"Yeah, but how do I ask him to come without sounding like a trap? Last time, Damon almost killed him before threatening him." Diana smiles at the memory and I hit her arm. "Stop it. It's not a trap! We need to trust each other...""Well, you don't trust each other. That's the problem. We think Axel is insane, Damon would kill him just because, he would kill Damon for..." She looks at me up and down a few times. "... you know. And you and him are in a complicated situation. Have you decided if you are also going to ask him to break the bond?""Depends on how the conversation will go. I think it would be better for both of us, but I don't want to add that into the mix if the situation gets unstable. The priority is saving the pack.""Ha! If! You are so optimistic, Rose."I was optimistic to think this conversation would help me take my mind off things. That's what I was. Damon went to get Brad as we decided communing with Axel would be a bit too dangerous as I don’t know yet how to do i
"You should get some sleep. We don't know how long the discussion is going to be." Damon says for the fifth time as I roll around the sheets. I sneaked into his bed earlier because I couldn't sleep alone, and I just ended up keeping him awake too."There are a million things that could go wrong." I complain."If something goes wrong, it will be one of the million. That means you wasted your energy thinking about the rest.""Did you commune with the Moon Goddess? Diana said you kept trying today too." I ask and he gets a bit tense. She ghosted us two weeks ago and no matter how much any of us try, she seems to want to stay away. For Damon, that's the longest he has been without her guidance in the last few years and I know it stresses him out."I can feel her. So she didn't just vanish. But... There's something weird. There's a feeling of guilt that lingers every time I commune and I can't tell if it's mine or hers." He explains and a cold shiver runs down my spine. I cuddle closer to
"You told Caroline about this meeting..." I whisper more to myself than anything. The one thing I pleaded with him not to do. The one thing he knows would have hurted me, but he did it. He did it because he trusts her more than he ever cared about me. And I...I feel ok with that. It hurt for a second. The idea of it, but when I reached to that pain to grasp it, it was no longer there. Now it’s just the fear that I feel."For fuck's sake, Axel? Would you stop the theatrical half information and just say what you have to say?" the Alpha snaps, but Axel continues to look at me like it's just us in the world."Please... What happened since the ceremony?" I ask, forcing myself to sound like I used to when I cared about him. And that seems to be enough, because Axel starts explaining."After my father attacked you, I really wanted to kill him. If I didn't check the mate bond to make sure you're fine before jumping at him, I would have turned him to pieces. I was also pissed at Caroline bec
Tonight, the pack will fall...The words ring in my ears as we all stare at Axel. I don't even realize when Damon goes behind a tree and changes back to his human form just to grab the phone from my hand and desperately call Diana."You're a fucking coward!" He shouts at Axel, veins popping on his arms from the restraint he has to put on in order not to kill him."How are you to talk? Who the fuck are you in general? You aren't an Alpha and you don't know what is like to have a mate!" Axel answers, rolling his eyes like Damon is some kind of passing annoyance."I know what is like to have both. And I know what is like to hide behind what would be better for others when in fact I'm just taking the easier way out." Damon answers, sounding like he explains to a child why the sky is blue. Because that is what Axel is in front of him... a spoiled brat. And by the look on my mate's face, he realized it too. But I can't focus on that as I look at Damon trying to make sense of what he just sa
I can swear that the entire world goes quiet when Damon steps out of the shadows to face his father."Free them." Damon orders him. It's been almost ten years since they saw each other, but you couldn't guess from his uninterested tone.Then all hell breaks loose. Chaos wrapping everyone around it. Diana starts crying, mumbling something in between loud sobs. The rest of our friends either start shouting at Damon or try to break free from the chains. Brad begs them to calm down, looking around, scared out of his mind, while Caroline and her father take a few steps back and talk quietly with one another.Damon and his father are the only ones frozen in their places, staring down at each other."If I knew you were foolish enough to come out of hiding just like this, I would have caught them a long time ago." His father finally breaks the silence and Damon laughs."That would have required you to know anything about me. Now free them." Even from here, even if I am not part of his pack, I
The rush of power that I felt earlier, when I confronted that rogue... It felt like a drop in the ocean compared to the feeling that drowns my mind now. Time starts to move slower like the universe itself listened to my order. The wind stops, the sounds of the forest are silenced and an entire battlefield full of warriors that have seen more blood then I ever will seems to freeze in front of my eyes.I walk. Not run to avoiding the carnage or go to around the heart of the fight. I simply walk forwards, with friends and enemies alike stepping aside. But I don't look at them, I don't see them. I don't see the surprised looks of all those who took their human form as the fight suddenly stopped. My eyes are locked with only one person.Damon's father, the so called king, took his human form and is now standing tall, holding my gaze. But I can see behind his arrogance, his confidence. I can see the slight treamor of his soul when we are only a few feet apart. I despise him. I despise every
#Axel's perspective#My mother asked me once, when I was eight, what would I like to be when I grow up. She was only half paying attention to me as she watched a show on tv while my father was away on a diplomatic trip."The Alpha..." I answered, quite confused. Was she asking it as a trap, to see if I had devotion to my purpose? Or was it that she didn't even realize what she asked? After all, I was the only child of the Alpha and I knew for sure she refused to produce another, so what choice did I have?My mother turned to me with a sad smile and for the first time that day or maybe even that week, she looked at me like she was actually seeing me."You really are you father's son, aren't you?"I thought about that simple conversation a lot over the years. At first, because it confused me and then, after she died, just to spite her trying to become exactly like my father wanted me to be. I knew she would have hated that just like she hated him. But after I met Rose... I started looki
When the pack warriors started to attack the rogues that were still standing, I rushed towards the edge of the battle. I didn't get to say anything else to Damon, as I didn't want to distract him from his father's attack, but I brushed my hand against his arm before he transformed. So many promises and pleas for him to be safe spoken without any words. I want us to go dancing, I want us to talk about all those things that we pushed to the side because of the war. I want us to build a relationship. A real one. Not one based of the maddenineg attraction I feel towards him or on the common purpose that brought us togheter. I want to get to know every part of him, even the flaws he hates about himself and I want to learn how to love all of it. I want to love without being pushed by a greater power, but because I choose to.Luna Karina, Axel's aunt, is in her human form, dressed so pretty you'd say she's going to a party, not a war. But she smiles when she sees me and invites me to sit wit