Schuyler's P. O. V.I woke up when someone threw cold water on me with small cubes of ice mixed with it. It hit my wound so I tightly closed my eyes to relieve the pain."Wake up, Schuyler!" I heard a woman's voice in front of me.I slowly lifted my head and saw Alana, but I was shocked to see her face. It was as if she had been beaten by someone and her eyes were so deep that I almost did not recognize her. She also has a lot of stitches in her face, jawline, and neck and a still visible bruise on her left eye.Who did that to her?Wait… Is that what they're pinning on me? Is it because Alana and I were the last one who had a fight? But I know nothing, they're mistaken!"Alana, let go of me! You know I didn't do anything to you." I desperately told her. "I can't even afford small things, what more than having someone to hurt you?"Alana looked at her cousin with a smirk on her face before she bursted out laughing like a mad maniac. She was even clapping her hands and would sometimes
Schuyler's P. O. V.Ezekiel slowly kneeled on the floor and he collected my heels before he started to walk towards me. His eyes were narrowing on me as he came closer before he kneeled on the floor and touched my foot, but I stepped away from him.Ezekiel lowered his head and was only staring at my feet, while I'm crying and watching him."I thought telling you everything I feel would make you open up to me, but what did you do instead? You want me to go away and leave you! Is that your best thing to do?" I started crying harder because I was having a hard time again catching my breathing. "Ezekiel, it's so hard for me to say anything to you because I know that you never love me and you probably still don't—""Don't say that, don't you ever fucking say that." He said in a small voice, but I heard him clearly. "You don't know what I'm feeling right now for you to say that.""How would I know, Zeke? You never said anything to me." I breathe deeply before looking back at him again. "We'
Schuyler's P. O. V.When we got home, there was a commotion inside and Anne was trying to control everyone, but they wouldn't calm down even if she's there and helping."What the fuck is going on here?!" Ezekiel asked in a deep voice. Everyone stopped from arguing and they glanced at us."Lycan King!" They greeted as they directly looked at him. Ezekiel held my hand when one of the maids spoke to him, "I saw her wearing one of your polo shirts and when I asked her to remove it, she went mad and tried to take it away from me, until she ripped your polo!""Stop pretending! You're doing the same thing when they're not home." The woman she's blaming suddenly said while crying. "You just want everything for yourself, even the jewelries that the Lycan King bought, you also took some of them before delivering it to their room.""This is crazy…" I faced Ezekiel. "I'll go upstairs now, fix this."He nodded at me and I turned my back on them. It's a matter between them so I'm not going to ste
Schuyler's P. O. V.I was roaming my eyes around to the place when a familiar face appeared in front of me. She was smirking with an excited look in her eyes as she slowly recognized me."Is that you?" She walked towards me with a glint in her eyes. "Schuyler Savannah? Our infamous high school Queen bee!"A small smile appeared on my lips as I felt her warm embrace. She genuinely looks happy to see me, but I don't even know her well anymore. "Shut up! It's been a while since I last saw you here!" She beamed before distancing herself to me. "How's life, Schuyler? I hadn't heard anything about you since you moved out of town!"Slowly, we started to gain the attention of everyone around us until she noticed it too. She faced them with an excited look in her eyes."Guys, it's Schuyler!" She shouted and most of the girls in the table at the corner averted their eyes on us.I felt indifferent with the way they looked at me. Although they seem sincere with their gazes, I can't help but to f
Schuyler's P. O. V.Well… That was fast. I didn't expect that Ezekiel would find me within an hour of leaving his house without anyone with me and despite knowing what kind of danger might come to me.A bitter smile appeared on my lips. 'I only wanted some time alone, and away from his… kind and life. Just a little time to think clearly…'When I decided to accept and stay beside Ezekiel after knowing that he's a mafia, and on top of that, their conqueror, I thought that I can completely deal with everything he's involved with, including his rivals and dangerous life. But after I found out that other than being a mafia, he's also a Lycan King, my mind got twisted and I can't understand anymore if my decisions are right.Is it worth it to stay beside Ezekiel, while knowing that he can end me anytime I want or the people around him? What if I do something that they don't like? What will they do to me?Or maybe… What if other humans will know about them? Surely, they will pin it on me and
Schuyler's P. O. V.IT WAS COLD. I can feel my body trembling because of how cold it is around me. I was moaning when I forced myself to open my eyes and found nothing but darkness everywhere, but I felt when someone pulled me in for a tight hug beside me.I looked at my right side and through the moon light shining from behind him, I saw Ezekiel laying down beside me, completely naked as I am right now!What happened? I tried to feel myself if something happened between us that I wasn't aware of, but Ezekiel's soundful smirk cut me off from that thought.I felt him pulling me even closer to his side before he buried his face in my neck."You know that you'll feel me even after days already if I touch you, honey.." He whispered in a teasing tone.I cleared my throat before I slowly moved my hand to touch his bare shoulder. I knew that he's still awake and probably waiting for me to fall back asleep or… do something else.But…"Zeke?" I tapped his shoulder, but he didn't open his eyes
Schuyler's P. O. V."What?" I turned my back on Ezekiel. "I said it already."I didn't hear him say anything else, but I can still feel Ezekiel's eyes on me and stabbing me from my back. I sighed before I turned around to face him again."Ezekiel, I never signed up to be the 'Lycan Queen', just because you are their King and we're married." I pointed at the door. "I don't even know how to treat them!""You can treat them normally, Schuyler." He raised his brow on me. "They're don't have much difference with humans—""Oh, of course, you all are different from us!" I quickly cut her off. "Ezekiel, you… You transform or shift—Whatever you call the process is, you can be a Lycan anytime you want. And I'm merely a human! Do you really think that all the Lycans out there are going to respect and accept me as their Queen?" I shake my head at him. "No, they won't..""What made you think so?" Ezekiel asked in a calm voice."Oh, please!" I washed my hands in my face. "Ezekiel, it's too obvious.
Schuyler's P. O. V."I didn't do anything, Hunter." My eyes sharpened while looking at him. "Why the hell are you pinning it on me?"Even after we got on the event, all dressed up and with lycans waiting for us outside, Hunter wouldn't stop his questions. I looked outside of the car and watched as everyone surrounded us with their faces and looking at the car we're in.If not for the heavily tinted windows, they'd probably see through the horror in my face with the fact that I am freaking inside of the lycans den. "Don't worry." I heard Hunter say it in a serious tone. "The car's lycan proof."I sarcastically laughed, "Nice try, Hunter, but I'll pass in believing your lies. I've done some research, and I know that lycans strength is the same as a strongest machine."I saw him smirking while sitting in the front seat, "That's true, but… Why do you think our products are of top qualities?" I frowned at him."I don't even know any of Ezekiel's business other than the underground."Hunge
Ezekiel's P. O. V.“I saw mommy in the dressing room!” A smirk formed in my lips as soon as Stormi ran to me.As days passed, she became more of me in every physical way, but her attitude was more of her mother. Although my wife says otherwise.“She was so pretty!” She cupped both of her cheeks. “You should come see her now!”Of course, I’d come see my wife, but before that, I must take care of these first. The picnic basket was filled with most of Stormi's snacks. It was all her request as soon as Schuyler went to take a bath.“Did you bring my strawberry cupcakes, dad?” I heard my daughter asking when I saw her sitting at the table and looking at me with an analyzing eyes.I tilted my head to the side, “Don't sit at the table. Your mom might see you.”She pouted her lips before she crawled out of the table and crossed our distance. “Let's go to mommy, dad!”I carried her in my arms as we both went upstairs. Stormi was singing loudly on our way and I couldn't help the smile on my fac
Schuyler's P. O. V.Gunshots filled the air and Stormi woke up screaming because of that. Mr. Andrews kept on cursing, but he didn't open the door of his van. The driver and guards went out and we're trying to fix the tires as soon as they can, but I saw them dropping dead before they could even move an inch towards the tires. My heart was beating fast and nervous, but I still tried to calm myself.“Mr. Andrews, they're ambushing us!” I heard someone say something over the speaker.“They're too many, sir!”“They must be expecting us!”“Fuck, damn it!” Mr. Andrews shouted in anger. “So, this is why they didn't come right away, huh?! That fucker had been planning this!”Stormi screamed more when gunshots were directed at the van’s door, forcing it open, so Mr. Andrews looked in our direction before he smirked evilly.“You…” She pulled Stormi from me.“No! Let her go!” I kept on screaming to have my daughter back, until he opened the door and exited the van. “Give her back to me! Stormi!
Schuyler's P. O. V.“You’re a traitor!” I snapped at him.“A traitor?” There was a smug look on his face. “What makes your family different?”“I have nothing to do with my aunt!” “She's still your family,” he dismissively said before he turned his back on me. “Sedate her!”Worry creeped into me as my eyes widened. “No, please! Please, don't!”There were two nurses who came to me and tried to hold both of my arms while the other scientist took out a syringe filled with something. The man left us and that scientist held my hair before pulling it to the side. I tried to get away from his hold, but it only gave him access to inject the syringe in my neck. It was stingingly painful, but I couldn't get away from them.My eyes fixated on my daughter as I hoped to leave my face… My tears flowed while I felt my boy weakening again and they laid me back on the hospital bed, tightening the ties even more.My vision was spinning and darkness was slowly engulfing me again when I heard a whisper i
Schuyler's P. O. V.“It's incredible how they do that!”“These creatures can be of the same bloodline, but they don't carry the same genes. How is that even possible?”A small groan escaped my lips as soon as I felt myself waking up because of those voices I’m hearing around me. My vision was still blurry when I opened my eyes and my temple was aching so bad. I could feel a sticky feeling from my temple too, dripping to my jaw.When my vision finally cleared up, only then I realized what was happening around me. There were a lot of people piling at the corner and looking at something on the screen. Their faces say just how happy and thrilled they are to what they're looking at.My attention was only averted as soon as I felt a stinging pain in my arm and I saw a needle there, buried in my skin and taking out my blood. Something that's been weakening my body and it was connected to the machines in the middle of the room, where it was also connected to the computer they're facing.‘Wher
Schuyler’s P. O. V.“Where’s Stormi?” Zehan greeted me with her question. She was walking towards me with Archer beside her.I smiled and hugged her before I knelt to level Archer. “Hey, there, little Arch. Stormi’s with her dad so you two can’t play today.”Silently, he nodded at me before letting go of his Mom’s hand. He walked towards the couch and just turned the TV on. I straightened myself before facing Zehan again.“I heard what happened,” she started in a soft voice. “How are you, Schuyler?”A small smile grazed my lips before I shook my head lightly, “On the process.”Her eyes became gentle before I felt her reaching out to hold my hand, “Hey… It’s gonna be alright.”I slowly nodded at her before noticing a figure on our side. When I shifted my attention there, I saw Honey with an unexplainable look in her eyes as she walked towards me. I heard Zehan clearing her throat before she excused herself and Honey stood in front of me.“Schuyler…” There are only a few times that she
Schuyler's P. O. V.“Do you also know?”There was a deafening silence between us after I asked that question. A tight smile appeared on my lips as I slowly caressed my daughter's hair while she was asleep in my lap.“Why did you not tell me?” I knew that despite my low voice, he could tell how much pain I was in.He sighed deeply before I felt him approaching me and he sat on my side.“Would you accept it if I told you?” Slowly, I glanced at him with no emotion in me. “But still… I recently just found out about it. And you were already living with him.” Archie clenched his jaw as he looked down. “Beatrix confronted me that day, and everyone heard it. The next thing I knew, the Lycans were already talking about it until it finally reached the Riegos'.”“How did Beatrix know?”“That, I can't tell, but surely, she dug through it. There's no way she’ll find out, out of random curiosity.”I took a deep breath and dried my tears before I carefully carried my daughter to her bed. She fell as
Schuyler's P. O. V.“You're lying…” I whispered in a low voice, almost not wanting anyone to hear me. “Ezekiel has nothing to do with my parents death!”“Has Ezekiel really managed to get a hold of you?” Beatrix laughed sarcastically. “Even his family knows who your parents' killer is.”“Don't say that, he has nothing to do with them!”“Oh, my dear niece!” My aunt shakes her head in disappointment. “Just how naive can you be? Beatrix is telling the truth. Ezekiel killed your parents!” As my lips trembled and I wanted to attack her for it, her smirk widened while watching my reaction. “Well, perhaps not directly? But it was him who did that to them.”My tears were at their peak when I heard a car pulling over and Beatrix stood up as they both looked from behind me the moment the door opened.“Damn it! That ride was freaking long!” Marisse's voice was too loud as she complained. “I wasn't even able to purchase more— What the hell are you two doing here?!”“Beatrix, what brought you here
Schuyler's P. O. V.“You okay?” I felt someone nudging my shoulder. A small smile escaped from my lips when I felt her leaning her head on me. “Do you have any idea how much risk I take just to save your ass?”I glanced at Ezekiel on the other table, he was playing with Stormi and Archer, who are only forcing him to go along with them. Even Archie had no choice but to join as well. While Hunter was standing at the corner, smirking while watching them suffer.“I'm sorry…” I genuinely said in a low voice. “It has been a real pain in the ass to all of you, huh?”Hannah clicked her tongue, “I’d be lying if I say you were never, but honestly, Schuyler…. I’d never been prouder to you after hearing everything you did to save your daughter and keep her safe.”My gaze averted on Stormi as I heard her laughing while running away from Ezekiel. She was so bubbly, and she looked really happy.“When I found out that Ezekiel couldn't remember anything, I knew right then that you did the right thing,
Schuyler's P. O. V.“Done?” Ezekiel's eyes analyzed our daughter's looks before he stared at me. He was leaning at the hood of his car, crossing his arms over his chest, and waiting for us to approach him.“Mall!” Stormi almost screamed in excitement while jumping at the stairs before she ran to her dad. “Carry me, daddy!”Ezekiel's eyes bored into hers before a smirk escaped on his lips. He crouched down to carry her in his arms and they both waited for me to reach them.“Mommy,” Stormi stretched out her hand, as if she's reaching for me so I quickly walked towards her. “Hurry, please!”I chuckled as I showered her cheeks with kisses while cupping them. Stormi laughed loudly before she buried her face to Ezekiel's neck, hugging him tighter. And when I glanced at Ezekiel, I found him still looking at me. Slowly, my smile disappeared before I avoided my eyes on him.I went to the back door of his car and opened it, only to see the child seat already settled in the middle of the car. He