*ASA TRINE*Everything was not alright.I can’t believe how stupid I was.Fuck!“Will you stop feeling guilty for him? He deserved every bit of what is happening to him,” Cain grumbled from beside me as the two of us walked down the familiar hospital corridors and to the private cabin.My eyes fell on Sofia’s body first but she was not who I had come to meet today and shifting it to the bed beside her I noticed Clay’s sleeping body resting there with a tired and withered look on his face. Clay had slipped into a vegetative state or unconsciousness just like Sofia.Unlike Sofia, he looked like he was in a worse situation with a face as pale as paper and just as thin for the nerves below his skin to be visible to me. “Asa!” I heard my name being shouted even before the door had opened and bracing myself for another terrorizing news I looked towards the door to see Luna bursting in through them. She looked fervent in her movements as she clambered inside. Her frantic blue eyes seeming
*ASA TRINE*“Are you serious? Asa? Why are you doing this?” Cain fretted as he walked behind me but I didn’t even spare him a glance knowing well enough that all my words and sentiments will be wasted on him. At my silence, I heard him let out a frustrated sigh and without saying anything else he broodingly followed me to the Alpha’s office. There I noticed Michael and Leia already talking to Alpha about something in hushed voices that I was respectful to not eavesdrop on. The atmosphere was tense in the room and I could tell it was related to me when everyone stopped all talking at once on my arrival.“Good morning everyone,” I greeted them with a smile, and by the looks of sympathy and hesitance that they had been garnering on their faces I could tell that they hadn’t forgotten my episode of ugly crying in the hospital yesterday.“Asa, you don’t have to force yourself to look alright,” Leia said as she stepped forward towards me and halting her with a determined smile on my face I
*CAIN ARIUS* The sky outside was still slightly blue as stars twinkled in the seeping darkness. It was a calm evening with only my mate’s soft breathing and strong heartbeat creating a hypnotizing and peaceful rhythm that was again lulling me to sleep.Coming back from dad’s office I had forced her to go to sleep despite her claiming that she wasn’t tired only for her to fall asleep within a second. Moving her from under my head where she was sleeping on my arm and tickling me with her breath on my neck, I looked at her face to see her peacefully sleeping with her mouth slightly parted.Her face that had looked tired before had become slightly puffier from her long and weary sleep making her look cuter than what she usually looked. Her cheeks were slightly flushed making me want to pinch them. She looked quite adorable like this and I wondered why she couldn’t stay like this when she was awake. Why did she and I have to have such dissimilar thoughts?Suddenly she whimpered beneath me
*ASA TRINE*“What are you doing here?” Ethan’s voice almost made my heart beat right out of my chest at the suddenness of it.Turning around to look at him I noticed that he was alone and squeezing my brows at him I asked, “How did you recognize me?”Giving me a ‘duh’ expression I realized how dumb that question was coming from a werewolf and clicking his tongue he said, “Please tell me you really didn’t think that a scarf wrapped around your head and sunglasses would be enough to conceal your identity as ‘Asa’?”Usually, he would play along and joke but this time he sounded kind of mad, and realizing that he must have still been angry with me I sighed, “No, I didn’t, and are you both still angry with me?”At my words, he gave me a look of disbelief and said, “Well how could you tell her and not me that all this had been happening with you? I thought you liked me more than Kate!”He was hurt I could see that and rolling my eyes at his obvious dramatics I apologized, “It’s been only th
*ASA TRINE*I could almost feel my heart stop at the realization of Cain’s presence in this building.Why was he here? Was he here to find me?Getting up instantly I ran to the section that was closest to me and hid behind a shelf hoping that the smell of these old musky books would cloak my original smell from him.There was a sudden stillness in the already quiet library at his arrival. Even the light thumps of stamps that the librarian had been putting on the newly applied books had stopped at Cain’s arrival. I could hear the tap of his feet approaching the librarian’s desk and then stop.“C-Can I help you with something, S-Sir?” The librarian asked her voice containing the shiver that had passed through her body at Cain’s towering figure over her timid body. I had reckoned that people were not scared of him anymore but maybe I was wrong.‘Or maybe he is sporting a pissed-off expression on his face, right now? You know we can feel the anger and disappointment straining our bond rig
*ASA TRINE*I think my face had permanently colored red.After what Cain had done yesterday the few people that were in the library had all sealed their mouths shut thanks to Cain but they still knew about it and every time any one of them passed by me they would give me a knowing smile.Even now as I am walking through the corridor of the hospital I can feel eyes on me from a young girl who is standing by the helpdesk with her grandmother. Turning back to glance at her our eyes meet and I find her color an equal shade of embarrassment as mine.Moving my gaze away from her I speed walk to my destination trying to forget about the thoughts that are making me feel weak in my knees again.‘Don’t go to the hospital Asa, please,’ Cain’s voice suddenly rang in my head making me scared for a second as I stopped in my path.‘How did you kn-?’ I started to ask but stopped mid-sentence knowing well enough that it was no use asking that question any longer. He seemed to have figured me inside ou
*ASA TRINE*“Move.”“No.”“I said move out of my way.”“Not until you tell me why?”“You know why.”“Then I can’t let you out of the room.”Cain stared at me as I glared back at him. He had been blocking the way to the exit of my room for the past twenty minutes to stop me from going outside.“You can’t keep me in here forever,” I said cocking a brow at him to challenge him openly but instead of taking my bait and riling up like he usually would he simply stared at me and then shrugging once he said, “We’ll see about that.”For some reason, my plan of making him get tired of this conversation was actually doing the opposite as I found myself getting more and more impatient to escape out of here with every passing second while he seemed to be playing around with me as he entertained himself.“You are enjoying this aren’t you?” I asked making a face at him and pulling up one of his shoulders he smiled as he didn’t say anything.When he noticed me waiting for an answer he chuckled and sa
*ASA TRINE* “Remember no funny business,” Cain said as he looked at me with a serious expression donned on his face. The chiseled jawline that glinted in the moonlight was set grimly in adamant command and sighing at the accuracy of his judgment I gave him no reply.I didn’t want to give him any direct empty promises.Looking at the beautiful marble dome shaped temple I marveled at the finite structure that had been a hub of hope and belief for hundreds of people. To this immaculate building there was one eyesore standing right in front of it like a dirty spot and going up to that guard Cain said, “You can take the rest of the time off. I’ll be here to guard the temple.”The guard who had been elected for this job of protection seemed in a dilemma as he glanced at me and then back at his feared leader. When Cain cocked an eyebrow at his delay he quickly nodded his head and looking down he was about ready to leave when I asked, “Is there anyone else visiting?”By the time I had bee
*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