Alpha ColtGuiding Aiden into the office, I find Lilah asleep on the sofa, curled up in a ball and holding on to Aiden’s hospital baby blanket.“Mum?”“Aiden, let her sleep.” I was certain that Lilah was pregnant again and I did not need a repeat of what happened last time. “Now what do you know about Daphne?”“Ivy said something about how hatred could do horrible things to people.”“It can.”“But that’s not all Dad, I saw something. When you kept telling me to shut up, I was trying to tell you that a light appeared in Daphne’s hands. Ivy saw it too, so I know I’m not going mad.”“A light?”“When she started screaming at us for not helping Linc. Her hands were balled up, it was just a quick flash, but it was there.”“She can’t use her magic unless it’s to protect your mum.”“Dad, I know what I saw. Ask Ivy, she will confirm that she saw it too.”“You’re telling me that you think Daphne is capable of using her magic at all times. Are you certain?”He nods his head at me. “Something has
LilahHe stares at me with those cobalt blue eyes. He knew I wasn’t backing down on this. I needed to speak to Daphne, I needed her to understand that it was okay to be angry. That it wasn’t anyone’s fault other than Knox’s and Colt had made sure that he wouldn’t be any more trouble.“You’re not going to let this go until I agree, are you?” He mutters, scratching his chin stubble.“No.” I shake my head at him. “I made that mistake before. But now, she needs me more than ever. Colt, you know me. I could have just ran off after her, but I didn’t. I needed time to think. I needed time to understand what she is feeling. She needs a friend. She needs her sister.”“I can go.” He insists.“If she really is capable of using her magic without me being in danger. You are the last person she wants to see.”“At least I can protect myself.” He glances down at my stomach“We don’t know yet and it’s too early for me to test! So let me go to her!”He rolls his eyes at me. “One condition.”“Anything.”
Alpha Colt“What are you saying Colt?”“I saw him move.”“Colt, your mind is just playing tricks on you. You loved him like a brother, just like Callie did. But he’s gone, Colt. He isn’t coming back.”“Maybe he is.” I was certain I had seen him move. Not much, just a twitch.She shakes her head at me. “I’ve seen him, Colt, I know that you stabbed him in the heart with a knife. No one can survive that.”“But…”“Colt, you are sleep deprived. It’s been days since you’ve actually slept for more than an hour. This is just your mind playing tricks on you.”I look into her pleading eyes. “Maybe you’re right.”“I know I am.”“But I can’t help thinking, what if….”“There are no what if’s, Colt. He has gone.”I knew she was trying to make me see sense, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that Callie was right. That he had moved. I was certain I had seen his hand twitch.Lilah wraps her arms around me, hugging me tightly as we lie back down. Flicking the light off, I pretend to be asleep, letting o
AidenI tried to stop mum from going in. I tried telling her that Dad was busy, but she just gave me that look. The one that said she would beat my arse if I tried to stop her. Ivy tugged me out the way as she tucked her curls behind her ears.Even when we hear her scream, Ivy’s fingers stay glued to mine, holding me in place.“She needs to see it.”I look into her brilliant blue eyes as she smiles at me. “How do you know so much?”“How do you not?” She laughs, shaking out her mane of curls. “The moment I understood that I was different, I left to find others like me.”“You left? Left where?”“The pack I was in. White Star.”I hadn’t ever heard of it, but then my family didn’t really talk about other packs.“The Alpha was here, for your parents' ceremony.” She adds, her eyes not quite meeting mine.“What about your parents?”“I was hoping you wouldn’t ask about them.”“They must be worried, mum hates it if I’m anywhere but in the pack.”She sucks in her cheeks. “Mum died giving birth
LincAs expected, Alpha Colt tried to make me stay. It was weird, not feeling that pull of an order. Or the pain when I tried to break it. I could see that it was annoying him.I had walked out that front door like nothing could stop me. For a moment, I froze, not because of Alpha Colt, but because of the sun. But it does nothing, other than warm my skin.As Lycans, we didn’t tend to mix with vampires, so I wasn’t even sure what I was truly capable of other than my desire to drink blood.Making my way to the gates, the guards just stare at me, because I was supposed to be dead.“Linc?” One asks, though I could hear the slight wobble in his voice“Yes.”“You are supposed to be dead?”“I am. Now open the gates.”He stares at me for a little longer. “Where are you going?”“I have a job to do.”He turns to look at the other guards and they shrug their shoulders. All of their hearts were racing.“Alpha Colt knows?” The guard asks.“Yes. Now are you going to open the gates or am I going to
Linc“Please Daphne. It’s hard enough becoming this. I need my hand, I need my eye.”“My magic doesn't work like that. You have seen it, Linc. All I am meant to do is hurt people.” She closes her eyes and sighs. “It’s all I’ve done is hurt people.”“No.”“Yes, Linc. Even when protecting Lilah, I was hurting others.”“But you were doing what you felt was right. You were doing what you were supposed to. Protecting the Queen.”She doesn’t even look at me. And as I watched her, I couldn’t see how she would go and attack the others. Maybe she just said it in the moment. She was still half wolf.“Lilah misses you.” I try, hoping it would make her talk. But also to try and take my mind off the beating vein in her neck.“You mean she misses me being able to protect her.”“I don’t think that’s true.”“Of course it’s true, Linc. She changed when she became a mum. She didn't even come after me” She snaps at me."He won't let her. I've told you why.""But she always found a way.""It's different
Lilah There was so much going on outside, people running around like crazy. With the window open, I could hear the shouting, but none of it was making any sense. Until I see Colt stomping towards the pack hospital, looking furious. “Where is he going?” I mutter to Callie. “Who?” “You know exactly who I am talking about. It’s the reason you are watching me and not him!” “Daphne’s here.” She announces like it was the most obvious answer in the world. “She’s attacking people?” I ask alarmed. I knew that she had threatened everyone and now I understood why Colt wanted me to stay in the house. But it didn't make sense why he was going to the hospital. “No, Daphne's in the hospital.” “Why?” I feel my stomach drop at the thought. She presses her lips tightly together. “Why, Callie?” “You need to stay here. It's for your own benefit."” “Callie!” I feel my anger rising a little as she tries to tell me what to do. But she refuses to look at me. “CALLIE!” “I’m just following his orde
LincHe did nothing.Colt was an absolute bastard for not helping her. He had just stood by and watched, refusing to let anyone in to help her.Marching across the grounds, I look for my sister, frustrated that I could no longer mindlink her.“She survived then?” Aiden mutters from the porch. He studies me with those strange grey eyes of his.“You assumed correctly. Do you know where my sister is?”“Callie’s inside.”I go to walk past him, but he sticks a leg out blocking my way.“What do you want, Aiden?” I was in no mood to talk to him.“It’s not a good thing that she survived. At least, not yet it is.”“What the fuck are you talking about Aiden? Is this why no one helped her? You have all decided that she must die, after everything she has done for us?”“Dad was doing what he thought was right and he is doing what he thinks is right, now.”“Right! What the hell is right about letting someone nearly die when he could have helped her.”“She nearly died at your hands, Linc. Not my fat
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