Lilah “Are you sure that you have never met him?” I ask for the tenth time. Daphne groans into the table. She had been resting her forehead on the wood since she sat down. “I swear. Sophie would never let anyone meet him. He was this huge secret. Obviously I know why now. But she would tell us things and then when questioned. She would shut us down.” “Who is ‘us’?” “Mum, Dad and me. If we started asking questions first, she would lose her shit. It would always have to be on her terms. Still, they couldn’t see how vile she was. Do you think they know? Would Alpha Colt have sent them a message or something?” “I haven’t asked, but something tells me he would. They would only start a missing person's claim otherwise. Do you miss them?” She finally lifts her head and shakes it a little. “They made my life hell in the final few years.” “Your mum, she’s not a wolf?” “No…Well nothing suggested she was. It means my dad isn’t my real dad. It’s like one surprise after another since comin
DaphneThey were freaking me out. Staring at me like I held all the answers. “There are more like me?” I mumble and Lilah beams at me.“It would seem that way. Callie, did you get a chance to find out about Daphne’s past?”Callie shakes her head. “No. That was when I found out about the bloodline. I’ve been a bit busy since.”“You were going to do some digging on me? Lilah, you could have just asked, you know that I don’t have a problem with telling you.”“We need to know who your father is. Maybe he knows more about people that are mixed breeds, you know, seeing as he fathered one.” Lilah mutters“Do we have too? I’m not really bothered about him. He didn’t raise me.”“Don’t you want to know if your birth father is still alive?” Callie asks surprised.“Do you think he cared to stay in my life?”“Maybe he didn’t know.” Lilah suggests. “It’s not like anyone is going to go around saying that they had sex with a human is it?”I hear a stifled laugh come from Callie. She turns away as I
Linc“I’m serious Daphne. If you want our bond to be fixed, you will keep your mouth shut. You won’t say anything to Lilah about what I have just told you.” I had fucked up by telling her. Yet at the same time, I felt like I had to tell her.She glares at me as she presses her lips into a thin line. Her arms fold across her chest, pushing her rounding belly out a little further. “You can’t be serious? She deserves to know.”“He has changed. He does not do it anymore. He stopped when he realised what Lilah was. We haven’t come across any half-breeds not until now and we have travelled the world chasing Lilah.”“But he still killed thousands. You know he threatened your pup!” She snaps at me“He wouldn’t”“Why would I bother lying about something like that? He has an evil side and you just can’t see it.” She drops her gaze, frowning into her lap and sighs. “None of you make anything easy, do you?”“Our way is straight forward.”“What, the constant lies? The secrets? You may think that,
Alpha ColtIt was the only thing that was making sense. If Linc had rejected her too, Daphne would have felt more pain. If he had accepted, then the mark on her neck should have faded away. As much as I was happy that he still had a chance. I was pissed with the information that he had told Daphne. It was supposed to stay buried, but then so was Kaitlin.“What should I do?” Linc asks, but I was too busy thinking to answer him. I was going to have to tell Lilah. All I could hope for is that she would understand why.“Do what you want Linc. Make sure Daphne keeps her mouth shut until at least I have spoken to Lilah.”“You’re going to tell her?”“I have no choice, you have forced me too.”He nods his head at me. “It won’t go down well.”“Don’t you think I already know that?!”He pauses for a second and tells me that he is going to take Kaitlin away.“I’ve already told you she needs to wait until she has had the pup.” I mutter“She doesn’t feel safe here. Maybe I can take her to another L
LilahI could hear him. I could hear every single word that was coming out of his mouth, but I was speechless. Usually I had an answer for everything, but not this time.Betrayed. Sad, Angry. Annoyed. I felt them all. It was worse than when he claim clean about his relationship with Kaitlin.Colt’s hand keeps waving in front of my face. His fingers clicked, he called my name, trying to snap me out of this trance I had fallen in.“Me?” I mutter after what felt like forever. “You stopped because of me?”“Yes.”“If I had never chosen you, would you have stopped?” I was trying to make sense of it. Trying to get answers for the gaps in his story.It’s his turn to be quiet. He sits back on his heels, crouched in front of me. His bright cobalt blue eyes pleading with me.“When my father died, yes.”“If my parents hadn't plotted against him. He would still be alive.” It just didn't sound right. What if everything had been different?“But he isn’t Lilah and I haven’t killed any half-breeds for
Alpha Colt Lilah was sobbing in between screams as I ran her across to the pack hospital. Either begging me to make it stop, or threatening me for putting a pup in her. Her breath quickens and her heart races as I burst in through the hospital doors. The doctors and nurses stare at me stunned. “Help her!” They frantically rush around. Pulling on aprons and gloves as I put Lilah on a bed. “She shouldn’t be having this pup yet.” The doctor tells me over Lilah’s screams. “I know. Why is it happening?” Even as a wolf, Lilah was barely half way through her pregnancy. Another nurse runs an ultrasound doppler over her stomach. “It can’t be,” She mutters. “What? What is it?” “The pup. It’s reached its full gestation.” “Give me that.” The doctor pulls the doppler from the nurse and runs it over Lilah’s stomach. Her eyes are wide with confusion as she looks to me for help, before she starts screaming again. “She’s right. This pup is coming and it isn’t hanging about.” It all happene
Linc What was I seeing? She looked possessed. The mother of my unborn pup is still. Her chocolate hair blowing in the wind. But her eyes, it was like they had rolled into the back of her head and all I could see were the whites. She looks like she is standing on the tips of her toes as she focusses on the sky. What the fuck was happening to her. As I called her name. The Alpha turns to look. His head flicking between Daphne and Kaitlin. Was Daphne the one stopping Kaitlin from using witchcraft? If so, that would make Daphne a witch too. How? As Kaitlins hands hit the ground again. She screams as ropes appear locking Kaitlin against the grass, almost as if her own magic was working against her. Still, Daphne hasn’t moved. The guards that had surrounded Kaitlin disintegrate, just as they had in Alpha Colt’s bedroom. Turning to dust and floating away in the wind. Kaitlin was all alone and pinned to the ground. Screaming out words in another language. But no matter what, her witchcra
LilahI stared into the grey eyes of my son. His gaze lingers on me as he falls asleep after his feed. I was certain he was already bigger. He just didn’t seem to fit in my arms the same way and yet he was only hours old.“He won’t speak to me!” Colt snaps as he barges into my hospital room. His voice makes our son jump awake. Instantly he starts crying and Colt begins apologising. Latching my son back to my breast helps him drop off to sleep again.“I assume you are talking about Linc?”“She is a witch, Lilah. A fucking witch.”“And?”“She is bad news.”“She saved your ass.”He glares at me“Yeah, I know. Linc told me what happened.”“So he will speak to you but not his own King?”“Maybe because you are being a dick about it.” I growl at him. “Daphne is unconscious in a bed down the hall. Her mate is worried sick about her. When I was cut open, when I was poisoned, did he ever stop you from seeing me.”He clenches his jaw frowning at me. “There’s a difference. We were mated and I was
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