*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
*ASA TRINE* The sun had already gone down but even in this remote mountainous region the few street lights that had been standing tall along the road were all well maintained and lighted showing us the path that laid ahead us.The moon goddess shone bright up in the sky as if eliciting good news that was welcoming us. The atmosphere in its entire entirety was pleasant and yet my mind remained unsettled.“How much longer?” I asked looking ahead at the curving rode that still kept us on the winding upward road.“Just a little bit more,” Cain said feel my anticipation of finally being able to contact our must be very worried family. When we finally turned the umpteenth curve we came upon a flat like grounded area that stretched far ahead with a single resting place standing on the side of the road for travellers to take a rest stop. The road ahead was long and didn’t show any signs of civilization until it got submerged into trees again.I had been too focused on the trees ahead that
*ASA TRINE* “What?” I couldn’t help but shout as I sat up at once staring at my sister with a look of disbelief similar to that which Cain sported. From our expressions, it seemed clear that the rest had already discussed this topic before us for they had a slightly more composed expression than us.Taking my hand in hers she caressed it lightly as she said, “I am sorry if I scared you by coming here and I know it wasn’t wise of me to put my life or my baby’s life at risk but there are bigger things at stake here,” she took a pause as she looked up at me with her hesitant green eyes as if afraid to say the next words but finally she bit it out, “Asa, I think we are somehow connected to the demon and this curse. The ‘Trine’ in that song must have meant you or maybe our family.”“Is this why the Moon Goddess came to me? Is this why I could hear the song and see the picture while Cain couldn’t?” I asked questions that now provided me with a clearer understanding of why some things happ
*ASA TRINE*The pack house here looked more like a big wooden cabin than like the mansions that were characteristic of Packs on the plains.“You sure you are feeling better today?” Cain asked pulling me closer to himself as he touched my forehead for the hundredth time since this morning.“I am fine,” I grinned finding his worry cute as I saw Michael fret over Leia’s health who had a bit of a morning sickness that worsened when we traveled up further on the foothills of the mountain while sitting in a packed car.Elder Morris had gone in first into the pack house and had asked us to wait here outside and for the five minutes we had awkwardly been standing by the pathway that would lead up to the door and into the pack house. There had been less movement near and in the house when we had first arrived but slowly and steadily people had started to peek out of the windows and walk to and from the door casting us a side glance, most probably not used to many visitors in these mountainous
*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