Lilith's POVThe memories continue to fill up any consciousness.A strange and unabating voice wakes me from my light slumber.It's not particularly saying many words, but it's happy nevertheless, and the aura accompanying the person is addictively more-ish.They seem blissfully unaware and happy, content with their surroundings which confounds me. Where are they? Are they close??Their room seems dark, maybe with the ambience of red. Yes, yes, I can see what they can. It's as if they are sharing their secret with me.I wonder if they are another of the long line of children Damian keeps. I mean, they must be, to be around here.I lay silently for a while, soaking up their energy, afraid that they might go silent again if I spoke or tried to communicate. I need this, the happiness from an untainted person.I can't really explain with words how happy and content the being makes me feel by just sharing their... innocence. I think, perhaps, it's maybe because I'm alone and I hate bein
Theo’s POVLilith doesn’t wake during the evening or the next morning.She stays in a sleep like state despite her fever coming down and the medicine battling the infection for her.I almost feel sick to my stomach that none of us had noticed her coming down with thing.And I feel even more defeated in the realisation I can neither communicate with her or Abyss, or see her dreams and thoughts despite touching her repeatedly.I’m unsure of what to take from her radio silence, unconvinced that she’d be truly asleep without thinking.And without dreaming.Even Lora hasn’t aroused a reaction from her despite our attempts to allow her to cry and pluck one from her.Samantha though, true to Khai’s demands, had stayed in the pack house. Ensuring her proximity in case the worse was to happen.And Khai and me?Well we’ve been here at home, refusing to go out on jobs, refusing to train.In fact if I’m honest we’ve nothing, really.Looking after Lora is the only task we’ve found ourselves doing
Celeste’s POV The souls refused to accept Haiti’s child and despite myself and needing sleep I keep it company, talking to it.Reassuring it that there will be someone that will love it.I see it now, the life that it had to lead.A life of solitary, a life Roth no one to love them until their mate comes.And trust me, I’ve given her a mate that’s unmatched in rank.A high up alpha that will be one of the rulers of wolf kind.The funny thing is this wolf has Lucan blood in him, only enabling them to evolve with the best of bloodlines.Hati’s child will be the beginning of said future.Sighing I look in the pool for the tenth time this morning.They are much the same, they are all keeping to one side whilst pushing Hati’s child to the other.I hate watching my souls divide themselves like this, being unaccepting of another in their kind and no matter how much I push them together nothing changes.I’m saddened to know I’ve made wolves that are far to blind to be inclusive.And it hurts
Lilith POVAbyss comes to the forefront of my mind. Her being wholesome and belonging.She makes me feel warm and for a moment we stare at one another. Her in her rightful form, a white wolf with purple tips. Her eyes endearing as her tail moves back and forth.“What is it?” I ask her.She looks to me sadly, her eyes downcast as she tiptoes towards me.Do you remember that day we first shifted? She asks me.Yes. Yes it was painful, I answer.My mind wanders back to that day, everything morphing once more.Everything burns as I lay between Theo's legs out in the woods at the back of the pack house. My bones are making the most disgusting sound as everything morphs in front of me.My vision is blurry and hazy as I try to focus on the early evening sky above us, looking for anything to distract me from the pain that's all consuming. The moon is slowly creeping up and the sun rapidly disappearing and with every second that passes by and the pain becomes more... and more... and even fuc
Lilith's POVSadness crushes my soul as Abyss remains quiet after her revelation but the visions continue.Jumping to a time where Damian had taken me, the bunker being the very nightmare I thought I had escaped.The room is dark and cold and smells of mildew. And despite my best efforts, Damian's hold on me remains firm and unbreakable."Leave us..." he states as the darkness takes one of my senses. This was my worst nightmare, the dark. The inability to see my surroundings and the fear attached to that... I find that my heart is already racing, and Abyss has recessed into the darkest depths of my mind. She is silent and loans no strength to help me to breathe.The panic rises in my body as the silence stretches out, and I'm sure it's a tactic. A way to make me fear the unknown future that I will be living in soon."Your emotions have always been so... potent," Damian breaks the silence as he pushes me. I free-fall, expecting to hit against something hard. Maybe my head or ribs,
Lilith's POVImages morph of that last time I was locked in the dark.The horrid truth of my life coming down to flitting images of darkness surrounded by uncertainty in my thoughts.Those days were much the same as them in my childhood.Each passing in a slowed time that didn’t allow for time keeping.Again things morph, and I go back to one day in particular, images morphing to and throw as Abyss shows me something she deems necessary. My thoughts travel to those of that day, moving in the direction of what once went through me mind… I don't know much about mate bonds, but I do know we mark one another to solidify the bond and introduce each other's DNA to forge a new DNA. Damian never really taught us much about mate bonds. He never really mentioned it at all. But I do know that when Khai and Theo marked me, I felt nothing but happiness and a deep sense of belonging to them.Damian's mark is nothing like that, though. His mark brings me sadness and anger, and my blood is chilli
Khai's POVThe medication has dropped her fever, the infection shifting and her lungs sounding clearer.Yet she hasn't woken and still remains stoic still in bed as if she were merely sleeping.Theo and I are worried, and Samantha, the doctor has highlighted the fact that perhaps Lilith needed the rest.But who needs to sleep so much when they aren't ill?Theo has a theory, he reckons somethings happening to Lilith, something shifting but even he cannot access her memory's even through touch.It's as if her sleep has locked us out.The mate bond dormant, the connection there but severed.I feel sick, not because I am sick but because I want so desperately to talk to Lilith but I cannot.We were given the go ahead to help Lora breastfeed though, and even though Lilith does not interact with Lora, it has settled her some.Apparently her milk supply may have dropped but Lora's constantly begging to be attached to Lilith and has been spending most of the day sleeping at one of the other b
Lilith's POVDo you remember that night Theseus saved us, the day he took us to the god realm, to Celeste? Abyss asks me distantly, her voice sounds as if she’s far away and it makes me wonder if she’s slipping away from me. I think back of the last, on that fateful day after Damian had marked my neck where he shouldn’t have. And as before everything morphs and I’m back there.Back in that bedroom but only momentarily as the vision takes on a world of its own.I'm snapped right of the bedroom we were just in and into a garden as green as the eye can see.My feet hit the ground, and I fall off balance to the side as I try to catch my balance before I faceplate the floor. The man stands before me, his purple eyes glistening like the night sea as he watches me make a fool of myself."You're Theseus, aren't you?" I ask because he's strikingly similar to the man standing away from us when I met with Celeste, who didn't greet me even though he sought to look at me.My... father."Yes. I