*ASA TRINE* “Are you sure you feel well enough to sit here with us?” I asked Leia where she was once again sprawled on the sofa of dad’s office.“Just go on,” she muttered as she rolled to face us where Cain and I had been sitting opposite her on the other sofa while Michael occupied a single sofa chair close to her head from where he massaged her head every few minutes in.“So far what we have come to know is that the only way to defeat Ephialtes is by using this dagger,” I said pointing at the white dagger that if we went with the lyrics of the lullaby is made from a part of my soul. Pointing the finger now at myself I said, “The second point is that only I can defeat Ephialtes using it.”“Precisely,” Michael said and taking out a finger he said, “Now we need to know how we will find Ephialtes,” Bringing up another finger he said, “Secondly, when will we fight him? I am sure there must be a right time for this.”“Till now every clue that we have got is from the lullaby so let’s see
*ASA TRINE*Before I could respond back I was suddenly strictly pulled back into a familiar touch as my face was pressed against a warm chest and hid away from everyone’s view.“Who the fuck are you?”In my protection and defence everyone rose at once in guard as they came to stand in front of me. Pushing to turn around as I tried to look at the others I saw my pregnant sister get off the couch and then waddle to come and stand in front of me too.This sight was comical to me and looking up at Cain to tell him to let me go I felt him being reluctant but then slowly free his arm around me to turn me around and face the new visitor we had.The man, now standing straight and tall was someone who looked older than all of us, maybe in his late twenties? I am not quite sure but he held a calmness that came with maturity and age as he fixed his gaze on me and then brought his attention to Leia where his eyes widened again very subtly but then a smile blossomed on his face.“I am so happy to
*CAIN ARIUS*“I am very sorry about my son,” Ross said as he bowed before us, worried about his old bones I was about to tell him to not worry about it when Asa immediately got up and placing a hand on his shoulder, she said, “Please Ross, you are someone very respected to us you don’t need to apologize to us about anything.”Joining Asa, Leia bunched her brows and said; “Besides he only helped Asa so we should instead be thanking him.”“Still it was rude of him to come in uninvited and without any former notice,” Ross said bending to apologize again but this time firmly holding onto him Asa brought him to the lone sofa chair and forced him to sit down.Seeing his father so tensed Devin got up this time and facing Asa he said, “I am sorry if I seemed rude in my actions before, it was no intention of mine to have hurt you two ladies in any matter.”His particular attention to the Trine sisters was bothering me but more so when I found him looking at Asa more than Leia.It seemed like s
*ASA TRINE*Somehow there has been an increase in a tension in the air than what it had been before. It almost felt suffocating to stay in the same room as Cain and Devin.“What is wrong with your man this time?” Leia asked as she looked at me watching the two of them running around as if competing to see who could fill the trunk of the car first.“He is jealous,” I drily replied back as I massaged my back that had taken the brunt of this situation all night long last night.“Even after that session that you both had in the wee hours of morning?” Leia asked giggling as she sat down on the step beside me making my eyes widen in embarrassment. Did she hear us?Hiding my face I looked away as I asked, “Were we too loud?”“No you weren’t but I was crossing from in front of your door last night and then I could hear it,” she continued to laugh at my expense and finally sorting her smile she said, “But still is Devin really the reason why Cain seems so on edge?”“It seems so,” I sighed m
*ASA TRINE*I wanted to play the music in the car to dissipate some of the anger that Cain was feeling but I had already tried to do that twice and each time he immediately shut off the radio. I was scared to try a third time in case he was to claw out the whole system in itself.I wanted to say something to him to get him to calm down but Devin wasn’t making it easy for me making me glare at him.The two seemed to be fighting even now as we were driving back to our pack. Looking out from my passenger’s side widow I saw Devin driving side by side on his motorcycle looking at me every few seconds in and then looking past me from the passenger’s seat to the driver’s seat to taunt Cain as he would give him a two finger salute and then rev up the engine speeding up ahead.Doing that again Devin took off ahead and even though I couldn’t see his face I had a feeling that he was smiling inside the dark helmet that he was wearing. I had thought of him to be a mature and older guy but he turne
*ASA TRINE*A thrill such as this I had never experienced before.My nerves were still crawling all over my body from the excitement and a never wavering happiness that came with every acceleration of his motorcycle.“Are you enjoying yourself?” Devin shouted his voice muffling from the helmet and the wind but thanks to my wolf ears I was able to catch it. Smiling in agreement as we zoomed past some more vehicles skillfully scoring the road in a patterned manner making me sway my body one side to the other as the beautiful slender machine guided me.“Yes!” I shouted back to let him know of my over crazed mind and free spirits that hadn’t felt this liberated in a long while. I was sure that Devin had been driving more than a lot over the speed limit but I could care less about that in this moment.‘Do you trust him that much?’ Xara’s voice echoed in my head making me feel slightly disoriented and surprised having heard her voice after a long time. Her question made me wonder if I actua
*ASA TRINE*If it was possible to see how angry a person was like in cartoons then Cain would have been sporting a bright red color with fumes coming out of his ears.It had been two hours since we had arrived back home and Devin had taken up all the attention of not only the Alpha and Luna but the other single ladies of the pack.We had been wanting to talk about Ephialtes for around an hour now but the women were clearly refusing to get away from the handsome blue eyed hunk who had been narrating them his stories that he had gathered up travelling all over the world in search of my father.That had been commendable dedication on his part and something that touched my heart to know that there were people who loved my dad so much but besides that I didn’t like the fact that his presence was affecting my mate so much.Alpha and Luna had also decided to lay off the topic of discussion for later since they believed we needed some rest before taking up more stress. They had good intention
*ASA TRINE* Alpha had been true in his words when he had said that he would send a troop of warriors that would be ready to help us but would stay hidden in the shadows until needed. That bit had scared me a little for their safety but on talking to them before I had left I realized that they didn’t really care whether anything happened to them as long they could somehow serve the pack and save it from the demon. They had been surprised and slightly unhinged at first but had taken an active support later on in doing anything to help their Alpha and pack loving and respecting them al equally. Such people were not many but a total of five. They were still reliable and the only source of any comfort to us then. “Are you sure we should take such a risk?” Cain asked frowning as he helped me set up our camp. We had come here a few hours early to the general preparations that Elder Morris had asked us to do so that the demon would get further weakened. This task was going to take some tim
*ASA TRINE* “Come on, hurry up Devin, you can’t be this slow!” Leia scolded him and the sound of it came all the way up the stairs making me stifle a laugh. “You look beautiful, miss,” Ross said gaining my attention as he helped me with my skirt that had wrinkled below. “Oh no, Ross please don’t do that I don’t want you hurting your waist,” I said as I tried to stop him, but it was no use the old man had been so used to taking care that even after giving him retirement from all his work he would still find something to do. “Michael! That’s not right! The cake should be here!” she shouted again as I heard Michael shuffling around and again I tried to stop my laughter from filtering through at my sister's frustrated antics. “Its time to go down, Miss,” Ross said as he smiled at me and hooking my arm around his I took his help to carefully step down the steps as I saw Cain standing there at the end of it with little Kiara in his hands. She looked adorable in her frock that she had b
*ASA TRINE* “You called us, dad?” I asked peeping in. Nodding his head at me he motioned for us to sit down and filtering in I noticed that Luna had also been there looking through some books as she smiled at our presence. “I am sorry that I am late,” Clay’s voice filtered in but he stopped soon after when he saw the two of us already seated there, “I swear I haven’t done anything this time.” “We know that you haven’t done anything Clay, we are not here to complain about you,” Cain said huffing at his brother but a smile slipped on his face and I wondered if it would be right to separate these two brothers when their relations had only just started improving. “Well then what is this family reunion for?” he asked as he sat down on a chair beside Cain looking at his dad with a questioning look making Cain and I fix him with that same gaze. “Can’t I just miss my children?” Alpha asked as he looked at us and when we remained adamant in our gazes he laughed and said, “Fine you caught
*ASA TRINE* “No, wait, did you bring the bag of chips that I had kept on the table?” I asked stopping Cain as he looked at me and shaking his head in negative, he said, “Just give me a minute, I’ll be right back!” It had been two days since we had gotten back and thankfully the crowd had started straying away from us a slight bit for us to decide on going on a picnic today. Another thing that had been something really good was Cain’s carefreeness. He had been smiling more and he didn’t look like he had to be on his toes every moment of his life. I think a huge credit goes to Clay and I rejecting each other. This weird phenomenon had also seemingly improved his outlook of his brother as he didn’t seem to be worried about his presence around us anymore though it didn’t mean that he became any less possessive. Looking back at our home I waited for him to come back but it was taking him longer than I had thought, and I wondered if I had actually brought the chips with me. Looking
*ASA TRINE* “That’s enough Leia, please!” I begged as I tried to escape her aggressive hits that she had been raining down on me. After seeing me she had almost ran up to me and the first thing that she had done was to hit me with all the force and energy that she had in store. “Hey, that’s enough, please if not anything then think about the baby,” Michael tried to intervene and taking the opportunity I hid behind him feeling my head almost about to burst from the built up stress. I loved my sister and I knew that she wasn’t the cause of this but I was moments away from shouting at her. “She hadn’t been feeling well too Leia, please go easy on her,” Devin pleaded my case making Cain sit up straight as he looked at me and asked, “What? What happened to you?” I had wanted to speak to him the first thing when I saw him return but he had come back with the rest of the family and I couldn’t find a moment to take him away from them as the Luna showered him with love and Alpha pra
*ASA TRINE* Clay had disappeared away as mysteriously he had come and right now my brain had been combusting at the possibility of what was happening. Why did I feel those things that I would have only with a mate? What did it mean? “Asa? Are you alright?” Devin came in soon after Clay had dropped me off at the entrance of the pack house only to hide back into the crowds of people. Looking around for him I tried to see those same blue eyes that had once been the reason of my tears and later the cause of my determination to solve this mystery. I wonder what he must be thinking right now and whether he had been okay. ‘What is wrong with us Asa? I can feel a connection to Clay just as much as I can feel a connection to Cain but I feel as if my body is being torn apart in both directions,’ Xara panted in my head making me aware of my own body’s condition. Now that she said I had been feeling a slight pain in my chest since i got off the car and this must be the reason behind it. ‘Th
*ASA TRINE* “Are you excited to go home?” Cain asked looking at me from where I had been sitting in the passenger seat of the car while Devin now occupied the back seat. “Did you even need to ask me that, of course I am!” I said looking at him to find that his eyes had been looking deeply relaxed as they flitted over my face. There seemed to still be some anxiety within him but he was assured now that he wasn’t going to lose me. But he wouldn’t let me away from his eyesight for more than two minutes. So maybe he wasn’t completely healed yet but at least he was on that path. “I am so glad that everything turned out as it did and that nothing happened to you,” Devin sighed from where he was sprawled on the back seat looking as if the life had been drained out of him. Right now he looked older than what he was and I gave him an apologetic smile. “Sorry that you had to manage and meet all the people who had wanted to meet me,” I said remembering the hordes of people who had been
*ASA TRINE*“No...”I said for the first time in a while as I felt my voice return to me. I knew that I wasn’t conscious and that part scared me more for if I wasn’t consciousness then I must be dead for the goddess to visit me.She didn’t look anything extraordinary as I stared at the bright mass of light that had been blinding to me before. This light unlike Ephialtes had taken a much proper shape like that of a human and had long wispy hair of light floating all round her being. Her yes had been white as well but again unlike Ephialtes they didn’t look soulless they looked full of life.I felt blessed to have seen her but just the thought of what would it mean to be to see her meant made tears spill out of my eyes as I fell to my knees in front of her. None of my wounds hurting anymore and I wished for them to pain and hurt me again, anything that would tell me that I had been alive.“Please Goddess, let me live, please id don’t want to die just yet,” I pleaded pathetically the fac
*ASA TRINE*And as I said this I went towards Ephialtes who dodged me at my first try using all his effort to move away from me.“No! Don’t do this to me!” he shouted but as the sun’s rays started pouring over his body more and more he started disappearing and growing lighter in color as would happen to a shadow.“I need to do this Ephialtes, you have tortured many innocent people and I only hope that next time you wouldn’t walk on the wrong path,” I said this as I started slashing at whatever black misty body part I got making his body disappear and grow smaller and smaller.It was surreal to watch Ephialtes have nowhere to go as he started circling around me trying to continue to build himself up but the sunlight was making it impossible for him. His white pale eyes that usually stood out in its ghastliness didn’t seem as scary as they depicted his fright.“No, I remember now, this- this is how I was put to sleep all those years ago and now again,” he let out a groan as Cain and Dev
*ASA TRINE* His raspy voice almost instantly made all the hair in my body stand up and looking at his soulless eyes I wondered if he could see through my façade. The air had significantly dropped down around me and if Ephialtes had not been present here I would have been much intrigued to observe such a sudden change in my surroundings “Why? Aren’t you going to say something to me this time?” he asked swishing slightly to the left and the right making me flit my eyes to make sure that he hadn’t been able to sneak up an attack on me. “I don’t want to waste my time talking to you, let’s get on with the fighting,” I said hoping that reverse psychology would work on him as well as I noticed him pause and stare at me while I forced my face to stay impassive. “I don’t like that look in your eyes,” he gnawed out his words narrowing his pathetic pearls to look at me as he continued, “I quite like it more when they had been shut closed scared to even face me.” I wanted to look up at the