MAEVE’S POVThe last thing I remembered was the mortuary attendant, injecting me with an unknown fluid which knocked me out immediately.And when I opened my eyes again, I saw someone who looked like me. But this person was like a male version of myself.Although the resemblance wasn't 100%, it was at least 89% and that was a big deal.Was my mind playing tricks with or was this how Hades wanted to punish me?The guy who looked like me walked to me and began waving his palm above my eyes to confirm if I was really awake.But I still laid stiff on the bed and just my eyes were opened.It was when I began to feel the urge to kill that I realized that maybe I was alive.But I pushed the thoughts aside because there was no way I could feel that urge anymore.Not when the person who made me feel the urge in the first place was now dead.“Except…” I mumbled and my brows creased before I jolted up into a sitting position on the bed I was lying on.Sitting in the wheelchair in front of me wa
ZANE’S POVSeeing that Maeve was finally awake made me relieved.When she was taking longer to wake up even after I had woken up, I began to panic.I thought that the mortuary attendants might have given her an overdose of the injection.But seeing her awake now eased my heart.I knew that she'd be mad at me when she found out the truth but thanks to her urge, she didn’t think about what I said till I left the room.So far, Billy has been nice to us.He stayed with me all through the night when Maeve and I were brought in.I didn’t have anywhere else to go seeing that all the Alphas had turned against me.And I couldn’t go to Alpha Kelvin or Alpha Asher’s pack because I didn’t want to stir up trouble for them.Then I thought about where we could possibly go and plan our next move.It was then that Crescent Moon pack came to my mind.I knew that Billy would never reject us because Maeve was his sister and I was her mate.That is why when Damien came to tell me that Alphas called for a m
MAEVE’S POVI was giddy with excitement to the extent that I video-called Alpha Zane immediately.I wanted to relay this good news to him immediately.This was the best news that we had gotten in a long while.It seemed like the moon goddess was on our side because my pregnancy meant that Alpha Zane could challenge Damien. And if he won, the other Alphas wouldn’t give the excuse of him not having an heir anymore.“What?!! Why are you looking that way? You’re supposed to be happy. You are going to be an uncle soon,” I whined delightfully as I tugged at Billy who gave a strained smile.“I think I'm going to be bad at being an uncle,” He answered and I just huffed and turned to look at my phone again.The doctor who broke the news of my pregnancy to me just stood by my side smiling at the way I reacted to the news.When Alpha Zane picked up the call and I told him of my pregnancy, he didn’t react like I thought that he would.Maybe it was because he thought I was joking and that got me
MAEVE’S POVWhen I asked Lilian how we would go about it, I expected her to stutter but she didn't and I was glad.This meant that she was confident about what she was saying and she was very sure of what she was talking about.I just hope that this time around all will go fine as she has said.“Like I said, I would need another Elder so that we can both combine our powers. We would also need black obsidian,” Lilian said.“Obsidian? What for?” I asked her and she chuckled.“Black obsidian helps in healing and protection. It keeps negative energy away,” Lilian explained, making my mouth form an O shape.“Okay, so how does it help suppress the urge??” I asked her and saw Billy roll his eyes.I knew that I was being too inquisitive but who would blame me? I wanted to be sure if I should really get my hopes up or not.“It will help repel the negative energy produced when the urge comes in. Therefore you won’t feel the urge. I’ll use the obsidian we find to make two bracelets. One for you
MAEVE’S POVBilly was silent for a while after I asked him how they survived.We just kept walking without having a clue of where he was taking me.“Magic of illusion and the sacrifice Lilian’s mom made for our pack. That is how we survived,” Billy finally answered me with a downcast look on his face.This was indeed a very sour topic for him. I didn’t want to ask him any other questions.I wanted the conversation about their survival to end.But there were still many things I was curious about and that curiosity got the best of me.“What sacrifice did Lilian’s mom make?” I asked him.“She single-handedly and continuously did the spell which made all the 11 packs think that we were right in front of them when in reality we had moved here to hide. She continued doing the spell for hours making the other packs think they were fighting us and due to the hours it lasted the magic slowly drained the life out of her,” Billy explained.It was a sad story indeed. The way he spoke made it look
MAEVE’S POV“What could that possibly be?” I asked Billy with creased brows.He sighed and the look on his face made me know that whatever he was going to tell me wasn’t going to be pleasant to my hearing at all.“It’s about his mother,” Billy said and looked at me as though he wanted to be sure that I wanted him to say more.Looking back to all these while Alpha Zane and I have been together. He never talked much about his family. Especially his mother.But who would blame him? It wasn’t like we had shared our childhood memories. We didn’t have the time to.The little moment we spent together, we wanted to cherish it. Also, since I met Alpha Zane, we had never had a whole day go by without having it in mind to solve one problem or the other.The more we solved, the more shocking problems arose.I didn’t know if it was okay for me to give Billy the go-ahead to tell me whatever it was that he wanted to say.Even though I felt that the appropriate thing to do was for Billy to tell Alph
ZANE’S POVThe sound of my alarm blaring woke me up and I yawned.It’s hard to keep up with time in an underground world, so I set an alarm on my phone to notify me when it is morning, noon, and night.Ever since I fell ill, each morning I wake up, I wished that I would wake up one of these days and be my normal healthy self.So each morning I woke up, I did with hopes that I would wake up feeling no pain and weakness.But so far, there had been no improvement.And waking up today, still feeling pains and weakness when I move my body, it made me go into a gloomy mood.I began to reminisce of those days when Maeve and I could be together without her urge setting in.I remembered the mind-blowing sex we had on the night of her Luna Ceremony.The way she touched herself and fucked herself with that stupid dildo.The view of wet and dripping pussy when she spread her legs apart.I shook the thought away from my mind because I was beginning to have a hard-on, which surprisingly caused me i
ZANE’S POV“Hey Babe. I don’t understand why you behaved the way you did when Billy video-called you. But I want you to know that if there is anything at all troubling you, you know you can always talk to me,” Maeve's message read.“She can’t even ask if I slept well or apologize for waking up and not calling me,” I scoffed.After reading the message, I ignored it.I knew that she would see that I read the message but didn't reply and that was exactly what I wanted her to know.I was upset at her and there was no way I was going to hide that fact from her.The fact that she couldn't figure out the reason why I acted the way I did angered me more.To me, it was as though she thought what she did was right and that is why her thoughts never went to the fact that she hadn't called me.The sound of my phone ringing brought me back from my train of thought, and when I saw the caller, I sat upright on my bed.“Finally,” I exhaled, seeing that it was Damien calling.I planned on texting him a
MAEVE’S POVIt had been weeks since Damien was executed and Patricia was nowhere to be found.I knew that Alpha Zane was hurt by Damien and Patricia’s betrayal.Khal became his Beta and Gamma because he refused to trust anyone with the position after what Damien and Pat did to him, he said it would be difficult for him to trust easily.He was also angry at me for not telling him about Damien's love advances towards me. It took us over a week to settle.I wasn’t entirely surprised that Pat betrayed us because even though she apologized to us, I didn’t quite trust her apology.Alpha Zane didn’t plan on executing Pat but he wanted to apologize. Afterward, he planned on punishing her by setting her as an example to others in the pack.I told him that would be too harsh but he told me he knew Patricia badly hated embarrassment, so that was the only way she would learn her lesson.But I hadn't seen her until now. We even ordered for all 13 packs to be searched but there was no trace of Pat
ZANE’S POV“Can we skip to the important part first, " Damien said after clearing his throat.He held a herb mortar and I could see a paste in it.Before now, I was so pissed off at the fact that Aradia was my biological Mom.Why did it have to be her? Why did Dad and his mate have to wrong Aradia that it turned her into a monster?I wasn't proud enough to accept the fact Aradia was my biological Mom.No mother of mine would do all the cruel things she did, but then again I stopped for a second to consider all she went through.What did it matter, after all, she would have been dead by now and she did specify where she would kill herself.Nevertheless, I made a mental note to search for her corpse and give her a funeral. She was my mother after all and I had to give her respect, just as Maeve gave her dad his respect too even though he offended her a great deal too.“Oh yeah. Thanks, Damien,” Lilain rushed to Damien and collected the herb mortar from him.Maeve looked nervous and so d
MAEVE’S POVThe wait for the Beckley family seemed like ages and when Damien called me that they were on their way to the pack house, I couldn't help but anticipate.We all sat impatiently waiting for them. Alpha Zane was nervous and I could tell by the way he was fidgeting with his fingers.I went to sit beside him and gave his hand a reassuring squeeze.“We will go on a vacation once this is all over. No need to be nervous because we are just minutes away from lifting the curse. Whenever your nervousness sets in, think of all the fun we would have,” I said and kissed his palm.“Something you act like the man in this relationship,” He chuckled and rolled his eyes.“I would suggest we split ourselves into groups and be ready to set out to do whatever it is the Beckleys would tell us to do that would aid Alpha Zane and Maeve lift their curse,” Lilian said to the others and they nodded their heads.Just then Damien and Khal walked into the sitting room with an old man and an old woman w
MAEVE’S POVThe door opened and in came Patricia. She had a sorry look on her face as she looked at me.“I heard what happened and I'm here to offer my condolences,” Patricia said as she walked to my bedside and knelt in front of me.What was she up to now?Everyone in the room looked at her with utmost surprise because we all knew Patricia had a lot of pride which wouldn't allow her to kneel in front of me this way.“I'm sorry for the way I have treated you since you came to this pack. I'm sorry for putting that ring in your bag that almost cost you your life, I'm sorry for always disrespecting you. What happened to Maggie made me realize that life is too short and one may never know when he or she would die. So I have decided to reflect on my life and effect necessary changes,” Patricia said with a sincere look on her face.I studied her face for like two minutes to see if her countenance would falter and give her away that she was lying but it didn’t.Well, she was right in that th
MAEVE’S POV“Are you both just going to sit back and let that bitch go free after what she did?” Charlotte asked, breaking the silence in the car.Maggie and I didn't need anyone to tell us that Charlotte was referring to Patricia.“You're right and something about the timing when she chose to release that video doesn't bode well with me,” Maggie frowned.I never quite gave it a thought but now that I did, Maghie was right.It was exactly the period where my urge was to be quenched and we needed another Elder to be added to Lilian that Patricia posted the video.“I have an idea on how to get back at her,” Maggie smiled maliciously.“Yes your deviousness, bring it on,” Charlotte drawled from behind Maggie and I to burst into a fit of laughter.“It’s simple, we know that Damien and Patricia are fucking each other of late yeah?” Maggie asked.Charlotte and I nodded in agreement urging her to continue with what she was saying.“It’s very simple. We sneak into Damien’s room and steal his p
MAEVE’S POVBy the time I went to the room that Alpha Zane and I were supposed to sleep in, I saw him fast asleep.I looked at him sadly knowing that he must have been very exhausted.I went to take a quick shower and came back a few minutes after I was done.I changed into my nightie and turned to walk to the bed only to find Alpha Zane turning and tossing uncomfortably on the bed.It was as though he was having a bad dream or?I gasped when realization dawned on me that it may be Aradia because she had used this trick to talk to me before.I rushed to the bed and began waking him up but he wasn't responding. After several trials and he still didn't respond, I began to panic, so I rushed to Lilian’s room.“Zane isn't waking up but he is tossing and turning on the bed,” I exclaimed the moment I opened her door and she rushed down from the bed.We both ran to Alpha Zane and I’s room and still saw him losing and turning on the bed.Lilian immediately began to murmur a spell but nothing
ZANE’S POVI had been trying to keep myself calm during the ceremony but hearing Aloha William begging for his life pissed me off and made me snap at him.He didn't have any right to beg for his life when he didn't give Alpha Kelvin the plead for his life.I reminded Maggie of our aim and for the first time since I've been on earth, I was grateful that someone wasn't soft-hearted.Yeah, I was happy that Maggie wasn't soft-hearted at that moment because if she was the Maggie we all knew who was soft-hearted and kind, she would have agreed to give Alpha William a quick death.But this Maggie wasn't like that, she nodded in agreement to what I said and wanted to signal her men to take the digs in and seal the door but that was when Alpha William chose to say something that made us all confused and curious at the same time.He said he would confess. What I was confused about was what he still had to confess.I thought we already knew about his wrongdoing, so I turned to look at Billy and
MAEVE’S POVHearing Maggie talk about a cage and trained dog, I immediately got an idea of what she wanted.It was like we were thinking alike because that was exactly what I wanted to suggest if I was given the opportunity to.When I asked her if it was what I was thinking that she wanted to do and she nodded, I was overjoyed because we would also get justice for what he did to Alpha Kelvin.I was angry at Alpha Zane for not waking me up when I was asleep even when he knew I would have loved to go with him to see Alpha William.Either way, as long as Alpha Zane did what I knew he wanted to do there, then it was fine by me.The sun was already setting by the time we arrived here and I wondered why because I didn't expect it to take us this much time to get here.When I got here a few minutes ago, I saw Jesse, Jason, Lilian, Billy, and Rand already seated. Of course, they were all putting on black outfits.Lilian came to hug me the instant she saw me walk through the door. Sometimes I
ZANE’S POVHere we were in Alpha Kelvin’s pack about to begin his funeral.Before that day at Crescent Moon pack, if anyone would tell me that Alpha Kelvin would die trying to save me, I would have tagged the person as the biggest liar of the millennium.I was devastated to find his body dropping to the floor with a hole in his chest and that was the time the spell Lilian used to make me agile wore off.I was quiet all through Maggie’s outburst of tears back at my room in Crescent Moon pack because I couldn’t bring myself to face her.I felt like it was my fault that he died, had he not stepped in to shield me from Alpha William, he would have still been here with us and I would have been the one to die.I sighed for the umpteenth time since we arrived at his pack as Damien accompanied me to pay Alpha William a visit in his cell.I was depressed but I tried not to show it in front of Maeve because I didn’t want to make her worry. At this point I just wanted to die so everyone would ge