Isla is home, a war is coming, planning has commenced, and Cayden is back! I know some of you wanted him to die. Well…
{Isla’s POV}We all stressed our necks as we swiftly turned to look at the doorway. Cayden was standing there and in his hand was Lily who wrapped herself around his shoulders. They were both blood-stained.Sassaba was the first to shoot up from her seat and after her Lucil, Daniel, and simultaneously, the rest of us.“Cayden.” Naí Sassaba immediately rushed to him and when she got to him, she slowed down. Slowly, she took her hands and rested them on his face while her eyes roamed his bloody body. She was already shedding tears. “Mother.” Cayden smiled at her and she wrapped her hands around him. The rest of us crept closer to him and while others greeted him, I just stared. Some maids came in and took Lily from Cayden to go wash her up while Cayden exchanged greetings with Daniel. Theirs was the most phenomenal reunion, unsurprisingly, as Daniel did everything to make sure that Cayden didn’t put filthy blood on him. They joked even in such an instance.I had my hands folded belo
{Isla’s POV}Cayden stood before me with his usual aura of confidence. He was willing to fight me. There was a time when his confidence would have scared me but that time has long passed. I was a different person now, but part of me knew that Cayden would give me a tough time. I threw my claws out and he threw his. We only shifted partially but you could see the clear contrast between him and me. I had two wolves and he had one so the difference in our Werewolf physique was clear. I could easily reign terror on my opponent even without trying, but then Cayden doesn’t get scared by anyone or anything.He was smiling and I was smiling. We were about fighting but we both were smiling— a trick meant to confuse the enemy and inflict fear in them.We both knew the trick so it was ineffective now. I was about lunging at him to teach him a lesson but then I was interrupted by a body that stood in between us. Ralph. I paused my attempt and gazed at him. “Ralph. We were about to fight. I c
{Cayden’s POV}I’m stuck and I’m alone with my predicament.I had decided to risk my life to save Isla’s because she deserved it. She deserves to live and well, I don’t deserve to breathe.The more time I spent around her during the Lycan mission, the more I realized how evil I was. I watched her talk to people. I watched her talk about people. I watched her character towards people and realized that I was cruel in ways I didn’t know of.I treated the world with brutality and angst but Isla saw the beauty in things, no matter how little they were.When I got to know about Lily’s absence— the little girl. I had immediately rushed to return to the Lycan Hold, knowing that if Isla heard of it, she would want to return too. I journeyed as fast as I could only for me to crash into her along the way. I left before her but she met me along the way. It didn’t mean she was necessarily faster than me. It only meant that she was more strong-willed than I was and ever will be. Her empathy and
{isla’s POV}There was a sound.And it wasn’t a familiar one— making it an odd sound.Everyone grew alert at once as we stared into the silence, waiting for a confirmation now.We hadn’t seen anything yet so none of us could conclude on anything yet. The night was reigning with its darkness with our only source of light being the crescent moon above.Until we saw torches.We saw one wooded force and then two and then many.The Lycans were here.Our Shacks were built at a point that was a good distance away from the Palace so we could see the Lycans attempt to sneak up on the Palace.They purposefully chose the night to attack.We watched them put off their torches as they crept closer towards the Palace. They wanted their attack to be unseen and sudden, not knowing that they were already seen.For the first time ever, I was a hundred percent confident in my plan. It gave us an edge over them and what was left for us was to properly make use of this advantage.I would make sure of tha
{Isla's POV} “You make love to me so close just to throw me so far away,” I muttered in tears as I staggered through the shaggy forest path with my bruised heart and my wounded hope— I was literally drunk on my grief. Almost immediately, I realized I was being followed. I wasn’t quite sure who these creeping bunch were, but I knew they weren’t coming to have a chat. And I clearly understood why. It’s not every day you see the eminent Luna of GreyStone Pack wandering through the eerie Woodlands-- alone! I tried to creep faster now but the swollen weight of the grief in my chest hampered my already shaky legs from making any new advances. To be honest, there was no point in trying to escape from these prowlers. For all I know, nothing they could do to me would equally match my present agony. Nothing mattered anymore, not even my dear ‘esteemed’ life. So death was the least of my worries, and the stream of doleful tears still trailing from my eyes was an extra validation of this f
{Isla's POV} “Cayden!” I yelled, drawing all the glares at the table to my person. Cayden’s expression still remained straight as he didn’t bother sparing me a look, but in that instance, I wasn’t intimidated by it. I was there to pour out my heart and get answers, and that was what I did. “Who is she?” I started with a solid tone, aiming my finger at the crafty lady on his side. “For the past few days, this woman has been staying in this house and nobody has bothered saying anything? She and Cayden are suddenly so close, and everyone is chill about it? Don’t any of you think I deserve, at least, an explanation for all this muddle!” I was doing so well until my tears betrayed me and began trailing down my cheeks. However, I couldn’t blame the tears because, with the heat in my chest, even my heart was threatening to leap out. “You don’t get to talk to us that way!” Cayden’s mother, Sassaba, voiced as she shot to her feet. “Who do you think you are!” Who am I? Who is she! I motion
{Cayden’s POV}“Did she just…” I knowingly stopped my attempt at continuing that sentence as I already completed it in my head. It was the plan all along— for her to take the compensation and quietly leave my life, but I didn’t expect her to reject me so suddenly and seriously.I was to do that! In fact, the whole episode was still very shocking to me as I had never known Isla to be so… so wild. She had shown me her confidence and a feisty spirit that I had never seen before in all our years as mates.I had been really provoked with how she talked to me but at the same time I had been too puzzled to react, and she had walked off leaving me that way.I could still hear my mum cursing and protesting in the background, and for some odd reason, I wasn’t really comfortable with her volume anymore.“She has no right to reject my son! A low-born Omega like her rejecting an Alpha? She should be killed!” She bewailed while Ivanka supported her claim.“Mum!” I bawled as I spindled myself to f
{Isla’s POV}“Be cautious. They say she’s almost as strong as him.” I heard one of the cronies still trailing behind me chatter and I couldn’t stop the smirk that threatened to grow on my lips even though it was very insignificant in that instance. I wasn’t going to fight them and I wished I could just tell them— maybe turn around, throw my hands in the air, and plead for them to capture me. But that would be too dramatic, even for me.In any case, I knew it was only a matter of seconds before they attacked and seized me, and for all I knew, I was already a prisoner. But who knows, it might serve as a very good distraction from my harrowing misery.I suddenly stopped cold in my tracks to make things easier for them and almost immediately, I felt the aggressive weight of three hefty bodies collapse on me, sending me forcefully to the icky dirt of the forest floor. My face dug into the dust as my body jounced vigorously from their wrestle. One of the trio’s claws dug into my sides and