DaphneLilah stands at the door and screams. She opens it but is unable to move forwards and screams again. I could just about make out Alpha Colt and Linc walking away. They don’t even look back.“Li….”“Shut the fuck up.”“I….”“I told you to shut up.”This wasn’t the girl I had originally met. She was nothing like the girl I had shared a flat with either. There was so much anger coursing through her. It was like she could no longer see anything else.She turns to look at me. Her hands balled up into fists at her side. “This is all your fault.”“I didn’t ask Alpha Colt to do this if that’s what you mean.”“Not him! All of this. He is making me stay here because for some fucked up reason he believes you.”“I just told him the truth.”“Is it the truth though, Daphne? You’ve lied so much that you probably can’t even tell.”“It’s the truth. I told him everything I know. Even weird things that my grandma used to say.”“I don’t believe you.”“Then there is nothing else I can say, Lilah. T
Lilah She looks at me with those dark eyes of hers. Her jaws hangs open as she tries to make sense of my words. Her head slowly moves up and down but her eyes become full of tears. “I lost my pup for you.” “I know.” I immediately felt guilty. I had been blaming her for everything when all along she had done what she could to protect me and that meant sacrificing her pup. I had been so stupid. “And why did the Moon goddess show herself to me? I’m no one.” She mutters quietly. “You are still half wolf. Who do witches pray to?” It wasn’t something I ever thought about “The horned God. That’s what grandma said.” She mutters as she looks at her hand. “Did she bind us? Was the Moon Goddess responsible for tying us together?” “I don’t know.” “Lilah, I don’t understand.” “You’re not the only one. What does it all mean? Why are we bound by blood?” “I think we were always supposed to be. I mean we share the same father. You and I are half sisters. It can't be anything else.” “You thin
Linc“I don’t understand why the Moon Goddess would come to you and then me?” Daphne mutters as she makes herself a drink“She has her reasons!” It was hard to actually give her a valid reason when I didn’t really know why.“But why? And why now?”“I don’t have all the answers, Daphne. It’s rare that anyone gets to meet the Moon Goddess. Alpha Colt has never met her, well not that he has said anything.”“Don’t you think it’s weird?”“Everything surrounding you is weird.” I snap, annoyed with all the questions. It had been a long couple of days.“But…”“Daphne, please change the subject. You and Lilah have made up, you should be happy with that.”“I am but I still don’t know how I’m supposed to use my magic to protect her when I don’t even know what I’m capable of.”“You have used your magic twice. ”“You mean breaking through Alpha Colt’s order?”“Yes.”“But that was just…instinct.”“I’m not a witch, I don’t know how it works.” I shrug my shoulders at her.“And the only witch I know o
Alpha Colt. “You’re mated? Callie flashes her eyes out into the crowd of people. I see how Grant smiles back at her. There could have been worse people that Callie could have been mated too. “How long have you known?” “Do we have to do this now?” She mutters back. “They are all waiting for you to say something.” I look out at the waiting Lycans. “Callie will be standing in as secondary Beta shortly after the ceremony.” “I’m what?” She glares at me “It’s already been decided.” “Without discussing it with me?” “You are the next best person after Linc.” “Where are you going?” She glares at Linc, “And why haven’t you told me?” “You didn’t tell me you were mated!” Linc mutters back as everyone watches us. “I didn’t know I had too!” Callie snaps "Where are you going?" "I'm taking Daphne to Moonstone." “Guys, we will deal with this after. Just shut your mouths for now.” I mutter as everyone watches us. Callie stomps off and goes to stand next to Grant. I see how they lock hand
Alpha Colt“We don’t know.” There was no point in lying about it. We didn’t, we had tried to figure it out but at the end of the day, Aiden was what he was.Aiden shrugs his shoulders, “Pretty cool if you ask me.”Knox shakes his head and turns to look at me, “really?”“I’m not hiding anything from him,” I mutter. “He wants to know as much as we do.”“Maybe there is no answer. He is the first of his kind isn’t he?” Knox queries“Possibly, I don’t know.”“You don’t know? You are the king?”“It was only recently that I learned there are a lot more half-breeds living out there. For all I know, there are others like him.”"What about the cull?" He asks quietly"Obviously many were missed." I mutter annoyed. "Including my own father.""What do you mean?""My father, fathered a half-breed. A shifter. The shifter that was with Lilah when you turned them away."He stares at me with his dark eyes. "The old King didn't stand by his own orders?""No.""Well, I didn't see that coming. Are you sur
LilahI could hear them from out here. I didn’t want to get involved but I knew I had too. One of them was going to come off worse and somehow, I don’t think it will be AidenStanding outside the kitchen door, I hear Aiden say something about being a beast. Shoving the door open. His grey eyes meet mine. Blood was smeared across his face and chest. His chest was moving fast as his heart thudded in his chest.“What’s going on?”Colt puts a hand out, his words like a whisper in my mind “Stay there.”“You brought me into this world, you made me what I am!” Aiden is shouting at Colt“Aiden, this is just how it is.” Colt mutters and Aiden’s eyes turn towards him. "We don't have the answers."“What is that supposed to mean? Look at me, look at what you and mother did.”What the hell was going on with him.“Aiden, you are making it sound worse than it is.”I still didn’t understand what I had walked in too. He had looked so happy when he ran by us with the rabbit. Quickly looking around, I
DaphneAiden was out cold. His large body sprawled out on the cold stone floor of the dungeon. Callie paced in front of the cells, her arms folded across her chest in frustration.“I should have been there. I should have been with Lilah.” She mutters as she pauses in front of his cell.“No one was expecting this to happen.” I tell her, keeping my eyes focussed on him. "Would anyone expect her own son to attack her?"“But you were able to stop him before he did something stupid.”I ignore her comment and keep watching Aiden. “Why do you think he turned on them?”“How would I know? Maybe it’s because of him being both. A wolf and a Lycan. No one has come across anyone like him before. Not one of us know what to expect.”“Alpha Knox was talking about a feral stage, but he doesn’t think it's that.” Callie sighs, “I agree, being feral is just something we all go through. But from what you and Linc have told me, this boy is bat shit crazy. I mean just look at the size of him, and he is wha
LincThey stepped out of the forest line, one by one, large Rogue Lycan's stand in a line. Filling the space between us and them. Their yellow eyes scanned the grounds as if they were searching for something.“Daphne, I mean it, stay with me!” I lock on to her, making sure she couldn’t move.“Shouldn’t we call Alpha Colt, now?” She asks, alarmed.Alpha Knox shakes his head “We can deal with them.”“There are wolves here.” I mutter, looking at Daphne and then to Alpha Knox, they won't stand a chance."One of the yellow eyed Lycans steps forward. He continues to look among the wolves. Ignoring all the other Lycans“We want Aiden.” He speaks“How are you talking?” As far as I was aware, Rogue Lycans were unable to speak except through mind link.His snout twitches as his lip curls back, showing his sharp teeth. Daphne lets out a little whimper from next to me.“Where is he?” He growls as all the Rogues take a step forward towards us.“That is none of your business.” I growl back at him"
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