Thirteen Years Ago Damian's POV Onyx made me lock Lilith down in those horrid dungeons yet again. This time she had merely looked at Khai a little too closely, but if I'm honest, he read far too deeply into her actions as he usually does. Khai always helps Lilith and many of the other kids after such a long bout of punishment in the dark with no food, water or use of property bathrooms. He washes them, feeds them and nurses them back to full health, only for Onyx to deplete them at some point again. It is a routine I am far from fond of, yet one that is ingrained in my internal schedule. Anyway. We were eating dinner, and as usual, they were sitting next to one another to my right as some of the other kids sat around the table too. I asked Lilith if she was enjoying the food as I had made her her favourite spaghetti dish, a way to say sorry despite not being able to say the words, and unfortunately, she had turned to Khai for reassurance to speak to us. The poor girl never kno
Lilith's POVI'm six years old again, and I'm sitting at the dining room table next to Khai as I eat the first hot meal I've had in weeks. Everything is overwhelming.The smells, sound, light and even the brightly covered walls that threaten to swallow me whole.I hate sitting in this room, around this huge table where I am made to eat food I cannot stomach because my tummy's too hungry to actually eat.On the plate in front of me sits my favourite cheesy spaghetti with the little squares of bacon that make the dish all the better. I'm distractedly swirling the fork in the spaghetti, making the healthiest loaded fork, when Damian asks me if I'm enjoying the food.I don't know what to do if I should answer him, so I do what I always do. I look to Khai for an answer.Damian doesn't know, but I can mind-link Khai.Apparently, I shouldn't be able to because I don't have my Wolf yet, but I randomly started doing it last year, and now I'm not so lonely down in the dungeons because I can s
Theo's POVLilith's bad dream is one of many that I've relieved with her in recent months. They all start out the same. Damian sits across from her, and they are enjoying a meal or watching the tv. Mundane things we do to pass our time here on earth. Then he snaps, seemingly out of nowhere.He becomes crazed and violent before locking her down into the darkness, where she sits alone for however long he deems necessary.To say it is unsettling to watch what she went through would be an understatement.How any man could do those things to a child, or more than one child, infringes on humanity. I'm unable to get back to sleep like the pair of them, so I roll onto my side, staring at Lilith's now serene sleeping form and then at Khai's constantly troubled expression. Even in sleep, he is unable to school his emotions. I suppose one would claim he wears his heart on his sleeve, you know, because his emotion is unmistakable.The night passes by whilst I look to the ceiling for an answer
Lilith's POVI skip breakfast to go for a walk within the protection of the trees.Last night's sleep was for fall and full of bad dreams after bad dreams, but amongst those dreams, I came to a very realisation: I haven't spoken to Abyss in a long time.I need help pinpointing the exact amount of days. Though I can remember she was encouraging me to fight Damian off, but soon after, she disappeared, and I hadn't noticed she had gone.I was too preoccupied, and I feel... empty, lonely, uninhabited even.I hadn't noticed how used to having her around before. It was as if she were my best friend and confidant; now she's just gone. Poof.Will I ever speak to her again?Did she disappear for a reason?Can you lose your wolf??My walk does nothing for my mood; it sours with the thoughts that I'll be alone for eternity without the wolf I was bonded to. As I walk past the western borders, I see the patrol wolves. Their fur sways in the wind, and the vision bring another wave of belonging ri
Celeste's POV"Where is Theseus?" Zeus bellows towards me as I walk the grand hall of his house. He hasn't seen me yet, but he knows Theseus chose to stay. I've put off coming home long enough. I left it to the last minute, which was the worst thing to do, but I had to bide myself some time to think about how I handled this inevitable meeting.I failed his assignment and was unable to bring my wayward husband home, yet in the face of it, Theseus is doing the right thing.Lilith has long since needed one of us to stand up and be the parents we agreed to be the day we laid down in my bed to make her. In life, there are many contracts you'll sign. Physical ones where your name is on the dotted line, and Proverbial ones where you talk about doing something that makes you stick out like a sore thumb. And then there are the genetic ones, the ones that many people do not think about until they have that damn little baby in their hands. They realise they've just signed their life away whils
Theo's POVLilith is mentally fragile at the moment, and that shows because the whole pack has been suffering. Her abilities are multiplying in tenfold, but one specific gift she holds is baneful.Her emotions filter out through the pack bond, making everyone suffer with her flitting feelings. Theseus has stated that he cannot teach her how to control her emotions, but something needs to give; otherwise, the whole pack will suffer whiplash from her feelings.Andy had mind-linked me earlier this afternoon in worry.Lilith had been walking just inside the borders as they were doing their patrol. They all ignored her presence as I had asked them to so she didn’t feel on edge to introduce herself, but he reported she seemed in deep thought, so they had gravitated to protect their Luna, and they found themselves falling down with the emotion at her feet.She hadn’t reacted, staring at them with a vacant look before she had left them there, suffering from her sadness. That’s when she ha
Ten Years AgoDamian's POVLilith loves running through the grass.She holds her hands out beside her as she lets the long tendrils brush her palms. I think she enjoys the sensation of the grass blades, but I cannot be totally sure because she is rather stoic with her emotions.She's nine now, and tonight we will be visiting the witch's hut out in the wooded area on the east-facing borders where I allow the coven to live.Her wolf is waking up, and I need to prevent her from coming forward for a bit longer. Lilith is destined for many things, including living a gifted life, but I need her under my control, under Onyx's control, so that he doesn't kill her during a raging fit when she inevitably finds her mate.I had hoped that it might have been me, that the weird sense of belonging whenever I am around would have been because of a mate bond, but she is not my mate... I killed me, mate.I am hoping her mate doesn't live here in this pack. It would be unlikely, considering she doesn't
*Continued*Damian's POV "No more hiding Lilith. Let's walk out to coven; we will see Gretchen again.""For my medication?" She asks innocently."Yes, that would be correct, Lil. But also because the witches love you.""I like them too, especially Tabitha. She can show me things..." she trips over her words, sucking in a sharp breath as if she realised she had said far too much.I wince for her, knowing if Onyx were awake, he would punish her for keeping secrets from him.I know the witches hold powers of their own. Most of them do, and most living here keep their abilities a secret, so Onyx doesn't get wind.Tabitha is a young witch bred here on my land. She's fourteen and gifted. That much is obvious.She is constantly zoned out, her eyes bleeding from blue to white, and she's unresponsive. The witches keep her in the coven, refusing for her to go to school with the others. Refusing to have her mingle.The poor child's only friend is Lilith, and she rarely sees her.I guess I get