blame myself for that because those two seemed to have a lot of bad blood and I wondered what had happened between them in the past. One would think these two brothers would be extremely close to each other but it seemed that they couldn't stand each other and I couldn't help feeling like I was making matters worse.The king asked me to meet him in two days to give him my final decision, I didn't understand why he felt like I needed more time to think about a decision that I had already made but I decided to humor him, he had hope that I would forgive Tomas and that was something that I had no plans of doing. When William and I came ba
MIRANDA'S POVI woke up the following morning feeling very energized and ready to face the day. I couldn't wait to confidently knock on the king's door and let him know that I was standing by my initial decision. I couldn't even understand why the king felt like I had to give Tomas another chance to hurt me, the fact that he was delaying this whole process showed me that he was hoping that I would give Tomas another chance.And there was no way that I was allowing that to happen anytime soonThere was no way that I was going to place myself in harm's way even if it was for the good of the kingdom. I was the least important wolf in this kingdom and Tomas had made that clear to me countless times, I didn't believe that he had simply changed those sentiments overnight. The truth of the matter was that Tomas wanted me because he had just lea
WILLIAM'S POVI was worried about Miranda, I hadn't seen her the whole day and I was concerned that her meeting with my father had not gone the way we had expected it to go. I knew from experience that my father could be very unpredictable especially when it came to Tomas.I understood his position, I knew that his first priority was the pack's wellness but sometimes I wished he could just put me first. Putting the pack's wellness first often meant that he would put Tomas first and that just bothered me, but it had never bothered me as much as it bothered me now. All I could hope for was that my father hadn't scared Miranda away by being too pushy.I trusted Miranda to choose me in everything but I knew that decision would not come without opposition from my father and Tomas. Sometimes I just felt like it was me against them.
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