*ASA TRINE*“It will never not be embarrassing,” I sighed as I felt all eyes on me while Cain took me through the busy hospital corridors in his arms.“I don’t see you complaining much,” he grinned down at me, and smiling up at him I noticed his eyes glint with naughtiness and suddenly he acted as if I was falling from his arms but quickly catching me he said, “See you seem to enjoy the ride.”When this situation might have caused unwanted attention to us I also enjoyed the fact that I was letting these women get a clear message that this man was mine even though they wouldn’t dare approach him. Besides our public interaction always seemed to make him a step closer in the people’s minds as a caring and nice future Alpha.“Who would deny the joy of being in their mate’s arms?” I asked shrugging my shoulders as I turned to kiss his chest right on top of his beating heart.“You did, a while back,” he grumbled, and even though I knew he had brought it up in fun and nothing serious I foun
*ASA TRINE* “They would be proud of you even though I am not really happy to send my baby sister far away.”Leia said as she wiped a photo frame with the sleeve of her hand and placed it back over the table in Mom and Dad’s room. The photo displayed a picture of all four of us together smiling at the camera with big happy grins on our faces just a few days before my parents died.Last night I had spent the night here at Leia’s place or back at my childhood home to spend some time with my sister before I would leave for the Aegon Mountains and to Elder Morris.“I know they would have been happy but can you imagine how they would have been reacting exactly?” I asked with a small smile on my face trying to imagine it, having spent only a minor amount of my wakeful years with them.“Dad would have been crying with pride and worry while Mom would be telling you to take care of yourself while supporting Dad’s over-emotional self. He had almost lost it when you had once scarped your knee w
*CAIN ARIUS* Driving down the smooth road I sighed happily when I noticed my mate’s eyes slowly drooping as she looked out the window. Subtly lowering the volume of the radio I softly asked, “Asa are you feeling sleepy?”At my question, she quickly shook herself awake and said, “I am awake, I am awake.”“You can sleep if you want,” I said as I tried to drive as smoothly as I could.“No, I’ll stay awake to give you company or you will feel sleepy as well,” she mumbled as she turned to smile at me but I knew that she wouldn’t last for long. She had barely been able to sleep at all last night out of excitement to finally be able to solve the problem and though at one point I had gone off to sleep I was minutely aware of her constant twists and turns.It felt as if we had been on road for a really long time even though it hadn’t been but she must still be tired. It was a good thing that there had been no vehicles around me since this way we would be able to complete our journey as qui
*ASA TRINE*There was a jerk that broke me out of my sleep.As I wasn’t wearing any seat belt my body went hurling forward and before I could gather my disoriented self I crashed forward into the dashboard making me groan. A second bump made my neck crick and seething at that pain I was only preparing myself for another hit in the darkness when I felt a hand pull my body tight against the seat working as a seat belt.“Cain?” I asked when I gathered my breath, “What is happening?”The car rattled once more and weightlessness gripped the two of us as it felt like we had been flipped over and with a shriek that echoed through my throat, the car came crashing down as glass and splinters of metal tore away and pierced into our skin.“Asa? Are you okay?” There was a slight ringing in my ear because of the way I had hit my head again but finally able to mumble out a groan I made him aware of my consciousness although barely.What was happening? Did we get into an accident?There was intense
*ASA TRINE*There was some kind of noise that was slowly waking me up from my sleep. “We don’t care what your reason is but since you broke into our pack and entered without any legal means you and your mate are considered a rogue and will have to be punished.”The words that entered my ear startled me and sitting up straight at once I wiped away my hair that was stuck to my face to look ahead at Cain, awake and talking to two guards. He looked comparatively very calm as he faced the aggressive warriors and glancing at me he asked, “Are you alright?”Giving him a nod of assurance I stood up when the warriors noticed me awake as well and for a second they stared at me when Cain growled at them, “Do you want to get killed!”As he said this he came to stand in front of me as the warriors immediately looked away with the ferocious expression on their faces changing to an embarrassed one. I didn’t understand what happened as I rubbed my eyes to get myself to be more awake. Feeling a shive
*ASA TRINE*I couldn’t help but look at the plate of bacon and eggs in astonishment along with the toast and jelly placed before us with a complimentary glass of orange juice filled to the brim. There was something wrong about the predicament I had expected and the situation we had finally fallen into.The Alpha himself was serving breakfast for us!“So, how do you know my mate?” I asked Alpha Blake who smiled at me and then shared a look with Cain who had a smirk on his face as if he was eagerly awaiting his answer making me all the more curious.“I got to know Cain from when he was going to kill me.”His reply and the smile with which it was paired with had rendered me speechless. What kind of man looked this happy to be serving his killer?‘Really, it’s strange. Despite looking this tired he has a strange happiness to him that makes me feel weird. Actually this whole pack feels a bit weird to me,’ Xara said and as she said this I could feel it too. There was something really wrong
*ASA TRINE* “You have become daring to have stayed here,” a voice spoke to me in my ear waking me up at once. The same freezing feeling and the iciness that had haunted me a few days ago welcomed me again. This time I had been expecting it though. Staring up at the ceiling I couldn’t see a thing out of place or even the shadowy figure that I had once seen and sitting up straight my eyes stinging with the tears that I had cried today I looked around as I called out, “Yes, I am not going to be afraid of you anymore.” A chuckle made my spine crawl at the chillness of it and a hand stroked my hair as it said, “And why is that?” Wiping the tear that leaked out of my eye I looked around wanting to address him directly as I shouted, “I saw what you did to them! I will not let you do that to my pack, to my family and my friends!” Faces of people almost lifeless and death stricken appeared in my head. A hospital full of beds and in it lied precious family members of the few remaining p
*ASA TRINE*“I want to be really angry with you right now but I can’t because I know that you must have not had an option,” Cain said as he looked at me with an expression of sadness clear on his face.Alpha Blake had given us another vehicle to drive to Aegon Mountain which thankfully wasn’t as far as I had thought it was. He had let us stay in the pack last night only after we had assured him that nothing would happen to us and when we disclosed him the story regarding our own tragedies. “He made it seem like I had an option to decline his deal but frankly I could never. He threatened me to destroy our pack if I didn’t fulfill my end of the deal and I am sure even if I did not agree with his deal he would have done something but at least now we know his name,” I sighed looking forward trying to not let the situation burden on me as I felt my body heat up from the fever that still took hold of me. Even then I must have grown some resistance to it or maybe he had let me off easy thi