Lilah“AAAHHHH!”“Hey. Hey, it’s just me.”It takes a moment for me to catch my breath. My heart races as a naked Alpha Colt holds his hands up in defence.“What the actual fuck?!”“Lilah, just chill.”“You want me to chill? Really? I think I have a right to be fucking mad at you, you wanker.”“Watch your mouth, Lilah. I have already warned you more than once.”“You better not have fucking touched me!” I was so mad. Climbing out of the bed, I snatch the blanket with me. Holding it around me even though I was wearing his giant tshirt. I felt violated.“Lilah, this is my room. My bed. I think I have been more than generous by sleeping on the floor. Besides, you loved me being in bed.”“I fucking hate you!” I storm towards the ensuite, fully prepared for him to follow me. As expected, he is right behind me.“Lilah, you were the one who curled into me. Not the other way around.”“I wouldn’t do that. Not after you called my family traitors.” I was finding it so hard to keep my eyes focuss
Alpha ColtShe doesn’t run. She’s hunched over on all fours, sobbing. Her anger, her hurt, her grief, her sorrow. I felt it all.“Lil…”“Don’t fucking touch me.” She throws herself away from me. Her grey eyes narrowed in pure hatred. “This is all because of you!” “Fucking hell Lilah. You’re trying to blame me for something your parents started. If they had never plotted against my father, we wouldn’t be here. You would have grown up and found out I was your mate anyway.”“You are un-fucking-believable.” She stands up, wiping the tears from her face.“Why Lilah? Why am I?”She doesn’t speak. But I could feel her inner battle. A mixture of hatred and desire. “You want answers, Lilah. I can give them to you. But you won’t believe me.”“It’s your word. They don’t even get a chance to tell me.” She mutters.Leaning against the car, I watch how she looks out over the hills. Trying not to look at me. Her hands shoved into her pockets.“I knew your father quite well. He seemed genuine, alwa
Lilah“Wolfsbane?” I mutter and he nods his head at me.Mum had told me that if I was ever in trouble, to try and get my hands on wolfsbane. When I had questioned her she said that it would be the one thing that would stop him. She had warned me, telling me that I should never let it touch my skin. Could she have really done it? Could she really have been responsible?“Do you believe me now Lilah?” His voice is low. All this time, she had lied to me. My own mum.“That caused the scar?” I ask quietly, weighing up my lack of options.“Fire and wolfsbane are a deadly mix. What your parents didn’t account for was me. They didn’t know I was going to be there. They didn’t know that their very action would allow me to find you.”I take a few deep breaths. His hand wraps around my ankle, pulling my leg up onto his lap. The sparks of his touch had butterflies swarming in my stomach. Why couldn’t I block these feelings? Why was my body trying to force me into accepting him?I see a smile spread
Alpha ColtShe paces back and forth. Chewing on a nail.“Lilah, he doesn’t know anything.”“He was questioning me. He wanted to know who I was.”“That’s pretty standard. An Alpha should know who is staying on his land. I’m surprised that it’s taken him so long. He should have done that the moment he knew you were here.”“Are you even listening to me? He knows who I am, Alpha Colt. He knows.”“Lilah, you need to chill. He knows nothing.”“You said it yourself. You said they would kill me if they found out.”“There is one way of stopping that from happening.” I muse. It was going to happen anyway. She might as well just let me mark her.“No fucking way.”“Fine, but you can’t expect me to help and then not let me help. That’s not how this works.” She comes to a halt. Her eyes narrow at me, but at least she stops chewing on her fingers.“I will figure it out on my own.” She groans.“How do you expect to do that?” I was curious. Her only form of true protection was my mark.“Well obviously
LilahHe drops onto the couch opposite. His cobalt blue eyes firmly fixed on me. His lips curved up like he was amused with himself. He makes himself comfortable, resting his clasped hands over his dick. I was going to cut that off oneday!Wiping away the tears, I spin my legs around, sitting myself up to glare at him. “You will regret doing that.” I mutter, running my fingers over my new mark.His smirk turns into a grin. “I never regret anything, Lilah."“You have no right!”“I have every right, you are mine. You’re lucky to have made it this long. If you belonged to anyone else, there would be a good chance that they would have marked you and fucked you against your will. Just be grateful that I have only done one of those things.”“I fucking hate you!”“I know, but you won’t for much longer.”“Are you serious? You think this is what's going to make me fall for you?” I point to the bump on my neck. I hadn’t even seen it yet, but it felt hideous.Alpha Colt gets to his feet. He stri
Alpha Colt“FUCK!”I find the car abandoned. The window smashed in. I hadn’t believed a word Lilah had said. I had thought it was some kind of game. A way to distract me. But here was the car along with five other scents. All men, all Lycans.“Why would they want her now?” my Beta Linc questions. He had met me here after I called him. “I marked her.” It was the only thing that had changed. Unless they were after her for another reason. For being the daughter of traitors.He studies me for a moment. Choosing his words carefully. “We both know that's not the reason they took her.”I hadn’t been able to mind link her since she went silent. They had done what I would do. They had either knocked her out, or put her to sleep to block the connection.“I should have believed her.” I mutter. I had made a vow never to let this happen again. Not after the Rogue situation. Yet here we were.“I don’t think it’s because of who she is related to.” Linc pulls a torch from his pocket. Pointing it at
Lilah.He had told me over and over. He said the day would come where I would need his help. I had needed it and he didn’t believe me. And now, here I was, trapped in the same fucking room as him.While I was in the pack hospital, I had begged Halle to let me stay with her. Promising her that I would be no trouble. But her answer was always the same. She would tell me there was no way Alpha Colt would let me out of his sight now.She made me feel like this was all my fault. That I had been attacked because of my carelessness. She wasn’t the only one. Anyone that passed through the hospital, gave me a dirty look. A look that said I disgusted them.Beta Linc had escorted me back to the packhouse this morning. He said that Alpha Colt was waiting for me. He wouldn’t say anything else. He kept his honey coloured eyes ahead and walked a step behind me. Directing me all the way up to the bedroom.Neither Linc or Alpha Colt speak to each other. They just nod and Linc leaves.“How are you feel
Alpha Colt’s POVI should have seen it earlier. I should have figured it out. But I had let my thoughts about Lilah cloud my mind. I hadn’t been able to see what was right in front of me.“Do you know them?” She asks me. Her hand rubbed at the mark on her neck. The mark was irritating her, a sign that her heat was going to kick in at any moment.“If I knew them, I would be putting them down right now.” She starts scratching at the mark. “Leave it alone, Lilah.”“It’s so god damn itchy.” She leaves it alone for all of a second before scratching again.“I assume your mother didn’t tell you about that either?” I point at it and she scowls at me.“Whatever it’s doing to me, I don’t care. Why would they take me and do this to me?” With her free hand, she points to her chest.“Payback. They want to see you suffer. They want to make me suffer. Now leave the mark alone!”“Stop changing the subject. I can’t help that it’s so fucking itchy.” She marches across to the window and throws it open.
Lilah The next morning, I find Colt packing up the office. “Going somewhere?” I look around at all the half packed boxes in amusement. “We are.” “We are? Did you try talking to me when I was asleep?" He laughs at me, “No, you said you wanted to live in the apartment.” “You’re joking right? None of this shit is going to fit in there.” He had more than enough boxes to fill the bedrooms. Plus it would have remnants of her and I couldn't be somewhere like that. “I thought that’s what you wanted?!” He stops packing and places his hands on my small bump “Once, but there was barely enough room for me and ….” I hadn’t mentioned her name since I had set her on fire. Any time there was a fleeting thought, I would push it away and focus on something else. “You can say her name. She can’t hurt you anymore.” “No. Even thinking of her is giving her time. Anyway, what about when this one comes along? A town centre is hardly a place for a newborn wolf or Lycan.” He presses his lips to my ch
LilahPulling the blade from my chest. My lungs quickly expand, desperate to suck in some oxygen after what had just happened.The wound above my heart, knits itself together, removing almost all trace of nearly being stabbed to death. All that was left was my blood soaked top. For just a single moment, I was afraid to move. Afraid to look at the damage she had done.Linc appears in front of me. His dark eyes searching mine, her blood coated the skin around his mouth and his chin. He stretches a hand out towards me and pulls me to my feet. “You survived.” He mutters, running his eyes over me, “Not very many of the others did.”As I look around, I see that Callie had stopped jerking about, but her eyes were closed and her body was now motionless. Aiden was hunched over, weeping over Ivy’s body, surrounded by dead Lycans. “COLT!”“Here,” His voice is faint in my head. He was still flat on his back, from where Daphne had knocked him down. “You have to burn her.”My eyes flicker across
Lilah“Snare?” My voice breaks when I say his name. I thought he was long behind us. “What does he have to do with this?” “You should have listened to him. He was watching you. Just as grandmother requested.”“Your grandmother?” Everything was quickly unravelling. Everything that Daphne had ever done or said was all lies. Out of everyone, she had played me the most, lied to me the most. She had used my emotions to get what she wanted and I had fallen for it, again and again and again.“It really was you. You are the one that made the hospital cave in on us. You almost killed yourself!”She chuckles. “I knew I wouldn’t die well not completely. But the pissy Hybrid had to get involved, didn’t she. Sharing things that shouldn’t be shared. You and I, we could have been great together. A descendant of The Greats and me, a strong and powerful witch. But you ruined that. No matter what I did, you and your special Colt could not be torn apart.”“What about the photo?” Colt croaks from the gr
Alpha ColtHer breath quickened as she kept her hand steady on my chest. Annoyance maybe, or maybe she finally accepted that someone was lying to her. And that someone was Daphne.She shakes her head at me and moves away. “You’re wrong, Colt.” “Why are you refusing to see what is right in front of you? Even after all the shit you have been through, you still want to believe her.”“She won’t lie to me.”“How many times have you heard that? How many times are you going to keep forgiving her?”“She doesn’t need forgiveness this time because it isn’t her!”“Then who? Who do you think it is? And don’t you dare say me, again!”“That Ivy girl.”I wasn’t about to tell her that Aiden isn’t certain about her, because that would just give Lilah more reason to blame her instead of the real culprit. “Ivy was with you.”“Maybe she planned something, maybe she set something up.”“You don’t believe that. You are just trying to convince yourself.”“Fuck off, Colt.” She sits down on the chair, crossin
Lilah Making my way down the steps, I’m hit with a cold breeze that almost takes my breath away. Looking back, I see Colt and Linc deep in discussion, but at the same time, I could hear Daphne down below, her quiet sobs filling the silence. “Daphne?” She stops crying and her hands appear through the bars of her cell, “Lilah? Is that really you?” Stepping in front of her cell, she pulls me in for an awkward hug, holding on tightly. “Lilah, you have to make them understand.” “I’m trying.” I mutter. “But Colt still thinks you still want revenge, that’s why he is blaming you. He is refusing to listen to me.” “You’re not wrong. I did want revenge, but only because I was angry. When I saw Linc's dead body, anger was all I felt but then… I saw him, standing in front of me, like he had never died, only his eyes were black and all the anger, it disappeared.” “Do you know what happened with the hospital?” I ask quietly She shakes her head. “Linc told me, but it doesn’t make any sense. Ho
Aiden“You want me to find out if she had something to do with the explosion? Dad, she was with me and mum when it happened.”“Well someone is hiding something.” he snaps.“I agree,” Linc nods his head at me“It’s not me, at least, I don’t think it is.” Daphne mutters from her corner. “It just doesn’t make sense.”I tell her what Ivy told me, and what she had said to my mother. Daphne violently shakes her head. “I have already said, it wouldn’t work that way.” She glances up to my father, “I don’t know what you saw, Colt, And I don’t know what you mean by the light being under my skin. But I am not responsible for everything. You have to stop blaming me.” She leans her head back against the stone wall. I could see the light flickering along her neck.“You’re doing it now.” I stare at her“What?”“The light that dad spoke of.”She looks down at her hands and rolls the sleeves up. Her mouth falls open as she stares at them. “What’s happening to me?”“You’ve not seen this before? What
Alpha Colt.“Clear the room.”Callie, Aiden and Ivy all make their way out carefully stepping over the shards of china, when Lilah starts to follow, I grab her arm. “Not you. We need to talk.”She scowls at me and tugs her arm away, letting out a groan. I wait for the door to be closed and to listen to their footsteps as they walk away.“Don’t bother, Colt.” Lilah growls at me.“With what?”“You are going to try talking me around. Convince me that Daphne is the bad person. But it’s not her Colt, it’s you.”“What are you talking about?”“This is what it’s all been about, isn’t it?”“Lilah, you are not making any sense.” I literally had no idea what she was going on about.“You never wanted me to have a sister. You wanted me for yourself, with no one around to get involved. But one by one, everyone that has been a part of my life has died. Dad, my mother. Halle, Drake, Grant, my children. The list goes on and on Colt. Who is next?”“It doesn’t mean it’s all my fault.” I snap in frustrat
Alpha Colt“No,no,no,no,no.” Linc mutters from next to me as his hand starts disappearing. His dark eyes flick up to where my mate is and back to his hand.“She’s dead!” It was the only thing that made sense. It was why Aiden was hugging his mother, it was why I could hear my mate crying. And it was why Linc was losing his hand all over again.Ivy says nothing. She watches my son and Lilah with wide blue eyes. A slight frown forming, but the frown quickly disappears when she sees me looking at her.“I will go and help.” She declares and starts climbing over the rubble towards my mate and son.“Well, I guess we didn’t need to kill her after all.” I mutter to Linc“If she’s dead, so is her magic.” He shows me that he can move around freely. “It's gone.” He beams at me but those dark eyes show an emptiness that seemed to go on forever. I could deal with Linc later, right now my mate needed me more.Aiden carries Daphne's body over the rubble back towards me. While Ivy helps to keep Lila
Lilah.“Mum, just calm down.” Aiden is growing frustrated with my pacing. “Please, just sit down.”“You are my son, why are you keeping me locked up?”“I’m just following Dad’s orders. What the hell happened in there?”“I don’t know.”“How can you not know? You were in there when the first explosion went off.”“Daphne was still unconscious. I was holding her hand when the roof started caving in. Colt, he pulled me away. He blocked me from the falling ceiling. He….” I knew he was blaming Daphne, but there had to be more to it. There just had to be.“Aiden, you need to let me go out there!”“No mum. Dad made it clear, you are to stay here with me and Ivy.”“Daphne is my sister!”“And she is the one who did this!” He glares at me with his grey eyes“I’m not so sure.” Ivy mutters from the window.“What?” Both Aiden and I speak in unison.Ivy hadn’t spoken a word since we had been in the house, well not to me anyway. She had spent the entire time watching what was happening from the window